SAN JOSE, California (April 5, 2011)—The San Jose Museum of Art’s popular “DIY Art” series will continue on Saturday, April 16, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Inspired by the imagery in the exhibition Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India¸ visitors will draw a design that can be turned, repeated, and interlocked like tile.  Their creations will be scanned and visitors will receive a digital file of their design to use as computer desktop “wallpaper.” The program is free with Museum admission.

Roots in the Air, Branches Below is a landmark exhibition of Indian art drawn from 11 private collections in the Bay Area. The exhibition, on view through September 4, 2011, features work by such internationally acclaimed artists as Maqbool Fida Husain, Tyeb Mehta, Francis Newton Souza, Jitish Kallat, Rina Banerjee, Bari Kumar, and Surendran Nair. Roots in the Air, Branches Below is sponsored by Bank of America and Applied Materials.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

The San Jose Museum of Art is located at 110 South Market Street in downtown San Jose, California. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens, and free to members and children under 6. For more information, call 408-271-6840 or visit www.SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.

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Programs at the San Jose Museum of Art are generously supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, by operating support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the James Irvine Foundation; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; the Adobe Foundation; and the Koret Foundation; the MetLife Foundation; and a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose.