New Palo Alto Art Center Mural (detail)

Mies Van der Rohe said "God is in the details." Here is a photo of part of a triptych painted mostly by Palo Alto school children Saturday at the ground breaking of the new Palo Alto Art Center. The mural reads PALO ALTO ART CENTER. This photo shows the part of the third "A" plus part of the first "R".

Speakers, listeners, supporters and ground-movers (literally and figuratively) at the event included Sid Espinosa, Melissa Baten Caswell, Mark Cavagnero, Pat Burt, Lee Caswell, Gail Price, Karen Kienzle, Karen Holman, Yiaway Yeh, Judy Gittelsohn, Linda Craighead, Greg Betts, Darlene Katsanes, Nancy Shepherd (who made a rather rococo paper shovel sculpture) Jack Morton, Jim Keene, Craig and Susie Thom, numerous Foundation board members including Teri Vershel and Roxanne Mehta, Sally Bemus (I think), and Terry Acebo Davis.

Two rather poised teenagers described their experiences as volunteers at the old art center, formerly known as the Palo Alto Cultural Center. 

If the rest of the $7.9 million project goes as well as the mural, and ceremony, then we are truly blessed.