by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2018 | 2007, News, Traditional Arts
On June 20, the National Endowment for the Arts named quilter Marion Coleman among its 2018 National Heritage Fellows — widely considered the most prestigious form of recognition for folk and traditional artists in the United States. This year’s fellows...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 19, 2017 | 2007, News, Visual Arts
Sergio de la Torre has been investigating data and true stories of undocumented immigrants under San Francisco’s Sanctuary City policies for more than a decade. In partnership with Chris Treggiari and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, his research and artmaking...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 2, 2016 | 2007, News, Traditional Arts
Featuring music of Taiwan, China, Azerbaijan, India, and Uzbekistan, the new Chinese opera Overture to the Sun Archer will premiere at The Presidio Officer’s Club in San Francisco on June 18, 2016, at 7 p.m. The story begins with the long-ago Chinese hero Hou...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 6, 2007 | 2007, Visual Arts
Kearny Street Workshop is collaborating with Donna Keiko Ozawa, Bob Hsiang, and Christine Wong Yap to create Activist Imagination, a multimedia exhibition investigating Asian American and other activist movements of the last 35 years and envisioning new forms and...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 6, 2007 | 2007, Visual Arts
The San Francisco Public Library (Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, fiscal sponsor) are collaborating with Kate Connell and Oscar Melara and the artists? neighbors in San Francisco?s Portola District to produce a set of handmade books, an exhibition, an...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 6, 2007 | 2007, Visual Arts
Five young artists from the San Francisco Art Institute and five young immigrants from Instituto Familiar de la Raza are collaborating with Sergio De La Torre to create new work that explores current conditions of the Bay Area immigrant community, specifically...
