by Frances Phillips | Mar 7, 2017 | 2015, Media Arts, News
This March, Gray Area is exploring the art of cartography. For its #CreativeCode Meetup XXVIII at 7 p.m. on March 22, it is presenting Creative Work Fund recipient Erin McElroy of the Anti Eviction Mapping Project and Sara Dean of VUCA Studio, two artists whose...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 27, 2017 | 2015, News
Border Cantos, an exhibition developed by composer/sound artist/sculptor Guillermo Galindo, photographer Richard Misrach, and the San Jose Museum of Art, has opened at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The project features images by Misrach who...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 21, 2016 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
Culminating more than a year of collaboration and project development, Liberian dancer, choreographer, director, craftsman, and costume designer Nimely Napla and Diamano Coura West African Dance are premiering a new ballet, The Forbidden Bush, on November 26 and 27,...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 20, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On Saturday, October 22, 7-9 p.m., the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History will debut Camille Utterback’s window installation Vital Current — Seeking the San Lorenzo. This large-scale river-shaped projection shows an ever-changing collage of historic and...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 9, 2016 | 2015, Traditional Arts
On September 17 at 1:00 p.m., Diamano Coura West African Dance Company is bringing “The Forbidden Bush –The Ancestors Still Teach” to Defremery Park in Oakland. The afternoon will include a free drum class at 1:15; free dance class (incorporating...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 4, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On Friday, September 9, at 6 p.m., the Anti Eviction Mapping Project invites the public to “Counterpoints: Stories and Data for Resisting Displacement: A Night of Food, Music, and Insurgent Art” at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland. The Creative Work...
