Content Magazine

Featured: Issue 15.3, Dan Fenstermacher, @danfenstermacher Every year, @SVCREATES recognizes the region’s finest early-career artists through the Content Emerging Artist Award. These artists are committed to developing their art forms and enriching the greater Santa Clara County region with exhibitions, performances, presentations, and service. Featured in upcoming Issue 15.3, “Perform,” photograp...

Featured: Issue 15.3, Davied Morales, @activepoet Every year, @ SV CREATES  recognizes the region’s finest early-career artists through the  Content Emerging Artist Award . These artists are committed to developing their art forms and enriching the greater Santa Clara County region with exhibitions, performances, presentations, and service.  Featured in upcoming  Issue 15.3, “Perform,”  rapper and...

Featured: Issue 15.3, Keana Aguila Labra @keanalabra Every year, @ SV CREATES  recognizes the region’s finest early-career artists through the  Content Emerging Artist Award . These artists are committed to developing their art forms and enriching the greater Santa Clara County region with exhibitions, performances, presentations, and service.   Featured in upcoming  Issue 15.3, “Perform,”  Cebuan...

#96 - Jonathan Gomez, Cofounder of Asiel Design and the Midtown Immersive Night Parties Owners of Asiel Design, Jonathan Gomez and Linnae Asiel, have gone through many iterative seasons over the past two decades. Founded in 2003 as a floral design business, the company developed to include event design with intricately themed experiences. Their recent endeavor to renovate the James Grain Warehouse...

Daniel Garcia is the founder, Cultivator, and creative visionary behind Content Magazine, a photographer, and San Jose Native, who has an upcoming photo exhibition at Art Ark Gallery, opening on May 5th, 2023. This exhibition will be his first solo show and display a body of work documenting 30+ years of photography. Garcia’s interest in photography began while taking yearbook photos in Silver Cre...

Alyssarhaye Graciano is a San Jose Native, practicing fiber artist, and current visual arts curator at MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. Having learned to crochet and knit in her teens, Graciano founded BlackSheepMade with plans to fund a college internship abroad by selling beanies, scarves, and woven garments. She later moved to Portland, Oregon, to pursue a post-college tech...

# 93- Bree Karpavage - Collage Artist and Director of Santa Cruz First Fridays, and Downtown Santa Cruz Makers Market Born and raised in an island community off the coast of Maryland, Bree Karpavage sought to experience the world outside her small town. Taking a break from college, she took to the road crafting jewelry, starting a family, and ultimately setting roots in Santa Cruz, where she has l...

Video - Bree Karpavage - Intro Video Listen to full interview on the Content Podcast on our website. Or, follow us on Spotify

Haley Cardamon first connected with the South Bay art scene in her teens when her family moved to Cannery Park in San José Japantown. Local purveyors such as Shorty Fatz Bicycles and Breezy Excursion exposed Haley to the vein of creativity that runs through San José. While taking courses at De Anza College, she found ways to combine class assignments with her interest in art. Those projects inspir...

Ann Ostermann, Open Studios & Events Director Ann manages the complex production of our annual Open Studios Art Tour with a joyful attitude. She is the liaison for several hundred Open Studios artists, event sponsors, and volunteers. A third-generation Californian who has lived in Santa Cruz since 1981, Ann has a degree in History from UCLA. Ann worked as a production coordinator in the tech w...

Episode #90 David Valdespino, Jr. - Content Production Manager We are excited to introduce Content's new Production Manager, David Valdespino Jr. A Singer-Songwriter, vinyl Dj, and bicycle enthusiast, David brings his passion for community and a degree in English education to Content's mission of connecting the South Bay through the art of storytelling. David will apply his experiences to writing,...

Featured: Issue 15.1 Andrew Espino, the founder of 1Culture, has a story to tell–just not his story.  @shop1culture “When I opened the shop, I thought about what I wanted people to see or how they would feel—and with everything going on in the world, I really wanted people to feel present. When you walk in here, you can take a time out from the world and really get lost in these stories that...

Eva Rorandelli is a fashion designer and founder of Evaro Italia, following in the footsteps of her father Massimo and his father before him, who began manufacturing leather goods in Florence in 1943. Eva grew up helping her father in his stores in the historic San Lorenzo shopping district in Florence, surrounded by Renaissance art and architecture. She later studied painting at the Accademia di...

Priya Das, Co-founder & Chief Programming Officer of Mosaic America Priya is the creator of Mosaic's inspired framework for social cohesion using the Arts and drives the creative vision, programming strategy, artist relations, and community outreach. In this episode, Priya discusses how being an art critic and columnist, her history classical Indian Bharatanatyam performer, and the Hawaiian/Sl...

Featured: Brandon Luu @bluubasaur in upcoming Issue 14.4 “Profiles”  Order issue and attend Pick-Up Party Sept 1st as NUMU Gallery https://bit.ly/144fall22  Born and raised in San Jose, Brandon is quickly becoming the voice of our future. By day he teaches middle school, and in his spare time he serves on the board of directors for Poetry Center San Jose.  Poetry is s...

#87 - Angela Ostermeier - VP of Development, Cinequest Angela joined the Cinequest team as the Events & Development Manager in 2018 and has expanded her role and responsibilities to VP of Development. Angela works closely with sponsors, venue locations, and VIPs to ensure that Cinequest events such as Maverick Meet-Ups, Nightly VIP Soirees, and Opening & Closing night parties go off w...

Featured:  “Manik” - Nicholaus James Dalton @manikdub   "I also love seeing one color after the next pop, contrast, and move against the others. It never gets old. I try not to think about it too much. Just do.” _Nicholaus James “Manik” Dalton   Dalton’s artistic philosophy blends cultures of sight, sound, and spirituality. In his most recent work, he attempts to harness “somet...

James G. Leventhal is an enthusiastic art leader and visionary who has worked at top museums throughout the Bay Area and the United States. Now, as of January 2022, he is back in San Jose as the executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San José (ICA). In this episode, James shares about major figures who shaped his path into this work. You’ll hear about the artist who sparked his ea...

Featured: Dana Harris Seeger @ danaharrisseeger in upcoming Issue 14.4 “Profiles” Order issue and attend Pick-Up Party Sept 1st at NUMU Gallery (Link in Profile) https://bit.ly/144fall22 “Community drives me. Connecting with other artists helps the public see what impact artists have on local and global communities.” An artistic all-star, Dana Harris Seeger is a painter, printmaker,...

Tony Gapastione is a pastor turned filmmaker, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, podcaster, and CEO of BraveMaker . In this episode, Tony shares how he went from creating in the shadows of his spiritual work as a pastor to the empowering realization that the performing arts can be a spiritual experience itself. Now from the hub of his organization BraveMaker he supports brave storytellers of...

Ruben Escalante suffered a heart attack as a freshman in high school. But this is only surprising until Ruben reveals the trauma they endured as a child: the father who went out at least once a week and came home drunk, angry, and violent; the early death of the grandfather who was the only one that could subdue his dad's temper; the constant and vicious attacks at school by bullies who could not...

Kenneth Tan moved back to his home in San Jose from Los Angeles to help care for his grandmother, Crescenciana Tan ("lola" in Tagalog), in 2014. They began painting as an activity to do together. Lola would paint what she felt with watercolor, and then Kenneth would add drawings with markers based on her stories and memories - this led to a series of paintings they called "The Lola x Kenneth Colla...

Stacey is an attorney and program manager by trade and an art lover and community builder by heart. Stacey focuses on strategic partnership development and social impact for San Jose Walls. Born and raised in San Jose, she is passionate about creating a legacy of impactful public art in her hometown.  In our conversation, we learn how she became a part of the SJWalls team and her desire to he...

Featured Issue 14.3: Don Budd - Tone Freq Recording Studios - tonefreqmastering.com Ask around the local music scene for a reliable recording studio, and certain names will start to repeat. One is Tone Freq Recording Studios, where hundreds of bands have gone to record their albums with craft and care. Behind that reputation is Don Budd, an audio engineer and producer, who treats each project like...

Everyone that visits an art exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art @sanjosemuseumofart sees it from a certain perspective. You arrive through the front doors, enter the gallery space, and experience the exhibition as it’s meant to be. But for those who operate behind the scenes like Richard Karson, watching it all come together is the best part. “The joy for me is to really see how [things] can be...