by Frances Phillips | Mar 27, 2015
Rigo ’23 designed and created a stone mosaic walkway in Cohen Alley by collaborating with The Luggage Store, the Alley’s neighbors, and a calceteiro (master stonemason) from Lisbon, Portugal. Rigo’s “Cultural Geometry,” a permanent, public pathway, is a tribute...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 17, 2015
Over three years, artist Ellen Oppenheimer worked with primary grade students in 18 Oakland public elementary schools, creating quilts for seven branches of the Oakland Public Library. The collaboration engaged the quilter, the students, and children’s librarians...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 13, 2015
Photographer Ene Osteraas-Constable explored gardening practices of ten families whose children attended Martin Luther King Elementary School in Berkeley, California—home of The Edible Schoolyard, a model organic garden and cooking program. Students and teachers at...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 7, 2015
As part of the celebration of its 35th anniversary, the San Francisco Girls Chorus (Girls Chorus) presented a rarely staged 20th century masterwork by Benjamin Britten, Noye’s Fludde, developed from a 15th-century mystery play and intended by Britten to be performed...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 15, 2015
Collaborating with scientists, exhibit designers, and library staff at the California Academy of Sciences, artist Mark Brest van Kempen created five interpretive signs incorporating pairs of digital photographs that compared views from hundreds of years ago to San...
