Napa Quake Mosaic
Rail Arts District Napa, CA | 2025
Funders/ Partners: RAD Napa, The Peter A. + Vernice H. Gasser Foundation, Arts Council Napa Valley, The County of Napa, Napa Valley Wine Train, Napa Valley Vine Trail, The Chuck & Anne McMinn Foundation, Infinity Visuals and over 2,000 community residents, donors and organizations.
Materials: Found objects on steel form, retired box car
Size: Mosaic: 10' x 40', Car: 12’ x 50’
Installed in 2025 along the Napa Valley Vine Trail in the Rail Arts District, the Napa Quake Mosaic is a 40-foot-long reflection on resilience—geological, communal, and personal. Inspired by underground strata and the disruptions we live with, the design features colorful bands of donated tile and a mirrored epicenter that invites viewers to see themselves within the landscape. Created with over 2,000 community members, the piece preserves the shapes of broken objects contributed after local disasters, turning loss into layered meaning. A meditation on change, healing, and collaboration, it stands as a public tribute to the creative spirit that carries us forward.
Artist-Led, Community-Built
The Napa Quake Mosaic is a 400sf community artwork created over the course of a decade by many hands, hearts, and stories. Made from donated broken objects, this mosaic reflects the layers of collective memory and resilience following three natural disasters that affected our community: 2014 Napa Earthquake, 2017 Tubbs Fire and 2020 Glass Fire.
Lead artist Kristina Young designed and managed the project in partnership with RAD Napa. It will be unveiled at the Action Art Fest August 24, 2025, on the 11th year anniversary of the earthquake, and then on view in a temporary location in downtown Napa in the Rail Arts District.
