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Lunchtime Lecture: Vanguard in the Making

Photo by Gary Sexton.

12–1 PM
Free with Museum admission

Lynn and Harry Powers are longtime dedicated San Jose residents: they have lived and worked in the city and, for many years, taught at San Jose State University (SJSU). Works by both of these artists will be featured in the exhibition Artists in Residence: San Jose’s 20th-Century Vanguard. Each is individually respected. Together in this Lunchtime Lecture, the Powers will share their personal reflections on the generation of artists that influenced the San Jose Museum of Art, SJSU and city’s art scene.

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Lunchtime Lecture Series take place on the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Charlotte Wendel Education Center. Visitors are welcome to bring food and beverages.

Fall 2016 Lunchtime Lecture Series returns Sep 7, 2016.

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Artists in Residence: San Jose's 20th-Century Vanguard

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By the 1960s, San Jose was in the midst of rapid-fire transition from a small agricultural community to a sprawling metropolis. The tech industry was swelling, and by the end of the decade the population had grown five-fold. This era also brought to town a new, innovative community of artists, many of whom were recruited from across the country by San Jose State College (now San Jose State University). Fresh from top graduate schools and conversant with the radical artistic thinking of the time, this generation of artists brought new vitality and a proclivity for experimentation to town.