Open Studios

Cupertino furniture maker Darryl Dieckman is among the more than 340 visual artists from San Francisco Bay Area and coastal communities opening their studios and galleries to the public this month. He is participating in the final weekend of Silicon Valley Open Studios.

A “recovering software engineer,” Dieckman’s passion for fine woodworking blossomed in 2010 when he began attending classes at Marc Adams Woodworking School in Indiana. After a spiritual experience building large-scale art at the Burning Man festival, he decided to pursue a new career path. In 2016 he was invited to attend the Fine Furniture program at the College of the Redwoods, where he learned the detail and handwork that are hallmarks of the program.

Dieckman and other South Bay artists will open their work spaces on Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. To see an interactive map of artist locations and view a gallery of the participating artists, visit at https://svos.org.

CPR class

Santa Clara County Fire Department staff will teach a hands-only CPR and AED class on May 22, 10-11:30 a.m., at the Quinlan Community Center.

Participants will learn how to perform high-quality compressions on an adult, child and infant, use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) and aid someone who is choking. They will not learn breathing (head tilt, chin lift) in this class.

Participants will not receive a two-year CPR/AED certification, but they will receive a pocket mask and travel first aid kit.

To register, visit https://bit.ly/3ET9Wsy.