Open Gallery all day from 9am to 9pm
Friday, June 17th @ 7pm - Opening Reception Event featuring poetry and spoken word performances
Sunday, June 19th - Live Art Painting ALL DAY
Sunday, June 19th @ 7pm - Closing Reception Event featuring music and live art painting finale
Featured Artists:
Corbrae Smith, Eric Vasquez, Francisco Ramirez, Jorge Camacho, Lou Jimenez , Nathan Vasquez, Richard Choi, Saman Qadir
Local Color and SURJ at Sacred Heart bring art and activism together in a three-day pop-up gallery event commemorating RISE SJ, a temporary mural project uniting local artists to use art as a vehicle for social justice alongside the Black Lives Matter movement of Summer 2020. The gallery event this Juneteenth weekend will feature Bay Area artists who created work for RISE SJ highlighting multicultural efforts towards justice in the South Bay. Prints of the murals by some of the area’s hottest up-and-coming talents will be on display and available for sale, and 25% of the proceeds earned will be donated to SURJ @ Sacred Heart’s Accountability Partners: South Bay organizations supporting families of those impacted by police violence and incarceration (Silicon Valley DeBug), immigrant rights (PASOS and the Rapid Response Network) and indigenous land rematriation (Amah Mutsun Land Trust).
Event hosted by the Mountain View Odd Fellows Lodge, on the corner of Castro and Villa Streets in Mountain View, between 9am and 9pm Friday, June 17 through Sunday, June 19. Free and open to the public. Venue is ADA accessible. Street parking available. Masks must be worn indoors at all times regardless of vaccination status.
About Local Color:
Local Color is a women-powered nonprofit with a mission to build equitable opportunities to keep emerging and established artists active, employed, and engaged in San Jose, California by commissioning public art, establishing affordable studios, and providing fiscal sponsorship.
About Showing Up for Racial Justice at Sacred Heart:
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national organization working to dismantle white supremacy by organizing white people and people with privilege to fight for justice. The San Jose chapter of SURJ is based out of Sacred Heart Community Service, and follows the lead of Black, Latinx and Indigenous-led justice organizations in the ways they request. SURJ @ Sacred Heart’s Art & Culture Working Group brings the revolutionary practice of art and the creative spirit into our organizing at every stage.
About the Mountain View Odd Fellows Lodge:
Since 1876, the Mountain View Odd Fellows Lodge #244 has provided support for our shared and growing community. Today, we host community groups from the Oddizens (a queer and gender-diverse gaming group) to the South Bay Comickers to SURJ to Local Color to our monthly charity pop-up gallery series. This year, nearly all of our officers are queer, women, people of color, or all three and we are excited to welcome new members and community groups who would like to use our convenient downtown space for free. Reach out to our Outreach Chair, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, at 650-804-9044 with any questions or come by our lodge to see our 3rd annual pride flag display!