by Frances Phillips | Feb 7, 2020 | 2015, News, Performing Arts
Composer Guillermo Galindo, photographer Richard Misrach, and the San Jose Museum of Art collaborated to create Border Cantos, an exhibit and performances created with artifacts that have been sporadically left during the migration on the 2,000-mile border between the...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 30, 2019 | 2018, Media Arts, News
Filmmakers Anna Fitch and Banker White, current artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, will be featured in a reception and open house at Headlands’ Project Space on Sunday, November 3, 3-5 p.m. Fitch and White are collaborating with Family...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2019 | 2018, Media Arts, News
Film director Sam Ball of Citizen Film has been collaborating with the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life’s curator Francesco Spagnolo and refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and Nazi Germany to investigate their prized possessions as stories. In...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2019 | 2016, News, Visual Arts
While visual artist Jerome Reyes is steeped in the South of Market neighborhood for his Creative Work Fund project with SOMCAN, his work, his writing, and his voice are appearing in many contexts. Visitors can view his work included in Solidarity Struggle Victory, ...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 14, 2019 | 2016, News, Visual Arts
Commons Archive invites the public to a free talk by former Black Panther Party member Saturu Ned on Saturday, October 19, 2-4 p.m. at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library. The event is one in a series of programs illuminating neighborhood history as...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2019 | 2019, News, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts
The Creative Work Fund is awarding 16 new grants totaling $699,000 to Northern California artists who are collaborating with local nonprofit organizations to create new works in traditional arts and visual arts. These grants celebrate the role of artists as problem...