San José Museum of Art FY22 Annual Report

FY22 ANNUAL REPORT

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AT A GLANCE

10K

1,323 member households

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

Reached 10K followers on Instagram

ACQUIRED BY

41 27 Works

Artists

2.2K

LLAA docents volunteered 1,005 hours at 110 schools

Presented the first ever exhibition devoted to Jean Conner

Docent Council gave public tours to 2,200 visitors

Awarded 22 scholarships for Kids’ Summer Art Camp

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

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

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

together safely, using the Museum as a

Wayfinder: Clare Rojas, a public art project

We celebrated an ambitious year building

nexus of art, technology, and community.

encouraged visitors to explore downtown

the permanent collection, adding forty-

We honored patrons Mary Mocas and

San José. Beta Space: Trevor Paglen, the

one acquisitions by twenty-seven artists.

Marv Tseu and the artist Rina Banerjee at

artist’s first sound piece, a commission

We continue our focus on gender parity,

the virtual Gala + Auction in September

installed in SJMA’s historic clocktower,

cultural diversity, and artistic innovation,

2021. The Museum became a television

resounds into the streets of downtown San

while proactively acquiring socially relevant

production site as we broadcast tributes

José on the hour. Hulda Guzmán’s public

contemporary art. A highlight of the year

and speeches to raise critical funds for the

banner joined a public arts initiative for

was the acquisition of two major sculptures

Museum. The Gala was a great success,

climate awareness, on view in April 2022.

for long-term view in outdoor sculpture

thanks to our devoted donors and hono-

courts: Kelly Akashi’s flowering Cultivator

rees, and grossed over $1 million for the

In November, SJMA opened Our whole,

(2022) and Huma Bhabha's Receiver (2019),

first time in SJMA history, all in support of

unruly selves. Largely drawn from

a towering eight-foot bronze sculpture.

education and exhibitions.

the permanent collection, the exhibition explored figuration in critically

Finally, SJMA presented the first solo

The 2021 fall season renewed our dedi-

nuanced ways with ninety works of art.

museum exhibition for the Bay Area artist

cation to become a borderless Museum,

Collaborating with artist Aislinn Thomas,

Jean Conner, which opened in Spring 2022

essential to creative life throughout the

who created a sound work with Teatro

accompanied by a gorgeously illustrated

diverse communities of San José and Silicon

Visión, the project included experimental,

catalog. Jean Conner: Collage received a

SAN JOSÉ MUSEUM OF ART OPENED

Valley, a goal updated to respond to the

visual descriptions of artworks on view.

strong response in the press, from local

THE FISCAL YEAR DAZZLINGLY WITH THE

changed post-pandemic world. The strate-

Also in the galleries was an Art Learning

journalists to Artnet News, The Brooklyn

BAY AREA PREMIERE OF HITO STEYERL:

gic planning task force, comprised of staff

Lab, created by the Education staff, that

Rail and Forbes.

FACTORY OF THE SUN.

and Board members, worked with consult-

furthered connection with the community.

DIRECTOR’S LETTER

ants LaPlaca Cohen on this critical task,

Whether our audiences prefer their unruly

On that first Friday in August, we also

delivered along with a new mission state-

SJMA education programs returned to

selves, dancing or meditative repose, they

debuted SJMA’s partnership with the City

ment in summer 2022:

in-person instruction in the Museum

are sure to find something to delight them

and out in the schools, creating the

at SJMA.

of San José’s CityDance. Eight hundred people came to dance on the Circle of

The San José Museum of Art nurtures

opportunity to converse with educators

Palms and enjoy the exhibition open-

empathy and connection by engaging

about their changing needs, and provid-

ing, with a long line forming to enter the

communities with socially relevant

ing programs focused on social and

immersive space. The project was ampli-

contemporary art.

emotional learning. These services are

fied by a collaboration with New Art City’s

uniquely provided by SJMA, and the arts

virtual interactive environment The Identity

The fall season premiered new border-

and education programs gained momen-

Factory, fulfilling our goal to bring people

less projects bringing art out into the city.

tum as the year progressed.

S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director ↖ 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.

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IDENTITY FACTORY

HITO STEYERL: FACTORY OF THE SUN

SJMA commissioned New Art City,

August 6, 2021–September 25, 2022

sunshine. The story is based on an actual YouTube phenome-

an online multiplayer exhibition space

SJMA PRESENTED HITO STEYERL’S FACTORY OF THE SUN (2015),

non (her studio assistant’s brother whose viral homemade dance

for digital art and performance, to further

A LANDMARK INSTALLATION THAT WAS NOT ONLY VERY

videos were used as a model for Japanese anime characters)

explore the ideas of labor in the digital

SMART AND TIMELY, BUT ALSO FUN FOR THE VISITORS

and a news story about an experiment at CERN, the European

WHO EXPERIENCED IT.

Organization for Nuclear Research, which claimed to have

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

Factory of the Sun tells a surreal story of workers whose forced dance moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial

measured a particle traveling faster than the speed of light.

The matrix-like installation practically demanded

On screen, Steyerl interweaves fact and fiction; a montage of

selfie-snapping for social media, even as it critically examined

YouTube dance videos, drone surveillance footage, real documen-

that very act as labor in a capitalist system of surveillance.

tation of recent international student uprisings combines with video game characters, fake news, and gold lamé-costumed danc-

developed The Identity Factory. In this virtual interactive environment, users constructed

A joint acquisition among the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles,

ing avatars. In this imaginative reality spun from Haraway’s theory,

image-based identities for online distribution.

the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and SJMA, the criti-

the motion capture studio’s glowing grid of blue LED lights extends

The intriguing results can be seen online at

cally acclaimed, immersive video is inspired by a quote from Donna

beyond the screen into the gallery, like a Star Trekkian “holodeck”

newart.city/show/the-identity-factory

Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto (1985), which described machines

able to materialize a different world in three dimensions. Modern

as “made of pure sunlight.” In the video, Steyerl explains: “Our

warfare, corporate culture, and anti-capitalist resistance move-

machines are made of pure sunlight. Electromagnetic frequencies.

ments are played out by disembodied characters—avatars, bots,

Light pumping through fiberglass cables. The sun is our factory.”

or proxies for the human viewers who watch the video from the

The premise of machines made of pure sunlight is not a romantic

vantage of reclined beach chairs.

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.

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.

FY22

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.

MUSEUM STORE GUILD VOLUNTEERS M E M B E RS Marilyn August Connie Bantillo

Commissioned by SJMA, the San Francisco-based artist designed 40 streetlight banners in shades of pink,

Nancy Beckman

magenta, and lavender, which were installed along South Market and West San Carlos streets. Each banner

Yale Bloomberg

featured a cascade of stylized blackbirds that tumble and shapeshift into abstract, beguiling forms. In the

Lawrie Brown

artist’s work, blackbirds appear as omens from the supernatural world. Imbued with mysticism and magic,

Pat Caporal

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

Madisen Castaneda Kelly Donohue Maura Donohue Sequoia Jackson Bill Jones Rachel Karklin Michele Kelly-Jones

creative life throughout the diverse communities of San José and Silicon Valley. Wayfinder

Madelyn Lee

reimagines existing streetlight banner infrastructure as a venue for temporary public art,

Chris Mengarelli

enlivening city streets with cutting-edge art and design.

Sidney Mygatt Jeannie Pedroza

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

Carla Rosenblum Shu Rosenthal Shelley Smith Norkia Takada Rebecca Voss Anh Vu Mitsu Wasano

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.

Alisa Wetzel

AS I AM AND AS I BECOME

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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 main-

OUR WHOLE, UNRULY SELVES and irreducible. Each of their artworks embodies strategies for a

stream culture. For Our whole, unruly selves,

November 19, 2021 – June 26, 2022

complex figuration, highlighting forms of resistance, flexibility, open-

she created a sound work of experimental,

WITHIN THE VARIED TRADITIONS OF FIGURATION,

ness, and an embrace of opacity.

visual descriptions for artworks on view in the

THIS EXHIBITION MINED THE COLLECTION TO TEASE OUT

galleries. Such descriptions, usually intended

THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND UNEXPECTED DIALOGUES ON

The exhibition inspired an array of related programming.

to make visual information aurally accessible

THE COMPLEXITIES OF REPRESENTATION AS BOTH A

to people who cannot fully or easily see, can

San Jose Jazz presented Boundless Spontaneity: Jazz Responses

RIGHT AND BURDEN.

to Figurative Traditions, a four-part series of live music in the

also poetically expand beyond the limits of the visual. Thomas collaborated with an intergener-

galleries that explored the rule-breaking and liberating potential Centering artists of color as well as queer, immigrant, disabled,

of jazz. The Art Learning Lab SEE + BE SEEN offered a moment

and undocumented artists, Our whole, unruly selves featured over

of pause and reflection in the exhibition. Visitors were invited to

90 works from the 1960s to the present, largely drawn from the

consider themes raised in the exhibition and to think about how

sculpture, or photograph as a living entity with

Museum’s permanent collection. Demonstrating an alignment

they view themselves, how others view them, and what their ideal

its own thoughts and experiences. By weaving

with philosopher and poet Fred Moten’s “consent not to be a single

version of self might be. Art 101 participants experimented with

together varied perspectives for each work,

being,” the artists on view—including Laura Aguilar, Benny Andrews,

digital illustration to make gathered portraits, and the San José

these poetic descriptions conjure the depth

Felipe Baeza, Rina Banerjee, Huma Bhabha, Woody De Othello,

Public Library’s Racial Equity Team developed reading lists of

of inner lives and offer possibilities for

Carlee Fernandez, Genevieve Gaignard, Tim Hawkinson, Kenyatta

creative approaches to access.

related books for children, teens, and adults.

A.C. Hinkle, Oliver Lee Jackson, Steffani Jemison, Hayv Kahraman,

ational group of twenty contributors from Teatro Visión. Each participant assumed a first-person voice and imagined the subject of each painting,

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

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.

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JEAN CONNER: COLLAGE

feminist spirit. The accompanying publication (published

arrangements of animals, nature, religious symbolism,

in December 2022) is also Conner’s first monograph and

aquatic environments, food, women, dancers, and divers.

covers her seventy-year career.

Conner’s command of color, line, and form imparts an astounding seamlessness, merging discrete images into

May 6, 2022 – September 25, 2022

rule-bending and impossible realities.

ORGANIZED BY SJMA, JEAN CONNER: COLLAGE WAS

The exhibition featured work from the 1950s to the present

THE ARTIST’S FIRST SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION. THIS

and included rarely seen materials from the Conner Family

EXHIBITION WAS MUCH OVERDUE FOR JEAN CONNER,

Trust, recent acquisitions by major public museums, and

Visitors were invited to experiment with collage at

WHO HAS CREATED SEDUCTIVE, CLEVER, AND HUMOR-

works from private collections. Arranged thematically, the

the interpretive station, Collaged Community.

OUS COLLAGES FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES.

exhibition highlighted Conner’s whimsical imagination and clever critiques of mass-media representations of women,

SJMA was thrilled to share the San Francisco-based

war, the environment, and burgeoning new technologies.

artist’s extraordinary and compelling collages that demon-

Primarily made from images cut out of large-format color

strate her clever wit, keen eye, abundant curiosity, and

magazines, Conner’s vivid, pictorial worlds feature playful

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.

FY22

HULDA GUZMÁN: HIGÜERO April 1 – April 30, 2022 Earth Month brought a great opportunity for SJMA

BETA SPACE: TREVOR PAGLEN

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

to participate in A Cool Million (ACM), a Bay Areawide initiative for climate awareness led by artists.

November 5, 2021 – October 29, 2023

generated text from “official” data sets like satellite naviga-

As part of this program to expand environmental

BETA SPACE: TREVOR PAGLEN FEATURED THE ARTIST’S

justice programming and support the conser-

tion systems, the UN critically endangered species list, and

FIRST SOUND PIECE, A NEW PUBLIC COMMISSION TITLED

California Fire updates. Resonating through the streets, aural

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (2021).

information recast the texture of the city for approximately 45

vation 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,

seconds. As Letha Ch’ien wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, Installed in SJMA’s historic clocktower, it resounded into the

Paglen’s installation “surprises us out of our solitary absorption

streets of downtown San José on the hour from 8am to 8pm,

into a strange communal experience.”

as well as at sunrise, solar noon, and sunset.

More than 1,700 people tuned in to hear Paglen discuss his

lounge, congregate, share secrets, and play—all colored and enriched by embracing nature and

The work was the seventh installation of the Museum’s ongo-

work, along with artist Hito Steyerl, in a Creative Minds

celebrated through the act of painting.

ing “Beta Space” series, a commissioning program that offers

conversation livestreamed on October 12, 2021.

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

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.

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.

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FIRST FRIDAY

In the late summer and fall, the Circle of Palms was the site for

CityDance is presented by the City of San José

three nights of CityDance San José. With live bands and a profes-

Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs,

SJMA OPENS ITS DOORS ON THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH

sional dance instructor, visitors tuned their skills, learned

FOR FREE EVENINGS THAT CELEBRATE NEW EXHIBITIONS OR

something new, or just showed off. In the spring, San Jose Jazz

SHOWCASE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.

presented musical evenings in the Charlotte Wendell Education Center with free performances by the SJZ U19s, Kyle Hernandez, and Skyline Hot Club.

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.

DOCENT COUNCIL FY22

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

ACTI V E Daniela Barone

Tricia Hill

Miho Poelman

Jamie Chambliss

Michaela Landrok

Leah Read

Marleen Chan

Erin Lu

Monica

Francine Craven

Geraldine

Lisa Dearborn

Martinez-Magarelli

Rojano-Moguel Elizabeth Ryono

Peter Fargo

Lenore Maynard

Elizabeth Seiden

Kathy Gibson

Astrid Mazin

Zartashia Shah

Salome Gut

Peggy Yep Morrow

Jeanne Torre

Kim Harris

Tammy Nickel

Lotte Van De Walle

ASSOCIATE

SUSTAI N I NG

Betty Faultner

Ursula M. Anderson

Lisa Lubliner

Barbara Hansen

Lauren Buchholz

Ann Marie Mix

Sharlyn Heron

Doris Burgess

Evelyn Neely

Karen Huitric

Sandra Churchill

Susanne Offensend

Lys House

Clarice Dent

Joyce Oyama

Suzette Mahr

Dolores Fajardo

Hal Turk

Shauna Mika

Lorraine Fitch

Rick Vierhus

For the Día de los Muertos celebration, SJMA continued its long running tradition of

Ursula Shultz

Cathleen Fortune

collaborating with San José Multicultural Artists Guild, the Children’s Discovery Museum,

Bob Strain

Linda Foster

Alayne Yellum

Lisa Gallo

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

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.

ON LEAV E Michael Arellano

Maryana Petrenko

Kenna French

Pirjo Polari-Khan

Lucy Lu

Ellen Tafeen

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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

Nurturing

Making

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

community relevance a core component of exhibition and programming decisions

and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art.

Deliberate

The revised 5-year plan retains the overarching objective

listening, learning, and sharing

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

Fostering

Contributing

empathetic human connections

to the vibrancy of San José

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

Inspiring

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

Ensuring

creativity, visionary inquiry, and critical thinking

a collaborative and equitable internal culture

with and centering on artists' unique perspectives and practices

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.

Leading

Lifting

up historically underrepresented voices and stories

FY22

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.

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.

The catalog features lush color reproductions of Conner’s collages, many previously

By partnering with local arts organizations and nonprofits, SJMA introduces experiences and conversations

unpublished, an illustrated biography

that go beyond the Museum’s on-site offerings, ensuring multiple entry points to the San José Museum of Art.

with photographs of the artist throughout her life, and new

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Folklórico Nacional Mexicano Juvenil

RAFT San Jose

scholarship on her work.

Children's Discovery Museum

Geography of the Arts, San José State

Rising Phoenix Lion Dance Association

↑ Jean Conner: Collage catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Available at store.sjmusart.org.

City of San José, Office of Cultural Affairs

University's College of Humanities and

San Jose Jazz

City of San José, Office of Racial Equity

the Arts, in partnership with SJPL

San Jose Public Library (SJPL)

Chopsticks Alley Art

KCC Urisawe at Plaza de Cesar Chavez

San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild

City Lights Theater Company

Maker [Space] Ship by SJPL

Silicon Valley Pride

CityDance, Office of Cultural Affairs and

Mosaic America

Teatro Visión

Valley Transportation Authority

New Ballet

FY22

AWARD WINNING VIDEO

The video won a bronze Addy Award from the American Advertising Awards competition, which recognizes and

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

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."

FY22

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.

FY22

PRESS 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

GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE AAPI MONTH

• 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

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.

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LET'S LOOK AT ART DOCENTS FY22 ACTI V E

LET'S LOOK AT ART

Kathi Cambiano

Tricia Hill

Tony Misch

Bing Chen

Julia Jacobson

Barb Nelson

Giada Conte

Colleen Jansen

Linda Notario

Susan Curtin

Tatiana Kalinina

Mary Perry

Nushelle de Silva

Teja Karra

Louise Persson

Lisa Dearborn

Gail Kefauver

Maria Quillard

Debbie Earl

Jean Kellett

Pamela Ryalls-Boyd

Harriet Erbes

Linda Klein

Liana Salikhova

Robin Feinman-Marino

Marcia Klein

Elizabeth Seiden

Toby Fernald

Anar Kotadia

Liz Summerhayes

Jody Foster

Karen Lantz

Sherry Tsai

Cathy Fraser

Andrea Lee

Lotte van de Walle

Suman Ganapathy

Laurel Lee

Martha Weber

Karen Harrington

Gerri Finkelstein Lurya

Beth Herner

Laurie Malone

SUSTAI N I NG LET’S LOOK AT ART, SJMA’S VOLUNTEER-LED PROGRAM

Julie Anderson

Linda Gallo

Susan McGowan

THAT BRINGS FREE ART HISTORY LESSONS INTO SCHOOLS,

Marilyn August

Lisa Gallo

Ellen Mclnnis

CELEBRATED ITS FIFTIETH YEAR OF SERVICE IN FY2022.

Carol Bower

Linda Goldberg

Rosemarie Mirkin

Eve Brasfield

Joan Gorham

Linda Mitchell

Christy Cali

Barbara Hansen

Lydia Moret

Kathleen Callan

Julia Hartman

Linda Pfeiffer

Char Devich

Dave Himmelblau

Amy Rapport

Connie Dimmitt

Carole Kilik

Carrie Ross

Nancy Dunne

Loretta Lopez

Joan Sharrock

Norma Faulkner

Chuck Lucchesi

Diana Taylor

Lorrie Fitch

Loyce Mandella

Nancy Wylde

Nancy Mathews

Christine Zheng

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.

FY22

RESIDENCIES

KIDS’ SUMMER ART CAMP

SJMA’S SOWING CREATIVITY PROGRAM BRINGS PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS

SJMA SAFELY RETURNED TO ONSITE CAMPS, WITH FIVE SOLD-OUT

INTO THE CLASSROOM TO LEAD STUDENTS IN CHALLENGING AND ENGAGING

WEEKS WITH NO COVID-19 CASES.

HANDS-ON ART ACTIVITIES OVER MULTI-WEEK RESIDENCIES, INCORPORATING MATH, SCIENCE, AND ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES.

To accommodate immunocompromised campers and parent preferences, SJMA offered one week of virtual camp. Four unique weeks of teen programming

This year, Sowing Creativity expanded into after school programs and whole

covered digital illustration, printmaking, art and activism, and 3D sculpture.

school residencies, both of which will continue into FY2023. With 2-Part Art taught

Campers learned about museum jobs through weekly presentations by the cura-

both virtually and in-person, educators received compliments from classroom

tors and installation team and applied these lessons to create their end-of-camp

teachers for adherence to high safety and health standards.

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

↑ Residency at Washington Elementary, 2022.

provide free tuition for campers, awarding twenty-one scholarships ↑ Teacher Jackelin Solorio with students at Kids" Summer camp, which resumed to in person classes in July 2022.

FY22

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.

FY22

E XHIB I T IONS

PUBL IC P ROGR AMS

SP ECI AL P ROJECTS

E DUC AT ION

COLLECTIONS

DE V E LOP MENT

OP E RATIONS

FY22

NEW OUTDOOR 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

HUMA BHABHA

↖ Previous spread

↗ Receiver, 2019

Cultivator, 2022

Bronze and paint

Bronze, handblown glass, stainless steel,

98 ¾ × 18 × 25 inches

concrete, native plants

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation

80 × 72 × 48 inches

2022.06

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.

FY22

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

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.

80 × 72 × 48 inches Museum purchase with funds provided by Kimberly and Patrick Lin 2022.10

connect to the community, including many works that thematically address current cultural, political, and social issues.

JEAN CONNER

Abstracted to the point of illegibility, 2021

↑ WHAT?, 1958

Ink, watercolor, acrylic, graphite, and

Cut and pasted printed paper

cut paper collage on panel

8 × 9 1⁄8 inches

5 × 7 inches

Gift of a private collection

Gift of a private collection 2021.07

↑ Emerging in difference, 2022 Ink, graphite, glitter, interference powder,

© Kelly Akashi. Courtesy of the Artist,

twine, acrylic and cut paper collage on paper

François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and

78 ¾ × 51 ½ inches

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Museum purchase with funds provided by

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,

Kimberly and Patrick Lin, Geraldine and Marco Magarelli,

ABS pipe, audio system, and hardware

and Yvonne and Mike Nevens

28 × 96 × 71 inches

2022.11

Gift of Susan and James Phillips

© Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London.

2021.13

HUMA BHABHA

ALA EBTEKAR

Receiver, 2019

Thirty-six Views of the Moon, 2022

2021.11

Bronze and paint

Cyanotypes on found book pages

Courtesy of the Artist and

98 ¾ × 18 × 25 inches

94 × 132 inches

GAVLAK Gallery Los Angeles | Palm Beach.

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation

Photo by Ed Mumford.

2022.06

2022.09

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 Museum acquired 41 works representing diverse artists that

FELIPE BAEZA

the Lipman Acquisitions Fund

CHIE FUEKI Nikko, 2018

FY22

Acrylic, ink, and colored pencil on mulberry paper on wood 72 × 72 inches

CATHERINE OPIE

Gift of the American Academy of Arts and

Untitled, from the series

Letters, New York; Hassam Speicher,

“In and Around Home,” 2005

Betts and Symons Funds, 2021

Chromogenic print

2021.06

22 × 26 inches Gift of Eileen Harris Norton

DAVID HUFFMAN

2021.17

→ AHMAUD, 2021 Acrylic, oil, spray paint, color pencil,

EAMON ORE-GIRON

glitter, and collage on panel

Infinite Regress CXCII, 2022

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

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

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

PATRICIA PICCININI

ALYSON SHOTZ

8 11⁄16 × 12 1/4 inches

JOHN O’REILLY

Cleaner, 2019

Gifts of the Lipman Family Foundation

2021.09.08

Gifts of James Tellin, Worcester, MA, and

Black-headed Grosbeak, 1939

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Black Stallion, 1940

2022.12

16 ¼ × 10 1/2 inches 2021.09.04

Richard the Opossum, 1936 7 ¼ × 10 5⁄8 inches 2021.09.05

paint, wooden dowels, hair, collage

11 ¾ × 27 ½ × 35 3⁄8 inches

Wet-spun linen thread and pins on panel

2021.09.09

Polaroid montage

in honor of the 25th anniversary of

49 × 73 inches

Hosfelt Gallery

2021.05.02

3 ¾ × 9 3⁄8 inches

DINH Q. LÊ

HUNG LIU Valentine’s Day, 2018 Oil on canvas 80 × 80 inches

2021.08.01

Double in Marble, 1988 Polaroid montage

↑ Actualidades/Breaking News, 2016

3 ¾ × 8 ¼ inches

Digital video with sound

2021.08.02

Running time: 22 minutes,

A Classic Projection, 1989

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

3 ¾ × 8 5⁄8 inches

anniversary of the Hosfelt Gallery

2021.08.03

2022.01

in memory of Hung Liu. 2021.05.01

Polaroid montage

Falling Fold #3 (Yellow), 2018 Wet-spun linen thread and pins on panel 49 × 73 inches 2021.05.03

46 seconds

Polaroid montage

Nocturne Series #12, 2007

TONY MAY

2022.02

LILIANA PORTER

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation,

ROSE B. SIMPSON Sun I, 2019 Ceramic, glaze, and string

Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery.

32 × 8 × 6 inches

© Liliana Porter.

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation 2021.18

7 × 10 7⁄8 inches

ANALIA SABAN

2021.08.04

Motherboard #8, 2020

LIVIEN YIN

Ink on computer circuit board

After Washerwoman’s Lagoon, 2021

16 ½ × 13 × 2 inches

Acrylic on cotton canvas

Museum purchase with funds provided by

84 × 60 inches

…Neither Is This, 1994 Mixed media on metal

Artist’s Dream, 2010

10 ¾ × 43 ¾ × 1 inches

Paper montage 11 ⁄8 × 9 ⁄8 inches

Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

Gift of Micki Meng

2021.08.05

2022.04

2022.07

22 × 108 × 72 inches

Growing Corn, 1938

Gift of Susan and James Phillips

10 ½ × 7 ¼ inches

Gift of Peter Gordon

2021.09.06

2021.10

2021.14

Falling Fold (Blue), 2018

Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation

2021.16

Lot Clearing – Los Angeles, 1935

and human hair

Bacchians, 1988/2022

Gift of Eileen Harris Norton

Elizabeth and Byron Ryono

Fiberglass, auto paint, silicone,

8 3⁄8 × 10 7⁄8 inches

2021.09.02

22 ⁄8 × 22 ⁄8 inches

Construction paper, Styrofoam,

2022.13

46 × 84 inches

2021.09.03

Fuck It, 2002

the Lipman Acquisitions Fund

10 ¼ × 7 ¾ inches

7 3⁄8 × 10 5⁄8 inches

TOM FRIEDMAN

2021.09.07

Chromogenic print and linen tape

Watercolor on paper Museum purchase with funds provided by

Museum purchase with funds provided by

2006 El Moran, 1932

Laguna Cove, 1935

1

72 × 72 inches

7 ¼ × 10 ½ inches

Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1991

1072414, 2014 1

Mineral paint and Flashe on linen Winter, 1938

7

1

FY22

ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE

Kimberly Lin, chair Daniela Barone

ARTPICK EVERY YEAR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF 100 AND DIRECTOR'S COUNCIL PARTICIPATE IN THE

SHIVA AHMADI

ANNUAL PURCHASE OF ART FOR THE MUSEUM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION AT THE C100 ARTPICK.

↑ Ascend, 2017

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.

Single-channel animation Running time: 6 minutes, 48 seconds Museum purchase with funds provided by the Council of 100 2022.05

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

FY22

E XHIB I T IONS

PUBL IC P ROGR AMS

SP ECI AL P ROJECTS

E DUC AT ION

COLLECTIONS

DE VE LOPMENT

OP E RATIONS

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.

FY22

FY22

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.

DONORS + MEMBERS FY22

WE THANK OUR DONORS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT July 2021–June 2022

$500,000+

$2,500 – $9,999

Therese Mrozek and Tom Bevilacqua

Lorri Kershner

Google

Anonymous

Sarah and Denny North

Cheryl and Bruce Kiddoo

The Hammer 1993 Revocable Trust

Ariko Family Foundation

Jane and John Olin

Tammy and Tom Kiely

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation

The Armstrong Family Charitable Foundation

Republic Services

Wanda Kownacki

Claudia Worthington Hess

Association of Art Museum Directors

Dennis Rohan

KPMG LLP

Pamela and David Hornik

Jane Bark and Thomas Matson

Stephan Serfontein

Sally Lucas

Hosfelt Gallery

Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson

Barbara Shapiro and Mark Lewis

Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

Diane Jonte-Pace

Susan Casentini and Kyle Milligan

Eileen Silver

McManis Faulkner

Koret Foundation

Cisco

SJMA Docent Council

Lorna Meyer and Dennis Calas

Elena Lebedeva and Alvin W. Smith

George Crow in honor of Susan Crow

Alexandra and Murphy Stein

$100,000 – $199,999

Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu

Worth and Andy Ludwick

eBay

Robert Strain

Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese

National Endowment for the Arts

Deedee McMurtry

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Economy and

Jack Stuppin

Kimberly and Patrick Lin

Evelyn and Rick Neely

Ann Marie Mix

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

Carol and Gerry Parker

Marge and Ken Nissly

Maureen Ellenberg

Sandy Swirsky and Lyle Merithew

Cornelia and Nathan Pendleton

Rita and Kent Norton

Eileen and Alfred Fernandes

Elle Travers and J. Michael Bewley

Alyce and Mike Parsons

Martin Fox and John Green

Sonya Moore-Wells and David Wells

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

$50,000 – $99,999

Mr. David M. Wah

Kimberlee Swig

Applied Materials

$10,000 – $24,999

Elizabeth and Byron Ryono

Cathy Grape

Roger Wery

Bank of America

Boydston Foundation

Rachel and Simon Segars

Susan Hartt

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati

First Tech Federal Credit Union

Elaine Cardinale

Hildy Shandell

Heritage Bank of Commerce

Goldman Sachs

Casey and Jack Carsten

Timi and John Sobrato

Lys and Lee House

$1,000 – $2,499

Myra Reinhard Family Foundation

Priya Chandrasekar and

SVCreates

Leslie Barton Littlejohn and

Nadia and Faisal Ahmad

Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation

Chandra Gnanasambandam

Swenson Foundation

Will Littlejohn

Larry Arzie and David Stonesifer

Amy and Pankaj Chowdhry

Roselyne C. Swig

Wendy and Mike Kirst

Iris Berke

Melanie and Peter Cross

Tech CU

Robin Rosa Laub

The Bohannon Foundation

$25,000 – $49,999

Peggy and Yogen Dalal

Shruti and Pawan Tewari

Suzette Mahr

Trish Bransten

Adobe

Leela De Souza and Peter Bransten

Dr. Jan N. Thompson and Paul Goldstein

Katie Martin and David Laurits

Chizen Family Foundation

Doris and Alan Burgess

Donna Dubinsky and Leonard Shustek

Susan and Sanjay Vaswani

Shauna Mika and Rick Callison

Lorraine and Noah Cohen

Lucia Cha

Anneke and David Dury

Daphne and Stuart Wells

Nicki and Pete Moffat

Vivian G. Crummey Benevolent Trust

Glenda and Gary Dorchak

Farrington Historical Foundation

Sara Wigh and Jim McManis

J.P. Morgan

Susan and Paul Curtin

Toby and Barry Fernald

FABIcash

Marsha and Jon Witkin

Gillian and Thomas Moran

Kathleen Demetri and David Fowler

Mr. Cole Harrell and Dr. Tai-Heng Cheng

Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation

Gayla and Walt Wood

The Morrison & Foerster Foundation

Celia and Jim Dudley

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

FY22

Susan and James Dyer Francesca Eastman and

Kate Schuelke

Eugene Eldridge

Virginia Montgomery

Jessica Silverman and Sarah Thornton

Sally and Bob Erickson

Antje and Paul Newhagen

Eta and Sass Somekh

Mary Falkar

Deborah D. and Henry F. Norberg

Carmen and Larry Stone

Ruth and Sean Fallon

Jeannie and Arthur Pedroza

Jacquie and Bill Faulkner

Taube Family Foundation

Georgiana and John Flaherty

Councilmember Raul Peralez

Mary and Thomas Field

Wayne Thiebaud*

Teresa and Allen Fleishman

Mary Piasecki

Jeanne and Frank Fischer

Maja Thomas and S. Sayre Batton

Marilyn Fogel and Dr. Bruce Fogel

Carol and Richard Pickard

Barbara and Martin Fishman

Judith and Allan Thompson

Janice Fox

Tammy Pressman

Roxanne Fleming and David Soward

Patricia Unterman and Tim Savinar

Tracy Freedman and Nick Robins

Leah and Charles Read

Marilyn and Bob Garibaldi

Barbara and Gary Vandeweghe

Sally and Tom Freese

Raj-Ann Rekhi Gill and Pavan Singh Gill

Rochelle and Bernard Greenfield

Kathryn Gallant

Jean and Henry Richards

Hassam Speicher,

Paul Vlasveld

Bradley Guzules

Wanda Waldera

Mary Jo Garrett

Beryl Rodenbaugh

Betts and Symons Funds

Elizabeth Hoffman and Morrie Druzin

Frederica Wolfe

Denise Giacomini and Carol Tanton

Judy Rookstool and Bob Leininger

Anonymous

Gloria and Stanley Hoo

Mark Young

Kathy and Stephen Gibson

Marianne and Carl Salas

Council of 100

Jean Hu

Lucia Albino Gilbert and John Gilbert

Edward Schreiner

Director's Council

Karen and Roger Huitric

$300 – $999

Raquel Gonzalez

Jan Schwartz and Robert Baden

Michele Kelly-Jones and Bill Jones

Rehana Abbas

Joan and Jack Gorham

David Shapiro

Jeff Kelley

Consuelo Bantillo

Michael Grant

Joanne and Lee Shombert

Kieve Foundation

Kristin and Christopher Bertrand

Jeffrey Gunn

Charity Silkebakken

Kay Knox, PhD

Susan Bickford

Barbara and Ronald Hansen

Karyn Sinunu-Towery and James Towery

Anar and Shiraz Kotadia

Leon Bonner and Redge Meixner

Carol Harell

Ruth and Alfred Sporer

Kimberly and Patrick Lin

Kathryn and Robert S. Lindo

Joan Bose

Kim Harris and Bennet Marks

Leanne and George Stanley

Lipman Family Foundation

Shelley Mahr

Rebecca and Matthew Bright

Megan Hayes and Reed Zars

Marsha and Maurice Stevenson

Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

Anne Manley and Michael G. Arellano

Margaret Brown

Sky and Jerry Hill

Daniel and Derek Tam

Abigail Melamed

Lenore and Denis Maynard

Lauri and David Carey

Charles Himmelblau

Jeanne Torre

Micki Meng

William McGee

Elaine Chin and Jerry Dyer

Trudy and Dan Hirschfeld

Claire Tsai

Rosemarie and Barry Mirkin

Dan Christman

Michael Hochberg

United Way of the Bay Area

Mary Murphy and Mark Stevens

Libby and Paul Conrado

Deborah Irmas

Maarit and Jonathan Visbal

Rosemarie and Robert Muzio

Helen Conway

Shannon Jackson

Geri Weimers

Mohamed Noah

Donna Crabb and Gustav Laub, III

Alyce and Steve Kaplan

Suzanne Wittrig and Alfonso Banuelos

Joy and Stuart Oberman

Laura and Eric Darnell

Betty and James Kasson

Rebecca Wolf

Elizabeth and Byron Ryono

Ann Walls Olmsted

Ellen and Dave De Simone

Rose and Tom Kausek

Martine Yingling and Ed Klofas

James Tellin, Worcester, MA

David R. Packard and Margaret B. Castor

Marilyn and Frank Dorsa

Katherine Mason

John Zarobell

Karla Pfeil and Peter Fargo

Frances Douglas

Charlie McCollum

Robert Waligore

Karen Schaffer and Michael Ward

Jane and David Duperrault

Janet Melamed

* deceased

DONORS TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION Acquisitions Committee American Academy of Arts and Letters;

Peter Gordon Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese Hosfelt Gallery Thomas Lavin

Yvonne and Mike Nevens Eileen Harris Norton Susanne and Fritz Offensend Susan and James Phillips

Edward Goodstein John S. Ettelson Fund in honor of Charlotte Wendel

IN-KIND DONORS

FOUNDERS’ SOCIETY

10th Street Distillery

Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu

Bequests and planned giving

21c Museum Hotels

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Anonymous

Nadia and Faisal Ahmad

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Doris and Alan Burgess

Altman Siegel

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

Ron Casentini

Amici Cellars

Gallery Wendi Norris

The Marion Sarah Cilker* Administrative Trust

Anglim/Trimble

Pace Gallery

Rosa and Werner Cohn*

Daniela Barone

Paulson Fontaine Press

Caroline Crummey*

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Jessica Silverman

Vivian Crummey*

Catharine Clark Gallery

Simcor, LLC

Faith C. and Paul L. Davies*

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

SJMA Docent Council

Glenda and Gary Dorchak

Susan and Paul Curtin

Patricia Sweetow Gallery

John Ettelson* in honor of Charlotte Wendel

Darioush Winery

Total Wine & More,

Dixon* and Barbara Farley

Glenda and Gary Dorchak

the official wine sponsor of SJMA

FY22

IN MEMORIUM Hung Liu, 1948–2021

Toby and Barry Fernald

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

Toby and Barry Fernald

Turner Carroll Gallery

Tad Freese

A pillar of the Bay Area arts community and an internationally renowned

Furbershaworks

University Art

Zelda Glaze*

artist, Liu touched the lives of everyone she met through her warmth,

Green Standards

Vineyard 29

Susan and Philip Hammer*

grace, and generosity. She exuded light, laughter, and positivity.

Jane Grimm

Karita and Paul Hummer*

Brian Gross Fine Art

Michele Kelly-Jones and William Jones

Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese

Suzette Mahr

Hosfelt Gallery

Chris Mengarelli and Dale Elliott

Lys House

Ruth Mirassou*

and experiences of the disenfranchised and the dispossessed. For over

Connie Huang

Evelyn and Rick Neely

three decades, she bore witness to the tribulations of everyday people,

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Yvonne and Mike Nevens

past and present, and their hidden stories of social injustice in lush and

Kathryn Kennedy Winery

Deborah D. and Henry F. Norberg

remarkable paintings based on historical black and white photographs

Tammy and Tom Kiely

Ena Weisskopf Passarini*

from China and, most recently, Great Depression–era images taken by

Geraldine and Marco Magarelli

Frederick and Marcella Sherman* Living Trust

Suzette Mahr

Marcia* and Howard Summers

Dorothea Lange. Through the process of reimagining these photographs

Lenore and Denis Maynard,

Dr. Jan Newstrom Thompson and Paul Goldstein

Encroachment Wines

Nathalie and Gaurav Verma

Anthony Meier Fine Arts

Larene Wambsganss*

Monique Meloche Gallery

Daphne and Stuart Wells

Memento Mori Winery

Elizabeth and Bobby Yount

Robert Minervini

William Zoller* *deceased

To meet her once was to make a friend forever.

In her powerful and pathbreaking artworks, Liu championed the lives

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.

FY22

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PUBL IC P ROGR AMS

SP ECI AL P ROJECTS

E DUC AT ION

COLLECTIONS

DE V E LOP MENT

OPERATIONS

FY22

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION FY2022 ANNUAL REPORT No In Kind

OPERATING

RELEASES FROM

TOTAL

Operating Revenue

Revenue

Restriction

Revenue

Government Corporate Foundation Individuals Membership Earned Knight Endowment Draw Endowment Draw

$980,011 $128,500 $3,000 $998,334 $178,097 $472,860

$491,721 $131,200 $761,068 $561,691

$0

$78,410 $453,359

$1,471,732 $259,700 $764,068 $1,560,024 $178,097 $472,860 $78,410 $453,359

Total

$2,760,801

$2,477,449

$5,238,250

FUNCTIONAL

FUNCTIONAL

TOTAL

Operating Expenses

Operating

In Kind/ Netting ADJ

Non In kind/ Netting Expenses

Program Services Fundraising Administration

$5,096,968 $824,740 $900,040

($1,419,391) ($126,120) ($102,248)

$3,677,577 $698,620 $797,792

Total

$6,821,748

($1,647,759)

$5,173,989

Operating Surplus

$64,261

Endowment Draw 9% Knight Endowment Draw 1% Earned 9%

Government 28%

Membership 3%

Corporate 5% Individuals 30%

Foundation 15%

Administration 15%

Fundraising 14%

Program Services 71%

FY22

STAFF

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]

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Viridiana Alcaraz Alvarez, lead museum experience representative

Kevin MacDonald, development event manager

Anamarie Alongi, registrar

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

Saoirse Alesandro, gallery teacher [through September 2022]

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

Shani Anderson, art installation crew member

Jordan Medina, lead museum experience representative

OFFICE RS

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

Mari Minjoe, lead museum experience representative

Glenda Dorchak, President

Emilio Banuelos, senior studio artist educator

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

S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director

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

William Faulkner, Co-Vice President

Daniel Becker, associate exhibition designer

Khai Nguyen, accountant

Kristin Bertrand, chief philanthropy officer

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

Roan Bontempo, gallery teacher

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

Jeff Bordona, director of education

Rory Padeken, curator and manager of publications

Randy Bricco, facilities manager

Jody Parry, human resources director

Greg Brown, science curriculum consultant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Margaret Kathryn Curtin, gallery teacher [through February 2022]

Samuel Stephen Price, studio artist educator

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

[as of November 2021 and through November 2021] Karen Rapp, deputy director

Cornelia Pendleton, Co-Vice President + Secretary Hildy Shandell, Treasurer

M E M B E RS Peter Cross Susan Curtin, Delegate Trustee, Let's Look at Art Anneke Dury Tad Freese

Aquiles de la Torre, graphic design and website manager

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

Chandra Gnanasambandam

Nathaniel Decena, museum store sales associate

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

Cole Harrell

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

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

Lauren Schell Dickens, senior curator

Melanie Samay, director of marketing and communications

Claudia W. Hess

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

Natalie Sanchez, development and grants officer

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

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

Richard A. Karp

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

Amy Sargeant, manager of K–12 curriculum and instruction

Lorri Kershner

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

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

Brooke Finister, art installation crew member

Zartashia Shah, studio artist educator

Tammy Kiely

Ali Fitch, administrator, director's office

Brian Spang, chief financial officer

Linda Franklin, senior gallery teacher

Shannon Stearns, education program coordinator

Kimberly Lin

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

Kaitlyn Smith, gallery teacher [as of November 2021]

Robert S. Lindo

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

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

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

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

Peter W. Lipman

Amanda Helton, manager of digital strategy

Radhika Tandon, education program coordinator [through February 2022]

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

Jai Tanju, facilities and events assistant

Sarah North

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

Robin Treen, special projects coordinator

Jeannie Pedroza,

Daniel Jimenez, manager of museum experience

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

Richard James Karson, director of design and operations

Kathryn Wade, assistant curator [through November 2021]

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

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

Jessica Kwong, membership manager

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

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

Jeri Yasukawa, art installation crew member

Aaron Lee, preparator

Julian Zamora, gallery teacher

Jeannine Jacobsen

Wanda Kownacki

Hung Liu*

Delegate Trustee, Store Guild Leah Read, Delegate Trustee, Docent Council *In Memorium, 1948–2021

FY22

STAFF HIGHLIGHTS

TOTAL ATTENDANCE General Admission 51%

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

General Admission Onsite Public Programs Offsite Public Programs Virtual Public Programs Onsite Education Virtual Education Offsite Education

24,412 4,921 1,235 3,256 558 13,276 656

Total

48,314

Offsite Education 1% Onsite Public Programs 10% Offsite Public Programs 3% Virtual Public Programs 7% Onsite Education 1% Virtual Education 27%

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

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