by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2016 | 2001, 2011, Literary Arts, Media Arts, News
In recent weeks, San Francisco’s arts community has been saddened by the deaths of performer and writer Cherylene Lee and filmmaker Lise Swenson, both Creative Work Fund recipients. Swenson received a 2001 Media Arts grant to create Mission Movie in...
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 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...
by Frances Phillips | May 3, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
As part of the Border Cantos project with photographer Richard Misrach and the San Jose Museum of Art, sound artist, composer, and performer Guillermo Galindo will perform on some of the musical instruments he created from objects found along the US-Mexico border. The...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 25, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m., City Arts and Lectures is featuring an onstage conversation with composer and sound artist Guillermo Galindo and photographer Richard Misrach at the Nourse theater in San Francisco. The project explores the landscape and human...
