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Marks Art Center at COD Free and open to the public. Open Mon-Thur, 11-4, and by appointment.

A venue for creative exploration and community engagement, the Marks Art Center at College of the Desert is a cultural and educational facility that is free and open to the public.

10/08/2026

You have one more week to check out this incredible exhibition curated bt COD facultyshow closes next Thursday October 15 !

Luis Antoñio Rodriguez

10/05/2026

Jack Platner is a New York City-based photographer originally from Malibu, California.

His artistic practice bridges photography and sculpture through the use of hand built ceramic camera obscuras formed from the very landscapes they are used to depict. These cameras function not only as image making devices but as site responsive objects, carrying the physical and geological traces of place into the photographic process itself. Their ceramic bodies, shaped by hand and fired, embed the work within cycles of erosion, transformation, and permanence that mirror the environments they inhabit.

Jack
Join us Today 10/5/2026

2pm 

Art Building Room 101

Join us this Thursday and support COD students and alumni at the Art Market. Buy original works from the artist themselv...
09/28/2026

Join us this Thursday and support COD students and alumni at the Art Market. Buy original works from the artist themselves !

Some of the artists participating!!!

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sanity_circuit
_Alexa’s_Home_Decor_
kuzco
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Euphoric•Crafts 🌸
creations.ofmym1nd

Ray Hinojosa Guzman Jr
Manny Juarez
F.SkullRex StudioArts

09/21/2026

FIRST ART MARKET OF THE SEMESTER !!
Link in bio to sign up
Have questions? Just send us a DM

09/09/2026

Sueño Eterno (Eternal Dream) is an all-figurative exhibition exploring how we live with loss. Reframeling grief as a sustained practice rather than a crisis to escape.

The exhibition asks the question of how do we hold loss without stopping our lives and how do we honor the dead by being fully alive?

Curated by : Luis Antoñio Rodriguez

Exhibition: Aug 25 to Oct 15th
Tuesday- Friday 11am to 4pm

Marks Art Center in Palm Desert
College of the Desert

Save the date and please join us for the closing reception !

Oct 1st
4 to 7pm

08/31/2026

Welcome back everyone!
Looking forward to another great semester!

08/24/2026

Sueño Eterno (Eternal Dream) is an all-figurative exhibition exploring how we live with loss. Reframeling grief as a sustained practice rather than a crisis to escape.

The exhibition asks the question of how do we hold loss without stopping our lives and how do we honor the dead by being fully alive?

Curated by : Luis Antoñio Rodriguez
Exhibition: Aug 25 to Oct 1st.
Tuesday- Friday 11am to 4pm
College of the Desert

Save the date and please join us for the closing reception !

Oct 1st
4 to 7pm

Artist Market
DJ Set
Food

08/09/2026

2D Design (ART 003A) is a great way to start your path or just to felx your creative muscle!
No experience necessary.
Enroll Today!!

Space is still available
Three ways to take 2D Design

East Valley
12:30 - 3:00 pm
Tuesday and Thursday

Palm Desert Campus
Monday and Wednesday
6:00 - 8:30

Fully online
Starting Aug 31st or late start Sept. 28th

Also spots available in Black and White photography
Palm Desert campus
Monday and Wednesday
2:00- 4:30

05/19/2026

Congrats to all the students graduating!!

05/18/2026

Curator walk-through tomorrow !
Tuesday MAY 19
3pm to 5pm

The exhibition PRAECODEX presents work by Dos Artistas Menos (Aldo Favio Lozano González & Jorge Augusto Torres Regalado) that explore the porous boundaries between truth, fiction, and mediated perception. Emerging from the collective’s ongoing interest in communication, coded imagery, and the construction of meaning, the project uses collage, painting, and video work to examine how narratives are shaped within the spaces of news and mass media. The exhibition uses speculation and myth-making, with the gallery itself as a site where falsehood, interpretation, and belief can be staged and unsettled.

Tuesday to Friday 11am to 4pm
Exhibition open May 19 - June 5th

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43500 Monterey Avenue
Palm Desert, CA
92260

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 4pm
Tuesday 11am - 4pm
Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm

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