The Bay Area Society for Art & Acitivism is a proud contributor to Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area, curated by Christian L. Frock and on exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts…
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Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area
Posted in Actions, Art & Activism Quarterly, Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Events, Posts, Social Justice, Video
On Strike! (At SF State) and Other Historic Documentaries at YBCA
As part of Yerba Buena Center for the Art’s exhibition Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area (March 11 to August 14, 2016), the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism has curated a selection of…
Posted in Actions, Art & Activism Quarterly, Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Posts, Social Justice, Video
Ferguson is the Future
Alternative Worlds Through Arts, Activism, and Scholarship On September 14, the San Francisco Art Institute hosted a dialogue and livestream of Ferguson is the Future, Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies symposium hosted as part of the department’s”ongoing collaborations…
Posted in Art & Activism Quarterly, Artist-Activists, Events, Found Online, Political Art, Posts, Social Justice, Video
Democracy Now! coverage of “All the World’s Futures” at 2015 Venice Biennale
Since we were unable to make the trip to Venice this year to see the 56th Biennale curated by none other than Okwui Enwezor, we’ll take Amy Goodman’s coverage of the exhibition which surveys global trajectories of politics and upheavals…
Outdoor Film Salon: Recap
As a part of The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers transbay exhibition, the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism has created a public programming series that reflects the exhibition themes of privacy, surveillance, and gentrification that affect housing…
Tagged with: exhibition, outdoor film salon, public programming, random parts gallery
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Curating, Events, Up&Out Lab, Video
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Curating, Events, Up&Out Lab, Video
Outdoor Film Salon: ‘The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers’
Please join us, on Saturday, May 9, for an evening of short film and conversation. As part of the The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers curator Dorothy Santos will be presenting a selection of short documentaries and artistic works…
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Events, Political Art, Posts, Social Justice, Up&Out Lab, Video
Printmaker Favianna Rodriguez
And KQED Arts:
From 3.9 to the Last: San Francisco’s African American Creative Legacy Now
Rampant housing speculation, aggressive evictions, and rapid increases in the costs of living reveal continuing economic vulnerabilities among many of San Francisco’s historic cultural communities. This summer’s troubled closing of San Francisco’s Marcus Books, the oldest black-owned, black-themed book store…
Posted in Art & Activism Quarterly, Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Posts, Racism, Video
Art & Class Discussion Club: No Place to Hide
The next meeting of the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism’s Art & Class Discussion Club (A&CDC!) will be: Saturday October 4th, 2pm Bryant Street Studios San Francisco RSVP to Elizabeth for detailed arrival instructions. Recommend (but never required)…
