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Do you miss seeing art? Do you miss making art? Sometimes we need a little prompt to inspire us. Or sometimes we just need a community to share it with. SJMA has you covered! Did you know that SJMA offers new, original content every week? Join the recently launched Facebook Education Group or visit Online Education: Make Art at Home on SJMA’s Museum from Home webpage.
Art-making activities, STEAM Art Projects, Art Lesson Explorations, and more are created for you by SJMA’s Education team. Each week they explore different themes that are relevant, thought-provoking, and curriculum-driven. Past subjects were ocean, space, artistic styles, motion, digital, public art, summer, and STEAM-based—all of which can be found on our website! These DIY projects and lessons take into consideration any potential technology constraints within households.
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Video | Non-Newtonian Print Making
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Art allows us to express ourselves and describe the world around us. But art also can be an entry point to inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. By combining Art with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, we get STEAM—an educational approach that intends to create a well-rounded education—one that encourages process-based learning.
To acknowledge and help parents, teachers, and students, SJMA’s Education team has been making STEAM-based educational videos. Last week centered around Art and Science: Liquid. This week centers around Art and Math: Infinity. Watch the video HERE. |
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Video | Tangrams
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Shape up your polygon puzzling skills by making your own puzzle! Tangrams are a Chinese geometric puzzle consisting of a square cut into 7 geometric shapes, called tans, that can be arranged into various other shapes and images. Watch the video HERE. |
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Video | Artistic Styles: Josef Albers
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Explore different artistic styles! This video dives into the colorful works of Josef Albers. By using his painting and printing style found in White Line Squares XIII (from SJMA’s permanent collection), we are able to dissect an image of the California golden poppy and hone in on the colors of the flower. Watch the video HERE. |
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While you can’t come into the building, you can explore our permanent collection! It’s been 151 days since we’ve seen you at the Museum. That equals at least 151 days without seeing art in a gallery. Good news! SJMA has published an online catalog titled 50X50: Stories of Visionary Artists from the Collection that features 50 artists. Learn about their lives, what inspired them, and what materials they used. Each artist chapter has been carefully researched and diligently cited. Featuring the artists’ own words via video and audio files. Large-scale artworks are available for your enjoyment.
Explore the publication HERE.
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Featured Artists in 50X50
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Artist Spotlight | Ruth Asawa
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Beloved San Francisco artist and arts education activist Ruth Asawa is celebrated with a set of Forever® stamps by the United States Postal Service. Ruth Asawa’s airy, hourglass-shaped sculptures appear to float in space, though they are suspended from the ceiling. They evoke traditional craft-like weaving and basketmaking, but their nonutilitarian forms demonstrate an interest in abstraction; their play with positive and negative space suggests both volume and weightlessness; and their attention to line, particularly evident in the shadows they cast, approaches drawing.
Purchase the stamps HERE! |
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Artist Spotlight | Raymond Saunders
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Raymond Saunders (b. 1934) wrote “I am not responsible for anyone’s entertainment. I am responsible for being as fully myself, as man and artist, as I possibly can be, while allowing myself to hope that in the effort some light, some love, some beauty may be shed upon the world, and perhaps some inequities put right.” *
Saunders’ mixed media paintings combine found objects—newspaper, handbills, plastic figurines, and signs collected on city walks—with paint and graffiti-like chalk scribbles on chalkboard. He incorporated everyday objects, and his scribbles and text combine harmoniously with image and abstraction in an urban-inspired arena marked by the cacophony of city life, and the abundance and struggle found within it.
Read more HERE. |
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This week we are looking back at the monumental exhibition, Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey Is Return, curated by Rory Padeken, on view at SJMA September 14, 2018–April 7, 2019. |
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Exhibition Spotlight | Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey Is Return
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Lê is best known for his unique photo weavings, and this work features rarely seen images of flowers photographed by Lê in Saigon’s flower market. Abstracted through the artist’s signature photo weaving technique, these beautiful yet elegiac floral compositions memorialize lives lost to war and violence in Vietnam while symbolizing a promising and bountiful future for the country.
In True Journey Is Return, Lê explored themes of departure and return, the role of the artist during times of war, and reimagined symbols of American imperialism and recent histories of Vietnam through documentary videos and multichannel cinematic presentations, delicate watercolors and abstract paintings made by the artist and subjects, and architectural structures that comprise of thousands of photographs abandoned by families fleeing from the ravages of war. Engaged with other Vietnamese voices and perspectives, Lê reshapes and generates new memories and images of the conflict by giving voice literally and metaphorically to those marginalized by history.
Visit the exhibit page HERE.
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Visual Diary | True Journey Is Return
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This visual diary of Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey is Return delves into the installations: The Imaginary Country, 2006; The Farmers and the Helicopters, 2006; Vision in Darkness, 2015; Light and Belief, 2012; and Crossing the Farther Shore, 2014. Watch the video HERE.
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Behind-the-Scene Photos | Installation of True Journey Is Return
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In 2016, conversations between the artist and curator, Rory Padeken began for what would become Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey Is Return. After meticulous planning and designing, the installation of the exhibition begins. SJMA’s installation team first tests A/V equipment of media-based works associated with the exhibition. After the first round of testing is completed, the team plans and executes the show’s many installations. After painting the walls, creating new displays, and constructing new walls in the galleries, the staging process is initiated. After implementing the final mock-up and in-gallery testing of A/V equipment, the team finishes installing the works. Following that they set up the interpretation stations. Exhibition graphics and vinyl are then installed on the walls. And then the final touches of lighting the exhibition. See the photos HERE.
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Make Art at Home | Create Photo Weavings inspired by Dinh Q. Lê
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Create photo weavings inspired by the work of Dinh Q. Lê! This is just one of many art-making videos created by the SJMA Education team. Watch the video HERE.
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