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We must disrupt and rebuild; our task is to shift how society thinks through art” - Ralph RemingtonPart one of this special episode, in collaboration with Arts for a Better Bay Area, delves into the discussions and insights from the 2023 State of the Arts and Culture Organization Summit. Host Eric Estrada and summit reporter Isa Nakazawa bring you the voices of key panelists and attendees who are shaping the future of the arts in the Bay Area. Guests:Maria Jenson, Creative and Executive Director, SOMARTS Cultural CenterRalph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs, San Francisco Arts CommissionJonathan Moscone, Executive Director, California Arts CouncilJenny Cohn, Client Success Manager of TRGJeff Jones, Co-founder, Queer Cultural CenterVallie Brown, Director of the City of San Francisco's Grants for the ArtsCary McClelland,Chief Operating Officer & Registered In-House Counsel - YBCADon't just listen – get involved! For more information, guest details, and resources from this episode, visit our episode web page.  Dive deeper into these vital discussions and access the California Arts & Culture Summit Resource Guide todayMake a Donation: Support Voices of the Community, fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and enjoy tax deductions for your contributions. Newsletter: Sign up  to stay updated on future episodes and events  Delve deeper into Voices of the Community Series on Arts & Culture, Making the Invisible-Visible, Covid-19's impact on nonprofits, small businesses and local government, City of Stockton's rise from the ashes of bankruptcy and our archives: You can explore episodes, speakers, organizations, and resources through each series web page. Watch and learn from all five series now!

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Native San Franciscan Roberto Ordeñana has over 25 years of experience investing in LGBTQ communities. Previously, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the San Francisco LGBT Center, developed nationally-recognized HIV prevention initiatives with the STOP AIDS Project, and volunteered extensively on various San Francisco community boards and city commissions — including the San Francisco Arts Commission, where he served as President from 2019 to 2022. Roberto is now the Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society, tasked with establishing a permanent home for its archives, exhibitions, and public programs. The Board of Directors believes his leadership and commitment to diversity and inclusion will be pivotal in launching a capital campaign and supporting the society's mission to collect, preserve, exhibit, and make accessible materials and knowledge that promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture, and arts in all their diversity. Beyond The Fog Radio met with Roberto at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in the Castro. There, we learned about the extensive work that he does in collecting, preserving, and exhibiting, LGBTQ history — making it more accessible so that everyone can learn from the past and carry the knowledge into the future. For more information about the GLBT Historical Society and its Museum, visit www.glbthistory.org . Meet Roberto Ordeñana!

Join the conversation by letting us know what you think about the episode!What is natural hair? Why are we talking about it? Find out in this week's episode where Raquel and Jennifer dive into it with guest Lyzette Wanzer. Lyzette Wanzer's work appears in over thirty literary journals and books. Her book, TRAUMA, TRESSES & TRUTH: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press) appears on Library Journal's 2022 Top 10 Best Social Sciences Books list and was a 2023 Black Women's Studies Association Selection. Lyzette is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2023), Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019), and the multi-award-winning The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012). A National Writers' Union and Authors Guild member, Lyzette's work has been supported with funding from Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Black Artist Foundry, The Awesome Foundation, and California Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities partner.Where to find Lyzette Wanzer:Website: www.lyzettewanzermfa.comLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lyzettewanzer/Mentioned in this episode:2024 TRAUMA, TRESSES & TRUTH: A Virtual Conference Interrogating Black Women's Natural Hair - https://shuffle.do/projects/trauma-tresses-truth-a-natural-hair-conferenceMuses & Melanin Fellowship for BIPOC Creative Writers - https://forms.gle/eP5KHEVD3S4AQY7h9The CROWN Act - The Official CROWN Act (thecrownact.com)Dove's CROWN Act campaign - www.dove.com/us/en/stories/campaigns/the-crown-act.htmlEpisode Photo by Jessica Felicio on UnsplashEpisode Photo by Jessica Felicio on UnsplashSupport the Show.Be part of the conversation by sharing your thoughts about this episode, what you may have learned, how the conversation affected you. You can reach Raquel and Jennifer on IG @madnesscafepodcast or by email at madnesscafepodcast@gmail.com.Share the episode with a friend and have your own conversation. And don't forget to rate and review the show wherever you listen!Thanks!

Yiying Lu is a creative force. She is one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, an Adobe Global Creative Ambassador and the artist behind Twitter's fail whale, some of your favorite emojis and the Shorty Award itself. Her work is seen at Disney, SXSW and more. She also serves as a commissioner for the San Francisco Arts Commission.  How this all happened is a wild story that all started with a hopeful message from a continent away about not being able to attend a party and ended with defining an entire era of Internet culture.

To support our work, make your $24 donation for 2024 by texting RFPOD to 44-321, that's R F P O D to 44-321. This month as we celebrate the worldwide contributions of Black Americans and those of African descent, Race Forward and Americans For The Arts launched a national annual “Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy”, scheduled to take place in September of this year. This initiative aims to broaden awareness of and engagement in democracy and racial equity through cultural experiences across the entire country.Arts and Culture have played a significant role in how we, as Americans, view the world and see ourselves within it.  Black artists and culture bearers have produced some of the most profound bodies of work in this area, particularly during the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Liberation movements during the 1970s and 1980s.On this episode of Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast, Ralph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs at the San Francisco Arts Commission, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and champion for racial equity in the arts, who presented the keynote address for the City of San Francisco's Black History Month celebration on  being African Americans and the Arts, speaks to Rachel DeCruz, project director for the Cultural Week Of Action about his decades long leadership in the arts and culture sector, pushing the envelope on culture and stories to continue moving the work of racial justice forward to build and sustain a multiracial democracy. Resources:  Race Forward – Cultural Week Of Action On Race And Democracy https://bit.ly/3Ih9sKYSFAC Appoints New Director of Cultural Affairshttps://bit.ly/3P1p7Sz Meet Ralph Remington, Tempe's New Arts and Culture Deputy Director (via Phoenix New Times https://bit.ly/3uRywFj NEA Theater/Musical Theater Director Ralph Remington Departs to Join Actors Equity Association (2013)https://bit.ly/42XsNdC SAG-AFTRA Approves Deal to End Historic Strike (via Variety) https://bit.ly/49QQ9nB San Francisco Celebrates Black History Month - Ralph Remington Keynotehttps://bit.ly/430CuIb Ralph Remington  Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/remingtonralph LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-remington-055b1a11/ San Francisco Arts Commissionhttps://www.sfartscommission.org About Race Forward:  Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Race Forward imagines a just, multiracial, democratic society, free from oppression and exploitation, in which people of color thrive with power and purpose. Follow Race Forward on social media Follow us on Facebook:www.facebook.com/raceforward Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/raceforward Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/raceforward Building Racial Equity (BRE) Trainings  www.raceforward.org/trainings Subscribe to our newsletter:www.raceforward.org/subscribe Executive Producers: Hendel Leiva, Cheryl Cato Blakemore Associate Producer & Editor: Freddie Beckley 

"I think the action and the continuity of the coalition from Prop S to Prop E went from 40 organizations to 140 organizations. That was something that was huge” - Vin SeamanIn this seventh episode of our series focusing on the arts and culture sector's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, we bring you highlights from the Co-Production of Arts For A Better Bay Area (ABBA) State of The Arts Summit, held at the Strand Theatre in San Francisco on June 28th, 2023. The summit centered around rebuilding communities through the arts.This episode features a community conversation from the ABBA Summit, discussing the status of Proposition E from 2018, the Arts Impact Endowment, and Grants for the Arts. Our panel includes voices from:- Joe Landini, Founder and Director of Giving at Safe House Arts- Vinay Patel, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center- Denise Pate, Director of Community Investments for the San Francisco Arts CommissionThe second part of our discussion features an interview with ABBA Summit attendee, Shrey Purohit an artist and cultural worker at Arts Span; Along with a One on One Interview with Vallie Brown, the Director of the City of San Francisco's Grants For The Arts, along with our wonderful co-host Isa Nakazawa, the Director of Community Engagement of BAVC Media.To find out more information about our guests and their respective organization's programs, and services, how to volunteer and make a donation please visit our episode landing page with links to resources for the arts and culture sector. And if you have been enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on the podcast platform of your choiceWe welcome your participation in our next virtual and live in-person community dialogue event. You can also watch this episode on our YouTube Channel and please Sign Up for our Newsletter to stay up to date on future episodes and to participate in our next live show. We would love to hear from you with feedback and show ideas, so send us an email to george@georgekoster.com.Please consider donating to Voices of the Community - Voices of the Community is fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, that allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions. Please consider making a donation to help us provide future shows just like this one. Dive Into More Information on Each Episode, Speakers, Organizations and Resources at our Voices of the Community's Special Arts & Culture Series Web Landing Page https://georgekoster.com/voc-series-arts-cultures

Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & ekphrastic artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & regional coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, & the San Francisco Arts Commission. He's the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press, & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, JMWW Journal, Words Dance, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Ep 175~ The paintings of Calida Rawles (b. 1976, Wilmington, DE; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) merge hyper-realism with poetic abstraction. Situating her subjects in dynamic spaces, her recent work employs water as a vital, organic, multifaceted material, and historically charged space. Ranging from buoyant and ebullient to submerged and mysterious, Black bodies float in exquisitely rendered submarine landscapes of bubbles, ripples, refracted light and expanses of blue. For Rawles, water signifies both physical and spiritual healing as well as historical trauma and racial exclusion. She uses this complicated duality as a means to envision a new space for Black healing, and to reimagine her subjects beyond racialized tropes. Enhancing the seductive nature of water, the work tempers heavier subjects with aquatic serenity and geographic and temporal ambiguities, inviting multiple readings. Embedded in her titles and topographical notations in the compositions, Rawles' canvases represent an expansive vision of strength and tranquility during today's turbulent times, while insisting on the triumph of humanity. Rawles received a B.A. from Spelman College, Atlanta, GA (1998) and an M.A. from New York University, New York, NY (2000). Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (2021); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA (2020); and Standard Vision, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Generation*. Jugend trotz(t) Krise, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2023); Rose in the Concrete, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2023); 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2022); Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (2021), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2023); A Shared Body, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (2021); View From Here, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (2020); Art Finds a Way, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (2020); Visions in Light, Windows on the Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA (2020); Presence, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA (2019); With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017); Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2017); LACMA Inglewood + Film Lab, Inglewood, CA (2014); and Living off Experience, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY (2002). Rawles created the cover art for Ta-Nehisi Coates's debut novel, “The Water Dancer,” and her work is in numerous public and private collections, including Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. Photo credit: Marten Elder Artist https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/calida-rawles/featured-works Lehmann Maupin https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/calida-rawles2 Various Small Fires https://www.vsf.la/exhibitions/35-calida-rawles-a-dream-for-my-lilith/overview/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/02/08/calida-rawles-painter-spelman-college-black-portraiture-exhibition Gagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/contributors/calida-rawles/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/t-magazine/calida-rawles-portrait.html The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/the-artist-whose-paintings-have-captivated-ta-nehisi-coates.html The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/19/calida-rawless-mural-makes-waves-at-new-inglewood-stadium This is Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/calida-rawles-a-certain-oblivion/ ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/calida-rawles-water-paintings-lehmann-maupin-1234584059/

“One of the things that I, would say to this community coming from a repressed community is let's turn to each other, not on each other. Let's bond together, and find our commonality, not our differences. Because the enemy, I've seen the enemy in Arizona, and it is not us. So when we have small differences with each other, let's recognize them for what that is, and let's stop this San Francisco bickering that we're famous for, and killing each other over really tiny differences. And let's bond together over the big stuff because the big stuff is coming and it's here and it's big and hairy and gross and we need everybody's power and participation to disrupt these evil forces.” - Ralph RemingtonThis interview with Ralph Remington is part of our co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023. You can watch the wonderful interview conducted by our roaming reporter team of Isa Nakazawa our co-host and associate producer Eric Estrada.You can listen to the full episode features the opening and keynote speakers made up of community leaders, poets, artists, administrators, government officials, and representatives from arts and culture organizations; who share their wonderful insights and recommendations on the rebuilding of our communities through the arts. With Arts for a Better Bay Area's State of the Arts Summit theme, "Rebuilding Our Communities," our opening and keynote speakers below explore collective ways the arts community can develop and bridge supportive connections as we emerge from the pandemic. To find out more information about our guests and their respective organization's programs, and services, how to volunteer and make a donation please visit our episode landing page with links to resources for the arts and culture sector. We hope that you enjoyed episode two of our new six-part series highlighting the issues and solutions of our arts and culture organizations and their workforce as they innovate to come back from the pandemic along with addressing the systemic racism in our performing arts ecosystem.We welcome your participation in our next virtual and live in-person community dialogue event. Our next community dialogue will be streamed as well as you can tune into our usual radio show, podcast, and television show with our friends at BAVC Media. Sign Up for our Newsletter to participate in our next live showPlease consider donating to Voices of the Community - Voices of the Community is fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, that allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions. Please consider making a donation to help us provide future shows just like this one.

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with mural artist Juana Alicia Araiza.About Artist Juana Alicia:Juana Alicia has been creating murals and working as a printmaker, sculptor, illustrator, and studio painter for over thirty years. Her style, akin to genres of contemporary Latin American literary movements, can be characterized as magical and social realism, and her work addresses issues of social justice, gender equality, environmental crisis and the power of resistance and revolution.The artist has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Windcall Residency, Master Muralist Award (Precita Eyes), Woman of Fire Award, among other recognitions, and her sculptural and painted public commissions (individual and collaborative) can be seen in Nicaragua, Mexico, Pennsylvania and in many parts of California, most notably in San Francisco. They include SANARTE at U.C.S.F. Medical Center, SANTUARIO at the San Francisco International Airport, LA LLORONA'S SACRED WATERS at 24th and York Streets in the Mission of San Francisco, the MAESTRAPEACE mural of the San Francisco Women's Building, and GEMELOS at the Metropolitan Technical University in Mérida, Mexico.In 2019, Juana Alicia, in collaboration with her sister muralists, published MAESTRAPEACE: San Francisco's Monumental Feminist Mural, through Heyday Books, and is now collaborating with Tirso G. Araiza on a graphic novel, La X'Taabay. She is currently the recipient of the Golden Capricorn Award from the San Francisco Arts Commission, which includes solo exhibition at the SFAC Main Gallery in summer of 2023. In 2021, she was awarded a Eureka Fellowship, and in 2022, a California Arts Council Legacy Award.Visit Juana Alicia's Website: JuanaAlicia.comFollow Juana Alicia on Social Media: @Juana_AliciaLearn More About Juana Alicia's Exhibit - Me Llaman Calle: The Monumental Art of Juana Alicia--About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with watercolor artist Kelly Inouye. About Artist Kelly Inouye:Kelly Falzone Inouye uses watercolor to explore contemporary culture.She has presented solo exhibitions at venues including Marrow Gallery in San Francisco, SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA in Culver City, and Interface Gallery in Oakland. Notable group exhibitions include “The de Young Open” at The de Young Museum and “Contemporary Watercolor” at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. Kelly has been awarded public art projects by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.Kelly also founded and ran Irving Street Projects, a San Francisco-based residency program that provided project development and exhibition opportunities to fellow Bay Area artists from 2015-2020.She is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 2008) and UC San Diego (BA 1998). She lives and works in San Francisco with her family and tiny dog.Her work is represented by Marrow Gallery in San Francisco.Visit Kelly's Website: www.KellyInouye.comFollow Kelly on Instagram: @KellyInouye--About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

“This is a time when the art community's creative expertise and skills and talents are being relied upon. And finally, really seen as major contributors to the local economy.” – Maria JensenThis is our first episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023 . This episode features the opening and keynote speakers made up of community leaders, poets, artists, administrators, government officials, and representatives from arts and culture organizations; who share their wonderful insights and recommendations on the rebuilding of our communities through the arts. With Arts for a Better Bay Area's State of the Arts Summit theme, "Rebuilding Our Communities," our opening and keynote speakers below explore collective ways the arts community can develop and bridge supportive connections as we emerge from the pandemic. To find out more information about our guests and their respective organization's programs, and services, how to volunteer and make a donation please visit our episode landing page with links to resources for the arts and culture sector. Show GuestsHoney Mahoney / Co-Founder Compton's Transgender Cultural DistrictLyzette Wanzer / Writer/AuthorMichael Warr & Chun Yu/ PoetsSusie McKinnon/ Executive Director/ ABBAMaria Jenson / Creative and Executive Director, SOMArts Cultural CenterRalph Remington / Director of Cultural Affairs, SFACJonathan Moscone, Executive Director, California Arts CouncilWe hope that you enjoyed episode two of our new six-part series highlighting the issues and solutions of our arts and culture organizations and their workforce as they innovate to come back from the pandemic along with addressing the systemic racism in our performing arts ecosystem.We welcome your participation in our next virtual and live in-person community dialogue event. Our next community dialogue will be streamed as well as you can tune into our usual radio show, podcast, and television show with our friends at BAVC Media. Sign Up for our Newsletter to participate in our next live showPlease consider donating to Voices of the Community - Voices of the Community is fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions. Please consider making a donation to help us provide future shows just like this one.

Rachel Mica Weiss, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist. Rachel Mica Weiss (b. 1986, Rockville, MD) is a sculptor and installation artist based in Hudson Valley, New York. Weiss earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College and an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. Weiss's work has been the subject of eight solo exhibitions at the following: Here Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (2022); Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2019) ; Lux Art Institute, San Diego, CA (2018); LMAK Gallery, New York, NY (2018, 2017); Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2015); Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (2014); the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2013). Weiss' first institutional commission, The Wild Within, is part of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA. Her largest permanent installation to date, Boundless Topographies, funded by the Gates Foundation, is installed at the University of Washington's Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in Seattle, WA. Weiss' work is included in the public collections of: the US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Microsoft Corporate Collection; Boston Consulting Group Corporate Collection; Media Math Corporate Collection; Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, as well as the collections of Francis J. Greenberger and Beth Rudin deWoody. Rachel Mica Weiss, installation view of Collar (left) and Flesh of My Flesh (right), 2022, Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park. Rachel Mica Weiss, Portal, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist. Rachel Mica Weiss, Bowed Venus, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.

Juanita More has spent 30 years in San Francisco as a drag queen, philanthropist, activist, chef and party central. Total SF hosts Heather Knight and Peter Hartlaub visited the new Juanita More exhibit at the San Francisco Arts Commission's main gallery and talked with More and her fashion designer Mr. David Glamamore about their history, why San Francisco has not lost its soul and how to bring glamour back to the city and our lives. Juanita: 30 Years of More! is free to the public and is open 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday through Nov. 12, 2022. More information here. Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music from the Sunset Shipwrecks off their album "Community," Castro Theatre organist David Hegarty and cable car bell-ringing by 8-time champion Byron Cobb. Follow Total SF adventures at www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Airdate 8/11/22) Choreographer, Dancer and Scholar Blanche Brown has been widely recognized for her contribution to the dance community. In 1977 she was the first dancer to be appointed to the San Francisco Arts Commission. In the early 2000's she was President of the Board of World Arts West. Blanche has been honereed with the Artist Educator Award from the California Dance Educators Association and the Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Ethnic Dance and Music. Blanche has since taught ethnic dance in the California University system from UCLA to Hayward, Sonoma, to Santa Cruz as well as at Mills College and Santa Clara University Today, Blanche still teaches and challenges people from all walks of life at ODC in San Francisco, and has rejoined the World Arts West board. Ms. Brown lives in Oakland among her children, grandchildren, and a great grandson.

Anh Thang Dao-Shah, Ph.D., Executive Director of Belonging and Equity at John Muir Health, joins Yo to continue the discussion of belonging introduced in Episode 17. She is a recognized expert having been in several leadership positions to initiate equity programs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode we explore the following questions: · What is the history of Belonging and Equity as initiatives within companies/organizations? · What considerations should be made if undertaking an effort to address disparities in workforce development? · What are some of the challenges that companies/organization face? · How does “implicit bias” relate to “social justice”? · What steps are each of us take to support these efforts? We hope you'll enjoy this episode and admire the work that Anh and others are doing to advance equity! Here's a link to the initiative she mentioned: Government Alliance for Race and Equity (Race Forward). As we all deal with the recent tragedies in Buffalo and Uvaldi, check out Episode 28 of the UnscRxipted podcast with Rachel Brumberger. She offers an exercise of healing with bells and a moment of silence. You can also check out this Girl Scout website - one of the Uvaldi was a Girl Scout, Amerie Jo Garza, 10. More about Dr. Dao-Shah: As the Executive Director or Belonging and Equity at John Muir Health she leads initiatives aimed to reduce disparities in workforce development, employee experience, health outcomes and patient experience throughout the health system. Before joining JMH she was the inaugural Director of Equity and Wellness at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) and served as Senior Equity and Policy Analyst at the San Francisco Arts Commission where she led the agency's initiative to pass the first racial equity action plan in the City and County of San Francisco. She is also the co-founder of Creative Equity Research Partners, a consulting company to advance equity in arts and culture. Anh received a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California and taught women and gender studies, ethnic studies, and literature at UC Riverside, San Francisco State University, and California College of the Arts. Ways you can contact Anh: eMail anhthang.daoshah@gmail.com Website https://www.creativeequityresearch.org/ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/anh-thang-dao-shah Ways to reach Yo: eMail yo@yocanny.com Public FB group: Girl, Take the Lead! https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share IG: https://www.instagram.com/yocanny LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/

“First responders save lives; second responders help put people's lives back together. Artists are essential workers in our society and our economy, helping us recover, reflect, and rebuild”-Julie BakerThis episode is focused on the importance and economic impact of the arts, culture and artists on both our economy and our communities.  We are hosting a panel of guests from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Californians for the Arts and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.According to a March 2022 report by the the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, in 2020, arts and culture added $876.7 billion, or 4.2 percent, to our national GDP.  With the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, between 2019 and 2020, the U.S. arts economy shrank at nearly twice the rate of the economy as a whole: arts and cultural production fell by 6.4 percent when adjusted for inflation, compared with a 3.4 decline in the overall economy. Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy shed more than 604,000 workers—not counting self-employed artists and other cultural workers. On a state level, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report, arts and cultural production accounts for over $225 billion dollars of value to the California economy or around 7.5% and contributes over 680 thousand jobs.On a local level, the findings from the March 2021 study conducted by the Bay Area Council economic institute on the economic and social impact of the arts in San Francisco; [pause] found that in fiscal year 2019, San Francisco  nonprofit arts organizations generated $945 million in economic output, which supported 9,657 jobs.To make a donation, volunteer, and support the work of Californians for the Arts please go to californians for the arts dot org. To find out more about the San Francisco Arts Commission's work to support our arts economy through grants, bid opportunities, becoming an art vendor, and Ralph's work to diversify the commission's work please go to s f arts commission dot orgAnd to find out more about the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts along with  Jason's community investment work through the Artists Power Center please go to y b c a dot orgPlease consider donating to Voices of the Community - Voices of the Community is now fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions. Please consider making a donation to help us provide future shows just like this one.

This episode we interview brilliant digital artist and San Francisco Arts Commission, Yiying Lu, who created many emojis and also the famous Twitter "Fail Whale". She is talking about herself, her art and her upcoming drop on Opensea for some exclusive WhaleShark NFTs. Check out her art at: https://www.yiyinglu.com/ Yiying's new Whale NFT Drops on Opensea, celebrating $Whale Community's 1st Anniversary: https://yiyinglu.com/whale Yiying Lu's NFT Journey So this Whale NFT journey started back in 2009, when I first came to the San Francisco Bay Area. As I created the artwork of a white beluga whale lifted by 8 birds, which eventually became the Twitter "Fail Whale". It was used in the early days of Twitter during around 2008 to 2013. Every time Twitter went down, people will see it. When I initially created the artwork back in 2007, during the time I was living and studying in Sydney, Australia. The artwork was initially created as a personal work, and it was not commissioned by Twitter. As I was living in Sydney, New South "Whales" pun not intended, after my exchange study from London, UK in 2006. I was finishing my final year in college, and I miss my friends in UK, but also miss my friends in China, I was born and raised in Shanghai, China. So it was around the same time when Twitter, Facebook and other social media website became popular. So there is a lot of FOMO as overseas people sent birthday party invites and graduation ceremonies invites from social media, and I couldn't physically be there with them. So I thought, well, what I studied was visual communication, why don't I just communicate this huge wish to be physically there with my friends as a visual metaphor - the Whale. So I created the whale initially, and I caught it "Lifting a Dreamer", it's almost like an impossible dream come true - because in our physical reality, Whales don't fly, but with art, anything is possible. And by serendipity, the co-founder and creative director of Twitter, Biz Stone, found it online and licensed it and next thing, you know, it became Twitter's iconic service breakdown image. Yiying's interview with Milton Glaser, the artist of the Iconic 'I ❤️ NY'. https://youtu.be/hFlWVJ5pY5Q Yiying's youtube channel: https://youtube.com/c/yiyinglu

This episode was originally broadcast in August 2009. René Bihan is a registered landscape architect and the managing principal of the San Francisco office of the SWA Group. He grew up with a nursery in his backyard and has been at SWA for more than two decades. He is also a commissioner for the San Francisco Arts Commission and has designed and managed projects such as Beijing Finance Street, the City College of San Francisco Master Plan, the Hong Kong Cultural Harbour, and the Salt Lake City Redevelopment of Blocks 75 and 76. Here, René discusses much of his current work as well as the 50th birthday of the SWA Group, his trajectory from the nursery to the studio, sustainable site planning, and what drives his design process. This show employs visual chapters that update the show art to provide illustrations relevant to the ongoing onversation. If your podcast client does not support this, you can view the chapter art and their sources at this episode's webpage.

Sean Dorsey was the first openly trans man on the cover of Dance Magazine. He is a talented choreographer, dancer, educator, writer, and activist, and he is the artistic director of Sean Dorsey Dance and Fresh Meat Productions. In this episode, we take you back to Sean's early childhood in a creative and loving family, full of leftist, and those passionate about social justice. Sean and I connect with our dance stories, and he talks about having parallel but separate lives; one in the arts and one in community organizing. He also describes the humble beginnings of Fresh Meat Productions, now celebrating 20 years! Towards the end of this conversation, I ask Sean why it's so important for him to speak up as a white, trans man. He admits that his skin color gives him certain access in the dance industry and opens up about his commitment to getting that same access to Black and Brown artists. Sean is a great possibility model and I know you will learn so much from this episode. Be sure to check out www.FreshMeatProductions.org to learn more about Sean's work. Guest Bio:  Sean Dorsey is an award-winning choreographer and dancer and the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions. Recognized as the U.S.' first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has been named “San Francisco's Best Dance Company” (SF Weekly) and was named one of the nation's “Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. He has been awarded five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance. Dorsey has been awarded major support from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, Creative Work Fund, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco), Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston), Dance Place (Washington DC), The Theater Offensive (Boston), 7 Stages (Atlanta), Links Hall (Chicago), Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Maui), and Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles). Dorsey has collaborated with artists including Lana and Lilli Wachowski (Directors, The Matrix, Cloud Atlas), and Anohni (formerly Anthony and the Johnsons) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Raissa Simpson is an African American/Pilipino choreographer and artistic director of the San Francisco-based PUSH Dance Company. Her multidisciplinary dances are at the intersection of complex racial and cultural identities and centers around discourse on the complex experiences of racialized bodies. A graduate of SUNY Purchase, Simpson had an extensive performance career with Robert Moses Kin and Joanna Haigood's Zaccho Dance Theatre. Her choreography honors include Magrit Mondavi Award, San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and Grants for the Arts. Her choreography has been presented by Joyce SoHo, Aspen Fringe Festival, Dance St. Louis, Ferst Center, Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival and Black Choreographers Festival. She has held creative residencies at Dance Initiative Carbondale, Santa Clara University, Bayview Opera House, Sacramento State University, Margaret Jenkins' CHIME, African American Theater Alliance (AATAIN!) and CounterPulse. She received a Phyllis C Wattis Foundation with Bayview Opera House for her most recent work, The Motley Experiment. Check out Raissa's essay, “Writings on Dance: Artistic Reframing for Celestial Black Bodies,” out now in Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations (2021). A transcript of this episode are available at odc.dance/stories.

“We've definitely been listening to the needs of artists and artists of color not only opening ourselves up as a venue for them, but also making sure that we're helping them be successful out in the grand world”- AshleyIn this episode, our featured voice is the Program Manager of the Bayview Opera House Ashley Smiley.The Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre was founded in 1989 and is one of six city-owned cultural centers operated by nonprofit arts organizations providing cultural and arts programs. The city-owned cultural venues host performances, festivals, and gallery exhibits that offer free or low-cost classes and are funded, at least in part, by the San Francisco Arts Commission. For more background on the Bayview Opera House please listen to our interview with Barbara Ockel the Executive Director in Part One of the special series Doing Business In the Bayview in the archives section of our website

On today's show, I speak with David R. Molina a musician, composer, and sound designer. I have a not-so-secret love of sound design, and quite frankly I can't believe it's taken me THIRTY-NINE EPISODES to have a sound designer on, but here we are.  David has so much insight to share about composing for theater, film, radio plays, podcasts, you name it. This conversation was a lot of fun for me and gave me an even deeper appreciation of just what sound designers in the theatre space accomplish.For a full transcript of this episode visit beyondthelightspodcast.com.Mentioned in this Episode[00:25:01] Play On Shakespeare and Next Chapter [00:33:32] Dallas Theater Center[00:34:07] Round House Theater[00:34:31] Emilio Delgado [00:35:55] San Francisco Arts Commission [00:44:00] It Was Always Here[00:46:34] Teatro Campesino[00:46:40] La PeñaFollow DavidWebsiteInstagramBandcampFollow Beyond the LightsWebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagram

Cass Calder Smith is the founding principal of Cass Calder Smith Architecture + Interiors with offices in both San Francisco and New York City.  Cass Calder, earned his Bachelor and Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and has served on the San Francisco Arts Commission for eight years and is currently on the board of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and designed their award-winning Diane Middlebrook Studios.   A native of New York City, he has lived in California since 1972 and now splits his time between both coasts.   As the son of an Academy-Award winning filmmaker and a landscape painter and designer, he grew up among both Greenwich Village intellectuals and rural California artisans.   Cass is also a photography collector and patron to MoMA, SFMoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. For more information, you can visit: https://www.casscaldersmith.com/ (https://www.casscaldersmith.com/)

Jennifer S. Cheng is the author of MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named a “Best Book of 2018” by Publishers Weekly and Entropy magazine; House A, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; and Invocation: An Essay, an image-text chapbook. She is a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and has received awards and fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright program, Kundiman, Bread Loaf, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Academy of American Poets. Having grown up in Texas, Hong Kong, and Connecticut, she currently lives in rapture of the coastal prairies of northern California.

Have you always wondered how a performer thinks? Or perhaps you have secretly considered yourself a performer looking for a place to happen! This episode we have the pleasure of chatting with Monique Jenkinson, aka the multifaceted, always complicated and definitely delightful Fauxnique, the first cisgender woman to win a drag queen pageant. She has toured the world with her many amazing shows including "The F Word." She chats with us about artistic expression, her process and how her winding path led her from ballet, to international recognition to her forthcoming memoir.  You can learn more about Fauxnique at www.Fauxnique.netView some of her performances here  or on Vimeo--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I am an artist, performer, choreographer and writer. I made herstory as the first cis-woman to win a major drag queen pageant and subsequently my solo performance works have toured nationally and internationally in wide-ranging contexts from nightclubs to theaters to museums — from Joe's Pub, New Museum and the historic Stonewall in New York City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, The Stud, CounterPulse and de Young Museum in San Francisco, and in Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Provincetown, London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Zürich, Paris, Reykjavik, Rome, Catania and Cork.I have created space for kids to dress drag queens at a major museum and created college curricula. I played the DIRT (originated by Justin Vivian Bond) in Taylor Mac's Lily's Revenge and Eurydike in Anne Carson's ANTIGONICK. I engaged in public conversation with Gender Studies luminary Judith Butler and RuPaul bestie Michelle Visage within days of each other. I am currently writing a memoir.Honors include residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Tanzhaus Zürich and Atlantic Center for the Arts, an Irvine Fellowship and residency at the de Young Museum, GOLDIE and BESTIE awards and 7X7 Magazine's Hot 20. I have been nominated for the Theater Bay Area, Isadora Duncan Dance (IZZIE) and Herb Alpert Foundation awards and have received support from San Francisco Arts Commission, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CHIME, Center for Cultural Innovation and the Kenneth Rainin and Zellerbach Family foundations.Artist StatementMy work exists at the crossroads of Cabaret and Contemporary Dance and considers the performance of femininity as a powerful, vulnerable and subversive act. I emerged out of a feminist, postmodern, improvisational dance and choreographic lineage, and grew toward a tradition of radical queer performance that uses decadence and drag both to entertain and transcend. My practice of feminism celebrates glamour as masterful artifice, and my intimacy with both the oppressive and empowering effects of feminine tropes allows me to create a zone of play from which I make my particular critique.Since 2003 I have been deeply engaged in an ongoing performance project, my drag queen persona Fauxnique. As a lens through which I magnify my artistic concerns, Fauxnique typifies and expands the evolution of drag-based performance and furthers the feminist line of inquiry in my work. As Fauxnique, I approach the established tradition of the drag lip-sync as a dance in its own right, and bring to it the rigor of my dance training. I am on the vanguard of what is now a common practice: museums and larger institutions embracing nightclub culture as queer history and contemporary art practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Julie and Casey sit down with legendary San Francisco dancer and drag performer, Monique Jenkinson, aka FAUXNIQUE to talk about performing femininity, both through drag and not, finding authenticity through practices of artifice, and the journey of a Good Dance Student to nightclub performer, and get some San Francisco Dragucation.  *Note- we use the “c***” word a LOT in this episode, so take care for sensitive ears. TOP TAKEAWAYS Drag is not (just) men in heels—it’s a rich, smart, funny, scrappy performance tradition that uses the body and artifice to access larger themes. Other kinds of drag performance of femininity include the good girl persona, and the world of ballet. Your curiosity is a prelude to discovering your wants- conditioning can make wants hard to identify, curiosity allows you to find them, lose them and find them again. Owning your curiosity, desires, and wants is crucial Practices of artifice can be a version of authenticity Balance is the answer to binaries—balance allows for dynamic movement and change between points. Your strut is the embodiment of your energy as you enter a space, whether that is virtual or physical, and being with your right to be seen with the willingness to contribute what you have. Please join us next week for a Strut Workshop with Monique 4/28 4pm PST/7pm EST.  Details are HERE:  https://vitalvoicetraining.com/labs Find Monique at fauxnique.net ODC June Performance:  https://www.odc.dance/festival Other People and Events Mentioned in the episode: Heklina:  https://www.dragtimewithheklina.com/ Juanita More https://juanitamore.com/ TrannyShack https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468563/ Prince “Cream” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468563/ PJ Harvey Sheela Na Gig: https://youtu.be/Sjxr_No-yuY Ana Matronic and Scissor Sisters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_Sisters About Monique Jenkinson: "I am an artist, performer, choreographer and writer. I made herstory as the first cis-woman to win a major drag queen pageant and subsequently my solo performance works have toured nationally and internationally in wide-ranging contexts from nightclubs to theaters to museums — from Joe’s Pub, New Museum and the historic Stonewall in New York City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, The Stud, CounterPulse and de Young Museum in San Francisco, and in Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Provincetown, London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Zürich, Paris, Reykjavik, Rome, Catania and Cork. I have created space for kids to dress drag queens at a major museum and created college curricula. I played the DIRT (originated by Justin Vivian Bond) in Taylor Mac’s Lily’s Revenge and Eurydike in Anne Carson’s ANTIGONICK. I engaged in public conversation with Gender Studies luminary Judith Butler and RuPaul bestie Michelle Visage within days of each other. I am currently writing a memoir. Honors include residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Tanzhaus Zürich and Atlantic Center for the Arts, an Irvine Fellowship and residency at the de Young Museum, GOLDIE and BESTIE awards and 7X7 Magazine’s Hot 20. I have been nominated for the Theater Bay Area, Isadora Duncan Dance (IZZIE) and Herb Alpert Foundation awards and have received support from San Francisco Arts Commission, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CHIME, Center for Cultural Innovation and the Kenneth Rainin and Zellerbach Family foundations."

Gem chats to Farah Al Qasimi. While her primary line of inquiry examines postcolonial structures of power, gender and taste in the Gulf Arab states, what galvanises the work is her unique ability to embed meaning into visual aesthetics. Farah describes her aesthetic approach as 'so muchness'. Her frames overflow with a heady mix of print, objects and domestic interiors amplified by the tension between harsh lighting and an acidic colour palette. Together they transport us into her psyche, an intimate imagining of her world.In this conversation, we talk about her journey, her process and what photography means to her. We talk about her recent exhibition Funhouse at Helena Anrather in New York, it’s genesis and how it speaks to key themes within her practice. We talk about performativity, paying attention to your own sensitivity’s and how they can be guiding principles in making work. We discuss how she uses the world as raw material, rather than a direct subject. In doing this she builds worlds in which geography does not matter in order to access a psychic space that defies language.Farah Al Qasimi (b.1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; lives and works in Brooklyn and Dubai) works in photography, video, and performance. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco; the CCS Bard Galleries at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Helena Anrather, New York; The Third Line, Dubai; The List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and the Houston Center for Photography, Houston.Follow Farah on Instagram @frequentlyaskedquestion on Instagram and visit https://farahalqasimi.com/ to see her work. Follow Gem @gemfletcher on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. Thank you for listening to The Messy Truth, we will be back very soon. For all requests, please email hello@gemfletcher.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"the people who are working in the cultural sector and everything, it's exposed even further our vulnerabilities, the fact that we're always working in the margins" - Randy RollisonIn this episode our featured voices are Randy Rollison the Executive Director and Allison Snopek the Deputy Director of Intersection for the Arts. This week’s show with Randy and Allison is part of our end of year theme to highlight the importance of nonprofits in our community. Our conversation focuses on the arts and culture organizations they work with and to get their insights into how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting these organizations that bring joy and inspiration to our communal lives.We wanted to provide some economic context to our conversation with Alison and Randy, so we asked - “How big is the arts and culture economy in San Francisco?” The latest in-depth study we could find was a 2015 Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 national economic impact study that was conducted by Americans for the Arts in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission. According to the study the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates 1.45 billion in annual economic activity and supports 39,699 full-time equivalent jobs. On a national level according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the creative economy employs 5.1 million Americans and contributes $877 billion annually to GDP.

Episode No. 455 features curator Ilona Katzew and artist Lava Thomas. Katzew is the department head and curator of Latin American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She joins host Tyler Green to discuss how she tries to do her work, especially investigation, research, and acquisition, at a time when the pandemic is challenging researchers to find ways to work without traveling to sites or the usual institutional resources (such as libraries). On the second segment, artist Lava Thomas discusses her experience with the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco board of supervisors regarding her proposed monument to Maya Angelou for the entrance to the San Francisco Public Library on Civic Center Plaza. Thomas had been the SFAC's top choice for the Angelou monument until a member of San Francisco's board of supervisors objected, demanding a simple, straightforward bronze statue.

Michael Namkung is an artist, poet, speaker, and multiple world champion athlete. He has received awards from the San Francisco Arts Commission, The Center for Cultural Innovation, and the Tanne Foundation for his pioneering work Drawing Gym, a hybrid art form that combines drawing with rigorous physical exercise.We discuss life, art & process. Hope this episode find you well, enjoy :)- Steven“Create a connection. The borders you’ve drawn between you and the rest of the world are no longer there. Allow the illusion of separateness to be lifted from your eyes, and with it, the belief that you are in control of what happens. Surrender. Declare your faith. Let the fearful thing that runs roughshod over your expectations clear a path through which your growing compassion can freely move. And then, in your flowing freehand, write new lines that expand their own edges and become open channels for drawing the abandoned parts together.” - Michael NamkungShow notes:WebsitePatreonInstagram - @michaelnamkungFacebook - Michael NamkungMentioned:Morgan O'HaraThích Nhất HạnhRam Dassbell hooks - all about loveOm Gum Shrim Maha lakshmiyei swaha chantKundaliniZen meditationMentioned works:Baby PicturesWall of SongSeeing the Invisible (video)Mirror Me

Intro - Growing up with love for art & music 5:19 - Family in the military 9:39 - San Diego Airport Window 11:57 - San Francisco Arts Commission, Memorial Building 15:00 - Political commentary? 16:54 - Girls, girls, girls and signs 21:26 - The Patch Project 24:38 - Fallen Limbs, inspired by https://www.christies.com/ (Christie's) 26:26 - The importance of teaching Interactive transcripts are available upon request; reach out to connect@achievepodcast.com. Hosted by Aseem Giri Support this podcast

This week we have a traveling chat with Zoë Taleporos, project manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission and independent curator. We do a little tour of all the public art at the Hyatt hotel, which is connected to the San Francisco International Airport. You can go there and hang out any time you want!The music in this episode (that isn't part of the hotel) is by No VacationPremiere Jr.Look! Up in the sky! It’s public art—with Premiere Jr. from 48 HillsSan Francisco Arts CommissionContinental Breakfast!

Guest: Imin Yeh Host: Christopher Kardambikis Recorded at Carnegie Mellon University on July 17th, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA. Imin Yeh is based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is an interdisciplinary and project-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and participatory events. Recent exhibitions include university galleries at Ithaca College and the College of New Jersey, San Jose Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco). She has been an Artist in Residency at Montalvo Art Center (Saratoga, CA), Blue Mountain Center (New York), Sandarbh Artist Workshop (Partapur, India), and at Recology San Francisco. She is a recipient of a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Imin Yeh holds a MFA from the California College of Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art. iminyeh.info --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paper-cuts/support

Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native Americans that came to be known as Indians of All Tribes began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island. The takeover and occupation attracted a groundswell of interest from across the United States and the globe. The initial focus of the occupation was a protest against the U.S. government's policies that took aboriginal land away from Native Americans. The Alcatraz occupation is recognized today as one of the most important events in contemporary Native American history and one of the most important public displays of the Red Power movement, a social movement that demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States. The occupation helped bring Native American activism to the forefront of the consciousness of the American people. The 50th anniversary of this important event is being recognized throughout the Bay Area in an effort led by the San Francisco Arts Commission. The takeover and occupation was led, in part, by Richard Oakes, a charismatic student from San Francisco State. The first biography of Oakes, A Journey to Freedom, was published late last year. Its author, Kent Blansett, will make a special visit to Marin County to discuss Oakes, the role the occupation played in the Red Power movement of the 1960s and the ongoing legacy of Native activism that was spurred by the 1969 takeover. Kent Blansett is a Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Shawnee and Potawatomi descendant. Blansett will also discuss the role that Marin County residents played in the start of the Alcatraz occupation, including the role of the Sausalito-Indian Navy, which helped Oakes launch the occupation late in the evening of November 20, 1969. Join us for this special event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the guest. Her debut novel, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE (Doubleday), is a national bestseller, an Indie Next selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a New York Times editor's choice. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Contreras' essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon, and Guernica, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate, teaches writing at the University of San Francisco, and works with immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing writers into public schools. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The San Francisco Arts Commission awarded the first ever Artistic Legacy Grant to Alleluia Panis. This program offers one grant for $40,000 to an arts organization that is deeply rooted in a historically marginalized San Francisco community to recognize its long-time artistic director and that person’s leadership in the cultural community. The artistic legacy grant [...]

In this episode, we talk with Mary Chou, a Project Manager with the Public Art program of the San Francisco Arts Commission. We discuss what cultural equity means in the context of public art and city government, the nuts and bolts of selecting work for public installation, and how the work of Fred Wilson and Catherine Opie first got her excited about art. You can follow the work of the SFAC Public Art program on Instagram at @sfacpublicart and find opportunities and resources through www.sfartscommission.org.

Aaron Shurin is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Citizen, a collection of prose poems and King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. His writing has appeared in over thirty national and international anthologies, and has been translated into seven languages. Shurin's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. He lives in San Francisco. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24348]

Aaron Shurin is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Citizen, a collection of prose poems and King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. His writing has appeared in over thirty national and international anthologies, and has been translated into seven languages. Shurin's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. He lives in San Francisco. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24348]

Aaron Shurin is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Citizen, a collection of prose poems and King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. His writing has appeared in over thirty national and international anthologies, and has been translated into seven languages. Shurin’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. He lives in San Francisco. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24348]

Aaron Shurin is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Citizen, a collection of prose poems and King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. His writing has appeared in over thirty national and international anthologies, and has been translated into seven languages. Shurin’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. He lives in San Francisco. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24348]

Aaron Shurin is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Citizen, a collection of prose poems and King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. His writing has appeared in over thirty national and international anthologies, and has been translated into seven languages. Shurin’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. He lives in San Francisco. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24348]

Aaron Shurin is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Citizen, a collection of prose poems and King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. His writing has appeared in over thirty national and international anthologies, and has been translated into seven languages. Shurin’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. He lives in San Francisco. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24348]

Rebroadcast of Monday, May 21, 2012 show with Raissa Simpson, Artistic Director, PUSH who speaks about her upcoming show in Union Square San Francisco, Friday-Monday, May 25-28, 2012. Bitter Melon is latest collaborations between artistic director Raissa Simpson with Ben Wood and his partner David Mark. Co-commissioned by San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Union Square Live, and San Francisco Recreations & Parks. Visit http://pushdance.org/events.php Sheila Head of Head Design Beauty shop in Oakland is a nominee for the Pillar Award for the Oakland Indie Awards, May 31, 2012 at the Kaiser Center, 5:30-8:30 PM www.oaklandindieawards.com We rebroadcast interviews with director, Robin Fryday, who speaks about Barber of Birmingham, the story of James Armstrong, a foot soldier for the Civil Rights Movement on the election of the first black President, Barack Obama. Music: "Free at Last, " a selection from Chinyakare,and another selection courtesy of Ebony Iman Dallas. Both are announced on the air.

Special Broadcast with Raissa Simpson, Artistic Director, PUSH who speaks about her upcoming show in Union Square San Francisco, Friday-Monday, May 25-28, 2012. Bitter Melon is latest collaborations between artistic director Raissa Simpson with Ben Wood and his partner David Mark. Co-commissioned by San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Union Square Live, and San Francisco Recreations & Parks. Visit http://pushdance.org/events.php Sheila Head of Head Design Beauty shop in Oakland is a nominee for the Pillar Award for the Oakland Indie Awards, May 31, 2012 at the Kaiser Center, 5:30-8:30 PM.  http://www.oaklandunwrapped.org/indies/nominees12.html We rebroadcast interviews with director, Robin Fryday, who speaks about Barber of Birmingham, the story of James Armstrong, a foot soldier for the Civil Rights Movement on the election of the first black President, Barack Obama.  The film was nominated for an Academy Award this year. We also rebroadcast an interview with curator for the National African American Museum in Washington D.C. on the occasion of its grounding breaking in February 2012. Music: "Free at Last, " a selection from Chinyakare,and another selection courtesy of Ebony Iman Dallas. Both are announced on the air.

The San Francisco Arts Commission in conjunction with the Museum of the African Diaspora are hosting an ART IMPACT speaker series event featuring renowned, musician Martin Luther. In keeping with ART IMPACT's mission of providing a platform to explore and discuss the impact of arts education through the lens of high profile individuals, the evening will include an intimate look at how arts education has impacted Luther's musical journey by hearing intimate stories of the singer's life and listening to selections from previous and forthcoming releases. Martin Luther's music encompasses a universal appeal and the rudiments of rock and roll and classic soul music, unique to many legendary San Francisco musicians. The event is Tuesday, February 14, 2012|7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), 685 Mission Street @3rd Street, Couple General Admission: $35.00. General Admission: $20.00. For tickets visit: http://MLmoadvalentines.eventbrite.com/

Ellen Choy brings us her exclusive interview with Elmer Labog, prominent labor leader from the Philippines. Then, we have highlights from the discussion about a proposal to change the name of Occupy Oakland to Decolonize Oakland produced by Karl Jagbandhansingh. And finally, we are joined live in the studio by Nomi, who is part of the hip hop group Power Struggle and an organizer with the Filipino Community Center. He'll be talking with Marie Choi about his music and his organizing, and the upcoming Beatrock Anniversary Party. We also have some concert tickets which we'll be giving away later in tonight's show, thanks to the San Francisco Arts Commission. We'll be giving away two pairs of tickets to next week's Colors of Christmas Concert featuring Filipina Broadway musical legend Lea Salonga. Hosted by Marie Choi and Karl Jagbandhansingh. The post APEX Express – December 8, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

Janice Mirikitani is recognized as a visionary, community activist, leader, poet, and editor. She's the founding president of the Glide Foundation, and has developed programs that empower San Francisco's poor and marginalized communities to make meaningful changes in their lives. She was named San Francisco Poet Laureate in 2000 and has authored four books of poetry, including Love Works (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series), which is a premium for tonight's show, and edited nine anthologies. She also served as a commissioner at the San Francisco Arts Commission. In tonight's interview, Mirikitani talks intimately about the development of her social consciousness, the role writing and story telling play in personal empowerment, and her experience as a survivor of incest. Premiums Premiums to people who donate to our show between 7 and 8 p.m. tonight include Love Works by Janice Mirikitani, tickets to catch Karsh Kale at Yoshi's, and tickets to see 13 Assassins, an action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era. The post APEX Express – May 19, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

Join world renowned contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan in conversation with Asian Art Museum director Jay Xu. The San Francisco Arts Commission will present the world premiere of Zhang's colossal work Three Heads Six Arms (2008), which will be the focal point of San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, nestled between City Hall and the Asian Art Museum. Standing over 26 feet tall and weighing almost 15 tons, the copper sculpture is the artist's largest work to date. Zhang, who is based in Shanghai, is widely regarded as one of the most influential and provocative contemporary artists working today. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about this artists work against the backdrop of the Shanghai exhibition at the Asian Art Museum and the city-wide celebration of the 30th anniversary of the San Francisco Shanghai Sister City relationship. The program will be introduced by Luis R. Cancel, Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission. Please note Mr. Zhang will speak in Chinese. English translation will be provided by Wang Xiaoyu