CAE: Community Arts & Education

Culture Wire: The ARTery Project

August 9th, 2011 Comments Off

This Culture Wire episode features an art tour of the Central Market neighborhood and the Arts Commission's arts activation initiative, The ARTery Project. The ARTery Project is an exciting series of art events, fairs, installations and performances taking place along Market Street between UN Plaza and 6th Street. Join Culture Wire host Meg Shiffler for interview with artists Amber Hasselbring and Karen Cusolito, and the luggage store Co-Executive Director Darryl Smith.

First Annual San Francisco Youth Arts Summit

December 1st, 2011 Comments Off

Out of Site Youth Arts Center presents the first annual San Francisco Youth Arts Summit, featuring performances, workshops, and an exhibition of visual artwork and videos on December 10 and 11. (more...)

Daniel del Solar Passing

January 17th, 2012 1

Daniel del Solar, Latino media activist, documentarian, videographer, photographer, and poet died in Oakland, California on January 13, 2012, at the age of 71. Daniel attended Harvard University and went on to a varied career in public media, from the KPFA-FM Comunicación Aztlán programming collective in the early 1970s, Publicist with the San Francisco Arts Commission's Community Arts & Education program (formerly known as Neighborhood Arts Program), to National Director of Training and Development at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in Washington D.C. in the mid-1970s. (more...)

Culture Wire: “New Fire” at Brava

January 23rd, 2012 0

Cherrie Moraga returns to Brava Theater to stage New Fire. The veteran playwright is directing her own script for the first time, creating a performance that blends theater, dance and traditional ceremony.

What’s in a name?

December 19th, 2011 Comments Off

By Kenji Liu

Kenji Liu, artist and program director of Geneva Car Barn and Power House, was inspired by this question during the start of the Occupy movement when Frank H. Ogawa Plaza was unofficially renamed Oscar Grant Plaza by the Occupy Oakland protestors. In response, he created two posters to show solidarity for the memory of both Frank H. Ogawa and Oscar Grant, explaining: (more...)

News Release: San Francisco Arts Commission Launches Virtual Graffiti App

September 9th, 2011 Comments Off

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 9, 2011

Media Contact:
Tyra Fennell, San Francisco Arts Commission
Tel: 415-252-2597 Email: tyra.fennell@sfgov.org

Anaka Kobzev, McCann Worldgroup
Tel: 323-900-7137 Cell: 917-362-5845
Email: anaka.kobzev@interpublic.com

San Francisco Arts Commission Launches Virtual Graffiti App
The Pilot App to Provide Legal Vehicle for Creative Expression

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San Francisco – September 9, 2011 – The San Francisco Arts Commission announced today that it is launching Graff City, a virtual graffiti mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch that gives urban artists a new outlet for creative expression. Developed pro bono by McCann Worldgroup, Graff City allows users to virtually “write” on any surface or building with their iPhones, pushing graffiti from the walls of the real world to the walls of the virtual world. Users can share their artworks via Facebook or camera roll, providing a much bigger potential audience than an actual physical location. Once uploaded, the augmented reality mode uses GPS to give the user a real-time street view of other people’s virtual tags, which can be rated and shared.  Graff City is available now through the Apple app store, and will be officially launched at an event later this fall. (more...)

About WritersCorps

July 17th, 2009 Comments Off

Beto Palomar with his students at International Studies Academy

San Francisco WritersCorps places professional writers in community settings to teach creative writing to youth.

Since its inception in 1994, the program has helped over 15,000 young people from neighborhoods throughout San Francisco improve their literacy and increase their desire to learn. (more...)