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#64- Connie Martinez - CEO SVCreates on "The Business of Arts and Culture" In May, SV CREATES unveiled new local research on the arts sector in our region in The Business of Arts and Culture . The report hopes to help all of us understand who we are as a cultural sector and what we bring to this special community. And shed light on the particular challenges we face, how we are confronting the...

Jeffrey Lo is a Filipino-American playwright and director based in the Bay Area. He is a recipient of the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award, Theatre Bay Area Director's TITAN Award, and was named Emerging Artist Laureate by Arts Council Silicon Valley (Now SV CREATES ). He is currently the Director of Community Partnerships and Casting Director for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. And, though, he st...

Toni Vanwinkle is the Senior Director of Digital Workplace Technology and Services, focused on keeping Adobe's diverse and global workforce innovative, collaborative, and productive everywhere. She is a seasoned digital transformation leader with extensive strategy development, program execution, and organizational change management experience. With over 22k employees in 37 countries, Toni has alr...

#61 - Danny Sanchez - The City Peace Project Danny Sanchez is the Founder and Executive Director of The City Peace Project. Pastor Danny serves our community as a passionate Youth Violence Prevention Activist and Latino Leadership Advocate. He is the volunteer Lead Chaplain for the City of San Jose Mayor's Gang Prevention Task Force and Lead Chaplain for Santa Clara County Valley Medical Hospital...

Fil Maresca - the owner of Filco Events Whether they realize it or not, anyone who has been to an outdoor festival in San José in the past 20 years has probably encountered Filco Events, the aptly-named production company headed by Fil Maresca, one of the city's most significant drivers of cultural community events since he moved here in 1989; and one of the original DTSJ pioneers who provided us...

#59 - Doug Hughmanick - ANML Design Doug Hughmanick is the founder and creative director of ANML Design that has work with clients like: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown , Roads & Kingdoms, JennAir, Yummly, and Whirlpool. In our conversation, Doug talks about ANML's style of work, what he looks for in a team member as well as the potential adjustment he sees for ANML in the remote-work atmosphe...

#58 - Maryela Perez - Visual Artist, DJ, and Curator for MACLA Maryela originally came to San José after graduating from UC Santa Cruz. She was looking to gain experience and develop a resume to become an urban planner. Through AmeriCorps and a program called Public Allies, she landed an internship with the Park and Recreation Department of San José. Once in the city, Maryela began to connect with...

McEwan-Upright has a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of California Santa Barbara and a master's degree in art history from the San Jose State University, an education that fostered her love of research facilitates her quest for a variety of female voices. In 2019, McEwan-Upright took over a 1,200-square-foot storefront in downtown Gilroy to act as the home base for her feminis...

Chris Jalufka is a Bay Area-based artist and writer focused on the world of design, illustration, and limited edition posters. His articles have appeared in Content Magazine , HOW Magazine , Print Magazine , Juxtapoz, and various sites and his venture, Evil Tender . He started Evil Tender, an online arts magazine, to focus on the working artists, to help promote their work. After explored screenin...

Like locking puzzle pieces, Scott and Shannon Guggenheim—or "Stannon" as their staff fittingly knows them—are the producing entity and owners of 3Below, the new home of Guggenheim Entertainment since the closing of the Retro Dome, San Jose's previous realm of movie and sing-along fun. 3Below delivers top-quality surround sound as you view an indie film or enjoy a classic flick in the cozy Theater...

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo is visual artist,  poet , teacher, and 2021 Creative Ambassador with the Office of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Jose. Her work addresses themes of identity, transformation, and empowerment. Her work is influenced mainly by her indigenous Mesoamerican ancestry, Mexika (Aztec) artwork and philosophy, Mexican culture, Chicano history, and her experiences...

For being the 10th-largest city in the United States, San Jose's local news offerings are startlingly sparse. In recent years, The Mercury News  has reduced its staff reporters, even while buying out many of the surrounding community newspapers.  Metro  fills some of the holes in local coverage, but as a free weekly paper, its scope is limited. Online publications like  Pa...

#52 - Peter Hsieh - Writer for the stage and screen San Jose writer and director Peter Hsieh premieres his first feature film at Cinequest. Shot at Redwall Studios , Miniboss , and around Downtown San Jose. Drive All Night is a stylized neo-noir thriller that follows a taxi driver through the night as his mysterious passenger leads him to surreal excursions. Staring @iamsarahdumont, @yutaka2011, @...

#51 Eric Bui- Multimedia Artist  Look through Eric Bui's social media feed and you will notice that he enjoys drawing with ink and pen as well as digital tools like Procreate. Recently, Eric found himself in the local spotlight because of a piece he submitted to a group exhibit curated by the City of San Jose called "Holding the Moment," a series of works by 77 artists displayed at the San Jo...

#50 - Brendan Rawson - San Jose Jazz Executive Director South Bay native Brendan Rawson has worked in the local arts scene for more than twenty years. Since joining San Jose Jazz (SJZ) in 2012, Brendan has worked to increase their education programs' impact and conceived many of their most successful initiatives, including Jazz Beyond programming and the mobile Boombox Truck stage. Brendan is a lo...

#49 Halfdan Hussey - CEO and Co-Founder of Cinequest and Creatics Halfdan (hallf' dun) Hussey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cinequest Inc. and Creatics Enterprises Inc. Launched in 1990, Cinequest fuses innovations with creativity to empower youth, artists, audiences, and innovators globally. His passion for creating positive and transformative impact in our world is ever-present in his work. Havin...

#48 Marianne McGrath - Independant Art Curator and Consultant- MKM Art Consulting Marianne K. McGrath is a Los Gatos, California, local who used her background in art and art history to build her own business, MKM Art Consulting, LLC., to practice curating, art consulting, and art education. Marianne holds a BA in art and 3-D design, as well as an MA in art history from San Jose State Univers...

Chad Johnston, CEO of CreaTV San Jose, sees immense opportunity and a chance to reshape what we’ve come to know as Public Access TV, and transform it into a powerful public tool for local storytelling and media activism. “Teaching people to tell their story can change their position,” says Johnston. “It empowers you in a way where you say ‘My voice does matter. I’m as important as Wolf Blitzer!’ W...

#46 Ato Walker - Humorous, host, and emcee He calls himself "Mr. Walker." He started out hosting comedy nights at San Jose's Britannia Arms and has performed at the Ice House, San Jose Improv, Laughs Unlimited, Rooster T. Feathers, and the Caravan Lounge. He has also emceed Music in the Park and San Jose Jazz Festival stages. In our conversation, Ato tells us about how he got into comedy, his firs...

Jorge “J.Duh” Camacho uses the symbiotic duality of his creative process—fine art versus street—to create unique, vibrant, and witty works of art. Since jumping into the local art scene as one of Local Color's first tenants, Jorge has expanded his skills, network, and portfolio with projects from the "Greeting from San Jose" wrap on the PCW building to POW! WOW! San Jose. In our conversation, we t...

#44 Dana Harris Seeger and Yori Seeger - Artists and Cofounders of the School of Visual Philosophy Both accomplished artists, Dana's practices include painting, printmaking, and interactive installation, while Yori can be classified as a sculptor working with blacksmithing, bladesmithing, metal casting, and 3D printing — it would be a disservice to limited either of them to one genre. Their passio...

#43 Sinjin Jones - Transmedia artist and Artistic Director at Pear Theatre Sinjin Jones is a multimedia jack of all trades. He loves experimenting with and practicing directing, choreography, creative writing, slam poetry, painting, lighting design, and sound design (to name a few). His passion for the arts led him to found the Otherworld Collective in Colorado as a way to experiment with storytel...

#42 Juan Sanchez - Founder and Creative Director of Baunfire Digital Agency Juan founded Baunfire in 2003 to provide "great work" for his clients and soon realized that a "great team" is the key to the quality of Baunfire's service. As a digital design agency based in the heart of Silicon Valley, downtown San Jose, they have partnered with leading global brands and forward-thinking startups to des...

Susan Sayre Batton has held a number of art museum positions, including deputy director at Honolulu Academy of Arts, collections consultant at Norton Simon Museum, and her current position as Oshman Executive Director at San Jose Museum of Art. With the intent of creating a borderless museum through onsite and offsite projects and seamless integration with the communities they serve, Sayre and her...

#40 Joe Miller - Graphic Designer, Educator, and Arts Administrator  As owner and principal designer of the graphic design firm, Joe Miller's Company, he specializes in "identity and brand development through graphic, typographic, and environmental design." Miller has worked with companies like Atari, HP, The New York Times, and several local organizations. As Lecturer in Graphic Des...