by Frances Phillips | Aug 16, 2018 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
On Wednesday, August 29, at 6 p.m., the Exploratorium is hosting a conversation between visual artist Rene Yung and marine biologist Kathy Hieb on the presence, environmental significance, and history of shrimp and shrimping on the San Francisco Bay. The Event,...
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 | Dec 19, 2015 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
Featuring the sounds and sights of the San Francisco Bay–stretching from China Camp in Marin to Redwood City–Rene Yung’s Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles explores the region’s little-studied history of the 19th Century Chinese shrimp fishing...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 11, 2015 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
On Saturday, December 12, at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor’s Center in San Francisco, Calvin Fong, son of Richmond Shrimp Camp owner Fong Wan, and archaeologist Mike Taggart, who worked on the excavation of the former shrimp camp...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 9, 2015 | 2013, Visual Arts
Rene Yung and her collaborators with the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park have been investigating the forgotten history of the Chinese shrimp fishing industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their research methods included an expedition on the Grace...
