by Frances Phillips | May 3, 2016 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
In collaboration with Arts Benicia, environmental artist Mark Brest van Kempen has developed three temporary public art projects to bring attention to the desirability and potential for site-specific public art at the Benicia Waterfront. The third piece in the series...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 18, 2016 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
On April 21-23, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University is presenting the fruits of its collaboration with Barbara Jane Reyes, “Kuwentuhan (Talkstory),” a collective performance developed with Filipino American writers. The project kicks-off...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 13, 2016 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
Artist Rene Yung collaborated with the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park to create Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles, exploring the little-known history of 19th Century Chinese Shrimp fishers on the San Francisco Bay. Now working with oral histories of...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2016 | 2013, Traditional Arts
On Saturday, February 13, at 2:00 p.m., the African American Museum and Library at Oakland is hosting the opening of Patricia Montgomery’s Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement. An accomplished fabric artist, Montgomery has created quilted swing coats for each...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 30, 2016 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Musician Gautam Tejas Ganeshan created dozens of new songs in the Carnatic South Indian tradition through his collaboration with Tree of Life/Subterranean ArtHouse. He now brings a concert of his “Story of This Place” compositions to Artist’s...
