by Frances Phillips | Oct 14, 2019 | 2016, News, Visual Arts
Commons Archive invites the public to a free talk by former Black Panther Party member Saturu Ned on Saturday, October 19, 2-4 p.m. at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library. The event is one in a series of programs illuminating neighborhood history as...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2019 | 2019, News, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts
The Creative Work Fund is awarding 16 new grants totaling $699,000 to Northern California artists who are collaborating with local nonprofit organizations to create new works in traditional arts and visual arts. These grants celebrate the role of artists as problem...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 16, 2019 | Literary Arts, Media Arts, News, Performing Arts, Traditional Arts, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
Celebrating 25 years of supporting artists and nonprofits in creating new artworks collaboratively, the Creative Work Fund is now trying something new. While previous years’ applications have been limited to artists working in two broadly-defined artistic disciplines,...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 3, 2019 | 2016, News, Visual Arts
For three years, artist Sue Mark and MarkSearch, along with Kala Art Institute, have been investigating North Oakland history, focusing on the neighborhood surrounding the historic Golden Gate Branch Library. Their deep relationship-building in that community...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 29, 2018 | 2015, Visual Arts
Don’t miss A Very Crypto Town Hall at the San Francisco Art Institute, on Tuesday, October 30 at 7 pm in the Walter & McBean Galleries. The town hall features the artists of the collective Will Brown (Lindsey White, Jordan Stein, and David Kasprzak) along...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 7, 2018 | 2016, News, Visual Arts
Illustrators Don Aguello and Rafael Salazar have been collaborating with KulArts to gather stories from Filipino residents of the South of Market and transform them into heroic tales of resistance and community-building, now published as the comic book...
