Special Performance by Artist Elana Mann in Conjunction with Thrown, Stacked, Stamped and Poured exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center
Friday, June 26, 2026, 6:30 p.m.

Quaking amidst the flood of noise and silencing

Join us for a very special participatory performance by exhibiting artist Elana Mann in conjunction with the Art Center’s summer exhibition. 

During the public opening celebration of the exhibition, at 6:30 p.m. the artist will engage community members in a special performance animating her Bellows and Quakes artwork. Drawing from her life as a Hard of Hearing individual, the artist intends to create an experience of heightened awareness, listening and contemplation with her ceramic rattles. Mann envisions the piece as an opportunity for participants and audiences to “tune their ears and bodies to each other in new ways, not possible in the cacophony of everyday life.”

Los Angeles-based Elana Mann is an artist and activist who works in the intersection of sculpture, sound, and social advocacy. Mann was born Hard of Hearing and for twenty years she has researched the act of listening through objects and performances/protests. Her recent artworks focus on freedom of speech, eco-listening, disability and gender equity.