by Frances Phillips | Oct 31, 2014
Marion Coleman (Castro Valley) collaborating with Bay Area Black United Fund (Oakland) Award: $40,000 Traditional Arts grant awarded in 2007 Initial Exhibition: Bay Area Black United Fund’s African American Health Summit in Oakland, California, 2009; later exhibited...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2014
Musician and visual artist Ernesto Hernandez Olmos, along with Mayra and Gilberto Hernandez and Miguel Martinez, collaborated with Youth in Arts to create a multi-disciplinary presentation for children and families about traditional indigenous Meso-American cultural...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 10, 2014
Collaborating with the African American Art and Culture Complex, Nigerian sculptor Geoffrey Nwogu created a bas relief sculpture to be installed permanently at the Complex. The sculpture–or “Mbari Wall”–intended to capture the form and colors...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 23, 2014
3rd i Films is collaborating with Pandit Chitresh Das to create a film element for his collaboration Yatra: Journey from India to Spain with flamenco artist Antonio Hidalgo Paz. Filmmaker Alka Raghuram and videographer Kathleen Dargis, associated with 3rd i, will work...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 19, 2014
Patrick Makuakane and World Arts West collaborated to create and present “Maui, Turning Back the Sky,” a dance piece inspired by ancient Hawaiian astronomy and the story of Maui, who was the great ancestral navigator/astronomer guiding all Polynesian ancestors...
