tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19869198228740187702024-03-19T03:02:41.622-07:00SFACCAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09450379061257405469noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986919822874018770.post-12212836992582743132017-12-01T10:10:00.000-08:002017-12-01T10:13:05.915-08:00December Guide: Art Shows and Events - SF & Bay Area<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Winter Wonderland-ytown, a holiday market featuring goods by local artists and makers hosted by Andytown Roastery takes place on December 9.</div>
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2-8pm, 3016 Taraval St, San Francisco, CA.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/1:</b> Every Rigid Object is a Body by Ricki Dwyer at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nook_gallery/">Nook Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 310 51st St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/1:</b> Frida & Friends group show at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/seeingthingsgallery/">Seeing Things Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 751 West San Carlos St San Jose, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/1: </b>(Closing Reception) Seesaw: Portraiture and Play with Alec Sloth & Friends at <a href="https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/seesaw-portraiture-play-alec-soth-friends">FraenkelLAB</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-7pm, 1632 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/2:</b> CCA Holiday Fair, featuring objects by CCA Students, Alumni, and Staff artists and makers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">11am-3pm, CCA Oakland Campus. </span><span style="font-size: large;">5212 Broadway, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/6: </b>Play by Vipada Wongpatanasin at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/886952854795782/">Legion SF</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm, 678 Commercial St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/8:</b> Let There Be Darkness by Simone Bailey at <a href="https://www.moadsf.org/event/reception-artist-talk-simone-bailey-let-there-be-darkness/?instance_id=14267">MoAD</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA. *Free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/8:</b> 7 Year Anniversary Group Show at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1989686394608124/">Incline Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 766 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/9:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/305415459865428/">East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest</a> at Omni Commons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">11am-5pm, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/9:</b> Winter Wonderland-ytown at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/818002818373855/">Andytown Roastery</a>. A holiday market featuring goods by local artists and makers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2-8pm, 3016 Taraval St, San Francisco, CA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/9:</b> Persuasive Light by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Margaret Tedesco at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/162324271168396/">City Limits</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">300 Jefferson St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/14: </b><a href="https://generalassemb.ly/education/an-evening-of-creativity/san-francisco/43362">Creative Mean</a> with Summer Sewell (San Francisco Magazine), Matthew Ferry (Hustle), Margie Benford & Bethany Meuleners (BetaBrand) hosted at General Assembly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6:30-8:30pm, 225 Bush Street, 5th Floor (East Entrance) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/15: </b>Terry Powers at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/terry-powers-4/">Guerrero Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1465 Custer Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/16: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/286600901837684/">The Good Craft Holiday Market</a>, featuring goods by local artists and makers.</span><br />
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The Manifesto Show opens at Nook Gallery on Saturday, October 7, 7-10pm.</div>
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Nook Gallery: 310 51st Oakland, CA.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/6:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1620443231348620/">Betti Ono 7 Year Anniversary</a>: Black Women Over Breathing. Co-curated by Adrian O. Walker and Danielle McCoy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1427 Broadway, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/6:</b> <i>Kah Meel E Yun</i> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/222889514909587/">Pro Arts</a>. Featuring work by Kat Geng, Kate Dash + Olivia Krause, Marie Engelsvold, Lana Licata, Marcela Pardo Ariza, Muzae Sesay and Anthony Torrano.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plz, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/6:</b> <i>Hay M</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>ás Tiemp Que Vida</i> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1495463597199971/">Social Policy</a>. Featuring work by Amelia Berumen, Thalia Gochez, Maryela Perez, Maricruz Mendoza, Cristal Olivias, Stephany Sanchez, Estrellita Muñoz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/7:</b> The Manifesto Show at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/294454601033937/">Nook Gallery</a>. Featuring work byAmanda Curreri, Serena Cole, Kevin Demery-Raien, Shannon Finnegan, Jay Katelansky, Yetunde Olagbaju, Zach Ozma, Sarah Rara, Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle, McKenzie Toma and Leila Weefur, curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/7: </b>Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/443074609418858/">Black & White Projects</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 2830 20th Street, #105, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/8:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2053983468171100/"><i>A Free Haven </i>at Massive</a>. Featuring work by James Nolasco, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Punechii, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Raisa Solis, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Vanessa Contreras.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4-9pm, 713 Washington St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/13:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/118642192139286/">Linchpin at Space 151</a>. Featuring work by Joe Ferriso, Conrad Guevara and Chelsea Pegram. This show is guest curated by Anna Nearburg & Evan Reiser. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/14: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/241817323011447/">Good Omen Market IV</a>. Featuring over 50 local makers and artists. Hosted by Classic Cars West. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3-8pm, 411 26th St, Oakland, CA</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/14:</b> Divide and Connect by Adia Millett at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/117148595648709/">State</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1295 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/16: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/324424744651743/">Black Futures: On Race in Art, Curation, and Digital Engagement</a>. Kimberly Drew in conversation with Stephen Best at BAMPFA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/21:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1530128843711838/">APAture 2017: Performing Arts Showcase</a> at Asian Art Museum. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2-4 pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Samsung Hall, Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/21:</b> Oda A La Muerte - A Printmaking Exhibition at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/921737107977496/">Juan R. Fuentes Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8:30pm, 2958 24th Street, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/22:</b> Zine Pop Up hosted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/134502897284068/">Tiny Splendor at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3-8pm, 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/26: </b>Guest Lecture: "How To Talk About Contemporary Art", by <a href="https://deyoung.famsf.org/calendar/guest-lecture-how-talk-about-contemporary-art-dorothy-santos">Dorothy Santos at de Young Museum.</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">10:30am-12pm, Koret Auditorium at de Young. *<a href="https://deyoung.famsf.org/calendar/guest-lecture-how-talk-about-contemporary-art-dorothy-santos">Tickets $3-4</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/27: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1116039211863436">Lazer Zine #6 Release at Oakland.Secret.</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7pm, 577 5th st, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><b>9/8:</b> Pussies by Judy Chicago at <a href="http://jessicasilvermangallery.com/current/">Jessica Silverman Gallery</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><b>9/8: </b></span>Slow Clap by <span style="text-align: center;">Marcela Pardo Ariza at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1379674082150577/">R/SF projects</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">2pm, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vik-muniz-artist-talk-tickets-36963465721">*Free RSVP</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/9:</b> Honeymoons by Kyle Lypka and Tyler Cross at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1909694662688316/">Good Mother Gallery</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/16: </b><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/161118181129746/">San Jose Art and Zine fair</a> hosted by Empire 7 Studios and Space B. Featuring zines and art by local Bay Area artists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">2-6pm, </span><span style="text-align: center;">525 N 7th St, San Jose, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><b>9/17:</b> <a href="http://www.headlands.org/the-commons/events/">The Commons Grand Opening</a> at Headlands Center for the Arts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/27: </b>3x Ryanaustin Dennis, Sean Bradley, Soleil Chappelle+Mateo Lugo at Wolfman / New Life Quarterly Bookstore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/30:</b> <a href="https://www.kearnystreet.org/apature">APAture 2017: Unravel</a> - Opening Reception & Visual Arts Showcase (Arc Gallery & Studios). Festival runs through October 28 with multiple event dates and locations. *Ticket Info.</span></div>
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Keep In Reserve by Chiara Sbolci and Maryam Yousif, curated by Ari Bird at Open Windows. </div>
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Opening reception August 18, 6-9pm, 1777 Yosemite Place, Suite 340, SF, CA.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/11: </b><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/137953983447230/">Museum of Capitalism Publication Release</a> at Museum of Capitalism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><b>8/12:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/473527873023716/">Areas of Land at Good Mother</a>. Featuring work by </span>Maria A. Guzmán Capron, <span style="text-align: center;">Annie Hagar, </span>Charmaine Koh, <span style="text-align: center;">Olivia Krause, </span>Margot Rada, Sofie Ramos, Laura Rokas, and Lisa Jonas Taylor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">7-10pm, </span><span style="text-align: center;">408 13th St, Oakland, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">6:30-9:30pm, </span><span style="text-align: center;">2868 Mission St, San Francisco, CA. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-heart-of-the-mission-book-celebration-tickets-36405200936?aff=ehomecard">*Free RSVP*</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/18: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1665294270167980/">Keep In Reserve by Chiara Sbolci and Maryam Yousif</a>, curated by Ari Bird at Open Windows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><b>8/19:</b> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I feel good, sometimes I don't by </span><span style="text-align: center;">Woody Othello at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/256523264862654/">Nook Gallery</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/25:</b> Trying To Not Thinking by Benjamin Vilmain at Incline Gallery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/25: </b>+1 (925) 786-8063 at Needles & Pens. Featuring work by Robbie Api, Ryan Beavers, and Jared Jethmal, curated by Pablo de Pinho.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/31:</b> <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/128852314394100/">Black Mail Collective - The Black Aesthetic Presents</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">7-9pm,</span><span style="text-align: center;">1 523 B Webster Street, Oakland, CA.</span></span></div>
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Sun Bath by Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan at Legion opens on July 7, 2017.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/7:</b> </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tetas al aire by Maria </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Guzmán Capron at <a href="http://www.interfaceartgallery.com/">Interface Gallery</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/7:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://jadearianafair.com/">Jade Ariana</a>'s i just want to be in the Black euphoria with you, at E.M. Wolfman. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 410 13th St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/7:</b> Sun Bath by Liz Hernández & Ryan Whelan at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1941063852836865/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D">Legion</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 678 Commercial St, San Francisco, CA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/8:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1400215616731762/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D">Double Dip at </a></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1400215616731762/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D">CTRL+SHFT</a>. Featuring work by Lindsay Tunkl, Erica Molesworth, Addy Rabinovitch, Em Meine, Jay Katelansky, Maryam Youssif, Allison Chalco, Caroline Hayes Charuk, Kenyatta AC Hinkle, Jessica Hubbard, Ricki Dwyer, Megan Reed and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 1430 34th St, Oakland, CA. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1141096871/support-ctrl-shft"><span style="font-size: large;">*Support </span><span style="font-size: large;">CTRL+SHFT's kickstarter, here.</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/8:</b> "Cut Away(s)" by Alex Ziv at <a href="http://www.hashimotocontemporary.com/">Hashimoto Contemporary</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/8:</b> 2062 by Joey Enos at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/">Guerrero Gallery</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/13: </b>Charge Your Self by Shantell Martin at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/455777398127553/">Chandran Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">459 Geary St, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/14: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1243906582384814/">As It Is at Good Mother</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lena Gustafson, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Harley Eaves, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lillye Hope, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Egle Zvirblythe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-11, </span><span style="font-size: large;">408 13th st. Oakland, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/14:</b> Marching To The Beat at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1459960607420783/">Jessica Silverman Gallery</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Andrea Bowers, Nicole Eisenman, Anna Halprin, Juliana Huxtable, Kelly Nipper, Catherine Opie, Wolfgang Tillmans, Carrie Mae Weems, and more. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 488 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/14:</b> <a href="http://mailchi.mp/b1d77911e35e/artists-challenge-audience-to-go-away-in-new-show-at-reclaimed-room-gallery-814673">Transport Me</a> by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kat Geng & Jon Levy-Warren at Building REsources, The Reclaimed Room Gallery.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-7pm, 701 Amador St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/15: </b>Touch Me Back by </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/aleeeese/">Alise Anderson</a> at Naming Gallery. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 335 15th St, Oakland, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/20: </b><a href="http://www.somarts.org/theblackwomanisgod2017/">The Black Woman Is God: Divine Revolution</a> at SOMArts. Co-curated by Karen Seneferu and Melorra Green. Featuring Karen Seneferu, Marissa Arterberry, Fan Lee Warren, Yetunde </span><span style="font-size: large;">Olagbaju, and many more.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/20:</b> Artist Talk with Christine Wong Yap at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/126038751325079/">LPP+ Residency</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8-9pm, 1240 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/21-7/23:</b> <a href="http://minnesotastreetproject.com/events/special-event/2017-sf-art-book-fair">SF Art Book Fair 2017</a> at Minnesota Street Project.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">*7/21 - Preview Night. <a href="http://sfartbookfair.com/exhibitors?mc_cid=cf4833a352&mc_eid=b0bccf9472">See Exhibitor list, here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/23: </b>8-Ball Zine Fair at Billiard Palacade. Featured exhibitors Hamburger Eyes, Low Rence, Play Press, Shade Magazine, Tiny Splendor, and more.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2-6pm, 5179 Mission St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7/30: </b>SummerShop at Studio/Space. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12-6pm, 1015 Pacific Ave, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I tend to forget how I am introduced to the work of artists, because I usually find out about an artists/their work and then it's after some time that I have a more personal connection with them and think about them more. But with Rachael Sterner and her work, I was introduced to her quilt work through our previous interviewed artist, <a href="http://sfacchannel.blogspot.com/2016/12/laura-rokas-tears-of-rage-gallery-visit.html">Laura Rokas</a>. Laura and Rachael went to SFAI together. Laura was in the MFA program and Rachael was there for her BFA, and they would work side by side in the studios and became friends, supporters, and fans of each other's work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachael Sterner received her BFA from SFAI in Spring 2016. And about a year after she was beginning to organize for her solo show at <a href="http://glassrice.com/exhibits/many-mothers/">Glass Rice gallery</a> in the Design district of San Francisco. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachael's work with quilts is visually graphic, incorporating screen printing, creating untraditional patterns via printing, and personal. Rachael's imagery in her quilts include text and figures that she associates with her past, growing up, and other nostalgic pieces of her personal narrative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her show at Glass Rice, titled <i>Many Mothers</i>, opened on March 24. On the day Rachael de-installed the show, on April 10th, I met Rachael at Glass Rice to see the show one more time and talk about her work and process behind the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>One of the quilts in your show, titled - <i>The Slayer</i>, was a piece for Laura Rokas. You </span><span style="font-size: large;">both went to SFAI and met each other there. How did you both become friends, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">what are some of the things you've done together with your works - you both trade </span><span style="font-size: large;">sometimes? It also seems that both your works have influenced in each other's in a few </span><span style="font-size: large;">ways. </span><br />
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Detail of quilt by Rachael Sterner at Glass Rice gallery.</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>Fairly recent you've become interested in comix and character narratives. How does </span><span style="font-size: large;">the comix medium make an entry into your work - whats the connection you've realized </span><span style="font-size: large;">in how you make your quilts? Did you study comix at SFAI?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS: </b>Yes, drawing comics for me has been the medium that I never knew I needed to </span><span style="font-size: large;">use. I have always enjoyed working narratively, I have so much to say and I love </span><span style="font-size: large;">telling stories, so one would think that drawing comics would be an obvious </span><span style="font-size: large;">place to begin, but I didn't start making comics until my last year of school. I took </span><span style="font-size: large;">a class with Caitlin Mitchell Dayton who is the comic overlord at SFAI. She has so </span><span style="font-size: large;">much knowledge and helped me so much develop my voice. She rules. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Making comics has done so much for me. For my quilt making its given me a </span><span style="font-size: large;">base to my practice, almost all of my textile pieces begin as drawings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>You have several methods for creating your quilts, can you break that down a bit, </span><span style="font-size: large;">because you use screen printing, machine sewing, and hand sewing. When do you use </span><span style="font-size: large;">each of those processes in your quilts?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS: </b>I majored in printmaking, so I would say that has been my main form of image </span><span style="font-size: large;">making for a while. Most of the large images or text on my quilts are printed, </span><span style="font-size: large;">either with a woodblock, or by screen printing. I’ve never enjoyed painting, </span><span style="font-size: large;">preferred drawing so printing is the best way for me to get my images onto </span><span style="font-size: large;">textiles without having to paint it directly on. Screen printing is definitely faster </span><span style="font-size: large;">than carving woodblocks, so I tend to use that if I need to get the image out of my </span><span style="font-size: large;">head faster than sitting down, drawing and carving an entire block. For the </span><span style="font-size: large;">sewing, it all just depends on what I’m trying to show. At points I might want to </span><span style="font-size: large;">draw attention to something without putting ink on it, so I’ll hand stitch the </span><span style="font-size: large;">quilting. Machine stitching I've noticed is so streamlined, it sort of disappears </span><span style="font-size: large;">within the pieces. Hand stitching is so beautiful, and so bold, for me it has to be </span><span style="font-size: large;">used at just the right times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> There is a lot of text on your quilts. What is your writing process like and what subjects </span><span style="font-size: large;">and themes do you write about for your work?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS: </b>Honestly… I’ll just be on the bus, or at work, or just anywhere and be thinking of </span><span style="font-size: large;">something and I’ll jot a note down on my phone. Then, later I’ll take it to paper, </span><span style="font-size: large;">rewrite it a couple times, to bring it into reality, out of my head, and out of the </span><span style="font-size: large;">digital scape. Once I write something down in my notebook a couple times, it has</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a chance of actually making it to a finished piece. I love to write about my </span><span style="font-size: large;">childhood. I am such a sappy nostalgic person, its embarrassing. Also, I feel like </span><span style="font-size: large;">theres nothing I know more, than what I’ve already experienced first hand, so I </span><span style="font-size: large;">just like to share that.</span><br />
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White text on white fabric, detail of quilt by Rachael Sterner.</div>
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Rachael retelling the story of what the text on her quilt says. It's a story about her childhood, when she broke a ceramic house ware and cut her leg.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS:</b> Everything I write is so personal. Sometimes it can be wildly emotional and </span><span style="font-size: large;">probably at times totally unreadable to the viewer. But I have to write it! I just have </span><span style="font-size: large;">to say it, while I’m doing it though, its almost as if I'm talking and wishing I wasn't </span><span style="font-size: large;">saying these things. So I print with white ink on white fabric to quiet things down, </span><span style="font-size: large;">sort of like a whisper. I intentionally make it difficult to read so the viewer doesn't </span><span style="font-size: large;">fully catch everything I’ve said, but I still get the satisfaction of making work </span><span style="font-size: large;">about something and sharing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>In this work, you have the repeating bunny image, where does that bunny image </span><span style="font-size: large;">come from? How does that imagery interact and connect with what appears in the text?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS:</b> I just really think bunnies are so cool. It’s honestly just simple as that. Maybe I </span><span style="font-size: large;">just think bunnies are cute, and I love using animals in my work as a break from </span><span style="font-size: large;">using portraits, or the figure. Lil bunnies… they're so little and soft and cutie, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">I think with this really intense and loaded text I use, its a nice comic relief, change </span><span style="font-size: large;">of pace, and something to let your eye go through as your mind sorts through the </span><span style="font-size: large;">text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> I'm so drawn to the quilt of your sister and her sister. You mentioned that one of your </span><span style="font-size: large;">mentors gave you a bunch of wood block printing books, how did that time looking </span><span style="font-size: large;">through those books influence your work and this piece? What were some of the</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> Thank you, yeah, I really loved making that piece. It took me a long time. My </span><span style="font-size: large;">mentor, Asuka Ohsawa was working with me and giving me a ton of art books to </span><span style="font-size: large;">look at and read. She is so amazing like that, you’ll say you're interested in one </span><span style="font-size: large;">thing and she’s got five different resources for you to look at. And I was looking </span><span style="font-size: large;">at a bunch of Japanese woodblock prints from another mentor, Art Hazelwood. I </span><span style="font-size: large;">was really inspired by the ukiyo-e prints and how many artists from that time </span><span style="font-size: large;">period were able to flatten everything in the image. The spaces, figures, patterns </span><span style="font-size: large;">were very 2-dimensional and I really liked that. After I printed it and quilted it I got </span><span style="font-size: large;">a lot of really positive feedback in my critiques which I was really happy about </span><span style="font-size: large;">and proud of. But there is always one person that doesn't get it and jumps to </span><span style="font-size: large;">conclusions and assumes the worst. Haha I was in critique and a fellow student </span><span style="font-size: large;">in my class kinda went off the rails and projected onto it their own weird bigotry </span><span style="font-size: large;">and self-loathing and made a huge fuss and actually made me cry!! Because I’m a </span><span style="font-size: large;">huge cry baby I’m so sensitive. But thankfully the rest of my class spoke up and </span><span style="font-size: large;">had my back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> In your show you included your baby quilt, that your mom, your grandma, and great </span><span style="font-size: large;">grandma made for you. Can you talk about why you decided to show this quilt and </span><span style="font-size: large;">some of your other thoughts about quilts and craft as fine art?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS: </b>Yeah, that quilt is so special to me. I wanted to put it in my show because first of </span><span style="font-size: large;">all it’s amazing, so well done. The craftsmanship and care they all put into it is a </span><span style="font-size: large;">level I hope I can reach one day. Also, I wanted to pay respects to all the quilt </span><span style="font-size: large;">makers that came before me. The women in my family that made that quilt, did </span><span style="font-size: large;">that craft their whole life and it was just so natural, they were made for family to </span><span style="font-size: large;">be used and to be loved daily. They never thought their quilts would be in a </span><span style="font-size: large;">gallery or viewed as fine art. I love craft so much, my work is so heavily based in </span><span style="font-size: large;">craft and technical skills. And sometimes I just don't even think about the ~*”fine </span><span style="font-size: large;">art world”*~, and what falls within the lines of fine art and what falls out, I just </span><span style="font-size: large;">make whatever I want.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This quilt was was hand made by my mother, her mother, and her grandmother, and given to me as a baby. I am showing this quilt to pay respects to the women in my family who have created before me. Without them, and every other quilt-maker throughout history, I would not have had this chance to display my work here today. I feel honored that I am able to show my own quilts as fine art. Thank you to all the women in my life that have guided me, taught me, and loved me as one of their own. This show is dedicated to you, Many Mothers.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> When I took a closer look at your ceramic piece, Weave Me Alone, it kind of blew me </span><span style="font-size: large;">away, because I didn't get a good look at it the first time. How did you make this piece </span><span style="font-size: large;">and create the texture on it? Again, this goes back to how your work and Laura's relate </span><span style="font-size: large;">for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS:</b> Making the ceramic piece was so much fun! I’m very new to ceramics, so I was </span><span style="font-size: large;">able to play around and really explore within the medium. It was super simple </span><span style="font-size: large;">actually I just got a piece of canvas and rolled the clay out onto it in those little </span><span style="font-size: large;">strips. So I would roll the clay out, cut it and flip to over so you could see the </span><span style="font-size: large;">canvas fabric texture on the front and made a little weaving out of it! I was</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS: </b>I grew up in a small town called Jane, Missouri. It’s just a short drive from the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oklahoma and Arkansas state lines. The town really was one long road off the </span><span style="font-size: large;">highway, there was a gas station, a school that held K-12th grade, a cemetery, a </span><span style="font-size: large;">church, and a river spot to swim at. Most days before I was in school I would stay</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at my grandmas house in Southwest City, MO. She was really sweet, and strong, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and sort of crazy. She would buy wild horses and train them and “break” them </span><span style="font-size: large;">and then resell them I suppose? I’m not completely sure because I was so young, </span><span style="font-size: large;">but I always remember there being at least ten horses on her property, most of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">which should not be ridden or even gone near. But she was great, incredibly </span><span style="font-size: large;">strong, skilled, and had a connection to the earth that I try to carry with me </span><span style="font-size: large;">always.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> Why were there gummy dino candies in your show?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS: </b>Haha for my show flyer I used this iPhone pic I took while printing the CMYK </span><span style="font-size: large;">prints in my “Defensive” piece. I printed the image on clear acetate, threw it out of </span><span style="font-size: large;">my way on the white table behind me, and then later as I was taking a break </span><span style="font-size: large;">eating Haribo dino dummies (that I had stocks up on at the corner store because I</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">knew it was going to be a late night) I just arranged them on top of the printed </span><span style="font-size: large;">piece of acetate and it looked really cool, so I took like 50 million pics. Also, in my </span><span style="font-size: large;">work, I'm constantly thinking about childhood, being a kid, nostalgia, so I threw in </span><span style="font-size: large;">some candy for everyone just for fun (◕‿◕✿)</span><br />
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Rachael Sterner at Glass Rice gallery.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>You skate a lot, does anything from that come into your work in some ways?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS:</b> Yeah! I love skating so much. I’m not sure if it does directly, but i think skating </span><span style="font-size: large;">definitely helps me not take myself so seriously and to allow myself to </span><span style="font-size: large;">experiment and fail. Like for skating I’m constantly learning and trying new stuff </span><span style="font-size: large;">and falling on my ass a lot!!!!!! I try and take that spirit into my work and keep </span><span style="font-size: large;">things light and new and exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS:</b> That piece was so weird for me, haha. I don't really paint that much so it was a big </span><span style="font-size: large;">challenge. I’m glad I made it though. I was really just thinking about middle </span><span style="font-size: large;">school and high school days. The days of school bullies and rumors being </span><span style="font-size: large;">spread. School was really shitty for me, I was having family problems all the time </span><span style="font-size: large;">and had the ugly shoes and didn't talk much. So kids were mean, and now it’s</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">kind of made me very unapologetically me “Unabashedly Erratic”. Like, yeah, my </span><span style="font-size: large;">family is a mess, “Yeah I Am Fuckin’ Crazy” you would be too, “Spread the Word” </span><span style="font-size: large;">as in keep spreading rumors, nothing matters (◕‿◕✿)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>What's next for you? What's on your horizon?</span><br />
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Rachael Sterner at her solo show, Many Mothers at Glass Rice in April, 2017.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RS: </b>Next up, I’m moving to Portland, Oregon. I’m so excited for a new change. I’ve </span><span style="font-size: large;">moved around a lot my whole life, so it just feels like its time for me to go and try </span><span style="font-size: large;">something new. And San Francisco is too expensive right now. I love the Bay so </span><span style="font-size: large;">much, it has a very special place in my heart and I hope I can move back one day! </span><span style="font-size: large;">Not to sound like a cornball, but for now I’m gonna move to the Pacific North </span><span style="font-size: large;">West and make stuff and draw, and be in the trees, and walk my dog, and make </span><span style="font-size: large;">stuff with my boyfriend who is also an artist, and eat really yummy food, and pay </span><span style="font-size: large;">way less in rent, and sew, and quilt, and draw, and weave, and paint, and skate, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and eat dino dummies 4evr.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although we met with Rachael for this interview when her show was coming down, we are excited about her work and hope you are too. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Rachael for taking the time to talk with us!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you <a href="http://glassrice.com/">Glass Rice</a> for opening your gallery to us.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To stay updated on Rachael's work, please visit her <a href="https://www.rachaelsterner.com/">website</a> and follow her on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rdsvs/">@RDSVS</a>.</span><br />
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GUMMIES by Ari Bird and Allegra Rush open at Naming Gallery on June 2, 2017.</div>
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6-9pm, 335 15th St, Oakland, CA.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">View our guide to upcoming events this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/2: </b>Gummies by Ari Bird and Allegra Rush at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1314912655267102/">Naming Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/2:</b> ESL dimension by Isaac Vazquez Avila at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1905552766332684/">Lago Projects</a> (Closing Reception).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm,1215 2nd Ave, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/3:</b> You Are Enough group exhibition at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1739387406352990/">SOMArts</a>. Featuring work by The Lady Miss Vagina Jenkins, Tricia Jameson-Tutwiler, and Sophie Spinelle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1-4pm, 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*On view 6/4, 11am-3pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/3:</b> Death Valley covered in flowers by Tosha Stimage at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1214231715370182/">City Limits</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, 300 Jefferson St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/3:</b> Remote Ancestors by Kaori Yamashita at Bass and Reiner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm,1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<b>6/4:</b> RELAY at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/175162139681138/">CTRL+ SHFT Collective</a> (Closing Reception). </div>
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Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Laura Rokas, Maryam Yousif</div>
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Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Rachel Stallings, Nancy Sayavong</div>
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Sophie Lourdes Knight, Tosha Stimage, Sasha Kelley</div>
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Hannah Perrine Mode, Jacqueline Sherlock Norheim, and Sidney Russell.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3-5pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">1430 34th St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/4:</b> Book Release with Aaron Jupin and C.W. Moss at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/132797957287790/">Growlery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3-6pm, 235 Broderick St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/5-6/11: </b>STREETFOTO SF Festival. Panels, workshops, exhibitions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>*6/6:</b> Daniel Arnold, Aaron Berger, Troy Holden exhibition at Photoworks SF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2279 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/8: </b>Free Trade group exhibition at <a href="http://www.cccsf.us/exhibition-free-trade/">Chinese Cultural Center</a> Design Store, curated by Alice Wu. Featuring work by </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">Miriam Dym, Joyce Hsu , Jimin Lee, Cathy Lu, Louise Leong, Gabby Miller, Johanna Poethig, Chelsea Wong, Leland Wong, and Christine Wong Yap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">5-8pm, </span><span style="text-align: center;">CCC Design Store, 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Fl., San Francisco, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><b>6/10:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/159113707960046/">ONE group exhibition</a> at Open Coffee, curated by </span>Azha Ayanna & Richard Lomibao. Featuring work by Rewina Beshue, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cinque, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jjaahz, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Azha Luckman, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Richard Lomibao.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/10:</b> Two Year Anniversary at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1773847336269660/">Athen B. Gallery</a>. Featuring work by Never250, Cannon Dill, Otto Erik, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kyle Lypka, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Martina Merlini, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Meryl Pataky, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Muzae Sesay, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nicomi Nix Turner, and more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">1525 Webster St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/10:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Harness by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lauren Quin, Rebekah Goldstein and May Wilson at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1534985083186460/?ref=46">Guerrero Gallery.</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1465 Custer Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/10:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Wonder: A Conversation With Wimmin at <a href="https://rootdivision.org/exhibition-rd-gallery/wonder-conversation-wimmin">Root Division</a>, curated by Craig Campbell. Featuring work by Alexis Amann, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Craig Calderwood, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Robin Birdd, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kat Geng, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Veronica Graham, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Yuki Maruyama, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">235 Broderick St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/17: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1837435559851569/">BAY AREA QUEER ZINE FEST 2017</a> at East Bay Community Space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6/17: </b>Silhouette group exhibition at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/646962045499188">Et Al etc</a>, curate by Kevin Krueger and Aaron Harbor. Featuring work by Loney Abrams & Johnny Stanish, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nico Colon & Grant Gutierrez, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Gracie DeVito, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Fox Hysen, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Brian Longe, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ruby Sky Stiler, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Christine Wang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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Fruits of Our Labor by Andres Guerrero at Land and Sea opens May 5, 2017.</div>
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6-9pm, 5428 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 5:</b> Fruits of Our Labor by Andres Guerrero at <a href="http://landandseaeditions.virb.com/">Land And Sea</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 5:</b> <span style="text-align: center;">System by Brett Flanigan & Jean Nagai at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/192070411301491/">Legion</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 5:</b> Pinkout Party and Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/192964054550825/">Little Paper Planes</a>. Feating raffles prizes of art and goods by local makers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 6:</b> Moving - Still by Derek Macario at Open Windows Cooperative. (Closing Reception) & Fundraiser for 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">12-5pm, 1777 Yosemite Ave, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 6:</b> Bathers By KOAK at <a href="http://alterspace.gallery/exhibits/koak-bathers.html">Alter Space</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 1158 Howard St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 11:</b> #RandomReading hosted by Alice Shaw at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1400482703328825/">FraenkelLAB</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-7pm, 1632 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 11:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://counterpulse%20family%20feast%20and%20fundraiser/">CounterPulse Family Feast and Fundraiser</a> at CounterPulse. Featuring installation by Kat Geng.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA. *<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/counterpulse-family-feast-fundraiser-tickets-33295415484?aff=efbeventtix">Free with RSVP</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 12:</b> <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1882111798711936/">SoMapagmahal: Galing Bata’s 15th Anniversary Celebration</a>. </span><span style="text-align: center;">SoMapagmahal presents photography from middle school students of the Galing Bata Afterschool Program at Bessie Carmichael Filipino Education Center! SoMapagmahal is a play on the acronym "SoMa" (South of Market of San Francisco) and "mapagmahal" (a Tagalog-Filipino adjective describing someone who is loving, caring and empathetic). Mentored since January by select teaching artists with multimedia exercises, field trips and collaborative workshops, youth artists have been using photography as a tool for self-empowerment and community advocacy. SoMapagamahal culminates in a zine publication, inspiring and celebrating the resilient voices of young emerging artists!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">3:30-7:30, </span><span style="text-align: center;">824 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><b>May 12:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1844330772495556/">RELAY at CTRL + SHFT</a>. Featuring work by </span>Megan Reed, Sarah Thibault, Courtney Johnson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1430 34th St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 12:</b> Lil Swim at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/210595956103408/">Luggage Store Gallery</a>. Yarrow Slaps & Auguste Somers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 13:</b> Mayflowers by Jet Martinez at <a href="http://www.athenbgallery.com/blog/pressrelease/mayflowers">Athen B. Gallery</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 3649 Lawton Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 19:</b> <a href="https://creativemornings.com/talks/ashleyanne-krigbaum">Creative Mornings, Talk with Ashleyanne Krigbaum</a> at The Roxie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 21:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/268851293569074/">Oakland Book Festival </a>at Oakland City Hall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">11-5pm, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May 27: </b>Rabble-Rousers by Megan Reed and Jennie Ottinger at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/200187790482787/">Johansson Project</a>. </span></div>
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Studies by Jennifer Shear at Low Rence opens April 7, 2017.</div>
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6-9pm, 716 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA.</div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">4/6: </b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.antilab.xyz/calendar">Anti Lab Launch</a>. Featuring m</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">usic provided by B-Side Brujas and screenprinting by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anti Lab is an open resource center for creative resistance projects that are anti-Trump, anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-patriarchy, anti-transphobia, anti-xenophobia, anti-capitalism, and anti-complacency. It is a space for assembling, for organizing, for educating, for rallying together IRL, and producing aesthetic reminders of our demands: equality, justice, safety, respect. </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/7:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/743405929170955/">The Last Cat presents Deth Squad at RVCA SF</a>. Featuring work by </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bags43, Brendan Monroe, Deth P. Sun, Evah Fan, Ferris Plock, Rob Sato, Ryan Bubnis, and Souther Salazar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 1485 Haight St, San Francisco, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/8: </b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>give it to her when she has decided she knew herself... </i>by Yetunde Olagbaju at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctrlshftcollective/">CTRL + SHFT</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/8:</b> <i>Fantasy Island</i> by Kelly Inouye at <a href="http://www.statespacesf.com/kellyinyoue/">state</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/13: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1362405240496147/">Hank Willis Thomas lecture at Minnesota Street Project</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/15:</b> Live Cultures by Willie Young at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1273401232707704/">Quality</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 3040 MLK Jr Way Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/15:</b> Adam Feibelman and Taravat Talepasand at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/shows/adam-feibelman-and-taravat-talepasand">Guerrero Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/19: </b>Performance by April LPP+ Resident Mel Nguyen at Minnesota Street Studios. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1902118916673927/">Must RSVP to attend</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/20:</b> <a href="https://www.openwindowscooperative.com/shop/book-club">Hope in the Dark: Activist Book Club hosted by Open Windows Cooperative</a> at Mission Pie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 2901 Mission St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4/21:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/715145745313698/">EM Wolfman Books Turns 3! </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 410 13th St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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For The Mamis art and music show at Noman Coffee Co. on March 4, 2017.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/1: </b><a href="http://raykophotocenter.com/upcoming-show/">Rayko's 10th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show</a>. Featuring work by Veronika Lukasova, Aline Smithson, Michael Emery, Roy Berkowitz, Michael Borek, Thomas Alleman, Robert Holmgren, Sam Grant, Michelle Bates, James Rohan, Ernie Button, Jennifer Shaw, Gordon Stettinius, and more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4:30-6pm,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Lecture Hall - </span><span style="font-size: large;">800 Chestnut St, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco, CA.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/3: </b><i>Attraper A</i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;">u Vol</i><span style="font-size: large;"> by Fred Mortange at </span><a href="http://www.parklifestore.com/2017/02/14/fred-mortagne-at-park-life-gallery-march-3-april-9-2017/" style="font-size: x-large;">Park Life</a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/4:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION screening at YBCA in conjunction with Lynn Hershman Leeson's Civic Radar exhibition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2pm, 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA. <a href="https://ybca.org/whats-on/women-art-revolution">Tickets $10</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/4:</b> <i>We Can Go There, Together</i> by Carissa Potter at <a href="http://www.zughaus.com/2017/02/carissa-potter-we-can-go-there-together.html">Zughaus Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 1306 3rd St, Berkeley, CA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/4:</b> <i>Simple</i> by Erin M. Riley at <a href="http://www.hashimotocontemporary.com/erin-m-riley-solo-show/">Hashimoto Contemporary</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 804 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/4:</b> <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1979740965586898/">For Thee Mamis</a></i> at Noman Coffee Co. Featuring work by Zoe Kuhn, R</span><span style="font-size: large;">io </span><span style="font-size: large;">Garcia, O</span><span style="font-size: large;">livia Krause, T</span><span style="font-size: large;">aylor Smalls, A</span><span style="font-size: large;">ndi Gonzalez</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/4:</b> <i>Peer Pressure</i> at the <a href="http://www.thegrowlery.org/events/2017/2/2/group-show-curated-by-doug-miles-february-de-young-fellow">Growlery</a>. Featuring work by Irwin Lewis, Rebekah Miles, Tray Polk, Doug Miles, Reuben Ringlero, and Douglas Miles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/8: </b><a href="https://www.threeeight.net/">Three Eight SF Int'l Woman's Day Fundraiser</a>, Silent Art Auction. Featuring work by Abbey Abate, Alyssa Block, Sarah Bowser, Jessica Flemming, Liz Hernandez, Margot Rada, Jenny Sharaf, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 222 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-womens-day-fundraiser-tickets-31904711852">Tickets $10</a>.</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">3/10: </b><span style="font-size: large;">David Hammons Institute: Fred Moten on Ellison's Invisible Man - Lecture at <a href="http://wattis.org/view?id=411">CCA Wattis Institute</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7pm, 360 Kansas St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/11: </b>UC Berkeley Art Practice MFA Open Studios. Featuring work by Nicki Green, Sarah-Dawn Albani, Nancy Sayavong, Rachel Cardenas Stallings, Maggie Lawson, Takming Chuang, Shari Paladino, Andrew Wilson, Behnaz Khaleghi, Lucas DeGuillio, and Jovi Schnell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1-4pm, Richmond Field Station Artist Studios - 1301 S 46th St, Richmond, CA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/11:</b> <i>Nobody, Everybody</i> by Laura Berger and Sarah Bowser at <a href="http://www.athenbgallery.com/upcomingexhibitions/2017/march">Athen B. Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, 1525 Webster St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/17: </b><i>7</i> by Calvin Wong at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1806341649629689/">Book & Job Gallery.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/18:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1866226393654248/">POC/Women Artist Talk & Workshop Series presented by Nook Gallery</a>. Featuring Lindsay Tunkl and Grace Rosario Perkins. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, CTLR+SHFT Collective - 1430 34th St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/22: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1344276672299286/">We've Done This Before - Shaping SF Public Talks.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7:30pm, 518 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/24:</b> <i>Many Mothers</i> by Rachael Sterner at Glass Rice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 680 8thSt. #240 B, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/24:</b> Middle Americana 2: The Midway by Alan Miknis at <a href="https://inclinegallerysf.com/upcoming-shows-2/">Incline Gallery</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/24: </b>sisters and brothers at <a href="http://etaletc.com/#/">Et Al</a>. Featuring work by Cauleen Smith, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jocelyn Taylor / Jaguar Mary, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ayanna U'Dongo, c</span><span style="font-size: large;">urated by Jackie Clay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/25:</b> Shambleezy group exhibition at Shambhala, curated by Yarrow Slaps. Featuring installations by Robin Birdd and Kat Geng, and work by Katie Benn, Jon Levy-Warren, Yuka Ezoe, Rabbit Garcia, Rye Pervis, and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3/25: </b><i>Moving - Still</i> by Derek Macario at <a href="https://www.openwindowscooperative.com/calendar/2017/3/25/moving-by-derek-macario">Open Windows Cooperative</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/3: </b><i>Social Energies</i> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/330565800675937/">Legion SF</a>, curated by Alice Wu. Featuring work by Kayan Cheung-Miaw, Andrew Chuani Ho, Louise Leong, Cathy Lu, Leon Sun, Chelsea Wong, Leland Wong, and Christine Wong Yap. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm, 678 Commercial St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/3:</b> <i>prismataria</i> by Albee at <a href="http://etaletc.com/#/galleries/1/shows/59">Et Al</a>, c</span><span style="font-size: large;">urated by Jeanne Gerrity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/3:</b> <i>Confessions</i> at Little Lodge, curated by Kayla Quan and Althea James. Featuring work by Dominique Carella, Cecilia Peña Govea, George Crampton, Taylor Davis, Althea James, Leah Labrador, John Longyear, Paula Lycan, Kayla Quan, Grace Sanabria, Muzae Sasay, Kaileen Smith, and Anthony Torrano.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/9: </b><i>Tough Love</i> at SpaceB SJ. Featuring work by Bryon Christman, Constance Button, Erika Soliz, Franchesca Flores, Jasmine Ho, Kristina Micotti, Lena Gustafson, Michelle Guintu, Taylor Pak, and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/9: </b><i>High Anxiety</i> by Jason Fulford at <a href="https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/jason-fulford-high-anxiety">FraenkelLAB</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1632 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/10:</b> <i>Unusual Business</i> at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BP-kibrjQDP/?taken-by=gravelandgoldsf">Gravel & Gold</a>. Featuring work by Rachel Kaye, Carissa Potter, Isis Hockenos, Chelsea Wong, Robbie Simon, Sofia Nohlin, Lea Carey, Mia Christopher, Nathaniel Russel, Alise Anderson, Justin Hager, Daren Willson, Terri Loewenthal, and Stuart Pittman.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 3266 21st St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/11:</b> <i>Let's Talk About It Together </i>by <a href="http://www.lukazabranfman-verissimo.com/">Lukaza Branfman- Verisimo</a> at <a href="http://niadart.org/">NAID Art Center</a> Annex Gallery.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1-4pm. 551 23rd Street, Richmond, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/11:</b> <i>Status Module</i> by Lauren D' Amato and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Falco at Good Mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/11:</b> Past, Present & Future by Dread Scott at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/">Guerrero Gallery</a>. Artist talk at 5pm, followed by a panel discussion at 7pm featuring Ana Teresa Fernandez, Patrick Martinez, Michele Pred, Matt Gonzalez and Nicole Archer, interrogating the intersections of art, aesthetics and politics.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-9pm, 1465 Custer Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/11:</b> <i>Spectators</i> by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Caleb Hahne, Michael Reeder, and Molly Bounds at <a href="http://www.athenbgallery.com/upcomingexhibitions/2017/2/11/february-2017">Athen B. Gallery</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/11:</b> <i>Metafictions</i> by Jana Rumberger at <a href="http://www.statespacesf.com/upcoming-exhibitions/">state</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/16:</b> You're Going To Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/897436317025970/">The Lost Church</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7:30-10:30, 65 Capp St, San Francisco, CA. <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1424737?utm_source=fbTfly&utm_medium=ampOfficialEvent">$10 online & at door</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/18: </b><i>Love Is, </i>A Benefit Art show for Planned Parenthood at <a href="http://thegalallery.com/">The Galallery</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Alex Bowman, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Allison Jones, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ari Bird, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cathi Beckstrand, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cedar Q Waxwing, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Christina Tran, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Giulietta Wertz-Best, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kat Geng, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kristine Reano, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Laura Helen Winn, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lucia Goodbag, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Shayna Yasuhara, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Yuka Ezoe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">180 Capp St, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/23: </b>Creative Mean, VSCO talk. Speakers include, photographer Trent Davis Bailey, the owners of Athen B. Gallery, writer Meagan Day with photographer Hannah Klein, and avant-garde saxophonist Daniel Means.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6:30-8:30pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">1500 Broadway, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oakland, CA. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/104429850052734/">Free - RSVP</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2/23: </b>Dorothy Santos + Sebastian Alvarez: World of Tomorrow at Southern Exposure - At SoEX, Radical Art Theory Nights are conversations about art theory, art history, or research-based art practices that reflect on narratives of the historically marginalized. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-8:30pm, 3030 20th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The collaboration photo exhibition by the California-based self taught artists is more a celebration of their friendship and woman/sisterhood through their perspectives and visions of their work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Haley's subjects are her physical environments and structures, in nature and urban settings - the architecture around her. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Haley's images reveal a sensitivity to the spontaneous drama of her surroundings. They are both unpredictable and inevitable.</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Complimenting Haley's work, Nora's subjects are female figures, their bodies, and spirit. Using analog color and black and white film, her improvised compositions with her subjects in open environments perform an act of surrender to the elements and universe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">The artists consider their mission of supporting female creativity and comradery especially relevant in the dawn of Trumpism, a time marked by uncertainty and disturbing misogyny. Although the opening reception was scheduled months ago when the reality of the election results was unthinkable, its coincidence with the inauguration weekend is powerful. <i>Feminine Architecture</i> urges us to acknowledge the female artists's prescient instinctual voice and vision.</span></div>
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<i>Closer,</i> Jeffrey Cheung's solo show opens at Hashimoto January 7, 6-9pm.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/6: </b>50 Artists talk - <a href="https://www.sfmoma.org/event/50-artists-jonn-herschend-susan-omalley/">Jonn Herschend on Susan O’Malley</a> at SFMOMA. Free with museum ticket, $19-25.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/6:</b> <i>Points West</i> by </span><span style="font-size: large;">James Sterling Pitt at <a href="http://etaletc.com/#/">Et Al</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 620 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/6:</b> <i>Colorful Streets</i> by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Troy Holden at <a href="http://mulegallery.com/">Mule Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 80 Fresno St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/7:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>comfort objects </i>by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lauren DiCioccio at </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.jackfischergallery.com/shows.htm">Jack Fischer Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-7pm, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/7:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/718435838324193/"><i>Me/You</i> group show</a> at C2c Project Space. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Aaron Poser, Elise Siegel, Adam Novak, Sarah Thibault, Jenny Ottinger, Grace Rosario Perkins, Amanda Church, Tebby George, David Lasley, Bill Samios, Yuki Maruyama, Matt Smith, and John Casey.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">1695 18th St, San Francisco, CA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/7:</b> <i>Closer</i> by Jeffrey Cheung at <a href="http://www.hashimotocontemporary.com/">Hashimoto Contemporary</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm 804 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/8:</b> <i>Plucked</i> group show at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/313119442415226/">100% Gallery</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Daniel Gibson, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Peter Hurley, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Koak, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Garrett Pointer, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kira Scerbin.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2-6pm. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Please write info@100percent.gallery for the address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/10: </b>Miguel Abreu Gallery (NY) at <a href="https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/abreu">FraenkelLAB</a>. Featuring work by Liz Deschenes, Rochelle Goldberg, Aaron Flint Jamison, Sam Lewitt, Jean-Luc Moulène, Florian Pumhösl, R. H. Quaytman, Eileen Quinlan, Raha Raissnia, Blake Rayne, and Pieter Schoolwerth.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-7pm, 1632 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/10:</b> <i>Grundstück</i> by Nicole Wermers at <a href="http://jessicasilvermangallery.com/">Jessica Silverman Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 488 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/10:</b> <i>Still Life</i> by Rhonda Holberton at <a href="http://cultexhibitions.com/exhibition/rhonda-holberton-still-life/">CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, 3191 Mission St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/12:</b> <i>The Original Scraper Bikes</i> by Dino Graniello at Space B.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 310 3rd St, San Jose, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/12-1/15:</b> FOG Design+Art Fair. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fog-designart-tickets-29177162679">Tickets + $20</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">11am-7pm most days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">38 Fort Mason, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco, CA</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/13:</b> <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1609309379375064/">No Human Being Is Illegal: A Benefit for Five Family Members</a>, </i>at Naming Gallery. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Louise Leong, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Stephanie Libanti, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Krusty Wheatfield, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Vivian Fu, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Crystal Millán, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sanaa Khan, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Julie Gautier-Downes, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Heather Wreckage, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Morgan DeLorenzo, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lynneas Hollis-Weiss, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Shelby Rosabal, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kat Demeray, and many more. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">335 15th St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you cannot attend please consider donating to the benefit fundraiser, <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/myfamilyfilingforresidency-690226">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/13:</b> <i>Sooner or Later</i> group exhibition at <a href="https://www.soex.org/projects-exhibitions/sooner-or-later">Southern Exposure</a>, curate by T</span><span style="font-size: large;">orreya Cummings. Featuring work by Bonanza, Sofia Cordova, Jader, Grace Rosario Perkins, Richard-Jonathan Nelson.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, 3030 20th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/13:</b> <a href="http://www.alterspace.gallery/mind-control/">Mind Control</a> - an independent art fair at Alter Space. Exhibitors include, 696969 (Reno), </span><span style="font-size: large;">Alter Space (SF), </span><span style="font-size: large;">Bug (NY), </span><span style="font-size: large;">Casemore Kirkeby (SF), </span><span style="font-size: large;">CTRL + SHFT (Oakland) , </span><span style="font-size: large;">Deli Gallery (NY), </span><span style="font-size: large;">Hilde (LA), </span><span style="font-size: large;">MANIAC (Oakland), </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nook Gallery (Oakland), </span><span style="font-size: large;">Quality (Oakland), </span><span style="font-size: large;">SPF15 (SD), and</span><span style="font-size: large;">Y2K (Oakland).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1158 Howard St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Main dates: </b>January 12 - 15 from 12 - 6 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Opening reception: Friday the 13th, 8 pm - 12 am</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Extended dates: Runs thru January 28, TH-SAT, 1-6pm</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/14: </b><i>Reset</i> group exhibition at <a href="http://www.athenbgallery.com/upcomingexhibitions/january/2017">Athen B. Gallery</a>. Featuring work by Aubrey Learner, Augustine Kofie, Christie Yuri Noh, Curiot, Dave Kinsey, Duncan Jago, Ever, Jean Nagai, Kelly Ording, Martina Merlini, Pakayla Rae Biehn, Smithe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, 1525 Webster St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/18: </b><i>I Like The Way You Look At My Black Brown Blue Body,</i> artist talk with Lukaza Branfman-Verissmo at <a href="http://lagoprojects.com/">Lago Projects</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7:30pm, 12152nd Ave, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/19:</b> <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1349449535065546/">Liminal Space / Crossings</a></i> at 41 Ross. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Liminal Space / Crossings</i>, a community-engaged public art project led by Bay Area artist, Summer Mei Ling Lee. The installation is based on Lee's year-long community-based research on Chinatown's history, uncovering stories of local residents in dialogue with her relationship to her Chinese immigrant grandmother. "Liminal Space" highlights immigration as an unfurling of processes that begins with a physical transverse of the Pacific Ocean, but is an event that casts reverberations of change for generations to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-7pm, 41 Ross Alley, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/19:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1142325179218403/">I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO</a> screening at the Grand Lake Theater. MATATU presents the Bay Area's advance screening of I Am Not Your Negro; written by James Baldwin & directed by Raoul Peck. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-am-not-your-negro-tickets-29731407440">Tickets $15 (sold out)</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/20:</b> <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1866109430288070/">You Have A Voice</a></i> hosted by 3rd St Village and Bayview Opera House, Co-Curated by Mark Harris and Danielle Satinover. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, 3716 3rd St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/27: </b><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/353393458352700/?notif_t=plan_user_associated&notif_id=1484431182555652">Printed Ghosts / Inauguration Re-weaving Sedative</a> </i>by Ricki Dwyer at <a href="https://www.openwindowscooperative.com/">Open Windows Cooperative</a>. $10 Donations for materials and workshop. All proceeds will be donated to ACLU. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm. 1777 Yosemite Ave, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1/27:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/217250688683580/">Dope Dope Dope MAG Issue 2, CREEP</a>, release at the Growlery. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 235 Broderick, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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A painting of cardboard sculptured hands painting on grass by Laura Rokas. On view now, in her solo exhibition Tears of Rage at Guerrero Gallery.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="goog_426828940"></span><span id="goog_426828941"></span>I'm not sure when I first saw work by <a href="http://laurarokas.com/">Laura Rokas</a>, but it may have been online. Then, I would occasionally bump into her at a local coffee shop in the dogpatch, where her studio is located and near where I previously worked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd see her sitting and embroidering small patches. Laura has been painting for years, introducing ceramic sculptures and hand embroidered patches recently of the same visual subjects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In her current solo show, <i>Tears of Rage</i>, at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/">Guerrero Gallery</a>, Laura includes paintings, hand embroidered patch paintings, and ceramic sculptures. Laura pulls from her personal life, experiences, and interests to create the narratives in work. The resulting pieces are colorful, using recurring imagery taking form in each of the mediums she uses. Her subjects transcend material, fabricating several realities where they can exist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laura Rokas is a Canadian artist born in a small town in the french province of Québec. She has been living in the Bay Area since 2014 and has recently completed her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recently met with Laura at Guerrero Gallery to talk about her work and show <i>Tears of Rage</i>. Check out the full interview and photos below</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>Can you talk about how you began making patch pieces? How has the translation of your imagery from paint to fabric/embroidery felt? You've gotten better since your started - you have a groove of how to do it now - huh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Laura Rokas: </b>I made a painting a couple of years ago of a huge <a href="http://laurarokas.com/Newer-work/Big-Jacket">free floating jacket</a> with dangling cardboard hands where I had cut out and glued on trompe l’oeil painted embroidered patches. I had absolutely no interest in sewing until I visited my family back in Québec last winter and my sisters had taken up embroidery. They taught me a few stitches and I became unstoppable. It seems a pretty obvious path in retrospect, since I was already working with patch imagery, but until quite recently, I was still very paint-centric. I had never sewn before and I’ve actually never used a sewing machine, so being basically self-taught, I do run into some technical issues sometimes but I think I’ve figured out a good method for the patches. I can definitely whip ‘em out at a moment’s notice now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> There are several recurring icons in your work referencing good luck and good fortune - like dice, Maneki Neko, etc. What is your personal relationship to luck? How do you view your luck - and the balance of it? Good vs bad in your life?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>I have a history of being freak accident prone but also incredibly lucky. My favorite story to tell at parties is the time I fell down an elevator shaft in an abandoned warehouse in Montréal on a Friday the 13th and broke my spine and almost became quadriplegic. The painting I made during the recovery from that accident won the Bank of Montreal art contest. Events like this are not uncommon for me; the night I had the wheels stolen off my new bike, I won a scholarship. I’ve broken 2 bones in cycling accidents since I’ve moved to California – neither or which was my fault, each with their own equally fantastic reward. Maybe surrounding myself with good luck charms has helped me bounce back from all of these accidents, maybe it’s just my own resilience, but I can’t help believing that there’s some sort of external force at play keeping balance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> Cycling and being on a bike is so woven into who you are. Can you talk about some of those references you make in your work in this show? Like 7-11, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>I’m not even sure when it happened, but I’ve become a sports history junkie. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, friendship, betrayal, cheating, cycling has it all. And it has a lot in common with painting: elitist, white, male, unforgiving, for masochists only. The 7-Eleven cycling team was the first American team to participate in the Tour de France. Steve Bauer, who was on the team in 1990, was the only Canadian to get close to a Tour victory. He wore the coveted Yellow Jersey for 9 stages before ultimately ceding it to Greg Lemond for his 3rd and final victory, the only American to ever win the Tour. The history of professional bike racing is rooted in advertisement – you have some of the worlds most talented athletes riding for construction material companies, it’s ridiculous, but cycling is a grueling, very serious sport. For example, Eddy Merckx has forever elevated the logo of the Italian sausage company Molteni, his team sponsor, by being one of the top cyclists in history, whereas Lance Armstrong has defaced the USPS logo forever for being a big fat phoney. Jerseys and team logos work a lot the way patches do, they indicate a certain rank or affiliation. I love the connection between sport and fashion – team uniforms often feature embroidery. Funnily though, I hate racing, I think I’m too competitive for it.</span><br />
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Detail of a patch painting by Laura Rokas.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>The title of your show is <i>Tears of Rage</i>. What does that mean to you? What are some of your thoughts about rage? There is a stigma attached to rage of it being something negative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>Some pretty heinous things happened to me in my personal life this year and I got mad. I needed to find a way to cope and I decided to let myself be angry and use this anger as motivation to better myself. In a way, seeing emotional pain the way I’ve coped with physical pain. There is a stigma about anger, especially as a woman. Rather than turn to actual revenge, I had the strength to have a no-nonsense prolific year in the studio. If you’ve ever rage ridden your bike, you know the power anger can give you. I also wanted to be truthful about my feelings and motivations; I hate that wishy-washy faux-chill persona a lot of people around here have. On a more universal level, many people in our community have a lot to be angry about; we’re seeing our friends die, lives being displaced and rights being stepped on. Being complacent and enabling toxic people in any sort of way is contributing to this deception.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">‘Tears of Rage’ is also the first track on the Band’s 1968 debut album ‘Music from Big Pink’ (a Canadian must-have). It’s a song about not hating your parents even if they’ve done you wrong and most likely an allegory for America (Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics), which could be considered an inspiring, apropos message given our current socio-political situation. </span><br />
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Laura Rokas at Guerrero Gallery on December 16, 2016.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>I’ve become that girl who loves cardboard. I started building my own source material for painting about 6-7 years ago. I started out with recycled paper, plaster, newspaper, clay, eraser – anything neutral enough that the material wasn’t obvious at first glance. When I moved here, I started exclusively building out of cardboard, I think, mostly because that’s what was plentiful and available to me. Cardboard is really the perfect material for my purposes – it speaks to the consumer mentality, especially of the Bay Area where every recycling bin is full to the brim of amazon prime boxes. The texture of its ridges is also very satisfying to me as a painter, I enjoy painting nubbly little bits of things, it also helps with scale, the texture of cardboard is so familiar that anyone could identify the actual size of the original sculptures, as usually they are blown up in the paintings. When I’m out walking, I’m always scoping out cardboard boxes, out for recycling, all neatly flattened and tucked into a box made of the same material. The logos on the boxes are a thing in themselves, for me, connecting branding to sport team sponsors. Sometimes I’ll come across the most perfect box on the side walk in the TL, where I live, and realize that there’s actually someone sleeping inside it, a grim reminder of the trash world we live in and those who are truly most affected by it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> You're originally from Canada. What are some of the difficulties you experience being on a student visa? There are certainly limits to your current situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>Yeah, it’s awful. I feel very at home here and I have met some amazing people who inspire me and that I couldn’t imagine my life without, really. But if I don’t play my cards right, I’ll have to leave all of this behind after my year of ‘optional practical training’ is over in July. A student visa in this country is very limiting in terms of work, right now I’m only allowed to have a job which pertains to my degree. Good luck finding a good paying job in an art field in San Francisco. It’s especially frustrating as a North American, c’mon just let me hang out here for a bit you bullies!! I do eventually plan on moving back to Canada. Being a second class citizen for years takes a toll on your spirit. Not too excited about living in Trump’s America anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>I’ve created a sort of narrative with the cardboard hands. I started off using them as a stand in for my hands, but they’ve taken on an identity of their own. There’s a distinct landscape that I used over and over again in my work – the blue sky and the green mountains. I’ve started seeing this as the world I’ve made for the cardboard hands to govern. I feel a bit like Dr. Frankenstein and I have to make a space for my creation to live and objects for it to interact with. The hands are rascals though, I don’t even know if they have a body, but they also want to start creating their own art work. Maybe they see me sewing and building and they want to participate. I have a little joke that they’re the one who make all the faux-cardboard ceramics. In my more recent paintings, the hand have been interacting with the real world, maybe we’ll end up collaborating or maybe they’ll try to overthrow me, we’ll see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> Can you talk about the videos you do - and how the figure is in our world but it’s not her world, so how does she fit in? </span><span style="font-size: large;">Like what are you doing with the hands? It seems like a lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>I’ve starting making short <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BOa8uzSDsQH/?taken-by=laurarokas">videos of the hands doing everyday things that I do</a>, embroidering, making coffee, watering the plant, painting. The hands are larger than life and they kind of just flap around just barely able to accomplish things. These definitely started out as a joke, just me laughing at how ridiculous this all is, but people are responding really well to them. I plan on making more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> There are several other recurring images and objects in your work. Can you talk about some of them like the rose, butterfly, snake, baseball (cubs), cats again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>Yeah, a lot of the symbols I use are kitsch and pervasive in pop culture. Despite that, I still find value in them. There’s a complex intentional world of personal imagery going on. For instance, the snake and the cat are always fighting each other, sort of a representation of internal struggle – not really good vs evil, but 2 sides of a personality, I’m a Gemini, after all, born in the year of the snake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a folktale about the Maneki Neko lucky cat where a woman’s cat is accidentally slain while trying to protect her from a venomous snake. The swordsman who had killed her cat, thinking that it was trying to attack her when it was actually trying to warn her of a hiding snake, felt so guilty that he had a carving of her cat made by the best woodcarver in the land. My cat was 16 years old when he died on February 13th 2013 after dodging as many near death experiences as I have. He appears in countless different forms all throughout my work, as a guardian, as a good luck charm and a companion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve recently really gotten into baseball - I couldn’t resist the Cubs World Series victory. Montréal lost its baseball team, the Expos (named after the hugely popular 1967 world fair held there) in 2004. One of my best friends is from Chicago and she and her family are big Cubbie’s fans. I made the Cubs good luck patch at the beginning of the series against Cleveland and I'm pretty sure that’s the reason why they won. Ok, just joking, but it was my homage to the team’s fans I guess. It was pretty cool to watch the last game, like a 30 for 30 episode (ESPN's sports documentary series) being written right in front of me.</span><br />
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The color red is prominent in Laura's work - as blood, nail polish, roses, and more.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>What I really like to do is make huge paintings and sculptures, but it’s not always possible for a number of reasons. I want to feel submerged in a world, feel like I’m interacting with it just by walking through it. Painting walls and creating an environment through installation is a way for me to create this feeling, but it also allows me to have little pockets of intimate moments with smaller scale work, which is nice. Definitely going to have more installation driven work in the future- hey who knows, maybe some video while I’m at it.</span><br />
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Laura's braids make cameos into her work.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>I’m not really interested in commodifying the patches and I never intended to sew them onto clothing but inevitably I started putting them on my own jacket. There’s an oversaturation of online pin and patch stores that I’m not trying to be a part of – not that I dislike them, on the contrary, but they are the subject of the work, not the work itself. And of course, a lot of our imagery overlaps. I keep my own collection pretty specific; for example, all the ones on my jacket are either made by me or one of my friends. The patches are very time consuming to make, so yeah, you’ve got to earn one – Boy Scout style. Either by being a really great friend, or winning a bike race, or doing me a favor, or just by being a cool person. On the off chance that I do buy myself a patch, it’ll be a sort of destination prize. Certain state parks have gift shops with limited hours where you can buy patches, like Mount Tam and Mount Diablo. Last time we rode up Diablo we missed the gift shop by a few minutes so I didn’t even earn my patch!</span><br />
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Laura Rokas in her cycling shoes with Zed cylcing team socks.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LR: </b>Anyone who really knows me knows that I’m obsessed with cycling shoes and I’d wear them all the time if it was practical. They sound like high heels when you walk, which is as close as I’m ever going to get to actually wearing heels, it’s great. I guess to me, those legs in the painting are obviously feminine because they’re mine, but actually no one has commented on how hairy they are or who they belong to, which is cool I guess? Professional cyclists, male and female, shave their legs for a bunch of different reasons, all of which are superfluous in my opinion. Then again, I’ll also wear lipstick on a 100 mile ride if I feel like it so what do I know? I guess it’s a sign that I’m no pro, or that I ride by my own rules (it’s the latter). Fortunately, I’m surrounded by a strong female cycling community where no one cares. But the reality is that as well as names like Coppi, Anquetil, Lemond, Indurain and Froome are known, Beryl Burton, Marianne Martin, Jeannie Longo, Inga Thomson (power braid queen) and Marianne Vos have sported similar jerseys with less pay and acclaim. </span><br />
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</i><span style="font-size: large;"><i>TEARS OF RAGE</i> by Laura Rokas is on view now at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/">Guerrero Gallery</a> through January 7. Also on view at Guerrero Gallery, <i>Purple</i> by Sofie Ramos and Linda Geary.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The gallery is open December 27-31, 12-6pm, 1465 Custer Ave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you so much Laura Rokas for taking the time to talk with us!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To stay updated visit Laura's <a href="http://www.laurarokas.com/">website</a> and follow her on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laurarokas/">@laurarokas.</a></span><br />
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Group photo of ¿Qué Pasa, USA? artists and participants. Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/charlottestreet/albums/72157676857603426">Megan Mantia</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">About a month ago I was in Kansas City, MO for the reception of the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://collectivegap.info/quepasa/">¿Qué Pasa, USA?</a></i><span style="font-size: large;"> exhibition at La Esquina Gallery. This was the first exhibition by Charlotte Street Foundation's current Curator in Residence, </span><a href="http://collectivegap.info/" style="font-size: x-large;">Lynnette Miranda</a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>¿Qué Pasa, USA?</i> is a group exhibition that considers a broad spectrum of experiences reflecting and responding to what it means to be a citizen in this country today. Informed by their lived experience, the artists present a different approach to addressing and deepening identity. Through abstracting and translating cultural symbols they reflect on “The Other” in a society that values and privileges Whiteness above all. The exhibition expands on the notion that American identity today is based on plurality and through a critically conscious approach each artist presents work that broadens our definitions of that identity.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I first met Lynnette, when she was in San Francisco to give a talk art the end of her residency with Little Paper Planes' AIR program last year. Since then we've kept in touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Along with the exhibition Lynnette organized and facilitated other programing and events, including a POC Arts Alliance meeting and Visibility / Invisibility for POC. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition also had several <a href="http://collectivegap.info/writing/">writing components</a> including artists interviews and essays about the artists work. I wrote an essay about the work of Kayla Quan (SF), Michelle Lee (PA), and Carlos Gallo-Ortiz (MO) - <a href="http://collectivegap.info/macario-between-here-and-there/">read the essay here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While in KC I was able to connect with many artists from QPU and other local artists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read more for the full KC Recap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.madelinegallucci.com/">Madeline Gallucci</a> is a KC based artist, who is a close friend of Lynnette and hosted an after party for QPU at her studio building, called <a href="http://www.drugstorekc.com/about">The Drugstore,</a> she shares with other artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was first introduced to Madeline's work when I went to her talk at the end of her residency at Little Paper Planes in SF earlier this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I met with Madeline to talk about her work the day before the QPU reception. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Madeline's painting make use of several mediums on a variety of materials. She incorporates air brush, acrylic, and paints digitally - on canvas, paper, and tarps. During her residency at LPP she was thinking about the history of camouflage and the functionality of the materials she was working with like the tarp with grommets. That was such a surprising entry into the work she makes because is it so colorful and bright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Madeline Gallucci at her studio in The Drug Store (KC, MO) - November 17, 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inside The Drug Store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Madeline also had a show at the <a href="https://www.kemperart.org/exhibitions/2016-charlotte-street-visual-artist-awards-exhibition">Kemper Museum's Crossroads Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For this exhibition Madeline had so much space. She wanted to make use to the space and kind make you feel like you were in her studio - replicating the lines from the edges of paintings on her studio walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another artist who had work at the Crossroads was <a href="http://www.rodolfomarron.com/artist-statement-2">Rodolfo Marron III</a>. Rodolofo's installation and visual work taps into personal family history and culture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Friday before the QPU reception I checked out the current exhibition at the KCAI H&R Art Space. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition <i><a href="http://kcai.edu/drupal/artspace/exhibitions/8836/dawit-l-petros-strangers-notebook">A Stranger's Notebook</a></i> includes photography, video, and sound, by Eritrean-born artist Dawit L. Petros explores the relationship between African histories and European modernism, tracing ideas about borders and narratives of migration, past and present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kayla and I also took a quick tour of the <a href="http://kcai.edu/academics/majors/printmaking/">KCAI printmaking studio</a>. It felt nice to be back on a college campus and check out the facilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I get to the QPU reception - I wanted to mention a few artists that were so generous while hosting us in KC. It is so rare to meet strangers and feel so loved immediately they way <a href="http://www.jahairaaguilar.ml/">Jahaira Aguilar</a> and Andrew Lattner were toward us. They host Kayla Quan, <a href="http://victoria-martinez.com/home.html">Victoria Martinez</a>, and myself for the nights we were in KC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both their work deals with materials and structures, light and space, as well as including public/participant elements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jahaira is a recent graduate from the Kansas City Art Institutefrom the painting program. She is originally from San Antonio, TX and has made Kansas City her home. Socially engaged work is of great importance and exists in a synonymous practice that seeks to invite participants into her installations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She seeks out site-specific responses in order to activate spaces that might seem static as a way to entice movement and engagement. Some work exists on a wall and some exists on the ground, big enough to jump inside and touch and feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pennant Flags, Jahaira Aguilar, Plastic vinyl, 2016, Kansas City, MO. Courtesy of Jahaira Aguilar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Navigation Installation, Jahaira Aguilar, Plastic Sheets, Pex tubing, Spray paint, 2016, Kansas City Art Institute. Courtesy of Jahaira Aguilar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Slip’ n’ Slide, Jahaira Aguilar, 60’’x492’’x36’’, Plastic sheeting, Pex tubing, Grommets, Water, October 2015, Kansas </span><span style="font-size: large;">City Art Institute. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Courtesy of Jahaira Aguilar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Occupying a former office space I have chosen my materials from office supply </span><span style="font-size: large;">stores and use things such as paper, whiteout, tape, pen, pencil and highlighters. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Through the use of these materials he have begun to investigate the architecture of </span><span style="font-size: large;">space that makes up each individual piece of paper. Andrew views each paper as having </span><span style="font-size: large;">three different planes in which it occupies, the front, the back and the in-between. </span><span style="font-size: large;">By utilizing light and display he allows viewers to unlock all three of these planes </span><span style="font-size: large;">simultaneously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Office Work Paper - grouping, paper, pen, pencil, highlighter, tape, whiteout and sign holders. 2016. Courtesy of Andrew Lattner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Playstion 05, wood, paint, paper, tape. 2016. Installation photo from KCAI </span><span style="font-size: large;">BFA exhibition. BFA Show Honor Award, Selected by Pablo Helguera and Amy </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kligman, H&R Block Space, Kansas City, MO. Courtesy of Andrew Lattner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andrew and Jahaira founded <a href="https://charlottestreetstudios.wordpress.com/current-residents/ndo-jahaira-aguilar-and-andrew-lattner/">NDo</a>, an artist collaborative group seeking to create affordable studios for young </span><span style="font-size: large;">emerging artists in Kansas City, MO. </span><span style="font-size: large;">NDo started this summer when they took on an insanely ambitious project called Debt Day Carnival, it was a carnival meant to educate the public on student-loan debt and the options of repayment. It turned out to be the biggest, craziest experience Jahaira has ever had. It was so much fun, it brought so many people together and from it, we have a core group of collaborators who will be graduating from KCAI in 2019. The carnival consisted of all hand-made games pertaining to debt and some just for fun, they had a Donald Trump Knock-out game, a pin the tail on the donkey game featuring Hillary and Bernie, a financial tarot card reader, a huge money wind machine that had bills instead of money. A lot of stuff like that. Check out an article that was written about it, <a href="http://kcur.org/post/kansas-city-art-institute-students-have-fun-student-loan-debt#stream/0">KCUR CJ Janovy.</a> It would not have been possible without their carnies, they are life-time friends and hard working artists. Through that huge collaboration, they knew that they wanted to be collaborators with other artists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Currently, NDo can be defined by 3 major projects we are pursuing in Kansas City: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Short-duration Residencies</b>// NDo seeks to collaborate with local Kansas City property managers in an effort to activate unoccupied spaces with artists in the greater-Kansas City community. Short-duration residencies give young artists the opportunity to engage in a residency that is challenging and created for the first-time artist-in-residence. Allowing young artists to participate gives them the opportunity to add experience to their CV in anticipation for more residencies to come in their future! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Local Arts Marketing Campaign</b>// NDo seeks to collaborate with business professionals and young entrepreneurs interested in investing in local art that lack the consultation to do so. Here we are proposing an ongoing campaign to educate young business professionals about the importance and necessity of investing in local artists in order to maintain the vibrancy of their beloved city. This will include an ever-expanding online platform that showcases the local talent of Kansas City, no regional information hub of this kind exists at this time. *Arts Marketing Campaign in early grant writing stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Community Arts Education Coordination</b>//NDo seeks to collaborate with institutions that provide services to low-income children and seniors in an effort to bring arts education directly to their door! In collaboration with Phoenix Family Housing of Kansas City, we coordinate with community leaders that serve their housing facility in order to provide arts education in their community centers for free. Arts education services are provided by local Kansas City artists and educators. This collaboration between artists/educators and Phoenix Family Housing works due to a low-commitment system that only requires 1 hour a month from each artist. With this system in mind, multiple artists are empowered to interact with a group of children or seniors working towards improving creative technical skills in their home community center. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We believe in supporting artists in our own community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We believe in affordable and accessible studio spaces for all visual artists, writers, musicians and performers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lynnette gave a few opening remarks for the exhibition and introduced <a href="http://collectivegap.info/jacquelyn-carmen-guerrero-spirituality-ritual/">Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero</a>, who is an artist and performer included in the show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>¿Qué Pasa, USA?</i> show is up through January. If you're in Kansas City go check it out. Thank you to everyone is KC for being so warm and welcoming and giving us such a memorable experience and all the love. If you're feeling like you want to more KC check out a few film snapshot I took including some from the after party at the Drug store - over on <a href="http://derekmacario.tumblr.com/tagged/Kansas-City">my tumblr.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday night was the VIP Preview of the <a href="http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/">Luggage Store Gallery</a> and <a href="http://www.adobebooks.com/gallery/">Adobe Books Gallery</a> Auction fundraiser, held at Luggage Store Gallery on Market St. The sale and auction of work from local artists, who've shown with Luggage Store and Adobe books in the past, go toward sustaining both galleries and mark for a good time to come together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight will be a public reception 6-10pm for the event with a sliding scale donation at the door ($25). Drinks, snacks, and sound will be provided.</span><br />
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<i>Stabbed in the back, let your rage guide the way</i>, Hand embroidered patches on felt on acid washed denim, 2016 by Laura Rokas.</div>
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Laura Rokas' show with Linda Geary and Sofie Ramos at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/shows/laura-rokas">Guerrero Gallery</a> opens December 12.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/2: </b><i>Frida & Friends </i>9th Annual Blanket Drive and Art Auction at <a href="http://www.seeingthingsgallery.com/upcoming/dec-2nd---frida--friends/">Seeing Things Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 751 San Carlos West, San Jose, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/2: </b>The Shop at <a href="https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/the-shop-at-fraenkellab">FraenkelLAB</a>, with The California Sunday Magazine. Collaborators include, </span><span style="font-size: large;">The Thing Quarterly, </span><span style="font-size: large;">The California Sunday Magazine, </span><span style="font-size: large;">TBW Books, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Little Big Man Books.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm, 1632 Market St, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Pop-up open through December 24. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/2:</b> </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Formation</i><span style="font-size: large;"> by Michelle Fleck and Sean W. Spellman at <a href="http://www.legionsf.com/">Legion SF</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm, 678 Commercial St. San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/2:</b> <i>Literally Anything</i> by Mia Christopher at <a href="https://www.openwindowscooperative.com/">Open Windows Cooperative</a>. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1777 Yosemite Ave - Suite 340, San Francisco, CA.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/3:</b> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hamburger_eyes/">Hamburger Eyes</a> Issue Release at Mike's Barbershop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm, 505 Haight St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/3:</b> <i>Differing Feathers</i> group show at <a href="http://www.thegreathighway.com/">The Great Highway</a>. Featuring work by Apex, Matthew Bajda, Jill Bonny, Steph Canlas, Sachi Cunningham, Todd Francis, Annie Galvin, John Lindsey. Eric Rewitzer, and more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/6: </b><i>Portrayal (L)</i>: 2016 BFA Exhibition at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/622789861242098/">SFAI</a>, curated by Kevin B. Chan. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-7pm, 800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/8: </b><i>Prenatural </i>at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/540048929520581/">Jack Fischer Gallery</a>, curated by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kevin B. Chen. Featuring work by Bessma Khalaf, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sarah Lee, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Stephanie Metz, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Laura Plageman, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Tiffanie Turner.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">311 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/9: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1894149557479539/">Hayes Valley Art Works</a> One Year Anniversary and Reception. Reception for works by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nicolas Hullibarger and Kate Kuaimoku.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 456 Laguna St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/9-12/10:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1124749450971835/">The Drove: Are You Having Fun Yet?</a> Presented by <a href="https://chlocodance.wordpress.com/">Chlo & Co Dance</a> at Little Boxes Theater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8pm, 1661 Tennessee St, San Francisco, CA. <a href="http://m.bpt.me/event/2714660">Tickets +$15</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/10:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL:</i> A benefit for five undocumented family members at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sessionspace/">Session Space Gallery</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, 5873 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA. +50 Artists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/10-12/11:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/321624304897412/">East Bay Print Sale</a> hosted by Max's Garage & Tiny Splendor, at Max's Garage. Exhibitors include </span><span style="font-size: large;">Bloom Press, Colpa Press, Tiny Splendor, Unity Press, and many more.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">10am-4pm (Both Days), 1006 Pardee St, Berkeley, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/10:</b> Art Auction & Sale at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1105048049611367/">Luggage Store Gallery</a> - Fundraiser for Luggage Store and Adobe Books..</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 1007 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/10:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Strange Reprise</i> by Maria Forde and Chris Thorson at <a href="http://www.statespacesf.com/strange-reprise-chris-thorson-maria-forde/">State</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 1295 Alabama St, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco, CA</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/10:</b> Laura Rokas / Linda Geary / Sofie Ramos at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/upcoming-shows">Guerrero Gallery</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1465 Custer Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/11:</b> Holiday Art Market at <a href="http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/">Galería De La Raza</a>. Artists include </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jessica Sabogal, Dignidad Rebelde, and Alyssa Mariah Aviles.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">11-3pm, 2857 24th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/11:</b> <i>In Bone</i> by Jeremy Ehling at <a href="http://100percent.gallery/">100 Percent Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2-6pm. Please write to info@100percent.gallery for the address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12/14: </b>FraenkelLAB Presents #randomreading 7 - Mads Lynnerup.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-8pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">1632 Market St, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy the winter holidays and happy new year! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">email sfacchannels@gmail.com to get in touch regarding anything art in the Bay Area.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Cheers, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Derek Macario</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">San Francisco Art & Culture Channel</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09450379061257405469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986919822874018770.post-29706392014611829092016-11-15T12:31:00.001-08:002016-11-15T19:32:11.157-08:00Kayla Quan: Studio Visit & Interview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was first introduced to the work of SF-based artist <a href="http://cargocollective.com/kaylaquan">Kayla Quan</a> from her participation in the <i><a href="http://sfacchannel.blogspot.com/2016/06/exotify-elsewhere-at-hands-down-gallery.html">Exotify Elsewhere</a></i> group show in the Bayview earlier this year. Kayla was showing original pieces she made that were included in her zine, <i>Jaded, Jaded, Jaded</i>. In that zine she shares anecdotes from her experiences on an extended backpacking trip in Asia last year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kayla Quan was born in South San Francisco and grew up between San Diego and SF. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz last year she spent five months in Asia before coming back to San Francisco to live and work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kayla's work comes from her own experience - being Asian American and a woman. She has self published multiple zines with a spectrum of content, from being Asian American, public sexual harassment, and text as tool to empower people she identifies with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her work includes as much writing as they do illustrations. With her printmaking background, Kayla creates work in collage, painting, and various print methods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recently met with Kayla to talk about her work and traveling Asia. Read the interview and view more photos below.</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC:</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">Can tell us about where you grew up, the impressions from your childhood environment, and your relationship to the Bay Area?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Kayla Quan: </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">I grew up in the Bay Area and Orange County. This answer always kinds of confuses people because of geographic distance between the two places, but put simply: I’m a product of divorced parents. I was born in San Francisco, CA and spent my early childhood in the Bay Area—Daly City, South San Francisco, And San Mateo. When I was in 6th grade my mother moved me and my 2 siblings to Irvine, California, where I then spent my middle school to high school years. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When I first moved to Irvine, I hated it. Since I was a little Bay Area baby, I was taught to hate LA. I’m not really sure why the dichotomy between LA and SF exist so strongly, but it was instilled in me at a young age to dislike LA ( and LA basically equated to all of Southern California haha). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But Orange County eventually grew on me. Some of my first friends in 6th grade became a group of skater boiz and I adopted the identity of a skater girl with very limited skateboarding skills. I always had love for the Bay Area though. My mom tried her best to make sure I got to see my dad on a semi-regular basis, so we’d drive from Irvine to San Mateo once a month, and every summer until the end of high school I would spend at least a couple weeks living with my dad. The drives were always long and daunting and hard on my mom, but I always considered my trips to the bay as trips back home. Home eventually became Irvine as well, but I always felt like a weird outsider there. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC: </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">Your parents grew up in SF. I'm sure you heard a bunch of stories from their past here and seen photos. Any standout stories you can share with us? Your grandparents even went to high school here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span> </b><span style="font-size: large;">My dad was an SF bad boi, graft dude. He had a pretty rough childhood and was also innately artistic, so he started writing at a young age and eventually became really involved in the early graft scene in San francisco. He used to run with TMF. I’ve heard some pretty mainey stories about my dad’s wild party boy days. I’ve made a print about my dad actually. There’s a picture of him with a mullet and lipstick drawings all over his face. My dad is featured as one of the pioneers of graffiti in SF, you can check out the documentary “piece by piece.” My parents are really young—they were only 20 and 21 when they first had my eldest sibling. I often think about my parents and their younger years. They were little babies raising other little babies. My sister had a keg at her first birthday party. My mom used to drink 40oz every day of her single year of high school, and one time some guy challenged her to a drinking match. This guy bet his car on the fact that women couldn’t drink. My mom took him up on his challenge and I guess they drank until they passed out and whoever woke up first won. My mom ended up winning but didn’t take the dude’s pink slip for his car. </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC:</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">Can you describe you backpacking trip you did in Asia last year? Why did you decide to spend some time there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span> </b><span style="font-size: large;">I think moving around when I was younger instilled deep angst feelings of needing to travel to find place and purpose. I definitely outgrew those feelings of traveling for escapist reasons, or traveling to find out who I am, but I still held on to the belief that traveling is important for the sole reason of seeing shit. I guess I still had other angsty and unresolved questions in myself that I wanted to sort out post grad, like: how do I know where I want to move next and be happy moving there if I haven’t even begun to see a fraction of the world? I definitely still romanticized the notion of being somewhere far away and falling in love with another place that was beyond my framework of mind but those feelings also dissipated a couple weeks into travel. I had to check myself while traveling—I asked myself: how am I contributing to the gross exotification or othering of lands I’ve never been to? What kind of privileges do I have while traveling as a US born citizen and what space do I take up being an english speaker with no other language skills? Other questions I had was, “what is it like to be an Asian american in Asia? What is it like to visit my motherland? Why did my grandparents leave their homes to come to US? What can I learn from existing in places where the majority of people look like me? What does it really mean to exist as person in a globalized society? In what ways am I contributing to and operating under capitalistic confines while traveling?” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Traveling was really grounding and challenging. I was with a friend for 2 months and by myself for 3 and a half months. Being alone and so far away from home was a liberating experience in a lot of ways, but it was also really isolating. There are a lot of hours in the day when you don’t have responsibilities to anyone but yourself. Learning how to check-in with yourself and depend yourself as the only person to get your needs met can be pretty lonely, especially when those around you don’t share the same first language. I went to 7 different countries in 5.5 months. I saved up money used pretty much all of my savings to fund this extensive trip. I don’t really know what in me said I had to do such a long trip, but it’s always just been one of those things that i had to do for myself, otherwise I would’ve always wondered, what if? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I’m definitely aware of how lucky I am to have had an extensive period of travel. I’m a first generation college graduate with city parents that don’t like camping, and “ backpacking" isn’t something that’s even in their vocabulary. Being so far away from my loved ones for an extended period of time, really helped me define my roots. I was never able to say fully that I felt like I was Asian-enough, or that I was a POC enough, or that i was even “American”, because i always had people trying to tell me otherwise. But coming back I can say confidently that my experience is unique and that I really identify as being Asian American. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">KQ: </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">The internet is this mind blowing thing that allows you to connect with humans that you never even knew existed in the world haha. I signed up for workaway.org and had this really wonderful experience of living/working on a farm for free for a month. The whole idea behind work away is that you get to travel and trade your labor for accommodations (and sometimes meals too if you’re lucky). I stayed in sichuan province on a farm. Instead of doing actual farm work, I got to start my own project. There was this little wooden shack next to one of the lakes on the farm property that the farm owners eventually wanted to turn into a cafe for visitors and other volunteers. I got to pick out all the colors and choose my own creative direction. The only thing the farm owners requested was that I painted something nature themed. So I got to paint and drink 1% Chinese beer while this little dog named Tudou (potato) kept me company all day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a period of time where no other volunteers lived on the farm and the only english speaking farmer workers left. The peace was nice, but I also grew to appreciate the ability to communicate your feelings through full articulation of words. The cafe turned out to be really cute if I do say so myself. I also got to choose furniture for the inside of it and put little bar stools on the outside of it. I choose tradition Chinese fabric for curtains on the inside and hung plants to soften the all wood interior. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC:</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">What are somethings you took away from that trip? How did your experiences affect you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span> </b><span style="font-size: large;">I’m still processing my trip. I don’t really have all the answers to a lot of my questions. I’m also trill trying to navigate talking about my experiences without sounding like a pretentious brat. I did meet some wonderful and kind people along the way, but majority of the time I ran into people that I clashed with, and that was a really humbling experience for me. I learned that I’m kind of a homebody and that I get excited and motivated by surrounding myself with people I love. I often spread myself too thin, and would say that I have multiple communities of people and friends, but while traveling I couldn’t really get down with the rest of the backpacking scene. I couldn’t help but feel problematic a lot of the time. I do best when I allow myself to settle down in a place long enough to build relationships. I’m learning how to take things slowly and to not be anxious and not worrying about what I should or shouldn’t be doing. All that free time while away gave me space to deconstruct all the ways I’ve been conditioned to buy into certain societal prescriptions. Most of the ideals I’ve been fed have been based around pretty heteronormative, conventional, and linear progressions into adulthood and career decisions. I don’t know, mostly I learned that I think too fuckin much. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC:</span> </b><span style="font-size: large;">From reading your zine </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Jaded Jaded Jaded</i><span style="font-size: large;">, you were hyper aware of the relationships between you as an Asian American woman - in Asia as a traveler, your white traveling partners, and the locals. It must have been a bit of a shock to actually have those conversations and experiences in 2015, and now here. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">KQ: </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">I titled my zine "Jaded, Jaded, Jaded" because I was being facetious, but I’m not entirely kidding around anymore. I’m learning how to transform my frustration away from exhaustion and more towards learning how to practice patience with people. It;s really exhausting being a POC and feeling the need to teach people how to ask us the right questions (and honestly, it’s not your job to assume that responsibility if you don’t want to) but I just see it as like, if I can’t practice loving kindness or believe in transformation through dialogue then what is there to hope for, ya know? I literally had Chinese men tell me that I wasn’t Chinese because I didn’t speak Chinese. And I guess I leaned how to surrender and just be like, ya well I do have Chinese heritage in my blood, but I can see why you would say that because I look like you but can’t communicate with you.. but here we are, hi. Overall, I’ve learned that I can’t expect people to understand where I’m coming from right off the bat because they only know their own experiences through the lens of their own positionalites, and the same goes for me. </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC:</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">You work in a variety of mediums, coverings several ideas, emphasizing personal experiences. Your work is narrative driven through your memories of lived experiences. Your perspective is unique, but shared with other people with similar backgrounds - More of us are doing work via our individual lens. This kind of work is important because it tells a story that certain people can relate to and connect with that hasn't been shared before through art. It is important because our identities are important, because of the histories the generations previous have lived - excluded, mistreated, punished etc, and that experience still trails among poc in various ways today. </span><br />
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A photo of Kayla's grandmother.</div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> I totally agree. I often questions what’s the point of making art. Is art just a means of letting people who experience trauma articulate and release their feelings? Do we make art just to be seen? Is is totally narcissistic to be an artist? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took a lithography class one summer at UCSC, and my professor, Paul Rangel, ended the class with some words of advice. He told us all that if we want to be better artists, we have to develop our heroes. Developing artistic heroes is actually something that I often have a hard time articulating--maybe because of the art I consume in galleries and museums don't always look like the kind of work that I'm producing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say I look at art and I'm not inspired--I definitely am. However, sometimes I look at fine art and wonder if I should be producing work in a different style. Making art in general has always been something I've had a lot of resistance towards because for a long time I told myself that I'd never be an artist. My parents never told me what I should or shouldn't be but I was always encouraged to do something along the lines of nursing or physical therapy. I joined the art department kinda late in my college career. </span><br />
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Art in Kayla's room by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rotten.betty/">Sarah Hornsby.</a></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> I've been encouraged to write comic books and graphic novels. I wrote a graphic novel called "PLZ don't luv me: a graphic. Novel about the disappointing messiness of human relationships" haha it was a short lithograph booklet I made...basically talking about how I feel emotional unavailable and unwilling to date anyone. It's cute and sad and kinda funny but mostly true. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My friend just let me borrrow his Ines Estrada "Lapsos" book. I'm trying to find the confidence to make longer projects. I've got some ideas brewing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC:</span> </b><span style="font-size: large;">There is humor in your work, because you are sharing your honest experiences. But its pretty much just ridiculous the way people treat different people - and white privilege is so global.</span></span><br />
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Spread from<i> Jaded, Jaded, Jaded</i>. </div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">I deal best with the world in general when I allow myself to find comedic relief in awful happenings. I grew up in a family that capped on each other pretty relentlessly, and although I will say that joking about people’s emotions isn’t the most productive or healthy means of coping by any means, I will say that it’s shaped me and my views of the world. I’m constantly contradicting myself by finding new ways to build myself up while simultaneously acting out in self-depreicating ways. I have a lot of sad girl thoughts, but I brush them off by not taking myself too seriously. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">A lot of my zines have been made in really crude ways—totally hand made. My first zine I ever made was for a class where I cut out magazines and cut out my drawings form my notebooks and cut, pasted, and scanned them together. I got a degree in art but honestly have never taken a class on design or have been formally taught computer skills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do have to say that I love <a href="http://www.ratio3.org/artists/margaret-kilgallen/images">Margaret Kilgallen</a>--and her art is definitely inspired by folk art. Someone wrote in my Senior Show guest book that my art/ gallery installations looked had Mission School aesthetics and that was a huge compliment. That comment also illuminated to me that I wasn't even conscious really of what styles shaped my art. I was unconsciously making work that embodied work of the artists that first taught me it was ok to make weird faces, doodles in an illustrative style, and text work. I didn't know what the Mission School was who was a part of it until my friends in NYC had me watch "Beautiful Losers" with them. This was my junior year of college. My dad had a Berry Mcgee book at our house that I used to skim through as a young teenager and he also used to talk to me about REM (aka the horse lady aka Ruby Neri), so I've known that some of those cats were around, but didn't actually make the connection that they were all making art together until much later. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC:</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> Moving back to San Francisco, how does it feel for you? This is a question that comes up a lot with people and I, about the changes and circumstances of today. Especially since you have generations of family that lived here before and now you live here and are a working artist. The city is a newer experience for you coming here sometime after college, it's not like the stories you were told when your parents were growing up here. I bet your living situation is not what you imaged it would be like when you wanted to move here. You mentioned that SF feels nostalgic.</span><br />
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With Kayla in her home-studio.</div>
<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">KQ:</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">I have a lot of contentious feelings about being in SF. My parents and grandparents have lived in city for years but everyones pretty much moved away from it. My great-grandparents still live on Irving, but for myself personally this is the longest I've ever lived in the city ( 4 months). I have a lot of weird feelings about trying to make a place for myself when so many other long-standing residents are holding on tightly to their city with whatever place-keeping tactics they are utilizing. It’s been a pretty sad summer in general, I mean weather wise its been gloomy here most days, and in terms of people dying—its been a real sad 2016. I don’t like placing the blame on one individual group, but honestly I feel the effects of the tech industry heavy in the city. SF is such a tiny tiny city that effects of the tech boom are pretty unshakable. I used to drive into the city as a little girl with my dad and I would get butterflies in my stomach every time i got to see the city skyline. sf feels like its becoming culturally sterilized and bought out by more affluent people coming in and changing the landscape of the city. I don’t get those butterflies or feelings of giddiness anymore. I will always have love for this city, but things have been funky lately. I can’t place my finger on what exactly makes me feel sad about the city, its definitely a combination of things, but mostly I feel like its not my place to talk about the city changing when I don’t even know how to use the muni without looking at google maps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another thing I’m working on is curating a group show called “Confessions.” I want to create a space for artist to reveal some sort of intimate reflection or articulation of a thought that they might not be so outwardly comfortable in sharing with people outside of the context of their art process. I’ve been toying with idea of making a zine called “Letters I never sent, All the shit I never said,” and it would comprised of intimate letters I wrote to people but never had the courage to tell any of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Kayla for sharing your work and speaking with us. Keep up with Kayla's work by visiting her <a href="http://cargocollective.com/kaylaquan">website</a> and following her on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/quantitiess/">@quantitiess</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/5: </b><i>Traces</i> by Lindsey Lyons, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nathalie Brilliant, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Helga Hizer at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/980513632071762/">Adobe Books Backroom Gallery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/5:</b> <i>Bruise</i> & Document Presents at <a href="http://etaletc.com/#/">Et Al etc</a>. Bruise features work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Facundo Argañaraz, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Peter Bonde, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ry David Bradley, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Chris Hood, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Alex Ito, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Adrianne Rubentein. Document Presents features work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Elizabeth Atterbury, </span><span style="font-size: large;">James Collins, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sterling Lawrence.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/11:</b> Will and Be Going To at <a href="http://altmansiegel.com/">Altman Siegal</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Zarouhie Abdalian, Nate Boyce, Jessica Dickinson, Shannon Ebner, Liam Everett, Laeh Glenn, Chris Johanson, Matt Keegan, Shinpei Kusanagi, Devin Leonardi, K.r.m. Mooney, Alex Olson, Trevor Paglen, Will Rogan, Sara VanDerBeek and Emily Wardill.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 1150 25th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/11:</b> <i>Colossal Errors & Major Mistakes</i> by Joram Roukes at <a href="http://www.mirusgallery.com/">Mirus Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 540 Howard St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, 3030 20th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/12:</b> Yolanda Lopez Talk & Art Workshop at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/310940589287077/">herchurch</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2-3:34pm, 678 Portola Dr, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/12:</b> <i>We're Together</i> group show at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1809062962710380/">Good Mother Gallery</a>. Curated by Grant </span><span style="font-size: large;">Gutierrez . Featuring work by Mario Ayala, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Vinnie Smith, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sahar Khoury, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Francesco Deiana, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Julia Leonard, </span><span style="font-size: large;">James Chronister, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Casey Gray, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Hanan Sharifa, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew Carignan, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Chiara Sbolci, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Chelsea Wong, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Justin Mata, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nathan Harris, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Rene Lopez, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Casey Jones.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 408 13th St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/12: </b>Winter Group Show at <a href="http://www.athenbgallery.com/calendar/2016/wintergroupexhibition">Athen B. Gallery</a>. Featuring work by </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Barnes, Brett</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Flanigan, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Bunnie Reiss, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Christopher Burch, </span><span style="font-size: large;">David Bray, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Erin M. Reily, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ian Johnson, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ileana Tejada, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kate Klingbeil, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kevin Umana, </span><span style="font-size: large;">LaurenNapolitano, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Muzae Sesay, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nicomi Nix Turner, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Winnie Truong, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Word To Mother, and more.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, 1525 Webster St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/12:</b> <i>You Must Be New Here / You Must Be No where</i> by Alexandra Phelps at <a href="http://www.alterspace.gallery/alexandra-phelps-you-must/">Alter Space - Peephole Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 1158 Howard St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/12:</b> <i>Copypasta</i> by Adam Beris, William Emmert & Isaac Vazquez Avila at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/shows/copypasta">Guerrero Gallery</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1465 Custer Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/12:</b> Deedee Cheriel & Frohawk Two Feathers at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1611281552501779/">Campfire Gallery</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/17: </b><i>We've Been Here</i> at <a href="http://rucha%20chitnis%20ilka%20hartmann%20joel%20angel%20juarez%20shane%20menez%20lala%20openi%20hulleah%20tsinhnahjinnie/">Associate Students Art Gallery</a>(SF State). Featuring work by Rucha Chitnis, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ilka Hartmann, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Joel Angel Juarez, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Shane Menez, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lala Openi, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie. Also featuring Chulita Vinyl Club.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-8pm, 1650 Holloway Blvd (SF State Cesar Chaves Student Center), San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/18: </b>Yung Jake - A Lecture at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yung-jake-a-lecture-tickets-26870173412?aff=utm_source%3Deb_email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnew_event_email&utm_term=eventurl_text">SFAI</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4:30-6pm, 800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11/18:</b> <i>Bobby Pin</i> by Lisa Rybovich Cralle and Grace Rosario Perkins at <a href="http://studiospace.gallery/post/151310105170/bobbypin">Studio/Space</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/6: </b><i>Local Resource</i>, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cca.edu/calendar/2016/local-resource-community-exhibition">CCA Hubbell Street Galleries Opening</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5:30-8pm, 161 Hubbell Street, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/7:</b> <i>A Promise Not to Forget: Día de los Muertos 2016 </i>at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-promise-not-to-forget-dia-de-los-muertos-2016-exhibition-unveiling-tickets-27613362310">SOMArts</a>. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-promise-not-to-forget-dia-de-los-muertos-2016-exhibition-unveiling-tickets-27613362310">Tickets $12-15 sliding scale, here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/7:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1810138702594350/">Leisure Rules Pop-Up shop</a> at Voyager. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 365 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/8:</b> <i>Farewell San Francisco</i> by Spencer Keeton Cunningham at <a href="http://heronarts.com/community/farewell-san-francisco">Heron Arts</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 7 Heron St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/8:</b> <i>Shapes In Space</i> by Lena Wolff at <a href="http://www.needles-pens.com/news/lena-wolffs-shapes-space/">Needles & Pens</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6:30-9:30pm, 1173 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/8:</b> Born Goofy by Paul McNeil at <a href="https://mollusksurfshop.com/blogs/news/born-goofy-an-exhibition-by-paul-mcneil">Mollusk Surf Shop</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/9:</b> <a href="http://sitesunseen.org/about/">Sites Unseen Launch Party</a>. New mural by Barry McGee. + Projects by Fallen Fruit, Ramekon O'Arwisters, and Leah Rosenberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3-6pm, Moscone Center Garage (255 3rd St), San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/14: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/546026252253469/">Art Night SF</a> at the UN Plaza. The series of art centric events is a collaboration between local artists, makers, museums, arts nonprofits, city agencies and independent artists, vendors, educators and anyone with the collective aim of publicly championing the arts in San Francisco.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/14:</b> <i>Wish You Were Here</i> by Day Dreamers Limited at <a href="http://www.ell-sf.com/exhibition">Ell SF</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5:30-9pm, 670 Commercial St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/14:</b> <i>Debris: 30 Years of Skate and Music Photos</i> by Bernie McGinn at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/337002639966552/">Nowheresvile Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 483 14th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/15: </b><i>A Pot Is a Pot Is a Pot Is a Pot </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">by Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/174162076346169/">Good Mother Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6pm, 408 13th St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/15:</b> <i>Casual Decline</i> by Cannon Dill at <a href="http://www.athenbgallery.com/blog/pressrelease/casualdecline/cannondill">Athen B. Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, 1525 Webster St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/15:</b> <i>In The Same River Twice</i> by Erik Parra at <a href="http://www.statespacesf.com/erik-parra/">State</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 1295 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/15: </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">Terry Powers, Taravat Talepasand & John DeFazio at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/shows/terry-powers-3">Guerrero Gallery</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1465 Custer Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/16:</b> Fall Open House at <a href="http://www.headlands.org/event/fall-open-house-4/">Headlands Center for the Arts</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12-5pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">944 Simmonds Rd, Sausalito, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/16:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/248225052239468/">Zinefest at Folio Books</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1-3pm, 3957 24th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/21: </b><i>Release Me</i> by Rebekah Goldstein at <a href="http://cultexhibitions.com/">Cult Exhibitions</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">3191 Mission St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/22:</b> The Book Was Better Film Festival by <a href="http://www.shopbookshop.com/pages/the-book-was-better-film-festival">Book/Shop</a> (Oakland), Film Screenings. More Info soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/22: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1815697838660647/">The BayviewLIVE Festival</a>. BayviewLIVE, a festival created to address the digital divide by leveraging resources to support tech education for neighborhood youth will welcome Grammy Award nominated artist, Jidenna, a large scale mural lead by artist Cameron Moberg and youth artists from the Mural Music & Arts Project. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12-7pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Egbert Avenue between Third and Jennings, Bayview.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10/23:</b> Passport 2016: Chinatown. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (SFAC Galleries) is hosting its signature event, Passport, on Sunday, October 23, 2016. This unique event puts the art collecting experience in the hands of the general public. By bringing local artists into neighborhood venues, Passport attendees can “create” their own limited-edition artist’s book by collecting original, artist-designed stamps in a customized “passport” notebook. Walking throughout Chinatown, hundreds of do-it-yourself art collectors will follow a designated route to collect stamps from hot Bay Area artists while discovering the small businesses that line one of the Mayor’s Invest in Neighborhoods corridors.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Seventeen emerging and established artists will be participating this year including: Kayan Cheung-Miaw,Richard Colman, Dragon School, Ala Ebtekar, Adam Feibelman, Mik Gaspay, Tanja Geis, Cathy Lu, Terry Luk, Monica Lundy, Mads Lynnerup,Golbanou Moghaddas, Ramekon O'Arwisters, Johanna Poethig, Xiaoxiao Zeng, Julia Goodman, and a stamp by Hung Liu. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/passport-2016-chinatown-tickets-27616688258">Tickets + $25</a>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09450379061257405469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986919822874018770.post-51030974131866453852016-09-21T19:46:00.000-07:002016-09-21T22:03:05.619-07:00Ricki Dwyer: Interview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was recently introduced to the summer activities of artist Ricki Dwyer, including their time as weaving faculty for the Black Mountain School, printmaking faculty for The Oxbow School, a residency at Front/Space in Kansas City, and the tour for their embroidery project <i>Tim Kerr Made Me Do It</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ricki Dwyer grew up in the Bay Area, has lived in various regions, graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in Fiber Arts. And has now been living in Chinatown for three years working as a teacher, bar tender and artist. Ricki is finishing the tour of their embroidery project <i>Tim Kerr Made Me Do It</i> with a San Francisco performance at <a href="http://www.atasite.org/?p=11079">Artist Television Access</a> this Friday night 9/23 -with music and video by Shea Cote and Ian Vanek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I met with Ricki to talk about their recently project and summer experience. See the interview and photos below.</span></div>
<a name='more'></a><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC: </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">How did you have the idea for your embroidery project <i>Tim Kerr Made Me Do It</i>?</span><span style="font-size: large;">How did hearing <a href="http://www.timkerr.net/home.htm">Tim Kerr</a> speak encourage you to begin this project?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ricki Dwyer: </b>Tim Kerr came to speak [at Black Mountain School] and we all sat on these funny rocking chairs on a giant open deck at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He hung out to answer questions on existing as an artist, and had the best rant about the need for visual artists to go on the tour. Maybe I was punch-drunk on Black Mountain School at this point, or it was the romantic setting, but it made the most sense. This project came directly from that night. A few other things stuck out as well, mostly he just held such a sense of extreme satisfaction. He presented with such certainty and freedom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>What were some of your highlights this summer during your tour for the project? Any particular places you enjoyed, awesome people you met, interesting tattoos you embroidered?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RD: </b>I got a lot of people talking about their relationships which was funny, people really wanted to hash up the significance of their tattoos. Which I was all for, it was great having the process replicate getting that tattoo the first time, in a dark way. People were always very thrown off when I had my sewing machine in a bar, I got a couple of requests to fix clothes and bags, which was funny in a different way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think my favorite tattoo so far was the word BATSKANK on someone's thigh, but mostly because of how crazy excited they were to share it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">SFACC: </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">Your work with textiles includes ways to communicate and engage with other people directly. Do you think of ways to directly incorporate interactions with people, or is that more of a natural result that you don't always think about before?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RD: </b>Well yea I think most of my projects come from wanting to talk about something, and producing objects as a result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bill Daniels's <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/10832738">Bozo Texino</a></i> embroidered tattoo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>Since you are there with people when you are embroidering their tattoos is it a sort of performance to you? Or not in the ways of a performance art piece, but more in the sense of how musicians perform? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RD: </b>It gives me an excuse to be on a private date in the middle of the crowd. It's performative sure, but it's a stage for two. I think it's worked best so far in proximity to a larger show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>Tattoos are personal and intimate, especially when you are getting the tattoo - did it also feel that way when you were doing the embroidery and learning about the tattoo?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RD: </b>Yea absolutely, I got some good gossip out of this project. And a couple invitations to festivals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC:</b> Its interesting, the idea that people are "giving you" their tattoo, to make into a patch and then someone else will wear it on their person. What are your thoughts about the sharing, wearing, translation of the tattoo into another medium, part of your project? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RD: </b>The real dream is to walk down the street and see your ex's, roommate's, brother's, back piece on some stranger's jacket. I think the conversation those folks would have is part of this project too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SFACC: </b>What will you do for your part of <a href="http://www.atasite.org/?p=11079"><i>Three Freaks</i> at ATA</a> this Friday? How will you end your tour for this project?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RD: </b>I'm really excited about the show at ATA, I'll be doing one last pop-up with my sewing machine. Two incredible people, Shea Cote and Ian Vanek, are going to be performing music and video as well. I'll have all the patches I made this summer up, arranged by city, and people can take them based on location. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ricki Dwyer, wearing a vest with embroidered tattoos in front of their Chinatown apartment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RD: </b>I get to spend November in Joshua Tree weaving at <a href="http://www.zittel.org/">Andrea Zittel</a>'s space. That should be a really magical time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Big thanks to Ricki for talking to us and sharing their work. See <i><a href="http://www.atasite.org/?p=11079">Three Freaks</a></i> at Artist Television Access on Valencia in San Francisco on Friday 9/23 - 8pm, $7 at the door. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To keep up with Ricki Dwyer and their work follow them on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rickipickle/">@rickipickle</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/8:</b> <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1469407079742769/">the token show</a></i> at Swell Gallery, curated by Diana Li and Co-presented by SFAI's Committee on Diversity & Equity. Featuring work by Mariela Montero, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Paolo Salazar, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Manny Robertson, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Diana Li, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Alysia Davis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">2565 Third Street (second floor), San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/9: </b><i>Momentos Divinos </i>by <a href="http://www.crystalmillan.com/">Crystal Millán</a> and <a href="http://www.moniqueislam.com/">Monique Islam</a> at Arbor Cafe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 4210 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/9:</b> <i>Psyche Shade</i> by Amy Feldman at <a href="http://www.ratio3.org/">Ratio 3</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/9: </b><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/294137070944320/">Om, I'm Home</a> </i>at Luggage Store Gallery, curated by Kat Geng. Featuring work by Marcela Pardo Ariza, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Katie Benn, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Erlin Geffrard, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Margot Rada, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jon Levy-Warren, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Li, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Milo Moyer-Battick, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kyle Knobel, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jonah Goldsaito, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Clarence, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Katrina Goldsaito, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jenny Sharaf, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kat Geng.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-9pm, 1007 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/9:</b> <i>soft like boundaries</i> by <a href="http://www.sofieramos.com/">Sofie Ramos</a> at <a href="http://www.thegrowlery.org/events/2016/8/6/sofie-ramos-closing-reception">The Growlery</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 235 Broderick St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/10:</b> <i>In Passing</i> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/542977589240653/">Good Mother Gallery</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Henry Fey, Bryon Christman, Alicia Mccarthy Pablo De Pinho, and Oliver Hawk Holden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-11pm, 408 13th St, Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/10: </b><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1672657916385615/">Verse Verse Chorus</a></i><b> </b>by Chelsea Wong and Tim Cohen at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, curated by Matt Gonzalez. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 3130 24th Street, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/10:</b> <i>Infinity Cove </i>by Leah Beeferman and Kristine Eudey at <a href="http://www.bassandreiner.com/infinity-cove-1/">Bass & Rainer</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/14: </b><a href="https://mcam.mills.edu/events/">Fall 2016 Exhibitions at the Mills College Art Museum</a>, <i>Root Connection: 20 Years of The Patti Smith Collection</i> and <i>The 96th Ritual (for Anna Halrpin). </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">5000 MacArthur Blvd, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oakland, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/14:</b><i> #RandomReadings</i> hosted by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nigel Poor at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/311472345893834/">FraenkelLAB</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6:30-8pm, 2 Rose St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/14:</b> <a href="http://shapingsf.org/public-talks/index.html#hp">Shaping SF Public Talks</a>: Hunter's Point Uprising, 50 Years Later, at 518 Valencia: The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7:30-9:30pm, 518 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/17:</b> <i>A Roving Woman</i> by Teryn Brown at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1557961884513768/">UFO Gallery</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 1833 Harmon St, Berkeley, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/17:</b> Zine Fest at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1731933053754705/#">Eat Trill</a> hosted by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/furballcollective/">Fur Ball Collective</a>. Featuring, Jankzine, DopeDopeDope, BFF.FM, Christy Osorio, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mellyg14k/">MellyG14K</a>, Nightedlife, and more.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">11-5pm, 601 Mission Bay Blvd, San Francisco, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/23:</b> <i>Three Freaks</i> at <a href="http://www.atasite.org/?p=11079">Artist Television Access</a>. Featuring Ian Vanek, Cherry Pop 5, and Ricki Dwyer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8pm, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco. $7 at door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/24:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">LPP+ Residency: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/679720562177251/">Tom Comitta / Closing Reading</a> at Et al etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-6pm, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/27: </b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-families-town-hall-tickets-27399831634">Arts and Families Town Hall</a> at YBCA. This November San Franciscans will be making watershed decisions on a vision for our city. Historic ballot measures could address the most urgent issues of housing and homelessness while ensuring stable and increased funding for artists and arts groups serving every neighborhood.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Come join the conversation at YBCA theater and learn how you can make a difference in making this vision of a just an the arts thrive and every family has a home. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 700 Howard St, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9/28:</b> <a href="http://shapingsf.org/public-talks/index.html#bso">Shaping SF Public Talks:</a> Art & Politics—Jenny Odell, at 518 Valencia: The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7:30-9:30pm, 518 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">9/30: </b><a href="http://www.artnightsf.com/" style="font-size: x-large;">Art Night SF</a><span style="font-size: large;"> at the UN Plaza. The series of art centric events is a collaboration between local artists, makers, museums, arts nonprofits, city agencies and independent artists, vendors, educators and anyone with the collective aim of publicly championing the arts in San Francisco.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-9pm, UN Plaza at Civic Center. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09450379061257405469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986919822874018770.post-20296843221699371192016-09-02T13:20:00.003-07:002016-09-02T13:20:57.677-07:00The Book Was Better Film Festival by Book/Shop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you've ever walked into Oakland-based <a href="http://www.shopbookshop.com/">Book/Shop</a>, then you know it is a gem for art books and literature lovers, offering a range of vintage and harder to find printed materials. Book/Shop engages their community and organizes public programs through their blog, printed newsletters, and public talks. Last year they put on their first annual film festival, called The Book Was Better Film Festival, where short film submissions were based on a chapter or section of a book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For their second annual <i>The Book Was Better Film Festival</i>, <a href="http://www.shopbookshop.com/">Book/Shop</a> has partnered with <a href="http://vsco.co/">VSCO</a>, who will host screenings of the submission finalists in their East Coast/West Coast offices - at VSCO NYC on October 15, and at VSCO HQ in Oakland, CA on October 22. Book/Shop will hold events during the days leading up to the screening, and prizes will be awarded in several categories, including best use of dialogue, best animation, and others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Submit one short film based on one chapter from a book. Anyone from anywhere in the world can enter a film, but your entry must be AN ORIGINAL WORK, must be UNDER 6 MINUTES, and must be based on ONE CHAPTER OF A BOOK (or one section, one poem, one scene, etc.). It can be any kind of book (a novel, cookbook, encyclopedia, anything!), but the book should be a published work, available for someone to find in a library or for purchase (the idea of the festival is to use film to lead people to good books!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Book/Shop welcomes submissions from anywhere in the world, but any spoken or written words be presented in English or include English subtitles. Films must be submitted DIGITALLY to info@shopbookshop.com. You can submit larger files via Dropbox, WeSendIt or other services of your choice. Submissions must be received by midnight PST, SEPTEMBER 30th, 2016. So start shooting your film!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For updates by Book/Shop visit their <a href="http://www.shopbookshop.com/">website</a> and follow them on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bookshopoakland/">@bookshopoakland</a>.</span></div>
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<b>New ceramic work by Kate Klingbeil in the Second Annual 4%ers Group Show curated by Rachel Ralph, opens August 13 at Athen B. Gallery in Oakland. </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/5:</b> <i>Dialect</i> at <a href="http://www.111minnagallery.com/august-d-i-a-l-e-c-t-a-type-based-group-exhibition/#more-20810">111 Minna Gallery</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Marcos LaFarga, Andrew Lawrence (Gentlemen Scholar Signs) Isaac S. Lewin, Annica Lydenberg (Dirty Bandits), and Alphonzo Solorzano.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5-11:30pm, 111 Minna St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/5:</b> <i>Energy Descriptions </i>by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Julianna Bright at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1810086822557846/">Needles & Pens</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/6: </b><i>Shaky Towns</i> at <a href="http://www.alterspace.gallery/summer-2016/">Alter Space</a>. Featuring work by Ariana Papademetropoulos, Charlie Leese, James Georgopoulos, James Gobel, Joe McKee, Kim Ye, Marcela Pardo Ariza, Mario Ayala, Nick Makanna, Rachel LaBine, Ryan Perez, Ross Simonini, Sam Spano, and Willy Reed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 1158 Howard St, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/10: </b>Random Readings hosted by <a href="https://nikolasescudero.bandcamp.com/">Nikolas Escudero</a> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/489460354595122/">FraenkleLAB</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6:30-8pm, 1632 Market St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/12:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1760213544225325/">Macao x San Francisco Art of Illustration Exhibition</a></i> at Little Lodge. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Featuring new works by west coast artists:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Jeff Cheung, Carly Dooling, Sanaa Khan, Leah Labrador, Louise Leong, Cynthia Navarro, Melody Overstreet, Kenneth Srivijitakkar, Max Stadnik, and Lynora Valdez</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Featuring new works by Macau artists: Crystal Chan; Big Ear Cow; Dor Liu; Joao Jorge Magalhaes; Julia Lam; Karen Yung; Lin Ge; Molly; Yolanda Kog; Lan Chiang.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 1306 12th Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/12</b>: <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/116605302110142/">Beyond The Abyss</a></i> at Bar Basic. Featuring work by Jen Boonyalug</span><span style="font-size: large;">, Steph Canlas, Joan Karissa Gallego, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Adrina Goglanian, Derek Macario, and Lexi Martinez.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 510 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/13:</b> <i><a href="http://www.athenbgallery.com/calendar/4percenters">2nd Annual 4%ers Exhibition</a></i> curated by Rachel Ralph at Athen B. Gallery. Featuring work by Alexandra Levasseur, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Andrea Wan, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Angela Fox, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Anne Harris, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Beryl Fine, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Erin Riley, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Hanna Yata</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ileana Tejada, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kate Klingbeil, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kit King, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lauren YS, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Marina Capdevila, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Meryl Pataky, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nicomi Nix Turner, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Noel Morica, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Rebecca Morgan, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sheryo, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Stacey Rozich, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Winnie Truong.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7pm, 1525 Webster St, Oakland, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/13:</b> <i>Pool Crashers</i> by Sean-McGee Phetsarath and Aaron Rivera at <a href="http://www.campfiregallery.com/pool-crashers/">Campfire Gallery</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7-10pm, 3344 24th St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/15:</b> <a href="http://littlepaperplanes.com/exhibition-full/175-LPP-Residency">LPP+ Residency:</a> A Conversation around Women Artists, with Caroline and Tricia of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/women_artists/">Women Artists</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8pm, 1240 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/19:</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Summer Pool Edition: SgraffiMart & Zine Fair at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1749943291953826/">Sgaffito</a>. Featuring Brendan Page </span><span style="font-size: large;">Zach Ozma, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Raphael Villet, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Courtney Riddle, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Maya Gulassa, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Rosa Novak, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ara Jo, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Em Meine, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Chiara Sbolci, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Giulietta Wertz-Best.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3-9pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">3635 San Pablo Ave, Emeryville, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/19:</b> <i>A Bird That Whistles</i> at <a href="http://studiospace.gallery/post/146002056480/abirdthatwhistles">Studio/Space</a>. Featuring work by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Mia Christopher, Jamie Felton, Christie Yuri Noh, Justine Rivas, Pablo de Pinho, and Aidan Koch.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-8pm, 1015 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/19:</b> <i>Non Non Violence</i> at <a href="http://guerrerogallery.com/shows/non-non-violence">Guerrero Gallery</a>. Featuring work by</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Bayeté Ross Smith, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Diedrick Brackens, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Libby Black, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Margot Rada</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Schoultz, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nick Van Woert, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cheryl Pope, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kenneth P. Green Sr., </span><span style="font-size: large;">Mario Ayala, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sofie Ramos.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, 1465 Custer Ave, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/19:</b> <i>Eva Hesse</i> at Roxie Theater. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7pm, 3117 16th St, San Francisco. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/eva-hesse/?instance_id">*Plays through 8/25, t</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/eva-hesse/?instance_id">ickets $12</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/20:</b> <i>Across From Us </i>by T.W. Five at <a href="http://www.statespacesf.com/new-page-1/">State Space</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-9pm, </span><span style="font-size: large;">1295 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8/20:</b> <i>Black Mail Pt.2</i> at <a href="http://www.space236sf.com/exhibits/">Space236</a>. Featuring work by A Guy Called West, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Adrian Walker, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Alex Frantz Ghassan, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Benjamin Michel, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Bobby English Jr., </span><span style="font-size: large;">Chris Martin, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Christopher Burch, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Davon Foots, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Deph Khan, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Emmanual Blackwell, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Joonbug, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Michael Covington, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Muzae Sesay, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nobody, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Wardell McNeal, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Xxsavier Edward Carter, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Yoni Asega.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6-10pm, 236 Leavenworth St, San Francisco, CA.</span><br />
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