by Frances Phillips | Apr 13, 2016 | 2013, Literary Arts, News
On Sunday, April 17, from 10 a.m. to noon, poets Denise Newman and Hazel White are leading a walk along the creek that runs through the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley. The public is invited to join them and contribute to their year-long project,...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 11, 2016 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Following the inaugural presentation of “Honoring the Civil Rights Movement’s Heroines” at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland, the exhibit of Patricia Montgomery’s evocative quilted swing coats–each representing a...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 25, 2016 | 2013, Literary Arts, News
Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White have been collaborating with the University of California at Berkeley’s Botanical Garden to create “Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek: Language Experiments 1,” along with interactive events at the poets’...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 13, 2016 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
Artist Rene Yung collaborated with the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park to create Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles, exploring the little-known history of 19th Century Chinese Shrimp fishers on the San Francisco Bay. Now working with oral histories of...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2016 | 2013, Traditional Arts
On Saturday, February 13, at 2:00 p.m., the African American Museum and Library at Oakland is hosting the opening of Patricia Montgomery’s Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement. An accomplished fabric artist, Montgomery has created quilted swing coats for each...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 30, 2016 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Musician Gautam Tejas Ganeshan created dozens of new songs in the Carnatic South Indian tradition through his collaboration with Tree of Life/Subterranean ArtHouse. He now brings a concert of his “Story of This Place” compositions to Artist’s...
