By Sal Pizarro
Mercury News
The San Jose Museum of Art is celebrating its 40th birthday this year and is inviting everyone else to join in on the fun, too.
The museum — which sits at the corner of Market and San Fernando streets downtown — is holding a community day next Sunday with free admission and lots of family-friendly activities including art making, storytelling, gallery tours, face painting and dance performances.
The festivities will continue later this month with a brunch May 31. This event will be more focused on the evolution of the museum, which started as a small civic art gallery in 1969 that was created in part to save the old city library (which now houses a museum gallery and cafe) from destruction.
Marjorie Schwarzer, chair of the department of museum studies at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, will be sharing stories of the museum's history.
Tickets to the 10 a.m. May 31 brunch are $75. You can find out more at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org.
Contact Sal Pizarro at spizarro@mercurynews.com or 408-627-0940.
Monday, May 4, 2009
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