by Suki O'Kane | Oct 10, 2016 | 2016, Visual Arts
Westin Teruya and Kimberle Arteche are partnering with Kearny Street Workshop to create Means of Exchange, engaging with small businesses in San Francisco’s rapidly changing South of Market district to co-create art products and pop-up businesses. The artists will...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 27, 2015 | 2015, Media Arts, News, Traditional Arts
The Creative Work Fund is delighted to announce the award of 14 grants supporting the creation of new works by San Francisco Bay Area artists who are working in collaboration with an array of nonprofit organizations to develop and present their work. From a mapping...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 27, 2015 | 2015, Traditional Arts
Master weaver Jenny Bawer Young collaborating with Manilatown Heritage Foundation and eight female apprentices to create an indigenous Kalinga laga (backstrap loom) tapestry representing the Kalinga people’s fight to save the Chica River in the Cordillera region of...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 27, 2015 | 2015, Traditional Arts
Neema Hekmat along with other musicians collaborating with Ballet Afsaneh to create The Persepolis Project, an original performance work that is informed by ancient Persian earth-centered humanistic beliefs and philosophies.
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 27, 2015 | 2015, Traditional Arts
Khankham Phaxayavong of the Lao Bantheung Sinh molam troupe and Lao American rap artist One Hunned collaborating with the Center for Lao Studies to create a new work, Molam Tan Smay (Molam in the Modern Era)—bringing together two genres (molam and rap) that share...