IMAGINE PALO ALTO AT 150
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From Silicon Valley breakthroughs to global social change, Palo Alto has helped shape our modern world—and has long been a place people call home. Founded in 1894, the city will mark its 150th anniversary in 2044.
What could Palo Alto become? Help envision its future.
To celebrate the grand opening of the Palo Alto Museum in Fall 2026, we invite artists, writers, students, and visionaries from across Palo Alto’s neighborhoods and around the world to imagine Palo Alto at 150—its people, its place, and its possibilities.
Whether you live in Professorville or Paris, Midtown or Mumbai, Crescent Park or Curitiba, add your voice.
IMAGINE 2044
VISUAL ART: “VISUALIZING 2044”
Create a two-dimensional artwork imagining Palo Alto in 2044.
- Drawing, painting, digital art, collage, or photography
- Size: 12 × 16 inches (horizontal/landscape only)
- Flat work only (no raised elements over 1/8 inch)
- Submit a high-resolution digital file (300 DPI or higher)
WRITING: “15-WORD STORY”
Tell a future story of Palo Alto—in exactly 15 words.
- Fifteen words symbolizing fifteen decades of Palo Alto’s unfolding story (1894–2044)
- Size: 12 × 16–inch cardstock (vertical/portrait only)
- Typed or clearly handwritten in dark ink
- Submit a high-resolution digital file (300 DPI or higher)
BE FEATURED
Selected works will be included in Palo Alto 2044, part of the Palo Alto Museum’s grand opening in Fall 2026:
- Grand Opening Exhibition (*If selected, creator must deliver original artwork or story to the Museum for display by August 1, 2026.)
- Commemorative Book
- Digital Time Capsule preserving visions of the future
Upstairs gallery space for the Palo Alto 2044 exhibition.
Book mockups are for presentation purposes only.
SUBMIT YOUR VISION
