Yearly Archives: 2015

From “Saints and Citizens”

California’s Mission Era Indigenous Artists and Political Resistance Ever since Lisbeth Hass’ book talk last year at the California Historical Society on Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California (University of California Press, 2013), the stare

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Who We Be: Superpanel Follow-up

Last Saturday’s Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice was an outstanding event. Big love and huge thanks to our panelists and the 237 or so folks in attendance. I realize now that in addition to super

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Bay Area Society for Art & Activism in The Guardian

One of our panelists for tomorrow’s Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice, Christian L. Frock, had a wonderful article published in The Guardian today in preparation for our event: “What role does art have in a

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The Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers, May 2 – June 19

From Saturday May 2nd to Friday, June 19th the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism in partnership with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Random Parts, and Incline Gallery will present The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers, a transbay visual

Posted in Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Class, Events, Posts, Up&Out Lab

THE SKY IS THE LIMIT: Susan O’Malley (1976-2015)

It will be more beautiful than you could ever imagine. Take chances. Make more friends. The sky is the limit. These are the unabashedly brave and buoyant messages left to us by artist and curator Susan O’Malley who passed away suddenly

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Ruminations on the Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers of the Bay Area

In thinking about the changes happening in San Francisco, I find the relationship between privacy and gentrification seems rather disparate at first mention. However these two concepts have become inextricably tied in urban environments subject to a particular influxes of new

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Artists Get Organized!

Across the Bay Area, artists are responding to the increasing challenges to our livelihood by getting organized. Two groups in particular are working hard to leverage the power of data to improve conditions for local artists. Arts Advocacy Coalition Since

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Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice

Inspired by Jeff Chang’s recently published Who We Be: The Colorization of America, the “Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice” brings together five phenomenal panelists to discuss the visual culture of protest and current national movements

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Hungry?: Local Potlucks Will Gather People and Data

Our friends at The Present Group/Compensation Foundation are initiating a variety of local potlucks to gather people and data together for the Bay Area Artists Report! The report “is an effort to gather and make apparent how visual artists working

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Art & Activism Book Club presents Jeff Chang’s “Who We Be”

Starting on February 8 the Art & Activism Book Club will be facilitating Jeff Chang’s recently released Who We Be: The Colorization of America. Written by the historian best known for 2005’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the

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