CAE: Community Arts & Education

Vernon Davis Awards Lowell Student with Visual Arts Scholarship

May 9th, 2012 0

San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis, in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Vernon and Vontae Davis Family Foundation, will host the San Francisco Unified School District’s Young at Art celebration at the de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive on Friday, May 18 at 6 p.m. Davis will also present Lowell High School student Niyjale Cummings with a Vernon Davis Visual Arts Scholarship. The scholarship provides tuition support to a San Francisco youth interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts at the university level.

“Niyjale is super talented and he’ll go far if he pursues art for a living,” says Davis. “We come from similar backgrounds growing up in the inner-city, but the difference between us is that I had to wait until college to discover art, but Niyjale is doing art right now. So I'm glad to see him express himself creatively and I hope he’ll continue to grow as an artist,” says Davis. (more...)

15th Annual United States of Asian America Festival

April 24th, 2012 0

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) celebrates the fifteenth annual United States of Asian America Festival, a series of programs reflecting the artistic accomplishments and the cultural diversity of San Francisco’s Asian and Pacific Islander communities that takes place every May during Asian Pacific American Heritage month. (more...)

Culture Wire: The Cult of Beauty

April 5th, 2012 Comments Off

The Cult of Beauty exhibits the art and craft of the Victorian Avant Garde. San Francisco's Legion of Honor is the exclusive American host for The Cult of Beauty. Learn more here.

About The ARTery Project

February 21st, 2012 Comments Off

Noontime Dance at U.N. Plaza with Elizabeth Soberanes. Photo by Mackenzi Grimmer

The ARTery Project began as a series of art events taking place in the Central Market neighborhood coordinated by the San Francisco Arts Commission with a larger vision to develop the neighborhood into a lively and sustainable cultural district with arts at its core.

In 2010, with seed funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, projects included Art in Storefronts, temporary art installations in vacant storefronts; Lights on Market Street, three site-specific light installations; Market Street Blooms, two 20-foot tall steel flower sculptures; and a series of special events such as festivals, exhibitions, and performances hosted by neighborhood arts organizations. (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...)