by Frances Phillips | Sep 16, 2019 | Literary Arts, Media Arts, News, Performing Arts, Traditional Arts, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
Celebrating 25 years of supporting artists and nonprofits in creating new artworks collaboratively, the Creative Work Fund is now trying something new. While previous years’ applications have been limited to artists working in two broadly-defined artistic disciplines,...
by Frances Phillips | May 8, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
In 1954, police raided Tommy’s Place in San Francisco. Newspaper headlines declared it a lesbian vice academy. Over the last two years, writer and visual artist Katie Gilmartin has dug into the history of the raid on Tommy’s Place and other LGBTQ bars in...
by Frances Phillips | May 3, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Celebrating the lives of Afro-Cuban artists in the United States, We Have Ire is a new and timely performance, commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and developed through a collaboration among lead artist Paul S. Flores, director Rosalba Rolon,...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Developed through a collaboration between prolific poet and fiction writer Gary Soto and San Francisco Youth Theatre, The Afterlife is a bold new work about death that is intended for teens who have experienced the pain of violence, suicide, and loss in their...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 16, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Writer Adriana Camarena has been collaborating with Accion Latina to write a series of in-depth creative nonfiction essays, Unsettled in the Mission/Inquietos in la Mision, for publication in the popular free Mission District paper El Tecolote. Camarena has just...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 7, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Congratulations to literary arts grantee Andrew Lam on publication of his story, “Enchantment” in Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place (edited by Annick Smith & Susan O’Connor). The book is being released on October 9,...
