THURSDAY GIG'S Art & The Spoken Word presents

Artist Lynn Rogers
Poet Steve Arntson
Open Mic follows

Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6:30 - 9:30 pm

STONE GRIFFIN GALLERY
411 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell

This is a Pot Luck BYOB, Soft Drinks, Water event
Donations of $1 would be appreciated
If you can't bring food or donate, come anyway : )

Contact Info: Elizabeth Parashis at artpages@earthlink.net

Two Buck Tuesdays is getting bigger and better this year with the recently added live sketch sessions and featured curators of each event.

If you would like to get samples of your work out to a wide audience in a fun, affordable way, you're welcome to participate in the $2 art sale component of the Two Buck Tuesdays event.

Just bring in 6-8 works of art sized 4" x 6" or smaller with your full contact info on the back (you keep all the proceeds) no later than Saturday October 17th at 3pm.

Then join us on Tuesday, Oct 20th for Two Buck Tuesday curated by Eddie Flores. Scheduled speakers include artist Carlos DaSilva, poet Don K. and a fashion show by Masha Art. Live sketchers include Robert Lopez, Fernando Amaro, Laura Callin Bennett and Timothy Tsun.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
Downtown San Jose, CA
www.KALEIDgallery.com
408-947-1785

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday thru Friday, Noon - 7pm
Saturday, Noon - 5pm
First Fridays til 9pm

Lullaby # 2 by Corpus Callosum, video still

Update: You can now view the video here: http://www.vimeo.com/6968393

Corpus Callosum video release concert at Anno Domini this Friday, October 9th

featuring: musical performance by Corpus Callosum, a new puppet show entitled The Stars and special guests Battlehooch!

Friday, October 9th
Doors open at 7:30, Performance at 8pm
$5 / door, all ages welcome

Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
www.galleryAD.com 408.271.5155

Bambú is a new program cultivating a creative community in & around GCC’s new Art and Wellness Studio facility located in Downtown San Jose. Bambú is currently supported by the Friends of Grace and The City of San Jose’s Grace Community Center.

Bambú is looking for volunteer artists to teach classes & workshops!
Are you a talented artist eager to share your creativity with the community? Would you like to instruct or develop a community project, art class or event? The Friends of Grace are starting community art programming at the newly renovated GCC Art & Wellness Studio. All interested artists are encouraged to contact us for more information.

For more info please contact Bambú Coordinator, Michaela Rodriguez at (408) 904-8190 or email bambuair@thefriendsofgrace.org

Black & Brown is having a very special end of the year puzzle show. It is a show where everyone can contribute! We are asking those who would like to participate to drop off a puzzle matted an ready to hang before November 1st.

This can be a puzzle found or a puzzle made. It can also be your interpretation of a puzzle. The puzzles will be sold and in the spirit of the holidays all proceeds will go to a to be announced environmental organization and of course those would like to keep their puzzle can just let us know that it is not for sale.

The date of the art show is November 14th and will have DJ's as well as live bands. For additional information, please email blackandbrown@sbcglobal.net or call (408)298-1970.

Black & Brown Clothing
1225 West San Carlos St
San Jose, CA 95125

Sonya Paz is hosting and conducting the "Get in the G.A.M.E. (Guerrilla Art Marketing Experience) Workshop"

DATE: Monday, October 19, 2009 at the Sonya Paz Gallery in Downtown Campbell CA
TIME: 6 pm - 9 pm
PRICE: An artful evening workshop for just $75.00

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! And a great place to learn this is in the Sonya Paz G.A.M.E. Workshop and unleash your inner marketing talents.

The Art of Collaboration
Processes • Technologies • Authorship

Hosted by the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at the new Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), UC Santa Cruz

Location: The Media Lab, in UCSC’s New Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), located between the Music Recital Hall and Baskin Visual Arts on West Campus, UC Santa Cruz.

Dates: Thursday October 22, 4:30pm-7:30pm
Friday October 23, 9:30am-7:30pm

Join more than twenty scholars, artists, filmmakers, game designers and theorists as they come together to discuss the meanings and cultural aspirations associated with collaboration, including non-hierarchical production, shared authorship, cross-disciplinary and trans-cultural approaches to research. By exploring the complexities of collaboration, this symposium challenges overdependence on intellectual individuality in favor of the non-territorial, collective, dialogic, participatory and relational.

Keynote Address:
"Enclosure Acts: Collaborative Practice in an Indian Village"
Grant Kester, Chair and Associate Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego

Special Lecture co-presented with the UCSC Foundation Forum:
"Creativity: What I Don't Know and What I Know"
Dr. Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios

The 8th Annual Y2K International Live Looping Festival begins this Wednesday night at Anno Domini with the Best of the Y2K9. The evening features 7 International loopers back to back!

Best of the Y2K9 International Live Looping Festival

Wednesday, October 14th, 7p.m. at Anno Domini (San Jose, CA)

Admission: $10/door only

Featuring:
* ANDRE DONAWA (Caribbean)
* SJAAK OVERGAUW (Antwerp, Belgium)
* NATALIE GRANT (Preston, Victoria, Australia)
* ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE BRAINDEAD (Cologne, Germany)
* MICHAEL PETERS (Cologne, Germany)
* KEVIN SPEARS (Atlanta, Georgia)
* DAVID COOPER ORTON (Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom)

ANNO DOMINI
366 S. 1st Street
San Jose, CA 95113
www.galleryAD.com

The Y2K9 festival runs October 14-19 with performances in San Jose (Wednesday, OCT 14th), San Franscisco (Thursday, OCT 15th) and the Y2K epicenter in Santa Cruz (OCT 15th-19th). Get the full festival lineup at www.y2kloopfest.com.

genARTS Silicon Valley presents:

STRENGTHENING THE VOICE OF EMERGING ARTS LEADERS

Thursday, October 29, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Theater on San Pedro Square
29 N. San Pedro Street, San Jose, CA
FREE

Please join genARTS Silicon Valley, the next generation of leadership, for a free networking and interactive discussion. With introductory remarks by Marc Vogl, Program Officer in the Performing Arts Program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, we will discuss the power of advocacy and brainstorm ways in which we can leverage the genARTS network and other networks to strengthen the voice of our community's emerging arts leadership.

A complimentary light lunch will be served.

Pre-registration is required for this free event. RSVP to jrussell@1stact.org.

In partnership with 1stACT Silicon Valley and Americans for the Arts Creative Conversation.

Health Care and Health Insurance Workshop
Monday November 2, 2009
2pm-2:30pm at MACLA
510 South First St., San Jose

The workshop focuses on health care and health insurance options for the unemployed and uninsured or under-insured. The information is comprehensive and unbiased - there are no commercial or political sponsors.

Workshop topics include:

· Finding affordable health insurance
· Getting health care when you're uninsured
· Lowering the cost of medications
· Applying for government-subsidized programs
· Understanding current health care reform efforts

A Q and A will follow the workshop, plus individual consultations are available.

Register at 1-800-221-7303 ext. 269 or jbrown@actorsfund.org (give name, workshop location, and phone number).

This event is free and open to the general public.

Be-Jeweled highlights artists and artisans who work within the concept of personal adornment. Participating artists include: Charlotte Kruk, Andrew Werby, Lisa Hovey, Christina Clack, Beth Miller, Danny Scheible, Rosie Long, Linda Marglon, Anne Perkins, Nadine Sandoval, Jessica Plotkin, Renee Mueller, Christine Jensen and Janet Graff.

Opening Reception Friday, Oct. 16th, 7-9pm

Exhibit on view through November 14th.

Please visit http://www.fremont.gov/art/olivehydeartgallery for more information.

Olive Hyde Art Gallery
123 Washington Blvd.
Fremont, CA
510-791-4357

APE, the Alternative Press Expo is on this weekend at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco with too many favorite artists to list (click here to see!)

To be released at APE is Ten West Coast Artists which includes our very own Charis DeRemer, Trina Merry and Lacey Bryant as well as Sarah Curry, Romanoos Abasaltian Mattonen, Celeste Young, Fabian Gurrola, Adolfo Martinez, Melissa Garden Streblow, Magda Keriakos, and Heidi Erickson.

With this special friends and family discount code, ANT35YZP, you can get it now for $10.00 (50% off!) at https://www.createspace.com/3401883.

Alternative Press Expo
Saturday, Oct. 17 - 11am - 7pm
Sunday, Oct. 18 - 11am - 6pm
The Concourse
620 7th Street San Francisco
http://www.comic-con.org/ape/

Anxiety by Julie Bilyeu

From the Rubble by Drew Clark

If you haven't been by KALEID to view the featured exhibits this month, you should try to make it soon as it comes down at the end of the month. Both exhibitions are dramatic and each delves into the darker recesses of the human psyche: Drew in his observation of each generation's obsession with the apocalypse and Julie in her coping with severe anxiety through her drawings.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth St.
Downtown San Jose

Gallery hours: Tuesday thru Friday, noon - 7pm, Saturday, noon - 5pm

Save the Date:

Fragile Things by Lacey Bryant

Carnival of Lost Souls by Jen Renzel

First Friday November 6th. Opening reception 7-9pm for two new feature exhibits: Fragile Things, new paintings by Lacey Bryant, and Carnival of Lost Souls, new assemblages by Jen Renzel.

Recent works by Starr Davis and Isabel Brown opens with a reception on October 23rd from 5:30pm - 7:30pm at the Gallery House. Exhibition on view through November 13th.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday, 11am - 4pm, Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 8pm & Sunday, 11am - 3pm

Gallery House
320 California Ave at Birch
(through Printers' Inc Cafe)
Palo Alto, CA 94306
650.326.1668

The Black Bean Ceramic Art Center has created a membership based working studio environment so artists can experience creative independence and have the opportunity to collaborate with others and connect to the community.

The new center features
- 24/7 access
- 13 electric pottery wheels
- 8 electric kilns
- 1 Olsen 24
- slab rollers
- extruders
- individual shelf
- buy and use the clay of your choice
- freedom to load and and fire your pieces

Grand Opening Reception: Saturday October 24th 2pm-6pm

561 Emory Street (at Coleman Avenue)
San Jose, California, 95110
408.642.5757
www.blackbeanclay.com
Co-owners: Ruben Reyes, Will Johnson

Join us at KALEID Gallery for the next TWO BUCK Tuesdays $2 art sale, quirky speaker series and live sketch session this Tuesday, October 20th, 6-10pm!

FEATURED SPEAKERS (7pm):
Carlos Dasilva will speak about his fine art black and white photography work, his recent transition to screen printing and his influences and inspirations for creating new works.

Mariya Milovidova will present some of her visual art, plus some fashion items from her spring & summer collection 2010. She will also demonstrate how to transform your regular clothing into a Halloween costume!

Don K. will talk about some of his recent poetry.

Music by Sid Licious

FEATURED SKETCH SESSION ARTISTS:
Fernando Amaro
Laura Callin Bennett
Robert Lopez
Timothy Tsun

Artists will be creating original pieces of art throughout the evening and will be available for purchase priced between $5 - $30.

Artists are encouraged to come and participate as well (bring your own art supplies).

Tonight's event is curated by Eddie Flores with the support of the TWO BUCK Tuesday crew.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
Downtown San Jose
www.KALEIDgallery.com

We're very happy that Andy Gouveia, a long time Phantom Galleries collaborator, has gotten some well deserved press on his South Second St. mural depicting the transformative eras of Silicon Valley's history.

Read the article here.

View more pics of the mural when it was in progress here.

Visit Andy's website here.

The Alameda Art Works will be hosting its Fall Open Studios. In this year’s event, the artists will be donating a portion of all sales to Sacred Heart Community Service, a social services charity that has been serving our community since 1964.

Once a municipal auditorium and roller-skating rink, The Alameda Artworks is now one of the largest collections of artist studios in the South Bay. This is a great opportunity to see a large number of artists under one roof. The artists’ work will be on view as well as for sale. The Alameda Artworks invites all art lovers to a reception celebrating the Fall Open Studios Event.

Saturday Reception: November 7, 2009, 2 to 5PM (studios open from 11am to 5pm)
Sunday Open Studios: November 8, 2009, 11am to 5pm

The Alameda Art Works is located at:
1068 The Alameda
San Jose, CA 95126-3183
MAP

Thanks to everyone that came out to the recent Two Buck Tuesdays event on Oct. 21st at KALEID Gallery. Eddie Flores and the TBT Crew put together a great night of interesting, inspiring speakers and sketchers.

Special thanks to Carlos DaSilva for sharing his photography

and to Donald K. for his poetry

and to Masha Art for her Halloween fashion show of hand painted clothing.

Live sketchers included: Fernando Amaro, Robbie Lopez

Laura Callin Bennett

and Timothy Tsun.

TBT crew members Drew Clark and Michael Foley painted throughout the night out front

and great music by Sid Licious!

Save the date for the next one- Third Tuesday November 17th, curated by Trina Merry!

If you're an artist that would like to participate in the Two Buck Tuesdays $2 art sale, just bring in 6-8 works of art sized 4" x 6" or smaller with your full contact info on the back (you keep all the proceeds) no later than Saturday November 14th at 3pm.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
Downtown San Jose
408-947-1785

Gallery TEN10 presents a night of art work by Michael Foley and poetry by Amy Meier.

Michael shows at KALEID Gallery and First Street Billiards and his work has been shown at different venues across the Bay Area. His work displays superb craftsmanship, an eye for the bizarre, an innate sense of energy and daring and a wonderful knowledge of the human figure.

Amy Meier has loved poetry since childhood and in her searing and honest looks at relationships , she explores in emotional detail the vastness and complexity of the human condition.

Potluck, sober environment.

Reception: Friday, October 30th, 6pm.
Reading at 7pm, with a Drum circle by John Kurtyka and an Open Mic at the end.

Gallery Ten10 is located at the corner of 21st Street and Taylor
408-476-1968