Mark your calendars. April 29–May 1, 2016 Our favorite family friendly conference of social practice artists, writers, movers, shakers, and makers is coming to Oakland! Open Engagement (OE) is an international conference and platform to support socially engaged art. The…
Yearly Archives: 2015
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
(processing) – Bay Area Artists and the Archive
Collective Memory at UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Art Gallery, October 7-23 The Collective Memory: Art & Activism Archive got a huge boost this summer from our friends at SOMArts Cultural Center when we were invited to partner with them for…
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…
“Saving radical actions and spaces, virtually”: Collective Memory featured in 48 Hills
Many thanks to Caitlin Donohue for this wonderful article about our Collective Memory Art & Activism Archive and our History Collection Lab for SOMArts Cultural Center’s Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Spaces. But more than just…
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Collective Memory, Found Online, Political Art, Posts
“The artistic is political in SOMArts show of protest work”: Collective Memory included in SF Chronicle article
The Bay Area Society for Art & Activism is so proud to be included in Ryan Kost’s San Francisco Chronicle article about SOMArts Cultural Center’s recent exhibition, Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Spaces: Because so many…
Happy 40th Birthday Media Burn!
July 4, 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of Media Burn and I have been looking forward to the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism’s commemoration of Ant Farm’s legendary performance piece for well over a year. An iconic…
Media Burn 40th Anniversary Posters: Get’em While They’re Hot!
Given the significance of Media Burn in guiding the spirit of our work, the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism has commissioned a double-sided commemorative poster to honor Media Burn’s forty years of undiminishable aura. We are incredibly grateful…
In Case You Missed it: A Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers Recap
Special thanks to the everyone who made The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers such a success! Here is a collection of links documenting our exhibition and public programming: Dorothy Santos’s beautiful exhibition reflection and summary of our June 14 Closing…
Posted in Art & Activism Quarterly, Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Class, Events, Posts, Social Justice, Up&Out Lab
The Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers: Closing Panel Discussion Recap!
I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I was originally asked to curate a show on privacy, surveillance, and their effects on gentrification in the Bay Area. As much as one would like to think that they…
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Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Curating, Events, Posts
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Curating, Events, Posts
