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Inspired by Fred Wilson’s 1992-1993 project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilson_(artist)#Mining_the_Museum_Exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mining the Museum\u003c/a>\u003c/em> — in which Wilson paired unlikely images and artifacts for a jolting and honest representation of America’s relationship with slavery — Derricotte mined the British Museum for public domain images related to the global African slave trade, merging them with contemporary mediums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On display through April 3 at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco as part of their \u003ca href=\"http://www.moadsf.org/connect/emerging-artists-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emerging Artists Program\u003c/a>, \u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> invites visitors into a world of haunting images and words rendered in glass, paper and video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11334377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11334377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Derricotte, 'Group of Ex-Slaves (Jamaica),' 2016.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-400x320.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-750x600.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-768x614.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-960x768.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Derricotte, ‘Group of Ex-Slaves (Jamaica),’ 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prominent in the collection are portraits of enslaved people — many women and girls — from various African countries. Cotton is represented in lovely botanical illustrations. Displaying this core symbol of the institution of slavery in such a manner evokes an uneasiness, a stark contrast to other images images in the exhibition: a Sudanese slave and her child, displaced African people crammed aboard the H.M.S. 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Using them as titles for etchings or monotypes, she draws links between slavery of “the past” and modern day oppression of African American people. These links are most obvious in two pieces: a kiln formed glass and enamel image of traditional hunting spears titled \u003cem>Tools of Resistance\u003c/em> and an unsettling image of a young African woman, facing away, arms raised above her head, titled \u003cem>Hands Up, Don’t Shoot\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet what is perhaps the most stunning aspect of \u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> is the audio that plays with a video diary of Derricotte’s work. A serene track of an ocean tide ebbing and flowing fills the room, accompanied by images and text:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci> The thirst for cotton was unquenchable\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">We tried to fight back\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">We attempted to avoid being captured\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">But our boats were smaller\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The animals tried to run away\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">We could not outrun the guns\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The plantation became our fate\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The work was hard and the days were long\u003cbr>\nI saved our last picture together\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Crossing the stormy ocean\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">And the ships kept coming\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The ships kept coming\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> is a must see, must hear and must feel experience for anyone looking for a shift in perspective through visual storytelling. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cherylderricotte.com/#intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheryl Patrice Derricotte\u003c/a>‘s \u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> offers a glimpse into the global African slave trade that is both subtle and direct in its links between past and present, culture and place. Inspired by Fred Wilson’s 1992-1993 project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilson_(artist)#Mining_the_Museum_Exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mining the Museum\u003c/a>\u003c/em> — in which Wilson paired unlikely images and artifacts for a jolting and honest representation of America’s relationship with slavery — Derricotte mined the British Museum for public domain images related to the global African slave trade, merging them with contemporary mediums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On display through April 3 at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco as part of their \u003ca href=\"http://www.moadsf.org/connect/emerging-artists-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emerging Artists Program\u003c/a>, \u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> invites visitors into a world of haunting images and words rendered in glass, paper and video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11334377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11334377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Derricotte, 'Group of Ex-Slaves (Jamaica),' 2016.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-400x320.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-750x600.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-768x614.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/ExSlaves1200-960x768.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Derricotte, ‘Group of Ex-Slaves (Jamaica),’ 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prominent in the collection are portraits of enslaved people — many women and girls — from various African countries. Cotton is represented in lovely botanical illustrations. Displaying this core symbol of the institution of slavery in such a manner evokes an uneasiness, a stark contrast to other images images in the exhibition: a Sudanese slave and her child, displaced African people crammed aboard the H.M.S. Daphne slave ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11334379\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11334379 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/HandsUp640.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Derricotte, 'Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,' 2016.\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/HandsUp640.jpg 512w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/HandsUp640-400x500.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/HandsUp640-480x600.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Derricotte, ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,’ 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Derricotte, who is based in Oakland, often incorporates resonant phrases into her work. Using them as titles for etchings or monotypes, she draws links between slavery of “the past” and modern day oppression of African American people. These links are most obvious in two pieces: a kiln formed glass and enamel image of traditional hunting spears titled \u003cem>Tools of Resistance\u003c/em> and an unsettling image of a young African woman, facing away, arms raised above her head, titled \u003cem>Hands Up, Don’t Shoot\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet what is perhaps the most stunning aspect of \u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> is the audio that plays with a video diary of Derricotte’s work. A serene track of an ocean tide ebbing and flowing fills the room, accompanied by images and text:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci> The thirst for cotton was unquenchable\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">We tried to fight back\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">We attempted to avoid being captured\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">But our boats were smaller\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The animals tried to run away\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">We could not outrun the guns\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The plantation became our fate\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The work was hard and the days were long\u003cbr>\nI saved our last picture together\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Crossing the stormy ocean\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">And the ships kept coming\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The ships kept coming\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> is a must see, must hear and must feel experience for anyone looking for a shift in perspective through visual storytelling. History, resistance and old stories in new forms, \u003cem>Ghosts/Ships\u003c/em> offers all that and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area history is deeply rooted in art activism and social justice organizing. The area is recognized for a firmly entrenched spirit of working towards a just world across an encyclopedic range of issues, including labor organizing, freedom of speech, gender/LGBTQ equality, racial justice and environmentalism, among so many others. The spirit of protest is deeply engrained in this place; it’s a legacy that is among the Bay Area’s proudest contributions to this country’s evolving vision of freedom and equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"Still from 'Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.'\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland in 1966. The new documentary \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution\u003c/a>\u003c/i> airs on KQED starting Feb. 16 and the Oakland Museum of California opens their exhibition \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/exhibit/all-power-people-black-panthers-50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i> on Oct. 8, to coincide with the Party’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we look back on this formative homegrown movement, we might also consider the Bay Area’s larger history of art activism. By no means comprehensive — an impossible task given the range and depth of this history — this timeline offers notes on our collective history as a vastly influential site of art, protest and change making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327804\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 241px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327804 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Sargent_Johnson_painting_-_NARA_-_559180-e1455497672993.jpg\" alt=\"Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown.\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1939\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Prominent African-American WPA artist and lifelong communist Sargent Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/aquatic-park-bathhouse-maritime-museum-johnson-mural-san-francisco-ca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walks off the project before the completion of \u003ci>Sea Forms\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, a glazed tile mural commissioned by the Federal Art Project for the San Francisco Maritime Museum, after learning that the site would house a private restaurant for San Francisco’s elite. The mural remains incomplete to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1965\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three faith-based organizations pool resources to initiate a new experimental arts organization called \u003ca href=\"http://www.theintersection.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intersection for the Arts\u003c/a>, with the objective of using art to engage marginalized youth and providing an alternative space for artists who are conscientious objectors to the American war in Vietnam. Intersection eventually fosters a growing number of influential artists through various programs, while also fiscally sponsoring more than 500 projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/128523144\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1966\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale found the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party\u003c/a> to challenge police brutality in Oakland. Originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, it grows into a controversial national movement, instituting a number of community programs including free breakfast for children and health clinics. \u003ci>The Black Panther Newspaper\u003c/i>, art directed and illustrated by Emory Douglas from 1967 until the party disbanded, provides one of the most comprehensive records of the Black Power movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1969\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following on the heels of the infamous \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a>, the largest spill to occur in the waters off of California, artists \u003ca href=\"http://openspace.sfmoma.org/2013/12/henderson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Hawley, Mel Henderson, and Alfred Young spell “OIL”\u003c/a> on the San Francisco Bay near the refineries using yellow, nontoxic uranine marker dye. Later, the same artists orchestrate a traffic disruption by calling 100 yellow cabs to the same destination (the six-sided intersection of Castro and Market Streets) at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327674\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 234px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/1972_poster_asof2009.03.23_234w.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco.\" width=\"234\" height=\"313\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1972\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Our-SF-Long-road-led-to-victory-for-LGBT-pride-6336727.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco’s first pride parade takes place\u003c/a> with some 2,000 marchers — many dressed in togas and some dressed in nothing at all — and 15,000 cheering spectators. The float for the Society for Individual Rights features a gay wedding. A group from Bakersfield wears Boy Scout uniforms and chants, “We’re everywhere!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1974\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mark di Suvero’s sculpture \u003ci>Mother Peace\u003c/i> is installed in front of the Oakland Courthouse as part of the Oakland Museum’s landmark exhibition \u003ci>Public Sculpture, Urban Environment\u003c/i>. A conservative judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Judy-Chicago-A-Butterfly-for-Oakland-revisited-5590989.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">takes issue with the antiwar sentiment\u003c/a> of the sculpture’s peace symbol and successfully lobbies for its removal. The museum’s longer-term plans to acquire the sculpture dissolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1576px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs' deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \" width=\"1576\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg 1576w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-768x515.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs’ deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \u003ccite>(Photo by Nancy Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1977\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s International Hotel is slated for demolition and redevelopment — 196 low-income Filipino and Chinese residents are evicted amidst a sweeping wave of gentrification and displacement. Artists take part in the struggle by silk-screening protest posters, painting murals on the building and organizing art events and exhibitions. As part of the protests hundreds of artists march down Mission Street with \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar-art-of-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their faces painted white\u003c/a> to protest the displacement of people of color, creating a media spectacle that captures international attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327677\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327677 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/building-1024x721-e1455508136542.png\" alt=\"Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street.\" width=\"426\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: The Women's Building)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1979\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After initially organizing to found the San Francisco Women’s Centers in 1971, a group of women purchase a four-story building and former meeting hall in the Mission District to establish The Women’s Building, the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/about/mission-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first woman-owned and operated community center\u003c/a> in the country. Fifteen years later, a group of artists complete the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/the-mural/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MaestraPeace Mural\u003c/a> on its façade, one of the city’s largest murals according to the Women’s Building website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIH-t2aLFog\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1984\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The War Chest Tours, a group of punk rockers, disrupt the Democratic Party Convention in San Francisco. Some 100 punks stage actions, interventions and die-ins in response to police sweeps (under the direction of Mayor Dianne Feinstein) organized to remove sex workers and the homeless from the view of convention-goers. Many are arrested; the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> covers events the next day with the headline, “Punk Rocker Protest — 84 arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1069px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg\" alt=\"The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat.\" width=\"1069\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg 1069w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-400x180.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-800x360.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-768x346.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-960x432.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat. \u003ccite>(Photos: Bob Heifetz, Peace Navy / Courtesy Shaping SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1988\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Peace Navy (a coalition of tradespeople, artists, filmmakers and 100 privately owned boats) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bay_Area_Peace_Navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage a dramatization of a nuclear accident at sea\u003c/a>. Part of an international campaign to disarm the seas, the performance takes place aboard a specially crafted 100-foot-long submarine in Sausalito’s waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg\" alt=\"Installing the pink priangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-400x160.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-800x320.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-768x307.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-1180x472.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-960x384.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installing the pink triangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Friends of the Pink Triangle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1995\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially conceived as a “renegade craft project,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepinktriangle.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a giant pink fabric triangle\u003c/a> is installed on Twin Peaks during Pride Weekend to memorialize the homosexuals who were persecuted in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The first installation is christened by Mayor Willie Brown with pink champagne. The unfurling of this reclaimed symbol, once used to identify and shame gays, becomes an annual event maintained by The Friends of the Pink Triangle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327680\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327680 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/elliotjohnsonOscarGrant-e1455508162652.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant.\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant. \u003ccite>(Photo: Elliot Johnson / Courtesy Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2009\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oscar Grant is killed in Oakland on New Year’s morning by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle — his death sparks numerous protests and creative actions, including the \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project\u003c/a>, as well as inspiration for Bay Area filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed \u003ci>Fruitvale Station\u003c/i>, which wins the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and Best First Film at Cannes Film Festival, both in 2013. Grant’s death, along with that of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is among the events that catapult the \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> movement into action in July 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/152916274\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2013\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a> is founded by a group of artists, activists and technologists to create visual maps of San Francisco’s eviction crisis. The visually compelling maps succinctly data map the city’s housing crisis and draw international media attention to how these shifts implicate new wealth in the city’s revitalized technology sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2013 February\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit pens \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an incendiary essay\u003c/a> on the rapid changes in San Francisco for the \u003ci>London Review of Books\u003c/i>. The article becomes an international sensation, drawing greater attention to the changes happening in the city and spawning an avalanche of media coverage on the city’s tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto.jpg\" alt=\"Aztec dancers march for Alejandro Nieto in March 2014.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-768x491.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers march for Alejandro Nieto in March 2014. \u003ccite>(Photo: Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2014 March\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alex Nieto is killed by San Francisco police in a hail of 59 bullets fired into Bernal Hill Park at twilight. The Mission community, led by several artists, including writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.unsettlers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adriana Camarena\u003c/a> and poet and author \u003ca href=\"https://todobododown.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Bac Sierra\u003c/a>, organizes \u003ca href=\"https://justice4alexnieto.org/alex-story/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice for Alex Nieto\u003c/a> to undertake a series of creative protests demanding information. The protests include \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/33/34/02/7192741/5/1024x1024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media interventions\u003c/a> during the 2014 playoffs and World Series at AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZkXZQGbnJs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2014 April\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Building on the success of previous tech shuttle bus protests, a group of artists and activists from the organization Heart of the City \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/google-bus-protest-most-san-francisco-thing-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage a theatrical demonstration\u003c/a> at 24th and Valencia Streets to draw attention to a proposed tax hike on public transportation. Complete with colorful costumes and a walking surveillance camera on stilts, \u003ci>Mother Jones\u003c/i> calls the performance protest “the most San Francisco Thing ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327799\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 541px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Black.Seed-Bay-Bridge-Shut-down_Reclaim-MLK_011816_Source-www.baybridgeinfo.orgconstruction-cams-e1455508207943.png\" alt=\"View from the construction cameras on the Bay Bride during the Black.Seed protest.\" width=\"541\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the construction cameras on the Bay Bride during the Black.Seed protest. \u003ccite>(Source: baybridgeinfo.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2016\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Responding to a nationwide call to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/reclaimmlk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ReclaimMLK\u003c/a> through 96 hours of direct action over the weekend preceding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Black.Seed, a queer liberation collective, shuts down the west-bound span of the Bay Bridge to demand justice for Bay Area victims of police brutality. A temporary radio station broadcasts the event and it is live-tweeted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-blog/2016/1/18/black-queer-liberation-collective-blackseed-shuts-down-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>What would you add to this list of art activism? Feel free contribute your own memories in the comments section below.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area history is deeply rooted in art activism and social justice organizing. The area is recognized for a firmly entrenched spirit of working towards a just world across an encyclopedic range of issues, including labor organizing, freedom of speech, gender/LGBTQ equality, racial justice and environmentalism, among so many others. The spirit of protest is deeply engrained in this place; it’s a legacy that is among the Bay Area’s proudest contributions to this country’s evolving vision of freedom and equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"Still from 'Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.'\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland in 1966. The new documentary \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution\u003c/a>\u003c/i> airs on KQED starting Feb. 16 and the Oakland Museum of California opens their exhibition \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/exhibit/all-power-people-black-panthers-50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i> on Oct. 8, to coincide with the Party’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we look back on this formative homegrown movement, we might also consider the Bay Area’s larger history of art activism. By no means comprehensive — an impossible task given the range and depth of this history — this timeline offers notes on our collective history as a vastly influential site of art, protest and change making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327804\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 241px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327804 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Sargent_Johnson_painting_-_NARA_-_559180-e1455497672993.jpg\" alt=\"Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown.\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1939\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Prominent African-American WPA artist and lifelong communist Sargent Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/aquatic-park-bathhouse-maritime-museum-johnson-mural-san-francisco-ca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walks off the project before the completion of \u003ci>Sea Forms\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, a glazed tile mural commissioned by the Federal Art Project for the San Francisco Maritime Museum, after learning that the site would house a private restaurant for San Francisco’s elite. The mural remains incomplete to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1965\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three faith-based organizations pool resources to initiate a new experimental arts organization called \u003ca href=\"http://www.theintersection.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intersection for the Arts\u003c/a>, with the objective of using art to engage marginalized youth and providing an alternative space for artists who are conscientious objectors to the American war in Vietnam. Intersection eventually fosters a growing number of influential artists through various programs, while also fiscally sponsoring more than 500 projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch3>1966\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale found the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party\u003c/a> to challenge police brutality in Oakland. Originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, it grows into a controversial national movement, instituting a number of community programs including free breakfast for children and health clinics. \u003ci>The Black Panther Newspaper\u003c/i>, art directed and illustrated by Emory Douglas from 1967 until the party disbanded, provides one of the most comprehensive records of the Black Power movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1969\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following on the heels of the infamous \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a>, the largest spill to occur in the waters off of California, artists \u003ca href=\"http://openspace.sfmoma.org/2013/12/henderson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Hawley, Mel Henderson, and Alfred Young spell “OIL”\u003c/a> on the San Francisco Bay near the refineries using yellow, nontoxic uranine marker dye. Later, the same artists orchestrate a traffic disruption by calling 100 yellow cabs to the same destination (the six-sided intersection of Castro and Market Streets) at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327674\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 234px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/1972_poster_asof2009.03.23_234w.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco.\" width=\"234\" height=\"313\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1972\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Our-SF-Long-road-led-to-victory-for-LGBT-pride-6336727.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco’s first pride parade takes place\u003c/a> with some 2,000 marchers — many dressed in togas and some dressed in nothing at all — and 15,000 cheering spectators. The float for the Society for Individual Rights features a gay wedding. A group from Bakersfield wears Boy Scout uniforms and chants, “We’re everywhere!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1974\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mark di Suvero’s sculpture \u003ci>Mother Peace\u003c/i> is installed in front of the Oakland Courthouse as part of the Oakland Museum’s landmark exhibition \u003ci>Public Sculpture, Urban Environment\u003c/i>. A conservative judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Judy-Chicago-A-Butterfly-for-Oakland-revisited-5590989.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">takes issue with the antiwar sentiment\u003c/a> of the sculpture’s peace symbol and successfully lobbies for its removal. The museum’s longer-term plans to acquire the sculpture dissolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1576px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs' deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \" width=\"1576\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg 1576w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-768x515.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs’ deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \u003ccite>(Photo by Nancy Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1977\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s International Hotel is slated for demolition and redevelopment — 196 low-income Filipino and Chinese residents are evicted amidst a sweeping wave of gentrification and displacement. Artists take part in the struggle by silk-screening protest posters, painting murals on the building and organizing art events and exhibitions. As part of the protests hundreds of artists march down Mission Street with \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar-art-of-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their faces painted white\u003c/a> to protest the displacement of people of color, creating a media spectacle that captures international attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327677\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327677 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/building-1024x721-e1455508136542.png\" alt=\"Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street.\" width=\"426\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: The Women's Building)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1979\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After initially organizing to found the San Francisco Women’s Centers in 1971, a group of women purchase a four-story building and former meeting hall in the Mission District to establish The Women’s Building, the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/about/mission-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first woman-owned and operated community center\u003c/a> in the country. Fifteen years later, a group of artists complete the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/the-mural/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MaestraPeace Mural\u003c/a> on its façade, one of the city’s largest murals according to the Women’s Building website.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vIH-t2aLFog'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vIH-t2aLFog'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>1984\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The War Chest Tours, a group of punk rockers, disrupt the Democratic Party Convention in San Francisco. Some 100 punks stage actions, interventions and die-ins in response to police sweeps (under the direction of Mayor Dianne Feinstein) organized to remove sex workers and the homeless from the view of convention-goers. Many are arrested; the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> covers events the next day with the headline, “Punk Rocker Protest — 84 arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1069px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg\" alt=\"The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat.\" width=\"1069\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg 1069w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-400x180.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-800x360.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-768x346.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-960x432.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat. \u003ccite>(Photos: Bob Heifetz, Peace Navy / Courtesy Shaping SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1988\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Peace Navy (a coalition of tradespeople, artists, filmmakers and 100 privately owned boats) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bay_Area_Peace_Navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage a dramatization of a nuclear accident at sea\u003c/a>. Part of an international campaign to disarm the seas, the performance takes place aboard a specially crafted 100-foot-long submarine in Sausalito’s waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg\" alt=\"Installing the pink priangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-400x160.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-800x320.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-768x307.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-1180x472.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-960x384.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installing the pink triangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Friends of the Pink Triangle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1995\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially conceived as a “renegade craft project,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepinktriangle.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a giant pink fabric triangle\u003c/a> is installed on Twin Peaks during Pride Weekend to memorialize the homosexuals who were persecuted in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The first installation is christened by Mayor Willie Brown with pink champagne. The unfurling of this reclaimed symbol, once used to identify and shame gays, becomes an annual event maintained by The Friends of the Pink Triangle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327680\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327680 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/elliotjohnsonOscarGrant-e1455508162652.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant.\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant. \u003ccite>(Photo: Elliot Johnson / Courtesy Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2009\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oscar Grant is killed in Oakland on New Year’s morning by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle — his death sparks numerous protests and creative actions, including the \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project\u003c/a>, as well as inspiration for Bay Area filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed \u003ci>Fruitvale Station\u003c/i>, which wins the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and Best First Film at Cannes Film Festival, both in 2013. Grant’s death, along with that of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is among the events that catapult the \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> movement into action in July 2013.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzlVDlE72w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> (Note: This post made its debut \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/\">three years ago today\u003c/a>! This is an updated version with brand new events so you don't end up showing up to that Icona Pop concert expecting an encore 1,095 days later.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you don't have a boo. No biggie. Sure, it's fun to hold hands and have someone buy you an eclair for no reason and all that jazz. Loving someone else is super. But there's another form of love that predates loving someone else: the love you have for yourself a.k.a. The Greatest Love of All! So this Valentine's Day, let's not be so terribly obvious and transform into Bridget Jones. There's really no reason you need to cry while eating chocolate and singing Celine Dion ballads in your underwear. You're cute and fun and you should get out there and do cute and fun things! Here are a few ideas of ways to spend your Valentine's Day:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. TREAT YO' SELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ug3vCqbd1rungpko1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You work hard and you deserve nice things. Forget about waiting around for someone to buy you something you've always wanted and treat yo' self! Some good ideas: sweaters, fragrances, massages, mimosas. You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. CALL ALL THE SINGLE LADIES (all the single ladies)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcoez1NsMW1rdhbryo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes it might seem like you're the only person not living in Boo Land (favorite activities for residents include forgetting about their friends and saying annoying things like \"you'll have this someday, too!\"). But there are plenty of friends who are flying solo just like you. So call your favorite friends from this group and be each other's Valentines. Make a three course meal for each other. Or hit up a karaoke joint and sing love songs to each other. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/25/karaoke-survival-guide-10-commandments/\" target=\"_blank\">Just make sure to follow the rules.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>3. GO TO AN EVENT, EXHIBIT, OR SHOW\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZHPOeOxQQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are always 101 things to do at any given moment in this town so surely there is something for you out there. Here are some friendly suggestions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Event:\u003c/span> If you have something to get off your chest, why not belt it out with a bunch of nostalgic randos? The Roxie Theater is hosting an \u003ca href=\"http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/sf-indie-fest-power-ballad-sing-long/\" target=\"_blank\">'80s Power Ballad Sing-a-long\u003c/a> featured Journey, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, and all those other bands your older sister teased her bangs to back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Exhibit\u003c/span>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/garden/magnificent-magnolias-20141.html\">\u003cem>Magnificent Magnolias\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at the SF Botanical Gardens. They're blooming just in time for your hot date with yourself! If that isn't cute enough for you, head on over to the Academy of Sciences to \u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/events/special-events/penguin-valentines\" target=\"_blank\">watch biologists give Valentines\u003c/a> to African penguins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Concert:\u003c/span> Spend the holiday showing love for early aughts power couple \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/03/ja-rule-and-ashanti-want-to-be-your-valentine-also-relevant-again/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashanti and Ja Rule\u003c/a> at 1015 Folsom. Or, if that's not your thing, local music makers are paying homage to dearly departed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/david-bowie/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bowie\u003c/a> (miss you, boo!) at \u003ca href=\"http://www.rickshawstop.com/event/1068797-lets-dance-david-bowie-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Let's Dance: A David Bowie Tribute Party\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 class=\"headliners summary\">\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. HOLLYWOOD CRUSH MARATHON\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/6331185462_244649c8d2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1197\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1197 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/6331185462_244649c8d2.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr | poldberg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/poldberg/6331185462/\">poldberg\u003c/a>, via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don't feel like going out, why not watch a marathon starring your number one crush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like boys, I suggest this Ryan Gosling triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drive\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lars and the Real Girl\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Half Nelson\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cdel>\u003cem>Blue Valentine\u003c/em>\u003c/del> (tonight is not the night for this)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cdel>The Notebook\u003c/del> \u003c/em>(or this)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like girls, I suggest this Winona Ryder triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reality Bites\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>5. OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/kitten_headstand/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11077\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: That Cute Site\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thatcutesite.com/kitten-doing-morning-exercises.html\">That Cute Site\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our society tends to stigmatize spending time by yourself. Loners are weird and wear trench coats and talk to themselves, right? Wrong. The ability to be alone without feeling lonely is something we should all strive for and the surest way to get there is by practicing yoga. Tune into your body, breathe and relax a little. If this really doesn't sound like fun, find comfort in the 96.7% probability that your bendy teacher will be a babe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>6. SAN FRANCISCO IS YOUR LIFE PARTNER\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/2012/07/san-francisco-i-love-you/\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sfiloveyou_lowres1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/\">Lisa Congdon\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Significant others come and go and often take your favorite records with them. But San Francisco is always there for you. Spend some time in a place in the city you love or maybe have never gotten around to visiting. And take a bottle of red, while you're at it (that's not weird, it's \u003cem>classy)\u003c/em>. I suggest biking to the Sutro Baths or climbing Bernal or losing yourself in \u003ca href=\"http://mntsutro.com/\">the little-known cloud forest on Mount Sutro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>7. 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The Roxie Theater is hosting an \u003ca href=\"http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/sf-indie-fest-power-ballad-sing-long/\" target=\"_blank\">'80s Power Ballad Sing-a-long\u003c/a> featured Journey, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, and all those other bands your older sister teased her bangs to back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Exhibit\u003c/span>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/garden/magnificent-magnolias-20141.html\">\u003cem>Magnificent Magnolias\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at the SF Botanical Gardens. They're blooming just in time for your hot date with yourself! If that isn't cute enough for you, head on over to the Academy of Sciences to \u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/events/special-events/penguin-valentines\" target=\"_blank\">watch biologists give Valentines\u003c/a> to African penguins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Concert:\u003c/span> Spend the holiday showing love for early aughts power couple \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/03/ja-rule-and-ashanti-want-to-be-your-valentine-also-relevant-again/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashanti and Ja Rule\u003c/a> at 1015 Folsom. Or, if that's not your thing, local music makers are paying homage to dearly departed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/david-bowie/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bowie\u003c/a> (miss you, boo!) at \u003ca href=\"http://www.rickshawstop.com/event/1068797-lets-dance-david-bowie-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Let's Dance: A David Bowie Tribute Party\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 class=\"headliners summary\">\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. HOLLYWOOD CRUSH MARATHON\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/6331185462_244649c8d2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1197\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1197 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/6331185462_244649c8d2.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr | poldberg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/poldberg/6331185462/\">poldberg\u003c/a>, via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don't feel like going out, why not watch a marathon starring your number one crush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like boys, I suggest this Ryan Gosling triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drive\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lars and the Real Girl\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Half Nelson\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cdel>\u003cem>Blue Valentine\u003c/em>\u003c/del> (tonight is not the night for this)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cdel>The Notebook\u003c/del> \u003c/em>(or this)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like girls, I suggest this Winona Ryder triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reality Bites\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>5. OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/kitten_headstand/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11077\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: That Cute Site\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thatcutesite.com/kitten-doing-morning-exercises.html\">That Cute Site\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our society tends to stigmatize spending time by yourself. Loners are weird and wear trench coats and talk to themselves, right? Wrong. The ability to be alone without feeling lonely is something we should all strive for and the surest way to get there is by practicing yoga. Tune into your body, breathe and relax a little. If this really doesn't sound like fun, find comfort in the 96.7% probability that your bendy teacher will be a babe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>6. SAN FRANCISCO IS YOUR LIFE PARTNER\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/2012/07/san-francisco-i-love-you/\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sfiloveyou_lowres1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/\">Lisa Congdon\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Significant others come and go and often take your favorite records with them. But San Francisco is always there for you. Spend some time in a place in the city you love or maybe have never gotten around to visiting. And take a bottle of red, while you're at it (that's not weird, it's \u003cem>classy)\u003c/em>. I suggest biking to the Sutro Baths or climbing Bernal or losing yourself in \u003ca href=\"http://mntsutro.com/\">the little-known cloud forest on Mount Sutro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>7. AWAKEN YOUR INNER CHILD\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 402px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/attachment/163920399/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11074\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11074 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/163920399-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Getty\" width=\"402\" height=\"402\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one appreciates it when you bottle up your emotions and eventually turn into an insufferable jerk for no reason so take out some of that aggression in a healthy way by attending the \u003ca href=\"http://sf.funcheap.com/pillow-fight-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">annual V-Day Pillow Fight\u003c/a>! It'll be like slumber parties from your past, only you can stay up as late as you want and you probably won't pee the bed this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>8. EXPRESS YOURSELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com/img/ygmlogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"178\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Warner Bros.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, Valentine's Day is a commercial invention, but it does serve as a reminder to tell those important to us that we appreciate and love them. Just 'cause you don't have arm candy this year doesn't mean you shouldn't send cute notes to friends, family members and that cutie who serves you tea every morning. Everyone loves mail so you can't go wrong. And try making a habit of expressing your adoration for the people that matter not just on Valentine's Day, but year round. Kumbaya.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the Venn diagram of dance and architecture, one might think the two circles have very little overlap. But in 1966, dance pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/spark/anna-halprin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Halprin\u003c/a> and her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, sought to intermingle the two in an experimental summer workshop for students of both disciplines. The workshops, led by the couple three times over the next five years, are captured in an exhibition of photographs, ephemera, video and drawings at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Historical Society\u003c/a>. Originally exhibited at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, \u003ci>Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops 1966-1971\u003c/i> brings its cross-disciplinary lesson plan back to the region of its own making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316701\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer unknonwn, Anna and Lawrence Halprin, circa 1940.\" width=\"458\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640.jpg 458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640-400x559.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640-429x600.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer unknonwn, Anna and Lawrence Halprin, circa 1940. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Halprin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The couple’s “Experiments in Environment” were investigations into urban and natural environments and ways in which bodies move through them. Today the workshop descriptions set off all the buzzword alarms for new-agey, cringeworthy language, but the activities — from blindfolded walking to collective building projects to dances choreographed for city plazas — remain radical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the current exhibition at the CHS inspires a not immodest amount of jealousy. While expanding notions of dance, architecture, community and environment, workshop participants had what looks like a hell of a lot of fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those participants for the most part appear to be young, handsome architecture students, budding artists and dancers. A vitrine filled with applications from workshop hopefuls is priceless, including a letter from a 24-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/lord/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chip Lord\u003c/a>, who would become known as one of the founders of the collective Ant Farm, “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/03/20/kill-your-tv-how-bay-area-video-art-exploded-in-the-1970s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court jesters of the Bay Area video arts scene\u003c/a>” in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that this experience will make clear personel (sic) concepts which have been clouded or repressed by inexperience and professional school rigidity,” Lord writes in his appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200.jpg\" alt=\"'Blindfold Walk,' Kentfield, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 2, 1968.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-400x269.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-960x646.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Blindfold Walk,’ Kentfield, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 2, 1968. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lawrence Halprin Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another letter from a 32-year-old Joan Jonas (who went on to have her own star-studded career, most recently as the \u003ca href=\"http://joanjonasvenice2015.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States’ representative at the 2015 Venice Biennale\u003c/a>) says, “I hope there is still room.” Based on the exhibition’s list of 1968 workshop participants, she didn’t make the cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1968 workshop is the most thoroughly represented in the material on view at the CHS. From July 1-24 of that year, 20 dancers, 14 architects and 8 faculty members moved between San Francisco, the Halprins’ home in Kentfield and the Sonoma coastal community at Sea Ranch (which Lawrence Halprin designed). The 24 days were filled with exercises like “Sensory Walk,” “Ritual Group Drawing” and “Manipulating Bodies.” At the CHS, a large-scale horizontal sepia print \u003ci>Score for a 24-Day Workshop\u003c/i> details the complete daily activities of the group, filled from morning to night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Halprin, illustrator, 'Lunch, Score for a Dance by Anna Halprin,' 1968.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-400x313.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-766x600.jpg 766w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-768x602.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-1180x924.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-960x752.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Halprin, illustrator, ‘Lunch, Score for a Dance by Anna Halprin,’ 1968. \u003ccite>(Lawrence Halprin, illustrator, 'Lunch, Score for a Dance by Anna Halprin,' 1968.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby vitrines contain the Halprins’ “scores,” directions for activities that are both specific and open-ended, providing participants with comfort-zone expanding guidelines for exploring their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scores are theatrical. “Skyscraper Event” tells participants to travel between two San Francisco skyscrapers with an adopted personality. “Interact with the people in these buildings,” the score says. “Notice how you experience the environment and the people you contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other scores look inwards. “Sensory Walk” decrees: “Focus on each sense isolated from the others long enough so you are really digging it with that one sense before using the next sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200.jpg\" alt=\"'Ritual Group Drawing,' Sea Ranch, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 8, 1968.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Ritual Group Drawing,’ Sea Ranch, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 8, 1968. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lawrence Halprin Collection, The Architetural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Is the cringeworthy buzzword alarm ringing? Shed for a moment preconceived notions of aimless wandering and “finding oneself” in the assembly of a driftwood city (another all-day workshop activity). The Halprin workshops were part of a movement too often distilled down to Timothy Leary’s misunderstood exhortation to “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turn on, tune in, drop out.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An accompanying display of material from the CHS’s collection gives context to the era through a number of countercultural artistic and lifestyle movements, including objects relating to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.diggers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diggers\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.diggers.org/kaliflower/kf.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaliflower Commune\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.alivinglibrary.org/Sprouts_Crossroads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crossroads Community (The Farm)\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Speech Movement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halprin workshops, as demonstrated throughout the exhibition, were highly organized, carefully crafted learning environments that purposely abandoned classrooms, tangible outcomes and professorial authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radical “transformative” effect of this approach was felt by even the organizers. Lawrence Halprin, in his own evaluation of the 1968 workshop, wrote, “I, once again, believe deeply in process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb>Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops 1966-1971\u003c/b>\u003c/i> is on view at the California Historical Society in San Francisco through July 3, 2016. For more information visit \u003ca href=\"http://experiments.californiahistoricalsociety.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experiments.californiahistoricalsociety.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the Venn diagram of dance and architecture, one might think the two circles have very little overlap. But in 1966, dance pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/spark/anna-halprin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Halprin\u003c/a> and her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, sought to intermingle the two in an experimental summer workshop for students of both disciplines. The workshops, led by the couple three times over the next five years, are captured in an exhibition of photographs, ephemera, video and drawings at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Historical Society\u003c/a>. Originally exhibited at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, \u003ci>Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops 1966-1971\u003c/i> brings its cross-disciplinary lesson plan back to the region of its own making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316701\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer unknonwn, Anna and Lawrence Halprin, circa 1940.\" width=\"458\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640.jpg 458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640-400x559.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/AnnaLawrence640-429x600.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer unknonwn, Anna and Lawrence Halprin, circa 1940. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Halprin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The couple’s “Experiments in Environment” were investigations into urban and natural environments and ways in which bodies move through them. Today the workshop descriptions set off all the buzzword alarms for new-agey, cringeworthy language, but the activities — from blindfolded walking to collective building projects to dances choreographed for city plazas — remain radical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the current exhibition at the CHS inspires a not immodest amount of jealousy. While expanding notions of dance, architecture, community and environment, workshop participants had what looks like a hell of a lot of fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those participants for the most part appear to be young, handsome architecture students, budding artists and dancers. A vitrine filled with applications from workshop hopefuls is priceless, including a letter from a 24-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/lord/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chip Lord\u003c/a>, who would become known as one of the founders of the collective Ant Farm, “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/03/20/kill-your-tv-how-bay-area-video-art-exploded-in-the-1970s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court jesters of the Bay Area video arts scene\u003c/a>” in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that this experience will make clear personel (sic) concepts which have been clouded or repressed by inexperience and professional school rigidity,” Lord writes in his appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200.jpg\" alt=\"'Blindfold Walk,' Kentfield, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 2, 1968.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-400x269.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/BlindfoldWalk1200-960x646.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Blindfold Walk,’ Kentfield, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 2, 1968. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lawrence Halprin Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another letter from a 32-year-old Joan Jonas (who went on to have her own star-studded career, most recently as the \u003ca href=\"http://joanjonasvenice2015.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States’ representative at the 2015 Venice Biennale\u003c/a>) says, “I hope there is still room.” Based on the exhibition’s list of 1968 workshop participants, she didn’t make the cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1968 workshop is the most thoroughly represented in the material on view at the CHS. From July 1-24 of that year, 20 dancers, 14 architects and 8 faculty members moved between San Francisco, the Halprins’ home in Kentfield and the Sonoma coastal community at Sea Ranch (which Lawrence Halprin designed). The 24 days were filled with exercises like “Sensory Walk,” “Ritual Group Drawing” and “Manipulating Bodies.” At the CHS, a large-scale horizontal sepia print \u003ci>Score for a 24-Day Workshop\u003c/i> details the complete daily activities of the group, filled from morning to night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Halprin, illustrator, 'Lunch, Score for a Dance by Anna Halprin,' 1968.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-400x313.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-766x600.jpg 766w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-768x602.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-1180x924.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Lunch1200-960x752.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Halprin, illustrator, ‘Lunch, Score for a Dance by Anna Halprin,’ 1968. \u003ccite>(Lawrence Halprin, illustrator, 'Lunch, Score for a Dance by Anna Halprin,' 1968.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby vitrines contain the Halprins’ “scores,” directions for activities that are both specific and open-ended, providing participants with comfort-zone expanding guidelines for exploring their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scores are theatrical. “Skyscraper Event” tells participants to travel between two San Francisco skyscrapers with an adopted personality. “Interact with the people in these buildings,” the score says. “Notice how you experience the environment and the people you contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other scores look inwards. “Sensory Walk” decrees: “Focus on each sense isolated from the others long enough so you are really digging it with that one sense before using the next sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11316934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200.jpg\" alt=\"'Ritual Group Drawing,' Sea Ranch, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 8, 1968.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RitualGroupDrawing1200-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Ritual Group Drawing,’ Sea Ranch, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 8, 1968. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lawrence Halprin Collection, The Architetural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Is the cringeworthy buzzword alarm ringing? Shed for a moment preconceived notions of aimless wandering and “finding oneself” in the assembly of a driftwood city (another all-day workshop activity). The Halprin workshops were part of a movement too often distilled down to Timothy Leary’s misunderstood exhortation to “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turn on, tune in, drop out.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An accompanying display of material from the CHS’s collection gives context to the era through a number of countercultural artistic and lifestyle movements, including objects relating to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.diggers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diggers\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.diggers.org/kaliflower/kf.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaliflower Commune\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.alivinglibrary.org/Sprouts_Crossroads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crossroads Community (The Farm)\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Speech Movement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halprin workshops, as demonstrated throughout the exhibition, were highly organized, carefully crafted learning environments that purposely abandoned classrooms, tangible outcomes and professorial authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radical “transformative” effect of this approach was felt by even the organizers. Lawrence Halprin, in his own evaluation of the 1968 workshop, wrote, “I, once again, believe deeply in process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb>Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops 1966-1971\u003c/b>\u003c/i> is on view at the California Historical Society in San Francisco through July 3, 2016. For more information visit \u003ca href=\"http://experiments.californiahistoricalsociety.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experiments.californiahistoricalsociety.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At the University of California Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucnrs.org/reserves/sagehen-creek-field-station.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sagehen Creek Field Station\u003c/a> in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, small groups of plant species weather out a harsh winter under several feet of snow. There’s not much to see, let alone anything that resembles art. But hard though it may be to believe, the specimens are in fact part of the latest game-changing ecological art project by \u003ca href=\"http://theharrisonstudio.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246555541″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11317173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11317173\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-800x402.jpg\" alt='One of the Harrisons many eye-catching maps: \"The Sagehen ecosystem and experimental sites\"' width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-800x402.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-400x201.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-768x386.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-1180x593.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-960x482.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990.jpg 1346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Harrisons many eye-catching maps: “The Sagehen ecosystem and experimental sites” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of The Harrison Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Widely known as the parents of the eco-art movement, the Harrisons have become world-renowned for using art to tackle environmental problems on a massive, global scale. Over more than four decades, the Santa Cruz-based husband-and-wife team have inspired the public to get behind environmental issues, from climate change to the impact of urbanization on the ecosystem — and on occasion have even successfully helped to bring about high-level environmental policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are million-square-kilometer problems,” says Newton of the issues that he and Helen address with their work.\u003cbr>\n“What we have to be concerned about is what is happening to the entire planet,” Helen says. “What we are concerned about is the survival of the people and all living things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons’ acclaim is so great that a few years ago the Getty Research Institute and Stanford University both expressed interest in housing their archives. \u003ca href=\"https://lib.stanford.edu/art-architecture-library/four-decades-selections-helen-and-newton-harrison-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford won\u003c/a>. “We are delighted that the Helen and Newton Harrison archive came to Stanford University,” says Peter Blank, Senior Librarian at Stanford’s Bowes Art & Architecture Library. “Their engagement with the hard questions of our day — what are our shared responsibilities on a planet fraught with ecological uncertainties — and the manner in which they integrate the arts and sciences has resulted in a remarkably rich body of work.” And now the artists, who are both in their eighties, are the subject of a kaleidoscopic book, which Random House will put out later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A 50-year-long project in the Sierra Nevada\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11314288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11314288\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Under deep snow at UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, groups of plant species hibernate as part of a 50-year-long environmental art project implemented by The Harrisons in collaboration with scientists and members of the Washoe Tribe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under deep snow at UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, groups of plant species hibernate as part of a 50-year-long environmental art project implemented by The Harrisons in collaboration with scientists and members of the Washoe Tribe. \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Sagehen, the Harrisons are collaborating with a small team of scientists and members of the Washoe Tribe on a 50-year-long project. It involves physically moving groups of plant species like wild rose and red fir to higher ground with the aim of helping the seedlings become resilient both to the warming effects of climate change and at different altitudes. The Sagehen investigation is part of an even bigger project, entitled \u003cem>The Force Majeure\u003c/em>, which looks at finding solutions to two problems through conducting experiments in four different parts of the world — encroaching water levels and rising temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These are two vast forces that we have speeded up to say the least,” Newton says of co-opting the legal term “force majeure” which means a huge power that cannot be controlled, kind of like an act of god. “We consider them a force majeure. Why? G\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">o ahead and stop them if you can. But there may be a counter-force on the horizon and that is what we search for.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons’ deep interest in involving people of the Washoe Tribe — who for thousands of years \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have called the Sagehen area and beyond their ancestral home\u003c/span> — adds an important dimension to the project because of the Native Americans’ deep knowledge of the local ecosystem and its indigenous species. Tribal elder Benny Fillmore says this is the first time he’s ever been asked by anyone outside of his tribe to collaborate on an art project. “I think it’s really rare in this day and age as tribal members to be given a hand in such a big project,” Fillmore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11314392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11314392\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-800x549.jpg\" alt='UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station scientists Jeff Brown and Faerthen Felix. The scientists are collaborating with Newton and Helen Harrison on one part of their massive, global \"Force Majeure\" project. Here we see them posing in front of another site-specific art project on site at Sagehen.' width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-768x527.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-1920x1317.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station managers Jeff Brown and Faerthen Felix. Sagehen is collaborating with Newton and Helen Harrison on one part of their massive, global “Force Majeure” project. Here we see them posing in front of another site-specific art project on site at Sagehen, “Invisible Barn”. \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons’ ability to connect people and ideas that normally wouldn’t come into contact with one another is one of their greatest assets. Sagehen field station manager, Faerthen Felix, says the station’s relationship with the Harrisons is helping to find a wider audience for important but usually dry scientific data. “The problem is that science is by nature a non-emotional process,” Felix says. “You have to be dispassionate. The data has to speak for itself. But that’s not what humans are like. Emotion is what drives us. And emotion is the raw material that artists use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felix’s colleague, Jeff Brown, says the Harrisons’ art — for instance, the huge, colorful, topographical maps they create for many of their projects — helps transform cold science into a meaningful story. “They’re allowed to get visceral,” Brown says. “They’re allowed to get emotive. They’re allowed to connect with people in ways science just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shaping environmental policy in Holland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This quality has enabled the Harrisons to shape environmental policy. In the mid-1990s, a branch of the Dutch government challenged the artists to solve an enormous urban planning problem: how to build hundreds of thousands of new houses while protecting the country’s lush green lowlands. The Harrisons created beautiful aerial landscape videos to bewitch the initially skeptical officials. They also audaciously exhibited a big map of Holland — printed backwards. “The planners got mad at us and they said, ‘Why have you done this?’ Newton recalls. “And we said, ‘Well you’re planning your country backwards, so we printed your map backwards.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11318892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Green_Heart_LEFT_SIDE-1.jpg\" alt=\"To get their message across to the Dutch authorities, the Harrisons audaciously created and exhibited a map of Holland --printed backwards \" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Green_Heart_LEFT_SIDE-1.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Green_Heart_LEFT_SIDE-1-400x323.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To get their message across to the Dutch authorities, the Harrisons audaciously created and exhibited a map of Holland –printed backwards \u003ccite>(Courtesy: The Harrison Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t that easy to convince the politicians,” says Adriaan De Regt, who was a cultural official for South Holland at the time the Harrisons undertook their \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Heart of Holland\u003c/a>\u003c/em> project. “It took some time before they saw that the plan from the Harrisons was a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American couple eventually won over the Dutch officials, who adopted their vision. Bill Fox, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nevadaart.org/ae/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Art and the Environment at the Museum of Nevada\u003c/a> and has worked closely with the Harrisons in recent years, says the Harrisons’ work is persuasive because it successfully bridges the worlds of politics and science. “They create these beautiful maps and poetic texts, and do these exhibitions about the problem that really creates empathy for a place,” Fox says. “Once you begin to care about place, you will care about what happens to that place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fomenting environmental activism in San Diego\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons first met in 1950 at Helen’s family farm in Connecticut. Newton was a budding sculptor still in his teens, and Helen, a few years his senior, a teacher, philosopher and student of English literature. The couple didn’t formally start working on art projects together until 1969, when they both landed jobs at the University of California, San Diego. Newton taught art and Helen ran educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a combination of biological research and the publication of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Spring\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Rachel Carson’s seminal book about environmental destruction, that pushed them towards working on art projects in service of the environment together. “We made a decision to do no work that didn’t benefit the ecology, as neither of us could face that alone,” says Newton. “That’s how our collaboration began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Electrocuting catfish in London\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11317170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11317170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/8-2R-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"People exploring the Harrisons' "Portable Fish Farm" installation in 1971\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People exploring the Harrisons’ “Portable Fish Farm” installation in 1971 \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the couple’s art has gotten them into trouble. In 1971, the Harrisons were part of a high-profile exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery. For their \u003ca href=\"http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">installation about the sustainability of farming practices\u003c/a>, they electrocuted catfish and made stew for museumgoers. It caused an uproar. Helen says that although the fish were humanely killed, many people couldn’t see past the shock value. “People wanted the government to cancel our show,” she says. The tabloid press went berserk. Newton lights up at the memory. “Helen made a weird version of bouillabaisse,” he says. “It smelled so good that nobody went to the other exhibitions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Composer Edward Lambert even turned the debacle into a chamber opera entitled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/catfish-conundrum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Catfish Conundrum\u003c/a>\u003c/em> two years ago, with Newton Harrison and the catfish among the characters represented on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch a video of the entire opera, performed in 2014 by The Music Troupe of London:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Catfish Conundrum\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/113147541?dnt=1&app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just audiences that balked at the Harrisons’ work in the early days. Because of the couple’s scientific leanings, the art establishment was also fairly hostile towards them in the early years. “It took a while for museums to decide that artists could work in these fields and be artists,” says the Harrisons’ longtime New York dealer Ronald Feldman. “So they had a rough road to get attention for their work as artwork.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, things are different. The Harrisons’ maps, videos and other visual artifacts can fetch up to hundreds of thousands of dollars on the art market, according to Feldman. And Newton and Helen are considered trailblazers. “Many artists work very well with the sciences,” Feldman says. “Newton and Helen have opened that door for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons aren’t as mobile as they used to be and Helen’s health is particularly fragile. They’re still doggedly focused on their ecological mission, though Newton cautions it’s not up to him and Helen to save the Earth. “You need a big community,” he says. “And that community is slowly forming and the question is will it form quickly enough? Or is mass extinction a fact?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/fillmores-and-harrisons-e1455212925663-800x549.png\" alt=\"Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison with Laura and Benny Fillmore of the Washoe Tribe\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/fillmores-and-harrisons-e1455212925663-800x549.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/fillmores-and-harrisons-e1455212925663-400x275.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/fillmores-and-harrisons-e1455212925663-768x527.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/fillmores-and-harrisons-e1455212925663-960x659.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/fillmores-and-harrisons-e1455212925663.png 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison with Benny Fillmore of the Washoe Tribe and his daughter, Helen. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Laura Fillmore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At the University of California Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucnrs.org/reserves/sagehen-creek-field-station.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sagehen Creek Field Station\u003c/a> in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, small groups of plant species weather out a harsh winter under several feet of snow. There’s not much to see, let alone anything that resembles art. But hard though it may be to believe, the specimens are in fact part of the latest game-changing ecological art project by \u003ca href=\"http://theharrisonstudio.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246555541″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246555541″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11317173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11317173\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-800x402.jpg\" alt='One of the Harrisons many eye-catching maps: \"The Sagehen ecosystem and experimental sites\"' width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-800x402.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-400x201.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-768x386.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-1180x593.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990-960x482.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Force-Majeure-pg-35-e1455159873990.jpg 1346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Harrisons many eye-catching maps: “The Sagehen ecosystem and experimental sites” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of The Harrison Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Widely known as the parents of the eco-art movement, the Harrisons have become world-renowned for using art to tackle environmental problems on a massive, global scale. Over more than four decades, the Santa Cruz-based husband-and-wife team have inspired the public to get behind environmental issues, from climate change to the impact of urbanization on the ecosystem — and on occasion have even successfully helped to bring about high-level environmental policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are million-square-kilometer problems,” says Newton of the issues that he and Helen address with their work.\u003cbr>\n“What we have to be concerned about is what is happening to the entire planet,” Helen says. “What we are concerned about is the survival of the people and all living things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons’ acclaim is so great that a few years ago the Getty Research Institute and Stanford University both expressed interest in housing their archives. \u003ca href=\"https://lib.stanford.edu/art-architecture-library/four-decades-selections-helen-and-newton-harrison-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford won\u003c/a>. “We are delighted that the Helen and Newton Harrison archive came to Stanford University,” says Peter Blank, Senior Librarian at Stanford’s Bowes Art & Architecture Library. “Their engagement with the hard questions of our day — what are our shared responsibilities on a planet fraught with ecological uncertainties — and the manner in which they integrate the arts and sciences has resulted in a remarkably rich body of work.” And now the artists, who are both in their eighties, are the subject of a kaleidoscopic book, which Random House will put out later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A 50-year-long project in the Sierra Nevada\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11314288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11314288\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Under deep snow at UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, groups of plant species hibernate as part of a 50-year-long environmental art project implemented by The Harrisons in collaboration with scientists and members of the Washoe Tribe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4027-e1455067190306-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under deep snow at UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, groups of plant species hibernate as part of a 50-year-long environmental art project implemented by The Harrisons in collaboration with scientists and members of the Washoe Tribe. \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Sagehen, the Harrisons are collaborating with a small team of scientists and members of the Washoe Tribe on a 50-year-long project. It involves physically moving groups of plant species like wild rose and red fir to higher ground with the aim of helping the seedlings become resilient both to the warming effects of climate change and at different altitudes. The Sagehen investigation is part of an even bigger project, entitled \u003cem>The Force Majeure\u003c/em>, which looks at finding solutions to two problems through conducting experiments in four different parts of the world — encroaching water levels and rising temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These are two vast forces that we have speeded up to say the least,” Newton says of co-opting the legal term “force majeure” which means a huge power that cannot be controlled, kind of like an act of god. “We consider them a force majeure. Why? G\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">o ahead and stop them if you can. But there may be a counter-force on the horizon and that is what we search for.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons’ deep interest in involving people of the Washoe Tribe — who for thousands of years \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have called the Sagehen area and beyond their ancestral home\u003c/span> — adds an important dimension to the project because of the Native Americans’ deep knowledge of the local ecosystem and its indigenous species. Tribal elder Benny Fillmore says this is the first time he’s ever been asked by anyone outside of his tribe to collaborate on an art project. “I think it’s really rare in this day and age as tribal members to be given a hand in such a big project,” Fillmore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11314392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11314392\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-800x549.jpg\" alt='UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station scientists Jeff Brown and Faerthen Felix. The scientists are collaborating with Newton and Helen Harrison on one part of their massive, global \"Force Majeure\" project. Here we see them posing in front of another site-specific art project on site at Sagehen.' width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-768x527.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-1920x1317.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4017-e1455067971122-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station managers Jeff Brown and Faerthen Felix. Sagehen is collaborating with Newton and Helen Harrison on one part of their massive, global “Force Majeure” project. Here we see them posing in front of another site-specific art project on site at Sagehen, “Invisible Barn”. \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons’ ability to connect people and ideas that normally wouldn’t come into contact with one another is one of their greatest assets. Sagehen field station manager, Faerthen Felix, says the station’s relationship with the Harrisons is helping to find a wider audience for important but usually dry scientific data. “The problem is that science is by nature a non-emotional process,” Felix says. “You have to be dispassionate. The data has to speak for itself. But that’s not what humans are like. Emotion is what drives us. And emotion is the raw material that artists use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felix’s colleague, Jeff Brown, says the Harrisons’ art — for instance, the huge, colorful, topographical maps they create for many of their projects — helps transform cold science into a meaningful story. “They’re allowed to get visceral,” Brown says. “They’re allowed to get emotive. They’re allowed to connect with people in ways science just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shaping environmental policy in Holland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This quality has enabled the Harrisons to shape environmental policy. In the mid-1990s, a branch of the Dutch government challenged the artists to solve an enormous urban planning problem: how to build hundreds of thousands of new houses while protecting the country’s lush green lowlands. The Harrisons created beautiful aerial landscape videos to bewitch the initially skeptical officials. They also audaciously exhibited a big map of Holland — printed backwards. “The planners got mad at us and they said, ‘Why have you done this?’ Newton recalls. “And we said, ‘Well you’re planning your country backwards, so we printed your map backwards.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11318892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Green_Heart_LEFT_SIDE-1.jpg\" alt=\"To get their message across to the Dutch authorities, the Harrisons audaciously created and exhibited a map of Holland --printed backwards \" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Green_Heart_LEFT_SIDE-1.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Green_Heart_LEFT_SIDE-1-400x323.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To get their message across to the Dutch authorities, the Harrisons audaciously created and exhibited a map of Holland –printed backwards \u003ccite>(Courtesy: The Harrison Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t that easy to convince the politicians,” says Adriaan De Regt, who was a cultural official for South Holland at the time the Harrisons undertook their \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Heart of Holland\u003c/a>\u003c/em> project. “It took some time before they saw that the plan from the Harrisons was a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American couple eventually won over the Dutch officials, who adopted their vision. Bill Fox, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nevadaart.org/ae/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Art and the Environment at the Museum of Nevada\u003c/a> and has worked closely with the Harrisons in recent years, says the Harrisons’ work is persuasive because it successfully bridges the worlds of politics and science. “They create these beautiful maps and poetic texts, and do these exhibitions about the problem that really creates empathy for a place,” Fox says. “Once you begin to care about place, you will care about what happens to that place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fomenting environmental activism in San Diego\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons first met in 1950 at Helen’s family farm in Connecticut. Newton was a budding sculptor still in his teens, and Helen, a few years his senior, a teacher, philosopher and student of English literature. The couple didn’t formally start working on art projects together until 1969, when they both landed jobs at the University of California, San Diego. Newton taught art and Helen ran educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a combination of biological research and the publication of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Spring\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Rachel Carson’s seminal book about environmental destruction, that pushed them towards working on art projects in service of the environment together. “We made a decision to do no work that didn’t benefit the ecology, as neither of us could face that alone,” says Newton. “That’s how our collaboration began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Electrocuting catfish in London\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11317170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11317170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/8-2R-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"People exploring the Harrisons' "Portable Fish Farm" installation in 1971\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People exploring the Harrisons’ “Portable Fish Farm” installation in 1971 \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the couple’s art has gotten them into trouble. In 1971, the Harrisons were part of a high-profile exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery. For their \u003ca href=\"http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">installation about the sustainability of farming practices\u003c/a>, they electrocuted catfish and made stew for museumgoers. It caused an uproar. Helen says that although the fish were humanely killed, many people couldn’t see past the shock value. “People wanted the government to cancel our show,” she says. The tabloid press went berserk. Newton lights up at the memory. “Helen made a weird version of bouillabaisse,” he says. “It smelled so good that nobody went to the other exhibitions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Composer Edward Lambert even turned the debacle into a chamber opera entitled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/catfish-conundrum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Catfish Conundrum\u003c/a>\u003c/em> two years ago, with Newton Harrison and the catfish among the characters represented on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch a video of the entire opera, performed in 2014 by The Music Troupe of London:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Catfish Conundrum\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/113147541?dnt=1&app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just audiences that balked at the Harrisons’ work in the early days. Because of the couple’s scientific leanings, the art establishment was also fairly hostile towards them in the early years. “It took a while for museums to decide that artists could work in these fields and be artists,” says the Harrisons’ longtime New York dealer Ronald Feldman. “So they had a rough road to get attention for their work as artwork.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, things are different. The Harrisons’ maps, videos and other visual artifacts can fetch up to hundreds of thousands of dollars on the art market, according to Feldman. And Newton and Helen are considered trailblazers. “Many artists work very well with the sciences,” Feldman says. “Newton and Helen have opened that door for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harrisons aren’t as mobile as they used to be and Helen’s health is particularly fragile. They’re still doggedly focused on their ecological mission, though Newton cautions it’s not up to him and Helen to save the Earth. “You need a big community,” he says. “And that community is slowly forming and the question is will it form quickly enough? 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"content": "\u003cp>Valentine’s Day is upon us once again. And in the Bay Area, if you’ve had time to buy Valentine’s gifts, then you’re not working hard enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year we commissioned \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/02/12/got-you-covered-valentines-day-cards-for-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six Bay Area-themed valentines from six different local artists\u003c/a> and the results were phenomenal. This year we worked with five artists — one from last year and four new ones — to bring you six more valentines that are just as fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please share with your art-loving friends…or your lazy ones who you know won’t have their sh*t together in time for the big day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11317055\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day.jpg\" alt=\"KQED ventines day\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/KQED-ventines-day-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First is “I left my art in San Francisco” by San Francisco’s own Aaron Zonka, an artist with large portfolio of paintings, comics and even concert flyers. You can see his work at \u003ca href=\"http://aaronzonka.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aaronzonka.com.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11317056\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine.jpg\" alt=\"MikaylaButchart_valentine\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/MikaylaButchart_valentine-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Santa Rosa native and a long-time resident of San Francisco’s Russian Hill, Mikayla Butchart provided us this valentine while she’s earning her MFA in illustration at the School of Visual Arts (but her heart is still in San Francisco). See more of her work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mikaylabutchart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mikaylabutchart.com.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11317057\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval.jpg\" alt=\"seal of approval\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/seal-of-approval-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Painter, illustrator, and designer Rebecca Silvers, a San Francisco native, provided us with this “Seal of Approval.” Check out more of her work at \u003ca href=\"http://rebeccasilvers.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rebeccasilvers.com\u003c/a>. (She also happens to be the sister of KQED Pop reporter \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/author/esilvers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emma Silvers\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11317490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2.jpg\" alt=\"caneedsrain2\" width=\"627\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2.jpg 627w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2-400x542.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2-443x600.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we have the return of Jeff Meadows, local artist and sign painter, who provided us with “I Totes Love You” last year and “California Needs Rain” this year (though thankfully we are finally getting some damn rain.) More of his work can be seen at \u003ca href=\"http://jeff-meadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jeff-meadows.com.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11317054\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart.jpg\" alt=\"Fog heart\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Fog-heart-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These next two cards are from Katherine Streeter, a New York City-based collage artist who has been illustrating for various markets worldwide for a long time, and can be seen in publications like \u003cem>American Illustration\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Communication Arts\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>3×3 Illustration Annual\u003c/em>. (She also provided collages for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/arts-and-culture/love-in-the-digital-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Love in the Digital Age\u003c/i>\u003c/a> podcast.) 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(She also happens to be the sister of KQED Pop reporter \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/author/esilvers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emma Silvers\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11317490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2.jpg\" alt=\"caneedsrain2\" width=\"627\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2.jpg 627w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2-400x542.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/caneedsrain2-443x600.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we have the return of Jeff Meadows, local artist and sign painter, who provided us with “I Totes Love You” last year and “California Needs Rain” this year (though thankfully we are finally getting some damn rain.) 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/participate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11316580 noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11316580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"pARTicipate-button-400x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>A couple of years ago, Shauna Samora drove by a ceramics studio in downtown San Jose and decided on a whim that it was time to take up pottery again. She hadn’t been at the wheel in 24 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samora’s artistic passion provides a much needed break away from the challenges of running a big household. She lives on the border of Milpitas and San Jose with her husband and seven children aged between 10 and 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always loved the fact that when I sit down at the wheel, it takes all of my concentration,” Samora says. “I can’t think of any stray thoughts. I have to become one with that clay. I have to be stable for it and watch it form.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4868-1-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Shauna Samora is the mother of seven children, four of whom she adopted when she married her husband. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11713537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4868-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4868-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4868-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4868-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4868-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/IMG_4868-1-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shauna Samora is the mother of seven children, four of whom she adopted when she married her husband. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Shauna Samora)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Samora attends\u003ca href=\"http://www.higherfirestudios.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Higher Fire Clayspace\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose sometimes as often as once a week. She’s even taught some of her children to throw at the wheel so that they can cultivate a creative and therapeutic practice of working with clay. Samora calls her art form “clay therapy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Samora’s personal narrative about how she returned to pottery after a long absence and how the art form has changed her life:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246322668″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=’450′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wanna learn to throw a pot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Working on the wheel takes people out of their daily routine,” says Dan Dermer, who owns Higher Fire Clayspace, a pottery studio in Downtown San Jose’s SOFA District. “You learn how to focus and concentrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11314520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 434px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11314520 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/DSC_0975-400x268.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0975\" width=\"434\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/DSC_0975-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/DSC_0975-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/DSC_0975-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/DSC_0975-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/DSC_0975-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/DSC_0975-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Dermer is a full-time potter, instructor and studio owner at Higher Fire Clayspace in Downtown San Jose’s SOFA District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dan Dermer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last year, Dermer says, people have become pretty interested in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/fashion/why-handmade-ceramics-are-white-hot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handmade ceramics \u003c/a>. And he’s got a few tips for those who are ready to sink their hands into some clay, but haven’t walked into the studio just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Take the Leap: \u003c/strong>“Go ahead and try it, take a class,” Dermer says. “A lot of people have trouble at first. But throwing clay is like any new skill, it only gets more fun if you stick with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Be Patient: \u003c/strong>“Initially she wasn’t doing very well on the wheel and was frustrated,” Dermer says of one of his students. “I sat down with her and we did a tune up.” Teacher and student worked on some of the basics like centering the clay (moving the clay to the middle of the wheel head so you can throw it), using just the right amount of water, and pulling up the wall (that’s when you raise up the sides of the clay using your hands). “After that tune up, she went on to make close to 100 pieces for Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter,” Dermer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Practice, practice, practice:\u003c/strong> “When you practice, you slowly get familiar with the material, how much water to use, where your hands need to be and what details you need to pay attention to,” Dermer says. “You might throw 25 to 30 bowls but only take home 10.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling inspired? Here are some places in the Bay Area where you can learn how to throw your own pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"callout alignright\">\u003cstrong>pARTicipate with us! \u003c/strong>We need your help to make this project bloom. If you have an artistic hobby that you’re passionate about, or know about an artist or organization involved in community art-making, we want to hear from you in any or all of the following ways:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Share an image or video of you (and your friends) participating in your activity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tell us the story of how you got involved in your practice, what it is you do and why it means so much to you\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Send us information about arts organizations or individual coaches who are helping to bring creativity to your community\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can reach us in the following ways:\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Email: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"mailto:cveltman@kqed.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cveltman@kqed.org\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter: @KQEDarts and #KQEDparticipate\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook: KQED Arts\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram: @KQEDofficial and #KQEDparticipate\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.higherfirestudios.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher Fire Clayspace and Gallery\u003c/a>, San Jose\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA teaching studio and ceramics gallery in Downtown San Jose’s SOFA District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://thecrucible.org/classes/departments/ceramics-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Crucible\u003c/a>, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor serious makers. 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Started by a group of clay artists from the former San Francisco art space, The Clay Studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://millvalleypottersstudio.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mill Valley Potter’s Studio\u003c/a>, Mill Valley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOffers a wide range of classes for adults, youth, and families as well as workshops taught by guest artists.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But she might have never visited the Arctic if it weren’t for a fortuitous offer from Alaska Airlines when she was flying out of Oakland back in the 1990s: The airline offered the artist a free flight anywhere in its network in exchange for being bumped from a flight. Yes, airlines used to offer that perk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, alright, I’ll do it,” says Seaman, who lives in Richmond. “I think a lot of people are offered that chance, but they never actually use the ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, not the way Seaman used it. 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What started on a whim for the artist became a passion, and then a cause. “I think for too long we’ve allowed ourselves as citizens of this planet to think that it’s a right to be able to do what we want to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seaman’s photo “Grand Pinnacle,” is just one of the striking pieces in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vanishing-ice.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanishing Ice\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a traveling exhibition from Washington State that covers more than 200 years of artistic engagement with Arctic and alpine landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curator, Dr. Barbara Matilsky of the \u003ca href=\"https://whatcommuseum.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whatcom Museum\u003c/a> in Bellingham, Washington, has spent a lot of her career thinking about the way artists like Seaman have followed the work of scientists and popularized their research, “getting people to appreciate the beauty and majesty of these regions,” as she puts it, “so that they would be inspired to protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original exhibition, featuring 80 works from artists all over the world, premiered at the \u003ca href=\"https://whatcommuseum.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whatcom Museum\u003c/a> in March 2014, and has continued on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The El Paso Museum of Art\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcmichael.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McMicael Canadian Art Collection\u003c/a> in Kleinburg, Ontario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with Seaman’s body of work, \u003cem>Vanishing Ice\u003c/em> also serves as a record of climate change over the centuries, showing audiences what the world looked like even before cameras came along. “It’s an ‘a ha!’ moment when you see these works,” Matilsky says, “because it becomes very clear that this is just not these sporadic events happening here and there, but the actual results of this climatic phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The David Brower Center in Berkeley is presenting an abbreviated version of the exhibition, featuring around 25 works. But the venue is also hosting a series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.browercenter.org/exhibitions/vanishing-ice/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">related events\u003c/a>, like a talk with Matilsky in February, and an evening of music with \u003ca href=\"http://www.otherminds.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other Minds\u003c/a> in May, featuring San Francisco composer \u003ca href=\"http://www.allwaysnorth.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheryl Leonard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard has written several pieces using natural objects found in polar regions that will be performed at the concert . 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"content": "\u003cp>As the world celebrates one hundred years of dadaism, it is worth looking at how this “anti-art” art movement that started in a café in Zurich during World War I resulted in an iconic artwork involving that most humble object of tableware: the teacup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1936, a 23-year-old Swiss artist named Meret Oppenheim bought a teacup, saucer and spoon from a department store in Paris and wrapped them in the cream-and-tan pelt of a Chinese gazelle. Her hirsute little offering became a defining artifact of surrealism — the art movement that sprang from dadaism’s flamboyant entrails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the sculpture’s appeal lay in the conversation that led to its creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day in 1936, Oppenheim met her friends Pablo Picasso and his new lover, Dora Maar, at the Café de Flore, the modish Paris coffeehouse that was a regular haunt of artists. Beautiful, witty and fiercely independent, Oppenheim had been living in Paris for the last four years. She had scarcely managed to sell her art, but made a modest income by designing jewelry and accessories for the trailblazing fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, known for her shoe-shaped hats and telephone-shaped purses. As part of the surrealist set, Oppenheim had posed nude for Man Ray’s camera and had recently ended a passionate yearlong love affair with the German painter Max Ernst, suddenly calling it off over lunch at a café.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cafes would play an important role in her life. The story goes that at the Café de Flore, Picasso commented on Oppenheim’s bracelet – a broad round brass cuff wrapped in ocelot fur that she had designed the previous year for Schiaparelli. Picasso remarked that one could cover anything with fur. “Even this plate and this cup here,” Oppenheim replied. Then, when she found that her tea was cooling, she jokingly asked the waiter for “\u003cem>un peu plus de fourrure\u003c/em>” — or “a little more fur” — to swaddle her cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterward, Oppenheim went to the department store in what would become the most famous shopping trip of her career. In her studio, she artfully wrapped the items in such a way that the tan formed a dark border around the teacup’s outer rim to match the saucer, while the body of the cup itself was offset in creamy white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>André Breton, the founder of surrealism, was enchanted. Here was an artwork that chimed with his declaration that “beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” He called it \u003cem>Le Déjeuner en fourrure\u003c/em> (\u003cem>L\u003c/em>\u003cem>uncheon\u003c/em>\u003cem> in Fur\u003c/em>, though in English it is also known as \u003cem>Breakfast in Fur\u003c/em>) and exhibited it that year at the first surrealist exhibition dedicated to objects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the talking point of the show, the sculpture became the receptacle of all kinds of theories, fears and longings. This being the age of Freud, a gastro-sexual interpretation was inescapable: the spoon was phallic, the cup vaginal, the hair pubic. For some, the tongue-shaped spoon brought to mind unpleasant sensations of a furry tongue. Others experienced unease at seeing a graceful item of the tea table transformed into something decadent and animalistic; some gagged at the thought of getting a hair or damp tea leaves in their mouth; still others wanted to stroke it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oppenheim’s friend and mentor Marcel Duchamp had achieved something similar in 1919, when he took a postcard picture of the Mona Lisa and crayoned a black mustache and beard on her smooth face. But while his hairy additions had a comical effect, Oppenheim’s were creepier, more visceral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those impressed was Alfred J. Barr Jr., the young director of New York’s newly established Museum of Modern Art. When Oppenheim expressed a willingness to sell the work for a thousand French francs, he offered roughly half that amount, $50, and she agreed. Since this was the first work by a woman the museum acquired, Oppenheim is playfully called the First Lady of MoMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oppenheim, the unexpected success had mixed results. The fur cup became “her prison,” according to her niece, Lisa Wenger. The next year, having run out of funds – $50 didn’t last very long – and with the Nazis on the rise, Oppenheim went back to Switzerland. “She lives in Basel, bloody hates it,” Wenger said at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XShlnmkwbck\">talk\u003c/a> she gave at the 2013 Art Basel fair. “It was small compared to Paris, and conventional; people think she’s weird because she wears one green and one red stocking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the start of a 17-year-long depression, according to Wenger. Oppenheim was in any case vulnerable to bouts of anxiety and melancholy, and in the year before she created her fur cup, she had been sent by her doctor father to consult the great Carl Jung. His assessment, as he wrote to her father, was that Oppenheim reflected the “youthful disorientation of our era” and did not appear to have “any neurotic complication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of MoMA’s permanent collection, Oppenheim’s furry – if balding — ensemble continues to trigger reactions that are as intense as those elicited all those years ago in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11314054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/meret_enl-5e2d6b46be21fd6655d07a453bd5c5242d432187.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Meret Oppenheim's September 1935 design notes for the prototype of her brass and ocelot fur bracelet. 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His idea was to reference not only Edouard Manet’s famous painting \u003cem>Le Déjeuner\u003c/em> \u003cem>sur l’herbe\u003c/em> (“\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%E2%80%99herbe\">The Luncheon on the Grass\u003c/a>“), but also, more cannily, \u003cem>Venus in Furs, \u003c/em>the 1870 sadomasochistic novella by the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (whose surname is the root of the word masochistic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oppenheim, no prude by any standard, maintained that she had neither whips nor chains in mind when she was dressing up her tea things. All she had wanted was to take something familiar and make it strange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, she didn’t design \u003cem>Object\u003c/em> today. It might have been called \u003cem>Fifty Shades of Earl Grey.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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His assessment, as he wrote to her father, was that Oppenheim reflected the “youthful disorientation of our era” and did not appear to have “any neurotic complication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of MoMA’s permanent collection, Oppenheim’s furry – if balding — ensemble continues to trigger reactions that are as intense as those elicited all those years ago in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11314054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/meret_enl-5e2d6b46be21fd6655d07a453bd5c5242d432187.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Meret Oppenheim's September 1935 design notes for the prototype of her brass and ocelot fur bracelet. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Text by Niema Jordan, video by Debora Silva.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Forgotten Cities\u003c/em> is for the people who feel hopeless, voiceless,” says photographer \u003ca href=\"http://brittsense.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittani “BRITTSENSE” Sensabaugh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311319\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseProfile620.jpg\" alt='Brittani \"BRITTSENSE\" Sensabaugh.' width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseProfile620.jpg 427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseProfile620-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brittani “BRITTSENSE” Sensabaugh. \u003ccite>(Photo by Nema Etebar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images are striking. Photographs of young girls with afro-puffs and intricately designed cornrows sit next to pictures of women with multi-colored sponge rollers and acrylic nails. A father with his daughter perched atop his shoulders. A young woman dancing on the corner of West 116th Street in Harlem, a bright pink wall contrasting with her black leotard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2013 Sensabaugh has documented the daily experiences of people living cities and neighborhoods deemed too dangerous by some. For her, they are communities shining with examples of unconditional love and resilience. \u003cem>#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin\u003c/em>, Sensabaugh’s first solo exhibition in her hometown, opened Feb. 5 at Betti Ono in Oakland. I asked her a few questions before her homecoming debut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did you become a photographer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first love was journalism. I always wanted to write for magazines. My older brother saw my writings and told me that I needed to put some imagery behind it. I was open to it, but I was really just comfortable with writing. At my graduation he gave me a Kodak camera. Two years later he died in his sleep. I just remember saying to myself, will I be able to live out my dreams? He died at such a young age. I didn’t talk for months, didn’t leave the bed. I woke up one day and saw the camera and was like this was a way for me to connect with him, so I started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When you moved to New York City, you were doing fashion photography. Why did you make the switch to the type of work you are doing now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I felt myself being more attracted to the person that was wearing the garment than the garment. I want to know the reason you put it on. Is it because your mom dressed a certain way? I always like to get to the root of things — and fashion, especially in New York, is all about the trends. I wasn’t interested in the trends, I was interested in the art of it. Moving to New York to do fashion photography because it was the fashion capital took the fun out of it. I felt myself drifting away from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did \u003cem>#222ForgottenCities\u003c/em> come about? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was on the A train in New York. I had on an Oakland hoodie. This elderly white lady pointed to the hoodie and said, “Don’t ever go to that place. There’s nothing but drug dealers there and thugs.” I let her go on but I stopped her before I got off the train and said, “You know, I’m none of those things and I’m from there.” I remember getting off the train and feeling really angry and I said to myself, “I need to change the perception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you connect with Betti Ono?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber came to New York for \u003ca href=\"http://afropunkfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFROPUNK\u003c/a>. She came and met me when I was documenting the Tompkins Projects in Brooklyn and we talked for two hours. Anyka is a very beautiful woman, her energy is warm and her energy was very uplifting. What I admired about her was that she walked in the trenches with me. So I was down for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseCleaners1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseCleaners1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseCleaners1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseCleaners1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseCleaners1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseCleaners1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseCleaners1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you want people to feel when they come into this exhibit? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want people to come into the space and feel comfortable. I want them to see themselves. Every day is a challenge. We are beautiful though. We are warriors. I want them to come in and feel that unconditional love. I want them to feel the power of melanin that they have within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGirls1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGirls1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGirls1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGirls1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGirls1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGirls1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGirls1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> is on view at Betti Ono in Oakland through April 16, 2016. For more information visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.bettiono.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bettiono.com\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Text by Niema Jordan, video by Debora Silva.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Forgotten Cities\u003c/em> is for the people who feel hopeless, voiceless,” says photographer \u003ca href=\"http://brittsense.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittani “BRITTSENSE” Sensabaugh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311319\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseProfile620.jpg\" alt='Brittani \"BRITTSENSE\" Sensabaugh.' width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseProfile620.jpg 427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseProfile620-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brittani “BRITTSENSE” Sensabaugh. \u003ccite>(Photo by Nema Etebar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images are striking. Photographs of young girls with afro-puffs and intricately designed cornrows sit next to pictures of women with multi-colored sponge rollers and acrylic nails. A father with his daughter perched atop his shoulders. A young woman dancing on the corner of West 116th Street in Harlem, a bright pink wall contrasting with her black leotard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2013 Sensabaugh has documented the daily experiences of people living cities and neighborhoods deemed too dangerous by some. For her, they are communities shining with examples of unconditional love and resilience. \u003cem>#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin\u003c/em>, Sensabaugh’s first solo exhibition in her hometown, opened Feb. 5 at Betti Ono in Oakland. I asked her a few questions before her homecoming debut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseRollers1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did you become a photographer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first love was journalism. I always wanted to write for magazines. My older brother saw my writings and told me that I needed to put some imagery behind it. I was open to it, but I was really just comfortable with writing. At my graduation he gave me a Kodak camera. Two years later he died in his sleep. I just remember saying to myself, will I be able to live out my dreams? He died at such a young age. I didn’t talk for months, didn’t leave the bed. I woke up one day and saw the camera and was like this was a way for me to connect with him, so I started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseGroup1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When you moved to New York City, you were doing fashion photography. Why did you make the switch to the type of work you are doing now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I felt myself being more attracted to the person that was wearing the garment than the garment. I want to know the reason you put it on. Is it because your mom dressed a certain way? I always like to get to the root of things — and fashion, especially in New York, is all about the trends. I wasn’t interested in the trends, I was interested in the art of it. Moving to New York to do fashion photography because it was the fashion capital took the fun out of it. I felt myself drifting away from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseDoor1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did \u003cem>#222ForgottenCities\u003c/em> come about? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was on the A train in New York. I had on an Oakland hoodie. This elderly white lady pointed to the hoodie and said, “Don’t ever go to that place. There’s nothing but drug dealers there and thugs.” I let her go on but I stopped her before I got off the train and said, “You know, I’m none of those things and I’m from there.” I remember getting off the train and feeling really angry and I said to myself, “I need to change the perception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11311320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200.jpg\" alt=\"BRITTSENSE, from the series '#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/SenseBraids1200-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRITTSENSE, from the series ‘#222ForgottenCities: The Power of Melanin.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you connect with Betti Ono?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber came to New York for \u003ca href=\"http://afropunkfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFROPUNK\u003c/a>. She came and met me when I was documenting the Tompkins Projects in Brooklyn and we talked for two hours. Anyka is a very beautiful woman, her energy is warm and her energy was very uplifting. What I admired about her was that she walked in the trenches with me. 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