Double Blind by Lizabeth Eva Rossof will feature four new series by Rossof.
Milk and Honey Art Gallery
384 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
4 - 7PM with Artist Talk, Q & A at 6PM.

Exhibit on view thru October 7th.

See the work of premier Bay Area artists and artisans at Art on the Square in the heart of downtown Redwood City at beautifully renovated Courthouse Square. Presented by the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission and the Redwood City Redevelopment Agency, the juried outdoor show complements Music on the Square, the city’s popular Friday evening summer concert series and The Redwood City Salsa Festival all day Saturday. Enjoy painting, sculpture, photography, glass, fiber, jewelry, ceramics and more by fantastic local artists. Enter the drawing for gift certificates that lucky winners can use to purchase a wonderful piece of art.

Don’t miss Art on the Square Friday evening Sept 19 from 5 - 8:30 pm with salsa rock band La Ventana, or Saturday Sept 20 from 11 am until 8 pm with the first annual Redwood City Salsa Festival.

Artists: We still have a few spots open. You can download an application from www.redwoodcityevents.org. Contact us at artonthesquare@sbcglobal.net if you have question

Now is Already Past by Gianfranco Paolozzi
Caffe Trieste, 315 South First Street
Artist's Reception First Friday, Sept. 5th, 8pm 'til late
in conjunction with South FIRST FRIDAYS artwalk

This new series of metallic works on canvas is a contemplation of being "present" for Gianfranco. "I start with a line. I start with a color. I start on one canvas. After the first canvas absorbs the initial lines the second canvas has marks, a continuation of what was present, now past, on the first canvas. The third and forth canvasses follow. All 4 white surfaces have marks. I'm here. I was there. All the lines become actions of the past. I continue to mark them and I continue to create the past of the present pleasures and pains".

Exhibit on view through September.

KALEID Gallery is pleased to present two new exhibits featuring artists Terenia Offenbacker and Rob Lehman.

We invite you to the artists' reception on First Friday, Sept. 5th from 7pm - 9pm.
This reception is part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS artwalk and is free and open to the public.

Exhibits on view through Sept. 26th.

Photo Landscape Adventures by photographer Rob Lehman

This showing brings to you a sampling of the photographs I have taken during recent years. My love for landscape and nature scenes has taken me throughout California, my home, and beyond. I first learned the basics of black and white photography at San Diego State University in 1975, and have become more and more driven toward those basic teachings in my pursuit to create images. I enjoy the "feel" and resolution of a large or medium format camera as opposed to a digital camera, and this is where I am most comfortable and confident.

Our world is continually changing. We are witnessing vanishing wild lands and landscapes that have been ruined by development and climatic changes in our ecosystems. I hope to record what I can with my camera, before some of our beautiful natural treasures are forever changed. -Rob Lehman

Retrospective from Collage to Oil Portraits by Terenia Offenbacker

Art is my ongoing search for methods of personal expression--art is the core of my being without which my life would be empty and void.

My creativity remained dormant for over 25 years following a life threatening car accident. Upon family urging to renew my relationship with art I enlisted in a collage course. Despite having no previous experience in collage, I felt it was a good means of reintroduction to art. Collage allowed me to express myself artistically while simultaneously rebuilding my confidence using brushes without the worry of producing fine lines.

My collage and mixed media work is based upon a search for varied textures and unique materials. It’s fun and surprising to see how they integrate. All materials utilized in my creations have been salvaged, it feels particularly good recycling while producing the images I love. - Terenia Offenbacker

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street, downtown San Jose

Art For Well Beings presents paintings by Michele Troutman.

Paintings created over the past three years illustrate Michele’s marvelous journey. In 2005 at age 29, holding a brush for the first time, she began painting under the direction of Judy Gittelsohn and has leaped through learning curves that take most of us a life time. Michele demonstrates her ability to interpret the world with the touch of a poet.

A reception for the artist will be held on September 13, 2008 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm at the Emerson Center Gallery - Art For Well Beings - 2800 West Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303.

A collection of Bonnie J. Smith"s fiber art work is at Alyis N Rose, 1686 Lafayette Road, Santa Clara. Title of exhibit is "Found Work". My art work is of a very personal nature and I have found that half way thru most projects I have to stop and take a break. I realized one day that I had accumulated a small body of work and that is why I called the exhibit "Found Work". This particular grouping has a connection to the earth.

Exhibit is on view through November.

KALEID artists Mark Damrel, Andy Gouveia, and Pellet (aka Kyle Perera), along with Ryan De La Hoz (Deli), are all in a group show at Double Punch in San Francisco called Inklings.

Inklings is a group show that embodies the unique personality and characteristics that artists are able to give their ideas, simply by putting pen to paper. Inked pieces can create a broad range of feelings from the action of a comic panel to the intimacy and spontaneity of napkin sketch. Most great ideas start with a sketch, and sometimes the finest ones are completed not with canvas and paint, but with bristol board and a good pen. With the wide range of tools that technology has given artists over the years, Inklings is a nod to the old school; a reminder of the importance of foundations and remembering art’s roots.

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13th, 2008 @ 7pm

Exhibit on view from September 13 - September 30th.

double punch
1821 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-399-9785

The Modern Superstitionist Exhibition

Artwork that reveals the real things we possess and do to keep those mysterious unseen forces from creating chaos in our modern world.

Search deep and you will find no 13th floor in most buildings. If you happened to sneeze, why would a complete stranger offer to bless you?

Is there an unspoken, unseen power we keep at bay with our superstitionist behaviour? Do you follow it with a rabbits foot, or rebel against it and break a mirror?

Superstition, Real or Not? You Decide!

We will have a group of local artists, some old friends, some you may not have seen yet! There will be live music and spoken word.

Bring your friends and family to our home and come enjoy an evening of art, music and the discussions of the superstitionist!

Check out the website: http://www.canvasghost.com

Deborah Barba
992 S. 8th Street, San Jose, CA 95112

As many of you know, and may have already visited last First Friday, Gianfranco has an exhibition of a beautiful new series of works at Caffé Trieste on South First Street in downtown San Jose.

On Thursday, Sept. 11th, come join us as Gianfranco will share another one of his talents- accordion musician playing traditional Italian music at 7pm.

Caffé Trieste
315 South First Street, downtown San Jose

The ArtObjectGallery announces the opening of a thought provoking new exhibit featuring Los Gatos artist Luis Gutierrez's most recent Wounded Warrior series of paintings titled "PTSD" (post traumatic stress disorder disorder). These powerful portraits reveal Luis's sense of what lies beneath the surface of those who are ordered into the hell that is war. Luis channels his frustration at the largely unseen, but heartbreaking real costs of war into expressive brush strokes and richly textured surfaces of these inner profiles.

Also on view is work by photographers Terri Garland and Deborah Mills Thackrey.

Reception for the artists on Friday, September 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M.
Exhibit on view thru November 12, 2008

Art Object Gallery
592 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA 95112
Thursday-Saturday 12-4 and by appointment

Heartswork Gallery is looking for live painters for the Campbell Third Thursday artwalk. Contact Debbie at heartworksstudio@earthlink.net or call 408-370-7278.

The findings shouldn't be that big of a surprise, we've all known the challenges of being a San Jose resident artist and the results of the many studies that show the importance of artistic thinking and problem solving for successful business have been published, posted and quoted for the last few years. But now perhaps, with Dr. Markusen surveying the results and making recommendations, action can begin for a new era of arts and creativity in San Jose. See you there!

The Distinctive City Lecture - Dr. Ann Markusen, Director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

Monday, September 15 6:00-7:00 pm
San Jose Repertory Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio

Crafting the Distinctive City: San Jose hosts the most diversified "left brain" high tech economy in the world, but its "right brain" labor force is under-developed. Markusen will show how cities around the globe are creating portfolios of distinctive activities as a hedge against growing competition and how human and cultural capital is becoming central to this project. Artists and designers are under-represented in San Jose for the size of its workforce, yet they contribute directly to the local economy through the self-employed income they earn and by providing area employers with the visual, performance and writing skills that make their products successful. They also make cities more attractive places to live and work, helping to retain and attract other entrepreneurs and skilled workers. Savvy cities elsewhere invested strategically in artist live/work and studio buildings, artist's centers, designated arts districts, smaller scale and neighborhood artistic spaces, festivals, grants and technical assistance program to shore up and diversify their arts and cultural talent pool.

Professor Markusen is the author of numerous books and articles on artists, cities, and high-tech economic development. She has served as a Brookings Institution Economic Policy Fellow and a Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil and has consulted for the Clinton Administration, the World Bank and the OECD.

This lecture is part of the 2008 Great Cities Speakers Series.

Celebrating the Northside’s Italian heritage and fostering community pride and creative expression in the spirit of the Mexican and Chicano mural movements.

Saturday, October 4, 2008 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Backesto Park, 13th & Jackson streets, San Jose

Come celebrate the Italian tradition of chalk art! • Recreate a famous artwork or create an ephemeral pavement mural of your own • Sponsor an artist and advertise your business • Stroll the Sidewalk Art Gallery • Savor Chiaramonte’s famous Italian sausages and Giovanni’s pizza •Sip an icy Italian soda • Learn the basics of bocce ball • Relax under the trees, serenaded by strolling musicians • Let your kids create an impromptu masterpiece on Percorso dei Bambini.

Featured Chalk Artists: Wayne & Cheryl Renshaw Katrina Loera & student team: 8-year veterans of chalk art Creator, Backesto Park mural festivals throughout California

FREE ADMISSION

2’x2’ chalk space, box of chalk $10 day of event

Potential sponsors or artists interested in creating a larger work: download
at www.lunaparkbusiness.com

Net proceeds benefit arts education in Northside neighborhood schools

For more information: download file.

THURSDAY GIG - Art & The Spoken Word
Thursday, Sept 18, 2008 6:30 - 9:30 pm

FEATURING - Artist: Al Preciado and Poet: Bea Garth

NEW LOCATION! Stone Griffin Gallery, 287 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell, CA 95008

POTLUCK / BYOB - Also Bring Your Own Camper Chair. No (or few) chairs provided.

Begins 6:30 pm with Potluck and Music
Art Q & A begins 7:15 pm
Featured poetry reading begins 7:30 pm, Open Mic follows.

Taste of Saratoga Fine Art & Wine Festival in downtown Saratoga on Big Basin Way.
Featuring fine art, craft vendors, entertainment, activities, food and wine.
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10am - 6pm
No admission fee.

Flo Oy Wong, Raising the Voices
a de Young Museum Satellite Exhibition
Saturday, October 11, 2008 - a Celebration of Flo Oy Wong's 70th Year
5-7pm: Artist Talk & Opening Reception
7pm: Perfomance of Noodle Women by Dance NAGANUMA in Tateuchi Hall

Exhibit on view thru November 26, 2008

Mohr Gallery
Community School of Music and Arts
230 San Antonio Circle
Mountain View, Ca
Gallery hrs: Mon - Fri, 9am - 7pm, Sat 9am - 3pm

The final Art on the Square is this Saturday September 20th which coincides with the Redwood City First Annual Salsa Festival which includes salsa competions (the edible kind and the dance kind), four stages of music and fun family activities.

Saturday, September 20, 2008, 12-8pm
On Broadway between Middlefield and Hamilton
Downtown Redwood City

Explore, experiment and develop new approaches to printing your digital images...

Join Lyn Bishop for an intensive playshop designed to take your digital images and photography beyond the standard inkjet print. Participants will work with their own completed digital imagery with the focus on outputting files to alternative surfaces such as acrylic skins, handmade paper, non-porous surfaces, and transfer film. Participants will complete several techniques in alternative digital fine art printmaking during the workshop with an emphesis on exploration, experimention and developing new approaches to printing their digital images.

* create monoprint transfers on paper and wood
* create dramatic luminescent prints using pearlescent undercoatings
* create flexible gel skins to use as alternative substraits
* create textured, fresco like surfaces
* print using Epson wide format printer using archival inks
* Use Golden products and precoats for surface prep

Locations and Details:
- The San Francisco Center for the Book
300 DeHaro Street, San Francisco, California
September 22-24, 2008 (Monday - Wednesday)
10am - 5pm
Contact Center the Book for pricing and registration at 415-565-0545.

- Plotter Pros
1068 The Alameda, Suite 100
San Jose, California
October 13-15, 2008 (Monday - Wednesday)
10am - 5pm
Class Fees: $300 plus $65 material fee
Contact Lyn for registration or questions (408.773.1363)

The City of San José Public Art Program is inviting artists from Santa Clara County to apply for a Kit of Parts Roster. This roster will be used to select artists for a range of artist-designed amenities commissioned by private housing developers and public agencies.

The “Parts” projects that are anticipated for artists to design include functional elements for buildings, streetscapes, parks and trails (e.g. benches, fences, bike racks, and interpretive signage). This roster is intended for artists working in all media. These projects are particularly appropriate for artists who are new to the public art field as they tend to have smaller budgets and scopes of work. For example, a painter could create two-dimensional designs that could be cut into the steel surface of a gate or the back of a bench. Or two-dimensional drawings may be translated into tile mosaics. Both 2-D and 3-D artists will have opportunities to design objects such as door handles and architectural appliqués. The complete RFQ here.

Application Deadline: October 14, 2008 11:00 P.M. (PST)

For more information please contact Patricia Walsh, Public Art Program Coordinator at patricia.walsh@sanjoseca.gov or 408.277.5144 x18.

Current KALEID artist Mark Damrel will be exhibiting his work at Hotel Des Arts in San Francisco on September 17th. Dozens of emerging artists will be on display throughout the hotel and all work will be available for sale.

Hotel Des Arts
447 Bush (at Grant), SF
5:30pm - 9:30pm

From: WADSJ (World AIDS Day, San Jose) Event Committee

Every year, on December 1st the world comes together to commemorate World AIDS Day. As determined by the United Nations program on AIDS, the theme for 2008 continues to place the emphasis on Leadership: "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise."

On a local level, the WADSJ Event Committee is busy making preparations. We are pleased to announce our local World AIDS Day event will be held this year in the beautiful glass Rotunda at San Jose City Hall.

Also, for the first time, the committee is actively soliciting the engagement of community artists. In the spirit of creative unity and compassionate activism, we are calling all artists to participate in a poster design contest. The design parameters are wide open.

For instance, you may submit a logo design to be incorporated into the poster. Or, you may create a full poster background. You may address this years leadership theme, or focus on World AIDS Day in general. You will not need to incorporate text at this stage of poster design. However, please be aware that your artwork will be used in conjunction with text, and may be later utilized in any number of promotional layouts,(brochure, postcards, etc.)

Other than the honor of having your artwork showcased on this years promotional material, the winner will also be awarded a brand new iPod! Naturally, the recipient will be allowed to choose his/her new iPod from an array of rainbow colors!

Submission DEADLINE: October 3, 2008

Please submit your design electronically, preferably in jpg format, to jolynnotto@yahoo.com

For more information or further inquiries, please contact Jo-Lynn Otto at the above address.

Figure Drawing Sessions at Stone Griffin Gallery
287 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell
408 410-2313

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, 7:00 - 9:00
Fee: $15

Turn North on the Corner of First & Campbell Ave. (Starbuck's is on that corner).
Enter the driveway across from Starbuck's on First St., park and enter from the back then go up the stairs.

Sessions are held the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month. If you'd like a reminder about upcoming session dates, email Elizabeth at: artpages@earthlink.net

Several tables are provided but bring your own easel in case there is no room.

No instruction. Come on over and have some fun!

MACLA’s Performance Art Program presents Cabaret Unkempt
In residence from October 5 - 11

In their week long residency made possible with the support of the National Performance Network, Miami-based performance art duo Jennylin Duany and Elizabeth Doud kick things off by leading a series of community workshops related to performance and body-image at the Billy De Frank LBGT Community Center. Later in the week they perform Cabaret Unkempt, an irreverent and satirical theater piece which uses projected media, music, and poetry to explore Duany's Cuban-American background, her body, her self-image and her moving, often hilarious, experiences as a performer of "size" in a culture where size definitely matters. The work offers audiences a voyeur's pleasure of peeping into a world of sensual audacity to explore moments when all of us, regardless of size, must confront our body-trappings and face our deepest insecurities.

The performers ruminate on the bombastic expectations of control, body mass, plastic surgery and self acceptance in a world obsessed with body image. The work surveys the landscape of "unkempt women," and creates a cartography of her body's journey.

Workshops: Tuesday 10/7 and Wednesday 10/8, 4pm – 8pm
The group holds a two-day workshop to address the effects of body prejudice and its effects on society and individuals. The second meeting is intended to build upon the first. It is recommended that participants attend both sessions.
Admission: Free of charge
Location: The Billy de Frank LGBT Community Center
938 Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126
(408) 293-3040

Performances: Friday 5/10 and Saturday 5/11
Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8pm
For two nights in a row the duo performs Cabaret Unkempt, their full-length multi-disciplinary theater piece.
Admission: $7-10 at the door
Location: MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse
510 S. First Street, San Jose CA, 95113

For more information contact David – Literary and Performance Art Program Coordinator – david@maclaarte.org – 831.332.1690

FLEURISH proudly presents local artist Christine Benjamin
Come and draw with Christine and take home your own character FUN for kids and adults! FREE stickers and coloring pages!

Saturday, September 27th 2008
12:00 noon - 3:00 PM

Fleurish
1331 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125
408.294.5557

and Christine will also be in The Cosmic Art of Robots and Space which also features Tracy Cox, Doug Horne, Paul Loughridge, Sonya Paz and Shaunna Peterson. These 6 artists interpret Sci Fi in a variety of ways including painting and sculpture.

Opening reception Saturday, October 4th, 2008, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Exhibit on view thru Oct. 17th.

Sonya Paz Fine Art Gallery
1793 Lafayette Street, Suite 110, Santa Clara, CA 95050
408.241.0001

Current KALEID artist Mariana Barnes has been accepted into the California Modern Art Gallery/Mesart.com exhibition Reflections of the Bay.

The exhibit was juried by Alan Bamberger (art consultant and author, publisher of ArtBusiness.com), DeWitt Cheng (artist, curator and co-editor of SF Art Magazine) and Inga Fischer (California Modern Gallery) and will benefit the Boys and Girls Club
of San Francisco Tenderloin Clubhouse.

Exhibition dates: Sept 25-Dec 2 2008

California Modern Art Gallery
1035 Market St., San Francisco, CA, 94103

Over the Edge, Lillé Mc Ghee-Queen

Caffé Trieste presents: "The Changing World of Abstract Art!" - Lillé Mc Ghee-Queen, Artist

Artist's Reception: First Friday, OCTOBER 3, 2008 - 8pm 'til late

The Artist combines selected paintings from her 20th and 21st Century Abstract
Art Galleries -- "Mother, Nature & Art" (and) "Girlfriends Art Gallery." Each painting is
powerful and engaging, capturing a significant moment and message in history.

The Artist begins with a clear vision: a vivid image, a single brush stroke which ultimately creates texture and design. Splashes of vibrant colors bring 'life' to a blank canvas and intricately woven into visually striking images, (e.g., Hurricane Katrina, El Nino, Locked Up In Jail, Mount Saint Helen's Eruption, Girlfriends In Jamaica Waters, Global Warming, Silicon Valley 'On-Line', Mother Pregnant W/Child, Black & White Roots, Sand Storms), and more. The experiences are true, the title and story lines are real. The images are UNFORGETTABLE! Lillé will also have available her hand-strung & colorful "trendy" bracelets, her recent inspirational books as well as free copies of the Women's Connection Magazine.

Exhibit on view through October 25, 2008

This exhibit is in partnership with Phantom Galleries.

Caffé Trieste
315 S First St., San Jose

KALEID gallery presents October featured exhibits by Sarah Beth Gon?arova and Nadia Vinogradova, two exceptionally talented artists.

Artists' Reception: First Friday, October 3, 2008, 7-9pm
Free and open to the public
Baroque classical music by Anton Petrenko ( Viola) and Svetlana Terekhina ( Violin)

Sarah Beth Gon?arova's Swing Like Tarzan, Baby presents over 40 paintings and collages created from 2005 to last week. Shown will be highly textural pieces on plaster and on paper, her whimsical collages, as well as a collection of recent oil paintings.

Sarah Beth Gon?arova earned her BFA in sculpture and extended media from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and a Master's degree in Architecture from the University of Maryland. She shows frequently in galleries throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and has exhibited in group shows in New York and in Europe. She has work in numerous private collections in the US and abroad. Her work features people, usually in pairs, who are connected by an unspoken tension.

Interpretation of Color features the dynamic paintings by Nadia Vinogradova "I would like to talk to you using a language of color. This language is elegant and naive, beautifull and confusing, bright and dim at the same time. It is not very easy to understand this language sometimes but it is intriguing always."

Nadia Vinogradova was born and raised in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia. Although she was at the top of her middle school art class, it was not until her late twenties that she realized that life has a tendency of rolling along, and if she really wanted to be an artist she had to do it now or it would really be too late. By that time she already had a Master's Degree in Physics, was getting ready to defend her Ph.D. thesis, and all that had made her smart enough to take a night class at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

After attending Toronto School of Art, Nadia took studied with artists Michail Petrenko and Anatoly Zaslavky, member of the International federation of Artist (IFA) in Russia. Nadia is a member of The Pacific Art League and The Atelier School of Classical Realism in Oakland.

Encouraged by a quick success at the student’s show in Toronto, Nadia has exhibited her works at several juried shows in Toronto, New York and the Bay area. Many of Nadia Vinogradova's works are now in private collections in Canada, the US and Russia.

KALEID gallery
88 South Fourth Street, downtown San Jose
Gallery Hrs: Tuesday thru Friday, Noon - 7pm, Saturday, Noon - 5pm