Content Magazine

Featured:  ⁠Issue 16.2, “Sight and Sound,”⁠   ⁠Julie Meridian ⁠ ⁠Content Magazine’s⁠  12th Anniversary Issue #66The wide array of  ⁠Julie Meridian’s⁠  art projects reflects her inquisitive nature; they explore the tools we create and the comforts we cling to… Between gallery exhibitions and blogs on the tools in question, she paints murals that harmonize their surroundings and political cartoons t...

Featured:  Issue 16.2, “Sight and Sound,”   Britt Bradley Content Magazine’s  12th Anniversary Issue #66 Brittany R. Bradley , Britt for short, is an award-winning alternative process photographer. She uses the collodion wet plate process to memorialize her participants on a tin or metal plate, portraying them such that they feel powerful and authentic to themselves. “The truth exists somewhere be...

Episode #109 Trevor Jones, Minnow Arts Watch on   Spotify | YouTube | Vimeo | Listen on Apple Podcast Trevor Jones is a family man, building designer, and co-owner of Minnow Arts Gallery in Santa Cruz, California. Trevor was born and raised in Cupertino before studying economics and international studies during his undergrad and earning a master’s in architecture from the University of Oregon. Tre...

Episode #108 - Content Year Review The Cultivator and Developer of Content Magazine review a year of publications. Daniel Garcia founded Content Magazine in 2012 and has cultivated the longest-running South Bay Arts magazine ever. David Valdespino Jr. Joined the Content team full-time in January 2023 as a production manager and writer. In this conversation, we discuss highlights from the year, som...

Episode #107 Pamela Walsh -  Pamela Walsh Gallery Pamela Walsh is an artist of a different sort. As a gallerist, her work lives in the margin between artwork and art buyer. A gallerist’s art is not just curation but creating a space that brings people to artwork and telling those stories-becoming a conduit between artistic expression and the community that is engaging with it. Pamela Walsh Gallery...

Episode #106 Marcus Lyon - Human Atlas, The De. Coded Project In this follow-up to  Podcast #81 , we reconnect with Marcus Lyon, artist, photographer, and founder of A Human Atlas, after completing his Silicon Valley project entitled De. Coded , which launched in October 2023. In our conversation with Marcus, we talk about what he learned from his time with Silicon Valley change makers, how this p...

IKUKA  pastry and dessert shop at  State Street Market  in Los Altos takes its name from the first syllables of the Japanese words imo (sweet potato), kuri (chestnut), and kabocha (pumpkin). The goal of its creator and general manager, Miyuki Ozawa, is to bring the namesake flavors popular in Japanese baking to the South Bay. Miyuki created the idea of IKUKA alongside her mother, Kuniko Ozawa, a p...

Founder and CEO of The Good Salad , Sanad Al Souz, is on a mission to shake up mealtime by offering healthy and delicious signature chef-crafted salads. Coming from high-tech engineering, Sanad noticed his colleagues’ interest in nutritious lunches in a corporate cafeteria setting and got to work on an online salad offering that allowed the public to order custom salads. Since scaling to 3 brick a...

Episode #105 Rosé – Hip Hop Artist, Rapper, & Singer. Rooted in the Bay Area and based in San José,  Rosé began pursuing music at 19 to bring a new era and sound to the scene. As an emerging rapper and hip-hop artist, Rosé is working hard to establish himself by performing, releasing new projects, and building a local and international fanbase. Inspired by artists such as Drake, Future, Torey...

Episode #104 Noriyuki “Ken” Okada @jazzr777 - Jazz bassist, composer, and arranger. As a jazz bassist, composer, and arranger, Ken Okada has spent his life finding the groove. Unlike in other genres of music, in jazz, bass is the glue responsible for holding the group together. When composing music, Ken is less concerned with being credited with a beautiful melody and more so leaving room for othe...

Episode #103 Carman Gaines, Associate Director of Local Color When asked to describe the San José art scene, Carman Gaines uses words like ‘passionate, diverse, obsessive, and community oriented.’ One could argue that those words also best describe Carman’s life view and journey to the present. Born and raised in San José, Carman tries to squeeze the most out of life for herself and in honor of he...

Episode #102 Connie Martinez, C.E.O. of SVCreate s. It is a bittersweet moment for SVCreates as we celebrate the legacy and retirement of our fearless leader, Connie Martinez. Connie Martinez has courageously led SVCreates for the ten years since its formation when 1stACT San Jose & Arts Council Silicon Valley merged. Before then, she had held several leadership positions in various industries...

Episode #101  Brandon Quintanilla - Culture Night Market @CultureNightMarket | @feastmodesj Brandon “BQ” Quintanilla is a San Jose-born entrepreneur of Nicaraguan descent who founded media company EMLN (Early Morning Late Nights) to produce projects such as Any Given Bars YouTube Channel, San José’s Culture Night Market, and FeastMode. BQ has created a business and brand around his vision for San...

Featured Mini-Profile: @subzerofestival 2023, Doug Edwards, @randommarks Artist Doug Edwards, @randommarks, spontaneously generates art from random thoughts in his head. His pieces may begin with spilled coffee or a random mark, but they are undoubtedly inspired by journeys through the subconscious mind. He does not try to explain his work in hopes that viewers can provide their own ideas and inte...

Episode #100 Andrew Espino, Owner of 1Culture Art Gallery @1culture_ Growing up in Eastside San José, Andrew Espino loved both Hip-Hop and oldies, graffiti and lowrider culture, and football. He carried all of these inspirations through college as a St. Mary’s football linebacker and into his post-college career in real estate. Andrew frequented art galleries during business travels but found the...

At SubZERO Festival 2023, Content had the opportunity to spotlight the festival through the artists in attendance. Porky, @_p.locz_ is a musician and miniaturist who creates dioramas of iconic San Jose locations to draw viewers' sense of familiarity, nostalgia, and hometown pride. Inspired by car shows, Porky continues pushing his craft by making exact replicas of places and cars you might see...

Episode #99 - Athenna Crosby, TV Host/Journalist, Actress, and Model Athenna Crosby devotes her time to inspiring young women and positively impacting the world through modeling, acting, and entertainment journalism. Her San Jose roots keep her grounded in her mission. She recalls, “[San Jose] is just a bunch of hard-working people who go to their nine to five and put food on the table for their f...

Episode #98 Rhonda Holberton @rhondaholberton - Interdisciplinary artist and Professor of Digital Media @cadre_sjsu @SJSU Oakland-based artist and SJSU digital media professor Rhonda Holberton grew up in the Dulles Corridor, referred to as “The Silicon Valley of The East.” Holberton saw technology’s impact on society at an early age. She recalls, “I watched farmlands get steamrolled over, and subd...

Featured: Issue 10.4, Kung Fu Vampire, @kungfuvampire Kung Fu Vampire is a genre-bending rapper and performer born and raised in San Jose, California. He has spent the last 20 years curating a sound and image that has gained international interest among fandoms, including horror and hip-hop. His interests in Gothic style, music, and rap converged around a film concept conceived in conversation wit...

We are looking back at the annual  SubZERO Festival  that takes place on the first Friday and Saturday of June.  South First Friday Art Walk SJ  organizes  SubZERO Festival . This year Content had the opportunity to spotlight this festival through the artists in attendance. Augie WK  is a 3rd generation Mexican-American painter and muralist. His work draws inspiration from the religious art of the...

Featured: Issue 15.3, Leslie Lewis Sigler, @leslielewissigler_artist Leslie Lewis Sigler sees old things not as useless, but as beautiful and rich, with a deep history. She hopes her art inspires viewers to think differently about the things they already have. Leslie’s portraits of silver antique tableware are informed by the silver’s function, form, and condition. “In my ongoing study of silver o...

Featured: Issue 15.3, Onna Keller, @onna.keller Onna Keller moved to California from Thailand after finishing her PhD in demography from Chulalongkorn University. In fall of 2020, she enrolled in landscape architecture courses at West Valley College. Onna has taken classes in other fields also and continues to do so, since she believes that inspiring ideas are all around us. She will be graduating...

Featured: Issue 15.3, Iris Zimmerman, @zimmersnapsIris Zimmerman has always been drawn to the creative and is a returning student working on her psychology and studio arts degree. She hopes to pair her portraits with her psychology background to teach people how vital it is to love themselves and how challenging it can be. Join us May 19th, at West Valley College for pick-up party 15.3 and The Cil...

Featured: Issue 15.3, Rubén Darío Villa / Mr. Fúchila, @mr.fuchila Artist Rubén Darío Villa can see his hometown of Gilroy clear as day. Through his art, he speaks of his culture, his home, and the history he lives with. His art tells the story of growing up in the Bay Area as a first-generation Chicano. Fúchila, slang for “smelly” in Spanish, takes the novelty car air freshener and instills it wi...

Featured: Issue 15.3, Nyr Acuavera -Fashion Design Nyr Acuavera, born on April 17, 2002, is a Filipino fashion student at West Valley College. Immigrating to the United States at a young age, Acuavera experienced social isolation from his peers as a result of his personal identity. To flee from the troubles of reality, he turned to escapism in the form of clothing, a theme woven into the breadth o...