Julie Goodenough has two crochet classes coming up this month at Sandpiper Community Center in Redwood Shores.

Crochet a Beaded Necklace, Mon, April 20th

Pre-registration required at www.redwoodcity.org/parks and click on Online Registration

NOTE: This class fills very quickly so pre-register now to ensure you get in.

Crochet a Beaded Necklace, Course #21.260
1 Monday, 4/20/09, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Skill level A: no crochet experience needed
$33 ($26 seniors, 60+) class fee, $25 materials fee

Appearances can be deceiving. A necklace that looks like an intricately beaded web is crocheted in the most basic stitch, the chain. Whether you're an absolute beginner or an experienced crocheter, you can create this elegant piece of jewelry that's perfect for holiday gift giving! Some crochet experience is helpful, but not essential.

Materials fee covers kit that includes everything you need to make your necklace: beads, beading board, thread, clasp, and pattern. Bring a size "C" (2.5 mm) and "E" (3.5 mm) hooks and scissors.

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Crochet 3 - The Sweater starts on Mon, April 27th

Pre-registration required. Go to www.redwoodcity.org/parks and click on Online Registration

PLEASE register early so that I can order enough books for the entire class.

Crochet 3 - The Sweater, Course #21.261
6 Mondays, 7:15 - 9:15 pm, 4/27/09 - 6/8/09 (no class Mon 5/25)
Fees: $75 class ($57 seniors, 60+), $15 materials fee
Skill level C: able to crochet even rows/rounds of basic stitches and read patterns.

You can design a sweater yourself! During the first half of the course you’ll design and crochet a raglan sleeve sweater. In the last half you’ll crochet a sweater from the pattern of your choice. Discover just how easy it is as you go through the design process step by step, mastering the fundamentals of sweater construction along the way.

Bring smooth worsted weight yarn, crochet hooks size “H” (5.0 mm) through “K” (6.5 mm), scissors, a tape measure, pen/pencil, & notebook. $15 materials fee payable to instructor at first class covers book for class, crochet gauge, and handouts.

Art on the Square is a series of four juried fine art and craft shows on the streets surrounding Courthouse Square in the heart of downtown Redwood City. Artists will exhibit painting, jewelry, photography, glass, fiber, sculpture, and more. We are looking for high quality work that people can buy for themselves, their home, or to give as gifts while supporting the local economy and the best of handmade American craftsmanship.

Art on the Square complements:
Music on the Square, Redwood City’s Friday evening summer concerts,
The PAL Blues Festival in July benefiting the Police Activities League, and
The Redwood City Salsa Festival in September.

2009 show dates are:
June: Fri 6/19, 5 – 8:30 pm with Music on the Square
July: Fri 7/24, 5 – 8:30 pm with Music on the Square & Sat 7/25, 11 am – 8 pm with the PAL Blues Festival
Aug: Fri 8/28, 5 – 8:30 pm with Music on the Square
Sept: Fri 9/25, 5 – 8:30 pm with Music on the Square & Sat 9/26, 11 am – 8 pm with the Redwood City Salsa Festival

Join the fun this summer at Art on the Square. At each show the public can enter to win a gift certificate to spend with the artist of their choice.

Go to www.redwoodcityevents.com to download an application.

Donald Neff is an invited participant of N?madas Del Arte, a group exhibition of two hundred of the best Nomad artists working en plein air.

The paintings were completed in six Southwestern states: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah, and includes works by renowned artists Albert Handell, Anita Louise West, Guido Frick, Stephanie Birdsall, Brent Cotton, and Carol Swinney.

Southwest Gallery
4500 Sigma Rd.
Dallas, TX 75244

Woody's exhibition will include mixed media paintings and other trinkets, both large and small. Lot's of stories, mysteries, and whimsical fantastical scenes collide with guitar playing animals and if you're lucky, a monkey in a fez.

Opening Reception Saturday, April 4 from 8-10pm.
Exhibition on view through the month of April.

Barefoot Coffee Roasters
5237 Stevens Creek Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95051

on friday, may 1, i shall depart on a 2000 mile bicycle ride that concludes at the mexican border. along the way, from san francisco to los angeles, may 31 - june 6, i will join the 8th annual 'aids-lifecycle' fundraiser ride. to raise the required $3,000+ (per cyclist) for the s.f. aids foundation, i have created four new works of art.

to make these pieces more accessible, i am offering signed and numbered giclée prints. on the weekend of saturday and sunday, april 4 and 5, 2009, from 1-5 p.m., i will be hosting (with food and beverages) an open studio where the original paintings along with sample giclées will be displayed for viewing.

if you can't make the open studio but generously want to make a direct donation to the foundation in my name, please visit: www.aidslifecycle.org - hit donate and type in (name) christopher elliman.

best thoughts to all-
christopher elliman

the thought farm (warehouse with water tower and smoke stack)
190 martha street (between so. 5th and 6th)
san jose, ca 95112 (enter through breezeway and park in courtyard)
408.995.5745

Join us for the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly artwalk this Friday night, April 3rd!

Start off at 7pm at KALEID Gallery for Hoaxmonsters: an investigation into hoaxes, myths, monsters and mystery by Kate Stewart and Trina Merry. Live music by The Complications (7:30pm), Eric Ostrom (8:30pm).

Then catch a pedicab and ride over to the SoFA District for TEN venues of art and culture- 8pm 'til late and all free!

Highlights include: GIRL POWER: an all-female arts showcase featuring Christine Benjamin, Lara Sophia, Murphy Adams, and Lacey Bryant with belly dancing by the Tribal Moon troupe at So. First Billiards (21+ venue).

Debut solo exhibit What I Thought I Saw. What I Think I See. by Megan Diddie at Anno Domini with live music by Lemon Sun (los angeles), Pariah Veil (portland.)

Beast Figurative--the wild of the animal is inherent in our humanity. every artistic soul is a frozen sea--the beast resides beneath the surface-- highlighting the work of nine Bay Area artists including Rebecca Bauen, Christopher Elliman, John Kurtyka, David Larimore, Francesca Lovecchio, Elizabeth Parashis, Carlos Perez and Al Preciado at WORKS gallery.

And R. Mike Micklich's FUTURAMIC SERIES (fuel-injected dream machines, built for flights of fancy) fine art car photography exhibition with live music by Opera San José at Caffe Trieste.

For full listing of exhibitions and events, please visit SouthFIRSTFRIDAYS.com or call 408-271-5155.

Redwood City photographer Beth Mostovoy is pleased to announce an exhibit of her work for the month of April at the Main Street Coffee Roasting Company aptly entitled: “Italy & France – Hold the Grease”

The show features 15 framed pieces from various journeys through Italy and France. So, while you are sipping your latte and savoring your freshly prepared and always delicious food, you can imagine what is behind the remarkable doors and windows of Italy, watch a sunset in Venice, or explore the farmers market in Provence.

Main Street Coffee Roasting Company, Ltd.
150 Elm Street
Redwood City, CA 94063-1909
(650) 368-3430

Paintographs exhibition at Black & Brown Clothing - a collaboration between photographer Abe Menor and painter Sean Boyles. On view thru May 10th.

A few photos here.

Black & Brown Clothing
1225 West San Carlos St
San Jose, CA 95125

The program seeks to promote artists working in any visual medium, who display artistic excellence, are committed to an artistic career, and are under-served, under-recognized or under-represented in the mainstream (artists who have not had extensive solo exhibitions at galleries or museums or have not received any major grants or fellowships for individual artists.)

The program also aims to recognize artists who represent the racial/ethnic demographic mix of California, who live throughout the state (particularly beyond the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan areas), and who work in a range of visual art media.

Award includes a (required) residency and a no strings attached $4000 stipend.

Deadline for applications is June 1, 2009. Apply here.

Conversations – An exhibition of artists’ books by members of the Bay Area Book Artists

In this exhibition, twenty-two members of Bay Area Book Artists (BABA) respond to the theme of "conversations" in a variety of artists' books. Conversations are part of the river of language in whose moving current we wade--and sometimes stumble into deep water-- as we interact with lovers, acquaintances, friends, strangers, and enemies.

BABA is a group of independent artists bound together by a passion for the book arts.
For more information, please visit: www.bayareabookartists.org

Exhibition dates: April 4- May 16, 2009

Martin Luther King Jr. Library
150 E. San Fernando St.
2nd Floor at top of escalator
San José, CA 95112
408-808-2000?
Admission to exhibition and all events are free.
More event info here.
For library hours, click here.

Whole House Building Supply and Salvage invites all San Francisco Bay Area artists to submit a sculpture of recycled materials for a juried show.

Deadline for submissions is August 15th, no entry fee.

Whole House Building Supply and Salvage will exhibit the finalists' work in an outdoor exhibit in October to be held in the garden (1955 Pulgas Ave., East Palo Alto, CA., 94303).

Awards of cash, merchandise and gift certificates will be presented after the judges have determined the finalists.

The winners will have their sculptures exhibited at Palo Alto City Hall in October.

Full contest rules and entry information is available here.

For more information please contact Oksana Baumert at Oksana@driftwoodsalvage.com or leave a message 650-856-0634.

Just posted some photos of the HOAXMONSTERS exhibition by Trina Merry, Kate Stewart at KALEID gallery (on view thru April) here.

Save the date: on April 17th, Trina & Kate will be screening the Jean Cocteau classic film ORPHEE at KALEID at 7pm, free admission. More info coming soon.

We have two business establishments that would like to host regular exhibitions of local art beginning immediately.

Please review the info for each venue, and if you are interested, please reply with 2-3 small jpg samples of your current work you propose to exhibit (or a direct link to the images on your website). And indicate which venue you're interested in (or both if that's the case.)

Once we receive the submissions, the owners of the venues will select the artists and we'll map out the schedule. Selected artists will be notified and be given specific dates and logistical info.

1. SOULA Yoga

Soula (pronounced soul•ah) Power Yoga Studio is founded and managed by Marta Weinstock, an accomplished instructor who studied in Boston and has trained with America’s celebrated yoga leaders. Weinstock blends original teachings of the masters with her own techniques and makes Power Yoga accessible to everyone.

The Studio is located in downtown San José on the Paséo de San Antonio between South First and Second streets..

Exhibition space is in the entrance lobby of the studio with 2 main walls - 21' wide x 4' tall, and 6' wide x 4' tall.

Exhibitions will run for 2 months. Artwork may be for sale, no commission is imposed, transactions will be dealt with privately between the artist and the collector.

2. AGENDA Restaurant

This SoFA District restaurant features exquisite California cuisine at reasonable prices. They are looking for quality artwork by local artists to add to the ambiance of their reputable restaurant.

The art will be hung in the main dining room. There are three exhibit walls- 2 walls are approximately 8-10' wide x 5-6' tall, and 1 wall is approx. 10' - 12' wide x 8' tall.

Agenda will work with the artists to have a reception for the artists on the First Friday of the month as a participant of the South FIRST FRIDAYS artwalk.

Exhibitions will run for 1 month. Artwork may be for sale with a 20% commission forwarded to Phantom Galleries (transactions will be dealt with privately between the artist and the collector.)

Feel free to let us know if you have additional questions.

info@PhantomGalleries.com or 408-271-5151

Thank you!

peace,
Cherri

HOAXMONSTER exhibition artists Trina Merry & Kate Stewart present a film screening of Jean Cocteau's classic ORPHEE.

Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee’s wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess’ henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orphee back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice. 1949.

Screening is one night only Friday, April 17th at 7pm
Free admission, please bring your own chair or pillow to sit on if you can.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
downtown San Jose (@ San Fernando, next to Flames.)

Arts Forum 2.0 features an exciting panel of arts leaders including: Keynote Speaker John Anagnostou, Fox Theatres; Panelists Susan Moeller, Redwood City Redevelopment Agency; Jeff Trabucco, Artsopolis; Sagesse Graham, The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement; and Julie Ulmer, California Arts Alliance.

Arts Forum 2.0 will bring together community leaders, policy makers, artists, and arts organizations to:

- Make San Mateo County a Destination for the Arts, Parks and Culture
- Increase the Positive Economic Impact of the Arts
- Create An Action Plan

Bring your ideas and creativity to the Peninsula Arts Council’s Arts Forum 2.0. Join local artists and arts organizations as well as the general public for an exciting day developing a plan to make San Mateo County a destination for the arts, parks, and culture.

Saturday, April 25, 2009
10 am – 2 pm
The Little Fox Theatre
2209 Broadway, Downtown Redwood City
Cost: $10 (includes breakfast and lunch)

For more information or to register
Call 650.591.2101 or visit www.peninsulaartscouncil.org

KALEID Gallery & the Two Buck Tues Crew presents:

TWO BUCK Tuesdays - April 21st. 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, before / after demos and live music

------ Featured Speakers ------

Christina Deptula - Mutual Social Networking: Fun entrepreneurial business models for aspiring artists.
Taken from Christina's experience as Creative Facilitator of Synchronized Chaos variety magazine, this will be a discussion of what artists can learn from successful social networking business models and how to use strategies such as personal business cards, online and in-person networking, leveraging transferable skills, etc., all interspersed with free verse poems.

Eric Taggart - The Art of the Art Trade: How artists end up with art collections they could never afford.
Art trading is quite simple. Think credit default swaps, mortgage backed securities and collateralized debt obligations mixed with white album-era Beatles and Death Cab For Cutie pre-Narrow Stairs. It’s like that but with art.

Eric Taggart is a registered psychotherapist intern practicing in Los Altos and San Francisco. He doesn’t know anything about the financial markets, but knows 10 minutes worth of information about art trades.

“Shake a Leg” 10 minute express still life sketch session – bring paper / pencils!

------ Before & After Speaker Series Entertainment ------

Ben Shutz ceramic demos before and after the speakers.

Sam Brown will be playing unaccompanied saxophone in a freely improvised lyrical style throughout the evening.

To view past TBT events, click here.

This event is presented by the Two Buck Tues Crew:
Christine Benjamin
Lacey Bryant
Eddie Flores
Maria Inocencio
Trina Merry
Kyle Pellet
Matthew 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.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: TRNAVA POSTER TRIENNIAL 2009
The Trnava Poster Triennial (TPT) 2009 is a public non-anonymous international competitive exhibition of posters produced from March 2006 - 15 May 2009.

Organisers of the seventh year of the TPT take advantage of the 17-year-old good reputation of the event, declaring its support for traditional values respected by the international graphic design community and at the same time bringing innovations reflecting the constantly changing character of graphic design.

Endorsed by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, a partner of the International Design Alliance.

Categories
The TPT 2009 has three competition categories

1. A1 - Posters by professional authors - individuals and teams
2. A2 - Posters by students of fine arts academies
3. B - Design of websites

Awards
* Andy Warhol Prize - Grand Prix for the overall TPT winner
* First Prize in the A1 category - poster
* First Prize in the B category - design of websites
* First to third Prize in the A2 category - poster students of fine arts academies
* Third Prize of the Chairman of the Trnavský Self-administrative Region - for typography
* Fourth Prize of the Mayor of the Town of Trnava for the best Slovak artist

The opening ceremony of the international Trnava Poster Triennial will be held in Ján Koniarek Gallery, Kopplova vila, Zelený krí?ek 3 in Trnava on 21 October 2009 at 17:00. The exhibition will last until 18 December 2009.

DEADLINE for submissions is May 15, 2009.

For submission guidelines and forms, visit: http://www.gjk.sk/trienale/eng.html

Congratulations to Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Lacey Bryant and Lara Sophia (all KALEID gallery artists by the way) for their feature write up in the Mercury News last week for their Girl Power! group exhibit (which is on view thru May 31st at South First Billiards).

Read the article here.

17 artists will be in the San Jose State University 2008-09 Pictorial BFA Exhibition held at Art Ark from April 27th - May 8th with an opening reception on Friday, May 1st from 6-9pm.

Gallery open by appointment, contact sjsubfa0809grads@gmail.com for more info.

Also at the Art Art from May 16th - 21st the graduating class of the San Jose State University Graphic Design BFA program exhibits their final work with receptions on Friday, May 15th and Saturday, May 16th from 6-9pm. Visit their website here for more information.

Art Ark
1035 South 6th Street
San Jose, CA

"Introduction: Jason Chi (with gallery artists)"

This solo exhibit at the Art Object Gallery will be the first on the West Coast of Jason Chi's delicately rendered abstract paintings and drawings which reflect his interest in the intimate play of light, non-linear organic forms, the logic of liquid geometry, and an architectural essence of freedom. His interior and exterior response to world travels is visible in the complex and delicate layering in his works.

Jason has shown extensively on the East Coast as well as in Taiwan represented in both solo and group exhibitions. (visit Jason's official website here.)

Also showing with Chi are gallery artists: Ken Matsumoto, Luis Gutierrez, Reid Winfrey, Terry Kreiter, Darrell Phelps, Terri Garland, Sara Cole, Diane Kreiter, Rachael Lazo, Don Fritz, Joe Saxe, Randy Shiroma, Herbert Nouwens, Jaap Bongers, Louis Basel, Michelle Gregor, and Mark Bryan.

A reception for the artists will be held on May 15, Friday, at 7PM.

Admission is free and is open to the public now through May.

Art Object Gallery
592 N. 5th St.
San Jose, CA 95112

(408)288-9305

Thanks to everyone that came out to the April 21st Two Buck Tuesday! We'd also like to thank all the incredibly interesting and quirky guests below!

As with all Two Buck Tuesdays - $2 art all day!

Eric Taggart spoke about The Art of the Art Trade: How artists end up with art collections they could never afford.

Christina Deptula presented Mutual Social Networking: Fun entrepreneurial business models for aspiring artists.

Ceramicist Ben Shutz demonstrated throwing clay to make a vase.

Sam Brown and friends provided smooth jazz before and after the speaker series.

We invite you to the next one - third Tuesday, May 19th!
$2 art all day starting at noon
Interesting, quirky speaker series 6pm-8pm

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.

Every year, during the first three weekends in May, more than 300 Silicon Valley artists open their studios to the public. This free event lets you discover some exciting new artistic talent, or get up close and personal with some of your favorite artists.

Visit the studios of your choice between the hours of 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday on the weekends shown below.

Weekend One, May 2nd - 3rd
East Palo Alto, Ladera, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Loyola, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara Sunnyvale

Weekend Two, May 9 - 10th
Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, San Jose, Saratoga

Weekend Three, May 16 - 17th
Atherton, Belmont, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, Woodside

Visit http://www.svos.org for more information.

Anno Domini presents

STREET MRKT an indie DIY urban fair

on South First Street, between San Carlos & San Salvador
in the SoFA District, downtown San Jose

FIRST FRIDAY May 1st, 7pm - 10pm

Kick off the 2009 season of STREET MRKT with a free outdoor concert featuring the best live music and most creative artist vendors in San Jose! It's all part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly artwalk. All SoFA District art venues are free and open to the public from 8pm 'til late.

On the Stage: GOOD HUSTLE (San Jose), LINKS (Los Angeles), The FEROCIOUS FEW (San Francisco)

Indie Artists/Creatives: Barefoot Coffee Bar • Beyond Wonderland • Charcoal Addict • Dive! • Divine Orchard Clothing • Sarah Beth Goncarova • Henna Tattoos by Evelyn • Pellet Factory • Mahoney Perkins • Al Preciado • Quite Contrary Productions Inc. • Linda Ritter • San Jose Glass Artists Alliance • SJFixed • James William Moore Photography • Slave Labor Graphics

STREET MRKT 2009 SAVE THE DATES:
- First Friday JUNE (SubZERO Festival)
- First Friday AUGUST (San Jose Jazz Festival JAZZ BEYOND Stage)
- First Friday SEPTEMBER (Final one of the summer!)

"All Hail the Progenitors of Culture!"

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For more information, please contact:

Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
www.galleryAD.com 408.271.5155

KALEID Gallery presents two new feature exhibitions for the month of May.

Alta Modern Graffiti by ARMOgedon 2057 - Residing in California Armo’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. As graffiti matures and diversifies, more and more of it's aesthetics filters into graphic design, and it has gained acceptance in popular culture at large, now comfortably accepted as a contemporary mode of communication.

Now You've Really Made a Mess by Michael Foley - This Exhibit is one of pure chance. How people can truly make a difference, for better or worse and how sometimes, just sometimes, it's full of irony. A show for the fellow rejects. For those who seem to never quite fit in anywhere. These works celebrate the success and failures of life experienced so far.

Featured Artists' Reception: First Friday, May 1st, 7pm-9pm

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

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