by Frances Phillips | May 24, 2021 | 2009, News, Performing Arts
You’re Invited! In 2009, the Creative Work Fund awarded a grant to Quinteto Latino and composer Gabriela Lena Frank to develop a new work together. The challenges of life, work, a global pandemic, and other demands delayed the project, which is now scheduled to...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 16, 2021 | 2008, 2019, News, Performing Arts
On March 11, Jewlia Eisenberg — singer, composer, bassist, cantor, and educator — died of a rare auto-immune disease. Jewlia was such a force of nature that it is hard to believe that she is gone. The Creative Work Fund was fortunate to have a relationship...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 19, 2020 | News, Performing Arts
The San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, Record Twenty Twenty is premiering on film on December 19 and 20, and features a number of Creative Work Fund grantees from prior years, including composers Walter Kitundu and Marcus Shelby, and choreographers/dance companies...
by Frances Phillips | May 2, 2020 | News, Performing Arts
Among many projects that couldn’t be realized as intended in March 2020 was an exhibit and related performances of TIDES: San Francisco Bay, the culmination of Ian Winters’ collaboration with Wholly H2O, Brian Baumbusch, Wayne Vitale, and other artists,...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 31, 2020 | 2018, News, Performing Arts
Collaboration lies at the heart of the Creative Work Fund. In order to collaborate, we need to work closely together, right? During the COVID-19 pandemic shelter-in-place mandates, Creative Work Fund grantees are collaborating through online media, podcasts, letters,...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 1, 2020 | 2016, News, Performing Arts
TIDES, a new video and photographic installation and accompanying performances by Ian Winters, explores the changing tidelands of the San Francisco Bay Area and neighborhoods soon likely to be lost under rising waters. The installation opens March 7 and is on view...
