A Humble Abode by Hui-Ying Tsai
One Hundred Chinatown Children by Leland Wong
Three Entrée Restaurant by Niana Liu
If These Walls Could Talk by Robert Minervini
Chinatown’s Childhood Memory Shop by Cynthia Tom
The Legend of Ginseng and Velvet by Yumei Hou and Jiang Xueman
Ms.Teriosa by Kelly Ording and Jetro Martinez
A New Museum by Abner Nolan
We Built This City by Tahiti Pehrson
Strong Women, Precious Pearls by Kristine Mays
Living Room by Elisheva Biernoff
Working Artist I Artist Working by ART 94124
Marking Birds by Bayview Hunter’s Point YMCA & Malik Seneferu
Our Busy Lives by Central City Hospitality House
Fight for Your Neighborhood by Chris Treggiari & Billy Mitchell
Thingamajig: Nguyen is Nguyen by Betty Nguyen
INFINITESIMAL INFINITY by Drone Dungeon Collective
Giant Ghosts by Paul Hayes
No One Seems To Care That I Want Roots by Liz Maher
“Don’t Give Up the Ship” by Alexis Amann and Jonathan Burstein
Consider It by Phillip Hua
Comforting Connections by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
“Everything is OK” by Christopher Simmons & Tim Belonax
Celebrate Film in San Francisco by San Francisco Film Museum and Archive
Find Yourself in Natural History by Helen Bayly & Leanne Miller
The Color Therapy of Perception by Chor Boogie
Join Art in Storefronts artists and property owners to learn about the Lion’s Den and the heyday of Wentworth Alley captured in Robert Minervini’s mural. Hear about the hungry visitors who try to enter Niana Liu’s faux-restaurant installation and how local merchants have embraced her. And find out how Leland Wong photographed 100 children in less than one month.
Project Manager Kelly Lindner leads a tour of the Art in Storefronts Chinatown installations for a group of planners, designers, activists, and policymakers. In town for the Just Metropolis conference. Watch these videos to learn more about the installations and come out to Chinatown to see these fabulous installations for yourself.
The site for Cynthia Tom’s Art in Storefronts installation has been a boarding house, restaurant, and nightclub. Her “Chinatown Childhood Memory Shop” recreates the space with items that elicit memories of Chinatown and the neighborhood’s rich cultural history.
7×7 Magazine, the “insider’s guide to the best of San Francisco,” called our Art in Storefront’s program the “Best Dressed Windows” in the city. Their list, “Best of 2010: The Day” honors the novelty and innovativeness of the Art in Storefronts program.
I have had the distinct pleasure of working with six amazing artists for Art in Storefronts Chinatown. These artists are resilient and perhaps more importantly inspiring. Their projects display a commitment to their artistic practices as well as this community.
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Artist and Community Panel Discussion
Saturday, July 17, 2010 from 2-4 p.m.
Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny, 3rd Fl.
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This mural, done in collaboration with Adopt-An-Alleyway youth volunteers, is a montage of images generated by interviews with local residents and the history of Wentworth Street. An accompanying audio installation intermingles excerpts from the interviews with distinct sounds from the neighborhood
Collecting and displaying donated photographs and childhood memories via projections, paintings, and mixed media works, Cynthia Tom has transformed the vacant storefront into Chinatown’s Childhood Memory Shop. The community is invited to share their own childhood memories of Chinatown, which will be incorporated into the evolving installation.
Celebrating the famous Chinese poem “Eulogy on My Humble Abode” by Liu Yuxi, Hui-Ying Tsai’s installation recreates an imaginary living space covered with an abundance of artificial flowers. A traditional style mountain scene, along with the poem written in Chinese and English, surround the contemporary tableaux.
This collaborative project, installed in two neighboring storefront windows, combines Yumei Hou’s intricate paper cutouts of traditional Chinese motifs with Jiang Xueman’s scrolling video of a refashioned Chinese lunar calendar.
Niana Liu The artist has converted an empty storefront into a simulated Chinese restaurant ironically offering only three entrees: 1. Cheap and good. (slow) 2. Cheap and fast. (crappy) and 3. Good and fast (expensive).
This mural, based on the popular Chinese folk tale “One Hundred Children,” incorporates animated images of local children running, jumping, and playing. Staged on a bright red background and spanning nearly 32 feet, the figures signify the good fortune and abundance brought to the community though its youth.
SAVE THE DATE: Chinatown Launch
Friday, June 11, 2010
5 – 7 p.m.
Wentworth Alley
Artist and Community Panel Discussion
Saturday, July 17, 2010
2 -4 p.m.
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
750 Kearny Street, Third Floor
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