This project focuses on sweet desserts or treats from different cultures. Students will learn how to arrange and paint a still life with watercolors.

This project focuses on the water cycle, and how all rivers and oceans are connected. Students will create a pop-up card with ocean animals.

This project encourages students to go outside and collect items from nature to be catalogued in their book. What kind of items can be found in your background?

An Bùi is a writer, community organizer, and facilitator who loves to embrace the complexities of her emotions through laughing and crying. Through her writing, she explores the lens of daughterhood, living in San José as a queer Việt artist, and navigating the grief of losing her younger brother. Social justice and spirituality are the pillars that guide and inform her work. She dreams about a world where care exists on a structural, community, and individual level. Her work has been featured on Autostraddle, QTViệt Cafe, and more. Instagram @nonymousbui

2020 is supposed to be "The Year of the Woman." Exploring social justice through the eyes of an artist. About this Event Join Chopsticks Alley Art Tongue lecture series for an interactive art and culture immersion experience. 2020 celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in the US. It is supposed to be the "Year of the Woman." Yet the celebration has taken a back seat to a pandemic and veiled by cries for social justice. How can we forget? We invite you to join our lecture with Artist Hadi Aghaee who will share his artworks exploring women's roles in society. The central message is to look twice at things we do not yet see at first glance. We also have a special performance with EJ Villanueva, a Woodwind Musician & Educator. http://hadiaghaeefineart.com/about.html https://www.instagram.com/ejvaleros/ http://www.ChopsticksAlleyArt

Learn how Artist & Designer Emma Linh turned her love for art into a career. This lecture will help both parents and students. Join Chopsticks Alley Art Tongue lecture series for an interactive art and culture immersion experience. So you want to be an artist, but don't know how to earn a living doing what you love? Get real world tips and career advice from Vietnamese Designer Emma Linh as she shares her journey with us. www.ChopsticksAlleyArt.org

“Adventures in Contemporary Art” A program engaging Vietnamese seniors to learn and actively participate in contemporary arts beyond the classroom setting. Chopsticks Alley Art gave participants art supplies, three workshops, two bus tours, and a final exhibit of their art works at the San Jose Museum of Art Tet Lunar New Year Community Day. The program was made possible in part by grants from the Office of Cultural Affairs from the City of San Jose, SVCreates, and the County of Santa Clara.

Come join us in conversation with Chopsticks Alley's Executive Artistic Director, Trami Cron!

Chopsticks Alley Art Tongue lecture series where will bring to you an interactive art and culture immersion experience. Jenny Do, Founder of the Ao Dai Festival, will share the differences between Eastern and Western art. You will never look at Asian art the same way again. Learn how to view Western art through Eastern eyes and vice versa. Learn how cultural philosophies affect works of art then and now.