Opening Saturday, August 26, 6:30-9:00PM; Exhibition August 26-October 13, 2017
The Arts at CIIS invites you to join us for the opening of To Be and To Become: Mission Street, San Francisco, with a reading by local writer Adriana Camarena.
* Saturday, August 26, 6:30-9:00PM *
Desai | Matta Gallery at CIIS
1453 Mission Street, SF, CA 94103
The exhibition will be on view through October 13, and features the work of the following artists:
Adriana Camarena
Jaime Cortez
Elizabeth Creely
Guillermo Gomez Pena
Vero Majano
Oliver Padilla
Ben Pease
Shizue Seigel
Norman Zelaya
Mission Street, the longest and oldest in the city, is arguably the most San Francisco of boulevards, its Grand Dame. Walk the 7.3 miles from the Bay at the northernmost point to the county line at the south, and you'll witness the layering of myriad worlds. Mission Street tells the stories of cultural diversity, protest, and progressive politics in which our collective narrative of San Francisco is rooted. It also traces neighborhoods whose contemporary demographics are a legacy of 20th century redlining, and reveals the tensions of displacement that are as much a part of this small city's complex history as its present. Whether San Francisco is home or a place you're passing through, the artists in this exhibition invite you to stop and listen, revealing what was and what is through the intimacies of their observations. With their own complex love of the city, they peel back layers of memory, and invite us into the personal nature of geographies, as well as into a contradictory present and a future we make as we choose where and how we live, shop, and build community.
With abundant thanks to: the artists, whose stories and complex love for this city are an inspiration and call to action; LisaRuth Elliott for her deep knowledge of San Francisco; Rebecca Solnit, whose writings inform my inquiry into San Francisco; and Sam Stoller for his generosity and technical wizardry.
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The Arts at CIIS invites you to join us for the opening of To Be and To Become: Mission Street, San Francisco, with a reading by local writer Adriana Camarena.
* Saturday, August 26, 6:30-9:00PM *
Desai | Matta Gallery at CIIS
1453 Mission Street, SF, CA 94103
The exhibition will be on view through October 13, and features the work of the following artists:
Adriana Camarena
Jaime Cortez
Elizabeth Creely
Guillermo Gomez Pena
Vero Majano
Oliver Padilla
Ben Pease
Shizue Seigel
Norman Zelaya
Mission Street, the longest and oldest in the city, is arguably the most San Francisco of boulevards, its Grand Dame. Walk the 7.3 miles from the Bay at the northernmost point to the county line at the south, and you'll witness the layering of myriad worlds. Mission Street tells the stories of cultural diversity, protest, and progressive politics in which our collective narrative of San Francisco is rooted. It also traces neighborhoods whose contemporary demographics are a legacy of 20th century redlining, and reveals the tensions of displacement that are as much a part of this small city's complex history as its present. Whether San Francisco is home or a place you're passing through, the artists in this exhibition invite you to stop and listen, revealing what was and what is through the intimacies of their observations. With their own complex love of the city, they peel back layers of memory, and invite us into the personal nature of geographies, as well as into a contradictory present and a future we make as we choose where and how we live, shop, and build community.
With abundant thanks to: the artists, whose stories and complex love for this city are an inspiration and call to action; LisaRuth Elliott for her deep knowledge of San Francisco; Rebecca Solnit, whose writings inform my inquiry into San Francisco; and Sam Stoller for his generosity and technical wizardry.
Opening Saturday, August 26, 6:30-9:00PM; Exhibition August 26-October 13, 2017
The Arts at CIIS invites you to join us for the opening of To Be and To Become: Mission Street, San Francisco, with a reading by local writer Adriana Camarena.
* Saturday, August 26, 6:30-9:00PM *
Desai | Matta Gallery at CIIS
1453 Mission Street, SF, CA 94103
The exhibition will be on view through October 13, and features the work of the following artists:
Adriana Camarena
Jaime Cortez
Elizabeth Creely
Guillermo Gomez Pena
Vero Majano
Oliver Padilla
Ben Pease
Shizue Seigel
Norman Zelaya
Mission Street, the longest and oldest in the city, is arguably the most San Francisco of boulevards, its Grand Dame. Walk the 7.3 miles from the Bay at the northernmost point to the county line at the south, and you'll witness the layering of myriad worlds. Mission Street tells the stories of cultural diversity, protest, and progressive politics in which our collective narrative of San Francisco is rooted. It also traces neighborhoods whose contemporary demographics are a legacy of 20th century redlining, and reveals the tensions of displacement that are as much a part of this small city's complex history as its present. Whether San Francisco is home or a place you're passing through, the artists in this exhibition invite you to stop and listen, revealing what was and what is through the intimacies of their observations. With their own complex love of the city, they peel back layers of memory, and invite us into the personal nature of geographies, as well as into a contradictory present and a future we make as we choose where and how we live, shop, and build community.
With abundant thanks to: the artists, whose stories and complex love for this city are an inspiration and call to action; LisaRuth Elliott for her deep knowledge of San Francisco; Rebecca Solnit, whose writings inform my inquiry into San Francisco; and Sam Stoller for his generosity and technical wizardry.
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The Arts at CIIS invites you to join us for the opening of To Be and To Become: Mission Street, San Francisco, with a reading by local writer Adriana Camarena.
* Saturday, August 26, 6:30-9:00PM *
Desai | Matta Gallery at CIIS
1453 Mission Street, SF, CA 94103
The exhibition will be on view through October 13, and features the work of the following artists:
Adriana Camarena
Jaime Cortez
Elizabeth Creely
Guillermo Gomez Pena
Vero Majano
Oliver Padilla
Ben Pease
Shizue Seigel
Norman Zelaya
Mission Street, the longest and oldest in the city, is arguably the most San Francisco of boulevards, its Grand Dame. Walk the 7.3 miles from the Bay at the northernmost point to the county line at the south, and you'll witness the layering of myriad worlds. Mission Street tells the stories of cultural diversity, protest, and progressive politics in which our collective narrative of San Francisco is rooted. It also traces neighborhoods whose contemporary demographics are a legacy of 20th century redlining, and reveals the tensions of displacement that are as much a part of this small city's complex history as its present. Whether San Francisco is home or a place you're passing through, the artists in this exhibition invite you to stop and listen, revealing what was and what is through the intimacies of their observations. With their own complex love of the city, they peel back layers of memory, and invite us into the personal nature of geographies, as well as into a contradictory present and a future we make as we choose where and how we live, shop, and build community.
With abundant thanks to: the artists, whose stories and complex love for this city are an inspiration and call to action; LisaRuth Elliott for her deep knowledge of San Francisco; Rebecca Solnit, whose writings inform my inquiry into San Francisco; and Sam Stoller for his generosity and technical wizardry.
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