by Frances Phillips | May 24, 2016 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
In Work MORE 7: Daughters of a Riot, LOL McFiercen, Honey Mahogany, Dulce De Leche, and VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! bring to the stage moments of queer history when drag and gender transgression exploded into riots of resistance. With lipsynch, singing, video, and audience...
by Frances Phillips | May 6, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Betti Ono Gallery in the heart of downtown Oakland is showing the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s (A[E]MP’s) “Oakland Community Power Map,” part of its Creative Work Fund-supported project to map and gather stories of evictions in Alameda...
by Frances Phillips | May 3, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
As part of the Border Cantos project with photographer Richard Misrach and the San Jose Museum of Art, sound artist, composer, and performer Guillermo Galindo will perform on some of the musical instruments he created from objects found along the US-Mexico border. The...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 19, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Artists Guillermo Galindo and Richard Misrach have been collaborating with one another and with the San Jose Museum of Art to create Border Cantos, an exhibit with performances that documents the unseen, human reality of the US-Mexico borderlands. Misrach’s...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 30, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On February 11, 7:30-9:00 p.m., the Exploratorium is presenting the first concert ever by an ensemble playing all instruments built from immigrants’ personal belongings found at the U.S. Mexican border. The instrument-maker, composer and musician Guillermo...
