SWAN Day program details
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The document summarizes events for the 3rd International SWAN Day of the Greater South Bay occurring from March 26-28, 2010. It describes workshops and exhibitions at multiple venues honoring and celebrating women artists, past and present. The workshops will focus on the themes of honoring women artists, and will be led by artists Joan Schulze, Julie Forbes, and Deborah Kennedy at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Additional events include glass bead making at the Art Glass Center and an exhibition at Works/San Jose. The weekend is intended to recognize the contributions of women artists.
SWAN Day program details
- 1. The 3rd International SWAN Day of the Greater South Bay - March 26 -28, 2010 Tenacity, Guts and Grace Women Artists of the Present Pay Tribute To Women Artists of the Past Welcome to SWAN Day 2010 in the Greater South Bay, a weekend of celebrating women artists and art in concert with an international SWAN Day recognition of women artists, past and present--the work they do and the art they make! Tenacity, Guts, and Grace—Women Artists Honoring Women Artists Who Inspire Us –the theme that second-year presenters and event hosts, Alameda Artworks in San Jose has selected for this year—has guided the vision that underlies the weekend schedule. We’re all smiles because the Arts Council Silicon Valley smiled upon us with fiscal sponsorship, giving SWAN Day for the Greater South Bay non profit and tax deductible 501c3 status. Most importantly, our generous donors, venue collaborators, arts supporters and advocates, and artist participants are the focus of and reason for all that has come together to make SWAN Day 2010 one of both recognition and opportunity for all. We’re all smiles, thanks to an anonymous ―angel‖ donor, whose contribution has made much of this year’s SWAN Day events possible. The following is intended to provide both general listing of event locations and detailed information on specific venues at which the collaborators are sponsoring workshops conducted by artist facilitators. This listing opens with details pertinent to the four SWAN Day weekend artist-facilitated workshops to be held at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles*, whose concurrent exhibitions include, Poetic License: The Art of Joan Schulze, and Navajo Weaving in the Present Tense: The Art of Lucy and Ellen Begay: Joan Schulze— The Poetry Crossroads Experience: March 27, 10:30 am – 12 pm, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. 520 So. 1st St., San Jose 95113. Free except $5 Museum admission charge. To reserve your space, call (408) 371-1419 or email swandayworkshop@yahoo.com
- 2. The 3rd International SWAN Day of the Greater South Bay - March 26 -28, 2010 Description: Joan Schulze will talk about her beginnings as a poet, when and how she gained her public voice, her approach to the written word, and how it all relates to her works on the wall. She will show some private deconstructed poems in the form of books, and will also guide participants through a physical tour of her current exhibit in the main gallery of the Museum--always referencing the challenges she faced along the way to the widespread acceptance that recognizes both her mastery of the quilting format and her parallel excursions in the realm of poetry. Please go to www.sanjosemuseumofquiltsandtextiles.com for more information on this artist and her work. (Kate Evans, who was originally scheduled to conduct a workshop in this time period has withdrawn due to a family emergency.) Julie Forbes—Dreamer, Realist, Critic: Moving from Vision to Fruition March 27, 1 – 5 pm, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. 520 So. 1 st St., San Jose 95113. Free except $5 Museum admission charge. To reserve your space, call (408) 371-1419 or email swandayworkshop@yahoo.com Workshop description: What expands you? What stops you? What allows you to move from dream to fruition? In this workshop, we will explore three parts of our self: Dreamer, Realist, and Critic. Within each of these parts, we will discover unique gifts that have the potential to shape our creativity and our ability to more fully express our essential creative nature. As we come to understand our internal Dreamer, Realist, and Critic, as well as positive ways to interact with them, we can open and expand our creative potential, allowing us to bring all of them together in a cohesive functioning triad. This unified triad of Dreamer, Realist, and Critic can support us in opening ourselves to new possibilities and an integrated, innovative sense of self. Julie Forbes bio: Julie Forbes is a Development consultant, Coach, and Educator, with a passion for potential and possibility. As a Developer, she is interested in nurturing the potential within each possibility, goal, challenge, or change. She works with individuals, organizations, groups, and projects across all disciplines in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds. Some of her clients include UCSC, Habitat for Humanity, Stanford, and WomenArts. She is a writer, painter, and lover of fabric. She can be found at julieforbes@basymoon.com or by phone at (831) 325-3128. www.julieannforbes.com Deborah Kennedy—Art Within: Learning to Bring Art to Life March 28, 11 am – 2 pm, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 520 So.1st St., San Jose 95113. Free except $8 Museum admission charge. To reserve your space, call (408) 371-1419 or email swandayworkshop@yahoo.com Workshop description:
- 3. The 3rd International SWAN Day of the Greater South Bay - March 26 -28, 2010 Music, drama, and other performing arts often transport their audiences. People experience emotions and dance, laughing and crying in response to seeing dramatic presentations. However, when we look at visual art our responses are often brief and more rational in nature. How can we create a deeper and more feeling-ful relationship with visual art? Artist and educator, Deborah Kennedy leads a workshop focusing on creating just such a personal relationship with the visual arts. Deborah’s approach emerged from her work teaching art history classes, where she developed a teaching method encouraging students to understand art and their relationship to it at a deeper level. This SWAN Day workshop focuses of the work of women artists. The workshop will begin with a lecture followed by small group and individual exercises. Slide lectures will trace the evolution of this teaching method and share the poignant experiences of female students when using this method. Then Deborah will invite participants to use her method to begin to develop their own personal relationships with artworks. Deborah Kennedy bio: Deborah Kennedy has exhibited in California and Germany in numerous solo and group shows. She was awarded a three-year California Arts Council grant to work with at-risk youth on graffiti murals, and has completed a public art commission—Eco-Tech—on the light-rail line in San Jose. In 1997 she received an Artist’s Fellowship for Installation Arts from the Arts Council of Santa Clara County, San Jose, California. Two years later she completed a solo exhibition at the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara .Recently she presented an installation and performance entitled, Full- Tox Living at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes, CA. Currently she is teaching Environmental Art, Theory and Practice at Santa Clara University, and she is working on a public art piece with a watershed theme for the Santa Clara Water District. Jane Przbysz, Executive Director, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles—Director’s Tour of Current Exhibition - Poetic License: the Art of Joan Schulze & Navajo Weaving in the Present Tense: The Art of Lucy and Ellen Begay. March 28, 2:30 – 4 pm, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 520 So. 1st St, San Jose 95113. $10 fee includes Museum admission charge. To reserve your space, call (408) 971-0323. See further information about the exhibits at www.sjquiltmuseum.org We’re all smiles, thanks to San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles Executive Director, Jane Przybysz and her staff, for generously making the museum’s time and spaces available for the two days featuring three special SWAN Day Workshops, along with their enthusiastic assistance and support. We’re also smiling with thanks to the three workshop facilitators, for sharing their expertise, time, and advocacy of the arts by presenting their workshops at the San Jose Quilt & Textile Museum during the SWAN Day weekend.
- 4. The 3rd International SWAN Day of the Greater South Bay - March 26 -28, 2010 The Art Glass Center of San Jose: Glass Bead Pen Making March 27 & 28, 10 am – 5 pm. 465 so. 1st St., San Jose 95113. Try your hand at torchworking in this 30-minute introduction to hot glass work. You will be creating glass beads that will be assembled into a writing pen. $15 Seating is limited, so call to reserve your place at (408) 971-1530 We’re all smiles for the time, Janett Peace, President of The Art Glass Center of San Jose and her team set aside during their busy facilities expansion to be a part of this growing event. Works/San Jose: Female Found. March 5 – April 6, 2010. 451 So. 1st St., San Jose 95113. Female Found is an exhibition in the Main Gallery of Works/San Jose Arts and Performing Center. Guest Curator, Terrenia Offenbacher presenting work by eight women artists working in diverse mediums: Rosine Ferber, Ann Gordon, Camille Ball, Ricky Gumbrecht, Shuang Zhang, Sheryl Tealdi, Annette Legallet, and Terrenia Offenbacher. Thursdays, 12 – 4 pm, Fridays 12 – 7 pm and Saturdays, 12 – 4 pm. This exhibit is closed from March 20 – 28, during the SWAN Day weekend for the production of a woman-directed play—a new gender-bending take on, The Importance of Being Earnest. Call for times and dates at (408) 256-6250 gallery@workssanjose.org From start to finish, The Alameda Artworks prepared and dedicated the SWAN Day weekend events with wholehearted belief in and support for the contributions of women artists in our community and around the world: The Alameda Artworks: Opening Night Reception and Juried Art Exhibition: Tenacity, Guts, and Grace: A Tribute to Women Artists Who Inspire Us. Host venue and second-year presenter of SWAN Day in the South Bay launches the official beginning of SWAN Day weekend. Very special keynote speaker, Martha Richards of Woman/Arts in San Francisco, the co-founder of SWAN Day International. The juried art exhibition based on this year’s theme opens this night as well. Please join us for refreshments, art exhibition, and a short program Friday, March 26th, from 6 – 8 pm. 1068 The Alameda, San Jose www.thealamedaartworks.com We’re very excited to have Martha Richards join us for Opening Night at the Alameda Artworks. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and thank her for Supporting Women Artists Now
- 5. The 3rd International SWAN Day of the Greater South Bay - March 26 -28, 2010 We’re smiling and so grateful to guest curator, Stephanie Battle from Works/San Jose Gallery with assistance from artist/lighting specialist and educator, Sheila Malone for coordinating and presenting the ―Call for Entries‖ and resulting juried art exhibition at the Alameda Artworks. The Alameda Artworks: SWAN Day Global Electronic Studio Exchange – Our own Pat Johnson creates an international project that demonstrates this year’s SWAN Day theme and the latent power of connectivity. Women artists worldwide fax-respond to each other’s fax-transmitted imagery based on the theme: Tenacity, Guts, & Grace: Women Artists Who Have Inspired Us. Details on how to participate posted elsewhere on this blog www.thealamedaartworks.com The Alameda Artworks: Closing Night Wrap Party. Sunday, March 28th, 5 – 8 pm. Refreshments. Camaraderie and showing of film sponsored by the South Bay Area Women’s Caucus for Art (SBAWCA) Who Does She Think She Is? Artist pick up of artworks this evening at 1068 the Alameda, San Jose www.thealamedaartworks.com We’re all smiles, thanks to the generous support of University Art, San Jose, 456 Meridian Ave., San Jose 95126 or www.universityart.com (408) 297-4707 We’re still smiling, remembering the timely assistance with printing and support of Melody & Jon Garliepp. 15695 Los Gatos Blvd., Los Gatos, CA 95032 (408) 358-7410 info@boomerangtonerandink.com The following is a listing of women artist on exhibit in the greater south bay for the month of March: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: Monotype Marathon Annual Print Exhibition & Silent Auction, March 27, 5:30 – 7:30 pm, 560 So. 1st St., San Jose 95113. Call for hours and info (408)283-8155 or info@sjica.org Kaleid Gallery: Exhibiting artwork by Jessica Beerli. 88 So. 4th St., San Jose. Soula Power Yoga: Artwork by Lucy Liew. 200 S. 1st St. Ste. 70, San Jose Photolab Gallery: Works by Alejandra Chaverri, Cuban Interlude. March 6 – April 17. 2235 5th St., Berkeley, CA 94710. Call for dates and times (510) 644-1400 or www.photolaboratory.com
- 6. The 3rd International SWAN Day of the Greater South Bay - March 26 -28, 2010 Avenue 25 Gallery: Artwork by the Peninsula Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Dreams and Nightmares, March 11 – May 10, 32 West 25th Ave., 2nd Floor, Ste. 201, San Mateo, CA Art Center Gallery: Artwork by Bonnie Smith, Abstracts & Images. 1870 Ralston Ave,, Belmont, CA 94002. Call (650) 595-9679 or go to www.1870artcenter.org The Gallery House: Artwork by Wendy Fitzgerald and Midori McCabe, Outside the Frame, March 9-April 3 2010, 320 California Ave at Birch (through Printers Ink Café), Palo Alto, Ca. Reception March 12, 2010 call for more info (650) 326-1668 Peabody Gallery: Artwork by Riki Nelson, on going, 11 N. Santa Cruz, Los Gatos, Ca. 95030, Reception March 27, 2010 5-7:30 with an in-house painting all day Saturday artist website: riki-arts@arts.com