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Student art adds life to downtown doors
16 winners from four San Jose High schools
Aspiring artists from four San Jose High Schools are putting their works on public view. Their “canvases” are utility doors on some of downtown’s biggest buildings.
Installed in May 9-10, the thoughtful, colorful, eclectic and sometimes whimsical pieces of art for the San Jose Downtown Foundation’s “Downtown Doors” project cover 17 double- and triple-panel doors outside the Fairmont San Jose, Pavilion building, San Jose Repertory Theatre and Camera 12 Cinemas.
The art will be visible to thousands of passersby on foot and passengers in vehicles for 12 months.
The Downtown Doors program, now in its fifth year, has grown from four doors in 2003. More than 100 entrants from Downtown College Prep, San Jose High Academy, Lincoln High School, Notre Dame High School and the East Side High School district, participated in the competition this year.
“The images this year demonstrate the diverse perspectives of San Jose residents,” said Jane Przybysz, a judge and member of the Downtown Foundation board. “The students also used their artistry to integrate their work into the urban feel of downtown.”
The artists, their teachers and families, private donors and the property owners and managers who allowed the artwork will attend a reception May 15 at the Silicon Valley Capital Club. The artists will receive Adobe Creative Suite 3 design software, including latest versions of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat from Adobe Systems at the ceremony.
Judging took place in March. The process to digitize, enlarge and transfer the artwork onto vinyl adhesive decals occurred in April.
The winners are:
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#1 Katherine Kondo – The Pulse of the City
Lincoln High School
Site Host: Digital Realty Trust c/o CB Richard Ellis (First Street side of The Pavilion)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Association |
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#2 Morgan Furtado – Cruisin’
Notre Dame High School
Site Host: Digital Realty Trust c/o CB Richard Ellis (second Street side of The Pavilion)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Foundation |
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#3 Amanda Morgan – Maxwell Jump
Notre Dame High School
Site Host: Forest City Commercial Management (Fairmont San Jose Fountain Doors)
Sponsor: Adobe Systems, Inc. |
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#4 Alexandra Cooperman – Summer Splash
Notre Dame High School
Site Host: Forest City Commercial Management (Fairmont San Jose Fountain Doors)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Foundation |
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#5 Thientam Nguyen – Sister Story
Notre Dame High School
Site Host: San Jose Repertory Theatre
Sponsor: Adobe Systems, Inc. |
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#6 Anna Leis Strom – Garden Memory
Notre Dame High School
Site Host: San Jose Repertory Theatre
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Association |
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#7 Edgar Ochoa – Beauty in the Concrete Jungle
Lincoln High School
Site Host: The Fairmont San Jose (First Street)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Association |
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#8 Laina Reginelli – Creativity Through Music
Lincoln High School
Site Host: The Fairmont San Jose (First Street)
Sponsor: On Your Mark Graphics |
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#9 Allegra Bick-Maurischat – 1925
Lincoln High School
Site Host: The Fairmont San Jose (First Street)
Sponsor: Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Inc. |
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#10 Allegra Bick-Maurischat – Elements of Life
Lincoln High School
Site Host: The Fairmont San Jose (Market Street)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Foundation |
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#11 Madison Treece – Untitled
Oak Grove High School
Site Host: The Fairmont San Jose (Market Street)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Foundation |
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#12 Arely Cardenas – Lyrical Soul
Oak Grove High School
Site Host: The Fairmont San Jose (Market Street)
Sponsor: Law Offices of Willoughby, Stuart & Bening |
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#13 Tom Smith – Utensil Surreal Reality
Oak Grove High School
Site Host: The Fairmont San Jose (Market Street)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Association |
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#14 Adrian Crovetto – Technologic
Lincoln High School
Site Host: Forest City Commercial Management (window off San Fernando Street)
Sponsor: Forest City Commercial Management |
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#15 Daisy Garcia – Untitled
Downtown College Prep
Site Host: Camera 12 Cinemas (Second Street)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Foundation |
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#16 Tricia Nguyen – Door #1 or Door #2
Notre Dame High School
Site Host: Camera 12 Cinemas (Second Street)
Sponsor: Adobe Systems, Inc. |
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#17 Clara Jimenez – Untitled
Downtown College Prep
Site Host: Camera 12 Cinemas (Second Street)
Sponsor: San Jose Downtown Foundation |
Downtown Doors is funded by private contributions and is placed on private property.
The project is sponsored by Adobe Systems Inc.; Forest City Commercial Management; Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Inc.; On Your Mark Graphics; Willoughby, Stuart, Bening, Inc.; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and the San Jose Downtown Association. Site hosts include Cyril Isnard and Lina Broydo of the Fairmont Hotel; Sandy Izumi and Todd Rudee of Digital Realty Trust care of CB Richard Ellis, Nick Nichols and Jane Casamajor of San Jose Repertory Theatre, Diana Beechie of Forest City Commercial Management, and Jim Zuur and Dennis Skaggs of Camera 12 Cinemas.
Judges include Jane Przybysz, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; Jeff Bordona, San Jose Museum of Art; Pantea Karimi, SJSU graduate student; and Erin Goodwin-Guerrero, retired professor from SJSU’s fine arts department.
A request for entries for the next year of Downtown Doors will occur in January and February 2008. Information from prior years of Downtown Doors can be found at www.sjdowntown.com/downtowndoors/index.
San Jose Downtown Foundation is a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization supported by the San Jose Downtown Association that seeks to foster art and culture downtown.
2008 Downtown Doors
A request for entries for the next year of Downtown Doors will occur in January and February 2008.
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