Help Us Raise $20,000 For The Ballet San Jose

Update - October 20, 2006: We only have one painting left! The Designing Chips painting. Get it now or it will be gone! If your company donates $5000 to the Ballet San Jose, you can have one of these wonderful paintings, created by attendees at this year's Design Automation Conference in San Francisco. By painting 10”x10” canvases, conference attendees artistically contributed to these giant murals, designed by famed German artist Lothar Krebs. View the video of people painting. “Every chip designer is, in many ways, an artist. So at DAC, we’re celebrating the artist within each of us by letting attendees paint parts of giant pictures that tell the story of chip design,” stated Chris Rowen, Tensilica’s president and CEO. “We’ll use this artwork to support another art – ballet. Ballet San Jose is an integral part of our Silicon Valley culture and deserves widespread support.” If your company is interested in donating $5,000 to the San Jose Ballet to aquire one or more of these paintings, please contact Paula Jones, Director of Corporate Communications. To see additional pictures of the people painting, click here.

To make a contribution to the Ballet San Jose, click here.

During the 4-day DAC exhibition, attendees painted part of a different picture each day. And here's what they created! Click on any picture to get a high-resolution version to see the real beauty of these pictures.

Designing Chips

Telecommunications - SOLD

Entertainment - SOLD

Evolution of Design - SOLD

Automotive - SOLD

The Artist – Lothar Krebs

Lothar Krebs, born in Hanau Germany in 1961, is a painter and illustrator who has become famous for his Puzzle Picture Paintings, which allow a large number of people to participate in creating a unique montage. Krebs creates the master plan for the art piece, then distributes portions of that plan onto smaller canvasses in outline form so large groups can participate. Together with concept artist GAX Axel Gundlach he has created Puzzle Picture Paintings for company events and trade shows for companies such as Deutsche Bank, Paulaner, Pfizer and Siemens. More information is available at www.krebsillustration.de.

Ballet San Jose

Ballet San Jose has become known as one of the most innovative, “classically-based” ballet companies in the country, with a resident company of 33 dancers from 12 countries around the world. Ballet San Jose performs to over 60,000 theater attendees annually. In addition to a four-program season, and their annual production of "The Nutcracker", Ballet San Jose also produces a series of ballets for young audiences. This season includes the American Premiere of "The Tinderbox," a ballet based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. The company also runs a non-profit, year-round ballet school and donates thousands of tickets each year to Bay Area social and service organizations through their extensive outreach program. More information is available at www.balletsanjose.org.