MEET THE TEAM
Jose Luis
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.
Brian Sal
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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Jasmine
Instructor
Jasmine is an artist and art educator based in San Jose, California. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Practice, Preparation for Teaching from San Jose State University, where she studied studio arts and arts education.
She began her career in digital arts and graphic design in community college; however, she was given the opportunity to become a Graphic Artist for Castro Valley Marketplace, where she was able to interact with the community, boost traffic for the marketplace, and teach younger children & adults about the joys of rock painting and doing public chalk art. This experience inspired her to become an after school arts teacher at organizations Arts4MC and Calcolor Academy- to spread the knowledge of art to underserved student communities, to develop an educational space where students can learn, and to empower student voices in order to express themselves. Jasmine believes that art is not about getting to a perfected result, it is about finding yourself within the process and what best sparks your inner voice. She is very passionate about giving students a space to create art, which will develop their own creativity, critical thinking, and communication skills.
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