South San Jose

February 6, 2025December 19, 2024

Animal Mural at the Mall

Mural by Lila Gemellos (gemellosmurals.com) at Oakridge Mall.

December 19, 2024December 15, 2024

We Love Blossom Valley Mural

This mural on Snell Ave in San Jose is by artist Paul J. Gonzalez (pauljgonzalezartstudios.com).

Below are pictures of when it was a work in progress.

Paul marking out the outlines before having community members help out with the color.

Community members were invited to help put in the base layer of solid colors over a weekend. Then, Paul J. Gonzalez spent a couple of weeks finishing the mural.

August 1, 2024July 31, 2024

Santa Clara County Fair

This new mural is up at the Santa Clara County Fair Grounds to celebrate the fair’s 80 years. Mural by @1984.yo.

This year’s fair, going on now, has rides, pig races, fighting robots, and lots of farm animals. I enjoyed the displays of handmade items by county residents of all ages like blankets, jams, artworks, clothing and more. And the geology exhibit and reptile exhibits had friendly people from whom I learned new things.

There was also this art gallery exhibit with lots to appreciate.

Out and about, some other things you may see are at the fair are…

Krazy George riding around in an old San Jose fire truck! That is Krazy George, inventor of The Wave that you see at sporting events, in the red shirt on back of the truck.

Bike tricks that were super impressive and which photos do not capture well…

And more art like this one by AugieWK (https://www.thejamsbrand.com/augiewk).

June 6, 2024May 31, 2024

Triumph Pelt

This artwork is called “Triumph Pelt” and is hanging on the DMV in south San Jose. It was created by artist Dustin Shuler in 1986 (https://dustinshuler.com/pelts.html).