by Frances Phillips | Feb 26, 2016 | 2008, Media Arts, News
“Last Day of Freedom,” developed through a collaboration among Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman, and Community Resource Initiative, is nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Documentary Short Subject. The artists and nonprofit worked together to...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 19, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Artists Guillermo Galindo and Richard Misrach have been collaborating with one another and with the San Jose Museum of Art to create Border Cantos, an exhibit with performances that documents the unseen, human reality of the US-Mexico borderlands. Misrach’s...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 30, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On February 11, 7:30-9:00 p.m., the Exploratorium is presenting the first concert ever by an ensemble playing all instruments built from immigrants’ personal belongings found at the U.S. Mexican border. The instrument-maker, composer and musician Guillermo...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 15, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Lead artist Erin McElroy and her collaborators at the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Tenants Together are kicking off their project, which is mapping evictions in Alameda County during the current escalation of rents and real estate in the greater Bay Area. The...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 15, 2016 | 2009, Media Arts, News
“Last Day of Freedom,” an animated film by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman has been nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Documentary Short Subject. The Creative Work Fund is thrilled for the artists and their collaborators at Community...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 8, 2016 | 2012, Media Arts, News
On Thursday, January 14, at 7:00 p.m., Frameline — producers of the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival — presents an encore screening of To Be Takei, a documentary about actor and marriage equality activist George Takei, at the Roxie Theater...
