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Pacifica Center for the Arts

The mission of the Pacifica Center for the Arts (formerly known as the Sanchez Arts Center) is to create community through art. The Center realizes its mission by seeking to create visual art experiences that significantly transform the lives of youth and families in the community. Pacifica Center for the Arts has established a unique presence in San Mateo County and the Bay Area: by conducting education and outreach programs designed to make experiential art accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds; by presenting public exhibitions of works by local artists and those of the Bay Area;
and, by providing affordable studio space to local artists. The Center's three exhibition spaces reflect its commitment and passion for presenting diverse art experiences:

Main Gallery features an annual curated exhibition program; West Wing Gallery mounts community exhibitions featuring local artists; East Wing Gallery presents visual art by students, children, and multicultural sources.
In 1996 a group of artists, volunteers and local residents, in cooperation with the City of Pacifica, leased an abandoned elementary school building that they subsequently converted into the Sanchez Art Center. In 1998, with a neighborhood grant from the Peninsula Community Foundation, a team of local artists, youth and family members completed Pacifica's only large-scale mural, containing images that celebrate community spirit and commitment to diversity.

With the renovation of a former classroom as an Arts Education Room in 2000, the possibility to impact the lives of youth in the community with hands-on art experiences was born.

The Pacifica Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization. Funding for staff, arts education, and other programs comes from foundation grants, donations, and artists' studio fees as well as through commissions on artwork sold through the galleries. The Pacifica Center for the Arts relies on the volunteer efforts of the community and members of the Art Guild of Pacifica for the continuity of gallery hours and many vital services.

The Center is home to the Art Guild of Pacifica, whose 500 members can volunteer to plan exhibitions and events, gallery sit, and serve on the Center's committees and board. The Sanchez Art Center is located approximately 20 minutes South of San Francisco in Pacifica, California.

Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 1pm-5pm

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  Pacifica Center for the Arts

  1220 Linda Mar Boulevard
  Pacifica, CA 94044

  Phone: 650-355-1894

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• Past Events

  12/31/08	New Year's Eve Celebration with the Brother Buzz Band
  12/21/08	Golden Bough
  12/20/08	Nucleus Jazz Quartet
  12/14/08	Several Circles
  12/13/08	The Curios
  12/12/08	Seaside Singers
  12/07/08	Elizabethan Holiday by the Skyline Concert Choir
  12/05/08- 12/07/08	2008 Pacifica Open Studios
  11/30/08	Marin Chamber Players
  11/23/08	Pacifica Poetry Festival
  11/22/08	Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
  11/15/08	Damien Masterson Ensemble
  11/08/08	Celia Malheiros
  11/01/08	Molly's Revenge
  10/25/08	Richard Smith
  10/24/08- 11/22/08	2008 Bay Area Annual
  10/24/08- 11/22/08	Surf’s Up! The Art, Influence & History of California Coastal Culture
  10/18/08	Crossing Borders - Jennifer Scott and Kristen Strom
  10/12/08	Verismo Opera Company
  10/11/08	San Francisco Soundwave Chorus - Women's Barbershop
  09/20/08	Erik Jekabson and Dan Zemelman Duo
  09/13/08	Daniel Glover
  09/12/08- 10/18/08	2007 Art Guild Award Winners’ Exhibition
  09/12/08- 10/18/08	50th Annual Art Guild of Pacifica Exhibition
  09/06/08	High Country
  08/23/08	Trio Arcadia
  08/02/08	Daniel Castro Band
  07/26/08	Bobbe Norris and Larry Dunlap
  07/19/08	Kim Angelis and Josef
  07/18/08- 09/06/08	Rydell Visual Arts Fellows
  07/18/08- 09/06/08	Apolitical, Be Political
  07/18/08- 09/06/08	Different Colors III
  07/12/08	Shanna Carlson and Cathi Walkup
  06/28/08	Camogie
  06/21/08	Larry Vuckovich
  06/14/08	Golden Bough
  06/07/08	Morning and Jim Nichols
  06/06/08- 07/12/08	Ashes To Life - A Portuguese American Story In Art
  06/06/08- 07/12/08	Art Is My Bag
  06/06/08- 07/12/08	Surf, Turf, and Plunder
  05/17/08	Matthew Edwards
  05/10/08	Wesla Whitfield & Mike Greensill
  05/03/08	Jamie Laval & Ashley Broder
  04/27/08	Skyline Chamber Choir
  04/25/08- 05/31/08	Arts on Fire XII
  04/19/08	Bella Sorella
  04/12/08	Broceliande
  04/05/08	Josh Workman
  03/30/08	Verismo/California Opera La Boheme
  03/15/08	A Spring Sing with Nancy Hall of the Curios
  03/09/08	Di Wu
  03/01/08	Wayne Wallace Quintet
  02/29/08- 04/12/08	Gregory Kondos - Passion For The Land
  02/29/08- 04/12/08	Anything Goes
  02/29/08- 04/12/08	Local Vision 2008 - Photography Curated by Marty Springer
  02/23/08	Rhonda Benin
  02/16/08	The Vagina Monologues
  02/09/08	Tango No. 9
  02/02/08	Yury Nugmanov
  01/26/08	Los Boleros
  01/19/08	Ed Johnson and Novo Tempo
  01/12/08	Bud E Luv Orchestra
  01/11/08- 02/23/08	John Toki - Echoes of the Earth
  01/11/08- 02/23/08	Coastside Student Invitational - Ceramics and Mosaics
  01/11/08- 02/23/08	The Trouble With Love
  12/31/07	Blue On Green - New Year's Eve Special
  12/16/07	Golden Bough
  12/15/07	The Curios
  12/08/07	Russian Chamber Orchestra
  12/07/07- 12/09/07	2007 Pacifica Open Studios
  12/06/07	Seaside Singers and Friends
  12/02/07	Eos Ensemble
  11/18/07	Pacifica Poetry Festival
  11/17/07	Kristen Strom Quintet
  11/10/07	Celia Malheiros
  11/03/07- 11/04/07	Asia & Arabesque
  10/27/07	Open House For Teens Only
  10/20/07	Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir Ensemble
  10/19/07- 11/17/07	2007 Bay Area Annual
  10/19/07- 11/17/07	Young At Art
  10/13/07	La Traviata
  09/29/07- 09/30/07	22nd Annual Pacific Coast Fog Fest - Photo Contest 2007
  09/28/07	Phillip Dyson
  09/15/07	Thomas Stafford
  09/08/07	Le Jazz Hot
  09/07/07- 10/13/07	2006 Art Guild Award Winner's Exhibition
  09/07/07- 10/13/07	49th Annual Art Guild of Pacifica Exhibition
  07/29/07	Will Durst - A Benefit for the Arts
  07/28/07	Joan Nagano and Kay Stern
  07/21/07	Morning and Jim Nichols
  07/20/07- 08/25/07	Black & White and Color - Art & Poetry
  07/20/07- 08/19/07	Binh Danh - Jungles of Memory
  07/20/07- 08/25/07	Coastal Art & Poetry Contest
  07/08/07- 07/14/07	Art Reach
  06/29/07	Golden Bough
  06/23/07	Bobbe Norris and Larry Dunlap
  06/16/07	Los Boleros
  06/09/07	Yakshi
  06/08/07- 07/14/07	Buddy Show
  06/08/07- 07/14/07	Americas As Source