Stop by SJMA’s booth at this special event presented by the Vietnamese American Community Center. Activities include a lion dance, lantern contest, a moonlight procession, folk games, and more.
SJMA’s Corporate Leadership Council presents an evening celebrating the women of Silicon Valley business.
Meet artist Julie Chang and celebrate her new mural, The Valley of Hearts Delight (2017) in the cafe.
SJMA is home to the Next Gen Stage for the 2017 Summer Fest presented by San Jose Jazz. Each day, check out an entire afternoon of aspiring student groups from across the region. Admission to the Next Gen Stage is free.
San Jose Museum of Art will again offer FREE ADMISSION on Thursday, May 18, 2017, as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) annual Art Museum Day. Last year, San Jose Museum of Art—along with more than 175 other AAMD member museums across North America—participated in Art Museum Day.
The volunteers of the Museum Store Guild present their annual yard sale. Proceeds benefit the San Jose Museum of Art Kids’ Summer Art Camp scholarship fund.
SJMA welcomes the SVAP FilmFest’s showing of Memoirs of Bjork-Geisha: From Orientalism to Incarceration, followed by a Q&A with performance artist Tina Takemoto.
Creative Minds: Diana Al-Hadid
Diana Al-Hadid, (whose work is on view in Liquid City), draws from a variety of sources in her work, including art history and architecture to literature, physics, and scientific history. She reimagines Renaissance paintings and classical monuments as sculptures and wall works that seem to drip and disintegrate. Al-Hadid will discuss her work with Lauren Schell Dickens, curator.
Opening Reception
Celebrate the exhibition Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City and Your Mind, This Moment: art and the practice of attention.
Speakers will use the engaging, fastpaced presentation style of PechaKucha to explore topics related to mindfulness in conjunction with the exhibition Your Mind, This Moment: art and the practice of attention.
Eye on India is an annual literary and cultural festival that presents the best of traditional and contemporary Indian art, literary, and cultural forms to audiences in the United States. The afternoon will feature presentations by Sandhya Bordewekar Gajjar and Vamsee Jhuluri.
