THIRD THURSDAY: CLOSING PARTY FOR AROUND THE TABLE

http://www.sanjosemuseumofart.org/event/third-thursday-closing-party-around-table

The San Jose Museum of Art is celebrating the conclusion of Around the Table, a Bay Area community wide festival of food and the arts, with a closing party honoring its 43 community partner organizations on Thursday, April 17, 2014, from 5- 8 PM. A number of participating community partners will be present at the closing party and will host activities that commemorate the festival, such as hands-on art making, poetry readings, glass blowing, archaeology demos, and more. Admission is $5 after 5 PM. Tickets are available online at http://www.sanjosemuseumofart.org/event/third-thursday-closing-party-around-table. Partners and their respective activities at the party include: - Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, and San Jose State University’s art glass program will partner to perform "Cooking Your Glass Off,” a hot glass demonstration in which they will “cook” a 3-course meal made entirely of glass, involving participant “chefs.” BAGI will also sponsor a hands-on glass painting activity. - Stanford University’s Anthropology Department, History San José, and the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project will host a hands-on archaeological activity related to artist Rene Yung's work commemorating the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose’s first Chinese immigrant community. - Poetry Center San Jose will host their fifth annual Poetry Invitational, in which Bay Area poets perform original works inspired by art on display in the museum. - San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles will lead a hands-on sewing activity - Valley Verde will have a seedling giveaway station - Veggielution will host a hands-on activity, inviting participants to play with their food. Around the Table took place July 2013 through April 2014, and featured a three-part flagship exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art as well as a coordinated series of food oriented programming from 43 Bay Area partner organizations, spanning from Watsonville through San Francisco. The main exhibition Around the Table: food, creativity, community, explored the subject of food today through the work of 29 contemporary artists and revolved around three primary topics: healthful eating; food and community; and food issues. Along with the exhibitions at SJMA, the community partners presented an array of exhibitions, classes, workshops, panel discussions, lectures, performances, films, installations, dinners, and other special events that celebrated food and examined critical food issues.

• Contact:
• Karen Hsu
• Khsu@sjmusart.org