teachers reached through SJMA’s education’s Sketchbook email newsletter
of Sowing Creativity students served are based in Title I schools and participated at no cost 47%
33%
3.8K
communit y members attended First Fridays
increase in the number of Title I students served raised at SJMA's 2023 Gal a + Auc tion 1M
educators visited with free admission 1. 3K
Let’s Look at Ar t awarded Creative Impact award at the City of San José’s 2023 Cornerstone of the Arts ceremony
19
Title I San José students awarded scholarships for Kids Summer Art Camp
Voted Best Museum in Silicon Valley 2023, Metro Sil icon Valley weekly readers ACQUIRED BY 18 Ar t works 13 Ar tists
SJMA is a 2023 Ac tive Member of Galler y Climate Coalition
5K
students were served through K-12 and college tours
students were served. 1.7K Title I students via its multi-week arts education program Sowing Creativity
26K public programs
5 0+ family passes redeemed 1.5K
Sowing Creativity students visited SJMA on a field trip 500+
SJMA educators participated in 3 community festivals
DIRECTOR'S LETTER
SAN JOSÉ MUSEUM OF ART LAUNCHED 2023–24 WITH THE EXCITING OPENING OF YOLANDA LÓPEZ: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, WELCOMING A HUGE TURNOUT FOR THE LEGENDARY BAY AREA ARTIST, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2021.
In her best-known work, Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe (1978), López challenged the origins of the Guadalupe iconography, transforming the symbol into one of revolutionary feminist optimism. The SJMA exhibition earned notable press coverage and was highlighted in the San Francisco Chronicle’s
Datebook and on KQED, Latina, local news station KRON4, LatinBayArea, and elsewhere. KQED’s Sarah Hotchkiss called the exhibition “a homecoming of sorts, bringing 50 of López’s iconic works together with material that speaks to the Bay Area’s impact on her life and career—and, in turn, her influence on the generations of artists in her orbit.”
SJMA’s total FY24 exhibition program advanced our commitment to women artists, social justice, and highlighting the richness of SJMA’s permanent collection. Community members—including thousands of students—experienced the breadth of the Museum’s holdings with our presentations of Evergreen: Art from the Collection, Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler, Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News, and Encode/Store/Retrieve. SJMA’s ongoing partnership with UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences, titled Visualizing Abolition, exploring the intersections of art, prisons, and justice, continued during FY24 with three multi-sited exhibitions: Sadie Barnette: Family Business; If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?; and Seeing through Stone.
are proud that attendance increased by 9% over the previous fiscal year and that we served 76,000 people and 26,000 students. Our dynamic public events deepened our work with community partners, including San Jose Jazz, New Ballet, Poetry Center San José, Mosaic America, and the City of San José, through successful programs such as CityDance. Numerous free programs brought first-time visitors to SJMA, including the thousands of people attending First Fridays, which included a new artistic residency titled First Friday: Hip Hop(e), Jazz & Storytelling featuring the San José–based Francis Experience Quartet and local poets.
served its one millionth student last year and continues to grow in the community. We are thankful for the national recognition SJMA received through re-accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums in November 2023. The national commission wrote in their report:
The success of these programs fulfilled a key priority—to present a year of high-quality exhibitions and programs. We
We kept our commitment to upholding SJMA’s strong reputation as a trusted educational resource throughout Santa Clara County via high-impact educational programs. Thanks to SJMA’s dedicated weekday hours for K–12 field trips and college group tours, we saw a 53% increase in participation; of the students served offsite, 47% were based in Title I Santa Clara County schools. SJMA’s free, classroom-based Let’s Look at Art program earned public recognition, receiving the Creative Impact Award at the City of San José’s 2023 Cornerstone of the Arts ceremony on October 19, 2023. The program, which is more than 50 years old,
“SJMA’s goal of being a ‘borderless’ museum is felt by everyone we spoke to and applies to many areas of their work. Welcoming the diversity of their community is at the forefront of SJMA’s work—notable in its use of multilingual labels across the museum, in the content of the exhibitions and collections, in the diversity of the staff and board, and in the abundance of educational programs and free admission for children.”
With gratitude to our members, donors, Board of Trustees, and the myriad foundations, corporations, and government agencies that support us, we thank you, our community, for your support.
S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director
↖ S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director with 2023 Gala Artist Honoree Enrique Chagoya.
YOLANDA LÓPEZ: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
July 7, 2023–October 29, 2023
YOLANDA LÓPEZ: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IS THE FIRST SOLO MUSEUM PRESENTATION OF THE WORK OF YOLANDA LÓPEZ (1942–2021), THE PATHBREAKING CHICANA ARTIST AND ACTIVIST WHOSE CAREER IN CALIFORNIA SPANNED FIVE DECADES.
The exhibition presents a compendium of López’s work from the 1970s and 1980s, when she created an influential body of paintings, drawings, and collages that investigate and reimagine representations of women within Chicano/a/x culture and society at large.
In her best-known work, Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe (1978), Yolanda López depicts herself wearing running shoes and the Virgin Mary’s star-patterned mantle, an emblem of defiant joy. One of the most iconic artworks to emerge from the Chicano Movement, López’s Portrait challenges the colonial and patriarchal origins of the Guadalupe iconography, transforming the symbol into one of radical feminist optimism. López frequently used herself, her mother, and her grandmother as models and “prototypes” in her conceptual drawing projects of the 1970s, bringing visibility to women of distinct roles and life stages through heroic, often largerthan-life portraits.
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and augmented at the San José Museum of Art with a new space focused on her role as a Bay Area activist and cultural worker, the exhibition brings together 50 works in oil pastel,
paint, charcoal, collage, and photography that highlight López’s use of portraiture as a strategy for visualizing collective empowerment. The exhibition examines López’s profound influence as a feminist artist and activist whose works are characterized by their analysis, indelible imagery, and wit.
SUPPORT
Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The San José Museum of Art’s presentation of Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous contributions from First Tech Federal Credit Union, McManis Faulkner, and Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
7.7.2023: First Friday + Opening Celebration
7.8.2023: Spanish Language Family Tour
8.5.2023: Spanish Language Family Tour
8.24.2023: Art 101: Political Printmaking with SJSU Artists
9.1.2023: First Friday: Bay Area Latinx Drag Kings Honor Yolanda López
10.7.2023: Spanish Language Family Tour
10.12.2023: Art 101: Personal Printmaking with SJSU Artists
10.14.2023: Activism Through Art: A Talk with Lorraine Garcia–Nakata (Offsite)
10.20.2023: Visions of Guadalupe: Image and Sound
LILIANA PORTER: ACTUALIDADES / BREAKING NEWS
July 28, 2023–February 19, 2024
LILIANA PORTER CREATES SURREAL COMPOSITIONS THAT INTERROGATE THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN REPRESENTATION AND REALITY.
Working across printmaking, photography, painting, installation, video, and theater, Porter consistently draws from an eccentric cast of toys, miniature figures—including the likenesses of Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley, and Jesus Christ—and other objects to create theatrical vignettes that invite existential meditations on the human experience.
Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News featured a video and a small selection of photographs by the artist that explore the news as a stage in which politics, spectacle, and everyday life collide. The video uses the structure of the newspaper through transitional headings, such as “Arts and Leisure” and “World News,” and a dramatic score to string together situations that are humorous, tragic, or even banal. The disparate vignettes, staged in otherwise nondescript settings, break with ideas of linear time and narrative, offering disjointed scenarios that resonate with the dramas and absurdities of human life across history and geography.
The exhibition provided a focused presentation of Porter’s expansive conceptual practice, highlighting her skilled evocation of poignant philosophical and political questions through otherwise simple gestures and miniature objects.
SUPPORT
Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News is supported by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with major support from Elizabeth and Byron Ryono.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
8.18.2023: Opening Celebration: Liliana Porter + Nuts and Who’s
8.25.2023: Gallery Talk on Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News
NUTS AND WHO’S: A CANDY STORE SAMPLER
August 11, 2023–February 19, 2024
IRREVEREN T, BAWDY, T HE LOWEST OF THE LOW.
The 1960s arts scene in Northern California was defined by its free-spirited “regional attitude.” Distance from and disdain for New York’s art world, with its consumerism-obsessed Pop Art and arts criticism culture, offered artists the freedom to explore unconventional avenues for making art. This regional spirit drew a
network of innovative artists—from those linked to California’s Funk and Nut art, to Chicago’s Hairy Who and other regional artists—to the Central Valley and a small Folsom, California gallery called the Candy Store. Adeliza McHugh’s Candy Store Gallery became a site of convergence and exchange for these interregional artists, their colleagues, and their students. The result was an unintentional yet provocative alternative to lauded art movements of the time.
Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler focused on this cross-fertilization of ideas between Funk, Nut, and the Hairy Who in the Bay Area, and their intersection at the Candy Store Gallery from 1968 to 1985. These artists’ introduction into the region gave rise to a potent artistic culture that resonated with artists from across the United States, who sought to transgress the establishment.
Drawn primarily from SJMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition brought together works by many artists who contributed to this “regional attitude” at the Candy Store, including Robert Arneson, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Clayton Bailey, John Buck, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Irving Marcus, Tony Natsoulas, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Maija Peeples-Bright, Peter VandenBerge, William T. Wiley, Franklin Williams, Karl Wirsum, and others.
SUPPORT
Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler is supported by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous support from Toby and Barry Fernald.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
8.18.2023: Opening Celebration: Liliana Porter + Nuts and Who’s 9.15.2023: Gallery Talk on Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler
December 8, 2023–April 21, 2024 THE LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY HAS SHIFTED DRAMATICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF THE DIGITAL AGE, MARKED BY THE EASE AND SPEED AT WHICH WE CAN RECORD, STORE, AND SHARE INFORMATION.
Through digital technologies, almost anyone can participate in the production of memory at any time. Yet the ever-growing digital archive has substantial financial and ecological impacts that we must address.
Encode/Store/Retrieve draws together artworks primarily from SJMA’s collection to explore low-tech
forms of memory production from the past sixty years. The sculptures, paintings, photographs, installations, and works on paper were organized into thematic groupings that reference the key processes underlying cognitive and computational models of memory—encoding, storage, and retrieval. Bridging conversations about digital, biological, institutional, and ecological memory, the artists in this exhibition provided us with strategies to grapple with the emerging issues of our growing digital archive. Featured artists included Jim Campbell, Enrique Chagoya, Binh Danh, Darlene Nguyen-Ely, Analia Saban, Rose B. Simpson, and Stephanie Syjuco, among others.
SUPPORT
Encode/Store/Retrieve is made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with lead support from Knight Foundation.
1.12.2024: Creative Minds: Chelsea Thompto and Analia Saban
1.19.2024: Gallery Talk: Encode/Store/Retrieve
CHRISTINA FERNANDEZ: MULTIPLE EXPOSURES
June 7–September 22, 2024 THIS LANDMARK EXHIBITION PRESENTS THE WORK OF CHRISTINA FERNANDEZ, WHOSE PHOTOGRAPHS AND INSTALLATIONS EXPLORE MIGRATION, LABOR, GENDER, AND HER MEXICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY.
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures surveys over three decades of Fernadez’s most important photographic series and installations.
Informed by her family’s involvement in the Chicano movement, Fernandez’s conceptual practice has paired aesthetic inquiry with political commitment since the 1990s. Working between portraiture and landscape photography, Fernandez addresses the intersections between the personal and the political as grounded in
her immediate community in East Los Angeles and her family’s history of migration. Fernandez’s first monographic museum exhibition invites us to reconsider history, borders, and the lives that cross and inhabit both.
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures is organized by UCR ARTS and is curated by Joanna Szupinska, Senior
Curator at the California Museum of Photography. Chon Noriega, Distinguished Professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA, is curatorial advisor. The presentation of this exhibition at SJMA is organized by Juan Omar Rodriguez, assistant curator. Exhibition design concept by HvADesign, New York. Support for the publication was provided by AltaMed Health Services and Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.
SUPPORT
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures is organized by UCR ARTS and made possible by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Support for the publication was provided by AltaMed Health Services, and Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. The San José Museum of Art presentation is made possible in part by lead support from the National Endowment for the Arts and by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous support from Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng, Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese, and McManis Faulkner, and additional support from Diane Jonte-Pace.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
6.7.2024: Opening Celebration | Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures
6.15.2024: Spanish Language Tour
6.22.2024: San Jose Photo Walk with SJ Shooters
VISUALIZING ABOLITION
VISUALIZING ABOLITION IS AN ONGOING INITIATIVE EXPLORING ART, PRISONS, AND JUSTICE.
With exhibitions collaboratively organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and San José Museum of Art, Visualizing Abolition highlights the creative work underway by artists, activists, and scholars to imagine alternatives to current injustices.
Working across prison borders in all aspects of the initiative, and in collaboration with current and formerly incarcerated people, as well as those without that lived experience, the overarching goal is to change the narrative that links prisons to justice, contributing instead to the unfolding collective story and ongoing alternative imagining to create a future free of prisons.
Multi-sited exhibitions produced as part of Visualizing Abolition include Barring Freedom, Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen, Sadie Barnette: Family Business, Forensic Architecture's If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?, and the exhibition Seeing through Stone, currently on view. Complementary exhibitions are on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos.
SUPPORT
Visualizing Abolition is organized by Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson, with support from the Mellon Foundation. Music for Abolition is curated by Terri Lyne Carrington. Exhibitions for Visualizing Abolition are co-organized by Gina Dent, Lauren Schell Dickens, and Rachel Nelson.
LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN
As part of Barring Freedom, Tim Young—who was in San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (formerly known as San Quentin State Prison) at the time (before being moved to Pelican Bay State Prison, in Crescent City, California)— partnered with SJMA to give us a glimpse into the six-by-nine–foot prison cell where he was incarcerated in San Quentin. In handwritten letters sent to SJMA members, he described conditions under Covid-19 inside the prison and explained why art matters to him. In his correspondence, Tim invited readers to write him back, and many people have.
Since 2020, the letter writing campaign has expanded to include April Harris, currently incarcerated at California Institution for Women in Chino, California, and Kanoa Harris-Pendang, currently incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California. A letter-writing station onsite at SJMA invites visitors to participate by writing a letter or note of support—they can include their addresses if they are interested in receiving a response. Over 300 letters were sent during FY24.
This campaign is intended to provide a network of support and connection and to serve as an opportunity to actively listen to and learn from our incarcerated neighbors.
↗ As part of Visualizing Abolition, visitors can write letters to incarcerated individuals.
IF TOXIC AIR IS A MONUMENT TO SLAVERY, HOW DO WE TAKE IT DOWN?
January 18–April 21, 2024
RESEARCH AGENCY FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE (FA) USES CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INCLUDING DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION, ANIMATION, REMOTE SENSING, AND FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATION, TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
Working on behalf of communities affected by police brutality, border regimes, and environmental violence, FA develops evidentiary materials that can be deployed in courtrooms and political processes, as well as in galleries, cultural institutions, and through media, in pursuit of accountability for violence committed by states and their agents. At SJMA, they present their research on the petrochemical corridor of "Death Alley," Louisiana, and offer tools to help combat a three-hundred-year continuum of environmental racism.
This exhibition is part of Visualizing Abolition, co-organized with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz.
SUPPORT
If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down? is made possible by the Mellon Foundation and the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous support from Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng, Rita and Kent Norton, and Hildy Shandell.
SEEING THROUGH STONE
April 26, 2024–January 5, 2025
SEEING THROUGH STONE BRINGS TOGETHER ARTWORK BY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE WHOSE WORK ENGAGES WITH PRISONS, JUSTICE, AND FREEDOM.
Moving beyond exhibitions that are about prisons and instead oriented towards artists who help provide a vision—and a model—of abolition in practice, Seeing through Stone highlights global networks of care and abolitionist world building.
Bringing together work by over 80 artists and collectives including 16 new commissions, Seeing through Stone reflects the global scope of carceral conditions and the movements resisting prisons worldwide. With reference
to poet Etheridge Knight’s evocation of those who have “the secret eyes,” Seeing through Stone highlights the works of artists, including those formerly and currently incarcerated, that offer a vision beyond carceral systems, drawing out the flourishing collective story and alternative imagining currently underway in creating a future free of prisons.
This is the largest multi-sited exhibition to date in the Visualizing Abolition initiative, co-organized with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Artists include Frank Alejandrez, Sadie Barnette, Rebecca Belmore,Imani Jaqueline Brown, Sharon Daniel, Cian Dayrit, Caleb Duarte and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos,
Explode! Platform, The Freedom Theatre, Frente 3 de Fevereiro, Charles Gaines, Guillermo Galindo, Maria Gaspar, Gabriela Golder, Patricia Gómez and Maria Jesús González, Shilpa Gupta, Sky Hopinka, Ashley Hunt, Steffani Jemison, Sofia Karim, Bouchra Khalili, Robert
Hillary King, Mulheres Possíveis, Carlos Motta, Gabriela Mureb, Huong Ngô, O grupo inteiro, Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes, Sherrill Roland, Sable Elyse Smith, jackie sumell, Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes), Timesfive, Hajra Waheed, Rachel Wallis with Mariame Kaba, Levester Williams, and Timothy James Young, among others.
SUPPORT
Seeing through Stone is made possible by the Mellon Foundation and the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with lead support from the Myra Reinhard Family Foundation and additional support from the de Souza Bransten Family.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
11.9.2023: Curator’s Workshop: Learning to See Through Stone with Lauren Schell Dickens (Online)
4.12.2024: Opening Celebration at Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
4.18.2024: Opening Celebration at Barrios Unidos
4.26.2024: Opening Celebration | Seeing through Stone
4.27.2024: Abolitionist's Tea Party with jackie sumell
5.30.2024: Creative Minds: Sofia Karim
6.21.2024: Make Music Day: Maria Gaspar with James Gordon Williams, and Guillermo Galindo
6.26–7.31, 2024: Remaking the Exceptional Podcast on 90.5FM KSJS
CHELSEA THOMPTO: THE FOG
November 3, 2023–ongoing
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM FOG?
Inspired by the Bay Area’s iconic fog cover, Chelsea Thompto: The Fog features an interactive narrative exploring our relationships to fog.
The Fog is structured into three acts consisting of procedurally generated text and visual puzzle boxes. These acts invite us to explore the role of fog as an obstacle to military and commercial activities, as a symbol of unknown horrors, and finally as an aspirational model for trans embodiment. The Fog explores how this atmospheric phenomenon can transform our understanding of seeing, knowing, and being.
Working at the intersections of visual art, technology, and trans studies, Chelsea Thompto’s multimedia practice critically engages historic and emerging systems of codification and control, from cartography to facial recognition. For The Fog, a digital project commissioned by SJMA, Thompto draws on the writings of the influential trans scholar and activist Susan Stryker, who embraced monstrosity to imagine other possibilities of being. “Like that creature,” writes Stryker, “I assert my worth as a monster in spite of the conditions my monstrosity requires me to face, and redefine a life worth living.”
SUPPORT
Chelsea Thompto: The Fog is made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with lead support from the Knight Foundation.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
8.11.2023: Curator’s Workshop: Digital Projects @ SJMA with Juan Omar Rodriguez
1.12.2024: Creative Minds: Chelsea Thompto and Analia Saban
COMMUNITY DAYS
SJMA’S FREE COMMUNITY DAYS, HELD ANNUALLY FOR DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS AND LUNAR NEW YEAR, INCLUDE HANDS-ON ART ACTIVITIES AND LIVE PERFORMANCES BY COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
In FY24 Community Day: Día de los Muertos was organized in partnership with SJMAG. Families enjoyed live musical performances, decorated sugar skulls, learned about printmaking, and created paper alebrijes.
↑ Día de los Muertos features live dance performances.
For Lunar New Year, visitors celebrated the Year of the Dragon with making puppets, stamp making, sculpting based on a Vietnamese Tet tradition, and a performance by Rising Phoenix Lion dancers.
↗ A young Museum goer poses for her photo with a Rising Phoenix Lion Dancer.
CITYDANCE
PRESENTED ON THE CIRCLE OF PALMS BY THE CITY OF SAN JOSÉ OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, EL CAFECITO BY MEZCAL, SAN JOSÉ DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION, AND VALLEY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, CITYDANCE IS AN EVENING OF DANCING, LIVE MUSIC, SOCIALIZING, AND MORE.
The event and Museum galleries are open and free to the public. This year featured the dance styles of K-pop, world music, and salsa. Over 600 people came together to dance with one another as well as visit the Museum as part of this three-evening partnership/festivity.
SUPPORT
CityDance is presented by City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs, San José Museum of Art, and el Cafecito by Mezcal in partnership with the San José Downtown Association; marketing sponsored by Valley Transportation Authority.
↑ CityDance transforms the Circle of Palms into a vibrant dance floor with live music, a dance instructor, and community members.
FEEDBACK HIGHLIGHTS
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
KELLY AKASHI VISITOR
Born to Run, Metro Silicon Valley
July 4, 2023
"The Akashi exhibition was amazing. I love love how the Museum shows works from young, emerging artists who are local to California and also diverse."
A Guide to the Bay Area's Summer Art Scene, Latina Magazine
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE REPRESENTATIVES
July 20, 2023
“While I was in lobby, a family came into the Museum because their son had received a Family Pass, and they were passing by on a beautiful day. The son was very excited and kept telling his parents all about the Museum as he had been here before on a field trip, even asking if the studio/gallery teacher "lived in the Museum." It was sweet and cheered me up, and at the end of their visit, while I was eating lunch outside, I overheard the son say their trip was great!”
Review: A Bay Area Chicana artist finally gets her due, SF Chronicle Datebook
August 8, 2023
‘Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist’ at San José Museum of Art, KRON 4 Live! In the Bay August 11, 2023
Patricia Albers on Liliana Porter, Squarecylinder September 25, 2023
Encode/Store/Retrieve, SF/ARTS
December 6, 2023
Your Guide to Visual Art at the New Year’s Start, KQED January 4, 2024
"A guest … was very moved by the rafa esparza piece. We talked about all the references to the artists’ culture that seemed to resonate with the guest, but we mainly focused on the image of the grandmother…they had been enjoying the other works in the gallery but was then immediately drawn in by the grandmother's smile....The guest said that the entire Museum visit was worth it just to see this painting, and I saw them go back to Evergreen multiple times before they left to see the painting."
If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?, Metro Silicon Valley January 16, 2024
"A group of guests came in asking if we take EBT, and were excited when I checked them in. One woman was moved to tears, explaining that she was so happy to finally be able to see art again."
In ‘Seeing Through Stone,’ artists imagine a world without prisons, San Francisco Chronicle July 15, 2024
FIRST FRIDAYS
THESE FREE MONTHLY PROGRAMS OFFER A LOUNGE-LIKE ATMOSPHERE WITH LOCAL MUSICIANS, DRINKS, AND OPEN GALLERIES.
They often highlight the opening of a new exhibition allowing for a community-wide celebration to engage with the art and one another. Partners and
artists in FY24 included Paulina Acosta, The Mark Arroyo Trio, Cedric Caruth, Chopsticks Alley Art, Papi Churro, Tracy Cruz Trio, Francis Experience Quartet, L.D. Hablo, Illuminate SJ Now, Japanese American Citizens League, LEAD Filipino, League of Women Voters of Santa Clara County, SJMA Let's Look at Art program, Mosaic America, New Ballet of San José, Thien An Nguyen, San Jose Jazz, Silicon Valley Pride, Vesa, Society of Hearts Delight, Starting Arts, Ryan Trujillo, and Amanda Vigil Troupe of Drag Kings.
SUPPORT
San José Museum of Art First Fridays are made possible in part by major support from the Jay Paul Company.
↖ The Francis Experience Quartet became San José Museum of Art's first residency with their program “Hip, Hop(e), Jazz & Storytelling.
DOCENT COUNCIL VOLUNTEERS
ACTIVE
Elizabeth Blanco Saenz
Daniel Camarena
Francine Craven
Lisa Dearborn
Lisa Gallo
Thu-An Hanley
ASSOCIATE
Daniela Barone
Tricia Hill
Suzette Mahr
Geraldine
Martinez-Magarelli
SUSTAINING
Ursula M. Anderson
Michael Arellano
Lauren Buchholz
Sandra Churchill
Dolores Fajardo
Peter Fargo
Lorraine Fitch
Kim Harris
Hilary Kim
Sara Mintz
LT Nguyen
Amelie Pak
Monica Rojano
Elizabeth Ryono
Wendy Smith
Sujata Tibrewala
Barbara Weiss
Carol Whelan
Helen Yang
Deniz Yildiz
Astrid Mazin
Shauna Mika
Miho Poelman
Leah Read
Ellen Tafeen
Jeanne Torre Alayne Yellum
Cathleen Fortune
Linda Foster
Barbara Hansen
Sharlyn Heron
Lys House
Karen Huitric
Michaela Landrok
Lisa Lubliner
Lenore Maynard
Ann Marie Mix
Evelyn Neely
Susanne Offensend
Bob Strain
CREATIVE MINDS
CREATIVE MINDS—SJMA’S PREMIER ARTIST TALK SERIES—GIVES AUDIENCES AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR DIRECTLY FROM ARTISTS ABOUT THEIR PROCESS AND PRACTICE.
SJMA hosted two Creative Minds programs in FY24. In conjunction with the permanent collection exhibition Encode/Store/Retrieve, artists Chelsea Thompto and Analia Saban spoke with assistant curator Juan Omar Rodriguez about their respective efforts to personalize and humanize technology in their working
practice. In conjunction with Seeing Through Stone, artist, activist, and architect Sofia Karim discussed the imprisonment of her uncle, the renowned Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam, and how it led to her approach to architecture as a language of struggle and resistance.
↑ Artist Sofia Karim (middle) in discussion with Seeing through Stone co-curators Gina Dent, Dean of Humanities for DEI and Associate Professor at UC Santa Cruz, and Rachel Nelson, director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
90.5 FM KSJS, San Jose State University
Alan Kahn, Alan the Amazing
Áo Dái Festival
Irene Carvajal, The Frozen Trojan Horse
Chopsticks Alley Art
Cinequest
City of San José
City of San José Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs
City of San José Housing Rent Stabilization Program
City Lights Theater Company
Community Health Partnership
Content Magazine
CreaTV
El Cafecito by Mezcal Restaurant
Brian Fitzgerald Trio
genArts Silicon Valley
Jesus Gomez
H&A In Action, San José State University
Yoon Chung Han, City of San José Creative Ambassador
Amy Hibbs, The Transformation Station
History San José
Hang Huynh
Illuminate SJ Now
Japanese American Citizens League
Japanese American Museum of San José
Alan Kahn, Alan the Amazing
The Kelsey LEAD Filipino
League of Women Voters of Santa Clara County
Life Services Alternatives
CONTRIBUTING TO THE VIBRANCY OF SAN JOSÉ
SJMA CONTRIBUTES TO THE VIBRANCY OF DOWNTOWN SAN JOSÉ WITH THOUGHTFUL PROGRAMMING AND EXHIBITIONS THAT FOCUS ON SUBJECTS RELEVANT TO THE COMMUNITY.
The Museum leads with and centers artists’ unique perspectives and practices. By fostering creativity and human connection, SJMA has become a gathering place that nurtures empathy and connection for our diverse communities.
↖ Visitors enjoy the interpretive station at the community opening of Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist.
Local Color
Luna Park Chalk Art Festival and Foundation
MACLA
Mosaic America
New Ballet of San Jose
New Viet Nam Studies Initiative, UC Davis
NUMU (New Museum of Los Gatos)
Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services
Placemaking Program
Poetry Center San José
Khalliah Ramirez, The Peace Dancer
Sacred Heart Community Services
San Jose Jazz
San José Downtown Association
Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild
Sacred Heart Community Services
San José Dance Theater
San Jose State University Pictorial Art Program
San Jose State University’s H&A in Action SJ Shooters
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
Suhita Shirodkar, City of San José Creative Ambassador
Silicon Valley Pride
Simply Shelter
Slow Art Day
Society of Heart’s Delight
Starting Arts Tabia African American Theater
Teatro Visión
The Tech Interactive
Valley Verde
La Viejada de San Jose
Voices of Silicon Valley
Prof Eros and Esther Young
REACCREDITATION
IN 2023 THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS (AAM) AWARDED REACCREDITATION TO SJMA.
This recognition is shared with just 1,106 of the nation’s 33,000 museums and SJMA is one of only 78 museums accredited in California. With its mix of self-assessment, peer review, and public recognition, AAM Accreditation ensures the integrity and accessibility of museum collections, reinforces the education and public service roles of museums, and requires good governance practices and ethical behavior.
AAM’s mission is to champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence. For more than 50 years, the Accreditation Program has been recognized as the gold standard of museum excellence. As the museum field’s mark of distinction, SJMA is proud to be the only accredited contemporary art museum in San José and the South Bay.
↗ Museum visitors immersed in the exhibition Seeing Through Stone.
EQUITY TASK FORCE
THE MUSEUM’S CROSS-DEPARTMENTAL EQUITY TASK FORCE (ETF) IS THE LEAD DESIGN AND STRATEGY BODY THAT SUPPORTS THE INTEGRATION OF EQUITY AS A CORE VALUE AT SJMA.
ETF MEMBERS
MEMBERS
Gemma Armas,
ETF Staff + Volunteer Liaison
Bailey Baeza
S. Sayre Batton
Daniel Becker
Aquiles de la Torre, Manager of Equity Resource Center; Steering Committee Member
Nidhi Gandhi, ETF Open Session Coordinator
Amanda Helton, Speaker Series Team Lead
Natalie Sánchez Lewin, Chair; Steering Committee Member
Frederick Liang, ETF Communications Coordinator
Madison Manzo
Khai Nguyen, ETF Communications Coordinator
Karen Rapp Steering Committee
Composed of staff from across the institution, the ETF meets regularly throughout the year and nurtures equity pilots—small bite-sized staff-led experiments that result in new learnings, ideas, or working methods to support the Museum’s commitment to integrating equity throughout its work.
↑ Land Acknowledgement pilot members Geraldine Martinez-Magarelli and Nidhi Gandhi
EQUITY PILOTS
TWO NEW PILOTS WERE INTRODUCED DURING FY24.
"Walk in the Shoes of” invited staff to learn how Museum Experience Representatives (MER) work to make SJMA a welcoming and safe space by shadowing MERs for two hours of their shift and “Cultural Heritage + Holidays” was designed to devise a standard practice and institution-wide understanding for staff and volunteers about how SJMA celebrates and acknowledges cultural heritage and holidays.
↑ Daniel Jimenez, manager of museum experience, guiding Museum staff through the immersive "Walk in the Shoes of” pilot, offering insight into the roles of our MERs.
EQUITY BOOK CLUB
THE EQUITY BOOK CLUB CONTINUED WITH ABOLITION.FEMINISM.NOW BY ANGELA DAVIS, GINA DENT, ERICA R. MEINERS, AND BETH E. RICHIE.
The book was selected to support engagement and broader awareness around the topic(s) addressed in Visualizing Abolition.
↗ Equity Book Club members deep in discussion about Abolition.Feminism.Now.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
AT SJMA WE ARE COMMITTED TO MINIMIZING OUR IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, AND ARE TAKING STEPS TO INTEGRATE RESPONSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES THROUGHOUT OUR WORK.
In 2022 SJMA formally adopted an environmental responsibility statement that commits to “caring for our planet as we care for our visitors, our community, and our collections.” A staff-led Green Team
meets regularly to support these efforts. Recent accomplishments include instituting a plastic water bottle ban, offering recycling training to staff, and replacing utensils and to-go containers in the Museum Cafe with environmentally friendly options. SJMA uses LED lighting throughout its public spaces and galleries and has recently shifted to using Eco-Spec Paint, a zero VOC, more biodegradable and non-toxic formula. The Museum is
also phasing in environmentally conscious exhibition graphics and conducts annual carbon audits of exhibitions. Environmental responsibility is also a recurrent theme in SJMA exhibitions. All of SJMA’s environmental efforts are conducted with an eye to ongoing improvement rather than as a checklist to be completed.
↖ SJMA uses Eco-Spec paint which is more biodegradable and is non-toxic.
has successfully qualified as a 2023 Active Member with @galleryclimatecoalition!
SJMA
LET’S LOOK AT ART
LET'S LOOK AT ART PRESENTATIONS ARE OFFERED DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR AND LEAD TO EXCITING PROCESSES OF DISCOVERY FOR STUDENTS IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY. Using Visual Thinking Strategies that support the Common Core State Standards, a trained docent leads free, in-classroom art presentations. Art selections are carefully researched, presented with a specific set of curriculum objectives, and represent the cultural diversity of the Bay Area. During the 2023-24 school year, over 952 presentations were given.
Each student that participates receives a Family Pass to visit the Museum with up to 8 family members. Over 2,600 visitors came to the Museum using these family passes from LLAA in FY24.
The Let’s Look at Art program received the prestigious Cornerstone of the Arts Creative Impact Award from the City of San José’s Arts Commission and the Office of Cultural Affairs on October 19, 2023. Inaugurated in September 2013, the Cornerstone of the Arts Award honors individuals and organizations who have had a significant and long-lasting impact on San José’s art and cultural landscape.
LET'S
LOOK AT ART DOCENTS
ACTIVE
Tatiana Belomytsina
Kathy Benedict
Malashree Bhargava
Elizabeth Bonnet
Eve Brasfield
Ivonne
Calzadilla Gomez
Joseph Coha
Giada Conte
Susan Curtin
“As we mark the 10th anniversary of the Cornerstone of the Arts program, we are thrilled to celebrate a stellar group of honorees that have made a far-reaching impact on San José’s artistic life.”
–Kerry Adams Hapner, Director of Cultural Affairs
Interested in learning more about how to join the LLAA team and bring art experiences to students in your community? Visit the Let’s Look at Art page to apply!
SUPPORT
Let’s Look at Art is made possible by major support from Sally Lucas, and generous support from Worth and Andy Ludwick.
↖ Let's Look at Art docents receive training to provide free 30-45 minute in-classroom art presentations.
Lisa Dearborn
Debbie Earl
Harriet Erbes
Toby Fernald
Cathy Fraser
Lisa Gallo
Suman Ganapathy
SUSTAINING
Melinda Anderson
Marilyn August
Carol Bower
Christy Cali
Kathleen Callan
Bing Chen
Char Devich
Connie Dimmitt
Nancy Dunne
Lorrie Fitch
Karen Harrington
Beth Herner
Tricia Hill
Dave Himmelblau
Colleen Jansen
Linda Klein
Marcia Klein
Karen Lantz
Andrea Lee
Laurel Lee
Lisa Lewis
Jennifer MacGougan
Laurie Malone
Tony Misch
Charlene Nagayama
Barb Nelson
Lia Nguyen
Mary Perry
Louise Persson
Sergei Posnov
Alka Pradhan
Pamela Ryalls-Boyd
Elizabeth Seiden
Liz Summerhayes
Emily Thaeler
Lisa Traveler
Sherry Tsai
Lotte Van de Walle
Debbie Watson
Kim Worrall
Carol Wynne
Liliya Yakymechko
Christina Zhao
Jody Foster
Linda Gallo
Linda Goldberg
Joan Gorham
Lea Gottlieb
Katie Han
Julia Hartman
Julia Jacobson
Gail Kefauver
Carol Kilik
Jean Killett
Loyce Mandella
Nancy Mathews
Rosmarie Mirkin
Linda Pfeiffer
Maria Quillard
Amy Rapport
Carrie Ross
Liana Salikhova
Amanda Santiago
Joan Sharrock
Diana Taylor
Martha Weber
Christine Zheng
RESIDENCIES
LED BY SJMA’S TRAINED PROFESSIONAL TEACHING ARTISTS, SOWING CREATIVITY IS A CLASSROOM-BASED, CROSS-CURRICULAR ART PROGRAM THAT OFFERS HANDS-ON ART-MAKING INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS IN TK–12TH GRADES.
It extends visual arts education into California Common Core standards and Next Generation Science standards.
Each lesson plan is inspired by the cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary art and integrates design thinking and creative problem solving. All participating classrooms have the option to participate in a Museum field trip. In FY24 SJMA provided
60 residency programs to over 1,700 participating students across 17 schools in Santa Clara County.
↑ Sowing Creativity residencies emphasize artistic exploration while encouraging discussions about visual art, math, science, language arts, and more.
SUPPORT
Sowing Creativity is made possible by lead support from the California Arts Council and the Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation; and by generous support from KPMG, SVCreates in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, Tech CU, and Daphne and Stuart Wells.
FIELD TRIPS
OUR FIELD TRIP PROGRAM WELCOMED 5,474 PARTICIPANTS THIS YEAR, INCLUDING 1,578 STUDENTS FROM TITLE 1 SCHOOLS.
SJMA’s inquiry-driven tours support the Museum’s community pledge to inspire creativity, visionary inquiry, and critical thinking by centering on students’ unique perspectives.
Participants in Two-Part Art, SJMA’s premiere field trip program, also participate in a hands-on art-making activity inspired by the work on view. All of SJMA’s field trips are offered free to students based in Title I schools— part of the Museum’s commitment to reducing barriers to access.
← Students visiting the Museum for a group tour.
KIDS SUMMER ART CAMP
CAMPERS GAIN BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACCESS TO THE MUSEUM’S EXHIBITIONS, LEARN ABOUT EXHIBITION ELEMENTS, EXPERIMENT WITH ARTISTIC PROCESSES, AND PARTICIPATE IN A STUDENT EXHIBITION.
These weekly camps offer in-depth art experiences, led by SJMA’s teaching artists and inspired by current exhibitions. Campers learn how to look at, talk about, and create art. Each week-long camp is offered for kids ages 6–8, 9–11, and 12–14. Culminating at the end of every camp is an art exhibition and reception, in which families and caregivers are invited to celebrate the artistic achievements of each participant. 185 students participated in Kids Summer Art Camp in FY24.
↑ Camper proudly points to his art on display in the Kids Summer Art Camp exhibition.
DR. JERRY HIURA AWARD
THE DR. JERRY HIURA NEXT GEN VISUAL ARTIST AWARD HONORS FORMER
SJMA BOARD MEMBER AND ARTS ADVOCATE DR. JERRY’S PASSIONS
THROUGH A SCHOLARSHIP THAT CELEBRATES YOUNG VISIONARY ARTISTS AND SUPPORTS THEIR ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND GOALS AS THEY PURSUE HIGHER EDUCATION.
It is open to high school students in Santa Clara County. In FY24 students were invited to explore the theme of Embracing Identity and to express the beauty and complexities of their true self. The top winner was Jessica Kwandou Self Reflection and second place winners were Krish Sangani's Mirror and Linda Wang's Interwoven Selves.
↗ 2024 Top Winner, Self Reflection (detail), Jessica Kwandou
FY24 ACQUISITIONS
THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF THOSE WHO GIFTED WORKS OF ART AS WELL AS DONORS WHO CONTRIBUTED FUNDS FOR PURCHASE,
SJMA ACQUIRED 18 ARTWORKS BY A DIVERSE ROSTER OF ARTISTS IN FY24.
These include many timely works that enrich the Museum’s collection by addressing current cultural, political, and social issues.
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisitions Committee, 2023.14.a-f Courtesy of parrasch heijnen.
Photo by Ed Mumford.
ELIAS SIME
→ Tightrope: Behind the Processor #5, 2023
Reclaimed electrical wires and components on panel
99 5 8 × 110 ¼ × ¾ inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Lipman Family Foundation, 2023.15
Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography.
Untitled, 2021
Titanium and stainless steel
51 ½ × 42 × 32 inches
Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation, 2023.12.02
ARTPICK WINNER
FOR THIRTY YEARS, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF 100 AND DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL PARTICIPATED IN THE ANNUAL PURCHASE OF ART FOR THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION.
This year’s ArtPick is Guadalupe Rosale’s Gangsta lean (2023), a glittering close-up photograph of a low-rider car hood in an engraved chrome frame, which celebrates the vibrancy of California’s Latinx culture and the recent repeal of cruising bans.
GUADALUPE ROSALES
↖ Gangsta lean, 2023
Archival pigment print with engraved aluminum artist’s frame
47 ¼ × 61 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Council of 100, 2024.04
Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City.
SJMA’s 2023 Gala + Auction was a fantastic celebration in honor of artist Enrique Chagoya and patrons Evelyn and Rick Neely and raised over $1 million dollars in critical funds for the Museum’s operations, award-winning exhibitions, and education programs. The Auction included works by Diana Al-Hadid, Sadie Barnette, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest,
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OFFICERS
Tammy Kiely, Co-President
Wanda Kownacki, Co-Vice President
Robert S. Lindo, Secretary
Hildy Shandell, Treasurer
MEMBERS
Nadia Ahmad
Peter Cross
Glenda Dorchak
Anneke Dury
Bill Faulkner
Toby Fernald
Tad Freese
Chandra Gnanasambandam
Mr. Cole Harrell
Richard A. Karp
Lorri Kershner
Dan Le
Kimberly Lin
Peter W. Lipman
Hung Liu, Matthew Pillsbury, Yulia Pinkusevich, Masami Teraoka, Lien Truong, and Pae White. Special thanks to Gala Co-Chairs Nadia Ahmad and Tammy Kiely and Auction Chair Mr. Cole Harrell for making this event such a success!
↑ San José Mayor Matt Mahan, Enrique Chagoya, Evelyn Neely, and Rick Neely.
Ranu Mukherjee
Yvonne Nevens
Sarah North
Gayla Wood
Lisa Dearborn, Delegate Trustee, Docent Council
Tony Misch, Delegate Trustee, Let's Look at Art
Jeannie Pedroza, Delegate Trustee, Store Guild
MEMBERS + SUPPORTERS EVENTS
SJMA’S DEDICATED MEMBERS AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS HELP MAKE THE MUSEUM’S PROGRAMS POSSIBLE.
SJMA Members and Patron-level donors in the Museum’s Council of 100 and Director’s Council groups enjoyed opportunities to engage more deeply and expand their knowledge about contemporary art
through Curator’s Workshops, opening receptions, annual stewardship events, and organized day trips to view fascinating art collections. Lauren Schell Dickens, chief curator, discussed artists and collectives highlighted in the exhibition Seeing Through Stone. Juan Omar Rodriguez, assistant curator, delivered insights into the Museum’s digital projects including Chelsea Thompto: The Fog, an interactive web experience commissioned by SJMA, and explored questions posed in the upcoming exhibitions Kambui
Olujimi: North Star and Beta Space: Patty Chang and David Kelley. Nidhi Gandhi, curatorial and programs
associate, shared research on Alexander Calder’s artworks and the formation of the exhibition Calder: at home, among friends. The Museum celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Council 100 at their annual dinner with a keynote presentation by artist Ala Ebtekar.
Donor Circle members enjoyed day trips to the SFO Museum at the San Francisco International Airport and the Kramlich Collection in Napa Valley.
↖ 2024 Council of 100 Annual Dinner.
$500,000+
City of San José
$200,000 – $499,999
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Knight Foundation
Lipman Family Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Skyline Foundation
$100,000 – $199,999
Adobe
California Arts Council
Toby and Barry Fernald
Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese
Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation
Tammy and Tom Kiely
Evelyn and Rick Neely
Yvonne and Mike Nevens
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
$50,000 – $99,999
Goldman Sachs
Koret Foundation
Kimberly and Patrick Lin
National Endowment for the Arts
Myra Reinhard Family Foundation
Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation
$25,000 – $49,999
Applied Materials
Bank of America
Laurie and Bill Brennan
Elaine Cardinale
DONORS + MEMBERS
WE THANK OUR DONORS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT
July 2023–June 2024
Lucia Cha
Priscilla Chou
Glenda and Gary Dorchak
Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng
Lorri Kershner
Wanda Kownacki
KPMG LLP
Sally Lucas
McManis Faulkner
Ann Marie Mix
Jay Paul Company
Francisco Alfredo Pellas IV
Elizabeth and Byron Ryono
Hildy Shandell
Marcia* and Howard Summers*
Gayla and Walt Wood
$10,000 – $24,999
Blackstone Gaming, LLC
Boydston Foundation
The de Souza Bransten Family
Doris and Alan Burgess
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Lorna Meyer Calas and Dennis Calas
Casino M8trix
Melanie and Peter Cross
Peggy and Yogen Dalal
Deloitte
Anneke and David Dury
First American Bankcard, Inc. (FABICash)
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Joelle and Michael Hurlston
Diane Jonte-Pace
Cheryl and Bruce Kiddoo
D’Arcy and Jim Kirkland
Latham & Watkins LLP
Daniel Le
Elena Lebedeva and Alvin Smith
Kathryn and Robert S. Lindo
Worth and Andy Ludwick
Geraldine and Marco Magarelli
Dipti and Rakesh Mathur
Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu
Nicki and Pete Moffat
Marge and Ken Nissly
Sarah and Denny North
Rita and Kent Norton
Carol and Gerry Parker
Dennis Rohan
Susan and John Savva
Elizabeth Schweinsberg and Lucas Pereira
Silicon Valley Creates
Jessica Silverman and Sarah Thornton
Timi and John Sobrato
Alexandra and Murphy Stein
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
The Swenson Foundation
Technology Credit Union
Daphne and Stuart Wells
Sara Wigh and Jim McManis
Marsha and Jon Witkin
$5,000 – $9,999
Acrisure
Nadia and Faisal Ahmad
Jo and Barry Ariko
Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson
S. Sayre Batton and Maja Thomas
Debbie and Doug Bettinger
Alma and Marvin Burkett
Casey and Jack Carsten
Priya Chandrasekar and Chandra Gnanasambandam
Vivian G. Crummey Benevolent Trust*
Maureen Ellenberg
Farrington Historical Foundation
Martin Fox and John Green
Regina Frenkel and Rene Haas
Cathy Grape
Susan Hartt
Megan Hayes and Reed Zars
Heritage Bank of Commerce
Claudia Worthington Hess
Kelly Hester in memory of J. Michael Bewley
Lys and Lee House
Jill Jarrett and Drew Williamson
Wendy and Mike Kirst
Janaki and Devinder Kumar
Hung Liu Estate
Suzette Mahr
McKinsey & Company
Nikki and Matt McSweeney
Shauna Mika and Rick Callison
Gillian and Thomas Moran
Madhavi and Umesh Padval
Meredith and Robert Park
Alyce and Mike Parsons
Republic Services
San Jose Downtown Association
Eileen Silver
Toni and Russ Vanwinkle
Susan and Sanjay Vaswani
Julie Veitch
Ronald Whittier Family Foundation
$2,500 – $4,999
Teresa Alvarado and Jess Moreles
Jane Bark and Thomas Matson
Leah Bernthal and Glen Feinberg
Katie and Dean Butler
California Humanities
Bryan Cooke
Janice W. Fox
Pamela and Marc Garibaldi
Gloria and Stanley Hoo
Andrea Johnson-Lee and William Lee
Dixie and Ron Lopes
Meera Rao
Ann and Kanwal Rekhi
Lisa and Tom Stephensonn
$1,000 – $2,499
Shannon and Nicholas Adams
Anonymous
Marco Arrigoni
Association of Art Museum Directors
MUSEUM STORE
VOLUNTEERS
Zainab Adeel
Kat Andersen
Marilyn August
Connie Bantillo
Nancy Beckman
Meghal Biswa
Natasha Brinkso
Lawrie Brown
Charlane Bueno
Alyssa Camarillo
Pat Caporal
Yeonhee Choi
Char Devich
Ami Dongchau
Jelani Finkely
Neal Folsom
Manav Jain
Yassaman Jalali
Bill Jones
Rachel Karklin
Yoko Katsue
Michele Kelly-Jones
Rob Labicane
Theresa Lawhead
Madelyn Lee
Chris Mengarelli
Jeannie Pedroza
Gilma Pereda
Carla Rosenblum
Shu Rosenthal
Mark Rotner
Norika (Nori) Takada
Kristina Taskova
Alisa Wetzel
Alison Barr
Iris Berke
Kristin Bertrand
Mary and Phil Bobel
Cheryl Booton and Robert Mannell
Leela De Souza Bransten and Peter Bransten
Betty Jane and Lawrence Bryan
Pamela Caplis
Susan Casentini and Kyle Milligan
M. Bernadette Castor and David Packard
Gail and Bruce Chizen
Catharine Clark Gallery
Mel Day and Frank Ham
Kathleen Demetri and David Fowler
Shari Flick Dorrian and Jim Dorrian
Donna Dubinsky and Leonard Shustek
Susan Dyer
Esam Elashmawi
Jacquie and Bill Faulkner
Mary and Thomas Field
Jeanne and Frank Fischer
Barbara and Martin Fishman
Greg Flood
Renu and Dhrumil Gandhi
Deborah Goldberg and Daniel Zimmermann
Bradley Guzules
Faiza and Ammar Hanafi
Andrei and Paul Hartzell
Rebecca and Pete Helme
Hosfelt Gallery
Liz and Tom Hughston
Carolyn Hyatt
Shannon Jackson
Kieve Foundation
Kay Knox, PhD
Judy and Victor Lee
Lisa and Keith Lubliner
Mike McCormick
William McGee
Chris Mengarelli and Dale Elliott
Tiffany Miller-Baker and Chris Baker
Rosemarie and Barry Mirkin
Becky and Steve Morgan
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Mary Murphy and Mark Stevens
Joy and Stuart Oberman
Howard Partridge
Leah and Charles Read
Dorothy Saxe
Karen Schaffer and Michael Ward
Leah and Sean Schnoor
Gary Schoennauer
Louis Schump and Todd Hosfelt
Sandra Sigurdson and Curtis Francis
Jessica Silverman
Jennifer Sime and Eric Robinson
Judith Sklar
Eta and Sass Somekh
David Stonesifer and Larry Arzie
Robert Strain
Sandy Swirsky and Lyle Merithew
Rachel Teagle
Judith and Allan Thompson
Elle Travers and J. Michael Bewley*
Barbara and Gary Vandeweghe
Wanda Waldera
Ann Walls Olmsted
Erica and Andrae Warren
Danielle and Gary Wohl
Helen Yang
$300–999
Marilyn August
Rebecca and David Ayer
Consuelo Bantillo
Jill Barnes and Paul Colin
Nancy Beckman
Susan and Arthur Biedermann
Cheryl Booton and Robert Mannell
Breathe Together Yoga
Alma and Marvin Burkett
Christy Cali
Barbara and Thomas Canup
Cassi Carpenter and Rich Rifredi
Anne and Jim Cashman
Catharine Clark
Summit Chaudhuri
Elaine Chin and Jerry Dyer
Allison Coburn
Sandra Conniff
Libby and Paul Conrado
Joan and Gary Cooper
Kent Owen and Bill Cooper
Peggy Sue Crookston and Dan Herschlag
Susan and Paul Curtin
Laura and Eric Darnell
Kari Davisson and Jeff Wheeler
Lisa Dearborn
Ellen and Dave De Simone
Marilyn and Frank Dorsa
Anne Dougherty and David Dobrikin
Elizabeth Doyle-Waller
Celia and Jim Dudley
Sarah and Robert Erickson
Pauline Eveillard and Doug Gould
Mary Falkar
Judith and Robert Fenerty
Linda Foster
Sally and Tom Freese
Lisa Friedman and Jim Harris
Kathryn Funk
Kathryn Gallant
Joan and Jack Gorham
Jeffrey Gunn
Kim Harris and Bennet Marks
Michele Hemeryck and David Falkenburg
Tricia Hill
Charles Himmelblau
Jan Hintermeister
Michael Hochberg
Nancy Hooton
Karen and Roger Huitric
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Brendan Ittelson
Alyce and Steve Kaplan
Betty and James Kasson
Amy Kaufman and Harry Saddler
Michele Kelly-Jones and Bill Jones
Dana and Fred Kleiman
Laurie Koloski and David Cornelius
Joyce Konigsberg and Philip Cecchettini
Rose and Greg Land
Jenny and Barry Ludwig
Phillip Machnik
Anne Manley and Michael G. Arellano
Judith Marlin
Katherine Mason
Tony May Lenore and Denis Maynard
Astrid and Arik Mazin
Boog McArt
Charlie McCollum
Meg Miranda
Diana Morabito and Keith Ball
Kelli Nakamura
Antje and Paul Newhagen
Tammy Nickel
Deborah D. and Henry F. Norberg
Howard Partridge
Karla Pfeil and Peter Fargo
Mary Piasecki
Olen Rasp
Amanda and Brendan Rawson
Jean and Henry Richards
Beryl Rodenbaugh
Karin and Bill Roeschlein
Judy Rookstool and Bob Leininger
Martha and Michael Rosenthal
Shu and Todd Rosenthal
Susan and Mike Sabes
Yvette and David Sacarelos
Marianne and Carl Salas
Penelope Sargent and Andrew Gunther
Edward Schreiner and Mara Schreiner
Katherine Schuelke and Mark Anzalone
Jan Schwartz and Robert Baden
Joanne and Lee Shombert
Jim and Eileen Shydlowski
Signia by Hilton San Jose
Abigail W. Simons
Stephanie Southwick and Doug Smith
Leanne Stanley
Marsha and Maurice Stevenson
Carmen and Larry Stone
Rachel Teagle
Reena and Ahmad Thomas
Dr. Jan N. Thompson and
Paul Goldstein
Megan Toeniskoetter
Jeanne Torre
Rebecca Turner and Erik Soule
Paul Vlasveld
Ivan Vojvodic
Geri Weimers
Beth and Marvin Wenger
Michelle Winner and Pam Crooke
Suzanne Wittrig and Alfonso Banuelos
DONORS TO COLLECTION
Collection Committee
Council of 100
Director’s Council
Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese
D’Arcy and Jim Kirkland
Robin Liebes
Lipman Family Foundation
Geraldine and Marco Magarelli
Nicki and Pete Moffat
Francisco Alfredo Pellas IV
Sheila Pinkel
ChanWoo Son
Yoshiaki Yokokawa
IN-KIND DONORS
10th Street Distillery
George Adams Gallery
Adobe Nadia K. Ahmad
Diana Al-Hadid
Catharine Clark Gallery
Clos LaChance Wines
District
Anneke Dury
Wanda Hansen
Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng
Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese
Connie Hwang
Tammy and Tom Kiely
Robin Liebes
Lipman Family Foundation
Hung Liu Estate
Tomokazu Matsuyama
Mezcal
Michael’s Restaurant
Sheila Pinkel
Yulia Pinkusevich
Scribe Winery
Jessica Silverman
Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Total Wine & More
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 G. 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
Zelda Glaze*
Doris J. Groves*
Susan* and Philip Hammer*
Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese
Karita* and Paul Hummer*
Michele Kelly-Jones and William Jones
Beverly and Peter W. Lipman
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
Carol Stanley*
Marcia* and Howard Summers*
Dr. Jan Newstrom Thompson and Paul Goldstein
Nathalie and Gaurav Verma
Larene Wambsganss*
Daphne and Stuart Wells
William Zoller*
*deceased
VIEWS FROM YOU
Visitors were invited to create what they see when they look through their window or to trace and design a double-exposure portrait like those in Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures. For this activity, postcards, pencils, and stencils were provided. Postcards could be taken home, sent to a loved one, or left to display for others to enjoy in the Art Learning Lab at the Museum
↗ A visitor shares the postcard he designed with his family.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION
STAFF
Viridiana Alcaraz-Alvarez, lead museum experience representative
Anamarie Alongi, registrar
Gemma Armas, manager of retail operations
Bailey Baeza, museum experience representative
Emilio Banuelos, senior studio art educator
S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director
Daniel Becker, associate exhibition designer
Jazelle Blanco-Rios, museum store sale associate
Matilda Bliss, senior gallery teacher [through March 2024]
Jeff Bordona, director of museum experience and education
Emma Brand, gallery teacher
Randy Bricco, facilities manager
Greg Brown, science curriculum consultant [through January 2024]
Hilary Burgoon, development and membership associate [through September 2023]
Mae Cariaga, lead museum experience representative
Tovah Cheng, art installation crew member
Justin Dang, museum experience representative
Aquiles de la Torre, graphic design and website manager
Nathaniel Decena, museum store sales associate [through August 2023]
Lauren Schell Dickens, chief curator
Catherine Do, gallery teacher
Patricia Duany, collections manager and database administrator
Ricardo Espinoza , museum experience representative
Franchesca Flores, studio art educator
Linda Franklin, senior gallery teacher
Jared Gacusan, lead museum experience representative
Cibella Gamma, lead museum experience representative [through August 2023]
Nidhi Gandhi, curatorial and programs associate
Ara Garcia, executive assistant and board liaison
Nestor Gutierrez, development and finance assistant
Amanda Helton, manager of digital strategy [through March 2024]
Shelby Hendricks, studio art educator
Daniel Jimenez, manager of museum experience
Sam Joseph, studio art educator
Richard James Karson, director of design and operations
Leslie Kim, studio art educator
Rebekah Kim, studio art educator
Jessica Kwong, membership manager
Aaron Lee, preparator
Sarah Lerohl-Welch, museum experience representative [through July 2023]
Frederick Liang, marketing and communications coordinator
Kevin MacDonald, events manager
Madison Manzo, lead museum experience representative
Jordan Medina, lead museum experience representative
Ruby Morales, studio art educator
Gabriela Myers-Lipton, gallery teacher [through July 2023]
Khai Nguyen, accountant [through November 2023]
Galen Oback, museum experience representative
Micah Ong, lead museum experience representative
Nia Pommerenke, chief people and culture officer
Karen Rapp, deputy director
Cheryl Rediger, museum store sales associate
David Reisine, lead museum experience representative
Alieh Rezaei, studio art educator
Kelsey Rieger Olsen, manager of K-12 curriculum and instruction [as of November 2023]
Juan Omar Rodriguez, assistant curator
Abel Romero, museum experience representative
Leslie Romo, museum experience representative
Melanie Samay, director of marketing and communications
Natalie Sanchez, development and grants manager
Jhay Santos, human resources administrator [through May 2024]
Amy Sargeant, manager of K-12 curriculum and instructions [through June 2023]
Zartashia Shah, studio artist educator [through October 2023]
Jennifer Sime, chief philanthropy officer
Sofia Skavdahl, development associate [as of January 2024]
Kayt Smith, gallery teacher specialist
Brian Spang, chief financial officer
Shannon Stearns, education program coordinator
Jack Stinson, art installation crew member
Jai Tanju, facilities and events assistant
Maya Tirumurti, studio art educator [through September 2023]
Robin Treen, manager of special projects and community partnerships
Thuy Vo, accountant [as of November 2023]
Lydia Watson, gallery teacher
Jeri Yasukawa, art installation crew member
Julian Zamora, studio art education specialist
IN REAL TIME, PEPPER’S GHOST EXPERIENCE
The In Real Time Art Learning Lab experience in the exhibition Encode/Store/Retrieve incorporated the Peper's Ghost effect, a 19th-century illusion technique that uses angled glass to reflect a hidden image, creating the appearance of a ghostly figure or object.
This activity provided visitors with an immersive experience inviting reflection on the impermanence of both digital and physical memories and the challenge of preserving our past for future.
↗ Museum goers interact and reflect in the Art Lab's interpretive space, In Real Time.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE
STAFF HIGHLIGHT
THE ART LEARNING LAB JOURNAL WAS CREATED TO ENHANCE VISITOR EXPERIENCE AND ENCOURAGE STUDENTS AND FAMILIES TO VISIT THE MUSEUM.
It is distributed on-site and also at off-site events. The journal, now in its fourth iteration, (soon going into its fifth) is created by the education team and SJMA teachers. The teachers ideate the artworks and themes to be discussed and then design the activities. The education team is working with curatorial regarding themes, with marketing on branding, and with museum experience representatives on distribution.
Through interpretive art activities, visitors are invited to explore current works on display in the Museum and explore timely themes. The interactive booklet offers a canvas for reflection on the works of art on display. Designed for note-taking and reflection, it facilitates the visitor’s exploration of art, turning their Museum visit into a personalized and insightful experience. The journal encourages visitors to draw from their own experiences to find connections between ourselves and our world through art.
↖ Art Learning Lab journals include activities to be done in the galleries and at home.
OPERATING SUPPORT
OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMS AT THE SAN JOSÉ MUSEUM OF ART ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY PRINCIPAL SUPPORT FROM SJMA’s Board of Trustees, a Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of San José, and the Lipman Family Foundation; BY LEAD SUPPORT FROM THE Adobe Foundation, the California Arts Council, Toby and Barry Fernald, Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, Tammy and Tom Kiely, the Knight Foundation, Evelyn and Rick Neely, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Skyline Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the SJMA Director's Council and Council of 100; AND WITH SIGNIFICANT ENDOWMENT SUPPORT FROM THE William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the San José Museum of Art Endowment Fund established by the Knight Foundation at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
MISSION STATEMENT
The San José Museum of Art nurtures empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art.
FY2023 Annual Report July 1, 2023–June 30, 2024 Image Credits
