by Team CWF | Sep 26, 2022 | 2019, News, Traditional Arts
On October 2, the Creative Work Fund collaboration of the late Jewlia Eisenberg and the Contemporary Jewish Museum will unfold as a two-part indoor and outdoor celebration of Jewlia, her art, and her music in partnership with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Fierce as...
by Team CWF | May 10, 2022 | 2021, News, Performing Arts
CWF artist, composer, and educator Cava Menzies has been collaborating with Community Music Center to create (Re)Imagining, an online and in-person project celebrating 100 years of music for everyone, half created by Menzies in collaboration with international and...
by Team CWF | Apr 1, 2022 | 2021, News, Performing Arts, Traditional Arts
CWF-awarded fashion and textile artist Bayo Agbelekale (I.B. Bayo) has been collaborating with the vertical dance company BANDALOOP to craft a large-scale textile installation and set design, fashioning an integrated fabric world within which BANDALOOP’s vertical...
by Team CWF | Jan 12, 2022 | News
The Creative Work Fund team is very excited to share 2022 program details with the community, and invite Bay Area artists and nonprofit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. This grant program celebrates the role of artists as problem solvers...
by Faiza Bukhari | Nov 29, 2021 | 2019, News, Traditional Arts
CWF grantee and Tibetan elder Bhalu Bhaloo has been collaborating with Chaksampa Tibetan Dance and Opera Company to preserve the previously undocumented and at-risk performing heritage of the Kongpo region of Tibet. They are presenting an authentic Kongpo Losar...
by Faiza Bukhari | Nov 24, 2021 | 2019, News, Visual Arts
CWF grantee Sofia Córdova has collaborated with the Chinese Culture Center to create dawn_chorus iii: the fruit they don’t have here (learn more here). The experimental video work foregrounds the stories of six Bay Area women who journeyed to the United States...