"Mother always said not to play with your food. But the containers the food is packaged in now, there's a loophole. On Nov. 14, an art event in Hayward will highlight that humble but culturally treasured packaging medium: the pizza box. Suitably, the venue is not a gallery or a museum but a pizza parlor, Rayo's Pizza on Mission Blvd., which has baked hot pies since 2022."
"As far as inspiration for the show, we hosted a paint-your-own-pizza-box' meetup earlier this year at Rayo's Pizza. It was a fun meetup where folks just painted any design that they wanted, says Nando Escobar, a founding member of the collective and curator for this show. It was such a hit that Rayo's Pizza and the community who participated wanted to do a future art show, so that they had more time to work on their box art."
"The show features more than two-dozen artworks executed on pizza boxes, an unlikely canvas whose modern form was invented by Domino's in the 1960s. These are not large boxes, rather the personal 8-by-8 inch containers. The subject matter for the paintings ranges from lovably freakish monsters to cartoon characters to stranger things (think, anthropomorphic ninja pepperoni). Slimer from Ghostbusters is represented, chowing down on an ooey-gooey slice."
A one-night exhibition of painted pizza boxes will open Nov. 14, 2025, at Rayo's Pizza on Mission Blvd. in Hayward. The inaugural Pizza Box Art Show is produced by the Art of the Bay Collective, a group staging East Bay art popups and community activities, which recently opened a retail studio called Cassa Jam in Fremont's Niles district. The show presents more than two dozen artworks on 8-by-8-inch personal pizza boxes, with subjects ranging from monsters and cartoon characters to anthropomorphic pepperoni. The project grew from an earlier paint-your-own-pizza-box meetup at Rayo's. Unsold boxes will remain in the restaurant for public display and purchase.
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