Wednesday, October 6, 2010

New Exhibits and Murals



I co-curated Images: Independence and Revolution an exhibition for The Mexican Museum in San Francisco that opened last month. The museum is starting up again with its third exhibition since October 2009. Check out the show!

Joaquin Newman and I received a commission from the Alameda County Arts Commission to decorate a temporary construction fence surrounding Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. We will generate images for the mural in a series of hands-on workshops with families to launch 100 Families Alameda County: Art and Social Change, now an official arts education program of the Arts Commission. After designing the mural on laptops, the mural will be printed on plastic panels and installed on the plywood fence that encloses the hospital renovation project. It’s great to work with the Commission again!

We are also developing a mural on the Right to Good Health with Mariana Ferreira and her anthropology students at SFSU. This project is part of the annual Human Rights Summit and funded through the National Institute of Health. We hope to secure the site in the coming month and complete the mural by the end of the year!

We received recognition from Supervisor John Gioia for Earth Speaks, the mural at the El Sobrante Public Library. Thanks to the SPAWNERS and Earth Team Environmental Network!

The Fox Courts mural is highlighted in Artful Teaching, a new book for teachers! It’s exciting to be recognized in print and an honor to be cited in a book for educators!

Also receiving recognition is the mural Ray Patlán and I painted for Gundlach-Bunschu Winery in Sonoma, CA in 1990. Checkout the photo in the San Francisco Chronicle! The Bunschu family was great to work with and they have a beautiful winery with fantastic wine! And what a mural!

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