Marks Art Center at COD

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.

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

05/15/2026

Materias Primas gallery and bookstore in Cathedral City will be featuring the beautiful photobooks created by ART 30A and ART30B black and white photography students!

There will also be framed prints of the student work exhibited.

Thanks to COD faculty
And for supporting this opportunity for our student artists!

Reception Friday, May 22
4 to 7PM

Materia Primas
68895 Perez Rd. STE 1-10
Cathedral City, CA 92234

Join us for our last exhibition before we close for summer. May 19 to June 5th Curators Walk Through: May 19th 3 to 5pm ...
05/11/2026

Join us for our last exhibition before we close for summer. May 19 to June 5th
Curators Walk Through: May 19th 3 to 5pm

Marks Art Center presents PRAECODEX.
Curated by Faculty Member Zeb Zang

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.

05/08/2026

Last Day of the Student Art Exhibition
Many amazing pieces to purchase!!

Open until 4pm

Thank you to the Artists' of Ironwood for their continued support in scholarship awards to art students here 💝
05/05/2026

Thank you to the Artists' of Ironwood for their continued support in scholarship awards to art students here 💝

05/04/2026

The students really poured their hearts into this show!
One week left, many artworks are available to purchase!

Tuesday to Friday 11am to 4pm

Congrats to who was awarded with a year membership to Thank you to for making all this happen and supporting the har...
05/01/2026

Congrats to who was awarded with a year membership to

Thank you to for making all this happen and supporting the hard working students here at COD!! The Musuem also provided day passes for all the participating students!

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Palm Desert, CA
92260

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

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