Elevate Art Menlo Park is led by a small action-oriented team with extensive knowledge of our city, experience selecting and displaying art, and a strong record for creating successful non-profits. We are highly motivated and both love art and living in Menlo Park. We intend to expand our all-volunteer organization as we add new art programs.
We Share Many Beliefs
(1) Downtown Menlo Park can and should be transformed into a place that is much more appealing to not only eat, shop, run errands and access personal services but also to relax, stroll, enjoy its ambience and attend small-scale public events.
(2) New outdoor dining and Santa Cruz community plaza have already demonstrated how residents, city government, the chamber of commerce and businesses can work together to improve our downtown.
(3) High quality art installed in public places would greatly enhance the experience of visiting downtown and boost community pride.
(4) Elevate Art Menlo Park is just one example of resident-driven initiatives. We hope others will either support us or undertake their own.
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Christine Duval
Art Director
“Art is the highest form of hope.
Art is for the Future”
Christine recruits artists, manages art commissions, and designs our art installations. With over 25 years of experience in the art industry, Christine has served in a wide variety of roles including art director, curator, and project manager. She has also served on the boards of art nonprofits and managed the art programs and collections for private enterprises and institutions. Christine has worked with hundreds of artists locally and nationally and understands how fine art can transform a community like Menlo Park. Visit her website to learn more about her projects and background.
Christine moved from Palo Alto to Menlo Park in 2010. She enjoys traveling the world, walking the hills of Sharon Heights and continues to volunteer for local art programs as a docent. She loves living in Menlo Park and supporting the local community is one of her priorities.
Debbie Hall
Community Liaison & Administration
“I love the sense of community we have in Menlo Park. I value our downtown area as a great place to shop and gather, and I look forward to helping create the spirit of vitality our town deserves.
Debbie contributes her strong organizational and community-building skills to Elevate Art Menlo Park. She finds desirable art sites and coordinates art installations with business owners and the City of Menlo Park. Debbie also maintains our relationship with our partner and fiscal sponsor, Intersection For The Arts and serves as our financial manager.
She and her husband, Russ, have resided in Menlo Park since 1988. Debbie is retired from a career in management consulting and hi-tech marketing. She has been involved in the Menlo Park community as a public-school parent (site committee and PTA at Oak Knoll, and Hillview and Menlo-Atherton parent and volunteer); as a long-time member of Menlo Church (aka Menlo Park Presbyterian Church); and a Girl Scout leader and trainer of leaders for 15 years. Debbie has extensive experience serving on various nonprofit boards over the last 25 years, currently serving as a director for Village Enterprise and Edify. Through these two organizations, she’s supporting efforts to end extreme poverty in Africa and expand Christian education in developing countries.
Debbie loves music, golf, hiking, travel and needlework. Her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter live in San Jose.
Dana Hendrickson
General Management & Strategy
“Art engages our minds and emotions in wonderful ways. It amazes, stirs our imaginations, exhilarates, and stimulates thoughtful reflections and conversations.
The Menlo Park community deserves more of these experiences and creating them is what motivates us.”
Dana created Elevate Art Menlo Park and recruited its co-founders in the spring of 2021. He guides its planning, programs and marketing efforts. He is a retired Silicon Valley marketing executive who has become an active community advocate for Menlo Park, especially its downtown. He publishes a blog in The Almanac (Creating A More Vibrant Menlo Park) and is the editor for the Reimagine Menlo Park website.
Dana has three decades of experience developing and managing complex projects, creating innovative products, and launching marketing programs in Silicon Valley start-ups and public companies.
He and his wife Lisa have lived in Menlo Park since 1986.. Their two sons work in high-tech ventures, one in Silicon Valley and the other in Barcelona, Spain.
Dana loves art in any form and enjoys photography, drawing, travel, hiking, cycling, landscaping and cooking..