REMINDER! No South FIRST FRIDAYS #ArtWalkSJ this Friday July 7th but you can still attend these two great exhibits happening in downtown San Jose. The ArtWalk + STREET MRKT will resume on August 4th, 7pm–11pm, free & open to all...
If you read about Mike McGee & Benjamin Henderson's Kitchen Session events on KQED Arts last month, now's your chance to attend one in person! (And if you missed it, you can read it here) Kitchen Session: “Wander” Or...
Come celebrate the Santa Clara Valley's rich bicycling history and culture with our racing, road, recreational, mountain, custom, cruiser, fixie, vintage and lowrider bicycling communities and kick off National Bike Month!!! The Festival is a collaboration of History San...
Sexpartite In Nuance a fine art bodypaint and installation mashup between Trina Merry and Theresa Because with human canvases, video team, and installation crews Friday, March 7, 7-10pm Opening Reception Join us for first Friday art walk and experience...
Bela La Vie presents: "Mobile Manipulation" Hipstamatic photos by Josh Marcotte. Opening Reception January 25th, 7–10pm 311 E. Campbell Ave. Campbell, CA...
It's already Seeing Things Gallery's 1 Year Anniversary! And to celebrate, they'll be having their 6th Annual FRIDA & FRIENDS Fuzzy Blanket Drive & Silent Art Auction. Please bring clean blankets and towels to the event and hang out...
The Liberator by James Morgan Make a bid for community art and performance! WORKS BENEFIT ART AUCTION: Saturday, August 17th final preview starting at 5pm and auction at 7pm The artists have donated, now it’s your turn to bid...
Works is our community art and performance center, and dozens of established and emerging artists have donated to this most accessible and eclectic art auction to support it. There are very low starting bids and something for every taste...
Join us for our animé / video game inspired drawing session of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School featuring Alisa Leo this Thursday, April 19th! Bring your art supplies, easels okay, all skill levels welcome. Thursday, April 19th 7pm/$10. at...
If you have not seen the femme fatale exhibition at Works, you can do so this Friday, 7-10pm., March 16th before it closes on the 17th. John Kurtyka will lead a drum circle at 8pm (all experience levels welcome)...
image by Connie Begg Femme Fatale exhibition panel discussion with the artists: Sunday, March 11, 2pm The curator and all artists will be present, admission free, with Bake Sale to benefit WORKS! Exhibition dates: February 3 to March 17,...
Calling all you Art Monkeys! Join us for the first gathering of the San Jose Chapter of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in this new year of 2012. Our figure study this month is Rü, an enchanting woman claiming to...
San Jose Creatives is a new blog that interviews the extremely talented creative community of San Jose. They feature artists, designers, musicians, makers, art supporters, and anyone who lives a creative life. They ask everyone the same 13 questions...
Sara Tomasello upcycles home and tabletop goods with her acrylic paint wonders! Find her at San Jose Made (SJMADE) Saturday, April 2 from 12-8pm. San Jose Made is a one-day vendor fair for makers, artists and purveyors of San...
Works Benefit Auction will be at 451 South First Street. It will now be a benefit to move Works to its new home just a block away on South Market. Over 100 artists have now contributed, including some of...
CALLING ALL ARTISTS! We are looking for you to help us create some fun at the Mexican Heritage Plaza this summer! The Mexican Heritage Plaza Steering Committee is pleased to announce a Request for Proposals from teaching artists for Arts...
Postal Servix (SVRG) Thanks to everyone that came out to the most recent Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School session at Anno Domini. There's pics of our awesome model Postal Servix of the Silicon Valley Roller Girls and some art...
THURSDAY FEB 24th DR. SKETCHY'S San Jose presents Unfamiliar with the Silicon Valley Roller Girls and the bloody sport of roller derby in which they compete? Ignorant of the fierce battles these warrior women engage in for little more than...
SJMADE is a one-day event comprised of local store-owners, makers, artists, and purveyors of Bay Area goods. From garage silk screeners, to twilight jewelry artists, to local brick-and-mortars, San Jose's homegrown scene is growing and flourishing. Meet creative minds...
The City of San Jose Public Art Program - Spartan/Keyes Neighborhood/Bestor Art Park Public Art Project OPEN CALL TO SUBMIT QUALIFICATIONS DEADLINE: Monday, January 24, 2011 at 11:59 pm Mountain Time For the complete RFQ: http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4500 INTRODUCTION The City of...
There's no downtown San Jose art walk this month (January 7th) but there's still a couple of great art openings going on so you don't have to wait til First Friday February! The Samurai, sculpture by Matthew Pugh Surgery.Art presents...
3rd Annual Frida & Friends Fuzzy Blanket Drive This year the Cinebar will be hosting the Blanket Drive! We are collecting clean blankets and towels at the Cinebar for the San Jose Animal Shelter on Wednesday, Dec. 8th and...
Saturday from Noon to 4 is the final time to bring in your art to place in the 2010 Member Exhibition "Ring in the New" opening on First Friday December 3rd. Join or renew your membership to Works/San José when...
Congrats to KALEID Gallery artist Josh Marcotte (aka Lost San Jose) for landing the cover shot for the current issue of METRO Weekly Newspaper! The feature article interviews Josh and his use of analog cameras along with several other...
Corpse by Pinelopi Vassilaki My Favorite Nightmares opens Halloween, October 31st, 7-11pm As creepy or repulsive as they may be, nightmares fascinate us. They linger in our minds long after we've woken, leaving us distracted by thoughts of otherworldly...
The City of San Jose’s Public Art Program & Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services are pleased to announce the Guadalupe River Trail Mammoth Public Art Project SUBMITTAL DEADLINE- November 17, 2010, Midnight, Mountain Time This is an online...
She came to us several nights ago from one of those facilities that rehabilitate menaces to society, ill-will shining in her pretty blue eyes. At first, we here at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School were not well at ease with...
KALEID Gallery artist Michelle Waters is in a myriad of shows around the bay area this month: Day of the Dead show at Canvas Ghost, My Favorite Nightmares show at WORKS Gallery, and a show at the NDNU (Notre...
We're thrilled that Tech Shop has chosen downtown San Jose as a new location for their awesome creative community workshop space. If all goes well, they'll soon be at the corner of South Second Street and San Carlos utilizing...
My Favorite Nightmares An Art Show curated By Lacey Bryant Nightmares. As creepy or repulsive as they may be, they fascinate us. They linger in our minds long after we've woken, leaving us distracted by thoughts of otherworldly fears....
City of San Jose – Spartan/Keyes Neighborhood Project REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED DEADLINE: September 14, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time For the complete Request for Proposal: http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4500...
Update: You can reserve your seat in advance by clicking the button below: Also, check out the new Dr. Sketchy Global site, feel free to poke around and see your world wide Dr. Sketchy community! http://www.drsketchy.com/branch/sanjose Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art...
WORKS Gallery presents another fun-filled, interactive, community-based Event & Exhibition opening August 6th from 7pm to 9pm. It's all about murals... Painting the town! Murals of Silicon Valley: Past, Present & Future is an exhibition of collaborative and individual...
Nightmares. As creepy or repulsive as they may be, they fascinate us. They linger in our minds long after we've woken, leaving us distracted by thoughts of otherworldly fears. It is often the strange things that play in our heads...
More than 100 regional artists have donated their work to support your community art and performance center--now it's time to bid! Final preview hours: Thursday, noon to 4pm Friday, noon to 7pm Saturday, noon to 4pm Auction: Saturday, May 22...
Two of San Jose's non-profit art organizations are having fund raising auctions this month. Both MACLA and WORKS will have previews of their auction offerings at this May 7th First Friday art walk. Image credit: Elizabeth Gomez, Titmouse with Pom-Poms,...
For more information, click here. San Jose Museum of Art 110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 408.271.6840...
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...
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....
The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk takes place every first Friday of the month (except January and July) featuring 15 art venues and art friendly businesses in the SoFA District and beyond. The art walk is 8pm 'til LATE and...
a wild one-night collaboration of live painting, open mic poetry, and jam with drums and other instruments—all happening in a simultaneous soup of creativity! artists participating so far...Chris Arcus, Brande Barret, Lacey Bryant, Michael Buscemi, Roberto Duran, Claude Ferguson,...
art work by Archil Pichkhadze You are invited to the Grand Opening of San Jose’s new contemporary fine art gallery, the Axis Art Gallery, located in a live/work unit on the ground floor of Axis, San Jose's award-winning luxury...
City of San Jose – Multiple Projects - REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS DEADLINE: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:59 p.m. Pacific Time This is an online application process only and the deadline cannot be extended The City of San Jose Public...
The South Bay Queer Arts Project (SBQAP) and Works/San Jose Gallery present “That’s So Gay!” A Juried exhibition that is a queer, comical response to the economic downturn in San Jose and the South Bay. All proceeds from the exhibition...
WORKS San Jose Workshop Week - All kids ages 1-99 are invited to come and do art! TUESDAY JULY 14, 2-4pm, Come paint with artist Brande Barrett! WEDNESDAY JULY 15, 2-4pm, Create a ‘zine’ about yourself with Amy Anderson &...
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...
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR ARTIST/PLANNER TEAM TO CONSULT ON DIRIDON STATION AREA PLAN RFQ release date: May 1, 2009 Deadline for questions and objections: May 22, 2009 RFQ due date: May 26, 2009 at 3 p.m. (PST) The City of...
INTERPRETIVE ARTWORKS – WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT GENERAL INFORMATION The City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs and Environmental Services Department are seeking an artist to create interpretive artworks for long-term display at the Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP)....
Join us for the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly artwalk this Friday night, April 3rd! Start off at 7pm at KALEID Gallery for Hoaxmonsters: an investigation into hoaxes, myths, monsters and mystery by Kate Stewart and Trina Merry. Live music by...
Open Licensing 101: How to Get the Most Out of Your Copyrights in the Informational Age *To receive $10.00 off this program enter PHAN as the discount code.* Thursday, February 5, 2009 Arts Council Silicon Valley 4 North Second Street,...
The City of San José Public Art Program is inviting artists from Santa Clara County to apply for a Kit of Parts Roster. This roster will be used to select artists for a range of artist-designed amenities commissioned by private...
California Lawyers for the Arts Education Program To receive $10.00 off these program enter XXXXX as the discount code. Digital Music Distribution - Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 The Kirsch Conference Center, 60 South Market Street, Tenth Floor, San Jose An...
Six new beautiful paintings on 8' x 8' wood panels were installed over the weekend on an existing construction wall to make the walk down South First St. (btwn San Fernando & Post St.) a much more colorful experience! Our...
You are invited to attend the first-ever San Jose Artists' Town Hall taking place on Saturday, September 13, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at San Jose City Hall, located at 200 East Santa Clara Street in downtown San...
works/san josé, your community art and performance center on south first street, is reopening with its traditional member exhibition that is open to all artists. if you have contributed since the last member exhibit in summer 07 then you are...
California Lawyers for the Arts in collaboration with Arts Council Silicon Valley and co-sponsors California Arts Advocates, 1st ACT SiliconValley, and The City of San Jose presents The Third Symposium on California Arts and Healthy Communities 3 pm to 4:30...
California Lawyers for the Arts Education Program presents: New Media Arts and The Law The intersection of art, science, and technology has resulted in a creative boom in contemporary art and an emergent area of the Law. California Lawyers for...
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...
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...
Please note VENUE CHANGE: The Dec. 3rd workshop will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall at 200 E. Santa Clara Street in San Jose. New Grant Opportunity for California Artists (all art forms) In June of 2007,...
San Jose Public Art Program is unveiling their temporary art project, called http://www.sanjoseculture.org/pub_art/w1w2.html">Who's on First, What's on Second, along the light rails on South First & Second streets this month. Projects will rollout over the next year and vary...
This workshop by the SJ Office of Cultural Affairs, is for local and regional studio artists who have had little or no experience in Public Art and who are interested in entering into the field. Attendees will gain a broad...
Works Access (Works/San Jose's monthly conversation with local artists) features artists Jesse Houlding, Marina Shretenberg, Charlene Tan, and Annie Vought, all of whom will discuss their unique process as exhibited in the concurrent exhibition eXact-O!. Thursday September 20th, 6:30pm...
From Erin Cizan (Works' ED): Over 200 of our community members welcomed Works/San Jose to its new site by participating in our opening event "Body of Works: a community collaborative mosaic". The Board of Directors and myself were overwhelmed by...
presented by the San Francisco Foundation Center; free! 7pm Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Works San Jose 451 So. First St., downtown San Jose This workshop is intended for individuals involved in the arts and looking to fund any type of...
The San Jose Public Art Program invites you to participate in this discussion to plan for a permanently situated aviation-themed artwork that will be part of the Mineta San José International Airport Public Art Program. Community input is vital to...
Free copyright workshop with attorney David Morales Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 7:00-8:00 pm Works/San Jose, 451 South First Street in San Jose Please join us at this free event, to celebrate the opening of California Lawyers for the Arts' satellite...
Steven Tran came by our offices to let us know that the California Lawyers for the Arts have set up an office here in San Jose. They felt that artists here in the South Bay weren't using the resources available...
The San Jose Public Art Program has created a temporary, one-year position for a Senior Project Manager in Public Art. This position will be responsible, mainly, for construction management on projects already underway and will ‘sunset’ after a year unless...
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