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Sue Mark in Conversation — Arts and Emotional Resilience

Sue Mark in Conversation — Arts and Emotional Resilience

by Frances Phillips | Sep 25, 2020 | 2013, 2016, News, Visual Arts

Two-time Creative Work Fund grant recipient Sue Mark and Marksearch (who collaborated most recently with Kala Art Institute) began working in Japan in early 2020 to develop a new project, Journey Itself Home, a mobile and sonic work to be presented in conjunction with...
Patricia A. Montgomery Featured at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Patricia A. Montgomery Featured at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

by Frances Phillips | Sep 23, 2018 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts

Fashioned as swing coats, Oakland fabric artist Patricia A. Montgomery’s innovative quilts feature stories of heroines of the Civil Rights movement. The collection, Honoring the Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement, now may be seen at the San Jose Museum of...
Shrimp in the Bay? Exploratorium Hosts Rene Yung in conversation with Kathy Hieb on Aug. 29

Shrimp in the Bay? Exploratorium Hosts Rene Yung in conversation with Kathy Hieb on Aug. 29

by Frances Phillips | Aug 16, 2018 | 2013, News, Visual Arts

On Wednesday, August 29, at 6 p.m., the Exploratorium is hosting a conversation between visual artist Rene Yung and marine biologist Kathy Hieb on the presence, environmental significance, and history of shrimp and shrimping on the San Francisco Bay.  The Event,...
Patricia A. Montgomery Featured at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Patricia Montgomery’s Quilted Coats Head to Lawrence and Houston

by Frances Phillips | Jul 4, 2017 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts

Collaborating with the African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Patricia Montgomery retold stories of heroines of the Civil Rights movement through story quilts fashioned into swing coats — each coat representing a different African American heroine....
Patricia Montgomery Exhibit (through 3/18) & Talk (2/11) Honor Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement

Patricia Montgomery Exhibit (through 3/18) & Talk (2/11) Honor Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement

by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2017 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts

Ten works from Patricia A. Montgomery’s collection of quilted coats honoring heroines of the civil rights movement are on exhibit through March 18 in the San Marco Gallery, Archbishop Alemany Library, at Dominican University in San Rafael. On Saturday, February...
Robert Dawson’s “On Reading in the San Joaquin” to Open at the LH Horton Jr. Gallery November 10

Robert Dawson’s “On Reading in the San Joaquin” to Open at the LH Horton Jr. Gallery November 10

by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2016 | 2013, News, Visual Arts

Photographer Robert Dawson and writer/historian Ellen Manchester have spent two years collaborating with the Library and Literacy Foundation for San Joaquin County and the Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library to photograph libraries, bookmobiles, and literacy...
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