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His art is detailed and graphic, ranging from Mayan goddesses to anime characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says he doesn’t have a “specialty,” but he’s often asked to do cover-ups of faded tattoos; a community service of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also part of the art collective\u003ca href=\"https://www.trustyourstruggle.org/\"> Trust Your Struggle\u003c/a>, which paints murals in other countries that have been historically colonized and thus, under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918626 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez works with Lindsey Tran to create her leg and sleeve tattoos at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given Perez’s experiences with both impermanent aerosol and indelible ink, I figured he’d be the best person to start this exploration into the culture of tattooing in the Bay Area, and what it feels like to create \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> artwork— if such a thing exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Miguel “Bounce” Perez:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring us back to the origins, how’d you get started in art in general?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first influences are like from my mom. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She used to draw these kind of chola drawings, you know, the Chicano style cholas with feathered hair, all nice and detailed. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I remember I used to create my own little comic characters and my uncles drew too. 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I think that definitely seeped its way in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez tattoos the sleeve of Lindsey Tran at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: Miguel also came up with a crew known as Trust Your Struggle. The collective of artists do work for low or no cost in communities that could benefit from murals or other visual art that supports local culture. They started in 2003, and they’ve done work not only in the Bay but in Hawaii and the Philippines, and other places. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel\u003c/em>\u003c/span>:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rust Your Struggle it was definitely like-minded folks who had a lot of the same passions and same views on the world, politics and life and everything. I think we’re more just like a crew of homies. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the earlier things we were doing was these mural tours. We went started in Mexico and like worked our way down, on bus all the way to Nicaragua. Basically donated murals, linked up with different organizations and painted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> I remember one of the last ones we did in 2009, we went to the Philippines. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were meeting up with these orgs and stuff. Like this was the one we’d probably raised the most money for and we get out there and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do this mural for y’all, it’s free, blah, blah, blah.’ And they’re like, ‘Great, this is beautiful.’ And then we see like how they living and they’re like, ‘Oh shit. Like, they don’t need a mural. They need food, some clothes.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez continues working on Lindsey Tran’s sleeve at Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>It humbled us. You ain’t gonna save the world with a painting. It might look pretty. So, some of us have got more into, actual legislation. My boy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918019/robert-liu-trujillo-on-creating-books-for-kids-like-me\">Rob [Liu-Trujillo]\u003c/a> is, like, doing, like, children’s books.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>I’m doing tattoos, which is just like not like a political thing, but the thing that’s cool about tattoos, it’s always some transitional period in most people’s lives when they’re getting it. And it’s pretty cool to share that with them and even help guide them through it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen\u003c/span>: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s so tight, bro, like thinking about life in those transitional periods and change is the only constant. But to get something to signify that you’ve gone through a transitional period is to say that ‘I want something to last forever from this doorway that I’m going through.’ And you’re more or less holding that door open or helping construct the doorway.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>Even sometimes I’m closing it, like, don’t go through that door! \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know if you want that door. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He’s a versatile artist, who sees collaboration with his clients as central to his work. He’s done touch-ups for people who’ve been incarcerated, and even inked a team of mathletes. His art is detailed and graphic, ranging from Mayan goddesses to anime characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says he doesn’t have a “specialty,” but he’s often asked to do cover-ups of faded tattoos; a community service of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also part of the art collective\u003ca href=\"https://www.trustyourstruggle.org/\"> Trust Your Struggle\u003c/a>, which paints murals in other countries that have been historically colonized and thus, under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918626 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/016_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez works with Lindsey Tran to create her leg and sleeve tattoos at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given Perez’s experiences with both impermanent aerosol and indelible ink, I figured he’d be the best person to start this exploration into the culture of tattooing in the Bay Area, and what it feels like to create \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> artwork— if such a thing exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Miguel “Bounce” Perez:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring us back to the origins, how’d you get started in art in general?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first influences are like from my mom. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She used to draw these kind of chola drawings, you know, the Chicano style cholas with feathered hair, all nice and detailed. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I remember I used to create my own little comic characters and my uncles drew too. They all kind of did that same kind of that Cali-Chicano style. My uncles did the cholo letters. We’d see them around the house, like written on books and all this stuff. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did, how did Berkeley, as a city, pour into your work as an artist?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel like there’s a lot of murals around Berkeley that influenced me. The Che mural, the West Campus one, the recycling mural that was on MLK. I went from seeing all the Chicano styles that my family was doing and seeing graff and murals on the street. I think that definitely seeped its way in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/022_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez tattoos the sleeve of Lindsey Tran at the new location of Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: Miguel also came up with a crew known as Trust Your Struggle. The collective of artists do work for low or no cost in communities that could benefit from murals or other visual art that supports local culture. They started in 2003, and they’ve done work not only in the Bay but in Hawaii and the Philippines, and other places. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel\u003c/em>\u003c/span>:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rust Your Struggle it was definitely like-minded folks who had a lot of the same passions and same views on the world, politics and life and everything. I think we’re more just like a crew of homies. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the earlier things we were doing was these mural tours. We went started in Mexico and like worked our way down, on bus all the way to Nicaragua. Basically donated murals, linked up with different organizations and painted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em> I remember one of the last ones we did in 2009, we went to the Philippines. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were meeting up with these orgs and stuff. Like this was the one we’d probably raised the most money for and we get out there and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do this mural for y’all, it’s free, blah, blah, blah.’ And they’re like, ‘Great, this is beautiful.’ And then we see like how they living and they’re like, ‘Oh shit. Like, they don’t need a mural. They need food, some clothes.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/032_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Bounce Perez continues working on Lindsey Tran’s sleeve at Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>It humbled us. You ain’t gonna save the world with a painting. It might look pretty. So, some of us have got more into, actual legislation. My boy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918019/robert-liu-trujillo-on-creating-books-for-kids-like-me\">Rob [Liu-Trujillo]\u003c/a> is, like, doing, like, children’s books.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Miguel: \u003c/em>I’m doing tattoos, which is just like not like a political thing, but the thing that’s cool about tattoos, it’s always some transitional period in most people’s lives when they’re getting it. And it’s pretty cool to share that with them and even help guide them through it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen\u003c/span>: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s so tight, bro, like thinking about life in those transitional periods and change is the only constant. But to get something to signify that you’ve gone through a transitional period is to say that ‘I want something to last forever from this doorway that I’m going through.’ And you’re more or less holding that door open or helping construct the doorway.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Miguel:\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>Even sometimes I’m closing it, like, don’t go through that door! \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know if you want that door. [laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918620 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/027_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/027_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/027_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/027_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/027_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/027_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/027_KQEDArts_TattooArtistMiguelBouncePerez_08312022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The neon sign for Philthy Clean Tattoo in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Rightnowish-p1258245/\">TuneIn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9975911487\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District-based muralist Josué Rojas and his mother, Esther García are a dynamic duo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué has painted murals across San Francisco and beyond, often using images that celebrate culture and community. Esther picked up painting during the pandemic, but she’s been leaving her mark on the neighborhood for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she sold small goods on the street, Esther built a reputation for her sage-like presence around the way. Josué remembers times when she’d be asked to pray over people, and she’d kindly oblige.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her presence is so strong that she got in good with local artists collectives, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chulitavinylclub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chulita Vinyl Club\u003c/a>. And the artist JR incorporated Esther’s image into \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/jr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chronicles of San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003c/i>a gigantic mural that was in the main entrance to the San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13912896 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-800x600.jpg\" alt='Esther gave Josué the \"G-Pass,\" you can see why. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-copy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esther gave Josué the “G-Pass,” you can see why. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Esther didn’t understand Josué’s art career at first, she watched Josue’s journey as he earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Boston University, served as the executive director of \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acción Latina and became a well-respected muralists on the streets and in the galleries of his hometown. You can see \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CcqHm3pLjap/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josué’s latest piece\u003c/a> at the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, at 75, Esther has been learning how to paint under the tutelage of one very demanding teacher: her son. And she tells me that she doesn’t like what they paint– she loves it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13912895 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The image of a multicolored tropical bird, one of Josué Rojas' staple images, looks on as Esther and Josué finish a mural in Balmy Alley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-15-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josué Rojas and Esther finish a mural in Balmy Alley. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of the podcast.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: My mom is really kind of one of the biggest of influences. She’s a real tough cookie. She just turned 75…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: [My brothers and I] were all born in El Salvador. I’m the youngest of four boys. She brought us all here to San Francisco to avoid the war. The war really kicked off around 1980 in El Salvador. I was born in December of 79. So there were little skirmishes and battles, and she was dodging bullets while pregnant with me. And she was like, “This is not how I want to raise my kids, and I don’t want them to grow up and be forcefully recruited to either side of this war… I don’t want my kids to participate in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: So she sold everything she had. She had a small business and she brought us here. Thus begins my upbringing in the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: My mom worked really hard her whole life and so it was really hard for her to reconcile that at around 15, I’m coming home with paint all over my jeans, paint all over my nice clothes, whatever it would be. And she’d be like, “What is wrong with you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esther: He was in high school, the teachers asked him what he wanna be when he got adult. And he’d say, “Paint!” I say, “What!?” “Mom, I like it.” I’d say “No! This is for the rich people!” … But now I understand very well. And the teacher tell me, “Let him be what he want to be.” I’d say, “okay, okay, I can.” And now I am painting too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: It took a little bit of convincing, and once she saw how much joy it gave me, she realized that it could give her a little bit of joy, too… It went from like, “No, don’t do that, don’t do that!” to being like, “Hey, what are you doing?” And then it became like, “Hey, how do you do that?” And then it became, “Hey, teach me how to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: Everything that I would learn, I’d bring home and I would school her with. And so she’s been a practicing artist, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen narration: Josue’s mother is a multi-talented creator, skilled at making small crafts and a budding visual artist as well. And in Josue’s work, you can spot her signature, M-E-G, which are her initials.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: During the pandemic, she was like locked up at home. So I was making sure she had everything she needs. I would make sure she had groceries, make sure she had all her medications and all that kind of stuff, and also make sure she had blank canvases and paints so that she could paint at home and stay fresh and stay hot with her practice. It was just a way of making sure that we were feeding the body, but also feeding the soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josué: She spent some time out in the street doing street vending, many years back, just to kind of survive. 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The process was documented, from idea to outline. There were community conferences and government gatherings, as well as critiques and criticisms from neighbors who felt like the theme—people of color pushing for resistance against oppressive forces—didn’t represent their experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby cultural centers were also included. At 14th Street and Alice Street, right across the street from the mural, is the Malonga Casquelourd Center, a hub for African drumming and dance performances. On the other side sits Hotel Oakland, a residential and cultural space for older Asian folks. Elements from the two centers—both the physical design of the buildings and faces of the people who’ve graced those grounds—were incorporated into the artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists eventually created a mural covering four large walls of a sizable parking lot. But as the paint dried and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139706/oaklands-newest-mural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ribbon was cut in\u003c/a> August of 2014, a new development was being planned on that very spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Performers playing instruments inside of Hotel Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1020x705.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-768x531.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1536x1061.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-2048x1415.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1920x1326.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers play instruments inside of Hotel Oakland. \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to highlight the artists and what’s happened since the documentary took place,” says film producer \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/spenceriwilkinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Wilkinson.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the two lead artists on the project will be present for a post-screening dialogue on Nov. 16. They’ll be joined by drummer \u003ca href=\"https://actaonline.org/profile/kiazi-malonga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiazi Malonga\u003c/a>, son of the late world-renown artist Malonga Casquelourd and head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.actaonline.org/profile/fua-dia-congo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fua Dia Congo\u003c/a> performance group, as well as musician and poet \u003ca href=\"https://destinymuhammad.net/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destiny Muhammad,\u003c/a> who is featured in the film asking the poignant question: “Is what’s coming better than what’s here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film concludes with a note that individuals and community organizations such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Coalition For Equitable Development (CCED)\u003c/a> have pushed for and received a set of community benefit agreements, which have led to more low-income housing, more parking—and, in addition to other agreements, they’ve been financially supported in the painting of a new mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1020x816.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-768x615.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-2048x1639.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1920x1537.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Rudi Tcruz and Galex Tcruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A couple blocks down from the location of the site of the previous mural, on the side of the \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MbNayyyBrFf0DTmTvP6XMoVjjDk6eJKLCYNgCPH7y_LpXVuc66ElURoCvyEQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>, now stands a new painting featuring some of the same artists as the previous piece, as well as the themes of housing justice, diversity and cultural arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the old mural, mummified by a new building? Maybe years, or decades from now it will see new light. But for now, all that’s visible are the names of the artists and the website where you can get more information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.alicestreetfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the film\u003c/a>—and the ongoing conversation about the arts, community and urban development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Alice Street’ screens Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the New Parkway in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJRPZLuY9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailer here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But as the paint dried and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139706/oaklands-newest-mural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ribbon was cut in\u003c/a> August of 2014, a new development was being planned on that very spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Performers playing instruments inside of Hotel Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1020x705.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-768x531.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1536x1061.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-2048x1415.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1920x1326.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers play instruments inside of Hotel Oakland. \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to highlight the artists and what’s happened since the documentary took place,” says film producer \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/spenceriwilkinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Wilkinson.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the two lead artists on the project will be present for a post-screening dialogue on Nov. 16. They’ll be joined by drummer \u003ca href=\"https://actaonline.org/profile/kiazi-malonga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiazi Malonga\u003c/a>, son of the late world-renown artist Malonga Casquelourd and head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.actaonline.org/profile/fua-dia-congo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fua Dia Congo\u003c/a> performance group, as well as musician and poet \u003ca href=\"https://destinymuhammad.net/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destiny Muhammad,\u003c/a> who is featured in the film asking the poignant question: “Is what’s coming better than what’s here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film concludes with a note that individuals and community organizations such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Coalition For Equitable Development (CCED)\u003c/a> have pushed for and received a set of community benefit agreements, which have led to more low-income housing, more parking—and, in addition to other agreements, they’ve been financially supported in the painting of a new mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1020x816.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-768x615.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-2048x1639.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1920x1537.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Rudi Tcruz and Galex Tcruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A couple blocks down from the location of the site of the previous mural, on the side of the \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MbNayyyBrFf0DTmTvP6XMoVjjDk6eJKLCYNgCPH7y_LpXVuc66ElURoCvyEQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>, now stands a new painting featuring some of the same artists as the previous piece, as well as the themes of housing justice, diversity and cultural arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the old mural, mummified by a new building? Maybe years, or decades from now it will see new light. But for now, all that’s visible are the names of the artists and the website where you can get more information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.alicestreetfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the film\u003c/a>—and the ongoing conversation about the arts, community and urban development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Alice Street’ screens Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the New Parkway in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJRPZLuY9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailer here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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While the show was short-lived, it was watched widely. “We were killing Soul Train, we were killing MTV,” Harris adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[House dance], the je ne sais quoi, it’s flowy, dynamic footwork patterns, the manipulation of time and space,” says Kyle “JustSole” Clark, who discovered and fell in love with the culture in the early 2000s. Today, he teaches the foundation, culture, and history of the scene as a dance educator at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and as co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justsoledance.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just Sole! Street Dance Company\u003c/a>. “How [the pioneers] put the steps together—not just that they do the steps—that’s the inspiration I’m drawing from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7AsJrdf2r8ROdWuRmJNDTW\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keeping the Culture Alive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decade before Clark came onto the scene, many of the original clubs in Philadelphia where house had thrived closed down. While some new clubs replaced them, many of these were lounge-style clubs, offering VIP sections and bottle service to reserved tables. Dance floors shrunk, and spaces for unapologetic self-expression and inclusivity began disappearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, DJs Lee Jones and Francisco Collazo founded the Sundae Party, one of the longest running house parties in Philadelphia. Over its 18-year history, the all-ages Sunday afternoon dance party has moved from club to club in Philadelphia and spilled into alleyways and outdoor venues, with both local and guest DJs including Rich Medina and Questlove keeping the soul of the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-800x534.png\" alt=\"A close-up shot of two DJs; one of them has his headphones on.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove.png 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">QuestLove djing at the Sundae Party, along with co-founder Lee Jones, on Sundae on June 2, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA. \u003ccite>(Kevin C. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Roots of Philly House\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House culture has roots dating back to the late 1970s, when DJ Frankie Knuckles remixed funk, R&B and disco records at the Warehouse in Chicago’s South Side for largely Black and brown gay partygoers. The distinctive world of sound he spun at the late-night dance parties was so influential that the Warehouse is widely credited as the place that gave house its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“House—there is a message in the music about yourself, about spirituality, your relationship with people … it eliminates all that is wrong at that moment in the world, and can take us to that very special place,” says \u003ca href=\"https://funkypeopleonline.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Terry “Tee” Alford\u003c/a>, who with a crew of deejay friends and producers started a Sunday night house party at the Impulse Club in North Philly in 1988. By that time, Philly’s queer clubs were already hosting all-night dance parties in speakeasys and spaces like Second Story and Catacombs. Clubs like the Impulse introduced the culture to a whole new audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Wide_Clubimpulse.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Wide_Clubimpulse-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"Interior shot of mostly African American crowd dancing in a crowded club in the late 1980's.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Wide_Clubimpulse-800x597.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Wide_Clubimpulse-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Wide_Clubimpulse-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Wide_Clubimpulse-768x573.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Wide_Clubimpulse.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club Impulse in Philadelphia, PA. \u003ccite>(Christopher S. Webster)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Philadelphia house was distinct from its harder-edged Chicago, Detroit and New York counterparts. The smooth, string-laden productions of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff had set the tone for the city’s silky soul in the 1970s through their record label Philadelphia International, its house band MFSB, and the landmark hit “T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia).” Even in other cities, early house DJs like Knuckles drew on Philly soul for their club sets, bringing Gamble & Huff’s aesthetic into house music throughout the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1991, some of Philly’s best house dancers began starring on the TV show One House Street, hosted by street dancer Rennie Harris.\u003cbr>\nHarris had recently toured with the country’s first official hip-hop tour, the Fresh Festival, and when the television producers tapped him to host a dance show, he insisted on making it all house. “My whole thing was, this has to be what I’m into right now—nothing but the house underground,” says Harris, who recruited dancers in local clubs and beyond to appear on the weekly show. While the show was short-lived, it was watched widely. “We were killing Soul Train, we were killing MTV,” Harris adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[House dance], the je ne sais quoi, it’s flowy, dynamic footwork patterns, the manipulation of time and space,” says Kyle “JustSole” Clark, who discovered and fell in love with the culture in the early 2000s. Today, he teaches the foundation, culture, and history of the scene as a dance educator at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and as co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justsoledance.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just Sole! Street Dance Company\u003c/a>. “How [the pioneers] put the steps together—not just that they do the steps—that’s the inspiration I’m drawing from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7AsJrdf2r8ROdWuRmJNDTW\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keeping the Culture Alive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decade before Clark came onto the scene, many of the original clubs in Philadelphia where house had thrived closed down. While some new clubs replaced them, many of these were lounge-style clubs, offering VIP sections and bottle service to reserved tables. Dance floors shrunk, and spaces for unapologetic self-expression and inclusivity began disappearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, DJs Lee Jones and Francisco Collazo founded the Sundae Party, one of the longest running house parties in Philadelphia. Over its 18-year history, the all-ages Sunday afternoon dance party has moved from club to club in Philadelphia and spilled into alleyways and outdoor venues, with both local and guest DJs including Rich Medina and Questlove keeping the soul of the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-800x534.png\" alt=\"A close-up shot of two DJs; one of them has his headphones on.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/QuestLove.png 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">QuestLove djing at the Sundae Party, along with co-founder Lee Jones, on Sundae on June 2, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA. \u003ccite>(Kevin C. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This episode was filmed under strict guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic. Safety parameters were followed to protect the health of the dancers and video production team.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeGdTT0--8KhVf4tLBAdplUY3Bl1iqKWC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>If Cities Could Dance\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>is KQED Arts’ award-winning video series featuring dancers across the country who represent their city’s signature moves.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/ICCD403B_Honolulu_Captions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download English transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was nine years old, Snowbird Puananiopaokalani Bento took the bus from downtown Honolulu to Plumeria Square in Kaimuki for hula class every Saturday morning. She’d pack her hula bag the night before and gladly sacrifice Saturday morning cartoons for an hour of dance with her first kumu hula, or hula instructor, Leimomi Ho. She never skipped a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know when you’re a kid and you’re in school, you know the subjects that really just pique your interest and you could do it all day long? Like a great book and you don’t want to put it down, you end up reading like crazy for two days straight? That was hula for me,” says Bento, who is now a kumu hula herself. 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Its origins are deeply spiritual and rooted in Hawai‘i’s creation stories and the history of Bento’s kūpuna (ancestors) before her. Driven by the mele (poetry), hula marries movement with spoken word to express stories about specific deities, people, places and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modern styles of hula influenced by Western music and instrumentation may come to mind when people think of Honolulu, home to tourism hotspot Waikīkī, but there are also sacred dances that have been passed down through centuries of kumu hula like Bento who train to master the language, choreography and protocols. “I knew I could commit myself to it for my lifetime,” Bento says of hula. “It wasn’t just a trending thing for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/5zfYvd6gfjUjTVcQp11Ztv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1975 in Pauoa Valley to a musical family, Bento grew up singing with her grandparents and parents in church and at home, with autoharp and ukulele constantly in her ear as they sang together after dinner on Sundays. 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Only when both levels are completed can you be considered for training as a kumu hula. Bento went through the ‘ūniki process under her Kumu Hula Holoua Stender, who ‘ūniki‐ed under Keli’i Tau‘a. Tau‘a ‘ūniki-ed under Maiki Aiu Lake, who ‘ūniki-ed under Lokalia Montgomery—both very prominent figures in modern-day hula lineages who connect to a continuum of hula that spans centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hula How-To with Snowbird Bento | If Cities Could Dance\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/xCWhAwllo38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pilialoha Kamakea‐Young and Kilinoe Kimura are among the current cohort Bento is training to become ‘ōlapa. If it is safe to gather, their ‘ūniki ceremony will be held later this fall. “They represent to me the hope of where hula can continue to go and grow,” Bento says. Kamakea‐Young is a Hawaiian language teacher at Mid-Pacific Institute, and Kimura is a soon‐to‐be graduate of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, with a major in Hawaiian studies and Hawaiian language. In stark contrast to previous generations, both are fluent in ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to her precise teaching of technical movement of the hands and feet, Bento cultivates a long view of hula that comes with a serious commitment to its continuance. “I’m putting those stories right into the hands of the Pilis and the Kilis of the group,” she says. “I’m saying to them, ‘This body of work will become yours. 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HI.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Snow-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Snow-1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Snow-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Snow-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Snow-1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Snow-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumu hula, or hula instructor, Snowbird Bento posing with her pahu (drum) in front of the steps of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu, HI. \u003ccite>(Keli'i Grace)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diane Leinani Paloma, one of Bento’s students, danced alongside Bento in high school and watched her blossom into a kumu hula. “I would just describe Snow as the modern‐day Renaissance mana wahine—this bad ass, super‐charged woman—who knows her culture and how to cultivate culture in others,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paloma has been dancing for over 35 years, but is now studying under Bento to become a ho‘opa‘a (chanter and musical accompanist to the dancers) through a process called ‘ūniki—rigorous training which culminates in a ceremony that tests the student’s knowledge of hula traditions. “Generally, the definition of ‘ūniki means to bind or to tie,” Bento says, “so an ‘’ūniki ceremony basically is to bind or to tie the knowledge of your teachers to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before one can train to become a ho’opa’a, they must first ‘ūniki as an ‘ōlapa, or skilled dancer. 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Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solidarity has been on my mind a lot lately, especially in regard to violence, the Asian community, the African American community and policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Congress passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/18/997847571/congress-passes-bill-to-counter-the-rise-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act\u003c/a>, a federal bill created to help further document and ultimately curb instances of anti-Asian hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed with rare bipartisan support, a clear response to what \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-march-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>‘s website shows as an increase in anti-Asian violence reported across the board—verbal, physical and online. The majority of the reports come from California, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/994055360/man-arrested-in-san-francisco-stabbing-of-2-asian-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stabbing of two older Asian women in San Francisco\u003c/a> earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the details about hate crimes and they way they’re punished require nuance. A recent episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872804/with-calls-to-stopaapihate-are-more-hate-crime-laws-the-solution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bay\u003c/a> podcast illustrates some issues with the current legal definition of “hate crimes”—that they’re an accessory to another charge, for example, and often hard to identify as a motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And about those motives: who are the perpetrators in each case, and what’s the reason for their actions? This has brought up discussions about violence manifesting as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a35635188/anti-asian-racism-history-violence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">form of white supremacy\u003c/a>, as well as the notion that African Americans are targeting Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of demonstrators hold signs that say, “Stop Asian Hate” during a vigil and rally in San Francisco’s Chinatown on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I read a piece about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/22321234/black-asian-american-tensions-solidarity-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historical division between the two groups\u003c/a>, revisited reports on the killing of Latasha Harlins and the death of Vincent Chin. I revisited \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cDp38sltic8?t=365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this quote\u003c/a> from the late Mike “Dream” Francisco about Southeast Asian folks getting into the same street life that Black and Brown folks find themselves in, because of similar struggles. I even thought back to my experience, and how the first person in my circle to die of violence was a middle-school friend named Norro, who was Cambodian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two months I’ve participated in two panel discussions about violence in the community and kept tabs on the uptick in violence in inner-cities across America. In Oakland, where today the city counted its \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/05/20/man-fatally-shot-in-east-oakland-41/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">53rd homicide\u003c/a> of the year, the issue of violence runs far deeper than any panel discussion can possibly dig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that the tug o’ war between those who believe in defunding police and those who say there should be an increase in police department funding, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/02/12/oakland-chinatown-policing-hate-crimes-solidarity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">specifically as a reaction to anti-Asian violence\u003c/a>. And of course, that intertwines with the topic of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896306/public-safety-for-asian-americans-starts-with-nurturing-our-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other public safety resources\u003c/a> for community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now you see why it’s a lot to think about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But late last month, doing a little art in community made it all so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Malik Seneferu works on a mural in Oakland's Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malik Seneferu works on a mural in Oakland’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">A\u003c/span>t Madison Park in Oakland’s Chinatown, I talked to artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.cececarpio.com/\">Cece Carpio\u003c/a> as she and my daughter painted what she described as a “diver being swallowed by a sea monster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cece explained that she’s juggling a lot right now: her day job connecting people to resources during the pandemic through the City of San Francisco’s COVID relief task force, working through the planning stages of a new 100-foot mural that she’s set to paint later this year on the side of the Luggage Store gallery in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, and creating community events, like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cece worked along with Tommy Wong of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/civicdesignstudio510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Civic Design Studio\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goodgoodeatz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Good Eatz\u003c/a> to organize the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNYcx0rBjws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Love And Protect: Community Mural Series.\u003c/a> They were also part of the dozen-plus professional artists painting alongside community members. This meant my daughter was throwing up paint with the likes of published illustrator \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RobertTres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Liu-Trujillo\u003c/a> and the first woman member of the Black Panther Party, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theblackwomanisgod.com/artists/jtlewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joan Tarika Lewis\u003c/a>.[aside postID='arts_13868732']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/asians4blklives/\">Asians 4 Black Lives\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/curyj510/\"> CuryJ\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oakchinatowncoalition/\">Oakland Chinatown Coalition\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/trustyourstruggle/\"> Trust Your Struggle\u003c/a> and more community organizations, the event was focused on showing solidarity through visual arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intention wasn’t just to heal those impacted by violence against members of the Asian community, but to also continue to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895462/in-oakland-building-black-and-asian-solidarity-at-the-street-level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dispel the notion\u003c/a> that it’s a ‘Black versus Asian’ thing happening in the Bay Area, and across the nation, Cece said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emory Douglas, Black Panther Party Minister of Culture, was also at the park that day, and a few days later we discussed the idea of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ongoing process,” Douglas told me during a phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Douglas grew up in community with Asian groups in the ’60s and ’70s. He used to shoot pool with the Red Guard in Chinatown, and when it was time to stand together for social justice issues, they did so. He says he’s clear on the historical context of Black solidarity with the Asian community. And he’s clear that former President Trump’s anti-Asian statements about the spread of COVID-19 have fanned the flames contributing to the rise in hate crimes over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Emory Douglas is banking on the next generation to take the concept of solidarity a bit further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have young people, very progressive people,” says Douglas, “who are becoming more aware and less culturally conditioned to ‘the tradition,’ and are living more in the context of solidarity. They’re transcending the idea of just thinking about themselves, and becoming aware of what’s going on in the real world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13897593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing equal footing as racial solidarity during that weekend in Oakland’s Chinatown was the theme of intergenerational solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real honor to show up when my elders, especially my mom, invites me to show up,” said Elokin Orton-Cheung, an herbalist who painted with their mother on the canvas next to my daughter and me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ming Mur-Ray, an artist and Elokin’s mother, told me she was surprised by the turnout. “I’m moved to see the seniors from Harrison Senior Housing came out and participated,” said Ming, noting that four out of eight members of the group she works with showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the residents of senior housing, a fear of simply walking down the sidewalk is warranted, given the street attacks on Asian elders. But participation in an anti-Asian violence event was clearly important enough to take the risk. “One person came back on Sunday, by herself,” said Ming. “Because she wrote a word wrong, so she painted it over and corrected it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897598\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A collection of completed murals in Oakland's Chinatown. The murals, meant to be portable, are currently moving from location to location.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collection of completed murals in Oakland’s Chinatown. The murals, meant to be portable, are currently moving from location to location. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elokin explained that events like this build on years and of community organizing, but there’s something different when art is the focus. “We’ve been coming together for vigils and protests, and coming together for loss of life in our community, but coming together to celebrate—coming together for sacredness in Black and Asian communities—is really beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day in the park I watched San Francisco muralist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lileli82/\">Elaine Chu\u003c/a> paint one canvas, and TDK’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/agentdecoy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spie \u003c/a>prep his aerosol cans for action on another. Not far from us, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/karen_seneferu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Seneferu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/maliksart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malik Seneferu\u003c/a> were already putting a regal shade of purple paint on a canvas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theletterthi/\">Thitiwat Phromratanapongse \u003c/a>introduced himself as T and took a break from painting to pass me a towel. He’d overheard me joking that I was going to dip my daughter in Lake Merritt to wash her off—the paint she’d used to create her fictional sea monster and diver had also consumed her outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people wore shirts that read “unity” in several different languages. Images of tigers and panthers were painted. In the middle of the labyrinth permanently marked on the park’s blacktop stood an altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, if this isn’t “solidarity,” what is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers and a small altar at the center of a Black and Asian solidarity event in Oakland's Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers and a small altar at the center of a Black and Asian solidarity event in Oakland’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">J\u003c/span>ust last week, the 6-foot by 6-foot canvases, about 17 of them, were mounted in various businesses in Old Oakland, many of them in old Swan’s Market. A significant place for the artwork, as Cece Carpio points out, that area was once a part of the old Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, solidarity is very simple,” Carpio explained recently. “It’s how we co-exist.” Bingo. Simply coexisting, and knowing that as a human, there are certain expectations for existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cece elaborated: “What are common grounds? What are collective decisions? What is collective hope? And what is our collective experience?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of questions that might lead to confusion, but ends with two specific thoughts: What is it we want to see collectively? And how do we work collaboratively, pursuing this vision of the world we want to live in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using our respective communities as an example, Cece said, “We have different languages, different cultures, we eat different food. But essentially, we come together. In the same way there are common race and class struggles, there are similarities. In our collective visions, our collective goal is to live in equity, to live in justice.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed with rare bipartisan support, a clear response to what \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-march-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>‘s website shows as an increase in anti-Asian violence reported across the board—verbal, physical and online. The majority of the reports come from California, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/994055360/man-arrested-in-san-francisco-stabbing-of-2-asian-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stabbing of two older Asian women in San Francisco\u003c/a> earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the details about hate crimes and they way they’re punished require nuance. A recent episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872804/with-calls-to-stopaapihate-are-more-hate-crime-laws-the-solution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bay\u003c/a> podcast illustrates some issues with the current legal definition of “hate crimes”—that they’re an accessory to another charge, for example, and often hard to identify as a motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And about those motives: who are the perpetrators in each case, and what’s the reason for their actions? This has brought up discussions about violence manifesting as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a35635188/anti-asian-racism-history-violence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">form of white supremacy\u003c/a>, as well as the notion that African Americans are targeting Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of demonstrators hold signs that say, “Stop Asian Hate” during a vigil and rally in San Francisco’s Chinatown on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I read a piece about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/22321234/black-asian-american-tensions-solidarity-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historical division between the two groups\u003c/a>, revisited reports on the killing of Latasha Harlins and the death of Vincent Chin. I revisited \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cDp38sltic8?t=365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this quote\u003c/a> from the late Mike “Dream” Francisco about Southeast Asian folks getting into the same street life that Black and Brown folks find themselves in, because of similar struggles. I even thought back to my experience, and how the first person in my circle to die of violence was a middle-school friend named Norro, who was Cambodian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two months I’ve participated in two panel discussions about violence in the community and kept tabs on the uptick in violence in inner-cities across America. In Oakland, where today the city counted its \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/05/20/man-fatally-shot-in-east-oakland-41/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">53rd homicide\u003c/a> of the year, the issue of violence runs far deeper than any panel discussion can possibly dig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that the tug o’ war between those who believe in defunding police and those who say there should be an increase in police department funding, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/02/12/oakland-chinatown-policing-hate-crimes-solidarity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">specifically as a reaction to anti-Asian violence\u003c/a>. And of course, that intertwines with the topic of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896306/public-safety-for-asian-americans-starts-with-nurturing-our-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other public safety resources\u003c/a> for community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now you see why it’s a lot to think about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But late last month, doing a little art in community made it all so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Malik Seneferu works on a mural in Oakland's Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00207.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malik Seneferu works on a mural in Oakland’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">A\u003c/span>t Madison Park in Oakland’s Chinatown, I talked to artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.cececarpio.com/\">Cece Carpio\u003c/a> as she and my daughter painted what she described as a “diver being swallowed by a sea monster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cece explained that she’s juggling a lot right now: her day job connecting people to resources during the pandemic through the City of San Francisco’s COVID relief task force, working through the planning stages of a new 100-foot mural that she’s set to paint later this year on the side of the Luggage Store gallery in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, and creating community events, like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cece worked along with Tommy Wong of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/civicdesignstudio510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Civic Design Studio\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goodgoodeatz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Good Eatz\u003c/a> to organize the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNYcx0rBjws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Love And Protect: Community Mural Series.\u003c/a> They were also part of the dozen-plus professional artists painting alongside community members. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/asians4blklives/\">Asians 4 Black Lives\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/curyj510/\"> CuryJ\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oakchinatowncoalition/\">Oakland Chinatown Coalition\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/trustyourstruggle/\"> Trust Your Struggle\u003c/a> and more community organizations, the event was focused on showing solidarity through visual arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intention wasn’t just to heal those impacted by violence against members of the Asian community, but to also continue to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895462/in-oakland-building-black-and-asian-solidarity-at-the-street-level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dispel the notion\u003c/a> that it’s a ‘Black versus Asian’ thing happening in the Bay Area, and across the nation, Cece said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emory Douglas, Black Panther Party Minister of Culture, was also at the park that day, and a few days later we discussed the idea of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ongoing process,” Douglas told me during a phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Douglas grew up in community with Asian groups in the ’60s and ’70s. He used to shoot pool with the Red Guard in Chinatown, and when it was time to stand together for social justice issues, they did so. He says he’s clear on the historical context of Black solidarity with the Asian community. And he’s clear that former President Trump’s anti-Asian statements about the spread of COVID-19 have fanned the flames contributing to the rise in hate crimes over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Emory Douglas is banking on the next generation to take the concept of solidarity a bit further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have young people, very progressive people,” says Douglas, “who are becoming more aware and less culturally conditioned to ‘the tradition,’ and are living more in the context of solidarity. They’re transcending the idea of just thinking about themselves, and becoming aware of what’s going on in the real world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13897593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_4976-2.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing equal footing as racial solidarity during that weekend in Oakland’s Chinatown was the theme of intergenerational solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real honor to show up when my elders, especially my mom, invites me to show up,” said Elokin Orton-Cheung, an herbalist who painted with their mother on the canvas next to my daughter and me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ming Mur-Ray, an artist and Elokin’s mother, told me she was surprised by the turnout. “I’m moved to see the seniors from Harrison Senior Housing came out and participated,” said Ming, noting that four out of eight members of the group she works with showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the residents of senior housing, a fear of simply walking down the sidewalk is warranted, given the street attacks on Asian elders. But participation in an anti-Asian violence event was clearly important enough to take the risk. “One person came back on Sunday, by herself,” said Ming. “Because she wrote a word wrong, so she painted it over and corrected it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897598\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A collection of completed murals in Oakland's Chinatown. The murals, meant to be portable, are currently moving from location to location.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/SOlidarity.MAIN_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collection of completed murals in Oakland’s Chinatown. The murals, meant to be portable, are currently moving from location to location. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elokin explained that events like this build on years and of community organizing, but there’s something different when art is the focus. “We’ve been coming together for vigils and protests, and coming together for loss of life in our community, but coming together to celebrate—coming together for sacredness in Black and Asian communities—is really beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day in the park I watched San Francisco muralist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lileli82/\">Elaine Chu\u003c/a> paint one canvas, and TDK’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/agentdecoy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spie \u003c/a>prep his aerosol cans for action on another. Not far from us, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/karen_seneferu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Seneferu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/maliksart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malik Seneferu\u003c/a> were already putting a regal shade of purple paint on a canvas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theletterthi/\">Thitiwat Phromratanapongse \u003c/a>introduced himself as T and took a break from painting to pass me a towel. He’d overheard me joking that I was going to dip my daughter in Lake Merritt to wash her off—the paint she’d used to create her fictional sea monster and diver had also consumed her outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people wore shirts that read “unity” in several different languages. Images of tigers and panthers were painted. In the middle of the labyrinth permanently marked on the park’s blacktop stood an altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, if this isn’t “solidarity,” what is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers and a small altar at the center of a Black and Asian solidarity event in Oakland's Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/DSC00247.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers and a small altar at the center of a Black and Asian solidarity event in Oakland’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">J\u003c/span>ust last week, the 6-foot by 6-foot canvases, about 17 of them, were mounted in various businesses in Old Oakland, many of them in old Swan’s Market. 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"content": "\u003cp>Work has begun on a new mural at the San Francisco LGBT Center. Artists \u003ca href=\"https://jmanuelcarmona.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Manuel Carmona\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://simonmalvaez.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simón Malvaez\u003c/a> are in the process of painting \u003cem>Queeroes\u003c/em>—a tribute to LGBTQ+ heroes, both local and international. The artwork graces the center’s East-facing exterior wall, replacing \u003ca href=\"https://fnnch.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fnnch\u003c/a>’s trio of honey bears that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896515/honey-bear-mural-painted-over-by-sf-lgbt-center-artist-fnnch-responds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed in late April\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CPEBGFGBl6o/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Queeroes\u003c/em> honors four figures from Bay Area LGBTQ+ history: Harvey Milk, Honey Mahogany, Juanita MORE! and Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. It also features international icons including Freddie Mercury, Frida Kahlo, Marsha P. Johnson, Keith Haring, Chavela Vargas, James Baldwin, Sylvia Rivera and Willi Ninja. The piece incorporates the colors of the Progress Pride Flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Carmona and Malvaez identify as Latinx and queer, and say their work is impacted by their experiences as immigrants. On his website, Carmona says his work also reflects “the intersection of the LGBTQI and Latino communities of San Francisco.” Malvaez and Carmona finished a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/COs6yWHBCdv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mural of Juanita MORE!\u003c/a> earlier this month at Alamo Square. That piece is part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.400divisadero.com/painted-gentlemen-murals/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Painted Gentlemen Project\u003c/a>—a series of artworks painted on plywood and affixed to a chainlink fence at 804 Steiner. The project is curated and managed by fnnch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13896327']The new LGBT Center mural follows a flurry of debate surrounding fnnch’s work and its broader impact on the city, which came to a boiling point last month. His honey bears—perceived by some as a symbol of gentrification—prompted a petition, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CONzmTMhWRs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open letter\u003c/a> and several small protests at the mural’s Market Street intersection calling for its removal. Controversy was further stirred by fnnch identifying himself, during an on-camera confrontation, as an “immigrant” from Missouri. Protesters called for the center to employ lesser known, local, LGBTQ+-identifying artists to re-paint the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the launch video shared by the LGBT Center’s Instagram on Wednesday, Carmona and Malvaez expressed gratitude for the commission. “We feel very grateful to have this amazing opportunity to share our talent,” Malvaez said, “and have the power to raise our voices and celebrate who we are and who we represent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CPD1dXhN2fw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The footage fed a flurry of social media activity as users voiced their opinions for and against fnnch’s work, which has proliferated widely across the city in the past year in the form of paper honey bears installed in home windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been creating Pride art and donating to LGBT charities as long as I’ve been creating street art,” fnnch said in a statement provided to KQED, noting that 2020 held special importance to him as the 25th anniversary of his uncle’s death from AIDS. fnnch said the design of the three honey bears, painted in the colors of the Progress Pride Flag, the Bi Flag and the Trans Flag, was created in consultation with the LGBT Center. He also noted he “helped fundraise over $20k for the Center through T-shirt sales, painting donations, and my partnership with Humphrey Slocombe.” He did not the address the recent confrontation or social media criticism of his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mural project “was already an idea the Center had conceptualized” before June of last year, Danielle Siragusa, the LGBT Center’s director of development and communications told KQED in an email. “As we were beginning to put an implementation plan in place, we were approached by fnnch at the beginning of shelter-in-place who offered to do the mural cost-free for us. We then decided this would be a great fit to be the inaugural mural to kick off the annual rotating mural project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/muraldeface.jpg\" alt=\"A mural of honey bears by street artist fnnch is defaced on the side of the SF LGBT Center.\" width=\"503\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/muraldeface.jpg 503w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/muraldeface-160x127.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of honey bears by street artist fnnch is defaced on the side of the SF LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Twitter/@Tosa_Dad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over time, though, the fnnch mural became the site of contrasting visions of San Francisco. It was both a background in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMSmUopxOn/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">photo ops for local leaders\u003c/a> and the repeated target of graffiti, with San Francisco street artists focusing on the honey bears as a symbol of gentrification. Before it was painted fully white on Tuesday, messages written across the mural read “Dissolve the Honey Bear” and “Learn Our Culture B4 U Wreck It.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the controversy over the LGBT Center mural might change the way he approaches future projects, fnnch wrote in an email, “I am still learning from this experience. The clearest learning so far is to collaborate with artists from the communities I hope to uplift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CONzmTMhWRs/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">open letter\u003c/a> to the LGBT Center, written by “members of the native SF community and those fighting to preserve it” and distributed by hand during a Wednesday afternoon gathering across from the site of the fnnch mural, called for the center to “reevaluate who you choose to represent the city you service.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of yesterday’s statement, the LGBT Center added that the next set of artists have been selected (a yet-unnamed collaborative duo) and that “they are both members of the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC community.” Their mural is scheduled to be unveiled in June for Pride month. 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Their wall, like most walls, had sat empty for over 100 years, and while they had discussed the idea of a rotating mural there, they had no concrete plans to do one but were generally open to the idea. I worked with them on the design over the period of months and we settled on one that they not only approved but ran by members of their community. I painted it for free, donating my time, team and materials, and it was generally well received. Throughout the year, over 100 community leaders came out to take photos with it, including London Breed, Mark Leno, Deborah Walker, Sister Roma, Paul Henderson, and Clair Farley. I also helped fundraise over $20k for The Center through t-shirt sales, painting donations, and my partnership with Humphrey Slocombe. The plan was always to rotate the mural after a year. It has now been a year. I am thankful to the SF LGBT Center that they let me paint this mural, and I am proud to have helped kick off a program that will bring public artwork to this incredible mural wall.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the summer of 2018, I put together \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102978/a-guide-to-san-francisco-murals-and-the-artists-who-make-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a guide to six prolific muralists\u003c/a> in San Francisco, including maps of where to find their work. The idea was to create city walks that doubled as art treasure hunts, and to encourage people to learn more about some of our most visible local artists. The list included \u003ca href=\"https://sillypinkbunnies.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Fish\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sirronnorris.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sirron Norris\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fewandfarwomen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Few and Far Women\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://samflores.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Flores\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://theapexer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APEXER\u003c/a> and—try not to hate me—\u003ca href=\"https://fnnch.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fnnch\u003c/a>, the artist behind all those honey bears plastered everywhere in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, fnnch was as well known for his poppies, dogs and bright lips as he was for his honey bears. And at the time, I described his artistic contributions to the city as the “most Instagram-able” on the list, adding that each of his public pieces made the city “a more cheerful place to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost three years later, I cannot, in good conscience, say the same thing. In the past 12 months, San Francisco has become so oversaturated with fnnch’s honey bears that what was once an occasional sugar rush now feels like a nausea-inducing force-feeding. And I’m not alone: the backlash, brewing since last summer, finally reached its zenith this month. There’s a new (private) Instagram account, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fuckfnnch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@fuckfnnch\u003c/a>, that celebrates “pics or videos of dissed or ripped bears.” There’s a Change.org petition titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/sf-lgbt-center-remove-fnnch-mural-from-sf-lgbt-center?source_location=petitions_browse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remove fnnch mural from SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>.” And, notably, there are the local artists who’ve been confronting fnnch on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/COD3Gg1BpH7/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">walls\u003c/a>, in person and online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CON1e9Hhwap/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most visible and vocal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rickyratcomix/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ricky Rat\u003c/a>, whose stories on Instagram often feature montages of honey bear destruction, parodies and badmouthing. “I don’t care where you’re from, but if you’re not doing something directly positive that reflects the real community, then I won’t support it,” \u003ca href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/san-franciscos-honey-bears-harmlessly-cute-or-symbols-of-gentrification-a1cdf925b1f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ricky told the \u003cem>Bold Italic\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last August. “[fnnch] didn’t invent gentrification, but he most publicly represents what it’s about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13896331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"A collection of images featured on Ricky Rat's Instagram stories, on Monday April 26, 2021.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-rat-bear-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collection of images featured on Ricky Rat’s Instagram stories, on Monday April 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @rickyratcomix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, local artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doggtowndro/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DoggTown Dro\u003c/a> uploaded a video of himself confronting fnnch and two of his assistants. The three were apparently cleaning “FUCK FNNCH” graffiti off the trio of honey bears on the side of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LGBT Center\u003c/a> when Dro arrived. “These bears have become synonymous with gentrification in San Francisco,” he told fnnch, “and the displacement of the artists that come from here.” At one point during the exchange, fnnch refers to himself as an “immigrant” from Missouri, a moment \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=fnnch%20immigrant&src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seized upon by his critics\u003c/a> over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CN-qwbvBoIR/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when I wrote that mural guide, in 2018, fnnch was not a favorite within the art community—but he wasn’t this despised, either. He was seen as too generic, too clean-cut, too… \u003cem>safe\u003c/em>. But he held a mainstream appeal that few artists who paint on city walls hold. He was, to put it bluntly, a street artist for people who don’t actually like street art. If regular street artists were the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFMOMA\u003c/a>, fnnch was the \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.museumoficecream.com/event/museum-of-ice-cream-san-fran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Museum of Ice Cream\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>fnnch’s latest problems, however, are rooted in his transition from public selfie backgrounds into the realm of community issues, where he distills serious topics down into his honey bear image. And he’s been doing that, in earnest, since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13896515']It started harmlessly enough. In April 2020, fnnch began, according to one of his newsletters, “wheat-pasting COVID Bears on boarded up storefronts across San Francisco.” At the time, he said he wanted to “convert depressing storefronts into canvases for art, and encourage healthy behavior.” Then, in May, he came up with the #HoneyBearHunt. It was a more urban take on what was happening in the suburbs during the early days of shelter in place: instead of putting actual teddy bears in windows for neighborhood children, people could display fnnch’s honey bear, and kids could follow his virtual map to find them. He sold 3,500 bear window displays in four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the year since, fnnch—a straight, white, former tech worker—has been bombarding San Francisco with those bears. After the initial mask and soap bears for the #HoneyBearHunt, there was a woefully \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/gygx2e/fnnch_bear_blackface/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ill-advised\u003c/a>—then \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBY7kg5JUax/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-imagined\u003c/a>—Black Lives Matter-inspired bear. There was a bear to encourage voting. There was a Ruth Bader Ginsburg bear, a firefighter bear, a teacher bear, a coffee house bear (which fnnch said symbolized the “many everyday heroes of the pandemic”), a San Francisco Ballet bear, a movie bear and, most recently, a Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13896343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"This critique of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honey bear recently appeared on Ricky Rat's Instagram account.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/ricky-comix-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This critique of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honey bear recently appeared on Ricky Rat’s Instagram account. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @rickyratcomix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons people kept buying the bears was because most of them, in one way or another, support a good cause. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will receive 50% of funds from fnnch’s painting and print sales in their likeness. Mask bear and soap bear raised over $100,000 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.safetynetfund.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Safety Net Fund\u003c/a>. Of the firefighter bear sales, 50% benefited the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafirefoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CAL FIRE Foundation\u003c/a>. The SF Ballet got “50% of [related] art sales and 25% of other sales … to support their extensive COVID testing of dancers and staff.” Ten percent of the profits from the movie bear print went to \u003ca href=\"https://www.roxie.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Roxie\u003c/a>. A line of T-shirts donated 25% of sales to \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Anthony’s\u003c/a>, a nonprofit community organization. As fnnch himself noted in one of his regular newsletters, he “went from raising or donating $12,000 in 2019 to $293,000 in 2020.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13890127']After the uproar that greeted his initial attempt at a BLM-inspired bear, an image that people likened to blackface, fnnch donated 50% of proceeds from his subsequent “Ally Bear” to the \u003ca href=\"https://eji.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equal Justice Initiative\u003c/a>, and the other 50% to \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/newbills-barber-shop-and-salon-san-francisco-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newbills Barber Shop and Salon\u003c/a> on Divisadero. It was a rare occasion when the artist himself did not also profit from a design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is less acknowledged when it comes to fnnch, though, is the primary reason people in the city are so sick of him. He has figured out a way to dominate public space, and without any of the risks or consequences that art that lives in public usually faces. (Such as weather damage, tagging, etc.) Honey bears pasted onto shuttered storefronts will have a shelf life of weeks. Honey bears stuck up safely inside people’s windows, protected by the rules of private property, can live indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is how you end up with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13896344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-800x536.png\" alt=\"fnnch's own map of honey bear saturation in San Francisco demonstrates how few spaces remain bear-free.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-800x536.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-1020x684.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-768x515.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-1536x1029.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM.png 1898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">fnnch’s own map of honey bear saturation in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @fnnch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s worse, even at his current level of over-saturation, fnnch’s commitment to blanketing the city with a single image is only getting more aggressive. He specified in his January newsletter that people buying prints for his second honey bear hunt must display the bears in their windows for “at least 3 months.” He added, “It would be swell if you kept it up for the duration of the pandemic, but … after 3 months I will reach out with a survey to see if you’d like to keep your bear up longer.” Children haven’t been this invested in teddy bear hunts in months. So why keep up the proliferation? What’s in it for fnnch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>fnnch’s honey bear now occupies every type of space in San Francisco: the windows of private homes, public walls, institutional facades, and, as of April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNpzXw6JnxG/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inside bus shelters\u003c/a> and on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CN-iAjbpm6_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sides of Muni buses\u003c/a>. Through sheer force of their omnipresence, fnnch’s honey bears are coming to define the city as a place that embraces a kind of bland homogeneity, even in its street art. This is the crux of the disconnect between fnnch and San Francisco writ large: How can the repetition of one image uplift a community that has long prided itself on its heterogeneity? That he continues his honey bear output isn’t just ill-advised, it speaks to how much he still doesn’t understand his adopted home of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After the uproar that greeted his initial attempt at a BLM-inspired bear, an image that people likened to blackface, fnnch donated 50% of proceeds from his subsequent “Ally Bear” to the \u003ca href=\"https://eji.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equal Justice Initiative\u003c/a>, and the other 50% to \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/newbills-barber-shop-and-salon-san-francisco-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newbills Barber Shop and Salon\u003c/a> on Divisadero. It was a rare occasion when the artist himself did not also profit from a design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is less acknowledged when it comes to fnnch, though, is the primary reason people in the city are so sick of him. He has figured out a way to dominate public space, and without any of the risks or consequences that art that lives in public usually faces. (Such as weather damage, tagging, etc.) Honey bears pasted onto shuttered storefronts will have a shelf life of weeks. Honey bears stuck up safely inside people’s windows, protected by the rules of private property, can live indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is how you end up with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13896344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-800x536.png\" alt=\"fnnch's own map of honey bear saturation in San Francisco demonstrates how few spaces remain bear-free.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-800x536.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-1020x684.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-768x515.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM-1536x1029.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-5.48.51-PM.png 1898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">fnnch’s own map of honey bear saturation in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @fnnch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s worse, even at his current level of over-saturation, fnnch’s commitment to blanketing the city with a single image is only getting more aggressive. He specified in his January newsletter that people buying prints for his second honey bear hunt must display the bears in their windows for “at least 3 months.” He added, “It would be swell if you kept it up for the duration of the pandemic, but … after 3 months I will reach out with a survey to see if you’d like to keep your bear up longer.” Children haven’t been this invested in teddy bear hunts in months. So why keep up the proliferation? What’s in it for fnnch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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