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 | Feb 17, 2016 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
Writer and artist Linda Norton will read from her book The Public Gardens: Poems and History, and from new work she’s developed through Home and Away: Oakland, California Prisons, and the Geography of the Heart — her collaborative project with Peralta...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 30, 2016 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Musician Gautam Tejas Ganeshan created dozens of new songs in the Carnatic South Indian tradition through his collaboration with Tree of Life/Subterranean ArtHouse. He now brings a concert of his “Story of This Place” compositions to Artist’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 22, 2016 | 2012, News, Performing Arts
Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo, a play developed by Paul Flores in collaboration with the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), returns to the Bay Area with performances on January 21 through 24 at the Iron Triangle Theater at the East Bay Center for the...
