by Frances Phillips | Jun 16, 2021 | 2018, Media Arts, News
On the run in East Africa, Mx. X. wards off evil with a magic broom. In a refugee camp, a growing LGBTQ+ community weaves rainbow bracelets to wear in a daring act of solidarity and resistance. Armed with a new US passport, Hector returns to Mexico for the first time...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 10, 2019 | News
Physicist and choreographer Weidong Yang is among this year’s Scientific Delirium Madness artists and scientists, who are creating challenging new works at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside. The public is invited to the program’s annual Open...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 26, 2018 | 2018, Media Arts, News, Performing Arts
The Creative Work Fund is awarding 15 new grants totaling $592,800 to Northern California artists who are collaborating with local nonprofit organizations to create new works in media arts and performing arts. These grants celebrate the role of artists as problem...
by Frances Phillips | May 17, 2017 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On May 27-29, Tessa Wills, who has been collaborating with Krista DeNio, Jaime Cortez, ABD Productions/Skywatchers, and local youth artists, will premiere Tender Nights: Multimedia Performance Walks Through the Tenderloin in partnership with the THIS IS WHAT I WANT...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 7, 2017 | 2015, Media Arts, News
This March, Gray Area is exploring the art of cartography. For its #CreativeCode Meetup XXVIII at 7 p.m. on March 22, it is presenting Creative Work Fund recipient Erin McElroy of the Anti Eviction Mapping Project and Sara Dean of VUCA Studio, two artists whose...