March art at Barefoot Coffee will feature Pellet's larger work on cardboard in the back room as well as a photo cluster by Rameen Navid. The front room features paintings and screen prints by Vanessa O'Hanlon.

Artists' Reception: Saturday, March 7th, from 7pm to 9pm
includes live painting by Pellet and Kate Stewart

Barefoot Coffee
5237 Stevens Creek Blvd
Santa Clara

Barefoot is a 3rd wave cafe and roastery focused on sustainably growing, processing, and serving coffee, as well as nurturing culture in the Bay Area. Barefoot has won "best Coffee" in the Metro, Wave, and City Search reader polls for the past four years.

KALEID Gallery is pleased to present two featured exhbitions by Eddie Flores and Jeremiah Kille for the month of March.

Artists' Reception First Friday March 6th, 7-9pm

This event is part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS artwalk. Free and open to the public

Suicide Noir: The Reduction of Eddie Flores an art exhibit in the medium of photography, illustration, and graphic design. It explores the human notion of love, in the context of self-reduction and negation, to arrive at a deeper and more meaningful place of light and possibility.

About the artist:
Eddie Flores comes to us from the Marianas Islands (Deep Pacific), with a background in illustration, painting, photography, digital media and spontaneous travel. His inspiration is derived from all things natural: including his relationship with the ocean, Eastern and Western philosophy, cheesy UFO abduction stories, street and bourgeoisie culture, lollipops, Courvoisier cognac, hopscotch, scotch, and long walks on the beach.

The Edge of Wonderment by Jeremiah Kille
Death is something that is eminent to all, yet we confront and interact with death in very different ways. Through culture, religion, upbringing and personality we each have a unique way of viewing or relating to death. I am fascinated with the extremes of individuals responses.

At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the circus was a form of entertainment, that captivated peoples imaginations. Since then, people moved on to "the new craze", some other form of entertainment. The circus came to end. I chose to use the circus, as a catalyst to explore the idea of finality. Many of the images are of elephants after the crumble of the "Big Top", misplaced and without work or purpose.

About the artist:
Jeremiah Kille uses traditional mediums, as well as materials that are used to construct surfboards. Building surfboards is something he is connected to deeply-using different types of resins and pigments to express and explore my ideas, it is a natural progression in his image making.

Jeremiah lives in Santa Cruz where he builds surfboards and makes art. He is currently completing his BFA degree at San Jose State in Pictorial art.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street, downtown San Jose
408-947-1785

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday thru Friday, Noon - 7pm
Saturday Noon - 5pm
First Fridays til 9pm

Phantom Galleries is honored to be partnering with the 19th Annual CINEQUEST Film Festival by providing three artists to paint live all week during the festival.

Lacey Bryant, Drew Clark and Manny Silva can be seen through the windows of the Camera 12 Theater on the Paseo de San Antonio between South First & South Second streets.

Each artist is interpreting the theme of "Transform by CELEBRATION". There will be a public vote during the final days of the festival with prizes to be awarded the winner.

Stop by often to see the transformation and say "Hi" to your fellow artists!

Lacey Bryant

Drew Clark

Manny Silva

More photos will be added daily and can be seen here.

Trash into Treasure - to show how discarded items can be redesigned into works of art as well as functional everyday items.

The top prize is $2,000 cash and the categories include sculptures/functional items/videos/photography/music. Local, national and international media will be covering the contest so it will be a wonderful opportunity for exposure.

Panel of judges include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Director of the Artist in Residence Program from S.F. Recycle, The Director of the IFC & Sundance Channel, MTV Intl, Current TV as well as Environmental Luminaries Paul Hawken and Annie Leonard (the Creator of the Story of Stuff) plus many more.

In addition to cash prizes, winners will be displayed as part of the Plastiki Art Exhibition (The Plastiki is a sea worthy vessel that has been created almost entirely from post consumer plastic water and soda bottles with self-reinforced PET thrown in for good measure and will sail across the Pacific Ocean. Learn more here.)

Deadline for submission is May 1, 2009. Guidelines are here.

"I"ll Fly Away", is the debut solo exhibition by Trina Merry featuring affordable works of art, primarily on canvas & LP!

This is a friend & family-fun event on Sunday afternoon so feel free to bring your kids & friends to have lunch, play some games & check out snazzy new & never before exhibited art! The event is free and the art- highly affordable!

Monsieur Beans (Willow Glen) roasts their own coffee, has free wi-fi and even has an awesome Ms. Pac Man arcade game!

Show runs through the month of March.

Artist's Reception - Sunday, March 8, 2009, 1pm - 4pm

Monsieur Beans
1383 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA

Joyce McEwen Crawford

Carol Wilson

Phantom Galleries is pleased to be partnering with SOULA Power Yoga by providing them with artwork by Joyce McEwen Crawford and Carol Wilson for their grand opening benefit gala.

The March 6th event includes a ribbon cutting ceremony with San José City Councilmember Sam Liccardo and Abi Maghamfar, Deputy Executive Director, San Jose Redevelopment Agency, music performances by Universal Groove, and proceeds from the Benefit Raffle & Grand Opening Weekend classes will be donated to City Year.

Located on the Paseo de San Antonio between South First and Second Streets in San José, the Studio’s mission is to bring the transformative health benefits of Power Yoga to the South Bay area, and to be an active member of the San José downtown business, civic and cultural community. For more information, visit http://www.soulapoweryoga.com

Craig Scoffone invites you to "an art, chocolate and port wine lovers *potluck featuring the stunning fine art photography of this internationally exhibited photographer. He will also have many amazing photographs for sale at discounted prices!"

Green chocolate chunks will be served in honor of St. Patrick's Day. *Bring a bottle of your favorite port or a 1/4lb of your favorite chocolate for all to share.

March 14th, 6-9pm
Citadel Photo Studio
855 South 5th Street, Studio #43
San Jose, CA
www.scoffone-studios.com

Philo Northrup is in a three person show at Cabrillo Gallery entitled 3x3: Three Artists-Three Installations. The opening reception is Thursday, March 12th, 4:30-7:30pm. Exhibition on view thru April 24, 2009.

This exhibition is part of a many venue assemblage exhibit entitled Assemblage + Collage + Construction Show currently on view thru April 12, 2009. There's a cover story of the Santa Cruz weekly newspaper which you can read here.

KALEID gallery artist Lara Sophia has published a book - a compilation of oil pastel drawing, acrylic paintings and marker drawings created by Lara between 2008-2009. You can preview and purchase the book here.

THURSDAY GIG presents: Art & the Spoken Word
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 6:30-9:00

Featured Artist: John Kurtyka
Featured Poet: Amy Meier

Potluck BYOB donations of $1 help offset plates etc. (come anyway if you cant donate or bring food :)

Stone Griffin Gallery
411 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell CA
2 doors up from the light rail tracks

Contact: Elizabeth Parashis
408/410-2313 / artpages@earthlink.net

In the fall of 1959 KFJC began broadcasting out of a closet in Mountain View, CA. It has been nearly 50 years of broadcasting for KFJC and we are excited to make this year more memorable than any year before.

KFJC has grown out of that closet and into a poineer in non commercial radio in the Bay Area and worldwide by continuing to be a conduit for new and interesting audio art and information, especially the sorts that are unavailable elsewhere.

As we turn fifty this year we decided to invite the individuals and communities that have continued to support us and keep our vision alive to have fun and celebrate with us in the unusual way we do things. What better way to celebrate than to get creative!?

Throughout the years we have invited artists to design our Annual Fundraiser Artist T Shirt. We're proud to include Robert Williams, Darren Grealish, Mike Davis, Arik Roper, among our contributors.

This year for our 50th Anniversary, we invite you! The KFJC 50th Anniversary Art Contest is our invitation to artists of all kinds to put into creation the vision we've been sending you through the airwaves all these years. Let's celebrate!

Categories include: Mixed Media/Freeform, Artist T Shirt Design and KFJC Logo. There are cash prizes for winning entries in each category.

The selected winning pieces and honorable mentions will also be included in an exclusive KFJC Art/Logo Exhibit to be held at KALEID Gallery, San Jose. An artists’ reception will be held First Friday September 4, 2009.

Submission Guidelines and Rules -download here.

KALEID Gallery & the Two Buck Tues Crew presents:

TWO BUCK Tuesdays - March 17th. an all day $2 art sale and quirky speaker series on the third Tuesday of the month.

12noon - 8pm: $2 art all day

6pm -8pm: interesting people speaker series- 10mns each.

Featured Speakers:
Residing in California, Armo Movessian's work is a collaboration of typographic elements and exploration with graffiti structure and form. By looking at graffiti and typography, by studying their visual commonalities as lettering, much can be discovered and revealed.

Ben Henderson has been active in San Jose music and art for almost as long as he's been alive. Although best known for his musical projects, including Delta Activity, Good Hustle, and his eponymous solo project, Ben also works as graphic designer for the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. His recent work on the Registrar of Voters' mascot can be seen on mailers, billboards, and buses all over the county.

Christian Rotsko is head roaster at Barefoot Coffee Roasters, a San Jose based roastery dedicated to sustainability in all stages of coffee production. He's recently returned from Ethiopia, where he toured the farms and met the farmers with whom Barefoot has built relationships.

Before & After Speaker Series Entertainment:
Lacey Bryant will be demonstrating the traditional art of Ukranian Egg dying and making some not-so-traditional pictures on real eggs. Learn to make a picture on an egg that is very simple or wickedly complicated.

Gianfranco Paolozzi- accordion performance
“I first heard the sound of an accordion at the age of 5; I closed my eyes and it was all around me. That sound was stuck on my brain, on my skin, and in my heart. A Christmas present from my parents, my first and only accordion is the one gift I still embrace. Every note out in the air has a story; I am reminded of people I have lived with and the towns I have lived in. Today, I continue to play the red accordion and exude the sound of passion that I’d never want to lose.”

Two Buck Tues Crew:
Christine Benjamin
Lacey Bryant
Eddie Flores
Trina Merry
Kyle Pellet
Matt & Maria Seigel
Kate Stewart
Two Fish Design

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street (street level of the 4th St. Garage)
downtown, San Jose
408-947-1785

free and open to the public.

We'd like to congratulate Lacey Bryant, Drew Clark and Manny Silva for the superb job they did painting live in the windows of Camera 12 for the week long CINEQUEST Film Festival 19.

The three artists, and their finished paintings evoking the theme of "TRANFORM: Celebrate", were presented to an audience of 1000 people at the closing gala. It was mentioned by many that they wish all three could win, but in the end, Lacey Bryant was awarded the Audience Choice award.

The paintings are on view til the end of March in the windows of Camera 12 if you'd like to see the finished paintings. To see the week in photos, click here.

Lacey Bryant

Drew Clark

Manny Silva

Jen Norton Art Studio has two new workshops to jump start your creativity!

Art Triage-Saturday, April 18, 9am to 1pm (includes lunch).
$125 (Early Bird Stimulus: Register for $110 before March 20)

Bring your "less-than-successful" works on paper and together we will reincarnate them into something brand new using elements of design. Fun, rewarding and therapeutic!

Download the registration form here.

Color & Collage Workshop for ages 10+
Thurs/Fri, April 16 & 17, 9am to 12noon each day.
$175 (included materials) (Early Bird Stimulus: Register for $160 before March 20)

Day 1: Learn concepts of hue, value, intensity, temperature and some texture techniques while creating color abstracts on watercolor papers.
Day 2: Create fun collages using our decorated papers. Students will finish one 16 x 20, matted artwork.

Download the registration form here.

The women of Alameda ArtWorks are proud to offer an open invitation to join the celebration of women in the arts of many disciplines in San Jose's first annual celebration of SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now!). This event is part of the second annual international SWAN Day celebration.

"Women artists are creating change in their communities and around the world. They are inspiring. They can touch our deepest emotions or take us on a journey to a distant place or time," said Martha Richards, the co-founder of SWAN Day. SWAN Day is an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of Women's History Month. The idea for SWAN Day grew out of a collaboration between Martha Richards of the Fund for Women Artists and Jan Lisa Huttner of Chicago's WITASWAN (Women in the Audiences Supporting Women Artists Now). This day of celebration will help people imagine what the world would be like if women's art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning. Since Silicon Valley has such an abundance of talented women in the arts, it is appropriate that these women have now come together in recognition of SWAN Day.

All are welcome to attend the Alameda ArtWorks' Networking Day as part of SWAN Day festivities; included in the planned events are live musical performances, open artists studios with work available for sale, an art exhibit of over 30 women artists, live poetry readings, two informative panels of speakers including Jane Przybysz, Ph.D, Executive Director of the Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and a special apperance by noted author DR. Kate Evans. The morning panel of speakers will forcus on Women and the Business of Art while the afternoon panel will focus on Women and the Spirit of Art. Break out sessions will follow each panel of speakers to provide attendees with ample time for conversation and networking.

SWAN Day San Jose at the Alameda ArtWorks takes place on March 28th, 2009 from 10 am until 5 pm and is located at 1068 The Alameda in San Jose.

For more information on SWAN Day, visit http://www.womenarts.org/swan/

Seriously reduced prices on paintings, prints, sculpture, photography and ceramics by over 30 artists at Art Object Gallery for one week only.

Reception: Saturday, March 21, 6-9pm
Sale continues through March 28th.

Art Object Gallery
529 North Fifth Street
San Jose, CA 95112

KALEID Gallery and the Two Buck Tues Crew would like to thank all the participants below and all of you that came out to enjoy it! See you next time, April 21st!

Featured Speakers:

Residing in California, Armo Movessian's work is a collaboration of typographic elements and exploration with graffiti structure and form. By looking at graffiti and typography, by studying their visual commonalities as lettering, much can be discovered and revealed.

Ben Henderson has been active in San Jose music and art for almost as long as he's been alive. Although best known for his musical projects, including Delta Activity, Good Hustle, and his eponymous solo project, Ben also works as graphic designer for the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. His recent work on the Registrar of Voters' mascot can be seen on mailers, billboards, and buses all over the county.

Christian Rotsko is head roaster at Barefoot Coffee Roasters, a San Jose based roastery dedicated to sustainability in all stages of coffee production. He's recently returned from Ethiopia, where he toured the farms and met the farmers with whom Barefoot has built relationships.

Before & After Speaker Series Entertainment:

Lacey Bryant demonstrated the traditional art of Ukranian Egg dying.

Gianfranco Paolozzi- played accordion for us.

More photos here.

If you would like to participate in selling your art at Two Buck Tuesdays, email us at info@KALEIDgallery.com for details.

Come out and support two local poets, Mark Heinlein and Judith Sutton this Friday, March 20 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at Mary Medrano Gallery.

Mark Heinlein’s work cuts to the emotional bone of our daily activities. From eating leftover kung pao chicken, flocking Christmas trees, grocery shopping, to contemplating the magnitude of war and the inevitable struggles with mortality, to the fine caresses of lovers, Mark’s work finds beauty and humanity in the mundane aspects of our lives. A finalist for the 2008 Edwin Markham Poetry Prize, his work has been performed live on the radio, and he has read his poems at the Cinequest Festival and at bars, galleries, bedrooms and bookstores throughout Northern California.

Judith Sutton is a poet and teacher at Saratoga High School. She was recently awarded by the Mayor of Saratoga - and her students just published a letterpress book on Mutanabi Street, an ancient bookstall bombed in Baghdad.

There will also be live music in the courtyard by the very soulful, Kaila D'Sa.

Mary Medrano
305 E. Campbell Ave.
Campbell, CA 95008
(between Central and First in the Courtyard Galleria)
(408)250-2732

Following the success of Flo Oy Wong’s doll-making workshop, which had a transformative effect on everyone who participated, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center is proud to present the second workshop in our INSPIRE/ASPIRE series: DEconstruct/REconstruct.

Find your creativity through the process of tearing something apart and then making something new out of it. Come join artist Flo Oy Wong for an evening of DEconstructing objects such as cloth rice sacks, small boxes, paper clips, nails, and utensils, etc. and REconstructing them in a new configuration. There will also some body movement and deep breathing exercises to DEconstruct and REconstruct your creativity and imagination.

Wednesday, April 15, 6:30-9 PM
Somarts Cultural Center, 2nd Floor Studio
934 Brannan Street, between 8th and 9th Sts., San Francisco

Sliding scale: $25 - $50
RSVP by April 8th to info@apiculturalcenter.org

KALEID Gallery presents HOAXMONSTER: an investigation into hoaxes, myths, monsters, and mystery by Kate Stewart and Trina Merry

Why do some people believe hoaxes, even after they've been debunked? Why do stories of monsters persist for centuries? By turns playful, grotesque, glib and profound, Trina Merry and Kate Stewart use paint, ink, and things they found at the scene to explore the anatomy of a hoax and why we love to be lied to.

Artists' Reception: First Friday, April 3rd, 7pm-9pm
This event is part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS artwalk. Free and open to the public.

Live music by: The Complications (7:30pm), Eric Ostrom (8:30pm)

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
downtown San Jose
408-947-1785

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday thru Friday, Noon - 7pm
Saturday Noon - 5pm
First Fridays til 9pm