by Frances Phillips | May 29, 2013
Rubén Guzmán collaborated with the Green Policy Institute to produce and display papier maché sculptures and installations celebrating the ethnic identity of his Fruitvale District neighborhood in Oakland, California—home to a large Mexican immigrant population....
by Frances Phillips | May 28, 2013
The Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts collaborated with multidisciplinary artist Siu Tuita and members of the Bay Area Tongan community to create, document, and exhibit the making of Tongan tapa cloth (or bark cloth), using...
by Frances Phillips | May 23, 2013
Cambodian dancer Charya Burt collaborated with World Arts West to create a new work exploring the 1906 encounter between Auguste Rodin and the Royal Cambodian Ballet. Burt is responding to the more than 150 drawings and sketches made by the French artist, when he...
by Frances Phillips | May 6, 2013
Zimbabwean artist Julia Tsitsi Chigamba collaborated with members of the Oakland Youth Chorus to create Bembero Mudenbu, (The Celebration of the Basket), a multidisciplinary presentation of Zimbabwean music and dance that traced the history and diversity of the Shona...
by Frances Phillips | May 6, 2013
Afro-Cuban folklorist and choreographer José Francisco Barroso and DREAM Dance Company, an Oakland-based urban dance company that grew out of Destiny Arts Center, collaborated to create Full Circle, an exploration of historic, social, and aesthetic links between...
