San José Museum of Art

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Art 101: Found-Object Musical Instruments

Guillermo Galindo, Listo (Ready to Go), 2015. Found bicycle, chair, and metal. 54 × 15 ¼ × 44 ½ inches; Courtesy of the artist.

1–4 PM
Registration is $30 ($15 for members), which includes all materials

As seen in the exhibition Border Cantos: Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo, experimental composer Guillermo Galindo hand-crafts musical instruments from objects collected along the US-Mexico border. SJMA is collaborating with Oakland-based, alternative music organization Thingamajigs for this interactive workshop. Join David Samas, curator of the Window Gallery at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, and create your own instrument using found, everyday objects.

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Art 101 is limited to 25 participants ages 13 and up. Space is limited and advance registration is strongly recommended.

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Border Cantos: Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo

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Through the lens of art, photographer Richard Misrach and composer Guillermo Galindo give presence to the thousands of undocumented immigrants who cross into the US each year and encourage a humanitarian perspective on the plight of all immigrants. By bringing the border down to human scale, and by putting politics in the context of individual human lives, Border Cantos offers a provocative response to the polarizing discussions around immigration reform that have dominated local and national politics, both today and throughout the history of this country.