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A Truthful Story: Archive Show Reveals Decades of Resilience at Intersection...
Event Information ‘The Intersection Archive Show’ Lexa Walsha delves into five decades of Intersection’s archives to curate a multi-media exhibition. Oct. 7 – Nov. 22, 2015 Intersection for the Arts...
View ArticleMarket Street Makeover: Prototyping Festival Breathes New Life into SF’s...
This video brings you inside the Market Street Prototyping Festival where even the most troubled areas of Market Street buzzed with energy day and night. During the festival Market Street’s sidewalks —...
View ArticleWear Your Pajamas for this Animation Film Fest
Sometimes you feel like you’ve watched everything worthwhile on Hulu, Netflix and your mom’s HBO Go account, and there is literally nothing else to watch. Welcome to Pajama Film Fest (PJFF), a special...
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Art that Makes Missing Your Flight OK
The airport is not often a site for the calm contemplation of beautiful things. For most, it’s a place of extreme stress: the stress of securing your ticket, checking your bags, waiting in security,...
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Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice and Trees into ‘Ephemeral Works’
British artist Andy Goldsworthy works in the fields and forests near his home in Scotland using natural elements as his media. His pieces have a tendency to collapse, decay and melt, but, as he tells...
View ArticleWhat Role Can Community Art Play in Resisting Violence?
Featured Media Resource: [VIDEO] The Oakland Superheroes Mural ProjectThe Attitudinal Healing Connection in West Oakland created the first large scale mural beautification and revitalization project...
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Before Cute Puppy Videos on YouTube there was Artist William Wegman
Those endless Facebook posts of cute dogs and cats. Millions of hits for YouTube’s The Daily ‘Aww’ channel featuring headlines like “Puppy refuses to use stairs, plus other cute animals doing cute...
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Layers of Paint Transform Everyday Objects at Pro Arts
Event Information 2 x 2 Solos: Leah Rosenberg & Tamra Seal For the chromophiles. Through Nov. 13, 2015 Pro Arts Details and tickets Sometimes artworks involve months (if not years) of...
View ArticleTeamwork Makes the Dream Work For Collaborative Duo, KeFe
Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock are artists who focus on character design and development, creating a rotating cast of surreal cartoon figures inspired by visual culture, including fashion,...
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From Baskets to Bierstadt, Tahoe’s Visual History Stuns
As odd as it may sound, there’s never been an art exhibition dedicated solely to the visual beauty of Lake Tahoe. Enter the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, which has dedicated its entire 15,337 square...
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When Futurism Shocked San Francisco
As San Francisco’s year-long celebration of the Panama Pacific International Exposition’s (PPIE) centennial anniversary draws to a close, the de Young throws its hat in the historical ring with Jewel...
View ArticleSan Francisco Museum President Under Fire for Unauthorized Payment
The city’s most powerful museum official and prominent arts patron is under new scrutiny after a report released over the weekend accused her of financial impropriety. The chief financial officer at...
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Uncommon Library Opens its Doors for Artist-Led Talks
When Bay Area artist Nicole Lavelle first learned about the Prelinger Library — a collection of ephemera, periodicals, maps and books run by founders Megan and Rick Prelinger — she thought, “I’ve got...
View ArticleNPR Jack-O-Lantern Stencils: Carve the Spookily Well-Informed Pumpkin of Your...
Pumpkins: we all love carving them. But… don’t you sometimes find yourself wishing your Halloween jack-o-lantern was more reflective of your burning love for public radio? Fear no more, brave NPR...
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SFMOMA Makes it Official: Date for Reopening Set for Next Year
Closed for almost two and a half years now, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will reopen next year — May 14, to be exact — at nearly three times its original size. The addition by architecture...
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Pottery Winner: An Artist’s Dark, Funny Oeuvre Gets Major Show
Ron Nagle is a lot like his ceramics: compact, tidy, quirky — and colorful. The artist, who has helped take clay to the heights of the contemporary art world, recently sported black pants, a...
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The Death and Rebirth of San Francisco’s Gallery Scene
Union Square was once the heart of San Francisco’s gallery district, but not so much anymore. About 20 months ago, some of the city’s best known galleries were evicted to make room for a tech company,...
View ArticleChad Hasegawa, Thrifty Expressionist Painter: What’s Your Style?
KQED Art School is on a mission to find out how artists develop their signature style, and we’re asking some prolific Bay Area artists to tackle this compelling question in order to figure out how one...
View ArticleCheap Date: 8 Ways To Get Spooky (Yet Frugal!) This Week
Fellow broke humans of the Bay Area! How’s your week going so far? Still trying to choose a Halloween costume? Stuck in limbo deciding between “The Dress” and “Lion Killer Dentist’’? (Please. Please...
View ArticleA Musician’s Aerial Photography Takes Art to New Heights
Jassen Todorov doesn’t seem possible. He’s an aerial photographer, a licensed pilot, a music professor at S.F. State and an acclaimed violinist whose concerts take him around the world. “If I’m well...
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