by Frances Phillips | Aug 19, 2014 | 2011, News, Traditional Arts
Opening Friday, August 15, and on long-term display at the Museum of the American Indian in Novato, “Kay Key Ya” features traditional Pomo regalia painstakingly researched and created by Edward Willie over nearly three years. The works were created in a...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 4, 2014 | 2011, News, Traditional Arts
Chhip Chhoun, who has been collaborating with The Bridge Community Center of Modesto (a program of Sierra Vista Child and Family Services), has announced a cultural fair that will mark the culmination of his Creative Work Fund project on Friday, June 6, from 1-3 pm at...
by Frances Phillips | May 29, 2014 | 2012, News, Traditional Arts
Kathleen Rose Smith’s newly released Enough for All: Foods of My Dry Creek Pomo and Bodega Miwuk People shares how food traditions of her ancestors were handed down through generations. Smith and her collaborating organization, Heyday Books, have announced two...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 28, 2014 | 2011, News, Traditional Arts
KQED recently produced an online profile of traditional dancer Charya Burt. Burt is collaborating with World Arts West to develop Blossoming Antiquities, exploring the story of Auguste Rodin’s fascination with the classical Cambodian dancers who performed in...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 28, 2014 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, who is collaborating with Tree of Life/Subterranean Arthouse to develop new songs in English in the Carnatic music tradition is presenting four songwriter sessions in the main atrium of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on the...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 8, 2013 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts
San Francisco, CA – The Creative Work Fund (CWF) is pleased to announce that it has awarded 19 grants totaling $683,822 for projects in the greater Bay Area counties. This year marks the CWF’s 19th year of supporting projects in which artists collaborate with...
