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San Jose Museum of Art

April 19 - April 19, 2012

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110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113
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Art:21 Screening and Poetry Invitational Sally Ashton
The San Jose Museum of Art’s monthly third Thursday open evenings will continue on Thursday, April 19, from 5 to 8 PM. Activities include a special advance screening of the Peabody Award-winning documentary series Art in the Twenty-First Century and an art-inspired poetry event. At 5:15 PM, the Museum will screen Episode 1: Change, which features artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, and Catherine Opie. At 6:30 PM, the Museum will present its third annual Poetry Invitational in collaboration with Poetry Center San Jose. Sally Ashton, Santa Clara County’s poet laureate, has invited other Bay Area poets to visit the Museum and write poems inspired by the art on view. They will read their poems in the lobby. Both programs are free with Museum admission of $5 after 5 PM (free to Museum members). The galleries, Café, and Museum Store will be open until 8 PM. Participating poets will be: David Denny, Rachelle Escamilla, Mari L’Esperance, Samantha Lê, Mark Heinlein, Samuel Maio, Neli Moody, Tommy Mouton, Nils Peterson, and C.J. Sage. Third Thursday evening hours are generously supported by grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, and the Koret Foundation. In partnership with Art21 as part of its Access ’12 initiative, SJMA presents a sneak preview of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime time national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art. Episode 1: Change features artists who bear witness, through their work, to transformation—cultural, material, and aesthetic—and actively engage communities as collaborators and subjects.