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Photo Album | Sonya Rapoport's Pictorial Diary |
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| In 1980 artist Sonya Rapoport created a "pictorial diary," in which she marked each calendar day with collaged information as well as tracked how she felt physically, emotionally, and intellectually. At the end of each month, she then compared her personal findings to those generated by a computer program, which claimed to read an individual’s biorhythm. She later showed this work as an exhibition in 1982. See the photo album HERE. |
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Related exhibition: Sonya Rapoport: biorhythm |
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Photo Album | Historic Images
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The San José Museum of Art is housed within two buildings—a Richardsonian Romanesque historic building, originally a post office built in 1892, and a new addition that opened in 1991. The building suffered little damage in the 1906 earthquake, but alas, the original clock tower and steeple were destroyed. During 1908-09, James Knox Taylor designed and built a new shorter tower for the building. In 1909, Nels Johnson personally installed one of his Century Tower Clocks which is still in use today. See the photos HERE. |
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Behind-the-Scene Photos | Inside the Clock Tower |
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The clock is powered by gravity. The simple mechanism is operated by 500-pound weights suspended from cables that descend two stories. A hand crank raises the cables and their weights when the clock is wound every 3-4 days. The bell is housed in an adjacent compartment and was manufactured by McNeely and Company West in Troy, New York, in 1908. The clock is one of only five Nels Johnson clocks known to be in existence and one of the two that has not been converted to electric power. See the photos HERE.
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From Our Partner | Museum Replicated |
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Our friends at Legoland Discovery Center Bay Area built a mini-replica of our historic building for their Miniland!! Some fun facts about this Lego replica: it took 31 hours to design it and 101 hours to build it. The replica includes 6,650 Lego bricks and weighs seven pounds!
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Behind-the-scene photos | Installation of Bridge
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In order to exhibit Glenn Kaino’s monumental work, Bridge, the SJMA installation team had to design and build a custom rigging apparatus that was attached to the gallery's architecture to suspend such a large piece below a glass ceiling. The sculpture is comprised of hundreds of pieces of hardware and thousands of feet of cable. See the photos HERE. |
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Related exhibition: With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith |
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Interpretive | What would you raise your fist for? |
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Tommie Smith and Glenn Kaino led drawing rallies around the United States, inviting participants to use the Osmo mirroring device to retrace the monumental moments that led him to champion his beliefs.
This online interpretive space allows you to explore the metaphor of “passing the baton” by reflecting upon personal causes and sharing what you will raise your fist to support.
We at SJMA believe in the power of a voice, and how that voice can carry and reverberate through history and inspire future generations. We would like to know, what would you raise your fist for? SJMA is listening. #ShowMeSJMA |
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Related exhibition: With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith |
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