Photo by Anna Conti. LA Sunset Strip, Jan 2011. used with permission Three of us (Anna Conti, David Sumner and myself) took a road trip to LA to attending the opening of a mutual friend, Sandy Yagi. Anna has posted an account of the trip on her blog and I'm working my way through my [...]
Bay Area photographer Kathleen Kelly spent the first seven months of 2010 in upstate New York, giving her the opportunity to see and photograph a real change of seasons for the first time. Some of the photos were taken in and around the town of Otsego and the village of Cooperstown, home of the Baseball [...]
This weekend (tonight 5-8 and Sunday 11-3) is your last chance to pick up extremely affordable fine art, jewelry, knitted wear, and crafts from 10 local artists including Anna Conti, Pam Heyda, Cynthia Tom, Adele Shaw, Anna Efanova, and others. Pear Tree at 1890 Bryant Street, San Francisco. Tags: Adele Shaw, Cynthia Tom, Pam Heyda, [...]
Monday morning San Francisco artist Federico "Pico" Sanchez died peacefully in his sleep, at his live-work space at Project Artaud. The "Prince of Artaud" will be hugely missed by his friends and neighbors, not only for his warm and friendly presence but his guidance during his frequent stints as president during his 20-plus years with [...]
Roving correspondent here, with a report from Chicago. My grandparents, whom I loved so much and still miss, although they have been dead and gone lo, these many years, were of the generation that embraced the concept of the chain restaurant, and found particularly attractive the notion that no matter where you were--Omaha, Nebraska, or [...]
Think outside the box - the big box stores that is. “Fruit Jello” by Camille Holvoet - Creativity Explored "Making plans to take advantage of Black Friday shopping deals? We'd rather not, personally, that's why we have the Internet and a stack of Amazon gift cards. But if that's your kind of thing, you might [...]
The Judgment of Paris - wall mural at SFMOMA In vino veritas? Read and find out...http://www.examiner.com/museum-in-san-francisco/sfmoma-how-wine-became-modern-design-wine-1976-to-now-review Tags: Paris, SFMOMA Related posts Views of Paris (0)
This past Monday I went over to the Verdi Club to see "Don't Call Me Retard," one of Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick's monthly storytelling series - this one benefitting Creativity Explored. The storytellers were teachers and students at the Mission art studio that serves artists with developmental disabilities. Or, as one of the speakers [...]
Anna wrote up a marvelous report about our fabulous Friday night in downtown SF - art, food, friends...go and read about it at:http://workingartistsjournal.blogspot.com/ Tags: SF Related posts The Birth of Impressionism – Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay at the De Young (0)
I prefer the intimate experience of looking at small prints. I print and display my own photographs small for that very reason. When I walked into the Robert Koch Gallery last evening I was more than pleased to see the entire gallery devoted to an exhibit of Masao Yamamoto's exquisitely crafted photographs, most no larger [...]