A Conversation with Kehinde Wiley @FAMSF

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco In this conversation with Kehinde Wiley, hear about the Kehinde Wiley exhibition and the artist’s practice. Led by Claudia Schmuckli, curator in charge of contemporary art and programming, this talk explores Wiley’s new body of work that sheds light on the brutalities of American and global colonial pasts.

About the speakers
Kehinde Wiley was born in Los Angeles in 1977 to an African American mother and a Nigerian father. He earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999, and his MFA from Yale University in 2001. Prior to painting Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait, Wiley was already renowned for “street casting” Black sitters from underserved communities and for endowing their portraits with the scale, visual vocabularies, and symbolic rhetoric of Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic “Grand Manner” portraiture. At the unveiling of his portrait of Barack Obama, Wiley declared, “This is consequential, this is who we as a society decide to celebrate. This is our humanity, this is our ability to say: ‘I matter. I was here.’ The ability to be the first African American painter to paint the first African American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming.”

Claudia Schmuckli is curator in charge of contemporary art and programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Previously she was director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, where she forged a reputation as a pivotal figure in the presentation of contemporary art. Before coming to the Blaffer Art Museum, Schmuckli worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She holds an MA in art history from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

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A Conversation with Kehinde Wiley

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-03-18 | In this conversation with Kehinde Wiley, hear about the Kehinde Wiley exhibition and the artist’s practice. Led by Claudia Schmuckli, curator in charge of contemporary art and programming, this talk explores Wiley’s new body of work that sheds light on the brutalities of American and global colonial pasts.

About the speakers
Kehinde Wiley was born in Los Angeles in 1977 to an African American mother and a Nigerian father. He earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999, and his MFA from Yale University in 2001. Prior to painting Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait, Wiley was already renowned for “street casting” Black sitters from underserved communities and for endowing their portraits with the scale, visual vocabularies, and symbolic rhetoric of Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic “Grand Manner” portraiture. At the unveiling of his portrait of Barack Obama, Wiley declared, “This is consequential, this is who we as a society decide to celebrate. This is our humanity, this is our ability to say: ‘I matter. I was here.’ The ability to be the first African American painter to paint the first African American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming.”

Claudia Schmuckli is curator in charge of contemporary art and programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Previously she was director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, where she forged a reputation as a pivotal figure in the presentation of contemporary art. Before coming to the Blaffer Art Museum, Schmuckli worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She holds an MA in art history from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

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A Conversation with Lee Mingwei

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-12-27 | In this conversation with Lee Mingwei, hear about the Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care exhibition and the artist’s practice. Led by Claudia Schmuckli, curator in charge of contemporary art and programming, this talk explores Mingwei’s interactive installations and performances inspired by personal experiences and world events.

About the speakers

Born in Taipei in 1964, Lee Mingwei immigrated to the US when he was a young child. He went to high school in San Francisco and graduated with a bachelor of fine arts in textile arts from the California College of Arts in 1993 before earning a graduate degree at Yale University in 1997. He is one of the most prominent Taiwanese American artists today, and his practice has been celebrated across Europe and Asia with recent major solo exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Gropius Bau, Berlin. Rituals of Care will be the artist’s first survey exhibition in the United States.

Claudia Schmuckli joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2016 as curator in charge of contemporary art and programming. Previously she was director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, where she forged a reputation as a pivotal figure in the presentation of contemporary art. Before coming to the Blaffer Art Museum, Schmuckli worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She holds an MA in art history from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

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A conversation on appropriation and appreciation in fashion

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-12-20 | Join us for a conversation exploring the nuances of cultural appropriation and appreciation in fashion. This talk takes place on the opening day of Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style.

Featured panelists include: Abram Jackson, director of interpretation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and exhibition catalogue contributors Susan B. Kaiser, professor emerita, UC Davis, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Ann Tartsinis, visiting faculty member at the California College of the Arts and PhD candidate in the department of art and art history at Stanford University, and Lewis Watts, photographer and professor emeritus UC Santa Cruz. Laura Camerlengo, exhibition curator and curator in charge of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will moderate the panel.

Abram Jackson (FAMSF, director of interpretation)
Laura Camerlengo (FAMSF, curator in charge of costume and textile arts)
Susan B. Kaiser (UC Davis, professor emerita, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty)
Ann Tartsinis (California College of the Arts and Stanford University)
Lewis Watts (Emeritus UC Santa Cruz)

About the speakers

Abram Jackson joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco as the Museums' inaugural director of interpretation in June 2022. Jackson utilizes ethnic studies theories and DEIA practices in partnership with staff to incorporate more inclusive narratives into didactics. One of Jackson’s contributions to this effort is the interpretation partners program, which incorporates local voices into the interpretive framing for special exhibitions with themes connected to lived experiences of local and global communities.

Laura L. Camerlengo is curator in charge of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and curator of the exhibition Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style. Since 2010, Camerlengo has organized, co-organized, and presented numerous costume and textiles exhibitions for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a focus on sharing the stories of women and artists of color.

Ann Marguerite Tartsinis is a visiting faculty member at the California College of the Arts and a PhD candidate in the department of art and art history at Stanford University. From 2010 to 2016, she was an associate curator at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, where she organized several fashion history and material culture exhibitions.

Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist/curator, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz. His artwork centers around the “cultural landscape” primarily in the African Diaspora. He is the co-author with Elizabeth Pepin of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era (Heyday Books Berkeley, 2020) as well as New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition (UC Press, 2013) and Portraits (Edition One Press Berkeley, 2020).

Susan B. Kaiser is professor emerita at UC Davis, having served in the departments of textiles and clothing; design; and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. She was a founding member of the cultural studies PhD program and served as the interim dean of humanities, arts, and cultural studies from 2015 to 2018. Her research centers on the interplay between fashion studies and intersectional, feminist cultural studies, with a current interest in rethinking time and place through fashion.

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Botticelli to Balanchine: A conversation on the renaissance of dance

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-12-10 | A conversation exploring Renaissance dance in conjunction with the “Botticelli Drawings” exhibition and the San Francisco Ballet’s upcoming presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This conversation will feature Tamara Rojo, artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet, and Furio Rinaldi, exhibition curator and curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, moderated by Sarah Mackay, assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs.
About the speakers

Tamara Rojo is a celebrated leader and award-winning principal dancer who was appointed artistic director of San Francisco Ballet in January 2022. Prior to this, she served as artistic director and lead principal of London’s English National Ballet for nine and a half years, where she implemented groundbreaking programming, garnered the company accolades, and spearheaded a successful £50-million capital campaign to create a new headquarters for the company. Prior to her directorship, she was a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet for over a decade where she held lead roles in all ballet classics, as well as works by Balanchine, Robbins, MacMillan, and more. She has received Spain’s three highest honors: the Gold Medal of Fine Arts (2002), Prince of Asturias Arts Award (2005), Encomienda de Numero Queen Isabel La Católica (2011); the Kennedy Center Gold Medal for Fine Arts (2012); the Order of the British Empire (2016); and two Olivier Awards, one for Best New Dance Production (2010), and one for Best Achievement in Dance (2017).

Furio Rinaldi is curator of drawings and prints at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Fine Arts Museums’ department of works on paper. An expert on 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings, particularly the schools of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, he has published extensively on the subject in The Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal. At the Museums, he organized the Legion of Honor exhibition “Color into Line: Pastel from the Renaissance to the Present” (2021–2022). His curatorial experience includes positions in the department of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where he also served as a Samuel H. Kress Fellow, and the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Rinaldi holds a PhD in art history from the University of Rome and an MA and BA in art history from the University of Milan.

Sarah Mackay is assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs for the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums San Francisco. Since joining FAMSF in 2022, Sarah has contributed to exhibitions including “Paperworks,” “Printworks,” “Drawing the Line,” “Robert Bechtle: Prints and Drawings,” and served as presenting curator for “Ansel Adams in Our Time.” Before joining the Museums, Sarah was with Christie’s, New York, where she worked in multiple specialist departments spanning fine arts and luxury.

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Battle of Versailles: 50th anniversary talk on a historic fashion show

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-11-30 | On November 28, 1973 the historic fashion show, Battle of Versailles, forever changed the fashion industry. This groundbreaking show helped catapult American designers such as Stephen Burrows and Halston onto the global fashion map and led to them rivaling their French peers such as Yves Saint Laurent and Hubert de Givenchy. Along with the designers, the scene-stealing performances of Black models helped herald a new era within the fashion world.

During this discussion we will be joined by select models who participated in Battle of Versailles to discuss the historic show, how it advanced themes of diversity and inclusivity within the fashion industry, and explore its influence decades later on a new generation of models and designers.

Featuring:
Jennifer Brice, Battle of Versailles model
Pat Cleveland, Battle of Versailles model
Norma Jean Darden, Battle of Versailles model
Moderator: Souleo, independent curator

The event is guest curated by Souleo.

Jennifer Brice, a pioneering force in fashion, gained prominence in 1972 by winning the Model of the Year Pageant, propelling her into NYC’s fashion scene. Renowned designers like Oscar de la Renta and Stephen Burrows recognized her talent, adorning her in creations by Halston, Valentino, and more. Jennifer made history at the Battle of Versailles runway. Her enduring legacy of breaking barriers and embracing diversity continues to inspire and reshape the fashion landscape. For more information visit Instagram: @itsjenniferbrice

Pat Cleveland has been an international top model for over five decades. She has worked for the most prestigious fashion designers such as Halston, Valentino, Stephen Burrows, and Armani. Pat has been seen in fashion publications such as Vogue, Ebony, Women’s Wear Daily, Essence, W Magazine, and Interview. She has also been painted by Salvador Dali and worked with Andy Warhol. Pat has received many awards for her work, and has recently received the Thurgood Marshall Award as a fashion icon. She is also an author, singer, and artist. For more information: houseofvrc.com or Instagram: @patcleveland

Norma Jean Darden is a model and entrepreneur. Throughout her modeling career, Darden graced the pages of fashion magazines such as Bazaar, Glamour, Mademoiselle and Vogue. Darden later opened her first restaurant in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood called Spoonbread, Inc, which specialized in Southern cuisine. In 1997, Darden opened two more restaurants with Miss Mamie’s Spoonbread Too and Miss Maude’s Spoonbread Too restaurants, both in Manhattan. Darden’s restaurants have been featured in publications as diverse as the New York Times, USA Today, Black Enterprise, Essence and Ebony magazines. For more information: spoonbreadinc.com or Instagram: @missmamiesspoonbreadtoo
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Souleo has been hailed as an “Icon of Harlem” (Ruth Millington, art historian and author of Muse) and “Harlem’s Heart and Soul” (NY Daily News). An acclaimed creative, curator, impresario, consultant, and muse, he seamlessly merges the worlds of art, fashion, literature, media, and music to document and amplify the stories of the emerging and underrepresented via exhibitions, events, and writing. For more information: souleouniverse.com

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A symposium on Botticelli

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-11-19 | Join us for a one-day international symposium and hear from scholars, curators, and academics on Sandro Botticelli’s art and design processes. This program will include an introduction to the exhibition Botticelli Drawings organized by exhibition curator Furio Rinaldi, curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. It will also include original scholarship and presentations by Emanuele Lugli, assistant professor at Stanford University, Patricia L. Rubin, emeritus professor of Renaissance art at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, Jacqueline Thallmann, curator at the Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, and more.

Schedule (in order of appearance):

Thomas P. Campbell (FAMSF, director and CEO), Opening remarks

Furio Rinaldi (FAMSF, curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts), Introduction

Davide Gasparotto (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), How Much Do You Want a Botticelli?: Botticelli Comes to America

Jacqueline Thalmann (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford), Botticelli and Filippino Lippi: The Underdrawing of the Christ Church Sibyl Panels Revealed

Emanuele Lugli (Stanford University), Botticelli, Painter, and Draftsman of Fabulous Hair

Michelle O’Malley (The Warburg Institute, London), Botticelli’s Hidden Drawings: Management and Production in the Workshop

Patricia Lee Rubin (Courtauld Institute, London), In the Company of Devils, Lost Souls, and Angels: Botticelli, Dante, and The Divine Comedy

Learn more about the speakers here: famsf.org/events/symposium-on-botticelli

Sponsors

This program is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and under the auspices of the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco

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The secrets of Botticelli’s drawings

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-11-17 | Bringing a new perspective on the beloved Renaissance artist, “Botticelli: Rhythm of the Line” reveals the central role that drawing played in Sandro Botticelli’s art and practice. This short documentary takes viewers through the streets of Florence, where the artist lived and worked, to the Uffizi galleries, home of Botticelli’s most striking masterpieces. The story is told by Furio Rinaldi, curator of drawings and prints at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Jonathan K. Nelson, art historian at Syracuse University in Florence, and Cecilia Frosinini, art historian at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence. These voices speak in chorus to give us an original narrative that illuminates Botticelli’s life, process, and legacy.

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Botticelli Drawings is the first exhibition ever dedicated to the drawings of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445 – 1510). Exploring the foundational role drawing played in Botticelli’s work, the exhibition traces his artistic journey, from studying under maestro Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 – 1469) to leading his own workshop in Florence. Featuring rarely seen and newly attributed works, the exhibition provides insight into the design practice of an artist whose name is synonymous with the Italian Renaissance. Botticelli’s drawings offer an intimate look into the making of some of his most memorable masterpieces, including Adoration of the Magi (c. 1500), which will be reunited with its preparatory drawing, surviving only in fragments. From Botticelli’s earliest recorded drawings through expressive designs for his final painting, the works on display reveal the artist’s experimental drawing techniques, quest for ideal beauty, and command of the line.

Botticelli Drawings is on view from November 19, 2023 – February 11, 2024. Get your tickets here: tickets.famsf.org/events/283/detail/64df9f3b23e84e7e96dd15d2

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How Kehinde Wiley Is Reshaping the Monumental
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Exploring the life and work of artist Kehinde Wiley, this film takes viewers on a journey from Wiley’s upbringing in South Central Los Angeles to his ascent as one of the world’s most iconic visual artists.

Patrick Kelly: The American in Paris
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Filmed in New York City, Paris, and the de Young museum, this short documentary celebrates the life, career, and legacy of Black fashion designer Patrick Kelly (1954–1990). Kelly’s evolution from “little young American from Mississippi to a grand master of fashion in Paris” is captured in vintage footage, as well as accounts of his friends and close collaborators.

Ansel Adams + Richard Misrach: Exploring Legacies
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“Ansel Adams + Richard Misrach: Exploring Legacies” is the latest installment of the award-winning short documentary series “FAMSF Presents.” Featuring archival footage of Ansel Adams, as well as interviews with Berkeley-based photographer Richard Misrach and FAMSF curator Lauren Palmor, this film examines the impact of Ansel Adams’s prolific photography in the Bay Area and beyond.

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Full circle: de Young Open artists in conversation

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-10-29 | Join us for a panel highlighting participants in The de Young Open 2020 to track the impact of the exhibition on Bay Area artists. Moderated by Sunny A. Smith, this panel features Cheryl Derricotte, Ron Saunders, and Rupy C. Tut.

About the speakers

Cheryl Derricotte is a visual artist whose favorite mediums are glass and paper. Originally from Washington, DC, she lives and makes art in San Francisco, CA. Her art has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The San Francisco Chronicle. In 2021, she was awarded the commission to develop a monument to Harriet Tubman at the transit-oriented development Gateway at Millbrae Station, the first sculptural tribute to the abolitionist in glass. Entitled “Freedom’s Threshold,” the monument was unveiled on March 16, 2023. Cheryl currently serves as the 2023/2024 Kala Art Institute, Print Public: Municipal Artist-in-Residence for the City of Berkeley’s Climate Equity Pilot Program.

Ron Moultrie Saunders, originally from New York, pursued landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. His art is featured in the San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection with permanent work located across the city. This year he completed two commissions for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). His artwork has been in museums and galleries across the US, and he’s a longtime resident of San Francisco.

Sunny A. Smith (they/them), de Young Open 2023 exhibition juror and Bay Area artist and educator, has produced work for over 25 solo shows, exhibiting at museums including SFMOMA, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Palais de Tokyo, and MASS MoCA. Smith received the United States Artists Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, the Artadia Award, and the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Award. Their work is held in the collections of nearly forty museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Saatchi Gallery, and the Brooklyn Museum. Their work was acquired by the de Young in 2022. Smith currently serves as professor and dean of fine arts at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Rupy C. Tut creates paintings on paper and linen using handmade pigments. Her work is rooted in personal history; Tut is a grandchild of Punjabi Sikh refugees, an immigrant, a mother, and a preservationist of traditional Indian painting (also known as miniature painting) techniques in use since 18th century AD. Tut’s meticulous line work explores the relationship to homeland, and the criteria of belonging as an immigrant and a woman. Tut has enjoyed solo exhibitions including Out of Place, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Search and Rescue, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; A Recipe for Brown Skin, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; and A Journey Back Home, Peel Art Gallery and Museum Archives, Ontario. Tut’s work is in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the de Young, San Francisco; and the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Rupy C. Tut is represented by the Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

Learn more about the exhibition: famsf.org/exhibitions/de-young-open-2023

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Our Shared Struggle: The International Imperative for Repair

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-09-17 | The African Diaspora has a shared struggle to live free from violence and colonization. Centuries of unrelenting exploitation and harm require a substantive conversation on reparative acts from state and corporate entities, which have contributed to this violence and accumulated massive capital and economic gain. This conversation will seek to explore the efforts to redress these harms and expand the discourse around what reparative relief looks like in our current context.

About the speakers

Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence, Policy Link
Angela Glover Blackwell is founder in residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity for all.

Dr. Ron Daniels, president, Institute of the Black World 21st Century
Dr. Daniels is a distinguished lecturer emeritus at York College, City University of New York where he taught courses in political science.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president emerita, Bennett College for Women
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is president emerita of Bennett College for Women. A committed activist and civic leader, Dr. Malveaux has held positions in women’s, civil rights, and policy organizations.

Tinisch Hollins, founder, SF Black Wallstreet
As the community appointed "power broker" of SF Black Wallstreet, Tinisch brings underrepresented Black voices into decision-making processes and redirects priorities, power, and resources back to the community.

Justin Hansford, executive director, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center
Justin Hansford is a leading scholar and activist in the areas of critical race theory, human rights, and law and social movements.

john a. powell, director, Othering and Belonging Institute (please display name in all lowercase letters)
john a. powell is director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and professor of law, African American, and ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. john led the development of an “opportunity-based” model that connects affordable housing to education, health, health care, and employment and is well known for his work developing the frameworks of “targeted universalism” and “othering and belonging” to effect equity-based intervention

Pastor Michael McBride, executive director, Live Free USA (moderator)
Pastor Michael McBride (“Pastor Mike”) is the executive director for Live Free USA, a national network of freedom fighters, community organizers, faith leaders, and survivors committed to ending gun violence and mass incarceration of young people and families of color. He is one of the national leaders in the movement to implement public health and community centered gun violence prevention programs, which have contributed to 30-60% reductions of gun related homicides in Oakland and many other cities across the country.

About the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series

This event is part of the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series, developed in collaboration with Pastor Mike McBride and Sherrie Deans of Live Free USA. This six-part series brings together some of the biggest names in culture, art, sports, and activism. Through panels, performances, and collective healing practices, this series offers a platform to those most impacted by state-sanctioned violence and offers a constructive framework for understanding the intersections of art, suffering, and healing.

About Live Free USA

Live Free is a nonprofit and social justice network dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization through education, advocacy, and direct action. They are driven by a mission to build community power and agency by reimagining public safety and increasing civic engagement. Live Free sees a world with safe, equitable communities for all and where every person is safely and peacefully connected to community.

Sponsors
This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Presenting Sponsors
Ford Foundation
Google.org

Generous Support
The Harris Family
Charles and Brandi Hudson
Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Sonya Yu

Additional support is provided by the Adamolekun Family, Lisa Blackwell, Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan, Delvecchio and Kelly Finley, Bryan and Tara Meehan, Elaine A. Mellis, The Plexo Foundation, Soho House, Lisa and Jim Zanze, and the Contemporary Support Council.

Free admission on select weekends is generously underwritten by Google.org. Year-round, Free Saturdays admission for Bay Area residents is generously underwritten by Diane B. Wilsey and programming is supported by the Koret Foundation and Wells Fargo.
This Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series is made possible by the generous support of Google.org.

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Poets respond to Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-09-11 | Written and directed by three young poets from diverse backgrounds, this visual poem explores themes of respect, authenticity, and curiosity. Produced in collaboration with the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate program (oaklandlibrary.org/oakland-youth-poet-laureate) in support of the exhibition "Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence," the video is part of a larger collection of youth-authored resources. Aiming to create a space for all youth to explore how artist Kehinde Wiley’s message connects to their lives, the materials also include a zine and art prompt in both English and Spanish. The resources slide deck is available to teachers and students here: https://famsf.art/Wiley-youth-resources and on the Oakland Public Library’s website here: oaklandlibrary.org/deyoung-exhibit

Over seven weeks the team visited the exhibition, explored how the content relates to the Bay Area, and made their own creative responses. These young poets from diverse backgrounds explored the often-difficult themes with respect, authenticity, and curiosity. These resources aim to create a space for all youth to explore how artist Kehinde Wiley’s message connects to their lives.

Learn more about the exhibition: famsf.org/exhibitions/kehinde-wiley-an-archaeology-of-silence

Watch more:
How Kehinde Wiley Is Reshaping the Monumental
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Exploring the life and work of artist Kehinde Wiley, this film takes viewers on a journey from Wiley’s upbringing in South Central Los Angeles to his ascent as one of the world’s most iconic visual artists. Featuring interviews with the artist, his twin brother Taiwo Wiley, and his close friend and fellow artist Mickalene Thomas, the film was produced in conjunction with the exhibition "An Archaeology of Silence," making its US debut at the de Young museum in March 2023.

A conversation with Kehinde Wiley
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In this conversation with Kehinde Wiley, hear about the Kehinde Wiley exhibition and the artist’s practice. Led by Claudia Schmuckli, curator in charge of contemporary art and programming, this talk explores Wiley’s new body of work that sheds light on the brutalities of American and global colonial pasts.

How Artist Lhola Amira Is Making Space for Rest
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, contemporary artist Lhola Amira responds to the wounds left by colonization across many disparate contexts to create spaces for healing through connection to the earth, the ancestral, and the spiritual.

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Meet the muses behind Kehinde Wiley’s art

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-09-07 | Kehinde Wiley frequently uses muses to convey his messages relating to identity, beauty, and social justice. In celebration of the exhibition, Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence, meet some of the muses from his latest body of work.

Join us as we explore the stories behind those who have served as Wiley’s muses and the cultural impact of the works they’ve inspired.

Featuring:
Ndey Buri, model
Babacar Mané, dancer, choreographer, and model
Ruth Millington, art historian, critic, and author
Moderator: Souleo, independent curator

The event is guest curated by Souleo.

About the speakers

Ndey Buri is a Senegalese and Cameroonian model based in Dakar and New York. Having recently graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, she is pursuing a full-time modeling career and works with clients such as i-D Italia, Kehinde Wiley and Mr. Eazi. Her aim is to continue collaborating with talents in the creative and fashion space both on the continent and the diaspora. Instagram: @ndeyburi

Babacar Mané is a dancer and choreographer born and based in Senegal. He graduated from the University of Arts in Senegal. In 2020 he created his first choreographic solo which won the VPLC prize from the French Institute of Paris. Babacar really likes working with images, which is why he has collaborated with many visual artists and modeled for various brands. He is currently on a world tour with The Rite of Spring by Pina Bausch.

Ruth Millington is an art historian, critic and author, specializing in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on portraiture. In 2022 Penguin published her first book, MUSE: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces, which aims to reframe the muse as an active agent in art history. Her children’s book, This Book Will Make You An Artist, will be published by Nosy Crow in 2024. For more information: ruthmillington.co.uk

Souleo has been hailed as an “Icon of Harlem” (Ruth Millington, art historian and author of Muse) and “Harlem’s Heart and Soul” (NY Daily News). An acclaimed creative, curator, impresario, consultant, and muse, he seamlessly merges the worlds of art, fashion, literature, media, and music to document and amplify the stories of the emerging and underrepresented via exhibitions, events, and writing. For more information: souleouniverse.com

Co-presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem and Yale School of Art.

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Black August Forever

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-08-20 | Resistance to state violence has been a constant of Black life in America. At its best, this resistance has been intergenerational and transnational. This conversation will gather activists across generations to discuss the importance of continued resistance to state violence and why it benefits us all.

Panelists:

Angela Davis; political activist, professor, and author

Michael Tubbs; founder of End Poverty in California (EPIC)

Rosa Clemente; journalist, political commentator, scholar-activist

Dorsey Nunn; executive director, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC)

Lateefah Simon; president of MeadowFund

Pastor Michael McBride; executive director of Live Free USA (moderator)

About the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series

This event is part of the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series, developed in collaboration with Pastor Mike McBride and Sherrie Deans of Live Free USA. This six-part series brings together some of the biggest names in culture, art, sports, and activism. Through panels, performances, and collective healing practices, this series offers a platform to those most impacted by state-sanctioned violence and offers a constructive framework for understanding the intersections of art, suffering, and healing.

About Live Free USA

Live Free is a nonprofit and social justice network dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization through education, advocacy, and direct action. They are driven by a mission to build community power and agency by reimagining public safety and increasing civic engagement. Live Free sees a world with safe, equitable communities for all and where every person is safely and peacefully connected to community.
Sponsors
This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Presenting Sponsors

Generous Support
The Harris Family
Charles and Brandi Hudson
Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Sonya Yu

Additional support is provided by the Adamolekun Family, Lisa Blackwell, Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan, Delvecchio and Kelly Finley, Bryan and Tara Meehan, Elaine A. Mellis, The Plexo Foundation, Soho House, Lisa and Jim Zanze, and the Contemporary Support Council.

Free admission on select weekends is generously underwritten by Google.org. Year-round, Free Saturdays admission for Bay Area residents is generously underwritten by Diane B. Wilsey and programming is supported by the Koret Foundation and Wells Fargo.
This Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series is made possible by the generous support of Google.org.

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A conversation about Tudor architecture with Simon Thurley

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-08-18 | Hear a presentation by historian and archeologist Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudor period. This presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q+A facilitated by Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

About the speakers

Thomas P. Campbell, a distinguished art historian in the field of renaissance and baroque art, has served for over a decade as director and CEO of two major US art museums — the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2009 through 2017 and, since 2018, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. At the Met, Campbell led a revitalization and modernization program embodied in award-winning exhibitions and publications, major capital projects, investment in technology and digital initiatives, and historic donations of works of art. Since joining the Fine Arts Museums, Campbell has worked together with staff and board members to strengthen the institution’s ties to local communities through an ongoing Free Saturdays program, key acquisitions and partnerships, and the de Young Open exhibition.

Simon Thurley is a leading historian with a primary interest in English architecture. In 2013, he published his history of English architecture “The Building of England,” and he is now working on its second edition to bring it up to date and to add two new chapters continuing the story up to 2020. Most recently he has completed a two-volume project to tell the story of royal building, patronage, and social life at the courts of the Tudors and Stuarts: “Houses of Power” (2017) and “Palaces of Revolution” (2021). The accompanying website is royalpalaces.com/. He has also written widely on the protection and interpretation of historic sites including in “Men from the Ministry” (2013), which, for the first time, tells the story of the invention of modern heritage in England.

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Chosen family: A conversation about queer friendships in art

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-08-17 | Celebrate the power of “chosen families” in the queer community. These friendships often form some of the strongest bonds for those in the queer community as they come of age, seek to form their sexual and gender identity, navigate being marginalized by society and/or rejected by members of their biological families. These friendships have led to the formation of houses in the ballroom scene, lifelong bonds, and the creation of art and archives documenting queer friendships.

Hear from artists and archivists who are honoring chosen families. Plus, we’ll share photos submitted by viewers of their chosen families.

Featuring:
Kevin Aviance, legendary drag queen/musician/performance artist
Beau McCall, creative artist and creator of REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT
Souleo, independent curator, as moderator

The event is guest curated by Souleo.

Co-presented by Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and SAGE.

About the speakers

Kevin Aviance is a legendary drag queen, musician, and performance artist. His debut album, Box of Chocolates (Wave Records) introduced Kevin’s hard-hitting sound with the club hit, Cunty, which was sampled by Beyoncé on her song Pure/Honey. In 2015, Aviance received the Living Legend award at the GLAM awards. He is represented by Voss Management. Instagram: @kevinavianceofficial

Beau McCall — enthusiastically proclaimed by American Craft magazine as “The Button Man” — creates wearable and visual art by applying clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. In 2021, he released his debut artist’s book titled REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT. For more information: BeauMcCall.com or Instagram: @beau_mccall

Zakiya Collier (she/they) is a Black, southern, queer, disabled archivist and memory worker based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a member of Shift Collective where she supports communities in collectively developing cultural memory practices and designing sustainable programs to autonomously preserve and share their own stories. For more information: zakiyacollier.com

Souleo has been hailed as an “Icon of Harlem” (Ruth Millington, art historian and author of Muse) and “Harlem’s Heart and Soul” (NY Daily News). An acclaimed creative, curator, impresario, consultant, and muse he seamlessly merges the worlds of art, fashion, literature, media, and music to document and amplify the stories of the emerging and underrepresented via exhibitions, events, and writing. For more information: souleouniverse.com

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Welcome to FAMSF

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-08-04 | We'd like to formally introduce you to...us! We're so excited to share this video of tips from our staff on what to expect at our museums. Special thanks to all the staff members who were part of this production.

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Beginner’s Guide to the Legion of Honor: 10 Artworks to Get You Started
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Museums can be challenging to navigate, especially for those who are new to art. It’s hard to know where to start, what to look for, and how to engage. Here’s a quick guide to help you get situated, so you can get swept away by the art! Highlighting works from each of our collections, from ancient art to European sculpture, it’s designed to help you navigate the museum without getting overwhelmed.

Beginner’s Guide to the de Young: 10 Artworks to Get You Started
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Here’s a quick guide to help you get situated, so you can get swept away by the art at the de Young Museum! Highlighting works from each of our collections, from American art to Oceanic art, it’s designed to help you navigate without getting overwhelmed. Be sure to snag a map at the ticketing desk and check out our special exhibitions too. Explore with an open mind, take note of what draws you in, and veer off course when the moment strikes you. And, of course, don’t miss the 360° view of San Francisco from the Hamon Observation Tower.

Poems Inspired by the de Young
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Practiced throughout history — in every culture and on every continent — poetry speaks to our common humanity and shared values. It builds bridges that bring people together. The simplest of poems can be a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace. In celebration of World Poetry Day, the Last Hoisan Poets share three poems written in response to the de Young’s architecture and public spaces.

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Bringing the Tudors to the west coast: A conversation with the curators

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-08-03 | Join us virtually for an in-depth look at the Legion of Honor’s The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. Hear from Martin Chapman, exhibition organizing curator and curator in charge of European decorative arts and sculpture, and Thomas Wu, former assistant curator of European decorative arts and sculpture. Gain new insights into featured artworks and hear how this exhibition is unique to San Francisco.

About the speakers

Martin Chapman is curator in charge of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized numerous exhibitions at the Legion of Honor, including Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles (2007 – 2008), Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House (2014 – 2015), and East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas from The Al Thani Collection (2018 – 2019).

Thomas Wu is former assistant curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He holds a master’s in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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Kehinde Wiley conversation on sex, gender + identity

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-07-23 | The lives of Black people are often flattened through the limited gaze of anti-Blackness and white supremacy. This conversation will explore the nuances of being Black through an interdisciplinary lens of storytellers, artists, scholars, faith leaders, and activists.

Panelists

W. Kamau Bell, award-winning comedian and television host
Ryan Coogler, award-winning filmmaker and director
Alicia Garza, principal at Black Futures Lab, author of The Purpose of Power, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network
Dr. Tamura Lomax, co-founder of the Feminist Wire
Mistah F.A.B., hip-hop artist and community organizer
Emil Wilbekin, founder of Native Son

About the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series

This event is part of the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series, developed in collaboration with Pastor Mike McBride and Sherrie Deans of Live Free USA. This six-part series brings together some of the biggest names in culture, art, sports, and activism. Through panels, performances, and collective healing practices, this series offers a platform to those most impacted by state-sanctioned violence and offers a constructive framework for understanding the intersections of art, suffering, and healing.

About Live Free USA

Live Free is a nonprofit and social justice network dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization through education, advocacy, and direct action. They are driven by a mission to build community power and agency by reimagining public safety and increasing civic engagement. Live Free sees a world with safe, equitable communities for all and where every person is safely and peacefully connected to community.
Sponsors
This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Presenting Sponsors

Generous Support
The Harris Family
Charles and Brandi Hudson
Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Sonya Yu

Additional support is provided by the Adamolekun Family, Lisa Blackwell, Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan, Delvecchio and Kelly Finley, Bryan and Tara Meehan, Elaine A. Mellis, The Plexo Foundation, Soho House, Lisa and Jim Zanze, and the Contemporary Support Council.

Free admission on select weekends is generously underwritten by Google.org. Year-round, Free Saturdays admission for Bay Area residents is generously underwritten by Diane B. Wilsey and programming is supported by the Koret Foundation and Wells Fargo.
This Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series is made possible by the generous support of Google.org.

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A conversation on the Black presence in Tudor England

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-07-20 | Hear scholars Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru present on their research into Black Tudors in England during the 16th century.

Ohajuru will introduce the John Blanke Project, an art and archive project in which artists and historians reimagine John Blanke, the Black trumpeter to the Tudor court. Kaufmann will explore the African presence in Tudor England based on original research from her book “Black Tudors: The Untold Story.” Together they will consider the implicit and explicit Black presences in the objects on display in “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.”

About the speakers

Dr. Miranda Kaufmann is the author of “Black Tudors: The Untold Story” (2017), shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize. She read history at Christ Church, Oxford and is now an honorary fellow of the University of Liverpool, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is currently working on her second book, “Heiresses,” and is taking her work into schools with her Teaching Black Tudors project and to the world with her Black Tudors: The Untold Story FutureLearn course. http://www.mirandakaufmann.com

Michael I. Ohajuru is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies with honors degrees in physics and art history. Ohajuru writes and speaks regularly on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe. He is founder of Image of the Black in London Galleries (a series of gallery tours), project director and chief evangelist of The John Blanke Project (an art and archive project celebrating John Blanke, the Black trumpeter to courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII), co-convener of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies’s What’s Happening in Black British History workshops, and founder member of the Black Presence in British Portraiture network. about.me/michaelohajuru

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Healing the wound of the water and the land #LholaAmira #shorts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-07-12 | Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=WpLz2rKiwrI

“Lhola Amira: Facing the Future” is on view at the de Young museum from December 17, 2022 through December 3, 2023. Learn more at famsf.org/exhibitions/lhola-amira

Lhola Amira: Facing the Future launches the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s new African art program, foregrounding the permanent collection as a site of exploration for the evolving nature of African arts and their meanings today. Helmed by Natasha Becker, inaugural curator of African art, the program features contemporary artists whose work draws on and engages the artistic and cultural traditions of Africa. First to present, Lhola Amira (b. 1984, Gugulethu, South Africa) embodies South African Nguni spiritual practices in THEIR* life and work, emphasizing the power of remembering ancestors.

The Tudors curator presentations + conversation

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-06-25 | Join us to celebrate the opening of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. Enjoy curator presentations and conversation.

About the speakers

Martin Chapman is curator in charge of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized numerous exhibitions at the Legion of Honor, including Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles (2007 – 2008), Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House (2014 – 2015), and East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas from The Al Thani Collection (2018 – 2019).

Thomas Wu is former assistant curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He holds a master’s in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Elizabeth Cleland is curator of European sculpture and decorative art at The Met. She is responsible for post-medieval European textiles, curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017 – 2022), and co-curated Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014 – 2015) and The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (2022 – 2023). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar.

Adam Eaker is associate curator of European paintings. He studied art history at Yale University and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 2016. He is a specialist in Northern European and British painting of the 16th through the 18th century. As a guest curator at the Frick Collection, he co-curated Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (2016). At The Met, he curated In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met as well as The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.

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Spilling the tea on the Tudor dynasty | Drag Art History

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-06-23 | In an art history lesson like no other, Curatorial Assistant Isabella Holland and local drag performer Per Sia share the stories behind our exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England and dish on all the dynasty drama.

Learn more about the exhibition: famsf.org/exhibitions/tudors

About Per Sia
With a pedigree from weekly performances at the late, iconic Esta Noche, her trajectory has gone on to include art curation, stand-up, television, and a quinceañera or two, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and México. Currently, she is a regular performer in the nationally acclaimed “Drag Story Hour.” She is also an educator in residence at an after-school arts program in the San Francisco Unified School District, and has been profiled on KQED Arts, National Public Radio, and CNN.

About the Exhibition
The exhibition follows the development of the arts in England from Henry VII’s seizure of the throne in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth I in 1603. The Tudor period in England saw the end of medieval feudalism, the rise of absolute monarchy, the English Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the expansion of maritime trade. Art and luxury goods were used to legitimize the Tudor dynasty and reinforce shifting religious and foreign policies. Including iconic portraits of England’s most enduring monarchs and lavish works of art in a variety of media, the exhibition traces the evolution of courtly taste in Tudor England, culminating in the distinctly English Elizabethan style.

Watch More:
How Kehinde Wiley Is Reshaping the Monumental
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Exploring the life and work of artist Kehinde Wiley, this film takes viewers on a journey from Wiley’s upbringing in South Central Los Angeles to his ascent as one of the world’s most iconic visual artists.

Patrick Kelly: The American in Paris
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Filmed in New York City, Paris, and the de Young museum, this short documentary celebrates the life, career, and legacy of Black fashion designer Patrick Kelly (1954–1990). Kelly’s evolution from “little young American from Mississippi to a grand master of fashion in Paris” is captured in vintage footage, as well as accounts of his friends and close collaborators.

How Artist Lhola Amira Is Making Space for Rest
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, contemporary artist Lhola Amira responds to the wounds left by colonization across many disparate contexts to create spaces for healing through connection to the earth, the ancestral, and the spiritual.

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Kicking to communicate #AlaskaNativeGames #shorts

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Kehinde Wiley Conversation on a Father’s Heart

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-06-18 | Join us on Father’s Day weekend to hear from the heart of men who have lost their children to state violence. Panelists will also discuss their nationwide efforts to support the healing of other fathers experiencing similar trauma.

Panelists:
Andrew Joseph, father of Andrew Joseph
Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant
Kevin Tarver, father of Darius Tarver
Arbuey Wright, father of Daunte Wright

Moderated by: Pastor Michael McBride

In partnership with: Love Not Blood Campaign

About the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series

This event is part of the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series, developed in collaboration with Pastor Mike McBride and Sherrie Deans of Live Free USA. This six-part series brings together some of the biggest names in culture, art, sports, and activism. Through panels, performances, and collective healing practices, this series offers a platform to those most impacted by state-sanctioned violence and offers a constructive framework for understanding the intersections of art, suffering, and healing.

About Live Free USA

Live Free is a nonprofit and social justice network dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization through education, advocacy, and direct action. They are driven by a mission to build community power and agency by reimagining public safety and increasing civic engagement. Live Free sees a world with safe, equitable communities for all and where every person is safely and peacefully connected to community.

Sponsors
This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Presenting Sponsors
Ford Foundation
Google.org

Generous Support
The Harris Family
Charles and Brandi Hudson
Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Sonya Yu

Additional support is provided by the Adamolekun Family, Lisa Blackwell, Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan, Delvecchio and Kelly Finley, Bryan and Tara Meehan, Elaine A. Mellis, The Plexo Foundation, Soho House, Lisa and Jim Zanze, and the Contemporary Support Council.

Free admission on select weekends is generously underwritten by Google.org. Year-round, Free Saturdays admission for Bay Area residents is generously underwritten by Diane B. Wilsey and programming is supported by the Koret Foundation and Wells Fargo.
This Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series is made possible by the generous support of Google.org.

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Ansel Adams Contemporary Artist Conversation

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-06-15 | Tune in to hear from Ansel Adams in Our Time featured artists Stephen Tourlentes, Victoria Sambunaris, and Abelardo Morell. This program includes artist presentations and conversation moderated by Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum.

Stephen Tourlentes lives in Boston, where he has taught photography at the Massachusetts College of Art since 1988.In elegant large-format photographs, he investigates the uneasy relationship between institutions for incarceration and their neighboring communities.

Victoria Sambunaris, in her large-scale photographs of American landscapes, captures the grandeur of nature, marked, sometimes subtly, sometimes aggressively, by human intervention. Her landscapes are rarely pristine. As she explains: “I am captivated by . . . the idea of how we inhabit our landscapes and what they become as we forge ahead in our development.”

Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948 and immigrated to the United States in 1962. Morell received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994, an Infinity Award in Art from ICP in 2011, and a Lucie Award for achievement in in 2017.

Emilia Mickevicius is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum. In 2019 she received her PhD from Brown University, where she completed a dissertation on New Topographics.

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These wooden masks transform people #shorts

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How Ansel Adams photos were inspired by music #shorts

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How Ansel Adams fought for environmental justice #shorts

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How Kehinde Wiley depicts Black women #BeyondtheFrame #shorts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-05-17 | How does Kehinde Wiley depict Black women in his exhibition An Archaeology of Silence? Dr. Akilah Cadet answers this question in the second episode of our digital series Beyond the Frame.

Kehinde Wiley Conversation on a Mother’s Love

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-05-14 | Join us on Mother’s Day weekend to hear from women who have endured the painful loss of their children to systemic violence. We’ll celebrate their beloved children and hear how they are fighting for justice.

Panelists:
Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner
Wanda Cooper, mother of Ahmaud Arbery
Taun Hall, mother of Miles Hall
Mona Hardin, mother of Ronald Greene
DeAnna Joseph, mother of Andrew Joseph
Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant

Moderated by: Pastor Michael McBride

In partnership with: Love Not Blood Campaign

About the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series

This event is part of the Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series, developed in collaboration with Pastor Mike McBride and Sherrie Deans of Live Free USA. This six-part series brings together some of the biggest names in culture, art, sports, and activism. Through panels, performances, and collective healing practices, this series offers a platform to those most impacted by state-sanctioned violence and offers a constructive framework for understanding the intersections of art, suffering, and healing.

About Live Free USA

Live Free is a nonprofit and social justice network dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization through education, advocacy, and direct action. They are driven by a mission to build community power and agency by reimagining public safety and increasing civic engagement. Live Free sees a world with safe, equitable communities for all and where every person is safely and peacefully connected to community.

Sponsors
This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Presenting Sponsors
Ford Foundation
Google.org

Generous Support
The Harris Family
Charles and Brandi Hudson
Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Sonya Yu

Additional support is provided by the Adamolekun Family, Lisa Blackwell, Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan, Delvecchio and Kelly Finley, Bryan and Tara Meehan, Elaine A. Mellis, The Plexo Foundation, Soho House, Lisa and Jim Zanze, and the Contemporary Support Council.

Free admission on select weekends is generously underwritten by Google.org. Year-round, Free Saturdays admission for Bay Area residents is generously underwritten by Diane B. Wilsey and programming is supported by the Koret Foundation and Wells Fargo.
This Kehinde Wiley Speaker Series is made possible by the generous support of Google.org.

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Rest as resistance in Kehinde Wileys work #BeyondtheFrame #shorts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-05-10 | How does Kehinde Wiley depict Black women in his exhibition An Archaeology of Silence? Dr. Akilah Cadet answers this question and talks about rest as a form of resistance in the first episode of our digital series Beyond the Frame.

A Talk on Sargent, Flamenco, and the Bay Area Dance Community

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-05-04 | Emma Acker, Associate Curator of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums, will give an overview of John Singer Sargent’s longstanding interest in Spanish music and dance, including his portrayals of the acclaimed Spanish dancer Carmen Daucet Moreno, known as La Carmencita, and of flamenco performers. This presentation will be followed by an introduction to local flamenco group, Theater Flamenco of San Francisco who will speak on their origins and the vibrant Bay Area Flamenco community.

About the speaker
Emma Acker is associate curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the coordinating curator for the Museums’ presentation of Sargent and Spain. Among several exhibitions she has organized at the Museums, Cult of the Machine was identified by the Washington Post as one of the top two surveys of American art in 2018. Acker, who worked previously at the Getty Research Institute and the National Gallery of Art, has authored numerous publications and is the recipient of fellowships from Brown University, the University of Southern California, the National Gallery of Art, the English Speaking Union, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the University of St Andrews.

About Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco
Founded in 1966, Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco is one of the longest, continually running flamenco performance groups outside of Spain.
Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco exists to support the cultural enrichment of the San Francisco Bay Area through the presentation and promotion of flamenco, an art form that sprang from an international and rich mix of cultural and ethnic influences that converged in southern Spain.
The company is the second oldest dance company in San Francisco and one of the longest continually running flamenco performance groups outside of Spain. For 55 years Theatre Flamenco has been producing richly imaginative and thematic shows in collaboration with local and international artists, offering classes with world famous flamenco artists to students of all ages and abilities, and maintaining strong ties to flamenco artists around the world.
Located in the vibrant Mission district of San Francisco, the company hosts monthly shows in its/studio performance space featuring world class local and international guest artists, and it also produces one annual home season in San Francisco.

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Creator put the first yuk in the qayaq. - Yaari Walker #shorts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-05-03 | Watch the full video here: youtu.be/QXyKsF4d2Bg

Watch the full Alaska Native Art Series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eMm5mgGrVDg_GUEi7NipzNB9x05Xrth

Explore Alaska Native art in our latest immersive online experience developed with the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Hear from contemporary Alaska Native voices in a series of documentary shorts and take a close look at our collection to find out how values and traditions are celebrated in the art of Alaska Native cultures today: famsf.org/stories/close-look/alaska-native-art

A Conversation on Native American Art + Pueblo Pottery

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-04-25 | Spanning nearly one thousand years of artistic creativity, Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection documents and celebrates a transformative gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Hear from co-editor Deana Dartt (Coastal Band, Chumash). Contributing authors Bobby Silas (Hopi) and Deborah Jojola (Isleta/Jemez Pueblo) will speak about Ancestral and historic Pueblo pottery. The program will conclude with a panel featuring members of the book’s Pueblo Advisors group, Governor Arden Kucate (Zuni), Brian Vallo (Acoma), and Joseph R. Aguilar (San Ildefonso), with co-editor Bruce Bernstein.

Support provided in part by the Friends of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

About the speakers

Deana Dartt (Coastal Band, Chumash), PhD, is the principal of Live Oak Consulting. Previously she held curatorial positions at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, and the Portland Art Museum. She is a co-editor of and contributing author to Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection.

Bobby Silas is a Hopi-Tewa potter living in Zuni, New Mexico. He makes Zuni polychrome and as well as traditional Hopi pottery, reviving ancient designs and lignite coal-firing techniques for his contemporary work. He is the co-curator of Nampeyo and the Sikyatki Revival, an exhibition now on view at the de Young, and was a contributing author to Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection.

Deborah A. Jojola (Isleta/Jemez Pueblo) is a researcher and contemporary artist. She has worked on a number of collaborative projects as an independent curator and art consultant, and also worked on Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection as a research assistant and contributing author.

Governor Arden Kucate (Zuni) is an enrolled member, former councilman, and now governor of the Zuni tribe. He belongs to the Sun clan and is a child of the Crane clan. He has years of experience working with museums, cultural institutions, National Park Service agencies, and other historic preservation organizations. Governor Kucate was a contributing author to Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection and a member of the book’s Pueblo Advisors group.

Brian Vallo (Acoma) has spent the last thirty years working on museum development, the protection of sacred sites, repatriation, the arts, and tourism. The former director of the Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Vallo served as governor of Acoma and was instrumental in the development of Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum. He was a contributing author to Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection and a member of the book’s Pueblo Advisors group.

Joseph R. Aguilar (San Ildefonso) researches the archaeology of the Southwest and serves as a consultant for exhibitions at Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park and Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. He presently serves as deputy tribal historic preservation officer for the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. Dr. Aguilar was a contributing author to Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection and a member of the book’s Pueblo Advisors group.

Bruce Bernstein has published broadly on Native arts and museums as well as curated many exhibitions. He has worked in distinguished positions, including director for collections and research at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; chief curator and director of Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology; and executive director of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts. Dr. Bernstein is a co-editor of and contributing author to Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection.

About the book

Spanning nearly one thousand years of artistic creativity, Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection documents and celebrates a transformative gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The collection, developed by Thomas W. Weisel over the course of thirty years, is wide ranging and brings together artworks that embody exquisite aesthetics and rich cultural histories. While the majority of the collection is from the American Southwest — 19th-century Diné/Navajo weavings, Ancestral and historic Pueblo pottery, Hopi and Zuni carved figures, and Yavapai and Ndee/Apache basketry — works from the Pacific Northwest and the Plains are also included.

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We are in deep crisis. - Kehinde Wiley #shorts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-04-19 | Watch the full documentary: youtu.be/wiQTI8Dz3j8

"Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence" is on view at the de Young until Saturday, October 14. The exhibition is included in general admission and is free every Saturday for Bay Area residents and on select weekends for all! Plan your visit today: famsf.org/exhibitions/kehinde-wiley-an-archaeology-of-silence

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Artists Talk About Their Works in Ansel Adams in Our Time

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-04-11 | A panel featuring Ansel Adams in Our Time artists Binh Danh, Lucas Foglia, and Meghann Riepenhoff, and hear about their photography practices and processes. This conversation was facilitated by Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

About the speakers

Binh Danh reconfigures traditional photographic techniques and processes in unconventional ways to delve into the connection between history, identity, and place. Danh is noted for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks. Their reflective surfaces enable people of all backgrounds to see themselves as a part of the beauty of the American landscape. His work has been collected by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others. He is an associate professor of art at San José State University.

Lucas Foglia (b. 1983) is a fine art photographer engaged in environmental activism. His photographs of people in nature are hyperreal, lyrical, and often inexplicable. He received his BFA from Brown University in 2005 and MFA from Yale University in 2010. He has numerous international publications, including four monographs: A Natural Order, Frontcountry, Human Nature, and Summer After. Foglia has had over 30 solo exhibitions at galleries, festivals, and museums, including Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. His prints and public installations are represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in New York, Micamera in Milan, and Michael Hoppen Gallery in London.

Meghann Riepenhoff lives on the west coast of the US and works collaboratively with the environment, often with waves, rain, and ice. She has been exhibited by the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Denver Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Yossi Milo Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, Haines Gallery, The New York Public Library, C/O Berlin, and the Aperture Foundation, among others. Publications include ArtForum, The New York Times, Time Magazine Lightbox, The Guardian, Foam, Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and Wired Magazine. Collections include the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Harvard Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Riepenhoff recently published her second monograph Ice with Radius Books and Yossi Milo.

Karen Haas has been the Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 2001, where she is responsible for a large collection of photographs by American modernists, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham. The Lane Collection, which has recently been given to the Museum, numbers more than 6,000 prints and ranges across the entire history of western photography. Before coming to the MFA, she received her MA from Boston University and held various curatorial positions in museums and private collections, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the BU Art Gallery, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover. Her recent activities include exhibitions, Make Believe; Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott; Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass; and Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street; and publications, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection; MFA Highlights: Photography; Ansel Adams; and The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist.

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Exploring Ansel Adams legacy with Richard Misrach

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-04-07 | “Ansel Adams + Richard Misrach: Exploring Legacies” is the latest installment of the award-winning short documentary series “FAMSF Presents.” Featuring archival footage of Ansel Adams, as well as interviews with Berkeley-based photographer Richard Misrach and FAMSF curator Lauren Palmor, this film examines the impact of Ansel Adams’s prolific photography in the Bay Area and beyond.

“Ansel Adams in Our Time” is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is on view at the de Young museum from April 8 until July 23, 2023. Plan your visit today: famsf.org/exhibitions/ansel-adams-in-our-time

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How Kehinde Wiley Is Reshaping the Monumental
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Exploring the life and work of artist Kehinde Wiley, this film takes viewers on a journey from Wiley’s upbringing in South Central Los Angeles to his ascent as one of the world’s most iconic visual artists.

How Artist Lhola Amira Is Making Space for Rest
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, contemporary artist Lhola Amira responds to the wounds left by colonization across many disparate contexts to create spaces for healing through connection to the earth, the ancestral, and the spiritual.

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We are not allowed to rest as Black people in the world. - Lhola Amira #shorts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-03-29 | Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=WpLz2rKiwrI

“Lhola Amira: Facing the Future” is on view at the de Young museum from December 17, 2022 through December 3, 2023. Learn more at famsf.org/exhibitions/lhola-amira

Lhola Amira: Facing the Future launches the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s new African art program, foregrounding the permanent collection as a site of exploration for the evolving nature of African arts and their meanings today. Helmed by Natasha Becker, inaugural curator of African art, the program features contemporary artists whose work draws on and engages the artistic and cultural traditions of Africa. First to present, Lhola Amira (b. 1984, Gugulethu, South Africa) embodies South African Nguni spiritual practices in THEIR* life and work, emphasizing the power of remembering ancestors.

How Kehinde Wiley is reshaping the monumental

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-03-17 | Exploring the life and work of artist Kehinde Wiley, this film takes viewers on a journey from Wiley’s upbringing in South Central Los Angeles to his ascent as one of the world’s most iconic visual artists. Featuring interviews with the artist, his twin brother Taiwo Wiley, and his close friend and fellow artist Mickalene Thomas, the film was produced in conjunction with the exhibition "An Archaeology of Silence," making its US debut at the de Young museum in March 2023.

"Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence" is on view at the de Young until Saturday, October 14. The exhibition is included in general admission and is free every Saturday for Bay Area residents and on select weekends for all! Plan your visit today: famsf.org/exhibitions/kehinde-wiley-an-archaeology-of-silence

Watch more FAMSF Presents: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eMm5mgGrVCYBuHM0kequVmElsNRbD69

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Kehinde Wiley's Reclamation of Black Lives
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco describe Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence as “the senseless deaths of men and women around the world . . . transformed into a powerful elegy of resistance.” This exhibition showcases Wiley’s work under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement — arguably the largest movement in the country’s history.

How Artist Lhola Amira Is Making Space for Rest
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, contemporary artist Lhola Amira responds to the wounds left by colonization across many disparate contexts to create spaces for healing through connection to the earth, the ancestral, and the spiritual.

Persian Carpets and Women’s Creative Work

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-03-02 | Join us for the 13th annual Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Memorial Lecture with Minoo Moallem focused on Persian carpets and women’s creative work. This talk links the history of technology, women’s creative labor, and textile art.

About the speaker
Minoo Moallem is a professor of gender and women’s studies and the director of media studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of numerous publications, including Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity and Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran. She has also ventured into digital media. Her project Nation on the Move (design by Eric Loyer) was published in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular.

Learn more about her book: routledge.com/Persian-Carpets-The-Nation-as-a-Transnational-Commodity/Moallem/p/book/9781138290259

The lecture is named in honor of Caroline and H. McCoy Jones, and focuses on the study of Central Asian textiles.

H. McCoy Jones (1897 – 1987) was a scholar, a collector of nomadic tribal rugs, and the founder of the International Hajji Baba Society, a nonprofit dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of fine textiles. In 1980, he and his wife, Caroline (1917 – 2006), made the commitment to donate his collection of more than 600 Central Asian carpets and textiles to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, transforming the Museums into one of the greatest repositories of Central Asian textiles in the United States. After his death in 1987, Caroline expanded her husband’s collection, focusing on Central Asian and South American textiles, and gifted significant collections of Anatolian kilims and global headwear. Their estate was gifted to the Textile Arts department in 2006, which is today known as the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts. Learn more.

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How artist Lhola Amira is making space for rest

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-02-20 | “Lhola Amira: Facing the Future” is on view at the de Young museum from December 17, 2022 through December 3, 2023. Learn more at famsf.org/exhibitions/lhola-amira

This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, with the generous support of Denise Littlefield Sobel.

Special thanks to Lhola Amira and Natasha Becker.

Directed by Khamisi Norwood
Produced and edited by Megan Bates
Cinematography by Ian Webb

Illustrated Black History: Talk + Documentary Screening

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-02-18 | Join us for an afternoon of Black history and conversation. Hear from George McCalman, artist and author of Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen, and Marvin White, poet, playwright, and one of the book’s essayists. The program also includes the premiere of the documentary Illustrating Black History.

Purchase your copy of Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen in person at the de Young Museum Store or order it online shop.famsf.org/products/illustrated-black-history

About the artist

George McCalman is an artist and creative director based in San Francisco. His design studio McCalmanCo collaborates with a diverse range of clients. He is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His first book Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen was published in September 2022.

Marvin K. White, MDiv, is a poet, playwright, essayist, preacher, teacher, and speaker who articulates a vision of social, technology, prophetic, and creative justice.

About the book

Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen is a gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers — famous and little-known — in politics, science, literature, music, and more — with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer. Hardcover, 384 pages.

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Sargent and Spain: Curators in Conversation

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2023-02-11 | Join the curatorial team of Sargent and Spain for a discussion on the genesis and significance of the exhibition

Emma Acker, associate curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will lead a conversation with Sarah Cash, associate curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art, along with Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, exhibition co-curators and co-authors of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné.

About the speakers

Elaine Kilmurray is research director of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné, and co-author of the nine published volumes of the catalogue (Yale University Press 1998 – 2016). She has co-curated exhibitions of Sargent’s work in London, the United States and Italy, and has written and lectured internationally on the artist and related subjects.

Richard Ormond, is co-author of the nine published volumes of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné. He is currently working on a complete catalogue of Sargent’s 750 portrait drawings in charcoal and on a selection of his letters. Co-curator of the current exhibition of Sargent in Spain (2022) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, he is also a great-nephew of the artist. He is the former director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London (1986 – 2000), and chairman of the Watts Gallery in Compton, UK (1987 – 2019).

Sarah Cash is associate curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art. Until its closure in September 2014, she served as Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 2011, she completed the first modern scholarly catalogue of the Corcoran’s American paintings collection: Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Her many publications include Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture (1996), Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade (1994), American Art: Paintings from the Amon Carter Museum (1992), and numerous catalogue entries and articles. She has lectured widely on American art.

Emma Acker is associate curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the coordinating curator for the Museums’ presentation of Sargent and Spain. Among several exhibitions she has organized at the Museums, Cult of the Machine was identified by the Washington Post as one of the top two surveys of American art in 2018. Acker, who worked previously at the Getty Research Institute and the National Gallery of Art, has authored numerous publications and is the recipient of fellowships from Brown University, the University of Southern California, the National Gallery of Art, the English Speaking Union, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the University of St Andrews.

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Dancing who we are | Alaska Native Art, Ep. 5

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-12-22 | This video is a part of our Alaska Native Art series, produced in partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center. For more, go to famsf.org/stories/close-look/alaska-native-art

Watch the full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eMm5mgGrVDg_GUEi7NipzNB9x05Xrth

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Project team

Partners
Alaska Native Heritage Center

Advisors
Lauren Ayagakuchax̂ Peters (Unangax̂), PhD scholar, University of California, Davis
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik), cultural heritage manager, Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

Collaborators
Paul Asicksik (Iñupiaq), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Tara Bourdukofsky (Unangax̂), director of cultural and education services, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center

FAMSF team
Hillary C. Olcott, associate curator, arts of the Americas
Emily Jennings, director of school and family programs
Magnolia Molcan, web managing editor
Patricia Buffa, director of digital strategy
Sheila Pressley, director of education
Christina Hellmich, curator in charge, arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Khamisi Norwood, digital media producer
Megan Bates, digital media producer

Film interviewees
Alvin Amason (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik)
Louise Brady (Tlingit)
Perry Eaton (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Emily Edenshaw (Yup’ik / Iñupiaq)
Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit / Unangax̂)
Lily Hope (Tlingit)
Aaron Leggett (Dena’ina Athabascan)
Marie Arnaq Meade (Yup’ik)
Margaret Nakak (Iñupiaq / Yup’ik)
Abel Ryan (Tsimshian)
Haliehana Alaĝum Ayagaa Stepetin (Unangax̂)
Christopher Sumdum Jr. (Tlingit)
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik)
Andrew Weaver (Yup’ik)

Special thanks
Michele Trefon
Emily Edenshaw
Jaimeann Bell
Presley West
Alaska Native Heritage Center Native Games Team
Herring Rock Water Protectors
Katelyn Stiles
Jennifer Younger
Thomas Gamble
Courtney Fallow
Renee Villasenor
Randy Dodson
Robert Carswell

A Conversation with Contemporary Artist Lhola Amira

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-12-17 | Reckoning with the Past and Reclaiming the Future: A Conversation with Contemporary Artist Lhola Amira

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, contemporary artist Lhola Amira responds to the wounds left by colonization across many disparate contexts to create spaces for healing through connection to the earth, the ancestral, and the spiritual.

Join us for a conversation with the artist led by Natasha Becker, curator of African art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, as the two discuss Amira’s commitment to reckoning with historical and ongoing forms of cultural and ecological violence, their cross-disciplinary art practice, as well as THEIR hopes for the future.

This conversation is part of the arts of Africa permanent collection exhibition, Lhola Amira: Facing the Future which opens to the public on Saturday, December 17, 2023. This conversation will be followed by a 10- to 15-minute audience Q+A.

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About the speakers

Lhola Amira, with Khanyisile Mbongwa, was born in 1984 in Gugulethu, South Africa, and currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Amira’s practice includes Appearance (whenever the artist is physically present), photography, video, and sculpture presented under the term Constellations (a sacred space and gesture toward sacred healing). The artist Lhola Amira is an ancestral body coexisting in the body of Mbongwa. The pronouns THEY/THEM/THEIR are used in Appearances and in conversation about THEIR plural existence. Amira was recently included in NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and Raupenimmersattism: The Affluent Society as Consumed Society or the Myth of Endless Production and Consumption at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin.

Natasha Becker is the inaugural curator of African art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and oversees the permanent collection of 19th- and 20th-century art from west and central Africa. She is exploring new curatorial concepts, acquisition strategies, and special exhibitions that will interpret the African art collection as a living and evolving culture and practice.

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Navigating the land and sea | Alaska Native Art, Ep. 4

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-12-15 | This video is a part of our Alaska Native Art series, produced in partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center. For more, go to famsf.org/stories/close-look/alaska-native-art

Watch the full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eMm5mgGrVDg_GUEi7NipzNB9x05Xrth

______________________________

Project team

Partners
Alaska Native Heritage Center

Advisors
Lauren Ayagakuchax̂ Peters (Unangax̂), PhD scholar, University of California, Davis
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik), cultural heritage manager, Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

Collaborators
Paul Asicksik (Iñupiaq), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Tara Bourdukofsky (Unangax̂), director of cultural and education services, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center

FAMSF team
Hillary C. Olcott, associate curator, arts of the Americas
Emily Jennings, director of school and family programs
Magnolia Molcan, web managing editor
Patricia Buffa, director of digital strategy
Sheila Pressley, director of education
Christina Hellmich, curator in charge, arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Khamisi Norwood, digital media producer
Megan Bates, digital media producer

Film interviewees
Alvin Amason (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik)
Louise Brady (Tlingit)
Perry Eaton (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Emily Edenshaw (Yup’ik / Iñupiaq)
Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit / Unangax̂)
Lily Hope (Tlingit)
Aaron Leggett (Dena’ina Athabascan)
Marie Arnaq Meade (Yup’ik)
Margaret Nakak (Iñupiaq / Yup’ik)
Abel Ryan (Tsimshian)
Haliehana Alaĝum Ayagaa Stepetin (Unangax̂)
Christopher Sumdum Jr. (Tlingit)
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik)
Andrew Weaver (Yup’ik)

Special thanks
Michele Trefon
Emily Edenshaw
Jaimeann Bell
Presley West
Alaska Native Heritage Center Native Games Team
Herring Rock Water Protectors
Katelyn Stiles
Jennifer Younger
Thomas Gamble
Courtney Fallow
Renee Villasenor
Randy Dodson
Robert Carswell

Caring for ourselves and our environments | Alaska Native Art, Ep. 3

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-12-08 | This video is a part of our Alaska Native Art series, produced in partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center. For more, go to famsf.org/stories/close-look/alaska-native-art

Watch the full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eMm5mgGrVDg_GUEi7NipzNB9x05Xrth

______________________________

Project team

Partners
Alaska Native Heritage Center

Advisors
Lauren Ayagakuchax̂ Peters (Unangax̂), PhD scholar, University of California, Davis
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik), cultural heritage manager, Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

Collaborators
Paul Asicksik (Iñupiaq), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Tara Bourdukofsky (Unangax̂), director of cultural and education services, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center

FAMSF team
Hillary C. Olcott, associate curator, arts of the Americas
Emily Jennings, director of school and family programs
Magnolia Molcan, web managing editor
Patricia Buffa, director of digital strategy
Sheila Pressley, director of education
Christina Hellmich, curator in charge, arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Khamisi Norwood, digital media producer
Megan Bates, digital media producer

Film interviewees
Alvin Amason (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik)
Louise Brady (Tlingit)
Perry Eaton (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Emily Edenshaw (Yup’ik / Iñupiaq)
Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit / Unangax̂)
Lily Hope (Tlingit)
Aaron Leggett (Dena’ina Athabascan)
Marie Arnaq Meade (Yup’ik)
Margaret Nakak (Iñupiaq / Yup’ik)
Abel Ryan (Tsimshian)
Haliehana Alaĝum Ayagaa Stepetin (Unangax̂)
Christopher Sumdum Jr. (Tlingit)
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik)
Andrew Weaver (Yup’ik)

Special thanks
Michele Trefon
Emily Edenshaw
Jaimeann Bell
Presley West
Alaska Native Heritage Center Native Games Team
Herring Rock Water Protectors
Katelyn Stiles
Jennifer Younger
Thomas Gamble
Courtney Fallow
Renee Villasenor
Randy Dodson
Robert Carswell

Connecting generations through art | Alaska Native Art, Ep. 2

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-12-01 | This video is a part of our Alaska Native Art series, produced in partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center. For more, go to famsf.org/stories/close-look/alaska-native-art

Watch the full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eMm5mgGrVDg_GUEi7NipzNB9x05Xrth

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"A lot of our designs have to do with our identities and our stories. . . . We use this art form to represent who we are as individuals but also who we are as a group." —Abel Ryan

Why do we wear what we wear? What do our clothes say about us, our families, our environments?
Clothing is often the first thing we notice about one another. It is a powerful tool of communication and speaks to our cultures, values, and backgrounds. This is even more true for ceremonial clothing, or regalia. Designs, passed down through generations, can be the intellectual property of communities or individuals — owned, maintained, and shared at the discretion of communities or leaders.

How do we honor our forebears and share cultural pride?
Designs reflect family ties and broadcast who the wearer is and where they are from. The materials used speak to place — sourced from the environment and protecting the wearer from the elements that surround them. Chilkat style textiles, called naaxein in the Tlingit language, are made by weavers from the southeast region of Alaska.

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Project team

Partners
Alaska Native Heritage Center

Advisors
Lauren Ayagakuchax̂ Peters (Unangax̂), PhD scholar, University of California, Davis
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik), cultural heritage manager, Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

Collaborators
Paul Asicksik (Iñupiaq), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Tara Bourdukofsky (Unangax̂), director of cultural and education services, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center

FAMSF team
Hillary C. Olcott, associate curator, arts of the Americas
Emily Jennings, director of school and family programs
Magnolia Molcan, web managing editor
Patricia Buffa, director of digital strategy
Sheila Pressley, director of education
Christina Hellmich, curator in charge, arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Khamisi Norwood, digital media producer
Megan Bates, digital media producer

Film interviewees
Alvin Amason (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik)
Louise Brady (Tlingit)
Perry Eaton (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Emily Edenshaw (Yup’ik / Iñupiaq)
Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit / Unangax̂)
Lily Hope (Tlingit)
Aaron Leggett (Dena’ina Athabascan)
Marie Arnaq Meade (Yup’ik)
Margaret Nakak (Iñupiaq / Yup’ik)
Abel Ryan (Tsimshian)
Haliehana Alaĝum Ayagaa Stepetin (Unangax̂)
Christopher Sumdum Jr. (Tlingit)
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik)
Andrew Weaver (Yup’ik)

Special thanks
Michele Trefon
Emily Edenshaw
Jaimeann Bell
Presley West
Alaska Native Heritage Center Native Games Team
Herring Rock Water Protectors
Katelyn Stiles
Jennifer Younger
Thomas Gamble
Courtney Fallow
Renee Villasenor
Randy Dodson
Robert Carswell

Echoes of Practice: Bay Area Artists on Faith Ringgold

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-11-29 | Hear Bay Area artists Angela Hennessy, Hannah Waiters, and Mattie Loyce discuss the lasting impact of Faith Ringgold’s creative and community work. Devine Malone, our director of public programs and community engagement, will moderate.

About the speakers

Angela Hennessy (she/her) is an Oakland-based artist and associate professor at California College of the Arts where she teaches courses on visual and cultural narratives of death in contemporary art. Through writing, studio work, and performance, her practice questions assumptions about death and the dead themselves. She uses a spectrum of color and other phenomena of light to expose mythologies of identity. Ephemeral and celestial forms are constructed by everyday gestures of domestic labor — washing, wrapping, stitching, weaving, brushing, and braiding. angelahennessy.com

Hannah Waiters (she/her/they/them) was born, raised, and trained to make art in the Bay Area (of Ohlone land), and is a visual researcher, conceptual artist, and educator. Her interdisciplinary research-based art practice interests include museum studies, Black Atlantic philosophy, historical phenomenology in art history, and historical materialism. In 2021 Waiters earned an MFA in fine arts and an MA in visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts. @waiter2z

Mattie Loyce (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, facilitator, and community advocate. Critically engaging sociopolitical content and encouraging empowerment through decolonial and holistic collaborations are key to their community work and socially engaged artist practice. Throughout their career and across continents, they have made a commitment to amplifying and supporting the lives of people with marginalized identities, specifically people and artists of the African diaspora, queer people, and people of color. mattieloyce.com

Devin Malone (they/them) is a cultural producer based in California. They have produced education programs at Dia Art Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Always in collaboration, Malone develops engagement programs that prioritize sustained reciprocal relationships with historically underserved artists and communities. They hold an MA in museum and exhibition studies from the University of Illinois Chicago and a BA in anthropology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are currently the director of public programs and community engagement at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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We are Alaska | Alaska Native Art, Ep. 1

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-11-24 | This video is a part of our Alaska Native Art series, produced in partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center. For more, go to famsf.org/stories/close-look/alaska-native-art

Watch the full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eMm5mgGrVDg_GUEi7NipzNB9x05Xrth
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"Learning about art is . . . learning a new way, new language, almost. A new way of seeing the world . . . cultural education." —Abel Ryan

Alaska is the largest geographic state in the United States and encompasses over 660,000 square miles of diverse landscapes: oceans, mountains, forests, and tundra. It is the homeland of many Native peoples, whose ancestors have lived on and moved across the land since time immemorial.

The artworks in this Close Look are united by cross-cultural themes: Family, Sustenance, Transportation, and Celebration. Each theme is introduced by a short film featuring cultural practitioners from different regions of Alaska. Their voices enliven the collection and connect historical objects to contemporary communities.

The themes are grounded in the Shared Values of Alaska Native Cultures and explore the importance of language, ecology, resiliency, and survivance across these topics. This is not a comprehensive survey of Alaska Native arts; it is an offering of an alternate interpretative framework.

Project team

Partners
Alaska Native Heritage Center

Advisors
Lauren Ayagakuchax̂ Peters (Unangax̂), PhD scholar, University of California, Davis
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik), cultural heritage manager, Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

Collaborators
Paul Asicksik (Iñupiaq), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Tara Bourdukofsky (Unangax̂), director of cultural and education services, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik), community engagement manager, Alaska Native Heritage Center

FAMSF team
Hillary C. Olcott, associate curator, arts of the Americas
Emily Jennings, director of school and family programs
Magnolia Molcan, web managing editor
Patricia Buffa, director of digital strategy
Sheila Pressley, director of education
Christina Hellmich, curator in charge, arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Khamisi Norwood, digital media producer
Megan Bates, digital media producer

Film interviewees
Alvin Amason (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik)
Louise Brady (Tlingit)
Perry Eaton (Sugpiaq Alutiiq)
Emily Edenshaw (Yup’ik / Iñupiaq)
Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit / Unangax̂)
Lily Hope (Tlingit)
Aaron Leggett (Dena’ina Athabascan)
Marie Arnaq Meade (Yup’ik)
Margaret Nakak (Iñupiaq / Yup’ik)
Abel Ryan (Tsimshian)
Haliehana Alaĝum Ayagaa Stepetin (Unangax̂)
Christopher Sumdum Jr. (Tlingit)
Yaari Walker (Saint Lawrence Island Yupik)
Andrew Weaver (Yup’ik)

Special thanks
Michele Trefon
Emily Edenshaw
Jaimeann Bell
Presley West
Alaska Native Heritage Center Native Games Team
Herring Rock Water Protectors
Katelyn Stiles
Jennifer Younger
Thomas Gamble
Courtney Fallow
Renee Villasenor
Randy Dodson
Robert Carswell

Critique and Connection in the Work of Faith Ringgold

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 2022-11-08 | Featuring scholars Michele Wallace, Joan Kee, Jacqueline Francis, and Susan Cahan, this roundtable discussion examines how Faith Ringgold’s work synthesizes a wealth of cultural influences, techniques, and schools of thought to expand and complicate the art historical canon.

Dr. Michele Wallace, professor emeritus of English (2017), women’s studies, and film studies at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center, is founder and director of The Faith Ringgold Society, LLC, that has a mission to publish writings about artist Faith Ringgold. The daughter of Faith Ringgold, she has also written extensively on her mother’s work, including American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s (Neuberger Museum 2010). She is currently working on an upcoming book The Mona Lisa Interview: Faith Ringgold’s French and American Collections, 1990–1999.

Joan Kee, PhD is professor in the history of art at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a Ford Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A contributing editor to Artforum, her books include Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method and most recently, The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity.

Jacqueline Francis, PhD, is professor and chair of the graduate program in visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts. She writes social histories of modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the United States, andis especially interested in the representation of ethno-cultural and racial identities and identifications.

Dr. Susan E. Cahan is an art historian, curator, and educator who specializes in contemporary art and the history of museums. Her research focuses on the relationship between social and artistic change and the confluence of factors that shape the way culture is imagined, discussed, and advanced. She is the recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, among other awards.

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