“The Resilient City,” a cut-metal mural by Oakland artist Johanna Poethig is the most visible of more than 30 pieces of public art at the newly opened Fire Training Center and Emergency…
Johanna Poethig, a visual, public and performance artist, stands in front of her art that was commissioned by the San Jose Public Art Program for the San Jose Fire Training Center and Emergency Operations Center on Senter Road in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Poethig is Professor Emerita of the Visual and Public Art department at California State University, Monterey Bay .
Johanna Poethig, a visual, public and performance artist, stands in front of her art that was commissioned by the San Jose Public Art Program for the San Jose Fire Training Center and Emergency Operations Center on Senter Road in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Poethig is Professor Emerita of the Visual and Public Art department at California State University, Monterey Bay .
Firefighters give a demonstration during a ceremony for the new San Jose Fire Training Center on Senter Road in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 28, 2024. And equally important, Ogilvie said, it was an opportunity for the city to patronize its homegrown creative community at a time when they needed it most.
“They’re trying to prepare for these disasters, and there are patterns to them but they never repeat,” she said. “It’s kind of an optimistic way to hold the whole composition together but it also has this meaning behind it that I picked up from talking to them.”What a Leap Night it was in Sunnyvale on Feb. 29, as the 57th annual Celebrate Sunnyvale awards at the Hilton Garden Inn drew more than 150 people, the biggest crowd in memory to attend the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce event.
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