Experience a night of hands-on making and performance curated by ARTogether
On this First Thursday, experience a special edition of ARTogether’s Gather In program, which offers casual, drop-in art making led by artists from our community and creates space to make connections with others. And watch a showcase of performances including poetry, dance, and more.
Thursday, July 3, 2025 3 – 8 pm
Floor 2, Koret Education Center
Floor 4, Gina and Stuart Peterson White Box
Free with museum admission. This event takes place on a First Thursday when the museum is free to Bay Area residents.
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Gather in – Hands on Making
4 pm – 7 pm
Vision Books with Sen Mendez
Paper collage with Kate Goka
Merging different types of paper and other mixed media to create a collage. As an artist whose practice includes making paper, Kate Goka invites you to begin by holding and touching various papers both to observe the paper and think about what you associate with the textures. From there, use your experience of texture as a guide for creating a collage of personal meaning.
Shadow Puppet Portraits with Jess Nguyen
Jessica Nguyen is an artist and educator specializing in movement and visual arts disciplines ranging from dance, puppetry, and circus to illustration and sculpture. She has collaborated and performed as a shadow puppeteer all around the Bay Area, and is a core member of Shadowlight Productions. If you know her, you know Jess has a lifelong love and involvement in the natural world and is deeply invested in the entomological world. You can often catch her sipping tea and, unsurprisingly, mulling over fun facts to share with you. Find more of her work at https://www.ghosthearted.com/
Today, Jess will facilitate an exploration of a self-portraiture in shadow and collage, and she will share some fundamental shadow puppet animation techniques. Come and assemble a shadowscape of creative self-discovery from found objects, light, and wire contours.
White Box, Floor 4
6 p.m.
Nava Dance Theater
Experience Nava Dance Theatre, a bharatanatyam dance company that uses experimental movement, and live music to navigate the complicated intersections of racism, feminism, and identity. Tonight Nadhi Thekkek, Janani Muthaiya, Lalli Venkat, and Akhila Rajesh will be sharing excerpts from Rogue Gestures/ Foreign Bodies an evening length production examining the labor of South Asian immigrant women who came to the US after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.
Wattis Theater, Floor 1
7 p.m.
Chhoti Maa & the Indigo Ensemble
Join Chhoti Maa & the Indigo Ensemble (Corina Santos, Camellia Boutros, Bri Izaguirre, Caro Acuña Olvera & Ro Cordova) for a performance drawing from Chhoti Maa’s unique cross-genre blending.
