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an in-gallery view of the exhibition start of Day Jobs

The Cantor hosts a landmark exhibition examining the overlooked impact of day jobs in the visual arts

Newly opened Day Jobs at the Cantor Arts Center features more than 90 works by 36 established and emerging artists based in the United States whose day jobs dramatically altered their artistic trajectories in surprisingly profound ways. The large-scale multimedia exhibition is on view in four galleries on two museum floors through July 21, 2024.

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Explore 'The Faces Of Ruth Asawa' At Cantor Arts Center

In 2020, Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center acquired “Untitled (LC.012, Wall of Masks)” by the late legendary Bay Area artist Ruth Asawa. These 233 masks, initially displayed on the exterior of Asawa’s family home in Noe Valley, had never been exhibited anywhere. Following two years of conservation treatment and meticulous planning, the artworks became a long-term installation, The Faces of Ruth Asawa, at the Cantor.

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An image of artist Ruth Asawa infront of her Wall of Masks

‘Day Jobs’ explores impact of necessary employment on artists

“Legal Tender,” the epic mixed media work by Long Beach artist Narsiso Martinez, is art you’ll be thinking about days later. 

The piece, created in 2022, is on view as part of “Day Jobs,” the group exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University examining the impact that needing outside work to survive has on an artist’s creative practice. Taking up its own wall, the 23-by-7 foot composition of “Legal Tender” is meant to evoke paper money. But instead of the white Founding Fathers we’re used to seeing on bills, it features images of farmworkers surrounding a central portrait of...

An iage of artwork depicting field workers as legal tender