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 | 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 | May 11, 2015 | 2014, News, Visual Arts
Over 18 months, Mark Brest van Kempen has been collaborating with Arts Benicia to integrate public art and public dialogue into the process of waterfront development in Benicia. His first project, “The Biolabyrinth Raingarden Project”(see image above) was...
