Congratulations to KALEID artist Jenifer Renzel for receiving the Curators Award at the current Los Gatos Art Association Open Juried Show.

The exhibition features abstract, plein air, sculpture, figurative and multi-media in this comprehensive juried show.

On view now through April 24 at the Los Gatos Art Museum, 4 Tait Avenue at West Main. Wednesday through Sunday, 12 Noon to 4 PM. 408.395.7386

Reviving California: What's Next for the Arts Community in Silicon Valley?

Tuesday, April 13, noon - 2:00 p.m.
Bella Mia Restaurant | Lunch included
58 South 1st Street, San Jose

Most of us are well aware of state budget cuts to the arts in our region. But do we really understand the implications?

Join in the conversation that will consider strategies to reinforce the importance of the arts on the state agenda and ensure that the voice of the arts community is heard.

Reviving California, a project of the Common Good Collaborative, powered by American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley, in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and in collaboration with Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, is hosting a series of conversations on how state reform efforts will effect various sectors. The goal is to EDUCATE, EMPOWER & ENGAGE participants.

This conversation is intended for members of the regional arts community and will feature a storytelling session on "California Dreaming" by Olga Loya.

For more information and to register, visit www.alfsv.org or call 408-554-2000.

This dialogue is is presented by Arts Council Silicon Valley in partnership with ALF & 1stACT Silicon Valley. It is intended for members of the Silicon Valley arts community.

It's never been more important for artists, arts advocates and the greater arts community to be involved!

Coffee, Tea, and Artistry at Red Berry Coffee Bar:
From the Center by Valerie Runningwolf
Friday, May 7, 7-9 pm

Join us at the opening of From the Center, an exhibition of vibrant mixed media art from Valerie Runningwolf, and meet the artist herself. Fresh baked treats will be provided. Artisan coffees and teas are available to complement the sweets and lift your spirits. An easy walk from downtown San Jose, Red Berry Coffee Bar is located directly across from City Hall. Street and covered parking is available.

Red Berry Coffee Bar
231 East Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA
408.286.0508
www.redberrycoffeebar.com

UPDATE: Congratulations to Corpus Callosum! Their new album was 100% funded!

If you've ever seen Corpus Callosum at KALEID Gallery, Anno Domini, Barefoot Coffee, or on a street corner in downtown San Jose on a summer's night, you know this band has the heart of true artists. They've given their time and talents for the love of performing to all of us here in San Jose and they're currently raising money to complete their upcoming album. They are 67% of the way there, together we can help them go all the way.

Please visit their Kickstarter page and view the video and if you like what you see and hear, pitch in a few bucks and know that you made it happen!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1800285815/corpus-callosum

Corpus Callosum is an effort to create dynamic, finely crafted songs, both heady and theatrical, using do-it-yourself means. The band credits influence from American roots music, gamelan, early industrial and noise and western classical. They draw upon the sounds of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits and Einstürzende Neubauten, among others, to generate a unique soundscape.

Songwriters Avery Burke and Dax Tran-Caffee collaborate with musicians Stevie Hryciw, Zach Michels, Qarly Canant, Andrea Craver, and Jason Samaha. This ensemble composes songs using traditional instruments such as accordion, reed organ, banjo, glockenspiel, mandolin and guitar; more obscure instruments like the singing saw, theremin, wash bucket bass and glass goblets and common objects such as pots and pans, pickaxes, children's toys, a kitchen blender and sheet metal. As much performance art as music, a Corpus Callosum concert showcases an array of puppetry, stilt-walking, kinetic sculpture, and other uncanny imagery to complement and embellish the sound.

Check out this video of Lullaby #2 by Corpus Callosum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52t8N_OLg0I

Do you knit a mean sweater? Can you crochet circles around circles? Or are you enthusiastically garter stitching your first scarf? Regardless of your level of experience, we want you! The San Jose Yarnbombing Crew is recruiting new members!

Yarn-bomb-ing (yarn bom-ing) n. 1. The softer, cuddlier side of graffiti. Street art that brings smiles to faces, and brightens up our neighborhood with unexpected bursts of color and whimsy. 2. Sneaky, guerrilla knitting. Taking your wild textile art to the next level of creativity and public art awesomeness.

We are plotting a massive yarnstorm to hit the streets during the 3rd Annual SubZERO Festival in the SoFA District on First Friday June 4th. We need all the hands and pointy sticks (and hooks) we can get to make this year's bombing amazing!

Get in touch by emailing knittybitty@hotmail.com or find us on Facebook by clicking here.

A wild one-night, all-ages, everyone invited, collaboration of live painting, open mic poetry, and drum session—all happening in a simultaneous soup of creativity!

Friday, April 16, 2010, 6 to 10pm

Please come, bring something to munch on and relax.

Drums, canvasses, drawing tables, and even some supplies provided! Refreshments will be available.

Bring your still life materials, or any instruments, poems, etc, that you desire!

There will be a $100 cash prize for best painting of the night as determined by our board!

All donations and proceeds benefit works/san josé, your community art and performance center.

works/san josé
451 south first street

Yumiko Miyagawa is looking for people who want to make and have their zines sold during the SubZERO Festival- June 4th, 6pm - Midnight in the SoFA District, downtown San Jose.

For details, please contact Yumi at all_access25@hotmail.com

The featured exhibitions at KALEID Gallery showcases the work of Kate Saturday and Kurtis Rykovich. The two solo exhibits are on view now through April 30th.

Kurtis Rykovich WANDA
Kurtis' exhibit is a tribute to his mother Wanda that passed away due to breast cancer. The wall text quotes his mother's thoughts and challenges suffered during her illness. His painting technique is flawless with a fine attention to detail. There is hope and determination in the faces of the young women he paints and will reward those that spend some quality time with each painting.

Kate Saturday Speaking Line
Kate is a multi-talented artist accomplished both as a visual artist but also as a musician (she is a member of DeatHat). This particular series is focused on her distinctive drawing style which incorporates her sense of humor and love of comics and graphic novels. Kate will be moving to Minneapolis later this summer so now is a good time to experience her work in an intimate setting.

More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/phantomgalleries/sets/72157623698098563/

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

KALEID Gallery
88 S. 4th St.
Downtown San Jose, CA 95112
http://www.KALEIDgallery.com

photography by Daniel Gaines

The Woman Who Fell From Space!

In the futuristic year of 2010, an alien beauty crashed to Earth. Lost and distressed, she has made her way to Silicon Valley and has taken refuge with Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Come, witness for yourself the spectacle of the woman who fell from space!

Bring your sketchbooks and favorite drawing tools, for in exchange for sanctuary, she has agreed to let her likeness be rendered by our esteemed student body.

Join us on Thursday, April 22nd from 7pm-10pm at Anno Domini, the official San Jose Chapter of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-art School!

DR. SKETCHY’s ANTI-ART SCHOOL
Dr. Sketchy’s is the world’s premier alternative drawing movement. Every month, over 3,500 artists gather in over a hundred cities (including New York, Hollywood, Sao Paolo, London, Rome, Paris, Tokyo, and Melbourne) to sketch glamorous, subcultural models and compete in drawing contests in an atmosphere of artistic mayhem.

Thursday, April 22nd, 7pm-10pm
$10.00/door Seating is limited, so get here early!

Featuring Live Model: Theresa Dunnavant
Master & Mistress of Ceremonies: Drew Clark & Trina Merry

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

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Local artist Laura Callin Bennett will lead a Drawing/Sketching Event at Barnes & Noble Stevens Creek. She will teach a demonstration about drawing the human face and figure in proportion, and then will be available for questions and advice during a free-draw session. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own, as well as your previous work, to share with others. All ages welcome!

The drawing event is part of the bookstore's week-long celebration of National Turnoff Week. The goal of Turnoff Week is to encourage people to power down their televisions and computers - and connect with family, friends, and the community through activities like drawing and reading.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:00 pm

Barnes & Noble
3600 Stevens Creek Blvd
San Jose, CA 95117
(408) 984-3495

Poetry Center San Jose & ArtObjectGallery present

A Special Poetry Month Event: Daniel Polikof discusses Rodin’s influence on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

Rodin taught him the value of objective observation, and under this influence Rilke dramatically transformed his poetic style from the subjective and sometimes incantatory language of his earlier work into something quite new in European literature.

On April 24th Daniel Polikof will start the evening with a bit of biographical background to place Rilke's relation to Rodin in the larger context of Rilke's life and developing work. Then he will discuss Rodin's influence on Rilke and interweave a reading of some of Rilke's New Poems which include some of his most famous pieces, such as the Panther and the Archaic Torso of Apollo (both of which will be his own translation) with a discussion of how Rilke assimilated the Rodin's sculptural aesthetic to his poetry and how this revolutionized Rilke's writing. There will be good bit of time for questions.

Saturday April 24th, 7:00PM
$5.00 suggested donation

Art Object Gallery
592 North Fifth Street
San Jose  CA

Gallery contact Ken Matsumoto at (408) 288-9305 or email at ken@artobjectgallery.com

For information about the Poetry Center email info@pcsj.org or visit http://www.pcsj.org

Golden rep Nina Deckert will show examples of acrylic used as watercolor. We'll discuss pigment properties, the merits of using acrylic and the different effects and techniques made possible with acrylics thinned with water.

We'll also look at acrylic grounds that accept any water media. We will also discuss archival considerations such as lightfastness and varnishing. There will be live demonstration and many painted examples, plus free samples and literature for registered attendees.

Sunday, May 9th, 1-3 p.m.

For reservations, contact UArt San Jose by phone or email: maguire.sjmike@gmail.com or 408-297-4707.

UArt San Jose
456 Meridian Ave.

Come mingle and enjoy the enlightening ambiance of local art and the artists who create it at Two Buck Tuesday!

A free family friendly event at KALEID Gallery. The Tuesday April 20th edition is curated by Drew Clark

$2 art sale begins at noon!

Arrive at 6:30pm to meet and mingle with the luminaries of the local art scene and enlighten yourself with the knowledge of our quirky and extremely erudite speakers:

Jack Wada: Head instructor and founder of Aikido of San Jose

Veronica Cruz: Founder of Downtown Yoga Shala

KALEID Feature Artists: Kate Saturday, Kurtis Rykovich

Featured Sketch Artists: Jesse Nickell, David Meiji & Ivy Atoms returns with her rad $5 portraits! Witness the artistic skill of Keith Bunnel as he throws pots and plays with clay! Enjoy the dulcet harmonies of live, improvisational music throughout the course of the night as musicians jam out for your listening pleasure! The jam session is open to any musician who is willing to chill out and have fun!

Live performance by The Complications!

Food courtesy of David Ramsey of Fundamental Gourmet.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
Dowtown San Jose
www.KALEIDGallery.com

Music Law Workshop 2 With Keith Cooper

Thursday, April 22nd, 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Room 210 of the Music Bldg. at San José State University

This two-part workshop will present an overview of the fundamental business law and intellectual property law matters concerning musicians with respect to sound recordings in the analog and digital environment. Part Two will include, by way of example, business arrangements among band members, relationships with managers, and record label deal terms. Registration is recommended but not required.

Registration Fees:
General Admission, $20; C.L.A. Members, $10
Senior Citizen & Student Members, $5.

To Register: Call (415) 775-7200 ext. 107, or email: ncalegal@calawyersforthearts.org.

Walk-ups welcome. Please bring cash and exact change.

Works/San Jose, your community art and performance center, is asking for your art to be the focus of the 2010 benefit auction! This will be the most important auction ever for Works, and your commitment and most inspired artwork are needed now to move works into the future.

Works is an all-volunteer art space where programming is driven by community proposals, and all funding is from individual support like yours.

Submissions are accepted this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: April 23 from 3 to 7pm, or Saturday and Sunday, April 24 and 25 from Noon to 4pm.

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WORKS San Jose
451 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113

Floating Thresholds, an exhibition of new work by Kristine Idarius at Grace Community Center. Also featuring artwork created by GCC member artists during Spring 2010 with Kristine, GCC’s first artist in residence.

Reception Friday, May 7, 2010 5-9pm
Exhibition May 7 –June 25, 2010
Open: Fridays, from 6-8pm or by appointment 408.293.0422

Grace Community Center’s Art & Wellness Studio
146 S 10th Street
San Jose, 95112

STRIPPED in a MECHANICAL MEADOW artworks by: Sean Sczepanik, Steven Sczepanik

The walls of this record shop will be covered with mural work by Sean and Steven Sczepanik. Guest DJ’s include Rockwell and Art Thief.

Friday, April 30th, 7pm -12pm

On the Corner Music
530 E. Campbell Ave.
Campbell, CA 95008

For more information, click here.

San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408.271.6840

MACLA's Luncheon in Celebration of our Latino Art Auction Exhibition
Friday, April 30th, 12-1:30pm

The keynote this year is architect Teddy Cruz, one of the most dynamic speakers of our times whose work has focused on the politics of space and urban planning, especially as it relates to the US/Mexico Border. MACLA is commissioning new work by Teddy Cruz that will premier at our upcoming Zero1 Exhibition in September 2010. Welcoming remarks provided by Sam Liccardo, San Jose District 3 Councilmember and David Figuero Ortega, Counsel General of Mexico in San Jose.

Teddy Cruz studies informal architecture in Tijuana and the place-making of immigrants in San Diego suburbs in order to adapt the creativity and resourcefulness of informal architecture to more official design practices. Teddy Cruz is an Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to teaching at UCSD, Teddy Cruz is the principal of Estudio Cruz, a San Diego-based architectural firm. He obtained a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University, the Rome Prize in Architecture form the American Academy in Rome and received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City Prize.

New York Times articles on the work of Teddy Cruz:

Learning from Tijuana: Hudson, NY, Considers Different Housing Model, February 19, 2008

Shantytowns as a New Suburban Ideal, March 12, 2006

Luncheon Tickets are $35/person or $350 for a table of ten.
Call (408)998-2808 to purchase tickets by Monday, April 26.

Save the Date: MACLA's 12th Annual Latino Art Auction - Saturday, May 15, doors open at 6pm, live auction begins at 7:30pm.

The 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Exhibit

Opening Reception- Wednesday April 28th 6pm-9pm
Second Chance Opening- Friday May 14th 6pm-9pm

Periscope Cellars
1410 62nd Street
Emeryville, CA 94608

Roan Victor, Ben Kretovics and KALEID's Kate Saturday are the featured artists of Drown in Details at Empire 7 on May 14th, 8pm-midnight.

Empire Seven Studios
(please note address correction:) 525 No. Seventh St.
San Jose, CA

Jen Norton, Cherry Tomatoes: $1.00, Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 20, $800

This weekend kicks off the 24th season of Silicon Valley Open Studios. It's your chance to visit artists in their studios and shared spaces during the first three weekends in May. Here you'll discover the tremendous diversity and wealth of artistic talent in this creative valley.

Many artists band together so you can see a many artists in one location such as Jen Norton Studios (pictured above.) Stop by Jen's art studio this weekend (May 1 & 2) at 1969 Elden Drive, San Jose, CA 95124 to see Jen's work as well as Jane Ferguson, Susan Migliore, Mariana Barnes, April Vanderbilt and Donna Orme. There will be live jazz on Saturday and wine tasting on Sunday.

Stop by KALEID Gallery to pick up a SVOS directory or visit their site for more info at http://www.svos.org

Artists Wanted's international competition for inspired photography is now open.

Photography is power. In a world of images, a photographer has the potential to change perceptions, ask questions and to explore beauty. This opportunity is open to photographers of all backgrounds who speak exquisitely in the language of lenses and aperture.

Our goal is simple - to find amazing photographic talents and expose them to the world in the most potent way possible. Rewards and benefits will be given to all who participate. One Grand Prize winner will be awarded a Manhattan gallery reception, international publicity and their choice of $10,000 cash or 1 year living rent free in a $1.2 million dollar apartment provided by The Edge in New York City.

Our panel of judges including Photographer Lauren Greenfield, New York Times Photo Editor Maura Foley, MoMA Curator Nora Lawrence and JPG Founders Derek Powazek & Heather Powazek Champ, will choose one photographer for the Grand Prize:
* $10,000 cash or 1-year FREE living at a $1.2 million apartment at The Edge in New York City
* A Manhattan gallery reception
* Airfare & shipping to and from New York City for the event
* International publicity

The public will also cast their vote and the highest rated portfolio will receive the People's Choice Award:
* $2,000 in cash
* A Manhattan gallery reception
* Airfare & shipping to and from New York City for the event

All participants will receive:
An online portfolio searchable by gallerists, press and commercial buyers; A free digital subscription to JPG Magazine; $100 in discounts and credits from Zipcar.com; and discounts and freebies from our corporate sponsors.

This is your opportunity to capture the moment and share your talent with the world.

Send us your most powerful photographs: http://artistswanted.org/?altd1

Deadline: May 31 at 11:59 pm, EST
Submission fee: $10 per image

With support from The Edge, JPG Magazine, Etsy, Resource Magazine, Zipcar, 3rd Ward.

Gallery TEN10 presents photography by Reuben Rutledge and drawings by Robert T. Magginetti on Friday, April 30th from 7pm-9pm.

Gallery TEN10
1010 East Taylor St @ 21st St.
San Jose

The beauty that fell from space Theresa Dunnavant

Dr. Sketchy art

Dr. Sketchy art

Master Drew Clark, Mistress Trina Merry our resident MCs.

Thank you! to all the artists that came out for Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School last week at Anno Domini. We had a full house of great talent to sketch, meet other artists and win prizes! More pics here.

Join us for the next Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School on First Friday, June 4th during the SubZERO Festival in the SoFA District!

artwork by Lacey Bryant

Donuts and Nurses and Art, Oh My! at Psycho Donuts in Campbell

Reception: Saturday, May 15th 10AM to 3PM
Show runs from April 27th to June 6th 2010

Psycho artists are working around the clock, driving themselves crazy - in preparation for "Donuts and Nurses and Art, Oh My!" Check out original affordable artwork by local artists - like Christine Benjamin, Lacey Bryant, Michael Foley, Sheri DeBow, Eric Joyner, Simon Salas, Murphy Adams, Nic Caesar, Michael Borja, John Hageman, Michelle Waters and more.

Artist Trina Merry will entertain audiences with her live body painting and artists Christine Benjamin and Ivy Atoms will be on sight painting some cool creatures on canvas!

Come for one of the world's best donuts, and "Psycho Killer" coffee; stay for the art!

Psycho Donuts
2006 S. Winchester Blvd.
Campbell, CA 95008
408-378-4540

HOURS
Monday - Thursday 6am-9pm
Friday 6am-11pm | Saturday 7am-11pm | Sunday 7am-9pm

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art work by Christine Benjamin

Delicious Show Work Inspired by Food & Drink at STUDIO Gallery in San Francisco

Reception: Sunday, May 9th, 2-6 pm
Show runs from May 5th - June 6th 2010

The Bay Area's twin passions, Food and Art, come together in Delicious, our annual show of work inspired by food and drink. This year's show--our sixth!--is bigger and better than ever: over 100 local artists bring their talents to the party. There's something for every appetite: lovely views of farms and Wine Country vineyards, terrific still lifes, scenes of local eateries and bars, plus a bit of retro flair. Each year there are themes that emerge: this year there's a lot of red, a lot of smaller, affordable pieces, fewer vegetables and more junk food. But if pressed, we would have to dub 2010 The Year of Bacon: the show has a number of witty depictions of that favorite cured meat product.

STUDIO
1815 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.931.3130

HOURS
Wednesday - Friday, 11am-8pm
Saturday + Sunday, 11am-6pm
Closed Monday + Tuesday, except by appointment

k,k, p by Lacey Bryant

KALEID Gallery artist Lacey Bryant has a series of new watercolor paintings at the Los Angeles Cactus Gallery.

I love painting. I am constantly thinking about painting. I find myself laying awake at night, ideas running through my mind. Sometimes I paint just to get it out of my head. I love chaos. I love things that don't make sense. Things that are theatrical, and things that are subtle, like someone walking in the rain, deliberately walking through the puddles instead of around them, huge trees growing out of 4th floor windows, girls fearlessly crushing spiders with their bare hands. - Lacey Bryant

All originals, unframed, 6"x5.5" are only $50 each. Click here to see available art work.

Cactus Gallery & Gifts
4534 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Eagle Rock, CA 90041
323.256.6117

Cactus Gallery is a vibrant Latino owned and operated gallery that promotes L.A. artists. A real shopper's delight, Cactus is an eclectic mix of TRADITIONAL art forms, OUTSIDER art and FOLK art.

THE STATE OF THINGS is a multi-media installation by Chelsea Lynn Jennings that deals with the sociological idea of the "McDonaldization" of society.

McDonaldization is a theory by George Ritzer that expands upon Max Weber's thoughts on bureaucratization and rationality. In essence, the theory explains how more and more sectors of society are becoming "rationalized," or more and more like bureaucracies. Businesses do this in order to become more efficient, calculable, productive, and controlled, and it is indeed very rational from the business owner's perspective. However the increased rationalization of society leads to a very uniform world, in which both employees and consumers alike are dehumanized. This rationalization and resulting dehumanization is what "The State of Things" is addressing.

THE STATE OF THINGS Chelsea Lynn Jennings
Bachelor of Fine Arts Installation
San Jose State University Art Building, Black Gallery
Exhibit open May 3-6, 2010, 10am-4pm
Reception Tuesday May 4, 2010, 6pm-8pm