by Frances Phillips | Oct 17, 2014
The richness and complexity of medical imagery is capable of depicting the minute details of cellular function or revealing the wonders of human metabolism. However, medical imagery often is alienating to those who are being treated for a serious illness. Artists Ann...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 3, 2014
With their project Crossing the Street, artists Kate Connell and Oscar Melara used collaborative artmaking as a means of building community in San Francisco’s Portola District. They produced a set of handmade books that explore the the neighborhood’s geography,...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 26, 2014
Collaborating with the Sheriff’s Department of the City and County of San Francisco and with the batterer intervention program manalive, photographer Ruth Morgan created three posters titled, “Is This What It Takes to be a Man?”—for the interiors and...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 19, 2014
The American Friends Service Committee’s youth-led organizing committee 67 Sueños collaborated with Oakland-based artists Pancho Pescador and Francisco Sanchez to create 67 Sueños UnDocu-Murals: Visualizing Lives Unseen—three murals examining the millions of...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 5, 2014
Ben Trautman collaborating with Artship Foundation Award: $35,000 Visual Arts Grant awarded in 2000 Opened: December 8, 2001 Sculptor Ben Trautman collaborated with the Artship Foundation and a universal design committee to create a series of mechanical sculptures...