by Frances Phillips | May 3, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Celebrating the lives of Afro-Cuban artists in the United States, We Have Ire is a new and timely performance, commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and developed through a collaboration among lead artist Paul S. Flores, director Rosalba Rolon,...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
The annual CubaCaribe Festival invites the public to an artist talk by Paul Flores and excerpts from the work-in-progress play, We Have Iré, on Thursday, June 28, at the Museum of the African Diaspora. We Have Iré is being developed through a collaboration among...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 1, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts, News, Traditional Arts
August 1, 2017 – The Creative Work Fund is pleased to announce the awarding of 15 grants totaling $600,000 to Bay Area literary and traditional artists. The Fund provides financial support to local artists creating new work in collaboration with Bay Area...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 19, 2017 | 2007, News, Visual Arts
Sergio de la Torre has been investigating data and true stories of undocumented immigrants under San Francisco’s Sanctuary City policies for more than a decade. In partnership with Chris Treggiari and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, his research and artmaking...
by Frances Phillips | May 11, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Erin McElory, a team of committed volunteers, and Tenants Together have been mapping instances and stories of evictions in San Francisco for several years and, with assistance from the Creative Work Fund, have expanded that work to include a study of Alameda County....
