by Frances Phillips | Mar 16, 2021 | 2008, 2019, News, Performing Arts
On March 11, Jewlia Eisenberg — singer, composer, bassist, cantor, and educator — died of a rare auto-immune disease. Jewlia was such a force of nature that it is hard to believe that she is gone. The Creative Work Fund was fortunate to have a relationship...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 24, 2021 | 2004, Literary Arts, News
In 2004, the Creative Work Fund awarded a grant to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti for a collaboration with Bay Area Radio Drama and Earwax Productions to create a series of recordings for broadcast. We are able to share one episode from their project Locations here. The...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 27, 2021 | 2009, News, Traditional Arts
With a 2009 grant from the Creative Work Fund, California Indian Basketweaver Linda Yamane collaborated with the Big Sur Land Trust to create an Ohlone presentation basket. The artist is of Rumsien Ohlone heritage — the Native Californians of the Monterey area....
by Frances Phillips | Dec 19, 2020 | 2019, News, Traditional Arts
When Sydney Loyola applied to the Creative Work Fund to collaborate with the Filipino American Development Foundation and multiple artists and artistic companies, she planned for the work to be part of the annual Parol Lantern Festival in San Francisco’s South...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 19, 2020 | News, Performing Arts
The San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, Record Twenty Twenty is premiering on film on December 19 and 20, and features a number of Creative Work Fund grantees from prior years, including composers Walter Kitundu and Marcus Shelby, and choreographers/dance companies...
