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107-574: The San José Museum of Art is the largest provider of arts education in Santa Clara County , serving over 45,000 children per year. The permanent collection focuses on contemporary art by US West Coast artists, with a growing emphasis on art of the Pacific Rim. The collection includes more than 2,600 artworks in a variety of media including sculpture , paintings , prints, digital media, photographs , and drawings . Founded in 1969 by

214-461: A 1,200,000 acres (490,000 ha) area encompassing much of eastern Santa Clara County as well as portions of southern Alameda County, western Merced and Stanislaus Counties , and northern San Benito County . Acquisitions to date include the 1,756-acre (711 ha) Rancho Cañada de Pala , straddling the Alameda Creek and Coyote Creek watersheds for California tiger salamander habitat;

321-860: A Cornerstone of the Arts Award from the City of San Jose for the mural Sophie Holding the World Together by El Mac in collaboration with The Propeller Group . The mural, which depicts youth immigration activist Sophie Cruz , was commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art in partnership with Empire 7 Studios and the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose . 37°20′01″N 121°53′25″W  /  37.333488°N 121.890364°W  / 37.333488; -121.890364 Santa Clara County, California Santa Clara County , officially

428-482: A conservation easement on the 3,259-acre Blue Oak Ranch Reserve , which abuts the north side of Joseph D. Grant County Park ; a conservation easement on the 28,359-acre San Felipe Ranch, connecting Joseph D. Grant County Park with Henry W. Coe State Park ; the 2,899-acre South Valley Ranch which protects a tule elk herd in the San Antonio Valley, and other properties. As of 1980, Santa Clara County had

535-532: A contractor and lumber merchant. Even though the family lived comfortably, Nevelson's relatives had begun to leave the Russian Empire for America in the 1880s. The Berliawskys had to stay behind, as Isaac, the youngest brother, had to care for his parents. While still in Europe, Minna gave birth to two of Nevelson's siblings: Nathan (born 1898) and Anita (born 1902). On his mother's death, Isaac moved to

642-465: A falling out with gallery owner Janis over sums he advanced her and was unable to recoup. Nevelson and Janis entered into a contentious legal battle that left Nevelson broke, depressed, and at risk of becoming homeless. However, at this time Nevelson was offered a funded, six-week artist fellowship at Tamarind Lithography Workshop (now Tamarind Institute ) in Los Angeles, which allowed her to escape

749-506: A female artist. Reviews of Nevelson's works in the 1940s wrote her off as just a woman artist. A reviewer of her 1941 exhibition at Nierendorf Gallery stated: "We learned the artist is a woman in time to check our enthusiasm. Had it been otherwise, we might have hailed these sculptural expressions as by surely a great figure among moderns." Another review showed similar sexism : "Nevelson is a sculptor; she comes from Portland, Maine. You'll deny both these facts and you might even insist Nevelson

856-498: A few hundred feet at Mount Boardman ), Stanislaus , Merced , San Benito , Santa Cruz , and San Mateo County . Santa Clara County formerly shared borders with Contra Costa , San Francisco , Mariposa , Monterey , and Tuolumne counties until 1853, 1856, 1874, and 1854 respectively (Monterey County currently comes within a few miles of Santa Clara). The San Andreas Fault runs along the Santa Cruz Mountains in

963-654: A fifth herd of tule elk was documented by local naturalist Roger Castillo, likely having split from the Coyote Ridge herd and established itself in Silver Creek Valley around the closed Ranch Golf Club. The elk herds in eastern Santa Clara County are blocked from dispersal to the west by U.S. Highway 101, with environmentalists advocating re-purposing the Metcalf Road bridge at the Coyote Gap into

1070-423: A fundamental key in the feminist art movement . Credited with triggering the examination of femininity in art, Nevelson challenged the vision of what type of art women would be creating with her dark, monumental, and totem-like artworks that art historians have seen as masculine . Nevelson believed that art reflected the individual, not "masculine-feminine labels", and chose to take on her role as an artist, not

1177-475: A group of artists, the art museum was first known as the Civic Art Gallery. Ann Marie Mix and Susan Hammer were co-founding trustees of the museum. The group sought to save a historic structure slated for demolition and to revitalize it as a community art gallery. The early arts organization was referred to as a "gallery" prior to the establishment of a permanent collection of artwork. In 1974, it

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1284-673: A large wood sculpture titled Bicentennial Dawn at the new James A. Byrne United States Courthouse in Philadelphia . During the last half of her life, Nevelson solidified her fame and her persona by cultivating a style for her "petite yet flamboyant" self that contributed to her legacy: dramatic dresses, scarves and large false eyelashes . When Alice Neel asked Nevelson how she dressed so beautifully, Nevelson replied "Fucking, dear, fucking", in reference to her sexually liberated lifestyle. The designer Arnold Scaasi created many of her clothes. Nevelson died on April 17, 1988. At

1391-833: A local shoeshiner . She displayed the box at the Museum of Modern Art , bringing her the first major attention she received from the press. An article about her appeared in Art Digest in November 1943. In that year, Nevelson exhibited her work in Peggy Guggenheim 's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. In the 1940s, she began producing Cubist figure studies in materials such as stone, bronze , terra cotta, and wood. In 1943, she had

1498-575: A majority in the county was Ronald Reagan in 1984. While Republicans remained competitive at the state and local level throughout the 1990s, there are currently no elected Republicans representing the county above the local level. According to the California Secretary of State , as of February 10, 2019, Santa Clara County has 895,965 registered voters. Of those, 405,470 (45.3%) are registered Democrats , 151,213 (16.9%) are registered Republicans , and 308,769 (35.4%) have declined to state

1605-603: A monetary success, but art historian Brooke Kamin Rapaport stated that Nevelson's "intuitive gesture" is not evident in the large steel works. In spite of that, Nevelson was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1969. In 1972–1973, she created her Dream Houses sculptures, of small pieces of wood assembled into house shapes and characteristically painted black. The works differ from many of her pieces in being fully three-dimensional rather than presenting

1712-471: A negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all. The only aristocratic color ... I have seen things that were transformed into black that took on greatness. I don't want to use a lesser word." In the 1960s, she began incorporating white and gold into her works. Nevelson said that white was the color that "summoned the early morning and emotional promise." She described her gold phase as

1819-732: A number of other officials to county-wide positions, including the Santa Clara County District Attorney, the Santa Clara County Sheriff, and a large number of criminal and civil judges that serve in courts throughout the county. Historically, Santa Clara County was a Republican stronghold in presidential elections. From 1872 through 1984 , the only Democrats to carry Santa Clara County were Franklin Roosevelt , Lyndon Johnson , and Hubert Humphrey . However, 1988 would begin to mark

1926-587: A number of works to their collection in 2016 from artists: Robert Arneson , Squeak Carnwath , Enrique Chagoya , Luis Cruz Azaceta , Lesley Dill , George Grosz , George Herms , Italo Scanga , and Fritz Scholder . In 2018, the SJMA acquired new works for the permanent collection: from sculptors Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder , from the American artists Andrea Bowers , Russell Crotty , Morris Graves , Lara Schnitger , and Terry Winters , as well as from

2033-601: A palace". Nevelson's first experience of art was at the age of nine at the Rockland Public Library , where she saw a plaster cast of Joan of Arc . Shortly thereafter she decided to study art, taking drawing in high school, where she also served as basketball captain. She painted watercolor interiors , in which furniture appeared molecular in structure, rather like her later professional work. Female figures made frequent appearances. In school, she practiced her English, her second language, as Yiddish

2140-444: A political party. As of November 2012, all of the cities, towns, and unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County have more registered Democrats than Republicans. In 2008 , Barack Obama carried every city and town in the county, as well as the unincorporated areas. Following the passage of Proposition 8 , Santa Clara County joined San Francisco and Los Angeles in a lawsuit , becoming, along with San Francisco and Los Angeles,

2247-588: A quirky landmark and sends a postcard to SJMA. Created for the exhibition of the same name and inspired by the common experience of a summer road trip, this project aimed to promote the exhibition, sow the seeds for a participatory experience both outside and inside the museum, and build connections between the museum's online audience and on-site visitors. In 2017, the museum received the Superintendent's Award for Excellence in Museum Education for

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2354-666: A revival in November 2019. Nevelson's distinct and eccentric image has been documented by many celebrated photographers. Nevelson is listed on the Heritage Floor, among other famous women, in Judy Chicago 's 1974–1979 masterpiece The Dinner Party . Upon Nevelson's death, her estate was worth at least $ 100 million. Her son Mike removed 36 sculptures from her house. Documentation showed that Nevelson had bequeathed these works (worth millions) to her friend and assistant of 25 years, Diana MacKown . In 2005, Maria Nevelson,

2461-566: A rift between Nevelson and Rivera's wife, Frida Kahlo , an artist Nevelson greatly admired. Shortly thereafter, Nevelson started taking sculpture classes at the Educational Alliance . Nevelson continued to experiment with other artistic mediums, including lithography and etching , but decided to focus on sculpture. Her early works were created from plaster, clay and tattistone. During the 1930s Nevelson began exhibiting her work in group shows. In 1935, she taught mural painting at

2568-433: A sculptor. Nevelson studied art, despite the disapproval of her parents-in-law. She commented: "My husband's family was terribly refined. Within that circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven." In 1924 the family moved to Mount Vernon, New York , a popular Jewish area of Westchester County . Nevelson was upset with the move, which removed her from city life and her artistic environment. During

2675-662: A shipping business. Bernard introduced her to his brother, and Charles and Louise Nevelson were married in June 1920 in a Jewish wedding at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Having satisfied her parents' hope that she would marry into a wealthy family, she and her new husband moved to New York City, where she began to study painting, drawing, singing, acting, and dancing. She also became pregnant, and in 1922 she gave birth to her son Myron (later called Mike), who grew up to be

2782-502: A show at Norlyst Gallery called The Clown as the Center of his World in which she constructed sculptures about the circus from found objects . The show was not well received, and Nevelson stopped using found objects until the mid-1950s. Despite poor reception, Nevelson's works at this time explored both figurative abstracts inspired by Cubism and the exploitative and experimental influence of surrealism . The decade provided Nevelson with

2889-580: A significant shift in the county's political leanings, starting with Michael Dukakis ' narrow win and culminating in Bill Clinton 's substantial 20-point victory in 1992 . Since then, the Democratic presidential candidate has won Santa Clara County by large margins, and it also remains solidly blue in congressional elections, as all politicians representing the county at the state and federal level are known to be Democrats. The last Republican to win

2996-590: A single façade, though each façade is recognizable as a Nevelson work. In 1973, the Walker Art Center curated a major exhibition of her work, which traveled for two years. In 1975, she designed the chapel of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Midtown Manhattan . When asked about her role as a Jewish artist creating Christian-themed art, Nevelson stated that her abstract work transcended religious barriers. Also in 1975, she created and installed

3103-479: A tribute to victims of The Holocaust . Nevelson hired several assistants over the years, including Diana MacKown . By this time, Nevelson had solidified commercial and critical success. Nevelson continued to use wood in her sculptures, but also experimented with other materials such as aluminum, plastic and metal. Black Zag X from 1969, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an example of

3210-721: A wildlife overcrossing. This would enable elk to recolonize rural southwestern Santa Clara County, as well as Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties. In 1990, the California Department of Fish and Game 's Henry Coletto translocated excess pronghorn from Modoc County to six locations in California, including 51 animals to the San Felipe Ranch in Santa Clara County, where the swift-footed ungulates had not lived for generations. The animals left

3317-506: Is James R. Williams, J.D. The County Executive is responsible for the administration of the county and appoints almost all other officers and department heads. The county is one among three counties in California (with Napa and Madera) to establish a separate department, the Santa Clara County Department of Corrections, to deal with corrections pursuant to California Government Code §23013. The county operates

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3424-534: Is a man, when you see her Portraits in Paint , showing this month at the Nierendorf Gallery." Mary Beth Edelson 's Some Living American Women Artists / Last Supper (1972) appropriated Leonardo da Vinci 's The Last Supper by collaging the heads of notable women artists over each man's head, and Nevelson was among them. This image, addressing the role of religious and art-historical iconography in

3531-539: Is a public library system serving the communities and cities of Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Saratoga, and all unincorporated areas of the county. Other cities run their own library systems. The county's main airport is Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport (SJC). It is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry and as of 2019 has five international routes (two to Canada, one to England, one to Japan, seven to Mexico, and one to China) but

3638-484: Is considered to be Silicon Valley is within the county, although some adjoining tech regions in San Mateo (e.g., Facebook ), Alameda , and Santa Cruz counties are also considered part of Silicon Valley. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 1,291.08 square miles (3,343.9 km ). Counties which border with Santa Clara County are, clockwise, Alameda County , San Joaquin (within

3745-1063: Is served by Caltrain commuter rail from Gilroy through San Jose and Silicon Valley north to San Francisco Airport and San Francisco . The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority operates the VTA light rail system, which primarily serves San Jose, with one line continuing as far north as Mountain View . Santa Clara and San Jose are also served by the Altamont Corridor Express commuter rail line which provides services to Stockton , and Amtrak which provides service to Sacramento and Oakland . The Amtrak Coast Starlight train between Seattle and Los Angeles also stops in San Jose. BART currently services Milpitas and North San Jose , with plans to extend to downtown San Jose and Santa Clara . Louise Nevelson Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988)

3852-760: Is the Universe, the stars, the moon – and you and I, everyone." Nevelson's work has been exhibited in many American galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery , Woodward Gallery , and Pace Gallery in New York City and the Margot Gallery in Lake Worth, Florida. Her work is included in museum collections worldwide such as Pérez Art Museum Miami , Florida; Smithsonian American Art Museum , Washington DC; Tate , London;

3959-648: Is the bride, as seen in Bride of the Black Moon (1955). This referenced her escape from matrimony in her early life, as well as her independence throughout her life. Her Sky Cathedral works often took years to create; Sky Cathedral: Night Wall , in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art , took 13 years to build in her New York City studio. On the Sky Cathedral series, Nevelson commented: "This

4066-820: The Archives of American Art . The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine houses the second largest collection of her works, including jewelry she designed. In 2000, the United States Postal Service released a series of commemorative postage stamps in Nevelson's honor. The following year, friend and playwright Edward Albee wrote the play Occupant as a homage to the sculptor. The show opened in New York in 2002 with Anne Bancroft playing Nevelson, but because of Bancroft's illness it never moved beyond previews. Washington DC 's Theater J mounted

4173-586: The Art Students League of New York , and in 1941 she had her first solo exhibition. Nevelson experimented with early conceptual art using found objects , and experimented with painting and printing before dedicating her lifework to sculpture. Usually created out of wood, her sculptures appear puzzle-like, with multiple intricately cut pieces placed into wall sculptures or independently standing pieces, often 3-D. The sculptures are typically painted in monochromatic black or white. A prominent figure in

4280-538: The County of Santa Clara , is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California , with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census . Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area , which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area . Santa Clara is the most populous county in

4387-502: The De Anza Expedition on March 23, 1776: " In Gilroy Valley (Santa Clara Valley) Moraga 's larder was replenished by three elks which the men killed without leaving the road." General John Bidwell , of the 1841 Bartleson-Bidwell Party wrote: "In some of the fertile valleys, such as Napa and Santa Clara, there were elk literally by the thousand." In 1978, California Department of Fish and Game warden Henry Coletto urged

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4494-691: The Madison Square Boys and Girls Club in Brooklyn as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). She worked for the WPA in the easel painting and sculpture divisions until 1939. In 1936, Nevelson won her first sculpture competition at the A.C.A Galleries in New York. For several years, the impoverished Nevelson and her son walked through the streets gathering wood to burn in their fireplace. This firewood served as

4601-654: The San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California . The county seat and largest city with a population of 971,233 is San Jose , the 13th-most populous city in the nation, California's third-most populous city , and the most populous city in Northern California . Home to Silicon Valley , Santa Clara County is an economic center for high technology , and had the third-highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in

4708-764: The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge to add genetic diversity to the San Antonio Valley Ecological Reserve herd in San Antonio Valley in extreme eastern Santa Clara County. As of 2017 there were four herds in the Coyote Ridge area, often visible from U. S. Highway 101, according to Craige Edgerton, recently retired executive director of the Silicon Valley Land Conservancy and local naturalist Michael Hundt. In 2019,

4815-713: The Santa Clara County Health System of medical centers and clinics. In the United States House of Representatives , Santa Clara County is split among four congressional districts: In the California State Senate , the county is split among four legislative districts: In the California State Assembly , the county is split among six legislative districts: Voters in the county also elect

4922-575: The U.S. Supreme Court case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad , 118 U.S. 394 (1886), in which the court extended due-process rights to artificial legal entities . In the early 20th century, the area was promoted as the "Valley of the Heart's Delight" due to its natural beauty, including a significant number of orchards . The region was also memorably referred to as the "sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley" in Jack London's 1903 Call of

5029-683: The Whitney Museum of American Art , Brooklyn Museum , Museum of Modern Art, New York ; and the Guggenheim Museum . Nevelson has been described as "the first woman to gain fame in the U.S. for her public art". In 1978, the City of New York commissioned a sculpture garden, Louise Nevelson Plaza (formerly Legion Memorial Square), located between Maiden Lane , Liberty Street and William Street in Lower Manhattan , to showcase some of her large-scale sculptures. It became

5136-587: The cosmos and archetypes . Moreover, Nevelson was inspired by the work of Joaquín Torres García , an Uruguayan artist who "in the United States was probably underrated precisely because he was so influential; Adolph Gottlieb's and Louise Nevelson's debt to his work has never been fully acknowledged". Nevelson's limited palette of black and white, became central. She spray painted her walls black until 1959. Nevelson stated that black "means totality. It means: contains all. It contained all color. It wasn't

5243-673: The human scale works of the early 1940s. Nevelson also visited Latin America and was influenced by Mayan ruins and the steles of Guatemala . In 1954, Nevelson's street in Kips Bay was among those slated for demolition and redevelopment, and her increasing use of scrap materials in the years ahead drew upon on refuse left on the streets by her evicted neighbors. In 1955, Nevelson joined Colette Roberts' Grand Central Modern Gallery, where she had numerous one-woman shows. There she exhibited some of her most notable mid-century works: Bride of

5350-464: The " baroque phase", inspired by her having been told as a child that America's streets were "paved with gold" and by the materialism and hedonism of the color, the Sun, and the Moon. Nevelson researched the Noh robes and the gold coin collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for inspiration. Through her work, Nevelson often explored her complicated past, factious present, and anticipated future. A common symbol that appears in Nevelson's work

5457-453: The Black Moon , First Personage , and the exhibit "Moon Garden + One", which showed her first wall piece, Sky Cathedral , in 1958. From 1957 to 1958, she was president of the New York Chapter of Artists' Equity where she forged a long friendship and advocacy with Norman Carton , a former Philadelphia Artist Equity president. In 1958, Carton helped Nevelson join Martha Jackson Gallery , where he worked and exhibited. At Martha Jackson, she

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5564-407: The Civic Art Gallery. In 1972 the building was named a California Historical Landmark (#854), and in 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places . A 45,000-square-foot modern addition known as the "New Wing", designed by architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to house the majority of the exhibition space, was opened to the public in 1991. Robinson, Mills & Williams oversaw

5671-409: The Dutch artist Lara Schnitger and a work commissioned by the museum from Philippine artist Lordy Rodriguez . The Art Newspaper reported that the San Jose Museum of Art framed 2019 as "the year of visionary women artists” that featured shows by Jay DeFeo and Catherine Wagner , along with major exhibitions by artists Rina Banerjee and Pae White . In 2007 the San Jose Museum of Art received

5778-469: The Museum of Modern Art. In 1962, she made her first museum sale to the Whitney Museum of American Art , which purchased the black wall Young Shadows . That same year, her work was selected for the 31st Venice Biennale and she became national president of Artists' Equity , serving until 1964. In 1962 she left Martha Jackson Gallery for a brief stint at the Sidney Janis Gallery . After an unsuccessful first show in which none of her work sold, Nevelson had

5885-504: The Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum . The San Jose Museum of Art held major exhibitions for artists Leo Villareal in 2010, and Richard Misrach , Guillermo Galindo , and Tabaimo in 2016, under the tenure of Susan Krane. In 2018, the museum presented a large scale solo exhibition of Vietnamese photographer Dinh Q. Lê . Later that year, SJMA held Other Walks, Other Lines, an exhibition of international artists "who examine not only where we walk, but how and why" that included artwork from

5992-680: The San Felipe Ranch for the Isabel and San Antonio Valleys, as well as an area near Lake Del Valle in Alameda County may now be extirpated by poaching, highway vehicle collisions, and insufficient numbers to defend pronghorn fawns against coyote predation. As of 2012, the Isabel Valley Ranch herd had dwindled to 3 animals, and the Lake del Valle herd to 13. Currently, iNaturalist.org has zero observer records of pronghorn in Santa Clara County. The Nature Conservancy "Mount Hamilton Project" has acquired or put under conservation easement 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of land towards its 500,000 acres (200,000 ha) goal for habitat conservation within

6099-428: The Sowing Creativity education program from the California Association of Museums. The same year, the museum received the first prize in the Exhibition Collateral Materials category of the American Alliance of Museum’s Museum Publications Design Competition for Tabaimo : Her Room by Connie Hwang. In 2018, SJMA received the Vietnamese American Cultural Center Award for work in the community. The same year, it received

6206-413: The United States in 1902. After he left, Minna and the children moved to the Kiev area. According to family lore, young Nevelson was so forlorn about her father's departure that she became mute for six months. In 1905, Minna and the children emigrated to the United States, where they joined Isaac in Rockland, Maine . Isaac initially struggled to establish himself there, suffering from depression while

6313-475: The Wild . The first major technology company to be based in the area was Hewlett-Packard , founded in a garage in Palo Alto in 1939. IBM selected San Jose as its West Coast headquarters in 1943. Varian Associates , Fairchild Semiconductor , and other early innovators were in the county by the late 1940s and 1950s. The U.S. Navy had a large presence in the area and began giving large contracts to Silicon Valley electronics companies. The term " Silicon Valley "

6420-573: The airport's busiest routes are all to cities in the western United States. San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is also often used for commercial services by residents of Santa Clara County. Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ), a former U.S. Naval Air Station , is used by the Air National Guard , NASA , Lockheed Martin , Google , and by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department as an air operations base. There are also smaller general aviation airports in Palo Alto (PAO) , San Jose (Reid-Hillview) (RHV) , and San Martin(E16) Santa Clara County

6527-402: The artist's all-black assemblages incorporating the plastic Formica . In the fall of 1969, she was commissioned by Princeton University to create her first outdoor sculpture . After completion of her first outdoor sculptures, Nevelson stated: "Remember, I was in my early seventies when I came into monumental outdoor sculpture ... I had been through the enclosures of wood. I had been through

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6634-401: The average family size was 3.41. In the county, the age distribution was 24.7% under 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 35.4% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 9.5% who were 65 or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.80 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 101.90 males. The median income for a household in the county was $ 74,335, and for a family

6741-404: The collection in size and stature. Krane was succeeded by Susan Sayre Batton as executive director in April 2017. By 2019, after 50 years of operation, the SJMA had acquired a permanent collection with 2,600 objects. The museum's 33,000-square-foot historic wing was originally designed by federal architect Willoughby J. Edbrooke . Built from local Greystone Quarry sandstone in 1892, the structure

6848-449: The country, despite extreme land prices. The surge in metro GDP is highly correlated with home prices, which for average single-family homes passed $ 1 million ($ 1,017,528) in August 2013. As of the fourth quarter of 2021, the median value of homes in Santa Clara County was $ 1,253,400, an increase of 11.9% from the prior year, and ranking fourth in the US for highest median home value. School districts include: Santa Clara County Library

6955-446: The county's water security . As of 2020, it has a median household income of $ 130,890, the third-highest household income of any county in the nation behind Loudoun County, Virginia and Falls Church, Virginia , and the highest of any county in the Western United States . Santa Clara County is named for Mission Santa Clara , which was established in 1777, and was in turn named for Saint Clare of Assisi . Santa Clara County

7062-407: The department to choose the Mount Hamilton area as one of California's relocation sites under a new statewide effort to restore tule elk. While other ranchers refused, tech pioneers Bill Hewlett and David Packard allowed Coletto and state biologists to translocate the initial 32 tule elk from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra onto the 28,000-acre (11,000 ha) San Felipe Ranch , which

7169-497: The drama of New York City. She explained, "I wouldn't ordinarily have gone. I didn't care so much about the idea of prints at that time but I desperately needed to get out of town and all of my expenses were paid." At Tamarind, Nevelson made twenty-six lithographs, becoming the most productive artist to complete the fellowship up until that time. The lithographs she created were some of her most creative graphic work, using unconventional materials like cheese cloth, lace, and textiles on

7276-404: The elk horns as four varas [11 feet (3.4 m)] across... "These animals [elk] are called ciervos in order to differentiate them from the ordinary Spanish variety of deer, here called venados , which also exist in abundance and of large size in the vicinity." Regarding pronghorn, Moraga reported: "In the said plains of San Bernardino (Santa Clara Valley)…there is another species of deer about

7383-722: The families jointly own, in the hills east of Morgan Hill . From the three original 1978–1981 translocations (totaling 65 animals) to the Mount Hamilton region of the Diablo Range , there are multiple herds in different locations including the Isabel Valley, San Antonio Valley , Livermore area, San Felipe Ranch, Metcalf Canyon, Coyote Ridge , Anderson Lake , and surrounding areas such as the Sunol and Cottonwood Creek (near San Luis Reservoir in western Merced County, California ) herds. As of 2012 , an estimated 400 tule elk roam 1,875 square kilometres (724 sq mi) in northeastern Santa Clara County and southeastern Alameda County . In March 2014 CDFW translocated nine bull elk from

7490-437: The family settled into their new home. He worked as a woodcutter before opening a junkyard. His work as a lumberjack made wood a consistent presence in the family household, a material that would figure prominently in Nevelson's work. Eventually, he became a successful lumberyard owner and realtor. Another child, Lillian, was born in 1906. Nevelson was very close to her mother, who suffered from depression, perhaps brought on by

7597-421: The family's migration from Russia and their minority status as a Jewish family living in Maine. Minna overly compensated for this, dressing herself and the children up in clothing "regarded as sophisticated in the Old Country". Her mother wore flamboyant outfits with heavy make-up; Nevelson described her mother's "dressing up" as "art, her pride, and her job", also describing her as someone who should have lived "in

7704-507: The first governmental entities in the world to sue for same-sex marriage. The following table includes the number of incidents reported in 2009 and the rate per 1,000 persons for each type of offense. Law Enforcement in Santa Clara County is handled by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and local police departments. The county's economy is heavily services-based. Technology, both hardware and software, dominates

7811-571: The first public space in New York City to be named after an artist. Having undergone significant alterations since its inception, including a complete redesign of the plaza in 2007–2010, it is now managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York . In December 1978, Nevelson dedicated another public sculpture in the Lower Manhattan; titled Sky Gate, New York it was installed in the mezzanine lobby of 1 World Trade Center on

7918-529: The great plain called San Bernardino (the Santa Clara Valley which stretches from south San Jose to Gilroy ), while the expedition was strung out at length, we descried in the distance a herd of large animals that looked like cattle, but we could not imagine where they belonged or from whence they had come...with horns similar in shape to those of the deer, but so large that they measured sixteen palms from tip to tip." Upon measurement, Morago reported

8025-573: The highest number of Superfund Sites of any county in the United States, accounting for 25 polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. As of 2019 , Santa Clara County has 23 active Superfund Sites, still more than any other county in the United States. The vast majority of these Superfund sites were caused by firms associated with the high tech sector in Silicon Valley . Census demographics data released in 2019 show Asian Americans have had

8132-450: The interior design of the new addition. The San Jose Museum of Art underwent a major seismic retrofitting in the late 1990s, at which time the building interiors were further modified and reintegrated to serve as a contemporary art gallery and exhibition space. In 1997, the museum reopened after the historic wing of the building had undergone a remodel for two and half years. The San Jose Museum of Art's permanent collection has grown over

8239-467: The international art scene, Nevelson participated in the 31st Venice Biennale . Her work has been included in museum and corporate collections in Europe and North America. Nevelson remains one of the most important figures in 20th-century American sculpture. Louise Nevelson was born Leah Berliawsky in 1899 in Pereiaslav , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire , to Minna Sadie and Isaac Berliawsky,

8346-582: The lithographic stone to create interesting textural effects. With fresh creative inspiration and replenished funds, Nevelson returned to New York. She joined Pace Gallery in the fall of 1963, where she had shows regularly until the end of her career. In 1967 the Whitney Museum hosted the first retrospective of Nevelson's work, showing over one hundred pieces, including drawings from the 1930s and contemporary sculptures. In 1964, she created two works: Homage to 6,000,000 I and Homage to 6,000,000 II as

8453-517: The materials, movements, and self-created experiments that would mold her signature modernist style in the 1950s. During the 1950s, Nevelson exhibited her work as often as possible. Yet despite awards and growing popularity with art critics , she continued to struggle financially. She began teaching sculpture classes in adult education programs in the Great Neck public school system. Her own work began to grow to monumental size, moving beyond

8560-437: The metro area reached $ 176.7 billion in 2011, or $ 94,587 per capita, roughly on par with Qatar in both total GDP and per capita (nominal). GDP grew a strong 7.7% in 2011, and in contrast with most of California, GDP and per capita GDP (nominal) is well above 2007 (financial crisis) levels. Despite relative wealth vis a vis other regions nationally, a large underclass exists whose income is roughly equivalent to that elsewhere in

8667-532: The official US census) calculates a religious diversity score of 0.876 for Santa Clara County, where 1 represents complete diversity (each religious group of equal size) and 0 a total lack of diversity. Only four counties in the US have higher diversity scores than Santa Clara County. Santa Clara County has five elected supervisors , elected within their districts. The board appoints the County Executive, who

8774-401: The opposite site of Financial District. Louise Nevelson constructed her sculpture much as she constructed her past: shaping each with her legendary sense of self as she created an extraordinary iconography through abstract means. Between 1966 and 1979, Nevelson donated her papers to numerous non-profit institutions in several instalments. Now, these are fully digitized and in the collection of

8881-594: The plurality of Santa Clara's population since 2014. As of 2013, Santa Clara County has the highest median household income of any county in California at $ 84,741. The 2010 United States census reported that Santa Clara County had a population of 1,781,642. The racial makeup of Santa Clara County was 836,616 (47.0%) White, 46,428 (2.6%) African American, 12,960 (0.7%) Native American, 7,060 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 570,524 (32.0%) Asian, 220,806 (12.4%) from other races, and 87,248 (4.9%) from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 479,210 persons (26.9% of

8988-410: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Of the 565,863 households, 34.9% had children under 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.1% were not families. About 21.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.9% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.92, and

9095-496: The population). Demographic profile As of the census of 2000, 1,682,585 people, 565,863 households, and 395,538 families were residing in the county. The population density was 503/km (1,300/sq mi). The 579,329 housing units had an average density of 173/km (450/sq mi). The ethnic makeup of the county was 53.8% White, 2.8% African American, 0.7% Native American, 25.6% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 12.1% from other races, and 4.7% from two or more races. About 24.0% of

9202-679: The prestigious MUSE award from the Media & Technology Committee of the American Alliance of Museums , for its Artist of the Week podcast, in the category Extended Experience. In 2009, the museum received another MUSE award, in Public Relations and Development, for its video, Road Trip , informally known as the "Giant Artichoke video". The work features a platform-shod traveler on a road trip to Castroville, California, who visits

9309-476: The service sector by value, but like any other county, Santa Clara has its share of retail and office support workers. The San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara metropolitan region, comprising Santa Clara County and San Benito County, was ranked as the highest performing metropolitan area in the US in 2012, ahead of Austin, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina , according to the Milken Institute . The GDP of

9416-487: The shadows. I had been through the enclosures and come out into the open." Nevelson also praised new materials like plexiglas and cor-ten steel , which she described as a "blessing". She embraced the idea of her works being able to withstand climate change and the freedom in moving beyond limitations in size. These public artworks were created by the Lippincott Foundry. Nevelson's public art commissions were

9523-496: The size of three-year-old sheep. They are similar in appearance to the deer, except they have short horns and also short legs like the sheep. They live in the plains where they go in herds of 100, 200, or more. They run all together over the plains so fast that they seem to fly…These animals are called berrendos and there are many of them also in the southern Missions wherever the country is level." Herbert Eugene Bolton also wrote of elk reports from another Spanish expedition, from

9630-617: The south and west of the county. Both tule elk ( Cervus canadensis nannodes ) and pronghorn ( Antilocapra americana ) were historically native to Santa Clara County. In June 1776, Lieutenant Commander Don José Joaquín Moraga led a group of soldiers and colonists from the Presidio of Monterey to establish Mission San Francisco de Asis and encountered both tule elk and pronghorn, and clearly distinguished these two species from deer. The deer in California being California mule deer ( Odocoileus hemionus ). Regarding elk, Moraga wrote: "In

9737-405: The starting point for the art that made her famous. Her work during the 1930s explored sculpture, painting and drawing. Nevelson also created ink and pencil drawings, terra-cotta semi-abstract animals and oil paintings . In 1941, Nevelson had her first solo exhibition at Nierendorf Gallery, which represented her until 1947. During her time at Nierendorf, Nevelson obtained a shoeshine box from

9844-542: The streets of New York. Nevelson took found objects and spray painted them to disguise their actual function or meaning. Nevelson called herself "the original recycler " owing to her extensive use of discarded objects. She found strong influence in Cubism, describing it as "one of the greatest awarenesses that the human mind has ever come to." She also found influence in Native American and Mayan art , dreams,

9951-438: The subordination of women, became "one of the most iconic images of the feminist art movement ". Even with her influence upon feminist artists, Nevelson's opinion of discrimination within the art world bordered on the belief that artists who were not gaining success based on gender suffered from a lack of confidence. When asked by Feminist Art Journal if she suffered from sexism within the art world, Nevelson replied: "I am

10058-680: The time of his death in 1995, her friend Willy Eisenhart was working on a book about Nevelson. When Nevelson was developing her style, many of her artistic colleagues were welding metal to create large-scale sculptures. Nevelson decided to go in the opposite direction by exploring the streets for inspiration and finding it in wood. Nevelson's most notable sculptures are her wooden, wall-like, collage -driven reliefs consisting of multiple boxes and compartments that hold abstract shapes and found objects from chair legs to balusters . Nevelson described these immersive sculptures as "environments". The wooden pieces were also cast-off scraps, pieces found in

10165-557: The trip by selling a diamond bracelet that her now ex-husband had given her on the occasion of Mike's birth. In Munich she studied with Hans Hofmann before visiting Italy and France. Returning to New York in 1932 she once again studied at the Art Students League. She met Diego Rivera in 1933 and worked as his assistant on his mural Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Plaza . The two had an affair which caused

10272-563: The winter of 1932–1933 she separated from Charles, unwilling to become the socialite wife he expected her to be. She never sought financial support from Charles, and in 1941 the couple divorced. Starting in 1929, Nevelson studied art full-time at the Art Students League . Nevelson credited an exhibition of Noh kimono at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a catalyst for her to study art further. In 1931, she sent her son Mike to live with family and went to Europe, paying for

10379-539: The world as of 2015 behind Zürich and Oslo , according to the Brookings Institution . Located on the southern coast of San Francisco Bay , the urbanized Santa Clara Valley within Santa Clara County contains most of the county's population. More recently, extensive droughts in California , further complicated by drainage of the Anderson reservoir within the county for seismic repairs, have strained

10486-463: The years to include 2,600 art objects as of 2019. Artforum reported that senior curator Lauren Schell Dickens oversaw the acquisition of works by California-born live simulation artist Ian Cheng and German moving image artist Hito Steyerl in the late 2010s. The San Jose Museum of Art has several works in its collection by the painter Hung Liu , a Chinese-born contemporary artist and professor of art at Oakland's Mills College . The museum added

10593-580: The youngest granddaughter, established the Louise Nevelson Foundation, a non-profit 501c(3). Its mission is to educate the public and celebrate the life and work of Louise Nevelson, thus furthering her legacy and place in American Art History. Maria Nevelson lectures widely on her grandmother at museums and provides research services. I'm not a feminist. I'm an artist who happens to be a woman. Louise Nevelson has been

10700-524: Was $ 81,717. Males had a median income of $ 56,240 versus $ 40,574 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 32,795. About 4.9% of families and 7.5% of the population were below the poverty line , including 8.4% of those under age 18 and 6.4% of those age 65 or over. Santa Clara County is among the most religiously diverse counties in the US. A 2020 census by the Public Religion Research Institute (unconnected to

10807-541: Was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic , wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv Oblast , Ukraine ), she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century. Nevelson learned English at school, as she spoke Yiddish at home. By the early 1930s she was attending art classes at

10914-492: Was coined in 1971. The trend accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s, and agriculture has since been nearly eliminated from the northern part of the county. Santa Clara County is the headquarters for about 6500 high-technology companies, including many of the world's largest such companies, including AMD , Nvidia , Cisco Systems , and Intel , computer and consumer electronics companies Apple Inc. and Hewlett-Packard, and internet companies eBay , Google , and Yahoo! . Most of what

11021-626: Was designed to serve as the main post office for the city of San Jose. It is an example of the Richardsonian Romanesque architecture style. The original steeple and clock tower were damaged in the 1906 earthquake. From 1937 to 1969 the historic wing served as the city of San Jose's library. The building was then converted by the Fine Arts Gallery Association, a group of community members and San Jose State University art professors, who then reopened it as

11128-529: Was one of the original counties of California , formed in 1850 at the time of statehood. The original inhabitants included the Ohlone , residing on Coyote Creek and Calaveras Creek . Part of the county's territory was given to Alameda County in 1853. In 1882, Santa Clara County tried to levy taxes upon property of the Southern Pacific Railroad within county boundaries. The result was

11235-565: Was renamed the San Jose Museum of Art. The museum established a partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1994. Information about each exhibition was published for visitors in English, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese, reflecting the diversity of patrons in San Jose in the 1990s. By 1997, the museum had acquired a collection of approximately one thousand pieces of contemporary art, mostly works on paper. Susan Krane, executive director from 2008 through January 2017, continued to grow

11342-495: Was spoken at home. Unhappy with her family's economic status, language differences, the religious discrimination of the community, and her school, Nevelson set her sights on moving to high school in New York. She graduated from high school in 1918, and began working as a stenographer at a local law office. There she met Bernard Nevelson, co-owner with his brother Charles of the Nevelson Brothers Company,

11449-459: Was then guaranteed income and became financially secure. That year, she was photographed and featured on the cover of Life and had her first Martha Jackson solo exhibit. In 1960, she had her first one-woman show in Europe at Galerie Daniel Cordier in Paris. Later that year a collection of her work, grouped together as "Dawn's Wedding Feast", was included in the group show, "Sixteen Americans", at

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