Gallery Crawl

This Educator Guide accompanies the video, "Katherine Westerhout: Rust Belt," produced by KQED.

This Educator Guide accompanies the Gallery Crawl video, "Around the World Palo Alto, " produced by KQED.

This Educator Guide accompanies the Gallery Crawl video, " The Art of the Diorama," produced by KQED.

This Educator Guide accompanies the Gallery Crawl video, " Oakland Artist at di Rosa, " produced by KQED.

Gallery Crawl interviewed LA-based photographer Shannon Ebner and Bay Area painter Robert Bechtle about their selections for They Knew What They Wanted. Both were inspired by the work of American photographer Lee Friedlander, among other artists, ideas, and themes. The exhibition was spread across four San Francisco galleries: John Berggruen, Altman Siegel, and Fraenkel Galleries in San Francisco's Union Square, and Ratio 3 in the Mission District. Artists Jordan Kantor and Katy Grannan were also featured curators.

This Educator Guide accompanies the Gallery Crawl video, "Paper! Awesome," produced by KQED.

In January 2010 Gallery Crawl visited Michael Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco to see Ohio artist Amy Caseyʹs latest self‐titled exhibition, then headed to Electric Works Gallery to interview photographer Katherine Westerhout and learn more about her new exhibition, Rust Belt. This guide provides resources for educators to support the utilization of this online virtual visit to the galleries to teach about contemporary art. The Gallery Crawl videos can be found at www.KQED.org/gallerycrawl.

Gallery Crawl visits two San Francisco galleries in their new locations. At the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, we chat with Bay Area artists Jonathan Burstein and Bayeté Ross Smith about their exhibitions, Visage and Pomp & Circumstance: First Time To Be Adults, respectively. Then we hop over a few blocks to Catharine Clark Gallery's new street-level digs -- right next to SFMoMA -- to check out Broken Homes, fresh work by Julie Heffernan, and meditate with Adam Chapman's The Starling Drawings.

Gallery Crawl stopped by Ratio 3 Gallery to view installations by successful street artist Lydia Fong (also known as Barry McGee), then headed over to Gallery 16 for its 15th anniversary group exhibition and a visit with artists Griff Williams and Rex Ray.

Constructed in 1917 with a generous donation from T.W. Stanford, the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery has since served as a teaching resource for college students and a premier exhibition venue for the Bay Area art community. In November 2008, the gallery's exhibition Ghostpile, features photographic work by Lukas Felzmann, which explores the Sacramento Valley as both place and metaphor, creating an empirical archive of waterways and transitory zones in the California landscape.

From the Collection of Randi and Bob Fisher at Pier 24 is the first large-scale exhibition of the collection and features important works by Walker Evans, Lee Freidlander, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston, among others. In an exclusive interview, Bob Fisher discusses how he began collecting photography and reveals the interests and ideas that have fueled his collection for nearly 30 years.

In September 2010, Gallery Crawl previewed works at the 2010 01SJ Biennial. Artists created interactive installations for the Biennial, aiming to make the world a better place with sustainable art practices. Gallery Crawl captured several works in the final stages of production, such as Empire Drive-In by Brooklyn-based artists Jeff Stark and Todd Chandler and xAirport, an environmentally-based project by local artist Natalie Jeremijenko.

In July 2010, Gallery Crawl interviewed LA-based photographer Shannon Ebner and Bay Area painter Robert Bechtle about their selections for They Knew What They Wanted. Both were inspired by the work of American photographer Lee Friedlander, among other artists, ideas, and themes. The exhibition was spread across four San Francisco galleries: John Berggruen, Altman Siegel, and Fraenkel Galleries in San Francisco's Union Square, and Ratio 3 in the Mission District. Artists Jordan Kantor and Katy Grannan were also featured curators.

In March 2009, Gallery Crawl interviewed Brion Nuda Rosch about the third installment of his Paper! Awesome! exhibition. In the latest incarnation of this ongoing curatorial project, Rosch invited over one hundred artists to create new works on 8.5" x 11" sheets of paper, including over three hundred works on paper at Baer Ridgway's South of Market gallery. Rosch invited established Bay Area artists such as Barry McGee and Tucker Nichols, as well as younger emerging artists like Alexis Mackenzie and Mads Lynnerup to contribute to the show. Artists Chris Duncan and Jason Jaegel were invited to create larger works, rounding out a rich collection of samplings from the local art scene.

In January 2010 Gallery Crawl interviewed photographer Katherine Westerhout and her collaborator, digital printmaker Kris Shapiro-Lang to learn more about the process behind the works in Westerhout's exhibition, Rust Belt, at Electric Works Gallery in San Francisco. Known for exploring inaccessible territory, Westerhout's latest subjects are forgotten buildings in Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Detroit.

In January 2010 Gallery Crawl checked out Amy Casey's new exhibition of paintings at Michael Rosenthal Gallery. Casey's latest work emphasizes the support structures and webs that hold her massive clusters of tiny, detailed houses together. She works with ideas of rebirth and community survival, giving the buildings she paints a relatable, anthropomorphized quality. Aesthetically reminiscent of architecture found in the Midwest landscape where she lives and works, Casey's subjects navigate precarious situations, attempting to adapt and thrive despite their unsettled circumstances.