San Jose Museum Of Art Association

Programs: Exhibitionsthe san jose museum of art is a leading showcase in the bay area for modern and contemporary art. The museum has earned a reputation for its fresh, distinctive exhibitions, which are conceived to engage museum visitors of various ages and cultural backgrounds. Through its exhibitions and programs, sjma addresses major trends in international contemporary art, architecture, and design, with an ongoing commitment to place the work of emerging artists and california art in national and international context. The museum strives to make significant contributions to art-historical scholarship; address prescient issues of interest to the general public; and offer programs that reflect the rich diversity of its communities. The museum presents nine to twelve exhibitions each year, including one-person and thematic group exhibitions that include a range of artworks, from traditional painting to exploratory new-media installations. The curatorial staff organizes most of the exhibitions in a given season. In-house exhibitions are accompanied by scholarly publications or websites and regularly travel to other museums across the country. Given its location in the heart of the high-technology culture of silicon valley, the museum has a substantial commitment to new work in new media, as well as to initiating special projects and commissions that reflect the issues of importance to its communities. In fy1617, sjma presented art and math, the current year-long exhibition conceived for its interactive family-focused gallery; five special exhibitions organized in-house (the darkened mirror: global perspectives on water, beta space: victor cartagena, diana al-hadid: liquid city, your mind, this moment: art and the practice of attention, and life and labor: photographs by milton rogovin) and presented the traveling loan exhibitions beauty: cooper hewitt design triennial and fragile waters: photographs by ansel adams, ernest h. Brooks ii, and dorothy kerper monnelly. The scope of sjma's collection and the nature of exhibitions drawn from the collection are described in schedule d part iii, line 4. Through the regularly changing schedule of innovative exhibitions, both traveling exhibitions and those drawn from the museum's permanent collection, sjma served 48,148 people.

educationthe museum experience and education department provides enriching visual-art experiences to a broad spectrum of the community. The department is widely known for its commitment to accessibility; hands-on family activity stations in the galleries; award-winning interpretation; and cross-disciplinary programmatic partnerships whereby activities occur in decentralized locales as well as at the museum. Sjma is the largest provider of arts education in the schools in greater santa clara county. Sjma is dedicated to furthering online learning and to opening 21st-century doorways to art. The museum pioneers dynamic new ways of providing historical context and of amplifying audiences' experiences. The museum proudly offers a spectrum of educational programming that provides critical early exposure to the visual arts for tens of thousands of students in grades kindergarten through twelve, from tours to workshops, in-class presentations, and curriculum guides. Its flagship in-school residency program, sowing creativity, integrates learning through the arts with common core standards and primarily serves title 1 schools in the san jose area. The san jose museum of art's programs are rooted in the belief that accessing personal creativity is a key driver of innovationand that innovation is a skill that can be inspired, nurtured, and developed through arts learning. The museum provides arts education for curious schoolchildren, educators, university faculty, and college students. In fy1617, the education department served more than 44,000 students through museum visits for primary-school, secondary-school, and college groups in addition to in-school artist's residencies, docents' presentations, and week-long art camps. Public programs such as lectures, gallery tours, art-making workshops for adults and children, and free community days promote lifelong learning and serve multigenerational families, creative adults, and community groups. More than 10,000 people were served in this past fiscal year through the museum's public education programs. Hallmarks of sjma's welcoming and playful environment are its participatory gallery activities, which are conceived in tandem with the curatorial and marketing departments to encourage deeper engagement with the exhibitions and to promote a sense of creative play. Sjma's website enables smooth delivery of information; participatory educational material and curatorial projects; the integration social media; and access to the museum's collection for the public and scholars alike. It is accessible across all platforms, including mobile. Sjma's educational programs reached 57,866 people during the year.

museum storethe museum store is located off the main lobby of sjma. This active gift and book store carries mission-related products that are educational, foster creativity, and encourage the appreciation of art. The museum store also features custom products by area artists and craftsmen as well as merchandise relevant to each current season of exhibitions. The store is staffed by museum employees as well as an active contingent of longtime volunteers.