Adobe and Warriors celebrate Bay Area artists with second Homegrown Series at Chase Center
For the second straight year, Adobe has partnered with the Golden State Warriors to present the Homegrown Series, a rotating exhibit that’s part of the larger Chase Center Art Collection in San Francisco. A showcase of local artists, their communities, and their work, the 2025 Homegrown Series features bold new installations from Emmett Feldman and Adia Millett that exemplify the dynamic cultural and creative essence of the Bay Area.
“Prismatic Cascade” by Emmett Feldman
For decades, the Bay Area has been a hub of creativity, attracting free thinkers and artists whose unique talent and perspectives blend with the vibrant culture, diversity, and innovative spirit of the region to push boundaries.
Emmett Feldman, a San Francisco-born artist, embodies the Bay Area spirit with his immersive, visually stimulating work. Feldman’s Homegrown Series piece, “Prismatic Cascade,” commemorates the fifth anniversary of Chase Center and is a celebration of live entertainment itself — showing how venues act as prismatic amplifiers, transforming performances into shared moments of collective energy, creativity, and connection.
For “Prismatic Cascade,” Feldman was inspired by a prism as a metaphor for the multitude of crowd perspectives that harmoniously converge at Chase Center — intricately reflecting and colorfully refracting an image so audiences can see it from many different angles and points of view.
“It’s a kaleidoscopic celebration of energy and visual connection,” he says. “That image inside the prism is the performer and all those different facets you see on the prism are the people coming together and viewing this one singular performance.”
Using Adobe Firefly, Feldman generated a digital collage representing five forms of Chase Center entertainment — sports, concerts, comedy, arts, and family events. He then curated the best-looking images to find the “perfect moments,” fine-tuned everything with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects, and brought the composition back inside the digital prismatic sculptures he’d built.
The result is a still image that radiates movement and vitality — with layers of prisms bending and moving light in different shapes, producing a rich piece that’s almost tactile. Feldman also created a motion version of “Prismatic Cascade” that further animates its kinetic energy.
“It has this celebratory, vibrant feeling,” Feldman says. “There's a lot going on, so it's a strange mishmash of things that might just bewilder people in a fun way, even with a quick little glimpse.”
Feldman’s artistic journey began in the Bay Area’s underground music scene, where the surreal stage visuals at raves and concerts in the 1990s inspired him to explore digital art and 3D animation, merging technical skill with creative expression.
“My art is definitely influenced by where I’m from,” Feldman says. “The lineage of the Bay Area, attracting misfits and punks and people trying to interpret and advance the world in interesting, strange ways. For me, there was this connection with live entertainment — all these different people from different walks of life coming together and seeing something as one, it’s just a beautiful tapestry of creativity and emotion.”
Over the past 20 years as an artist, animator, and director, Feldman has brought imaginative ideas to the world stage, from pioneering motion graphics to large-scale installations, including projection displays about climate action at the Empire State Building and early conceptual work for the Las Vegas Sphere. Today, he produces immersive, communal and “hyperreal” experiences that explore the interplay of light, nature and progressive ideals.
“Warrior’s Portal” by Adia Millett
Adia Millett is an Oakland-based artist whose work spans quilting, painting, mosaics, and more and is deeply rooted in themes of resilience, heritage, and identity. Her Homegrown Series piece, “Warrior’s Portal,” is a textile work that stitches together fabrics representing the diversity and culture of the Bay Area.
Millett’s abstract, layered compositions convey meaning through color, texture, and pattern. For “Warrior’s Portal,” she turned to textiles to embody the ideas of community, diversity, and cultural identity. The quilt fabrics include African Dutch wax, Mexican serape, and reflective safety vests, which symbolize Bay Area workers and, when viewed with a camera flash, reveal a hidden interactive element.
Warriors Portal by Adia Millett.
Millett’s striking, three-panel composition, featuring five abstracted Warriors jersey circles, invites the audience into an “Afro-futuristic playground” that exudes vibrancy and strength. She says the concept of a warrior extends beyond sports and is one that “has really been an intricate part of my practice as an artist.” Noting the depiction of a spear with a crocheted tip, Millett says, “I love doing things that play between craftswomen and ancient warriors.”
Despite the project’s short timeline — it started with sketches on Adobe Fresco and was completed in just two months — Millett meticulously hand-stitched the entire quilt, a process she describes as meditative and transformative.
“Every big project changes you,” Millett says. “This one brought me into a new year and my 50th birthday, so it felt like the end of a chapter. And, honestly, I was just excited to be doing something at Chase Center.”
Born in Pasadena, Millett earned a BFA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts before moving to New York City to become a practicing artist. After nearly a decade on the East Coast, she returned to California in 2010 and eventually settled in Oakland, feeling a strong connection to the people, culture, history, and “diversity in every sense of the word,” she says. “I really felt like this was home.”
The Bay Area’s legacy of activism and resistance has profoundly influenced Millett’s work. “This is a place of vigilant justice,” she says. Her art embraces this social ethos with accessible and thought-provoking pieces that invite viewers from all walks of life to engage with them on their own terms.
“When you walk down the street here, you engage with all the people around you,” Millett says. “It's a matter of respect, of acknowledging we’re connected, and that we need to acknowledge people no matter how different they are.”
“Oakland definitely spurred my desire to make work that wasn't just for one audience. It was about finding something that could bring abstraction into a space, where we could discover things in it and say, ‘Hey, this is what I see, but I recognize that this isn't what my next-door neighbor is going to see.’”
Through the Homegrown Series, Adobe continues to support the Bay Area creative community and amplify the work of local artists like Feldman and Millett.