@arnie.sainz and his trio playing at SJMA’s Third Thursdays, as part of @sanjosejazz’s cool lineup for #SJZWinterfest 2020. 🎹🎶
Western Monarchs annually migrate to forested groves along the coast of California. #WesternMonarchDay 🧡
In “Untitled (Butterfly Wall #2), artist #DianaThater filmed the movement of a single butterfly at the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Mexico—with the orange light as a metaphor for daybreak, when the butterfly opens its wings for warmth.
Diana Thater, "Untitled (Butterfly Videowall #2)," 2008. Five flat-screen LCD monitors, one Blu-ray player, one Blu-ray disc, one distribution amplifier, two fluorescent light fixtures, and Lee light filters; Dimensions variable. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisitions Committee with additional funds provided by the Lipman Family Foundation. 2016.05.
#OnView: Video artist #BillViola explores sense perception and the human consciousness. #AlmostHuman
Video: Bill Viola, “Memoria,” 2000. #DVD, DVD player, #projector, and silk. 24 x 30 x 60 inches. Museum purchase with funds contributed by Ann Marie and Averill Mix and from the Lipman Family Foundation.
Time-lapse: Installation of Pae White's "AGAMEMNOMICS"
From the design collections of the MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, artist Pae White found a collection of forgotten toys made by an unknown Viennese designer in the 1920s. With these toys, she created a chess set and sent the images to eight artisans and fabricators around the world. Each workshop made their own interpretations of the chess set—leaving her project to chance and spontaneity.
✨Some #goodvibes to start your weekend.✨
#LeoVillarreal, “Cloud Drawing 3,” 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery.
SJMA celebrates half a century of creative impact in the South Bay and boldly envisions its next 50 years as a borderless museum, essential to creative life throughout the diverse communities of San José and Silicon Valley.
ICYMI: Mosaic Silicon Valley presented Journeys of Love, Loss & Life: San José at Third Thursday composed and performed by Van-Anh Vo with musicians Jimi Nakagawa, Joshua Mellinger, Mikhael Khalikulov, and sound designer Robin Whitehouse.
Tonight’s speakers:
Introduction by Susan Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director, San José Museum of Art
Artist Rina Banerjee in conversation with Lauren Schell Dickens, curator, San José Museum of Art
“Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World” on view Thu, May 16, 2019–Sun, Oct 6, 2019
SJMA is pleased to introduce a new collaboration with Rhizome—an affiliate of the New Museum, New York, championing born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, digital preservation, and software development.
This initiative launches tonight with a special project from Rhizome's Seven on Seven, their flagship platform, pairing artists and technologists to create new things—artworks, prototypes, or whatever they imagine.
As a part of SJMA’s new Facebook First Fridays series, artist Hayal Pozanti and linguist Laura Welcher give a West Coast premiere to a new collaboration.
Speaking this evening:
Introduction by Holly Shen, deputy director, San José Museum of Art
Zachary Kaplan, Director of Rhizome
Artist Hayal Pozanti and linguist Laura Welcher
Sandy Curth, Designer at Emerging Objects
Rhizome's 7x7 with Hayal Pozanti and Laura Welcher
Tonight at 5:30pm: artist Hayal Pozanti and linguist Laura Welcher from The Long Now Foundation will present the West Coast launch of Rhizome's 7x7. Event is free as part of Facebook First Fridays.
#OnView: "The Wantnot," by Hayal Pozanti and Laura Welcher.
Catherine Wagner's "Pomegranate Wall" (2000) in "Paradox Observed."
Beautiful and provocative, "Pomegranate Wall" (2000) explores life from the inside out.
"Catherine Wagner: Paradox Observed," on view through August 18, 2019.
Third Thursday: Robin Lasser's San José Stories: The Vietnamese Diaspora.
Speaking tonight: Rory Padeken, associate curator; Robin Lasser, artist; Victoria Vi, singer; Trami Cron, author; Cindy Doung, San José resident.
Commissioned by the San José Museum of Art, Bay Area artist Robin Lasser has created a series of video mapping installations as part of her ongoing project Migratory Cultures. Video mapped at night onto SJMA's building façade and onto trees in public parks, Lasser's San Jose Stories: Vietnamese Diaspora features interviews with individuals from San José's multi-generational Vietnamese-American community whose stories of migration reveal a more complex narrative of the largest Vietnamese diaspora in the United States. Presented as part of Stories from the Farther Shore: Southeast Asian Film.
Join us this Friday, March 1, for #FacebookFirstFridays for free admissions to the galleries 5–9pm. Featuring music by DJ Chale Brown, a cash bar, and a selfie station. Details on our profile link.
This sponsorship initiative is led by the Facebook Art Department, which provides opportunities for artists to create new, large-scale, site-specific installations on Facebook campuses nation-wide, with the goal of fostering creative experimentation and supporting neighboring artistic communities. For more information, visit fb.com/artistinresidence or go to Instagram FB AIR Program.
#DTSJ, @downtownsanjose, @ungramr
Community Day: Celebrating the Lunar New Year with Rising Phoenix Lion Dance Association—Happy New Year!!
We marched through Downtown San José to celebrate feminism in a culture of patriarchy as part of Creative Minds: “Suffragette City,” a participatory procession and protest by Lara Schnitger.
Celebrating the opening of “Other Walks, Other Lines”
SJMA and Pecha Kucha San Jose present an evening of fast-paced presentations on a variety of topics related to the future of mobility in San José. Speakers include partners from New Terrains: Mobility and Migration, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways bodies move in social and political spaces presented by organizations throughout Silicon Valley in 2018–2019. (Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 6–9pm)
Creative Minds: Artist Dinh Q. Lê in conversation with author Andrew Lam.
ArtRage: Truth Be Told /// Performing Now: San José-based rapper DEM ONE and San Francisco-based musician PC Muñoz present their collaborative performance piece RIGHTSTARTER, an experiment in percussion and vocal minimalism.
ArtRage: Truth Be Told /// Performing Now: Poet Lorenz Mazon Dumuk and Khalilah Ramirez, who will engage the audience in her Dance of Peace.
Reaching Out to San Jose's Vietnamese American Community
The Vietnamese Community Outreach Initiative is an ongoing effort to engage multi-generational audiences with the Art Portal, a mobile art studio, at festivals, shopping malls, and libraries within the Vietnamese community.
The Vietnamese Community Outreach Initiative is supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation. Additional support is provided by an Art Works Grant from the National Endowment for the Art.
Creative Minds: California Dreamin’ /// Rory Padeken, associate curator, in conversation with artist Won Ju Lim.
Creative Minds: Vietnamese Writers of the Diaspora /// Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his bestselling novel The Sympathizer, hosts an evening featuring Vietnamese writers of the diaspora. Representing a variety of genres—fiction, poetry, comics, memoir, children’s literature—these writers are currently fellows at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
On stage: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Aimee Phan, and Bao Phi, moderated by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud. (35-minute panel discussion, 3/3)
Creative Minds: Vietnamese Writers of the Diaspora /// Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his bestselling novel The Sympathizer, hosts an evening featuring Vietnamese writers of the diaspora. Representing a variety of genres—fiction, poetry, comics, memoir, children’s literature—these writers are currently fellows at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
On stage: Hoa Nguyen, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, and Dao Strom, moderated by Anh Thang Dao. (35-minute panel discussion, 2/3)
Creative Minds: Vietnamese Writers of the Diaspora /// Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his bestselling novel The Sympathizer, hosts an evening featuring Vietnamese writers of the diaspora. Representing a variety of genres—fiction, poetry, comics, memoir, children’s literature—these writers are currently fellows at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
Program starts at 22:00 minute mark.
On stage: Anna Moi, Monique Truong, Nam Le, and Thi Bui, moderated by Lan Duong. (35-minute panel discussion, 1/3)
Boston-based artist Jason Chase is demonstrating how he uses NanoLab, Inc.’s Singularity™️ Black for his own artworks.
Samantha Hull, education program coordinator, demonstrates how you can assemble your very own Doodle-Bot. See it in action this Saturday at Community Day: Maker Day!
The opening reception for “The House Imaginary” is happening right now. Come on by for food, drinks, and live music by DJ Too Tall. Free to all museum members.
Highlights from 8th Annual Poetry Invitational, 4/20/17
Curious to see how poetry and visual art coalesce in the museum? Check out our highlights from last year's Poetry Invitational.
Poets Michelle Duong, Sally Ashton, Scorpiana Xlent, Tshaka Menelik Imhotep Campbell, Arlene Biala, Jarvis Subia, and Yaccaira Salvatierra read poems inspired by art at the San Jose Museum of Art, April 20, 2017. Thanks also to poets Bill Cozzini, Suzy Huerta, and Pranita Patel who also performed.
Co-sponsored by SJMA and Poetry Center San José.
Raimonds Staprans shares a "daydream" about his approach to art.
In this Lunchtime Lecture from March 2018, artist Raimonds Staprans describes his journey as a painter as a daydream that takes him into a dark woods filled with the traps "illustration" and "decoration."
The lecture was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans" at the San José Museum of Art February 2, 2018 – May 20, 2018.
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz presents FOREST (for a thousand years) by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller at the UCSC Arboretum.
Celebrating San José’s New Mural of Hope. Speaking now: Sayre Batton (emcee), Marilee Jennings, Juan Carlos, Empire 7, El Mac, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Live music by MaKrú (a fusion of Rumba, Flamenca, Ska, Cumbia, and other global beats)
Speaking now: Sayre Batton (emcee), Kerry Adams Hapner, Jazmin Amezcua Orellana, and Sophie Cruz.
A Mural of Hope: "Sophie Holding the World Together"
A Mural of Hope: "Sophie Holding the World Together," 2017 by El Mac in collaboration with The Propeller Group as part of “Viet Nam: The World Tour."
ArtRage is underway! Performing now: NewGround Theatre Dance Company
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