by Frances Phillips | Aug 9, 2016 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
Through her Creative Work Fund grant, master weaver Jenny Bawer Young has been developing the tapestry Chewang Chi Biyeg/River of Life with apprentice weavers at the Manilatown Center in the International Hotel in San Francisco. On the first Saturdays of each month,...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 14, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On Thursday, July 21, 7-10 p.m., the San Jose Museum of Art is hosting a closing party for Border Cantos, a collaboration with sound artist and composer Guillermo Galindo and photographer Richard Misrach. The event will feature a 7 p.m. performance by Galindo on...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 2, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
As part of his collaboration with the San Jose Museum of Art, sound installation artist and composer Guillermo Galindo will be performing Circular Calls/Resonant Shadows on June 4, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. The event is part of Border Cantos, a response to the US-Mexico...
by Frances Phillips | May 24, 2016 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
In Work MORE 7: Daughters of a Riot, LOL McFiercen, Honey Mahogany, Dulce De Leche, and VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! bring to the stage moments of queer history when drag and gender transgression exploded into riots of resistance. With lipsynch, singing, video, and audience...
by Frances Phillips | May 11, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Erin McElory, a team of committed volunteers, and Tenants Together have been mapping instances and stories of evictions in San Francisco for several years and, with assistance from the Creative Work Fund, have expanded that work to include a study of Alameda County....
by Frances Phillips | May 6, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Betti Ono Gallery in the heart of downtown Oakland is showing the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s (A[E]MP’s) “Oakland Community Power Map,” part of its Creative Work Fund-supported project to map and gather stories of evictions in Alameda...
