by Frances Phillips | Sep 23, 2018 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Fashioned as swing coats, Oakland fabric artist Patricia A. Montgomery’s innovative quilts feature stories of heroines of the Civil Rights movement. The collection, Honoring the Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement, now may be seen at the San Jose Museum of...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 21, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
On Saturday, September 1, from 1-4 pm, community members are warmly invited to celebrate a new mural, painted by Edythe Boone in collaboration with the Berkeley Drop-in Center (managed by the Alameda County Network of Mental Health Clients), residents of South...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 29, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Opera master Sonam Phuntsok has been collaborating with the Tibetan Association of Northern California to present Sukyi Nyima, a traditional Tibetan opera, or Ache Lhamo, devised for contemporary audiences. The work will premiere on Saturday, July 14, 2018 at De Anza...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2018 | 2007, News, Traditional Arts
On June 20, the National Endowment for the Arts named quilter Marion Coleman among its 2018 National Heritage Fellows — widely considered the most prestigious form of recognition for folk and traditional artists in the United States. This year’s fellows...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 10, 2018 | 2015, 2016, News, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts
CounterPulse announces that Daughters of a Riot by Mica Sigourney, and restaged performance pieces from Clement Hil Goldberg’s Our Future End are featured in its inaugural five-day festival of performance, conversation and radical celebration, running March 14...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 11, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Inspired by true stories from witnesses of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, lead artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, Noorani Dance, and EnActe Arts are premiering The Parting, on January 19 at Z Space. Four performances (matinees and evenings) run through Sunday,...
