by Frances Phillips | Mar 27, 2017 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Lindsey White, part of the artist collective Will Brown, is one of five 2017 SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Award winners announced by SFMOMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Since 1967, SECA has honored more than 70 Bay Area artists....
by Frances Phillips | Mar 9, 2017 | 2016, News, Performing Arts
Amara Tabor Smith of Deep Waters Dance Theater, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Chapter 510 & the Department of Make Believe are bringing a portion of their two-year, multi-site episodic performance project, House/Full of Blackwomen , to Oakland, beginning on March 26....
by Frances Phillips | Mar 7, 2017 | 2015, Media Arts, News
This March, Gray Area is exploring the art of cartography. For its #CreativeCode Meetup XXVIII at 7 p.m. on March 22, it is presenting Creative Work Fund recipient Erin McElroy of the Anti Eviction Mapping Project and Sara Dean of VUCA Studio, two artists whose...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 27, 2017 | 2015, News
Border Cantos, an exhibition developed by composer/sound artist/sculptor Guillermo Galindo, photographer Richard Misrach, and the San Jose Museum of Art, has opened at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The project features images by Misrach who...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2017 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Ten works from Patricia A. Montgomery’s collection of quilted coats honoring heroines of the civil rights movement are on exhibit through March 18 in the San Marco Gallery, Archbishop Alemany Library, at Dominican University in San Rafael. On Saturday, February...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 4, 2017 | 2001, Media Arts, News
At 6 pm. on Thursday, February 9, at the Roxie Theater, SF Indie Fest is hosting a reception to celebrate the life of filmmaker Lise Swenson. Swenson will be honored posthumously with the SF IndieFest Vanguard Award. At 7:15 the festival is presenting the premiere...