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MEET THE TEAM

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Jose Luis Andrade

Director and Instructor

Jose is an artist native to California who understands how important art is for education and the local community.  He is a practicing artist with a four year teaching experience for both children and adults in Cupertino and Oakland.  His artworks have exhibited locally and internationally, which included the notorious opportunity to be part of the Northern Mexico Biennial.

His artistic background began at his young age of eight years when living abroad in Mexico.  He was part of the Cultural House of Mexicali for his youth career, where he learned from international renowned artist Carlos Coronado.  Later he was accepted to join the Bachelors of Fine Arts program at CSU at East Bay, where he completed the program in 2009 with an emphasis en traditional mediums.

Jose's expert knowledge include old traditional mediums like frescos, encaustic and oil to the more contemporary concepts of mixing mediums and street art.  Currently he is a gallery artist of San Francisco, runs a co-op gallery in San Jose and the Art Hub in Saratoga.

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Brian Sal Corral

Instructor

Sal is the current Education Director and former instructor at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto.  He has many years of experience teaching both children and adults, and his professional art career is also extensive in many disciplines. 

With paintings in collections around the world and a growing list of international exhibitions, the work of Brian Sal Corral is both in high demand and ever-growing. Starting as a stylized portrait painter almost 20 years ago, Sal's work has grown into his mature style by expanding the intrinsic unseen qualities of life that drew him to portraiture. Those unseen qualities are now the center of his paintings, and the people that inspire the flowing energy of life seen in his work are the bridge for the viewer to enter their world.

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Sebastian Gomez Biggeri

Instructor

Sebastian took traditional atelier training in painting and sculpture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was born and raised. He combines his academic training with his professional experience as an art director and illustrator to bring industry insight into his teaching.

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Ava Ektefaie

Instructor

Ava was first introduced to art at a young age by her Mother and with time it became a medium that allowed her to navigate growing older. Her personal work is heavily tied to her culture and Iranian American identity.  

Inspired by the connective quality of art, Ava went on to pursue her art career through a number of community engagement opportunities in Los Angeles. As the head of art and installations for the Jazz Reggae Festival, she worked alongside other creatives to showcase underrepresented genres of music and art, promoting cultural exchange and connecting various communities in the greater LA area. And as Camp Kesem’s, Alumni, Marketing, and PR coordinator, Ava leveraged her fine arts background to develop graphics for instagram, fundraising events, and merchandise, increasing engagement. 

She went on to showcase some of her work at numerous galleries including the Awlad El-Jeeran Gallery.

And now Ava is drawn to art education, looking forward to helping children develop their art skills and have fun being creative. She enjoys connecting with students who feel a similar joy for art. 

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Vivian Leung

Instructor

Vivian started as a student at the Art Hub in 2020 during the pandemic shortly after graduating from San Jose State University with a B.S. in Software Engineering. An art fanatic who grew up--in boring ole Sacramento, California--watching Saturday morning cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teen Titans, and Avatar the Last Airbender, Vivian was a fascinated by American animation as well as Japanese anime as mediums for compelling storytelling. She learned how to use Adobe Photoshop when she was 16 by watching YouTube videos, using it to design logos for clubs. Despite majoring in engineering, her artistic spirit only grew, and she attended the studio religiously, solidifying her skills and fundamentals of art through the following mediums: charcoal, oil paint, gouache, digital. She is adept in various softwares including Clip Studio Paint and Procreate. Vivian is also a film fanatic who will complain or revel to no end about the cinematography, pace, and/or character arcs.

© 2023 by ArtHub

OPENING HOURS

Monday-Friday 10:00am-8:00pm

​Saturday 9:30am-5:00pm

Sunday 10:30am-5:00pm


Events

Saturday-Sunday 6:00pm-9:30pm

ADDRESS

12241 Saratoga Sunnyvale Rd. Ste. A,

Saratoga CA 95070

CONTACT

art.hub.academy@gmail.com

Tel: 408-257-7940

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