News from SFAC, July 2009

In this issue...

Season Premiere of CultureWire

Maya Lin's Last Public Memorial

Friend, Follow & Favorite SFAC

Cultural Equity Grants Program Announces FY 09-10 Deadline Sept. 28, 2009

Bill Fontana is being awarded the prestigious lifetime achievement award

New Work at Ingleside Branch Library

Arts and Economic Recovery Survey

What’s Happening at SFAC Gallery this Month?

Are you a techie that wants to serve non-profits?

 

 

Season Premiere of CultureWire
The 2nd season of the Arts Commission’s cable television program, CultureWire, kicks off Friday, September 4th. Join us on cable station 26 or go to www.sfartscommission.org to catch the new episode where we examine how the Tutankhamun exhibition impacts the economy of San Francisco. Learn how the arts fuel the City’s economy, whether on the large-scale of a major cultural institution (the de Young’s Tutankhamun and the Golden age of the Pharaohs exhibition) or through neighborhood-based arts centers (the African American Art and Culture Complex’s reopening celebration). The monthly cultural calendar will also highlight several events not to be missed.

Maya Lin's Last Public Memorial
World-renowned artist Maya Lin will debut her last public memorial at the California Academy of Sciences on Thursday, September 17th. Entitled What is Missing?, the permanent site-specific sculpture is the international debut of the first component of a multi-sited, multimedia artwork dedicated to raising awareness about the current crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss. The dedication of the sculpture marks a milestone for the San Francisco Arts Commission's Public Art Program, which commissioned the new work along with Lin's first sculpture at the Academy,Where the Land Meets the Sea, which debuted last year at the museum's opening. The Academy is the only institution in the world to house two permanent sculptures—an artwork and a memorial—by Lin. View the Press Release...

All Over the Web - Friend, Follow & Favorite SFAC
The San Francisco Arts Commission is now on all major social media web sites. Be sure you friend us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, favorite us on YouTube, and check out our stream on Flickr. We encourage you to use your preferred site to keep abreast of all our programs, events and special initiatives. Go to our social media page to find out how to get and stay connected.

Cultural Equity Grants Deadlines
Cultural Equity Grants Program Announces FY 09-10 Deadline Sept. 28, 2009. To get information on the Arts in Communities Innovative Partnerships (Deadline: September 28th) please go to: http://sfartscommission.org/ceg/grants/index.html#iac. Be sure to also check the earlier deadlines to submit drafts narrative proposals for staff review.

SFAC Artist, Bill Fontana Honored
Bill Fontana is being awarded the prestigious lifetime achievement award, 2009 Bay Area Treasure Award, from SFMOMA in October. He is also being awarded a lifetime achievement award from Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, the Golden Nica Award in the Category of Digital Music – considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the world in the field of sound technology. In honor of these extraordinary accolades, the Arts Commission will be extending his installation in City Hall’s Rotunda, Spiraling Echoes through December 11, 2009. Congratulations, Bill! For more information on Bill’s work, go to: resoundings.org.

New Work at Ingleside Branch Library
The Public Art Program will debut a new artwork by Bay Area metal artist Eric Powell for the new Ingleside Branch Library, which opens on Saturday, September 12, 2009. See more...

Mounted above the bookshelves on the back wall of the north reading room, Ocean Current is a 30’ x 4’ low-relief sculpture composed of metal tubing fashioned by hand into an organic, curving design inspired by a nearby underground creek.

Participate in the “Artists and Economic Recession Survey”:
Help determine if the Bay Area’s recession is over, or if it’s still going strong. How are these economic times affecting artists around San Francisco? This survey is being conducted by Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a ten-year national initiative to improve conditions for artists, in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Foundation and East Bay Community Foundation, and supervised by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. There’s strength in numbers, so make sure your voice is heard by completing the survey yourself, AND, by forwarding it to every other artist you know! Reaching as many artists as possible improves the quality of this important research, and better equips everyone who advocates for artists and the arts. The survey takes about 15 minutes, and is offered in English and Spanish. Survey website...

Question: What’s Happening at SFAC Gallery this Month? Answer: Three new exhibitions featuring Bay Area Artists!
Question: What’s Happening at SFAC Gallery this Month? Answer: Three new exhibitions featuring Bay Area Artists! Check out Conversations 5 in the Main Gallery at 401 Van Ness; Ajit Chauhan’s window installation at 155 Grove Street; and 10 x 10 x 10 which is now showing on the ground floor of City Hall. For more detail on these exhibitions and the great press they received, go to: sfartscommission.org/gallery

Are you a techie that wants to serve non-profits?
Are you a techie that wants to serve non-profits? Idealist is partnering with Mozilla (the organization behind the Firefox browser) on their first annual Mozilla Service Week which will match thousands of techie volunteers around the world with nonprofits in need of help with IT, web design, programming, blogging, and more. Mozilla Service Week will take place September 14-21, 2009, and organizations are so eager for volunteers that a couple of thousand of them have already posted their opportunities. If you are comfortable with technology and would like to help out, or if your organization could use some help, please go to: http://mozillaservice.org. And to help spread the word, go to: http://www.idealist.org/if/mozservice09/en/Spread/default