In its five-plus many years of existence, the San Jose Museum of Artwork has amassed a set of greater than 2,700 works. However the public not often will get an opportunity to totally notice the enormity and variety of that assortment — or the tapestry-like story it tells about artwork and our neighborhood.
That’s altering with the opening of “Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection,” the museum’s first galleries devoted to showcasing its personal gadgets. A big crowd of museum supporters — together with co-founder Ann Marie Combine — joined outgoing Govt Director S. Sayre Batton to formally open the ground-floor galleries on Friday night time.
“We are thrilled to take the next step in this journey by dedicating permanent gallery space to the stories within our collection,” Batton mentioned. “By highlighting artists as storytellers, this installation invites visitors to see the museum not just as a repository of art, but as a dynamic, living space where culture is continually created, interpreted, and reimagined.”
The primary set up will probably be on show for the subsequent yr, and it’ll embody many items acquainted to longtime museum patrons like Louise Nevelson’s “Sky Cathedral,” Hung Liu’s “Resident Alien,” Enrique Chagoya’s “Their Freedom of Expression. The Recovery of Their Economy,” and Patssi Valdez’s “The Imaginary Garden,” which is on the galleries’ entrance. In all, practically 50 artists are represented within the adjoining galleries, which had been curated by SJMA Chief Curator Lauren Schell Dickens (a recipient of many congratulations Friday night time), together with Juan Omar Rodriguez and Nidhi Gandhi.
Usha Srinivasan, president of the multicultural arts group Mosaic America, mentioned “Tending and Dreaming” is a testomony to the imaginative and prescient of taking our various society from simply coexistence to true cohesion — with tales that have interaction in dialogue with one another and form our sense of place.
“What you will see on the walls is more than a collection of artworks,” she mentioned Friday night time. “It’s an invitation to each of us to re-imagine a future that is more connected, one that honors every voice in our community.”
You will discover out extra about “Tending and Dreaming,” in addition to museum hours and admission costs, at www.sjmusart.org.
FIND A TREASURE — OR FIX ONE: The maxim “one man’s trash is another’s treasure” has lengthy been the spirit of the Preservation Motion Council of San Jose’s huge rummage sale, which returns March 13-15 on the Creekside Socials warehouse at 20 Barack Obama Blvd. close to SAP Heart. It’s an ideal place to seek out classic garments, furnishings, artwork, books, vinyl information and a few one-of-a-kind gadgets (to not point out PAC-SJ’s well-liked enamel pins of traditional San Jose indicators).
However there’s a cool twist this yr: PAC-SJ is partnering with Restore Cafe Silicon Valley and San Jose State’s FixIt Clinic for an occasion on the sale on Saturday, March 15. Volunteers will probably be available to assist individuals make repairs on garments, bikes, small home equipment and electronics. Their aim is just about the identical because the rummage sale by maintaining previous stuff that may nonetheless be used out of landfills.
The sale runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 14 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 15, however you may get a soar on all the pieces at an early chook sale March 13 from midday to three p.m. for a $5 entrance free (waived for PAC-SJ members). Get extra data at www.preservation.org.
MYSTERY THEATER: This weekend, Metropolis Lights Theatre Firm in San Jose will open Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” the whodunit author’s well-known homicide thriller that holds the report because the world’s longest-running play (going regular in London since 1952). So it matches — or is not less than an eerie coincidence — that with a slot open through the run on March 23, Metropolis Lights booked a touring manufacturing of a solo present about one other lady with a connection to thriller: Sarah Winchester.
“Mrs. Winchester, or, A Gun in the First Act,” by playwright Joe Christiano, options actor Lisa Morse within the title function, offering the viewers with a private tour of her mysterious mansion in San Jose. For tickets and extra data on the one-night-only manufacturing, go to www.cltc.org/winchester.
Initially Revealed:
