Gregory Kate Gallery presents the exhibit Girls Night Out by Marilyn Sears Bourbon.

The artist's reception is Friday, March 14th from 7-9pm.
The exhibit is on view March 5 through March 30, 2008.

Gregory Kate Gallery
925 The Alameda # 101
San Jose, CA 95126
408-271-2626

Enter our "TOP 40" juried competion for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Open to all geographical locations.

Forty selected winners recieve one print up to 24x36 on museum quality paper to be shown in an international group exhibition in our gallery from April 10-May 3, 2008. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.

Artists participating in our competitions form the pool of artists from which we select the vast majority of those featured at LACDA and are often considered by our associated network of galleries and curators. Proceeds from the competition support these gallery programs. Juror Rex Bruce has curated and participated in over 50 exhibits since the founding of LACDA in 2004 and is internationally recognized as a leader and expert in the field.

Registration fee is $30US. Deadline is March 20th.

For more information, click here.

An artist in Savannah, GA named Ian is calling for art about knees that would ultimately culminate in a gallery exhibit and possibly a book. Work can be of any medium, including poetry on the subject of knees, weird, or not. There's no set deadline (as of yet) and no entry fee. Visit www.kneesareweird.com for details.

Last month we posted a call for volunteers for Michael Smit's How Have You Been An Artist Today? project that will be exhibited at the ICA's exhibit This Exhibit Needs You opening later this month.

Michael has some informational meetings coming up if you're interested in participating. The meetings with the artist will be at the ICA and are scheduled for Thursday 3/6 (6-7:30pm) and Friday 3/7 (3-4:30pm), Thursday 3/13 (6-7:30pm) and Friday 3/14 (3-4:30pm), Thursday 3/20 (6-7:30pm) and Friday 3/21 (3-4:30pm).

Please respond asap by sending your name, email, phone, language(s), access to audio-recording equipment or not, and rough availability to the artist Michael Smit at msmit@mac.com.

Visit Michael's project page for an indepth explanation of the project here or the original call we posted here for a recap of how you can participate.

Participating KALEID gallery artist Cindy Stokes is in an upcoming juried exhibit at Modernbook in Palo Alto.

For the fourth consecutive year, Modernbook owners Bryan Yedinak and Mark Pinsukanjana have teamed up with photographer Brigitte Carnochan and the Stanford Continuing Studies Program to mount an exhibition by 18 emerging local photographers. The photographers, all juried into Continuing Studies Art 44 on the basis of an existing body of work, learn to prepare their work for gallery presentation. Carnochan, Yedinak and Pinsukanjana guide them through the business of exhibiting photography-editing, producing and displaying as well as editioning, pricing and marketing. Then the gallery owners hang-and sell-the photos.

18@modern: An Exhibition of Fine Art Photographers
March 7-April 3, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 2008 7-10 pm (all are welcome!)
Modernbook Gallery, 494 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
Gallery Hours: 11 am to 9 pm, daily

In celebration of University Art's 60th Anniversary, they are sponsoring their first open art competition for artists in San Jose, Sacramento and surrounding areas.

Categories are: oil/acrylic, pastel, drawing, watercolor or mixed media. Awards: over $10,000 in cash and merchandise. Entry fees: $25. for one entry, $35. for two entries.

The San Jose Juror is George Rivera, Exec. Director & Curator of the Triton Museum of Art.

To download the prospectus, click here. Or visit their store at 456 Meridian Ave., San Jose. 408-297-4707

Judy Gittelsohn sent us a note: If you couldn't make the opening, you can still view this extraordinary exhibition of portraits by the artists of Art For Well Beings on display now through the end of March. These pictures were painted during the recently completed series of classes by an amazing group of adults, kids, and young people with developmental disabilities.

The Emerson Art Gallery
2800 West Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA
Open by appointment - call (650) 776 - 8297.

Backwater Arts Gallery & Studios is a volunteer run organization "trying to raise our voices together to affect positive community change without the benefits of non-profit or for-profit status. We are building our community in an old building much in need of repair and we are promoting ourselves from a non-existent shoestring budget. All proceeds from our exhibition will go towards creating an manageable operating budget for BWA and undertaking the much needed renovations to make our building the strong arts center we believe it will become, including preserving our watertower and renovating our greenhouse."

100/100 is a show of 100 works of art for $100. Artists may still donate works until March 12th. Preview will be 12pm-5pm, March 22, 2008. The "buy-off" of art will take place March 29th from 6pm - 10pm.

Visit bwa-gallery.com for more information.

The Chi, Yeh Fei Pai

This painting is the signature pose of the Yeh family single Celestial Horse composition - his imposing presence inspires awe as he soars through the sky with earth shaking power.

All paintings of the Yeh family’s Celestial Horses emphasize “Chi”, the General’s spiritual strength for righteousness and justice. It is an invigorating energy that travels from the horse’s eye to the mane to the tail. Every line, every stroke, every muscle, every hair is filled with this “Chi”. This is why it is so difficult to imitate the Yeh’s Celestial Horse. In order to reach this state, the painter must constantly purify his mind and cultivate his painting integrity.

Artist Yeh Fei Pai will present a demonstration of brushpainting on March 11th from 12-1pm (food will be provided.). Following this, the artist will be formally recognized in front of City Council.

City Hall, Room W-120
200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose.
For more information, contact District 4 Council office at 408-535-4904.

In January we posted a call for entries for ArtSeen 3. ArtSeen received over 450 submissions to their blue-ribbon jury that included Los Angeles County Museum of Art Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Howard Fox. KALEID artist Eric Taggart was one of 35 artists chosen by the esteemed panel to participate in "this high profile event that gives art collectors and enthusiasts a chance to view, and bid on, an eye-popping selection of contemporary, enjoying the cuisine from some of LA's hottest restaurants and chefs."

The Opening Night Party and Preview is May 13th, with the work on view at selected downtown LA galleries from May 13th-16th and the Auction Gala will take place on May 17th. Proceeds to benefit AIDS Research Alliance.

Ben Henderson, an amazing singer/songwriter is performing live at Brokendoor Espresso on Friday, March 14th at 8pm.

Ben just released his new CD Dirty Birdies which is fantastic, it'll be a real treat to see Ben in this up close and intimate venue. Free and open to all ages. (Awesome flyer by Pellet.)

Brokendoor Espresso
231 E. Santa Clara (across from City Hall)
Downtown San Jose

Black Rock Arts Foundation is working to bring Homouroboros by Peter Hudson to San Jose for a month long exhibit beginning mid May, 2008. At 24 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, Homouroboros is one of the largest, most ambitious zoetropes ever created, and public exhibition of the piece will establish a new level of interactivity for public art.

A community event featuring the artist will be held at Anno Domini gallery on Thursday, March 20th from 6:30pm - 9pm. Admission is a $10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds to benefit the Homouroboros project. ($28,000 has already been raised toward their goal of $40,000.)

Volunteers are also needed to support this amazing outdoor, interactive exhibition. If you would like to lend your hands or mind to this project, feel free to attend this event for more informaiton, or visit their site here.

California Lawyers for the Arts presents:
INITIATE YOUR MISSION: Non-Profit Corporate Formation. You can be the next community entrepreneur!

Learn what it will take to incorporate your vision for the benefit of the community. Attorney David Morales will take you through the steps of setting up a non-profit corporation. You will learn about the various filings and fees associated with incorporation and gain a greater understanding of the roles and relationships between the Secretary of State, the Internal Revenue Services, and the Attorney General's office.

Mr. Morales is the principal attorney of the Morales Law Firm whose practices include intellectual property and business law and litigation.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Registration 6:45 – 7:00 pm
Presentation 7:00 – 8:00 pm, Q&A to follow

C.L.A. members $ 10.00/Non-members $ 20.00
Free with NEW membership
Click here to pre-register.
Where: The Kirsch Conference Center, 60 South Market Street, San Jose

We've posted a few items for SJICA's upcoming exhibit This Show Needs You and here's another one that should be fairly easy to participate in!

Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery is a project by Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves with Joseph McHenry for This Show Needs You, a participation based exhibition from March 28 - May 17.

Bring garden-grown lemons from non-quarantine areas to the ICA on March 18-19.
Not sure if you are in a quarantine area? Check out these maps for the Med Fly and Apple Moth quarantines in the Santa Clara County. Still unsure? Call the ICA for further info.

Check out all the ways that this show needs you with a full list of its public programs.
Questions? Contact Susan (at) sjica (dot) org

CaFÉ is a non profit website that helps artists and public art administrators centralize and organize their calls for entry. It's easy to register, and has lots of posts on public art calls all over the region.

There's a free workshop for artists to help you master the online application process thru CaFE:

Artists at all levels of professional development are encouraged to attend this workshop to learn how to use CaFÉ , the web-based application system that enables artists to apply online to multiple calls for entry through a central website, www.callforentry.org. This application system is now being used by many public art programs in the Bay Area and nationwide.

CaFÉ staff will present a step-by-step introduction on how to use their application system, including how to set-up a new artist's profile and how to apply for a project or multiple projects.A professional photographer will provide guidance on how to take high-quality digital photographs and how to format digital images.

The workshop will also include brief presentations from Bay Area public art administrators on their current or upcoming public art opportunities.

Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:30-8:30 pm
Workshop Location: Alameda County Conference Center
125 12th Street (at the corner of Oak and 12th Streets), 4th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-6467.

RSVP: This event is FREE but Space is limited to 100 attendees.
RSVP by March 31st to the Alameda County Arts Commission by e-mail at artscommission@acgov.org or call (510) 208-9646.

University Art is having their One Day Super Sale on Thursday March 20th from 8am - 7pm. At least 30% off everything in the store, with discounts going as deep as 70%. This includes their stores in San Jose, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Sacramento.

You're all invited to the San Jose Arts Commission's 2008 Arts Appreciation Evening!
This event, in recognition of the San Jose Arts Community, will take place:
Monday, May 12, from 6-8 pm
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
560 South First Street, downtown San Jose.

Each year, the Commission hosts this gathering to recognize and honor the work of San Jose’s arts and cultural organizations and individual artists.

Please RSVP by Monday, April 28 to rsvpculturalaffairs@sanjoseca.gov.

We had the pleasure of meeting Mark ealier this week....a recent transplant to Santa Cruz from New York City. He's part of the upcoming conference at UC Santa Cruz in May and is looking for proposals. If you're interested in art as an everyday interaction and/or intervention, please submit your ideas following the guidelines below.

Art intervention now! May 14-17 2008

Seeking proposals that introduce different ways of looking for the center of a community through the contemporary art practice. This is a four day event with a base for indoor exhibitions and immediate engagements with a residential, commercial and industrial neighborhood on the west side of Santa Cruz and beyond.

The show is looking for artists and collectives that take into consideration the specifics of site and how art can insert itself into everyday life or a landscape. Santa Cruz has a wealth of history in tourism, subcultures and agriculture and Looking for the Center will lend to the conversation with projects that expand on this local community and bring the unexpected forward in four days. All work put forth should challenge the conventions of ownership, property and patronage.

The submitted proposals must be brief and state the contact information (including phone number) clearly on the same page.

At this point we want only the essential project- limited to 420 words or less.

Please paste the proposal directly into the email.

submissions should be sent to: mark@markwork.info
subject line: Looking for the Center

Current Phantom Galleries and KALEID gallery artist Mariana Barnes has a solo exhibit coming up at the Elizabeth Norton Gallery in Palo Alto.

Mosaic Movement solo exhibit April 4 -April 30, 2008.
Reception: Friday, April 4, 2008, 6-9pm
At the prestigious Elizabeth Norton Gallery (located upstairs of the Pacific Art League,)
668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301

KALEID gallery presents featured exhibits by Gabe Ibarra and Jennifer Norton
April 4 thru 25th.

Artists' Reception First Friday April 4th, 7pm-9pm

This reception is part of the South First Fridays art walk and is free and open to the public.

Gabe Ibarra, Cherry Blossoms and Wheelbarrel, photograph

Near and Dear To Me "The Garden City and Coyote Valley"
Gabe Ibarra's photographic exhibit documents his immense hours of walking, discovering and rediscovering neighborhoods that have gone from orchards to a bustling city. A series of work 15 years in the making – do not rush the experience – savor it and rediscover your own neighborhood.

Jen Norton, Patriot Act, mixed media on paper

Bits and Pieces...Fragments of Clarity Revealed In Everyday Moments
Daughter. Sister. Wife. Mother. Teacher. Creator. Our lives are rich with meaning hidden in our shared everyday moments. Jen Norton's artwork celebrates those relationships that bring us deep joy.Norton's work will include both acrylic and watermedia paintings, using color, texture and pattern as vehicles of expression. Relationships, recognizing grace in small moments, and finding meaning in everyday events all become subject matter in Norton’s paintings

KALEID gallery
88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando)
Downtown San Jose
free and open to the public

We're very pleased to announce we've acquired two new locations for the Phantom Galleries project in the SoFA District. We are grateful to the owners of the buildings for their participation which gives exhibit opportunities to our local artists and enlivens our district.

386 South First Street - Long time Duke of the Art Car brigade, Philo Northrup exhibits his personal assemblage artwork. On view through May, 2008.

380 South First Street - Lori Gordon's watercolor text paintings are part of the current exhibit This Show Needs You at SJICA. On view through May, 2008.