Just a friendly reminder that there is no First Friday art walk July 3rd in downtown San Jose. Most galleries are open during regular gallery hours (Anno Domini is closed during July). Please visit http://www.SouthFIRSTFRIDAYS.com for exhibit schedules.

The art walk will resume First Friday August 7th along with Anno Domini's STREET MRKT with over 30 artists and creative vendors. STREET MRKT will be host to the Jazz Beyond stage in collaboration with the San Jose Jazz Festival featuring two great acts: Midival Punditz with Karsh Kale, and Panthelion!

Save the Date for the HOMEGROWN Exhibit on Friday July 10th, 7-9pm at KALEID Gallery featuring the budding talents of over 25 San Jose artists!

We hope you and yours are enjoying the Fourth of July holiday!

Surreal Night at the San Jose Museum of Art is an impressive mid-career retrospective of Todd Schorr's contribution to the "Pop Surrealism" scene (of which the likes of Camille Rose Garcia, Mark Ryden and Gary Baseman are members.)

On Thursday, July 16th, 7-10pm you can meet Todd and attend a panel discussion (7:30pm). This Hi-Fructose sponsored event also includes a book signing, sounds by Streetlight Records and specialty cocktails.

Free to members, $8 for non-members.

San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market Street
San Jose, CA

AXIS Condominiums in downtown San Jose is seeking artwork by local artists for their sales offices available immediately.

There's plenty of space (for hanging work as well as sculpture) to accommodate several pieces by several artists. There is no honorarium for exhibition but works may be for sale with no commission imposed by AXIS.

If you are interested, email 3-5 jpg images (400 pixels wide at 72dpi) and your full contact info to Carrie Newbery, cnewbery@pmateam.com

AXIS San Jose
38 N. Almaden Boulevard
San Jose, CA 95110
Phone: 408.297.9888

Art Ark announces two events this month:

Closing Reception Friday, July 3rd, 5-10pm for David Larimore's Statue of Liberty Play To Win The Game! exhibition.

artwork left: Crystal Kamoroff, artwork right: Jacquelline Cooper

Opening Reception Saturday, July 11th, 6-9pm for The Shape of Desire, recent works by Crystal Kamoroff and Jacquelline Cooper. Exhibit on view through August 8th.

ART ARK GALLERY
1035 South 6th Street
San Jose, CA 95112

Get in the G.A.M.E. "Guerrilla Art Marketing Experience"

So why aren't you selling your art to your customers? Don't rely on others to do what you have the potential to do yourself! Galleries are a nice place to start, but you do not get the experience in selling direct to customers. They want to meet and know the artist, this is YOU!

In this artful workshop, you will learn:

* How to interact with your customer and never let them see you sweat
* How to cost effectively utilize affordable marketing tools and materials
* Develop good follow up skills
* Learn to be the self represented artist that you are and creatively market yourself confidently with your sales ability

Getting it out there is the first step in showing the world the passion in your creativity, whether it's visual arts, performance arts, writing, creative media.

DATE: Monday, July 13, 2009 at the Sonya Paz Gallery in Downtown Campbell CA
TIME: 6 pm - 9 pm:
COST: Earlybird price is $59.00 until July7th.
July 8th through July12th price is $65.00.
$95.00 at door

Reserve your seat now! https://www.sonyapaz.com/secure_purch/seminar.html

Sonya Paz Fine Art Gallery
195 East Campbell Avenue
Campbell, CA 95008
Phone: 408.378.5000
http://www.sonyapaz.com/

This Friday, June 26th start off at 6:30pm at Gallery Ten10 for the solo exhibition by Gianfranco Paolozzi (with open mic and drum circle) located at 1010 East Taylor, San Jose.

Then head over to the Studio Warming Party for Trina Merry & Celeste Young
Free All-Ages Show @ The Citadel Art Studios featuring music by: Corpus Callosum, DeatHat, Travis Oberg (Saltwater Merchants)

Free BBQ starts @ 6pm & at sunset, the bats fly out of the roof!

Citadel Art Studios
855 5th ave. San Jose, CA (by Martha St.)
Studio #301
San Jose

The June exhibition at Pacific Art League of Palo Alto is "Birds & Bees, Fur, Feathers & Fins -- Animals Real or Imaginary" and includes two KALEID artists Terenia Offenbacker and Mariana Barnes. The exhibition was juried by Ruth Waters, Chair of the Peninsula Art Museum in Belmont. 57 works selected from 159 entries may be viewed at Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, 668 Ramona Street, thru July 6.

The deadline is July 1 to enter "Figures & Faces," an international show to be juried by George Rivera of the Triton Museum of Art. www.pacificartleague.org 650-321-3891.

KALEID Gallery artist Blaise Rosenthal will have a solo exhibition entitled Learning How to Swim, new paintings and drawings at the Felix Kulpa Gallery and Sculpture Garden.

Artist's Reception is Friday July 3rd, 6-9pm
Exhibit on view through July 26th.

Felix Kulpa
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA
831-421-9107

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12:00pm to 6:00pm

(clockwise from top left)
Kevyn Warnock : oil
Martha Castillo : clayprint
Trevlyn Williams : watercolor
Midori McCabe : mixed media

Reception to meet the artists- Friday, July 10, 6-8 pm.
live music by guitarist Robert Holland

Gallery House
320 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 (enter thru Printers Cafe)
650-326-1668

Sun Gallery Call for Art for the Second Annual “The Hottest Show in Town”™

Celebrating the Creative Firefighter
Firefighters – Active or Retired;, our Local Heros

Opening Reception: August 22nd, 1 pm to 7 pm
Hottest Show: August 22 through September 19th

Artwork will be juried: submit your two or three dimensional creative works by CD, photos, or online website to susan@sungallery.org by July 31.

Your work can be dropped off and juried simultaneously at the Sun Gallery, by appointment. Artwork will be accepted August 12th through 19th, by appointment.

The show fee will be $65, which includes a membership to the Gallery, and postcard invitations for the show. Sun Gallery's commission on sales is 30%.

If you are a performing artist, and would like to perform at the opening reception, please let us know!

Please call Susan Julie Gonzales at (510) 415-4111, or send an e-mail to Susan@sungallery.org for more information, or to make arrangements.

Sun Gallery is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization seeking to enrich the cultural lives of our diverse and multicultural community, and the inner lives of individual of all ages and circumstances, through art, with a focus on Art Education for Children.