It’s been a little over one month since we completed our 3rd POW! WOW! San Jose! In one week, we created 13 new murals and 5-10 wire installations spreading from South San Jose, downtown and Japantown. Thank you for everyone who came out to support the Block Party, Great Oaks Skate Park Celebration and the Mural Bike Tour. These were all opportunities to engage our community through a celebration of art, music and culture.
We had the artists arrive 3 days earlier to take part in multiple immersive events so that we could all get to know one another and show those from out of town our landscape.
Day 1 – in the morning we took the group to NHS in Santa Cruz to show the history and origins of NHS and Santa Cruz Skateboards, Independent Truck Company and Road Rider Wheels during the 1970s and 1980s. Jim Phillips who was born in San Jose, is a legendary icon in skateboarding culture as we know it. The "Screaming Hand", designed by Jim in 1973, is the main logo of the Santa Cruz brand. Thank you Mark Widmann for the tour of the museum and entire NHS factory!
Early afternoon, we headed to Coyote Valley to meet with Mark Medeiros with POST and Helen Chapman of San Jose’s District 2 to learn about the area’s importance in preservation of wildlife, cultural and water resources. Thank you both for everything you do to help preserve our wildlife and ecosystem! It was a peaceful day for a hike on protected land.
Day 2 – before San Jose became “Silicon Valley” we were mainly large in agriculture with orchards and farming. Being the “Valley of the Heart’s Delight” we wanted to show our artists the importance of this and the ideals of farm-to-table. Spade and Plow diligently practices regenerative farming techniques including strict crop rotation, high crop diversity to support beneficial insects, and grow with absolutely no GMOs. Our artists had the opportunity to visit their San Martin farm to meet with the S&P family, hear about their mission, plant some chard and end with a beautiful afternoon BBQ with their finest produce.
After a whole weekend of enjoying San Jose and its neighbors, the artists officially started painting on Monday, October 21 and completed their murals by the end of the week. The last day we were able to enjoy a relaxing backyard BBQ, dance and sketch in each other’s sketchbooks.
Thank you to our artists who took time out of their busy schedules to create a beautiful piece for our City and its people.
Ryan Bubnis @ryanbubnis – Portland, OR
Stephany Sanchez @_tefan_ - San Jose, CA
Alice Lee @byalicelee – San Francisco, CA
Kaplan @kapache1 – Hawaii
Camer1 @camer1sf – San Francisco, CA
Cobre @cobreart – Argentina
Wooden Wave @wooden_wave - Hawaii
Rista White @rista.art - San Jose, CA
Kylee Dougherty @kyleedougherty - San Jose, CA
Spenser Little @spenserlittleart – San Diego, CA
Jessica Eastburn @jesseastburn – Alameda, CA
Drew Roulette @drewroulette – San Jose, CA
Orly Locquiao @orlycukui – San Jose, CA
Shayne Osegura @pacish1 – San Diego, CA
Thank you to our media team for capturing all the special moments!
Photos by Ian Lundie @1ill510 and Lanny Ngyuen @lannycatcheswalls
Video shorts by Johnny of AIO Filmz @shotbyaiofilmz
Full video (coming soon) by Austen and Zach of Ekho Creative @ekhocreative
Sponsorship support we received wasn’t only financial. Equally important were the in-kind support we received! Here is a shout out to ALL our sponsors to help make this event a success!
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Looking forward to POW! WOW! San Jose 2020! If you would like to help support us, please contact us at info@powwowsanjose.com and empiresevenstudios@yahoo.com
