Yvaska for The Mercury News Quilts tell tales: The Los Altos History Museum and Day Worker Center of Mountain View are teaming up to present “Traveling Stitches: Quilts Made at the Day Worker Center of Mountain View.” The exhibit runs until April 29. The project invited individuals at the Day Worker Center to create quilt blocks, and 140 women and men took part. Each block illustrates…
Los Altos Town Crier Reports The Los Altos History Museum’s latest exhibition, “Instinct Extinct: The Great Pacific Flyway,” is scheduled to open Thursday and run through April 1. The display chronicles the story of birds – their beauty, their biology, their migrations and their ecosystems. Curated by the professors from the UC Davis School of Design, the exhibition is inspired by…
Los Altos Town Crier: December 13, 2017, Written by Robin Chapman Los Altos is the rare city in the Santa Clara Valley to have a historical house at the center of its civic life. The holidays are an excellent time to remember that the J. Gilbert Smith House, adjacent to the Los Altos main library, was not always a museum….
Local tech innovators and entrepreneurs, Sandy Chau, Hsing Kung, and Hiro Masumoto share their stories of pursuing the American Dream with Diana Ding on “Innovation Dialog”. View it here
By STEVEN WAYNE YVASKA | steve.yvaska@sbcglobal.net | Mercury News It’s time to shop, mingle, sip tea and ogle the decorations — all for good causes. These fundraising festivities not only put you in a holiday frame of mind, but they also help preserve the Bay Area’s historic homes, fund museum programs and support countless charities. Reminder: Early reservations are a…
See what SF/Arts curator Christian L. Frock had to say about I Want the Wide American Earth: “Organized and traveled by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, this exhibition considers how Asian Pacific Americans have participated in and been cultivated by this country’s history, from a variety of historical vantage points, including the California Gold Rush, the development of the…
