San José Museum of Art FY22 Annual Report

AT A GLANCE

Provided free admission to 8,856 college students and youth 18 and under

Presented the first ever exhibition devoted to Jean Conner

LLAA docents volunteered 1,005 hours at 110 schools

2.2K

Docent Council gave public tours to 2,200 visitors

10 K

1,323 member households Reached 10K followers on Instagram

ACQUIRED 41 Works

BY 27 Ar tists

Awarded 22 scholarships for Kids’ Summer Art Camp

Provided virtual arts education to 13,276 K–12 students

7,000 K–12 students in Title 1 schools served with virtual arts education.

Hosted 3 nights of dancing in the Circle of Palms with CityDance San José

DIRECTOR’S LETTER

SAN JOSÉ MUSEUM OF ART OPENED

THE FISCAL YEAR DAZZLINGLY WITH THE BAY AREA PREMIERE OF HITO STEYERL: FACTORY OF THE SUN.

On that first Friday in August, we also debuted SJMA’s partnership with the City of San José’s CityDance. Eight hundred people came to dance on the Circle of Palms and enjoy the exhibition opening, with a long line forming to enter the immersive space. The project was amplified by a collaboration with New Art City’s virtual interactive environment The Identity Factory, fulfilling our goal to bring people

together safely, using the Museum as a nexus of art, technology, and community. We honored patrons Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu and the artist Rina Banerjee at the virtual Gala + Auction in September 2021. The Museum became a television production site as we broadcast tributes and speeches to raise critical funds for the Museum. The Gala was a great success, thanks to our devoted donors and honorees, and grossed over $1 million for the first time in SJMA history, all in support of education and exhibitions.

The 2021 fall season renewed our dedication to become a borderless Museum, essential to creative life throughout the diverse communities of San José and Silicon Valley, a goal updated to respond to the changed post-pandemic world. The strategic planning task force, comprised of staff and Board members, worked with consultants LaPlaca Cohen on this critical task, delivered along with a new mission statement in summer 2022:

Wayfinder: Clare Rojas, a public art project encouraged visitors to explore downtown San José. Beta Space: Trevor Paglen, the artist’s first sound piece, a commission installed in SJMA’s historic clocktower, resounds into the streets of downtown San José on the hour. Hulda Guzmán’s public banner joined a public arts initiative for climate awareness, on view in April 2022.

In November, SJMA opened Our whole, unruly selves. Largely drawn from the permanent collection, the exhibition explored figuration in critically nuanced ways with ninety works of art. Collaborating with artist Aislinn Thomas, who created a sound work with Teatro Visión, the project included experimental, visual descriptions of artworks on view. Also in the galleries was an Art Learning Lab, created by the Education staff, that furthered connection with the community.

We celebrated an ambitious year building the permanent collection, adding fortyone acquisitions by twenty-seven artists. We continue our focus on gender parity, cultural diversity, and artistic innovation, while proactively acquiring socially relevant contemporary art. A highlight of the year was the acquisition of two major sculptures for long-term view in outdoor sculpture courts: Kelly Akashi’s flowering Cultivator (2022) and Huma Bhabha's Receiver (2019), a towering eight-foot bronze sculpture.

The San José Museum of Art nurtures empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art.

The fall season premiered new borderless projects bringing art out into the city.

SJMA education programs returned to in-person instruction in the Museum and out in the schools, creating the opportunity to converse with educators about their changing needs, and providing programs focused on social and emotional learning. These services are uniquely provided by SJMA, and the arts and education programs gained momentum as the year progressed.

Finally, SJMA presented the first solo museum exhibition for the Bay Area artist Jean Conner, which opened in Spring 2022 accompanied by a gorgeously illustrated catalog. Jean Conner: Collage received a strong response in the press, from local journalists to Artnet News, The Brooklyn Rail and Forbes. Whether our audiences prefer their unruly selves, dancing or meditative repose, they are sure to find something to delight them at SJMA.

↖ Rory Padeken, curator; Jean Conner; Kathryn Wade, curator; Robert Conway of the Jean Conner Trust; and S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director at the opening of Jean Conner: Collage.

S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director

IDENTITY FACTORY

SJMA commissioned New Art City, an online multiplayer exhibition space for digital art and performance, to further explore the ideas of labor in the digital economy raised in Hito Steyerl’s Factory of the Sun.

Collaborating with students from San José State University’s Art and Art History Department, New Art City designed and developed The Identity Factory. In this virtual interactive environment, users constructed image-based identities for online distribution. The intriguing results can be seen online at newart.city/show/the-identity-factory

HITO STEYERL: FACTORY OF THE SUN

August 6, 2021–September 25, 2022

SJMA PRESENTED HITO STEYERL’S FACTORY OF THE SUN (2015), A LANDMARK INSTALLATION THAT WAS NOT ONLY VERY SMART AND TIMELY, BUT ALSO FUN FOR THE VISITORS WHO EXPERIENCED IT.

The matrix-like installation practically demanded selfie-snapping for social media, even as it critically examined that very act as labor in a capitalist system of surveillance.

A joint acquisition among the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and SJMA, the critically acclaimed, immersive video is inspired by a quote from Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto (1985), which described machines as “made of pure sunlight.” In the video, Steyerl explains: “Our machines are made of pure sunlight. Electromagnetic frequencies. Light pumping through fiberglass cables. The sun is our factory.”

The premise of machines made of pure sunlight is not a romantic one for the Berlin-based artist. Steyerl has long attuned herself to the power of image and their reproduction, particularly documentary images, to manipulate our worldview.

Factory of the Sun tells a surreal story of workers whose forced dance moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunshine. The story is based on an actual YouTube phenomenon (her studio assistant’s brother whose viral homemade dance videos were used as a model for Japanese anime characters) and a news story about an experiment at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which claimed to have measured a particle traveling faster than the speed of light. On screen, Steyerl interweaves fact and fiction; a montage of YouTube dance videos, drone surveillance footage, real documentation of recent international student uprisings combines with video game characters, fake news, and gold lamé-costumed dancing avatars. In this imaginative reality spun from Haraway’s theory, the motion capture studio’s glowing grid of blue LED lights extends beyond the screen into the gallery, like a Star Trekkian “holodeck” able to materialize a different world in three dimensions. Modern warfare, corporate culture, and anti-capitalist resistance movements are played out by disembodied characters—avatars, bots, or proxies for the human viewers who watch the video from the vantage of reclined beach chairs.

Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun was supported by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous contributions from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Lipman Family Foundation, Ian Reinhard, and Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng.

WAYFINDER: CLARE ROJAS

September 3, 2021 – March 7, 2022

AN INNOVATIVE USE OF SAN JOSÉ’S STREETLIGHT BANNER INFRASTRUCTURE,

SJMA’S FIRST WAYFINDER PROJECT BROUGHT THE MUSEUM INTO THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN WITH PLAYFUL BANNERS FEATURING CLARE ROJAS’ TUMBLING BLACKBIRD MOTIFS.

Commissioned by SJMA, the San Francisco-based artist designed 40 streetlight banners in shades of pink, magenta, and lavender, which were installed along South Market and West San Carlos streets. Each banner featured a cascade of stylized blackbirds that tumble and shapeshift into abstract, beguiling forms. In the artist’s work, blackbirds appear as omens from the supernatural world. Imbued with mysticism and magic, they caution against hubris and take shape as talismans for luck, protection, and freedom.

Wayfinder: Clare Rojas was the first in a new commissioning program by SJMA that invites Bay Area artists to design streetlight banners for temporary display in downtown San José. The series offers pedestrians, commuters, residents, and Museum visitors continuous access to contemporary art as part of SJMA’s overarching goal to become a borderless museum, essential to creative life throughout the diverse communities of San José and Silicon Valley. Wayfinder reimagines existing streetlight banner infrastructure as a venue for temporary public art, enlivening city streets with cutting-edge art and design.

MUSEUM STORE

SJMA’S MUSEUM STORE HAS BECOME KNOWN FOR EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED-EDITION ITEMS INSPIRED AND DESIGNED BY ARTISTS.

In celebration of the first iteration of Wayfinder, streetlight banners designed by Clare Rojas were repurposed into reusable lightweight bags, available in the Museum Store for $135. These bags and many other artist related items can be found online at store.sjmusart.org.

MUSEUM STORE GUILD VOLUNTEERS

MEMBERS

Marilyn August

Connie Bantillo

Nancy Beckman

Yale Bloomberg

Lawrie Brown

Pat Caporal

Madisen Castaneda

Kelly Donohue

Maura Donohue

Sequoia Jackson

Bill Jones

Rachel Karklin

Michele Kelly-Jones

Madelyn Lee

Chris Mengarelli

Sidney Mygatt

Jeannie Pedroza

Carla Rosenblum

Shu Rosenthal

Shelley Smith

Norkia Takada

Rebecca Voss Anh Vu

Mitsu Wasano

Alisa Wetzel

AS I AM AND AS I BECOME

A highlight of Our whole, unruly selves was interdisciplinary artist Aislinn Thomas’ creative collaboration with Teatro Visión, San José’s Latinx theater company. The project involved many voices in interpreting and transforming visual artworks into aural experiences.

Thomas works through creative possibilities for accessibility, approaching disability as a valuable and generative disruption to mainstream culture. For Our whole, unruly selves, she created a sound work of experimental, visual descriptions for artworks on view in the galleries. Such descriptions, usually intended to make visual information aurally accessible to people who cannot fully or easily see, can also poetically expand beyond the limits of the visual. Thomas collaborated with an intergenerational group of twenty contributors from Teatro Visión. Each participant assumed a first-person voice and imagined the subject of each painting, sculpture, or photograph as a living entity with its own thoughts and experiences. By weaving together varied perspectives for each work, these poetic descriptions conjure the depth of inner lives and offer possibilities for creative approaches to access.

OUR WHOLE, UNRULY SELVES

November 19, 2021 – June 26, 2022

WITHIN THE VARIED TRADITIONS OF FIGURATION, THIS EXHIBITION MINED THE COLLECTION TO TEASE OUT THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND UNEXPECTED DIALOGUES ON THE COMPLEXITIES OF REPRESENTATION AS BOTH A RIGHT AND BURDEN.

Centering artists of color as well as queer, immigrant, disabled, and undocumented artists, Our whole, unruly selves featured over 90 works from the 1960s to the present, largely drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection. Demonstrating an alignment with philosopher and poet Fred Moten’s “consent not to be a single being,” the artists on view—including Laura Aguilar, Benny Andrews, Felipe Baeza, Rina Banerjee, Huma Bhabha, Woody De Othello, Carlee Fernandez, Genevieve Gaignard, Tim Hawkinson, Kenyatta

A.C. Hinkle, Oliver Lee Jackson, Steffani Jemison, Hayv Kahraman, Wardell Milan, Senga Nengudi, Kambui Olujimi, Christina Quarles, Miljohn Ruperto, Alison Saar, Aislinn Thomas, Axis Dance Company, and many others—insistently bring their whole selves, uncontainable

and irreducible. Each of their artworks embodies strategies for a complex figuration, highlighting forms of resistance, flexibility, openness, and an embrace of opacity.

The exhibition inspired an array of related programming. San Jose Jazz presented Boundless Spontaneity: Jazz Responses to Figurative Traditions, a four-part series of live music in the galleries that explored the rule-breaking and liberating potential of jazz. The Art Learning Lab SEE + BE SEEN offered a moment of pause and reflection in the exhibition. Visitors were invited to consider themes raised in the exhibition and to think about how they view themselves, how others view them, and what their ideal version of self might be. Art 101 participants experimented with digital illustration to make gathered portraits, and the San José Public Library’s Racial Equity Team developed reading lists of related books for children, teens, and adults.

Our whole, unruly selves is supported by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous contributions from the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, the Lipman Family Foundation, Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng, McManis Faulkner, Rita and Kent Norton, and Diane Jonte-Pace in memory of David Pace.

JEAN CONNER: COLLAGE

May 6, 2022 – September 25, 2022

ORGANIZED BY SJMA, JEAN CONNER: COLLAGE WAS THE ARTIST’S FIRST SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION. THIS EXHIBITION WAS MUCH OVERDUE FOR JEAN CONNER, WHO HAS CREATED SEDUCTIVE, CLEVER, AND HUMOROUS COLLAGES FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES.

SJMA was thrilled to share the San Francisco-based artist’s extraordinary and compelling collages that demonstrate her clever wit, keen eye, abundant curiosity, and

feminist spirit. The accompanying publication (published in December 2022) is also Conner’s first monograph and covers her seventy-year career.

The exhibition featured work from the 1950s to the present and included rarely seen materials from the Conner Family Trust, recent acquisitions by major public museums, and works from private collections. Arranged thematically, the exhibition highlighted Conner’s whimsical imagination and clever critiques of mass-media representations of women, war, the environment, and burgeoning new technologies. Primarily made from images cut out of large-format color magazines, Conner’s vivid, pictorial worlds feature playful

arrangements of animals, nature, religious symbolism, aquatic environments, food, women, dancers, and divers. Conner’s command of color, line, and form imparts an astounding seamlessness, merging discrete images into rule-bending and impossible realities.

Visitors were invited to experiment with collage at the interpretive station, Collaged Community.

Jean Conner: Collage is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous contributions from the Myra Reinhard Family Foundation, the Lipman Family Foundation, Doris and Alan Burgess, Diane Jonte-Pace in memory of David Pace, McManis Faulkner, Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng, Hosfelt Gallery, and Tad J. Freese and Brook Hartzell.

April 1 – April 30, 2022

Earth Month brought a great opportunity for SJMA to participate in A Cool Million (ACM), a Bay Areawide initiative for climate awareness led by artists. As part of this program to expand environmental justice programming and support the conservation of one million acres of land central to the California hydrological system, SJMA installed a banner of Hulda Guzmán’s Higüero (2020) on the Museum’s exterior. Guzmán renders a world in which children, adults, animals, plants, and invented creatures alike come together to dance, lounge, congregate, share secrets, and play—all colored and enriched by embracing nature and celebrated through the act of painting.

BETA SPACE: TREVOR PAGLEN

November 5, 2021 – October 29, 2023

BETA SPACE: TREVOR PAGLEN FEATURED THE ARTIST’S FIRST SOUND PIECE, A NEW PUBLIC COMMISSION TITLED THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (2021).

Installed in SJMA’s historic clocktower, it resounded into the streets of downtown San José on the hour from 8am to 8pm, as well as at sunrise, solar noon, and sunset.

The work was the seventh installation of the Museum’s ongoing “Beta Space” series, a commissioning program that offers artists opportunities to experiment with and exhibit new ideas, materials, and modes of working. There Will Come Soft Rains investigated the triangulation among sound, time, and truth.

Several times a day, Paglen’s sound piece emanated realtime temporal and environmental facts. Beginning with the current time and weather, a voice synthesizer read dynamically generated text from “official” data sets like satellite navigation systems, the UN critically endangered species list, and California Fire updates. Resonating through the streets, aural information recast the texture of the city for approximately 45 seconds. As Letha Ch’ien wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, Paglen’s installation “surprises us out of our solitary absorption into a strange communal experience.”

More than 1,700 people tuned in to hear Paglen discuss his work, along with artist Hito Steyerl, in a Creative Minds conversation livestreamed on October 12, 2021.

Beta Space: Trevor Paglen is supported by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous contributions from the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

HULDA GUZM Á N: HIG Ü ERO

A Cool Million was a project of Art + Climate Action, For Freedoms, and Art into Acres.

FIRST FRIDAY

SJMA OPENS ITS DOORS ON THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH FOR FREE EVENINGS THAT CELEBRATE NEW EXHIBITIONS OR SHOWCASE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.

In the late summer and fall, the Circle of Palms was the site for three nights of CityDance San José. With live bands and a professional dance instructor, visitors tuned their skills, learned something new, or just showed off. In the spring, San Jose Jazz presented musical evenings in the Charlotte Wendell Education Center with free performances by the SJZ U19s, Kyle Hernandez, and Skyline Hot Club.

CityDance is presented by the City of San José Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs, in partnership with San José Museum of Art and El Cafecito, by Mezcal.

↖ Skyline Hot Club performs at First Friday with San Jose Jazz on April 1, 2022.

COMMUNITY DAY

COMMUNITY DAYS RETURNED TO IN PERSON PROGRAMMING IN FY2022, SUPPLEMENTED BY HYBRID, ONLINE OPTIONS TO ACCOMMODATE FAMILY PREFERENCES.

For the Día de los Muertos celebration, SJMA continued its long running tradition of collaborating with San José Multicultural Artists Guild, the Children’s Discovery Museum, the San José Public Library, and other partners. Live lion dancers returned to Plaza de Cesar Chavez for Lunar New Year, along with other cultural celebrations, and SJMA created several new art tutorials available on YouTube. The theme for Maker Day was sustainability; SJMA partnered with Raft and the Office of Cultural Affairs ambassador Eric Hayslett to facilitate hands-on activities that reduced waste.

↑ Folklórico Nacional Mexicano Juvenil performs at Community Day: Día de Los Muertos on October 23, 2021.

DOCENT COUNCIL

After “Docenting While Distancing” training, SJMA's Docent Council returned onsite to provide daily public tours for more than 2200 visitors in FY2022.

ACTIVE

Daniela Barone

Jamie Chambliss

Marleen Chan

Francine Craven

Lisa Dearborn

Peter Fargo

Kathy Gibson

Salome Gut

Kim Harris

ASSOCIATE

Betty Faultner

Barbara Hansen

Sharlyn Heron

Karen Huitric

Lys House

Suzette Mahr

Shauna Mika

Ursula Shultz

Bob Strain

Alayne Yellum

Tricia Hill

Michaela Landrok

Erin Lu

Geraldine

Martinez-Magarelli

Lenore Maynard

Astrid Mazin

Peggy Yep Morrow

Tammy Nickel

Miho Poelman

Leah Read

Monica

Rojano-Moguel

Elizabeth Ryono

Elizabeth Seiden

Zartashia Shah

Jeanne Torre

Lotte Van De Walle

SUSTAINING

Ursula M. Anderson

Lauren Buchholz

Doris Burgess

Sandra Churchill

Clarice Dent

Dolores Fajardo

Lorraine Fitch

Cathleen Fortune

Linda Foster

Lisa Gallo

ON LEAVE

Michael Arellano

Kenna French

Lucy Lu

Lisa Lubliner

Ann Marie Mix

Evelyn Neely

Susanne Offensend

Joyce Oyama

Hal Turk

Rick Vierhus

Maryana Petrenko

Pirjo Polari-Khan

Ellen Tafeen

STRATEGIC PLAN + VALUES

THROUGHOUT FY2022 SJMA’S STAFF AND BOARD WORKED ON A NEW STRATEGIC PLAN AND MISSION STATEMENT TO GUIDE THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

Mission: The San José Museum of Art nurtures empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art.

The revised 5-year plan retains the overarching objective identified in 2018, “to become a borderless museum” but updates objectives and tactics. Priorities are 1) to grow audience by providing multiple ways of engaging, on/offsite and digitally; 2) to become a gathering space for diverse communities by sharing space, prioritizing accessibility, and centering education 3) to redefine SJMA through an equity lens; 4) to grow the operating budget commensurate with the stature of San José and the Silicon Valley.

Adopted during FY2022, SJMA’s Core Values are the guiding principles that underpin the Museum’s ongoing efforts to integrate and deepen an equity practice—both internally and externally. Through a cross-departmental and collaborative approach, supported by the Museum’s Equity Task Force, SJMA’s values were generated and agreed upon by staff and approved by the Board. The continuous activation of our core values throughout everyday processes and projects will result in lasting change and a more equitable internal culture that radiates outward. SJMA values belonging, community relevance, empathy, learning, contributing, collaborating, creativity, centering on artists, equity.

Nurturing a sense of belonging and welcome for all members of our diverse community

Making community relevance a core component of exhibition and programming decisions

Deliberate listening, learning, and sharing

Fostering empathetic human connections

Contributing

Inspiring creativity, visionary inquiry, and critical thinking

Ensuring a collaborative and equitable internal culture

Lifting up historically underrepresented voices and stories

Leading with and centering on artists' unique perspectives and practices

JEAN CONNER CATALOG

Newly published by the San José Museum of Art as an accompaniment to her first solo museum exhibition, Jean Conner: Collage is the artist’s first monograph and a celebration of her extraordinary and fanciful collages. The catalog features lush color reproductions of Conner’s collages, many previously unpublished, an illustrated biography with photographs of the artist throughout her life, and new scholarship on her work.

↑ Jean Conner: Collage catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition. Available at store.sjmusart.org

BORDERLESS MUSEUM

SJMA STRIVES TO BECOME A BORDERLESS MUSEUM, ONE THAT IS ESSENTIAL TO CREATIVE LIFE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITIES OF SAN JOSÉ AND SILICON VALLEY.

By partnering with local arts organizations and nonprofits, SJMA introduces experiences and conversations that go beyond the Museum’s on-site offerings, ensuring multiple entry points to the San José Museum of Art.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Children's Discovery Museum

City of San José, Office of Cultural Affairs

City of San José, Office of Racial Equity

Chopsticks Alley Art

City Lights Theater Company

CityDance, Office of Cultural Affairs and Valley Transportation Authority

Folklórico Nacional Mexicano Juvenil

Geography of the Arts, San José State University's College of Humanities and the Arts, in partnership with SJPL

KCC Urisawe at Plaza de Cesar Chavez

Maker [Space] Ship by SJPL

Mosaic America

New Ballet

RAFT San Jose

Rising Phoenix Lion Dance Association

San Jose Jazz

San Jose Public Library (SJPL)

San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild

Silicon Valley Pride

Teatro Visión

AWARD WINNING VIDEO

SJMA CREATED THE VIDEO "ARTIST RINA BANERJEE IN HER STUDIO" IN HONOR OF THE ARTIST FOR SJMA'S 2021 GALA + AUCTION.

The video won a bronze Addy Award from the American Advertising Awards competition, which recognizes and rewards the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising, attracting more than 40,000 entries every year. The video also won a silver Telly award, a widely known and highly respected national and international competition that received over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents.

↑ Still from "Artist Rina Banerjee in Her Studio."

RASHAAD NEWSOME'S BUILD OR DESTROY

FOR THE FIRST TIME, SJMA COMMISSIONED AN NFT, A VIDEO WORK BY RASHAAD NEWSOME, WHICH PREMIERED DURING THE 2021 GALA + AUCTION.

Newsome is a multimedia artist whose work takes inspiration from Black and Queer culture. Collage is both a technique and conceptual framework for the artist whose wide-ranging practice includes sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance. The new work, Build or Destroy (2021), brought to life the baroquely adorned female figure in Newsome’s 2016 collage 1st Place. Animating the bedazzled and blazing body, the artist explores ideas around identity construction—particularly Black trans femme identity—and how performance might offer space for its creation and detonation. Build or Destroy premiered at the online Gala + Auction broadcast and was available online for a limited time following the event.

↑ Rashaad Newsome, courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman.

↗ Rashaad Newsome, Build or Destroy, (video still), 2021. Video with sound, 5:27 minutes. Commissioned by San José Museum of Art for the 2021 Gala + Auction.

HIGHLIGHTS

ABOUT JEAN CONNER

• 7 Bay Area art exhibitions not to miss this spring, San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2022

• Late Career Female Artists Receiving Recognition Across America, Forbes, April 2, 2022

• At 88, a San Francisco artist finally gets her first solo museum exhibition, San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 2022

ABOUT OUR WHOLE, UNRULY SELVES

• Bay Area art spaces back on feet for fall, focusing on the traditionally underrepresented, San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 2021

ABOUT HITO STEYERL

• Hito Steyerl’s Zero-Sum Universe, SquareCylinder, September 14, 2021

ABOUT BREAK + BLEED

• Best of 2021, SquareCylinder, December 21, 2021

ABOUT TREVOR PAGLEN

• Bay Area Visual Art Exhibitions Not to Miss this Fall, KQED, August 31, 2021

• A Sound Piece Updates San José With Big Picture Data Streams, KQED, August 31, 2021

• Review: Art installation in San Jose sounds off on the ‘weirding of truth’ each day at noon, San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 2021

• Yes, the San José Museum of Art clock tower is talking to you, The Mercury News, December 4, 2021

GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE AAPI MONTH

SJMA WAS ONE OF 48 ORGANIZATIONS THAT PARTNERED WITH GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE TO CELEBRATE ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH IN MAY 2022.

SJMA curated online selections focused on four AAPI artists: Rina Banerjee, Ashotosh Bhardwaj, Tiffany Chung, and Dinh Q. Lê.

LET'S LOOK AT ART

LET’S LOOK AT ART, SJMA’S VOLUNTEER-LED PROGRAM THAT BRINGS FREE ART HISTORY LESSONS INTO SCHOOLS, CELEBRATED ITS FIFTIETH YEAR OF SERVICE IN FY2022.

While providing mostly virtual experiences due to the lingering safety precautions of the pandemic, LLAA served more than 12,000 students and brought its lifetime total of schools served to 407 schools in 41 districts. Volunteers also developed new Art in the Dark presentations for grades 6–12, including one for Special Day Class (SDC) students.

↑ Let's Look at Art celebrates their 50th Anniversary.

LET'S LOOK AT ART DOCENTS

ACTIVE

Kathi Cambiano

Bing Chen

Giada Conte

Susan Curtin

Nushelle de Silva

Lisa Dearborn

Debbie Earl

Harriet Erbes

Robin Feinman-Marino

Toby Fernald

Jody Foster

Cathy Fraser

Suman Ganapathy

Karen Harrington

Beth Herner

SUSTAINING

Julie Anderson

Marilyn August

Carol Bower

Eve Brasfield

Christy Cali

Kathleen Callan

Char Devich

Connie Dimmitt

Nancy Dunne

Norma Faulkner

Lorrie Fitch

Tricia Hill

Julia Jacobson

Colleen Jansen

Tatiana Kalinina

Teja Karra

Gail Kefauver

Jean Kellett

Linda Klein

Marcia Klein

Anar Kotadia

Karen Lantz

Andrea Lee

Laurel Lee

Gerri Finkelstein Lurya

Laurie Malone

Tony Misch

Barb Nelson

Linda Notario

Mary Perry

Louise Persson

Maria Quillard

Pamela Ryalls-Boyd

Liana Salikhova

Elizabeth Seiden

Liz Summerhayes

Sherry Tsai

Lotte van de Walle

Martha Weber

Linda Gallo

Lisa Gallo

Linda Goldberg

Joan Gorham

Barbara Hansen

Julia Hartman

Dave Himmelblau

Carole Kilik

Loretta Lopez

Chuck Lucchesi

Loyce Mandella

Nancy Mathews

Susan McGowan

Ellen Mclnnis

Rosemarie Mirkin

Linda Mitchell

Lydia Moret

Linda Pfeiffer

Amy Rapport

Carrie Ross

Joan Sharrock

Diana Taylor

Nancy Wylde

Christine Zheng

RESIDENCIES

SJMA’S SOWING CREATIVITY PROGRAM BRINGS PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS INTO THE CLASSROOM TO LEAD STUDENTS IN CHALLENGING AND ENGAGING HANDS-ON ART ACTIVITIES OVER MULTI-WEEK RESIDENCIES, INCORPORATING MATH, SCIENCE, AND ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES.

This year, Sowing Creativity expanded into after school programs and whole school residencies, both of which will continue into FY2023. With 2-Part Art taught both virtually and in-person, educators received compliments from classroom teachers for adherence to high safety and health standards.

KIDS’ SUMMER ART CAMP

SJMA SAFELY RETURNED TO ONSITE CAMPS, WITH FIVE SOLD-OUT WEEKS WITH NO COVID-19 CASES.

To accommodate immunocompromised campers and parent preferences, SJMA offered one week of virtual camp. Four unique weeks of teen programming covered digital illustration, printmaking, art and activism, and 3D sculpture. Campers learned about museum jobs through weekly presentations by the curators and installation team and applied these lessons to create their end-of-camp exhibitions, widely attended by parents and caregivers. Thanks to a grant from the City of San José's Safe Summer Initiatives program, SJMA increased efforts to provide free tuition for campers, awarding twenty-one scholarships

↑ Residency at Washington Elementary, 2022.

↑ Teacher Jackelin Solorio with students at Kids" Summer camp, which resumed to in person classes in July 2022.

DR. JERRY HIURA AWARD

THE DR. JERRY HIURA NEXT GEN VISUAL ARTIST AWARD HONORS

DR. JERRY’S PASSIONS THROUGH A SCHOLARSHIP THAT CELEBRATES YOUNG VISIONARY ARTISTS AND SUPPORTS THEIR ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND GOALS AS THEY PURSUE HIGHER EDUCATION.

This year’s winner, Nishanth Joshi, was selected from 50 entries by students working in various media, from watercolor and gouache, to colored pencil, to photography, and even sculpture.

ABOUT DR. JERRY

Dr. Jerry Hiura was a passionate advocate for multi-cultural arts, serving with San José's Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Silicon Valley, and Chopsticks

Alley Art. He co-founded the Contemporary Asian Theater Scene and the Japantown Community Congress of San José; established the Three Japantown Landmarks Public Arts projects and Ikoinoba; and was appointed in 2002 by Governor Gray Davis to the California State Arts Council. Dr. Jerry and his wife, fellow Trustee Lucia Cha, joined the SJMA Board of Trustees in 2017. Dr. Jerry explored his creative endeavors in expressive forms—through painting, drawing, and writing poetry.

↖ 2022 1st Place Winner, A Unified World by Nishanth Joshi.

SCULPTURES

TO ACTIVATE OUR UNDER-UTILIZED OUTDOOR SCULPTURE COURTS, SJMA ACQUIRED TWO NEW MAJOR OUTDOOR SCULPTURES THAT WILL GO ON LONG-TERM VIEW.

Huma Bhabha’s Receiver (2019) towers over eight feet tall, a phantasmal bronze giant cast from Styrofoam and cork. For 30 years this internationally recognized artist has been creating hybrid beings that straddle time and material, suggesting relics from a future archeological site or survivors of a desolate alien past. This towering figure demonstrates Bhabha’s unique blend of speculative fiction—drawn from European and Buddhist art histories, sci-fi, and low budget horror films—and reflects global experiences of war and displacement, dignity and resilience.

Kelly Akashi’s Cultivator (2022), which premiered in advance of her major exhibition Formations, is a monumental ten-foot bronze hand that cradles glass blown flowers, situated in a planter of live plants. The work speaks to fostering relationships among living beings through cultivation and care—values that SJMA aims to practice.

SJMA staff and volunteers play an active role in caring for the living plants, an enduring reminder of our dedication to encouraging growth and life.

KELLY AKASHI

↖ Previous spread Cultivator, 2022

Bronze, handblown glass, stainless steel, concrete, native plants

80 × 72 × 48 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by Kimberly and Patrick Lin 2022.10

HUMA BHABHA

↗ Receiver, 2019

Bronze and paint

98 ¾ × 18 × 25 inches

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation 2022.06

© Kelly Akashi. Courtesy of the Artist, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

ACQUISITIONS

FY2022 WAS AN AMBITIOUS YEAR FOR BUILDING SJMA’S COLLECTION, THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF THOSE WHO GIFTED WORKS OF ART AS WELL AS DONORS WHO CONTRIBUTED FUNDS FOR PURCHASE.

The Museum acquired 41 works representing diverse artists that connect to the community, including many works that thematically address current cultural, political, and social issues.

MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ

Crowd No. 2, 1988

Burlap and resin

66 7 8 × 19 ½ × 11 ¾ inches

Gift of Abigail Melamed

2021.15

SHIVA AHMADI

Ascend, 2017

Single-channel animation

Running time: 6 minutes, 48 seconds

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Council of 100

2022.05

KELLY AKASHI

Cultivator, 2022

Bronze, handblown glass, stainless steel, concrete, native plants

80 × 72 × 48 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by Kimberly and Patrick Lin

2022.10

© Kelly Akashi. Courtesy of the Artist, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

CANDIDA ALVAREZ

↖ It was so dark, I could see the stars, 2019 Acrylic on linen

84 × 72 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Lipman Acquisitions Fund

2021.11

Courtesy of the Artist and GAVLAK Gallery Los Angeles | Palm Beach.

Photo by Ed Mumford.

FELIPE BAEZA

Abstracted to the point of illegibility, 2021

Ink, watercolor, acrylic, graphite, and cut paper collage on panel 5 × 7 inches

Gift of a private collection 2021.07

↑ Emerging in difference, 2022

Ink, graphite, glitter, interference powder, twine, acrylic and cut paper collage on paper

78 ¾ × 51 ½ inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by Kimberly and Patrick Lin, Geraldine and Marco Magarelli, and Yvonne and Mike Nevens

2022.11

© Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London.

HUMA BHABHA

Receiver, 2019

Bronze and paint

98 ¾ × 18 × 25 inches

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation 2022.06

JEAN CONNER

↑ WHAT?, 1958

Cut and pasted printed paper 8 × 9 1 8 inches

Gift of a private collection 2022.08

© Conner Family Trust, San Francisco, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

SAM DURANT

Proposal #2 for Monument at Altamont Raceway, Tracy, CA, 2003 Polyurethane foam, acrylic wood, ABS pipe, audio system, and hardware 28 × 96 × 71 inches

Gift of Susan and James Phillips 2021.13

ALA EBTEKAR

Thirty-six Views of the Moon, 2022

Cyanotypes on found book pages 94 × 132 inches

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation 2022.09

RAFA ESPARZA

↑ Yosi con Abuela, 2021

Acrylic on adobe

72 × 57 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisitions Committee

2021.12

Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council. Photo: Johnna Arnold.

NICOLE PHUNGRASAMEE FEIN

1072414, 2014

Watercolor on paper

22 1⁄8 × 22 1 8 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth and Byron Ryono

2022.12

TOM FRIEDMAN

Fuck It, 2002

Construction paper, Styrofoam, paint, wooden dowels, hair, collage

22 × 108 × 72 inches

Gift of Susan and James Phillips

2021.14

CHIE FUEKI

Nikko, 2018

Acrylic, ink, and colored pencil on mulberry paper on wood

72 × 72 inches

Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds, 2021

2021.06

DAVID HUFFMAN

→ AHMAUD, 2021

Acrylic, oil, spray paint, color pencil, glitter, and collage on panel

96 × 99 ½ inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Lipman Acquisitions Fund

2022.03

Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York. Photo: Frances Baker

PAUL LANDACRE

Wood engravings on paper

Gifts of Susanne and Fritz Offensend

Sand Sweep – Point Magu, ca. 1930

8 3⁄8 × 10 7 8 inches

2021.09.01

2006 El Moran, 1932

10 ¼ × 7 ¾ inches

2021.09.02

Laguna Cove, 1935

7 3⁄8 × 10 5⁄8 inches

2021.09.03

Lot Clearing – Los Angeles, 1935

16 ¼ × 10 ½ inches

2021.09.04

Richard the Opossum, 1936

7 ¼ × 10 5⁄8 inches

2021.09.05

Growing Corn, 1938

10

½ × 7 ¼ inches

2021.09.06

DINH

Winter, 1938

7 ¼ × 10 ½ inches

2021.09.07

Black-headed Grosbeak, 1939

8 11 16 × 12 ¼ inches

2021.09.08

Black Stallion, 1940

8 3 8 × 10 7 8 inches

2021.09.09

Q. LÊ

Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1991

Chromogenic print and linen tape

46 × 84 inches

Gift of Eileen Harris Norton

2021.16

HUNG LIU

Valentine’s Day, 2018

Oil on canvas

80 × 80 inches

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation, in memory of Hung Liu. 2021.05.01

TONY MAY

…Neither Is This, 1994

Mixed media on metal

10 ¾ × 43 ¾ × 1 inches

Gift of Peter Gordon

2021.10

CATHERINE OPIE

Untitled, from the series

“In and Around Home,” 2005

Chromogenic print

22 × 26 inches

Gift of Eileen Harris Norton

2021.17

EAMON ORE-GIRON

Infinite Regress CXCII, 2022

Mineral paint and Flashe on linen

72 × 72 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Lipman Acquisitions Fund

2022.13

JOHN O’REILLY

Gifts of James Tellin, Worcester, MA, and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bacchians, 1988/2022

Polaroid montage

3 ¾ × 9 3⁄8 inches

2021.08.01

Double in Marble, 1988

Polaroid montage

3 ¾ × 8 ¼ inches

2021.08.02

A Classic Projection, 1989

Polaroid montage

3 ¾ × 8 5⁄8 inches

2021.08.03

Nocturne Series #12, 2007

Polaroid montage

7 × 10 7⁄8 inches

2021.08.04

Artist’s Dream, 2010

Paper montage

2021.08.05

PATRICIA PICCININI

Cleaner, 2019

Fiberglass, auto paint, silicone, and human hair

11 ¾ × 27 ½ × 35 3⁄8 inches

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation in honor of the 25th anniversary of Hosfelt Gallery

2022.02

LILIANA PORTER

↑ Actualidades/Breaking News, 2016

Digital video with sound

Running time: 22 minutes, 46 seconds

Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Hosfelt Gallery

2022.01

Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery.

© Liliana Porter.

ANALIA SABAN

Motherboard #8, 2020

Ink on computer circuit board

16 ½ × 13 × 2 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

2022.04

ALYSON SHOTZ

Gifts of the Lipman Family Foundation

Falling Fold (Blue), 2018

Wet-spun linen thread and pins on panel 49 × 73 inches

2021.05.02

Falling Fold #3 (Yellow), 2018

Wet-spun linen thread and pins on panel 49 × 73 inches

2021.05.03

ROSE B. SIMPSON

Sun I, 2019

Ceramic, glaze, and string

32 × 8 × 6 inches

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation  2021.18

LIVIEN YIN

After Washerwoman’s Lagoon, 2021

Acrylic on cotton canvas

84 × 60 inches

Gift of Micki Meng

2022.07

ARTPICK

EVERY YEAR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF 100 AND DIRECTOR'S COUNCIL PARTICIPATE IN THE ANNUAL PURCHASE OF ART FOR THE MUSEUM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION AT THE C100 ARTPICK.

On April 13, 2022, C100 and Director's Council members voted to acquire Shiva Ahmadi's Ascend (2017),—SJMA's first work by Ahmadi and a timely piece that deals with the contemporary global refugee crisis and political tensions around migration.

ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE

Kimberly Lin, chair

Daniela Barone

J. Michael Bewley

Elaine Cardinale

Lys House

Lorri Kershner

Wanda Kownacki

Christina Linden

Peter Lipman

Geraldine Magarelli

Suzette Mahr

Ranu Mukherjee

Yvonne Nevens

Elizabeth Ryono

Marsha Witkin

SHIVA AHMADI

↑ Ascend, 2017

Single-channel animation

Running time: 6 minutes, 48 seconds

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Council of 100 2022.05

GALA + AUCTION

September 18, 2021 IN HONOR OF PATRONS

MARY MOCAS AND MARV TSEU AND ARTIST RINA BANERJEE

On September 18, 2021, Doris and Alan Burgess, Toby and Barry Fernald, Cheryl and Bruce Kiddoo, Beverly and Peter Lipman, Ann Marie Mix, and Yvonne and Mike Nevens hosted SJMA's second-ever virtual gala. Chaired by Tammy Kiely in memory of Hung Liu, the event was free to the public and raised critical funds for the Museum’s essential operations, exhibitions, and education programs. Ten percent of auction proceeds went to the Asian Pacific Fund (asianpacificfund.org). The Gala program was produced in partnership with CreaTV San José and San José State University’s JMC TV Studio and School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Live and silent auctions included new works by artists including Rina Banerjee and Ranu Mukherjee, as well as works by Petra Cortright, Hung Liu, Louise Nevelson, Trevor Paglen, Leo Valledor, and others.

↖ Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu at their Gala Watch Party.

MEMBERS + SUPPORTERS EVENTS

SJMA’S LOYAL MEMBERS AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS

HELP MAKE THE MUSEUM’S PROGRAMS POSSIBLE

Members received insider previews of the exhibitions Beta Space: Trevor Paglen, Brett Weston, and Kelly Akashi: Formations from curators Kathryn Wade, Rory Padeken, and Lauren Schell Dickens. Artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle addressed members of the Council of 100 and Director's Council at their annual dinner.

C100 and Director’s Council members also enjoyed art-filled excursions to the East Bay and New York, and the Founders’ Society Celebration honored SJMA’s legacy donors. The Corporate Leadership Council hosted a networking event and panel discussing imposter syndrome in conjunction with the exhibition Our whole, unruly selves.

↗ Artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, keynote speaker at annual dinner for Council of 100 and Director's Council.

$500,000+

City of San José

$200,000 – $499,999

Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Lipman Family Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Yellow Chair Foundation

$100,000 – $199,999

Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese

Kimberly and Patrick Lin

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

$50,000 – $99,999

Applied Materials

Bank of America

First Tech Federal Credit Union

Goldman Sachs

Myra Reinhard Family Foundation

Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

$25,000 – $49,999

Adobe Doris and Alan Burgess

Lucia Cha

Glenda and Gary Dorchak

Toby and Barry Fernald

Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng

DONORS + MEMBERS

WE THANK OUR DONORS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT

July 2021–June 2022

Lorri Kershner

Cheryl and Bruce Kiddoo

Tammy and Tom Kiely

Wanda Kownacki

KPMG LLP

Sally Lucas

Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

McManis Faulkner

Lorna Meyer and Dennis Calas

Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu

National Endowment for the Arts

Evelyn and Rick Neely

Carol and Gerry Parker

Cornelia and Nathan Pendleton

$10,000 – $24,999

Boydston Foundation

Elaine Cardinale

Casey and Jack Carsten

Priya Chandrasekar and Chandra Gnanasambandam

Amy and Pankaj Chowdhry

Melanie and Peter Cross

Peggy and Yogen Dalal

Leela De Souza and Peter Bransten

Donna Dubinsky and Leonard Shustek

Anneke and David Dury

Farrington Historical Foundation

FABIcash

Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation

Google

The Hammer 1993 Revocable Trust

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Claudia Worthington Hess

Pamela and David Hornik

Hosfelt Gallery

Diane Jonte-Pace

Koret Foundation

Elena Lebedeva and Alvin W. Smith

Worth and Andy Ludwick

Deedee McMurtry

Ann Marie Mix

Marge and Ken Nissly

Rita and Kent Norton

Alyce and Mike Parsons

Elizabeth and Byron Ryono

Rachel and Simon Segars

Hildy Shandell

Timi and John Sobrato

SVCreates

Swenson Foundation

Roselyne C. Swig

Tech CU

Shruti and Pawan Tewari

Dr. Jan N. Thompson and Paul Goldstein

Susan and Sanjay Vaswani

Daphne and Stuart Wells

Sara Wigh and Jim McManis

Marsha and Jon Witkin

Gayla and Walt Wood

$2,500 – $9,999

Anonymous

Ariko Family Foundation

The Armstrong Family Charitable Foundation

Association of Art Museum Directors

Jane Bark and Thomas Matson

Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson

Susan Casentini and Kyle Milligan

Cisco

George Crow in honor of Susan Crow

eBay

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Economy and Mr. David M. Wah

Maureen Ellenberg

Eileen and Alfred Fernandes

Martin Fox and John Green

Cathy Grape

Susan Hartt

Heritage Bank of Commerce

Lys and Lee House

Leslie Barton Littlejohn and Will Littlejohn

Wendy and Mike Kirst

Robin Rosa Laub

Suzette Mahr

Katie Martin and David Laurits

Shauna Mika and Rick Callison

Nicki and Pete Moffat

J.P. Morgan

Gillian and Thomas Moran

The Morrison & Foerster Foundation

Therese Mrozek and Tom Bevilacqua

Sarah and Denny North

Jane and John Olin

Republic Services

Dennis Rohan

Stephan Serfontein

Barbara Shapiro and Mark Lewis

Eileen Silver

SJMA Docent Council

Alexandra and Murphy Stein

Robert Strain

Jack Stuppin

Kimberlee Swig

Sandy Swirsky and Lyle Merithew

Elle Travers and J. Michael Bewley

Sonya Moore-Wells and David Wells

Roger Wery

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati

$1,000 – $2,499

Nadia and Faisal Ahmad

Larry Arzie and David Stonesifer

Iris Berke

The Bohannon Foundation

Trish Bransten

Chizen Family Foundation

Lorraine and Noah Cohen

Vivian G. Crummey Benevolent Trust

Susan and Paul Curtin

Kathleen Demetri and David Fowler

Celia and Jim Dudley

DONORS TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

Acquisitions Committee

American Academy of Arts and Letters; Hassam Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds

Anonymous

Council of 100

Director's Council

Peter Gordon

Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese

Hosfelt Gallery

Thomas Lavin

Kimberly and Patrick Lin

Lipman Family Foundation

Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

Abigail Melamed

Micki Meng

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

Eileen Harris Norton

Susanne and Fritz Offensend

Susan and James Phillips

Elizabeth and Byron Ryono

James Tellin, Worcester, MA

Susan and James Dyer

Francesca Eastman and Edward Goodstein

John S. Ettelson Fund

in honor of Charlotte Wendel

Jacquie and Bill Faulkner

Mary and Thomas Field

Jeanne and Frank Fischer

Barbara and Martin Fishman

Roxanne Fleming and David Soward

Marilyn and Bob Garibaldi

Rochelle and Bernard Greenfield

Bradley Guzules

Elizabeth Hoffman and Morrie Druzin

Gloria and Stanley Hoo

Jean Hu

Karen and Roger Huitric

Michele Kelly-Jones and Bill Jones

Jeff Kelley

Kieve Foundation

Kay Knox, PhD

Anar and Shiraz Kotadia

Kathryn and Robert S. Lindo

Shelley Mahr

Anne Manley and Michael G. Arellano

Lenore and Denis Maynard

William McGee

Rosemarie and Barry Mirkin

Mary Murphy and Mark Stevens

Rosemarie and Robert Muzio

Mohamed Noah

Joy and Stuart Oberman

Ann Walls Olmsted

David R. Packard and Margaret B. Castor

Karla Pfeil and Peter Fargo

Karen Schaffer and Michael Ward

Kate Schuelke

Jessica Silverman and Sarah Thornton

Eta and Sass Somekh

Carmen and Larry Stone

Taube Family Foundation

Wayne Thiebaud*

Maja Thomas and S. Sayre Batton

Judith and Allan Thompson

Patricia Unterman and Tim Savinar

Barbara and Gary Vandeweghe

Paul Vlasveld

Wanda Waldera

Frederica Wolfe

Mark Young

$300 – $999

Rehana Abbas

Consuelo Bantillo

Kristin and Christopher Bertrand

Susan Bickford

Leon Bonner and Redge Meixner

Joan Bose

Rebecca and Matthew Bright

Margaret Brown

Lauri and David Carey

Elaine Chin and Jerry Dyer

Dan Christman

Libby and Paul Conrado

Helen Conway

Donna Crabb and Gustav Laub, III

Laura and Eric Darnell

Ellen and Dave De Simone

Marilyn and Frank Dorsa

Frances Douglas

Jane and David Duperrault

Eugene Eldridge

Sally and Bob Erickson

Mary Falkar

Ruth and Sean Fallon

Georgiana and John Flaherty

Teresa and Allen Fleishman

Marilyn Fogel and Dr. Bruce Fogel

Janice Fox

Tracy Freedman and Nick Robins

Sally and Tom Freese

Kathryn Gallant

Mary Jo Garrett

Denise Giacomini and Carol Tanton

Kathy and Stephen Gibson

Lucia Albino Gilbert and John Gilbert

Raquel Gonzalez

Joan and Jack Gorham

Michael Grant

Jeffrey Gunn

Barbara and Ronald Hansen

Carol Harell

Kim Harris and Bennet Marks

Megan Hayes and Reed Zars

Sky and Jerry Hill

Charles Himmelblau

Trudy and Dan Hirschfeld

Michael Hochberg

Deborah Irmas

Shannon Jackson

Alyce and Steve Kaplan

Betty and James Kasson

Rose and Tom Kausek

Katherine Mason

Charlie McCollum

Janet Melamed

Virginia Montgomery

Antje and Paul Newhagen

Deborah D. and Henry F. Norberg

Jeannie and Arthur Pedroza

Councilmember Raul Peralez

Mary Piasecki

Carol and Richard Pickard

Tammy Pressman

Leah and Charles Read

Raj-Ann Rekhi Gill and Pavan Singh Gill

Jean and Henry Richards

Beryl Rodenbaugh

Judy Rookstool and Bob Leininger

Marianne and Carl Salas

Edward Schreiner

Jan Schwartz and Robert Baden

David Shapiro

Joanne and Lee Shombert

Charity Silkebakken

Karyn Sinunu-Towery and James Towery

Ruth and Alfred Sporer

Leanne and George Stanley

Marsha and Maurice Stevenson

Daniel and Derek Tam

Jeanne Torre

Claire Tsai

United Way of the Bay Area

Maarit and Jonathan Visbal

Geri Weimers

Suzanne Wittrig and Alfonso Banuelos

Rebecca Wolf

Martine Yingling and Ed Klofas

John Zarobell

Robert Waligore

* deceased

IN-KIND DONORS

10th Street Distillery

21c Museum Hotels

Nadia and Faisal Ahmad

Altman Siegel

Amici Cellars

Anglim/Trimble

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Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Catharine Clark Gallery

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Susan and Paul Curtin

Darioush Winery

Glenda and Gary Dorchak

Toby and Barry Fernald

Furbershaworks

Green Standards

Jane Grimm

Brian Gross Fine Art

Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese

Hosfelt Gallery

Lys House

Connie Huang

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Kathryn Kennedy Winery

Tammy and Tom Kiely

Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

Suzette Mahr

Lenore and Denis Maynard, Encroachment Wines

Anthony Meier Fine Arts

Monique Meloche Gallery

Memento Mori Winery

Robert Minervini

Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

Gallery Wendi Norris

Pace Gallery

Paulson Fontaine Press

Jessica Silverman

Simcor, LLC

SJMA Docent Council

Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Total Wine & More, the official wine sponsor of SJMA

Turner Carroll Gallery

University Art

Vineyard 29

FOUNDERS’ SOCIETY

Bequests and planned giving Anonymous

Doris and Alan Burgess

Ron Casentini

The Marion Sarah Cilker* Administrative Trust

Rosa and Werner Cohn*

Caroline Crummey*

Vivian Crummey*

Faith C. and Paul L. Davies*

Glenda and Gary Dorchak

John Ettelson* in honor of Charlotte Wendel

Dixon* and Barbara Farley

Toby and Barry Fernald

Tad Freese

Zelda Glaze*

Susan and Philip Hammer*

Karita and Paul Hummer*

Michele Kelly-Jones and William Jones

Suzette Mahr

Chris Mengarelli and Dale Elliott

Ruth Mirassou*

Evelyn and Rick Neely

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

Deborah D. and Henry F. Norberg

Ena Weisskopf Passarini*

Frederick and Marcella Sherman* Living Trust

Marcia* and Howard Summers

Dr. Jan Newstrom Thompson and Paul Goldstein

Nathalie and Gaurav Verma

Larene Wambsganss*

Daphne and Stuart Wells

Elizabeth and Bobby Yount

William Zoller*

*deceased

Hung Liu, beloved artist and friend to SJMA, passed away in August 2021.

A pillar of the Bay Area arts community and an internationally renowned artist, Liu touched the lives of everyone she met through her warmth, grace, and generosity. She exuded light, laughter, and positivity. To meet her once was to make a friend forever.

In her powerful and pathbreaking artworks, Liu championed the lives and experiences of the disenfranchised and the dispossessed. For over three decades, she bore witness to the tribulations of everyday people, past and present, and their hidden stories of social injustice in lush and remarkable paintings based on historical black and white photographs from China and, most recently, Great Depression–era images taken by Dorothea Lange. Through the process of reimagining these photographs in color, Liu uncovered the cultural and personal narratives that are fixed, but often concealed, in the photographic instant. Her freehand washes and drips added a lens of subjectivity to documentary images, simultaneously bringing the past to life and calling attention to the fallibility of history.

↑ Hung Liu as the artist honoree at SJMA's 2018 Gala + Auction.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION

STAFF

Viridiana Alcaraz Alvarez, lead museum experience representative

Anamarie Alongi, registrar

Saoirse Alesandro, gallery teacher [through September 2022]

Shani Anderson, art installation crew member

Gemma Armas, manager of retail operations [as of November 2021]

Emilio Banuelos, senior studio artist educator

S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director

Daniel Becker, associate exhibition designer

Kristin Bertrand, chief philanthropy officer

Roan Bontempo, gallery teacher

Jeff Bordona, director of education

Randy Bricco, facilities manager

Greg Brown, science curriculum consultant

Kathleen Backus, senior philanthropy officer [as of July 2021]

Matilda Bliss, senior gallery teacher [as of March 2022]

Isabel Contreras, gallery teacher [as of November 2021 and through January 18, 2022]

Margaret Kathryn Curtin, gallery teacher [through February 2022]

Bridgit Danner, lead museum experience representative [as of March 2022 and through May 2022]

Aquiles de la Torre, graphic design and website manager

Nathaniel Decena, museum store sales associate

Daphne Deitchman, marketing and membership coordinator [through October 2021]

Lauren Schell Dickens, senior curator

Kyle Dimick, gallery teacher [as of October 2021 and through October 2, 2021]

Pat Downward, director of retail operations [through November 2021]

Patricia Duany, collections manager and database administrator [as of March 2022]

Kyle Farbin, art installation crew member [through February 2022]

Brooke Finister, art installation crew member

Ali Fitch, administrator, director's office

Linda Franklin, senior gallery teacher

Nidhi Gandhi, curatorial and programs associate [as of January 2022]

Nestor Gutierrez, development and finance assistant [as of June 2022]

Cibella Gamma, lead museum experience representative [as of February 2022]

Amanda Helton, manager of digital strategy

Julie Hughes, lead museum experience representative [through July 2022]

Samantha Hull, executive assistant and board liaison [through July 2021]

Daniel Jimenez, manager of museum experience

Richard James Karson, director of design and operations

Leslie Kim, senior gallery teacher [as of October 2022]

Jessica Kwong, membership manager

Laura De Angelis, studio artist educator [as of November 2021]

Aaron Lee, preparator

Sarah Lerohl-Welch, museum experience representative [as of July 2022]

Isaac Lewin, art installation crew member

Frederick Liang, marketing and communications coordinator

Sherry Lu, intern [as of June 2022 and through September 2022]

Kevin MacDonald, development event manager

Madison Manzo, museum experience representative [as of July 2022]

Clarissa Marrufo, museum experience representative [as of October 2022]

Jordan Medina, lead museum experience representative

Mari Minjoe, lead museum experience representative

Isabella Montgomery, development and finance assistant [through July 2022]

Gabriela Myers-Lipton, gallery teacher [as of May 2022]

Khai Nguyen, accountant

Alisala Nunes, lead museum experience representative [as of March 2022]

Ricardo Oseguera, art installation crew member [through November 2021]

Rory Padeken, curator and manager of publications

Jody Parry, human resources director

Amanda Perry, museum store sales associate [August 2021 through May 22, 2022]

Amanda Pascual, lead museum experience representative [through July 2021]

Jiho Park, lead museum experience representative [through May 2022]

Bbora Park Nguyen, development and event manager [October 2021]

Samuel Stephen Price, studio artist educator [as of November 2021 and through November 2021]

Karen Rapp, deputy director

David Reisine, lead museum experience representative [as of August 2021]

Jazelle Rios, museum store sales associate [as of June 2022]

Ella Rochelle-Lawton, studio artist educator [as of May 2022]

Melanie Samay, director of marketing and communications

Natalie Sanchez, development and grants officer

Jhay Santos, human resources administrator [as of April 2022]

Amy Sargeant, manager of K–12 curriculum and instruction

Kelby Seller, lead museum experience representative [through February 2022]

Zartashia Shah, studio artist educator

Brian Spang, chief financial officer

Shannon Stearns, education program coordinator

Kaitlyn Smith, gallery teacher [as of November 2021]

Jack Stinson, art installation crew member [through February 2022]

Jackelin Solorio, gallery teacher [as of February 2022 and through July 2022]

Radhika Tandon, education program coordinator [through February 2022]

Jai Tanju, facilities and events assistant

Robin Treen, special projects coordinator

Paulina Vu, manager of museum experience [through November 2021]

Kathryn Wade, assistant curator [through November 2021]

Lydia Marie Watson, gallery teacher [as of May 2022]

Victoria Yao, lead museum experience representative [through January 2022]

Jeri Yasukawa, art installation crew member

Julian Zamora, gallery teacher

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

Glenda Dorchak, President

William Faulkner, Co-Vice President

Cornelia Pendleton, Co-Vice President + Secretary

Hildy Shandell, Treasurer

MEMBERS

Peter Cross

Susan Curtin, Delegate Trustee,

Let's Look at Art

Anneke Dury

Tad Freese

Chandra Gnanasambandam

Cole Harrell

Claudia W. Hess

Jeannine Jacobsen

Richard A. Karp

Lorri Kershner

Tammy Kiely

Wanda Kownacki

Kimberly Lin

Robert S. Lindo

Peter W. Lipman

Hung Liu*

Sarah North

Jeannie Pedroza, Delegate Trustee, Store Guild

Leah Read, Delegate Trustee, Docent Council

*In Memorium, 1948–2021

STAFF HIGHLIGHTS

STAFF AT SAN JOSÉ MUSEUM OF ART WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE A SAFE AND WELCOMING SPACE.

The Museum is composed of a dedicated team that greets visitors and members, curates thoughtful exhibitions that are carefully designed and installed, cares for the building, educates students and guests, plans events and conversations, develops ongoing relationships with members and donors, and promotes the ongoing programming.

TOTAL ATTENDANCE

↑ SJMA educators Zartashia Shah, Roan Bontempo, and Kayt Smith at Community day.

OPERATING SUPPORT

OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMS

AT THE SAN JOSÉ MUSEUM OF ART

ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM SJMA’s Board of Trustees

A Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of San José

The Lipman Family Foundation

The Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The Yellow Chair Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese

The SJMA Director’s Council

The SJMA Council of 100

The San José Museum of Art Endowment Fund established by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation

FY2022 Annual Report

July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022

Image Credits

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

110 South Market Street, San José, CA 95113 SanJoseMuseumofArt.org