by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2016 | 2001, 2011, Literary Arts, Media Arts, News
In recent weeks, San Francisco’s arts community has been saddened by the deaths of performer and writer Cherylene Lee and filmmaker Lise Swenson, both Creative Work Fund recipients. Swenson received a 2001 Media Arts grant to create Mission Movie in...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 18, 2015 | 2011, Media Arts, News
Filmmaker Jennifer Kroot collaborated with the Japanese American Museum of San Jose on developing the internment history aspect of her documentary, To Be Takei, which explores the personal story, artistic work, and LGBTQ activism of George Takei. Takei, best known as...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 19, 2014 | 2011, Literary Arts, News
Through extensive interviews and exchanges with undocumented youth and collaboration with the creative team at Marsh Youth Theater, poet Gary Soto developed In and Out of Shadows, a musical play. Marsh Youth Theater presented the play last year–drawing...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 19, 2014 | 2011, News, Traditional Arts
Opening Friday, August 15, and on long-term display at the Museum of the American Indian in Novato, “Kay Key Ya” features traditional Pomo regalia painstakingly researched and created by Edward Willie over nearly three years. The works were created in a...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 4, 2014 | 2011, News, Traditional Arts
Chhip Chhoun, who has been collaborating with The Bridge Community Center of Modesto (a program of Sierra Vista Child and Family Services), has announced a cultural fair that will mark the culmination of his Creative Work Fund project on Friday, June 6, from 1-3 pm at...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 27, 2014 | 2010, 2011, 2012, News, Performing Arts
When this year’s Isadora Duncan Dance Awards were announced on March 24, two Creative Work Fund supported projects were among the special honorees: Sean Dorsey, who collaborated with the Queer Cultural Center to develop The Secret History of Love (which is...
