There’s a new landmark in San Jose’s Japantown neighborhood in the form of an 18-foot-high stainless steel sculpture called “Sheltering Wing.” The gleaming metal artwork was installed July 21 at Heinlenville Park, which is still under construction.

Artist Roger White Stoller of Stoller Studio in Portola Valley said the piece is about Asian positivity and is also a nod to John Heinlen, the businessman who leased property to Chinese immigrants who were burned out of the previous Chinatown in downtown San Jose in the 1880s. Heinlenville, which was on the site of today’s Japantown, was a hub of Chinese cultural activities in the city for the next five decades, centered around the Ng Shing Gung temple.

Stoller consulted with historian Connie Young Yu, San Jose Taiko co-founder PJ Hirabayashi and others from the city’s Asian community about what imagery should be contained in the metal-lace artwork. “Sheltering Wing” was completed a couple of years ago, but delays in the park’s construction schedule pushed back its installation to this year.

The opening date for the park has not been set, but until then, the piece is visible from North Sixth Street between Jackson and Taylor streets.

SWIFT JUSTICE: The Santa Clara Police Department learned Friday that humor doesn’t always translate well on Twitter. You probably remember that Santa Clara leaned into the hype for Taylor Swift’s concerts at Levi’s Stadium, by proclaiming her the honorary mayor for the weekend and renaming the city “Swiftie Clara.” Well, the PD jumped onto the bandwagon with a tweet saying it was replacing its regular sirens with loops of Swift’s songs, accompanied by a photo of a “Swiftie Clara Police” shoulder patch.

Sooner than you could say “Didn’t Elon rename everything X?” people incredulously replied about the confusion the Swiftie Siren would cause and how it was all a terrible waste of taxpayer money, prompting the department to send out another tweet explaining it was all in fun and that the patches in the image were just a Photoshop job.

CREATIVE OUTREACH: Six projects in downtown Gilroy that will either take place or be completed in the next year are getting a boost from a new grant program from SVCreates.

The grants, which range from $5,000 to $20,000, will fund an exhibition series at Gallery 1202; a traditional arts workshop series at 6th Street Studios and Art Center; MANOS’ second annual chalk festival; a mural collaboration between Melanie Reynisson and Local Color SJ; La Ofrenda Festival by Rubén Darío Villa; and a patriotic mural on Eigleberry Street by the South Santa Clara Valley Memorial District.

Alexandra Urbanowski, SVCreates’ director of strategic initiatives, says the nonprofit arts catalyst has been on a mission for the past several years to provide more support to arts communities on the edges of Santa Clara County, and this program, Gilroy Elevate the Arts, is a direct result of that effort, with support from the city of Gilroy, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Santa Clara County.

RINGING ENDORSEMENT: Ed Grier, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday afternoon. He was invited to do so because it’s the 100th anniversary of the Leavey School of Business, which U.S. News & World Report ranks as the top biz school in Silicon Valley.

LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BARD: There are still a few more opportunities to catch San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s summer production of “Cymbeline” at Cupertino’s Memorial Park Amphitheatre. The free, outdoor performances sponsored by the Cupertino LIbrary Foundation continue this weekend and wrap up Aug. 4-6, starting at 6 p.m. Seating is first-come, first-served, and both blankets and an ear for iambic pentameter are recommended.

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Silicon Valley Shakespeare, however, is just getting started with five weeks of performances at Sanborn Park in Saratoga. “King Lear” — with an all-female or non-binary cast directed by Cynthia Lagodzinski — opened Friday night and continues with 10 more shows through Sept. 1. It’s paired with an adaptation of the Oscar-winning movie “Shakespeare in Love,” which opens the first of 11 performances on Aug. 4. The comedy, directed by Dave Leon, should balance out the tragic “Lear,” and the audience will even get a little involved for the Aug. 24 performance. That’s “Renaissance Dress-Up” night, and anyone showing up in costume will be entered in a raffle. Get tickets and more details at www.svshakespeare.org.