KALEID Gallery & the Two Buck Tuesday Crew presents: TWO BUCK TUESDAYS – August 18th An all day $2 art sale and quirky speaker series (6-8pm) on the third Tuesday of the month. 12noon – 8pm: $2 art all day 6pm -8pm: interesting people speaker series- 10mns each, with additional performances and demos before and after the speakers. This month’s TWO BUCK Tuesdays is curated by the lovely and wildly talented Kate Stewart– here’s what she has in store for you: Speakers: Postal Servix will destroy you with the story of how a mild-mannered Special Ed teacher became a bloodthirsty Silicon Valley Rollerwarrior. Trina Merry just got back from teaching art to kids in Haiti. Don Bon takes things apart. Music by Zonky Flay To see past TWO BUCK Tuesdays events, visit: http://u.nu/5vua KALEID Gallery 88 South Fourth Street (@San Fernando/next to Flames Restaurant) Downtown San Jose info[at]KALEIDgallery.com Free &…

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KALEID Gallery presents Two Buck Tuesday June 21st 7-10pm You’re invited to join us for our monthly $2 art sale and quirky people get together! We have another great lineup of art, demos and hands on activities! Featuring: Sean Stryker & PARTY FOWL Welcome to Party Fowl! A short form improv group that will have you rolling! Party Fowl does interactive improv taken from suggestions from the audience – and make up scenes and improv games on the spot in real time! See your suggestions come to life as we play from razor sharp wit and active imaginations. We always have a ton of fun everywhere we perform and everyone in the group does it just out of the love of being a ham. So please sit back and enjoy Party Fowl! Cipacteo will show us how he makes a gourd & leather bag. Gourds have been utilized by native…

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KALEID Gallery presents Two Buck Tuesday APRIL 19th 7-10pm You’re invited to join us for our monthly $2 art sale and quirky people get together! We have another great lineup of art, demos and hands on activities! FEATURING: Sandi Billingsley will show us how to make recycled styrofoam picture frames! Maria’s Make Ur Own Button station is back! In a world filled with buttons, you can’t seem to find the right button…well come by our button making machine table! this month- Maria will help u design & make a button that is all YOU!. Laura Callin Bennett will help us make Pysanky (Ukrainian Dyed Easter Eggs). These are not your typical pastel dyed eggs! You will be able to draw intricate designs in wax and use brilliant dyes to create one of a kind egg artwork. San Jose is Lame Because You’re Lame calendar will be making the next month’s…

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KALEID Gallery & the Two Buck Tues Crew presents: TWO BUCK Tuesdays – April 21st. an all day $2 art sale and quirky speaker series on the third Tuesday of the month. 12noon – 8pm: $2 art all day 6pm – 8pm: interesting people speaker series– 10mns each, before / after demos and live music —— Featured Speakers —— Christina Deptula – Mutual Social Networking: Fun entrepreneurial business models for aspiring artists. Taken from Christina’s experience as Creative Facilitator of Synchronized Chaos variety magazine, this will be a discussion of what artists can learn from successful social networking business models and how to use strategies such as personal business cards, online and in-person networking, leveraging transferable skills, etc., all interspersed with free verse poems. Eric Taggart – The Art of the Art Trade: How artists end up with art collections they could never afford. Art trading is quite simple. Think…

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The awesome $2 art sale and quirky speaker series is this Tuesday, October 19th, curated by artist Keith Bunnell! Jodi Mascarenas will be doing a sugar skull workshop. There will be small medium and large blank sugar skulls. She will provide colored icing to decorate your skull as well as diamonds and other decorations to personalize it. Join in, get creative and make something beautiful! Clayton Lawrence Scenic and Theme Designer – California’s Great America Halloween Haunt From decorating his front yard starting at age 5, to designing multiple Haunted Attractions at California’s Great America Halloween Haunt at age 22, Clayton has been able to take a passion and hobby and turn it into a career. Clayton has learned a lot over the years and has consulted with many industry leaders including Knott’s Scary Farm, to learn techniques and philosophies that go into pulling off a successful Haunted House. Come…

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TWO BUCK Tuesday September 21, 2010 $2 Art Sale begins at Noon Main event starts at 7p.m. Curated by Drew Clark Seriously, what else are you doing Tuesday night? Come out, enjoy some of the cool culture that the San Jose art scene has to offer! Where else will you find not only $2 dollar original artwork from local artists, but also … LIVE ART! Timothy Tsun – Discovery, the “Humanature” (the relationship between human being and nature), is the theme of my art. I am always observing the shapes and texture of tree trunks, which I utilize to make the connection to human forms. http://www.timtsun.com/ Michael Foley will be there making $5 portrait transformations, creating stylized portraits you’ll not find anywhere else. Michael Foley is an artist from the San Francisco bay area whose works show nationally and internationally. First discovered by scientists after the great quake of 1906.…

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TWO BUCK Tuesdays is an inspired event hosted by a crew of very dedicated artists at KALEID Gallery on the Third Tuesday of the month. This August session is curated by Michael Foley. The Two Buck Tuesday Crew organizes artistic, creative speakers, live demos, performances and live music jammed into three hours for a hyper shot of inspiration that you’ll carry with you all month long until the next one. Artists and audience alike are invited to attend, contribute and share in this unique event all free of charge. On August 17th from 7-10pm the public can see and speak with many amazing artists, performers and musicians and purchase $2 art (starting at noon.) Featured Speakers: Michael Denning. Bay Area Collage artist and teacher in Heart of Chaos’s Juvenile Hall art program sponsored by Catalyst for Youth. Michael will discuss his passion for art, its healing power and how he…

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Find Your Muse at the Eclectic & Quirky TWO BUCK Tuesday this Tuesday, July 20th, 7-10pm. A bodypainter creates timely work about our relationship to oceans, A production company stays in San Jose instead of moving to LA, A performer dances for peace, and a local professor rediscovers artistic inspiration at KALEID Gallery’s monthly Two Buck Tuesday event. TWO BUCK Tuesdays is an inspired event hosted by a crew of very dedicated artists at KALEID Gallery on the Third Tuesday of the month. Artists and audience alike are invited to attend, contribute and share in this unique event all free of charge. The Two Buck Tuesday Crew organizes artistic, creative speakers, live demos, performances and live music jammed into three hours for a hyper shot of inspiration that you’ll carry with you all month long until the next one. “One thing all these speakers and performers have in common is…

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photo by Stephanie Bailey TWO BUCK TUESDAY, June 15th 2010 6:30-9pm $2 Art Sale and Quirky Speaker Series This month at Two Buck Tuesday- a range of people who spend more time than you do with animals. In that sentence I’m counting “found objects” as an animal. ~this month’s curator Kate Stewart David Mejia was born and raised in San Jose, California and he loves to draw and make comic books. He works at the Martin Luther King Library and occasionally has the job of the library’s mascot Conroy the Curious Cougar. David has created most of the art work for the library featuring Conroy (he also proposed to his wife in the Cougar suit.) You can see David’s art work on view at KALEID Gallery. Stephanie Bailey is a stiltwalker, ballet dancer, puppeteer and flautist. She travels the world as a museum photographer. Last summer, she spent two months…

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TWO BUCK TUESDAY, May 18th 2010 6:30-9pm $2 Art Sale and Quirky Speaker Series KALEID Feature Artists Shannon Amidon & Centa Schumacher will talk and answer questions about their current solo shows, Efflorescence & Preconscious (respectively). Amie Frisch, the director of Veggielution, a nonprofit Community Farm on the East Side of San Jose, will talk about the importance of growing our own food in the city, and the trials and tribulations that go along with it. Profs. Burke and Saturday present A Night of Zoological Edification. Prof. Burke will expound upon strange and unusual animals whilst Prof. Saturday illustrates them before our very eyes! Omar & Deb Barba of Canvas Ghost Productions present How to Throw your own Art Party! will amaze us with the ins and outs of organizing, publicizing and hosting an art event in your own home! PLUS: Pick the brains of Anno Domini‘s Cherri Lakey &…

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