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"content": "\u003caside class=\"event-info alignright\">\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/the-do-list/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/thedolist_icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/sky-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch2>‘Sky Bridge’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-desc\">Installation on Chinatown pedestrian bridge.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-dates\">\n\u003ch4>Aug. 1-31, 2015\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-venue\">Chinese Culture Center\u003c/div>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/sky-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The pedestrian bridge spanning Kearny Street between Chinatown’s Hilton and Portsmouth Square Plaza is not ordinarily an active space. 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This is all part of the artist’s plan — a graceful decay from glittering stream to ordinary path that will forever change the bridge’s relationship to the neighborhood and its occupants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing on community engagement and public feedback, the installation is a trial run for the CCC’s upcoming \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/06/10/bridge-project-to-put-chinatown-on-the-public-art-map/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Art on the Bridge”\u003c/a> project, a larger commission of longer-term public art combined with landscaping that seeks to revitalize the Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge in early 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that this project can help us learn so much about doing temporary art, temporary public art in Chinatown, or in the city,” says Chen. 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Neither the Tate nor the Getty handed out free painting sets during their shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10878407\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10878407\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Turner2640.jpg\" alt=\"You can to paint like Turner, but you need to procure your own supplies. Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'Norham Castle, Sunrise, ca.1845. (Photo: Tate, London)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Turner2640.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Turner2640-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Norham Castle, Sunrise, ca.1845. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"event-info alignright\">\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/the-do-list/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/thedolist_icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/will-brown-matrix-259/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch2>‘Will Brown / MATRIX 259’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-desc\">An exhibition in three parts.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-dates\">\n\u003ch4>Through Sept. 15\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-venue\">UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley Morrison Library\u003c/div>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/will-brown-matrix-259/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Brown / MATRIX 259\u003c/a>\u003c/em> reactivates and expands on the history of a light installation by renowned minimalist artist Dan Flavin. The 1977–78 piece, \u003cem>untitled (for Gretchen, a colorful and fond match)\u003c/em> sets in motion a host of new narratives linked to the transitioning museum and the Bay Area art scene’s ever changing character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show consists of several parts: a car full of ephemera which appears to have been abandoned in front of the now-closed Bancroft Way museum entrance; a light installation on the museum’s roof; an artist book on view at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/morrison-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library\u003c/a>; and \u003cem>New Light on Riboflavin\u003c/em>, a play written by the poet Kevin Killian and performed on June 12, the night of the opening. I asked David Kasprzak, Jordan Stein and Lindsey White, the collaborators who make up \u003ca href=\"http://wearewillbrown.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Brown\u003c/a>, to discuss this exhibition and their practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your projects extend authorship to numerous individuals, many of whom aren’t involved in the initial conception or planning, but end up playing key roles in shaping content.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of authorship is something that was part of the Will Brown conversation from day one, or really even before day one. By calling our project Will Brown — creating a sort of fictional entity that could be anyone — the three of us were free to operate under a certain amount of anonymity and, more importantly, as a unified practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our core interest lies in historical narratives, which always involve major and minor characters. In the case of this particular Dan Flavin history, the story of the BAM/PFA light installation wouldn’t exist without Gretchen Glicksman, the museum’s registrar, Barney Bailey, the museum’s chief preparator, and many others. In this way, Will Brown is as interested in people themselves as in the work they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our projects wouldn’t happen without a lot of players, and we get to learn so much from them in the process of realizing an installation or program. It’s possible to look at Will Brown as a mini-institution in that it takes a lot of individuals playing different roles to execute something. 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Given the current cultural and financial climate here, we imagine this type of collaboration is only going to become more crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868489\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10868489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Will-Brown_2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"'Will Brown / MATRIX 259,' 2015. (Photo: Will Brown)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Will-Brown_2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Will-Brown_2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Will-Brown_2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Will-Brown_2.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Will Brown / MATRIX 259,’ 2015. 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"content": "\u003cp>This ragtag Oakland storefront at 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue was at the geographic center of the original \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandartmurmur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Murmur\u003c/a> in 2006. It’s an all-in-one art gallery, classroom, clothing shop and activist meeting space. The volunteer-run collective operating \u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Paper Scissors\u003c/a> exemplifies the city’s social justice-seeking, DIY art and activism scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with Oakland rents soaring, they’ve been priced out of their space. August’s will be the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Friday\u003c/a> street fair and Art Murmur gallery stroll for the collective — the last remaining organization of those that helped start the monthly festival almost a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218061535″ 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\u003cp>On a recent East Bay summer evening, volunteers gathered inside the storefront to learn how to become pen pals with LGBTQ prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can get really complicated, because if someone’s legal name is John but they go by Jennifer, for instance, you have to put J or John on the outside of the envelope,” said Beja Alisheva, co-facilitator of \u003ca href=\"https://flyingoverwalls.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flying Over Walls\u003c/a>, a queer/trans prisoner solidarity organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632273 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1440x924.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of rules about how the envelopes sent into prisons can be decorated, so they won’t be confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No glitter?” Louis Smith asked incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter-writing get-together was just one of dozens of gatherings held at Rock Paper Scissors every month, ranging from writing workshops to a sewing lab and jewelry-making for teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first came to Rock Paper Scissors looking for a space, they said of course,” Alisheva said. “Obviously, we don’t have a lot of money. It’s not something that brings in a lot of revenue, but that didn’t matter to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It was such a relief when we finally landed here, so now we’re not sure where we’re going to end up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sentiment shared with the quirky, creative space’s regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gentrification is real,” said Alexandra Rigaud, an assistant with the collective’s youth program. “We are getting pushed out, and we did start First Friday … Now we are paying for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s becoming a common story all over the Bay Area. The artists who, in recent times, made a neighborhood “hip” are being driven out, in part due to their own success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighborhood has changed a lot,” said Kristi Holohan, the collective’s youth, community and interim gallery director. “We are basically like sandwiched in between two bars, there are some really high-end galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632275 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the plight of Rock Paper Scissors raises a much bigger question as the city continues to boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the housing affordability that is a potential crisis for us,” she said. “The threat of displacement of our small businesses, of our cultural institutions, of our nonprofits — those are also community stabilization issues that absolutely need to be solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city’s “solutions are more limited” because \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000&file=1954.25-1954.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law prevents\u003c/a> rent stabilization for commercial space. The mayor said she’s creating a new Artist Affordable Housing and Workspace Task Force, but that’s yet to be staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber, who founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.bettiono.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betti Ono\u003c/a> gallery in downtown Oakland, said the city needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to continue to be a world-class city and build on the strengths that it has, especially around culture and arts, we really have to have the investment match the brand recognition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is a lead organizer of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition\u003c/a> — a newly formed group that’s calling for the re-establishment of Oakland’s Arts Commission, which had its funding and staff eliminated more than five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of talk about the economic development side of arts experiences or cultural experiences, based on people visiting, what kinds of funds or revenues that brings back to the city,” Barber said. “Currently, it looks like maybe 1.3 percent of the total city budget is funding or investing in community development or cultural programs. That does not reflect equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632276 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors Collective's mission statement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors Collective’s mission statement. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coalition’s demands were left out of the recently adopted 2016-17 city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rock Paper Scissors, meanwhile, has until the end of the month to find a new space or close up shop and try to raise more money. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No glitter?” Louis Smith asked incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter-writing get-together was just one of dozens of gatherings held at Rock Paper Scissors every month, ranging from writing workshops to a sewing lab and jewelry-making for teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first came to Rock Paper Scissors looking for a space, they said of course,” Alisheva said. “Obviously, we don’t have a lot of money. It’s not something that brings in a lot of revenue, but that didn’t matter to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It was such a relief when we finally landed here, so now we’re not sure where we’re going to end up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sentiment shared with the quirky, creative space’s regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gentrification is real,” said Alexandra Rigaud, an assistant with the collective’s youth program. “We are getting pushed out, and we did start First Friday … Now we are paying for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s becoming a common story all over the Bay Area. The artists who, in recent times, made a neighborhood “hip” are being driven out, in part due to their own success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighborhood has changed a lot,” said Kristi Holohan, the collective’s youth, community and interim gallery director. “We are basically like sandwiched in between two bars, there are some really high-end galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632275 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the plight of Rock Paper Scissors raises a much bigger question as the city continues to boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the housing affordability that is a potential crisis for us,” she said. “The threat of displacement of our small businesses, of our cultural institutions, of our nonprofits — those are also community stabilization issues that absolutely need to be solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city’s “solutions are more limited” because \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000&file=1954.25-1954.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law prevents\u003c/a> rent stabilization for commercial space. The mayor said she’s creating a new Artist Affordable Housing and Workspace Task Force, but that’s yet to be staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber, who founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.bettiono.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betti Ono\u003c/a> gallery in downtown Oakland, said the city needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to continue to be a world-class city and build on the strengths that it has, especially around culture and arts, we really have to have the investment match the brand recognition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is a lead organizer of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition\u003c/a> — a newly formed group that’s calling for the re-establishment of Oakland’s Arts Commission, which had its funding and staff eliminated more than five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of talk about the economic development side of arts experiences or cultural experiences, based on people visiting, what kinds of funds or revenues that brings back to the city,” Barber said. “Currently, it looks like maybe 1.3 percent of the total city budget is funding or investing in community development or cultural programs. 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I want to continue that tradition of storytelling in my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewin was born in Jamaica and relocated to Miami with his family when he was five. Trying to integrate into American culture while also finding himself a part of an “alternative” or punk scene led to the creation of a world in which all of his identity realities exist; a continuum of his personal experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewin’s series, titled “Roots of the Cotton Tree” for the lore around Jamaica’s sacred silk cotton trees, embodies the sensation of simultaneously stepping back in time and into the future. Rooted in the tales of his native Caribbean along with elements of surrealism and sci-fi (he’s a huge \u003ca href=\"http://octaviabutler.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octavia Butler\u003c/a> fan) his creations are also inspired by the work of animation master \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hayao Miyazaki\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10872340\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10872340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web-448x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Lewin, 'The Crow and the Carnival Queen.' (Photo: the artist)\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web-448x600.jpg 448w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web-400x535.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lewin, ‘The Crow and the Carnival Queen.’ (Photo: the artist) \u003ccite>(Paul Lewin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The painstakingly detailed lace, carnival-inspired jewelry and intricate symbolism in his paintings bring to life stories waiting to be told. A self-taught artist who spent three years researching the folklore of his native Jamaica before immersing himself in this latest project, Lewin says his paintings tend to take on a life of their own; he’s never quite sure what the story is until a piece is completed. The work is particularly powerful in regards to race and gender representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dealing with race while I was growing up and watching all of these sci-fi movies and fantasy movies it was rare to ever see a person of color. Not just in movies, but you didn’t see them in art — in historical surrealist art — that art just wasn’t shown to us,” he says. “Race plays a role in my work in that way; I’m painting the images I always wish I could have seen growing up with people of color in nontraditional settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10872339\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10872339\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Paul-Lewin-297x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Lewin, 'Untitled.' 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewin was born in Jamaica and relocated to Miami with his family when he was five. Trying to integrate into American culture while also finding himself a part of an “alternative” or punk scene led to the creation of a world in which all of his identity realities exist; a continuum of his personal experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewin’s series, titled “Roots of the Cotton Tree” for the lore around Jamaica’s sacred silk cotton trees, embodies the sensation of simultaneously stepping back in time and into the future. Rooted in the tales of his native Caribbean along with elements of surrealism and sci-fi (he’s a huge \u003ca href=\"http://octaviabutler.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octavia Butler\u003c/a> fan) his creations are also inspired by the work of animation master \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hayao Miyazaki\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10872340\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10872340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web-448x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Lewin, 'The Crow and the Carnival Queen.' (Photo: the artist)\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web-448x600.jpg 448w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web-400x535.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/The-Crow-and-the-Carnival-Queen-Web.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lewin, ‘The Crow and the Carnival Queen.’ (Photo: the artist) \u003ccite>(Paul Lewin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The painstakingly detailed lace, carnival-inspired jewelry and intricate symbolism in his paintings bring to life stories waiting to be told. A self-taught artist who spent three years researching the folklore of his native Jamaica before immersing himself in this latest project, Lewin says his paintings tend to take on a life of their own; he’s never quite sure what the story is until a piece is completed. The work is particularly powerful in regards to race and gender representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dealing with race while I was growing up and watching all of these sci-fi movies and fantasy movies it was rare to ever see a person of color. Not just in movies, but you didn’t see them in art — in historical surrealist art — that art just wasn’t shown to us,” he says. “Race plays a role in my work in that way; I’m painting the images I always wish I could have seen growing up with people of color in nontraditional settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10872339\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10872339\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Paul-Lewin-297x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Lewin, 'Untitled.' (Photo: the artist)\" width=\"317\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Paul-Lewin-297x600.jpg 297w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Paul-Lewin-400x809.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Paul-Lewin-584x1180.jpg 584w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Paul-Lewin.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lewin, ‘Untitled.’ (Photo: the artist)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most notably, the female characters in Lewin’s work are fierce, not sexualized in the manner of traditional fantasy or sci-fi. The elders he paints embody wisdom and authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up with a lot of sci-fi and fantasy art. Growing up I loved it and thought it was the most amazing thing in the word and then I kind of veered away from it as I got older,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A year or two ago I started looking back at some of it and I was like ‘Oh my God, this stuff is awful!’ Growing up, we didn’t really question it, it was just the way it was. Looking back on it, its disgusting and its terrible. I represent women based on the inspiration I felt from them growing up in my family, and the women I’ve known throughout my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the idea of collaborating on an animation or other creative work appeals to him, he’s currently focusing entirely on uncovering bits of his ancestry through paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now the thing I enjoy the most is just straight painting — just me and a painting and doing art shows,” he says. “That’s where my ultimate love lies.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note:\u003c/strong> This post contains images of painted nude bodies.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since relocating to New York City 18 months ago, San Jose native Trina Merry has made quite a splash with her \u003cem>Lost in Wonder\u003c/em> bodypainting series. With paint, nude figures and perfectly angled photographs, Merry camouflages her subjects against renowned New York City landmarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project sprung from a gallerist’s advice: “If you’re going to make it in New York City, you have to shout from the rooftops that you’ve arrived. And you only get one shot at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10865891\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10865891 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/NYC_Body-Art_TrinaMerry-e1438615153286.jpg\" alt=\"Trina Merry, 'Brooklyn-Bridge, New York City.' (Bodypaint and photography: Trina Merry)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Merry, ‘Brooklyn-Bridge, New York City.’ (Bodypaint and photo: Trina Merry)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10865890\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10865890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Golden-Gate-Bridge_San-Francisco_Body-Art_Trina-Merry-e1438615303111.jpg\" alt=\"Trina Merry, 'Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (after Raphael, 'Three Graces'), 2015. (Bodypaint and photography: Trina Merry)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Merry, ‘Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (after Raphael, ‘Three Graces’)’, 2015. (Bodypaint and photo: Trina Merry)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10875873\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10875873\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Palace640Web.jpg\" alt=\"Trina Merry, 'Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco (after Manet 'Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe'), 2015. (Bodypaint and photo: Trina Merry)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Palace640Web.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Palace640Web-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Merry, ‘Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco (after Manet ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’), 2015. (Bodypaint and photo: Trina Merry)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10865889\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10865889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Alcatraz_Wave-Organ_San-Francisco_Body-Art_Trina-Merry-e1438616102670.jpg\" alt=\"Trina Merry, 'Body Jail Wave Organ, San Francisco (after Boticelli 'Venus')', 2015. (Bodypaint and photo: Trina Merry)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Merry, ‘Body Jail Wave Organ, San Francisco (after Boticelli ‘Venus’)’, 2015. (Bodypaint and photo: Trina Merry)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Honing her visual concepts and bodypainting techniques in San Jose from 2006 through 2013, Merry’s \u003cem>Art Alive\u003c/em> exhibitions and installations typically involved teams of bodypainters and models all working together under her direction. But after relocating to New York and trying to survive on her art, she had to find a way to make a dynamic impression without resources and helpers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started to think about what I could do by myself as simply as possible. I realized I needed to try to not fit into anything that was going on at all. I needed to pioneer something and what would ‘shouting’ look like to me in my art — but doing it in a way that was me… not doing it in a way that would sacrifice my ethics of what I feel is important to me as an artist. What does ‘This is me making an impact’ look like? So I decided to paint one model into the iconic New York City skyline. Just me, one model, my paints and camera, and the hope we don’t get arrested today,” says Merry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stunning result swept across local and national media, including features in \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Good Morning America\u003c/em>. Not one to rest on her laurels for very long, Merry took this “I’ve arrived” momentum to launch a global series of on-site bodypainting at locations in the U.K., Ireland, China, Egypt, Turkey, Rome, Jordan, Chile, Peru and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merry recently returned home to the Bay Area to add San Francisco to her series. Aptly entitled \u003cem>San Francisco Series: Visions in the Fog\u003c/em>, the locations include the Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard St., the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Merry arranged her models in homage to historic paintings by \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Sandro_Botticelli_-_La_nascita_di_Venere_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg/1280px-Sandro_Botticelli_-_La_nascita_di_Venere_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Botticelli\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Rapha%C3%ABl_-_Les_Trois_Gr%C3%A2ces_-_Google_Art_Project_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raphael\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Edouard_Manet_-_Luncheon_on_the_Grass_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manet\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/La_danse_%28I%29_by_Matisse.jpg/300px-La_danse_%28I%29_by_Matisse.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matisse\u003c/a>, a response to her experience that the general populous of the U.S. is less appreciative of the nude form in art than residents of other countries on her tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if bodypainting is about sex, Merry responds: “I don’t look at Michelangelo’s \u003cem>David\u003c/em> and wonder if that is a sexual experience just because it is a fine art nude. None of my work is poignantly erotic so I find this to be an interesting response to my work and indicative of the viewer projecting their own fantasies, fears or issues onto the fine art nude figure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merry is far from the end of this series. “Bodypaint is an ancient art form… the use of ochre on the skin dates back 425,000 years. I’ll be traveling to paint with indigenous cultures still practicing bodypaint later this year,” says Merry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see more images from the \u003cem>San Francisco Series: Visions in the Fog\u003c/em>, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinamerryartist.com/bodypainting-art/san-francisco-sessions-visions-from-the-fog/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trinamerryartist.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> group of organizers is engaging more young people in the Black Lives Matter movement through art, music and love. It's been two years since Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors introduced the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter -- on the night George Zimmerman was acquitted for Trayvon Martin’s murder -- and eventually gave birth to a movement with co-founder Opal Tometi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it has grown through social media, connecting a new generation of organizers. Three of them put on the first annual \u003ca href=\"http://blacklovefestival.tumblr.com/\">Black Love Festival\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point on July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of Black Love is more complex and less hippie-dippie than you might think. It’s a celebration of love as a form of liberation, resistance and unity -- three themes that run deep in African-American culture. Amir \"Keez\" Shabazz is among the 400 or so black folks -- mostly students, young professionals, and creative types -- who came to enjoy an afternoon of arts and culture at Heron's Head Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217041811&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shabazz explains what black love means to him. \"'I’m here, I got your back and I love what you’re doing' is black love,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he organizers chose Bayview-Hunters Point for the festival because they wanted young people to help reclaim San Francisco's historically African-American neighborhood and come together in a positive environment focused on self-care, self-healing and respect. Organizer China Pharr says everyone has a part to play in this movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t have to be a leader or some politician,\" she says. \"You don’t have to be any of that. If you can draw, if you can write, if you can act, if you can sing, if you can clean houses, it doesn’t matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10621214\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10621214 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Black Love Festival organizers (L to R): Etecia Brown, 25, Leigh Davenport, 30 and China Pharr, 24 (Adizah Eghan/KQED). \" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Love Festival organizers (L to R): Etecia Brown, 25, Leigh Davenport, 30, and China Pharr, 24 (Adizah Eghan/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pharr and her fellow organizers, Etecia Brown and Leigh Davenport, met through the network of Black Lives Matter organizers, on Facebook. The idea for the Black Love Festival came from two problems they frequently encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there are few black people left in San Francisco, where Leigh Davenport lives. She says, \"It’s palpable, it’s really palpable, the dwindling population,\" which is down to about 5 percent, half of what it was 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, not everyone feels comfortable demonstrating in the streets. \"We’ve had about five different events, and we’ve found that there wasn’t enough young people attending,\" Brown says. \"We were looking for people between the ages of 13 and 30.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they tried a new strategy: They would get young black people to network and come to San Francisco for an arts and culture festival that was part creativity and part activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big thing that’s happened in the black community in America is we have become ashamed of ourselves,\" Pharr says. \"I think when you see all this criminalization in the media, and you see all these representations of us, that we’re kind of afraid to be ourselves and celebrate ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of the women sit barefoot at a table in Brown's mother's apartment, not too far from where the festival took place. They've spent months trying to figure out the best way make this festival happen. The message of Black Love isn’t to shame people for not being at protests. Instead, it's to help a new generation heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media are loaded with videos and stories of young people of color who are killed by the police. Pharr points to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/23/us/23blandlisty.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">July 13 death of Sandra Bland\u003c/a>, who was pulled over for not putting on her turn signal while driving in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"She was found hanging in a jail cell, and she was a college graduate just like me,\" she says. \"Moved to find a new job, just like me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It becomes overwhelming, she adds: \"You kind of feel like there’s no end in sight sometimes. You kind of feel like, is it ever going to end? Are we ever going to stop being murdered? ... Some days I’m so happy that I was born with this beautiful melanin, and then some days I feel like it’s a blessing and a curse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/o1pmfsRCCSo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hese feelings certainly aren't new, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.obatshaka.com/home\">Oba T'Shaka\u003c/a>, who has participated in various forms of resistance, starting with the civil rights movement in San Francisco in the '60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of our youth are experiencing what we experienced, which is anger and disturbance at seeing our people oppressed,\" he says. In the '60s it was social and economic oppression. Today it's police oppression, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"The '60s produced a restructuring of the black mind, not for all blacks,\" T'Shaka says. \"In fact, our movements failed to systematize that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restructuring of the black mind is hard to put into words, but it’s happening with Black Lives Matter, he says. It's an awakening process similar to when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Once people become critically aware of the oppression around them, they start an awakening process and seek to heal from race-based trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People realize that they have been hoodwinked. 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If you can draw, if you can write, if you can act, if you can sing, if you can clean houses, it doesn’t matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10621214\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10621214 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Black Love Festival organizers (L to R): Etecia Brown, 25, Leigh Davenport, 30 and China Pharr, 24 (Adizah Eghan/KQED). \" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3952-e1438197790501-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Love Festival organizers (L to R): Etecia Brown, 25, Leigh Davenport, 30, and China Pharr, 24 (Adizah Eghan/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pharr and her fellow organizers, Etecia Brown and Leigh Davenport, met through the network of Black Lives Matter organizers, on Facebook. The idea for the Black Love Festival came from two problems they frequently encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there are few black people left in San Francisco, where Leigh Davenport lives. She says, \"It’s palpable, it’s really palpable, the dwindling population,\" which is down to about 5 percent, half of what it was 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, not everyone feels comfortable demonstrating in the streets. \"We’ve had about five different events, and we’ve found that there wasn’t enough young people attending,\" Brown says. \"We were looking for people between the ages of 13 and 30.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they tried a new strategy: They would get young black people to network and come to San Francisco for an arts and culture festival that was part creativity and part activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big thing that’s happened in the black community in America is we have become ashamed of ourselves,\" Pharr says. \"I think when you see all this criminalization in the media, and you see all these representations of us, that we’re kind of afraid to be ourselves and celebrate ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of the women sit barefoot at a table in Brown's mother's apartment, not too far from where the festival took place. 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"content": "\u003cp>When I arrived at Lana Williams’ studio after a short walk, she offered me fancy sparkling water from France. We were in \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtimeandspace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Time and Space\u003c/a>, a collectively-run studio and artist residency program near Oakland’s Chinatown. We beheld the water and drank — it was delicious, but what \u003cem>was it\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, those fancy water bottles from France keyed several of the themes we’d discuss that evening. How is the value of water determined? What kind of water, and from where, ends up in fancy bottles? How does it end up there, and who does it end up nourishing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of value is critical for Williams’ practice, in a number of evolving ways over the years. In her recent work, this question concerns her materials, especially her use of dye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1180px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1.jpg\" alt=\"Left: The artist in her studio; Right: 'Wind Up,' 2015. (Photos: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1180\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The artist in her studio; Right: ‘Wind Up,’ 2015. (Photos: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dye is one of the earliest forms through which sheer color obtains meaning. Take Tyrian purple for instance, the platinum of ancient dyes. To make Tyrian purple, predatory rock snails native to the Mediterranean were harvested by the thousands. While the snails’ bodies are not purple, boiling them transforms their chemical secretions into a stinky but beautiful substance the Greeks called \u003cem>porphyry\u003c/em> and the Romans \u003cem>purpura\u003c/em>. From these lowly sea carnivores, then, came one of the most expensive commodities of the ancient world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain “objective” qualities made Tyrian purple valuable: this dye doesn’t fade in the sun, but actually becomes brighter over time. This resistance to fading, suggestive of immutability and even immortality, made it an obvious choice for ancient royalty and their heirs. But, in the end, the value of dye is arbitrarily determined. Ancient markets facilitated the transfer, and oversaw the value, of these precious materials — precious materials which were, essentially, boiled snail turds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3.jpg\" alt=\"The artist's brushes. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artist’s brushes. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the invention of synthetics in modernity, dye signifies wildly in today’s economic terms: from the cheap vinegar solutions countless kids wash over hard boiled eggs every spring to silk Prada scarves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams’ recent work with dye questions the ways in which we make predictions and decisions about the value of materials as they become the substance of painting. Williams paints with synthetic dyes on two kinds of surfaces: silks and canvasses. In her show \u003cem>no uniform\u003c/em>, currently on view at \u003ca href=\"http://www.interfaceartgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interface Gallery\u003c/a>, she “elevates” plain silk, saturated with dyes, to the status of the art commodity by intricately displaying them on the gallery wall, evoking the fashion system and its concomitant market. The canvasses signify as the familiar objects of fine art. But Williams’ paratactic arrangement of cloth and canvas put their status into marvelous doubt. This doubt is the effect of her practice of inquiry and refusal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These works also pose a challenge to painting’s pride of place in the art market. The dye in Williams’ silks leans more towards a deliberate familiarity; that is, all alone they are almost indistinguishable from a haute couture scarf you might find in an uptown or downtown boutique. What makes them everlastingly distinct is how they’re seen — on the wall of a gallery next to a painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist’s sketchbook. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The paintings, by contrast, are full of movement and texture. Composed of dye, acrylic and oils, the paint on Williams’ canvasses is extremely thin, and the paintings themselves are very flat. And yet they embed the energetic kinesis which marks her process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Williams, one of dye’s appealing features is its unpredictability. Between its powder form and when it is mixed with a liquid base, dye shifts in color. When applied to canvas, the painter can’t control with precision how it will translate and transform. Dye spreads, fades, brightens and interacts with sunlight and other natural elements, probiotically. The palette of Williams’ paintings tend to be somewhat earthy and natural, but the marks she makes reflect, intensely, the movement of her hand and tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10857779 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4.jpg\" alt=\"'Soft Side,' 2015. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Soft Side,’ 2015. 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The poem concludes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>…signal, sign, gesture\u003cbr>\nthe change spreads, you find it on the floor, soft or cold, it only hopes to open windows\u003cbr>\nflow, fold rigid, hold on to letting go\u003cbr>\nthere is always more to the thing — infinite loops\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I keep wanting to connect the “difficulty” of Williams’ work with all the other ways in which we make our lives more difficult by electing to participate in different economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857784\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana5.jpg\" alt=\"'Blue Blush,' 2015. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When I arrived at Lana Williams’ studio after a short walk, she offered me fancy sparkling water from France. We were in \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtimeandspace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Time and Space\u003c/a>, a collectively-run studio and artist residency program near Oakland’s Chinatown. We beheld the water and drank — it was delicious, but what \u003cem>was it\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, those fancy water bottles from France keyed several of the themes we’d discuss that evening. How is the value of water determined? What kind of water, and from where, ends up in fancy bottles? How does it end up there, and who does it end up nourishing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of value is critical for Williams’ practice, in a number of evolving ways over the years. In her recent work, this question concerns her materials, especially her use of dye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1180px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1.jpg\" alt=\"Left: The artist in her studio; Right: 'Wind Up,' 2015. (Photos: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1180\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana1-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The artist in her studio; Right: ‘Wind Up,’ 2015. (Photos: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dye is one of the earliest forms through which sheer color obtains meaning. Take Tyrian purple for instance, the platinum of ancient dyes. To make Tyrian purple, predatory rock snails native to the Mediterranean were harvested by the thousands. While the snails’ bodies are not purple, boiling them transforms their chemical secretions into a stinky but beautiful substance the Greeks called \u003cem>porphyry\u003c/em> and the Romans \u003cem>purpura\u003c/em>. From these lowly sea carnivores, then, came one of the most expensive commodities of the ancient world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain “objective” qualities made Tyrian purple valuable: this dye doesn’t fade in the sun, but actually becomes brighter over time. This resistance to fading, suggestive of immutability and even immortality, made it an obvious choice for ancient royalty and their heirs. But, in the end, the value of dye is arbitrarily determined. Ancient markets facilitated the transfer, and oversaw the value, of these precious materials — precious materials which were, essentially, boiled snail turds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3.jpg\" alt=\"The artist's brushes. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana3-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artist’s brushes. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the invention of synthetics in modernity, dye signifies wildly in today’s economic terms: from the cheap vinegar solutions countless kids wash over hard boiled eggs every spring to silk Prada scarves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams’ recent work with dye questions the ways in which we make predictions and decisions about the value of materials as they become the substance of painting. Williams paints with synthetic dyes on two kinds of surfaces: silks and canvasses. In her show \u003cem>no uniform\u003c/em>, currently on view at \u003ca href=\"http://www.interfaceartgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interface Gallery\u003c/a>, she “elevates” plain silk, saturated with dyes, to the status of the art commodity by intricately displaying them on the gallery wall, evoking the fashion system and its concomitant market. The canvasses signify as the familiar objects of fine art. But Williams’ paratactic arrangement of cloth and canvas put their status into marvelous doubt. This doubt is the effect of her practice of inquiry and refusal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These works also pose a challenge to painting’s pride of place in the art market. The dye in Williams’ silks leans more towards a deliberate familiarity; that is, all alone they are almost indistinguishable from a haute couture scarf you might find in an uptown or downtown boutique. What makes them everlastingly distinct is how they’re seen — on the wall of a gallery next to a painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist’s sketchbook. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The paintings, by contrast, are full of movement and texture. Composed of dye, acrylic and oils, the paint on Williams’ canvasses is extremely thin, and the paintings themselves are very flat. And yet they embed the energetic kinesis which marks her process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Williams, one of dye’s appealing features is its unpredictability. Between its powder form and when it is mixed with a liquid base, dye shifts in color. When applied to canvas, the painter can’t control with precision how it will translate and transform. Dye spreads, fades, brightens and interacts with sunlight and other natural elements, probiotically. The palette of Williams’ paintings tend to be somewhat earthy and natural, but the marks she makes reflect, intensely, the movement of her hand and tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10857779 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4.jpg\" alt=\"'Soft Side,' 2015. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana4-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Soft Side,’ 2015. 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The poem concludes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>…signal, sign, gesture\u003cbr>\nthe change spreads, you find it on the floor, soft or cold, it only hopes to open windows\u003cbr>\nflow, fold rigid, hold on to letting go\u003cbr>\nthere is always more to the thing — infinite loops\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I keep wanting to connect the “difficulty” of Williams’ work with all the other ways in which we make our lives more difficult by electing to participate in different economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10857784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10857784\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana5.jpg\" alt=\"'Blue Blush,' 2015. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana5.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana5-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Lana5-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Blue Blush,’ 2015. (Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Economy” literally means “the laws of the house.” In Williams’ paintings, there are no laws of the house. If the rule of painting says that an abstract image on canvas is superior to a tie-dyed scarf, Williams says no. If the rule of painting says that paintings ought to be displayed in the way most amenable to direct perception by their viewers (and potential owners), Williams says no. 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"content": "\u003cp>Artists across the Bay Area are expressing shock and dismay after the Building Industry Association of the Bay Area (BIA) filed a lawsuit against the city of Oakland last week over the issue of public art in privately-funded developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://www.biabayarea.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> BIA Bay Area\u003c/a>, a nonprofit association of contractors, developers and building industry business owners, is fighting the city’s percent for art ordinance, which they claim violates their first and fifth amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider this the ‘slip and fall’ of development lawsuits,” says Oakland artist Randy Colosky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216799697″ 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\u003cp>The ordinance, which already applied to Oakland municipal projects, expanded in early February to require that commercial projects costing more than $200,000 devote one percent of their budgets to public art. Residential projects must devote one-half percent of their budgets to public art. Alternatively, any building project can pay a corresponding amount into a pooled fund for public art programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Developers owe it to the city and residents to enrich the landscape and culture of the urban space,” Emma Spertus, artist and founder of the Oakland studio building and residency program \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtimeandspace.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Time and Space\u003c/a>, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public art is about the architecture of a space, the architecture of a community, the architecture of a building,” says Colosky, who recently completed \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfartscommission.org/pubartcollection/pubart-press-releases/2014/02/06/coming-soon-new-mural-by-randy-colosky-mural-at-future-central-subway-moscone-station/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a public art commission\u003c/a> in San Francisco at the site of the future Central Subway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10865580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10865580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/14532906360_c31cab9b3c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Colosky, 'Ellipses in the Key of Blue,' installation at the Moscone Central Subway construction site. (Photo: Ethan Kaplan/San Francisco Arts Commission) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/14532906360_c31cab9b3c_z.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/14532906360_c31cab9b3c_z-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Colosky, ‘Ellipses in the Key of Blue,’ installation at the Moscone Central Subway construction site. (Photo: Ethan Kaplan/San Francisco Arts Commission)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Introduced by then-councilmember Libby Schaaf, the amendment was approved in Nov. 2014 and went into effect in Feb. 2015. The \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/policy/oak052794.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordinance\u003c/a> stresses public art is “important for the vitality of the artist community as well as the quality of life for all Oakland residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sentiment flies in direct contrast to the suit filed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BIA Bay Area is represented by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a conservative public interest law firm. The firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/releases/release-7-23-15-biaba-v-oakland-4-1538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> the city is “forcing builders of homes and commercial projects to fund art works that have no reasonable connection to any public needs created by their building projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Percent-for-art ordinances already exist in most Bay Area cities, including San Francisco, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Emeryville, El Cerrito and Santa Rosa. Oakland, with its large and ever-growing artist community, follows a well-established trend of integrating public art into private developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen Zaremba, senior public art project manager for the city says, “Support for the arts and the arts community is fierce and committed, from the mayor on down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why sue Oakland, and why now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claiming the percent for art ordinance levies needless fees on developers, BIA positions itself as pro-housing in the midst of the Bay Area’s housing crisis. Since the ordinance is new and hasn’t yet accumulated any funds, perhaps the BIA seeks to cut off such expenditures before they become commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10865584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10865584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/294244155_big.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Spertus, 'Space blinds,' installation at Interface Gallery. (Photo: Emma Spertus, Interface Gallery)\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/294244155_big.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/294244155_big-400x251.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Spertus, ‘Space blinds,’ installation at Interface Gallery. 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