by Frances Phillips | Sep 4, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On Friday, September 9, at 6 p.m., the Anti Eviction Mapping Project invites the public to “Counterpoints: Stories and Data for Resisting Displacement: A Night of Food, Music, and Insurgent Art” at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland. The Creative Work...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 9, 2016 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
Through her Creative Work Fund grant, master weaver Jenny Bawer Young has been developing the tapestry Chewang Chi Biyeg/River of Life with apprentice weavers at the Manilatown Center in the International Hotel in San Francisco. On the first Saturdays of each month,...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 2, 2016 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Master creator of kapa cloth, Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt, is presenting the exhibit “Ka’o to Kapa: Moving Tradition Forward” at the 21st annual Bay Area Aloha Festival, August 6 and 7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., held at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. On...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 14, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On Thursday, July 21, 7-10 p.m., the San Jose Museum of Art is hosting a closing party for Border Cantos, a collaboration with sound artist and composer Guillermo Galindo and photographer Richard Misrach. The event will feature a 7 p.m. performance by Galindo on...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2016 | News
On Saturday, July 16, the groundbreaking Hawaiian artist Patrick Makuakane and his hula halau, Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, are presenting The Ola Project, an interdisciplinary event developed in partnership with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Ola means life in...
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...
