Tonight: Virtual Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition
Join us at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 28 to celebrate this years virtual Arts & Humanities 2020 Graduate Exhibition, a multidisciplinary showcase of work by 30 graduate students. Visit for the online opening celebration, which will include welcome remarks and the announcement of the winners of the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize in Art Studio and the Savageau Award in the Department of Design. Learn more .
Manetti Shrem at Home
See the following activities that 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art has in store:
- uses castoffs, found objects and materiality to examine unsettling questions of value and disposability in a time of economic and social anxiety.
- Learn how 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis has given by repurposing them into benches in the Arboretums GATEway Garden, Pollinator Garden and Hunt Halls redwood deck.
- Start your engines! Get into the drivers seat with Brandon Annuzzi, the museums building manager. Watch his YouTube tutorial,, as he revs up and shows you how to turn a toilet paper tube into a racecar.
- Sculptor Robert Hudson considers his collection of old objects, rusted cans and broken glass culled from junkyards and garage sales almost like paint. Step inside his studio with this video from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Bilingual family music at the Mondavi Center
During the closures, Mondavi continues to offer free virtual concerts. The virtual concerts will be shared on the dates the shows were scheduled to occur. This week, enjoy family music in English and Spanish with Sonia De Los Santos this Sunday, May 31. Click to view the full schedule of virtual concerts.
de Young Museum in San Francisco holds virtual 'Bouquets to Art' event
This year, the de Young Museum in San Francisco will hold their annual Bouquets to Art event/fundraiser online from Monday, June 1 to Sunday, June 7. Learn about the tradition of bouquets inspired by artworks, enjoy a talk from a celebrity florist, take a virtual tour of the San Francisco Flower Market, or participate in a virtual workshop to create your own bouquet. See the full schedule of events .
Crocker discusses what goes into curating a museum exhibit
Read a blog post about the intersection of museum curation and education , written by Houghton Kinsman, Adult Education Coordinator at the Crocker. For Kinsman, this intersection is clear as curation ...is fundamentally about knowledge production and reinterpretation. Watch an interview with Crocker curators Jayme Yahr and Christie Hajela .
SFMOMA takes you to artist cribs
SFMOMA has launched a new series titled Communities in Residence that will feature six art collectives. Each week, one of the collectives will answer this prompt: What does it mean to work collaboratively in the time of social distancing? This weeks collective is Oakland based Click to learn more.
Tweet of the week
This by San Francisco Chronicle arts writer Charles Desmarais caught our attention for its humor, and link to a great story.
And here's a on Instagram about a local virtual show at JayJay in Sacramento.