Summer of Art at United Nations Plaza, produced by Denia Dance and People in Plazas will kick off on Tuesday, May 8 performances and more. Summer of Art is a free lunchtime series of live music, dance and theater happening every Tuesday from 12 to 2 p.m. at U.N. Plaza from May 8 through September 25. Continue reading
When: Friday, May 11, starting at 5 p.m.
Where: 1035 Market Street
Cost: Free and open to the public
ArtIsMobilUs is bringing art to people everywhere.
ArtIsMobilUs is non-rofit mobile public art gallery and roving arts incubator bringing pubic art to the people while providing a platform for dialogue, collaboration, and creative expression. It is estimated that every month somewhere between 30,000 to 40,000 people view the murals on the outside galleries as it drives though the neighborhoods, arts districts, and business areas of Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, and San Francisco.
In conjunction with SF Camerawork’s Eric William Carroll solo exhibit opening and Hospitality House Community Arts Program’s CAPTOONS opening, ArtIsMobilUs will be parked in Central Market outside of the San Francisco Foundation at 1035 Market Street.
For more information about ArtIsMobilUs, visit artismobilus.com.
Artwork by Bochay Drum. Courtesy of the luggage store.
Over 100 Bay Area artists will appear in the luggage store’s anticipated Streetopia SF, a large-scale group exhibition to take place in venues throughout downtown San Francisco this coming May 18 through June 23. Curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich, Streetopia will bring neighborhood residents together with at least 132 artists, performers, writers, filmmakers, activists, thinkers, and public policy makers in venues in the heart of the city, to address the show’s themes of Utopian aspiration for the city.
Don’t miss Opening Night on Friday, May 18 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the luggage store and on Market Street. The night will feature dance performance in the streets by Brontez Purnell and Amara Tabor Smith; live performance by LOVEWARZ; THE SOMETHING, a performance by Shaun O’Dell on Market Street; music by Strawberry Smog, Moira Scar; and more!
What: Streetopia Opening Night
When: Friday, May 18, 7-11 p.m.
Where: the luggage store, 1007 Market Street and other Central Market venues
For a complete listing of all the events part of Streetopia click here or visit the website at streetopiasf.com.
The San Francisco Arts Commission is proud to introduce our new brand identity! Designed by Julio Martinez and Erik Schmitt, principals of San Francisco-based studio1500, the brand strives to help the agency better communicate its programs and services to the greater community.
According to the designers, “The San Francisco Arts Commission creates essential connections between the arts and our community. These connections-between artists and the public, between organizations and resources, and even between different agency programs-remind us of the crucial role that the arts play in our community. We wanted to explore these links in the identity, and develop a mark that embodies openness and creativity, and serves as the foundation for a branding system that unifies all of the Commission’s efforts into a single, cohesive whole.”
Click on the images to view at a larger scale.
The new brand identity, which was developed by studio1500 pro bono, will be rolled out over the next couple of months starting on Tuesday, April 17 with six new Decaux Kiosk posters on Market Street. Continue reading
For Immediate Release:
Media Contact:
Candace Cui
Website: www.midmarketartproject.org
Email: midmarketartproject@gmail.com
Mid-Market Art Project (MMAP) presents Storied Sites:
Architecture, Politics & People
(San Francisco, CA – April 6, 2012) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Mid-Market Art Project presents Storied Sites: Architecture, Politics & People, a series of artistic interventions along Market Street, San Francisco, that will take place from late April to early May 2012. Storied Sites also includes an exhibition at SFAI’s historic Diego Rivera Gallery, a project publication, web site and blog. Continue reading
When: Thursday through Sundays, April 27 – May 27, 2012
Where: EXIT Theater, 277 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Cost: $10-$50, purchase tickets here
Writer and Director Annie Elias brings a decade of experience in documentary theater to Cutting Ball Theater with the world premiere of Tenderloin, an unforgettable piece about the people and places in Cutting Ball Theater’s neighborhood. Using transcripts of interviews conducted by seven San Francisco actors, Tenderloin takes theater out into the neighborhood and brings the neighborhood into the theater. From these living sketches, a portrait of the Tenderloin itself emerges. A powerful theatrical experience, Tenderloin honors the diversity of the people who live and work in this gritty and fascinating downtown San Francisco district.
Tenderloin stars Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank, Michael Kelly, Leigh Shaw, David Sinaiko and David Westley Skillman.
Tickets can be purchased at www.cuttingball.com. Limited FREE tickets for local students and “Pay What You Can” Tickets for neighborhood residents are available at the door. Contact boxoffice@cuttingball.com with questions.
When: Wednesday, April 4, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Sunday, April 8, 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Where: Along the sidewalk near 939 Market Street, San Francisco, California, 94103
Cost: Free
Mid-Market Memory Shop takes the store to the street through a two-day-only interactive inside-out storefront. Network of Daily Experiences (NODE) is inviting community members to meet researchers at the storefront to contribute to a community archive. The project is produced in conjunction with the Mid-Market Art Project (MMAP) — a collaboration that investigates the role of the arts in urban renewal. Continue reading
When: Thursday, April 5, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Where: The Oddists Studio, Odd Fellows Building, 26 Seventh Street, Suite 202 (Second Floor)
Cost: Free with RSVP
The Oddists artists Richard L. Perri, Stephen Crawford, and Paolo Salazar open their studio for a Central Market Mixer. Central Market neighbors, meet, mingle, and enjoy delicious food catered by local neighborhood merchants. Musical entertainment is provided by Vinyl.
Hosted by Central Market Community Benefit District and The Oddists, this mixer will also feature guest artist Aladin Stadlin.
For more information and to RSVP call 415-957-5985 or email info@central-market.org.
Artwork by Spencer Keeton. Courtesy of the luggage store.
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7, 7-10 p.m.
Where: the luggage store, 1007 Market Street
Cost: FREE
On view April 2-28, 2012
Me and My ____ is an exhibition of five emerging young Bay Area multimedia artists, exploring the concept of collaborative engagement through an assortment of paintings, video, and sculpture. They will transform the luggage store into the ultimate interactive installation through group efforts, allowing for moments of particularity in the process. These individualized moments stand as representation of the five unique artists’ work and reflection on the greater space and group environment. In this space, ego is pushed aside and gives opportunity for something sporadic, which would not occur any other way.
This exhibit features artists: Rye Purvis, Erlin Geffrard, Henry Gunderson, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, and Chad Hasegawa.
Image courtesy of Satellite66
Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 7-10 p.m.
Where: Satellite66, 66 6th Street
Cost: FREE
On view April 13 – May 5, 2012
In Erik Parra‘s new body of representational paintings, he points his lens at concepts of success, prosperity, and conveyance, and focuses on where they collide.
Modernist design figures strongly in his work, not as an aesthetic choice, but as a narrative device. It makes appearances in architecture and furniture, and even in the formal application of paint. Parra is referencing Postwar America, a time and place filled with the promise of progress and prosperity, led by science.
Erik Parra’s stance is not one of a hopeless pessimist, but rather that of a faithful critic. His portrayal of America Now asks us to abandon those notions of success and victory that were handed to us by corporations in the 1940s and 1950s. What we choose to replace them with is up to us.
