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Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the Blues is an animated movie that I have featured on Pigment before. Since I will be returning from India tomorrow, I thought I would leave you with a little taste of Indian animation.  Namaste.

Below are the first five segments. To view the last five segments of the film, click here.





Mission Voices Summer 2010 Exhibition TONIGHT

El Grito de la Misión / Opening Reception + Performance:
Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Exhibition from Aug.18-28)
Southern Exposure- 3030 20th Street- San Francisco, CA 94110

Southern Exposure invites you to join Mission Voices Summer youth, artists, and community partners for El Grito de la Mision, a final celebration of Mission Voices Summer 2010. The event includes an exhibition of new work and installations, interactive performance works, food, and refreshments.

This year’s Mission Voices Summer theme, ECHO, ECHOS, ECHOED, explores personal identity through the guise of the past, present and future. Throughout the summer, three collaborative projects, or acts, guide learning and art making, culminating in a three-act performance amidst an elaborate and compelling set.

Southern Exposure’s Mission Voices Summer (MVS) is a summer arts program that gives youth the opportunity to exercise leadership skills and participate in their community by exploring relevant social and personal issues through visual arts workshops. The program focuses on arts-based community development by pairing local artists with teens through an intensive summer program. MVS teaches youth to use the visual arts as a tool to express their creative voices and to make a visual statement about their ideas, interests, and ambitions through a series of workshops that result in an exhibition presented to the community.

Original Art by Pashet

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Pashet

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Sunday Funday at the Headlands

Sunday at Headlands with Jennilie Brewster and Helena Keeffe
Sunday August 15, Noon – 5PM-Building 944 | FREE Admission

1PM Come on an Outing with Helena Keeffe and National Park Service Ranger Mía Monroe
4PM Create Your Self Portrait as a Constellation with Jennilie Brewster
Noon – 4:30PM Mess Hall Café Open

Spend the afternoon at exploring public works by artists in residence in the Project Space studios, enjoying organic café fare, and participating in artist-led activities.

At 1PM, join Project Space AIR Helena Keeffe and NPS Park Ranger Mía Monroe for a hike to discover and identify plants of the Headlands and make drawings along the way. Ranger Mía Monroe will look closely for late summer blooms, seeds and fruit posing the question: how does the plant world spread itself but also protect itself through spine and poison?

While in the Project Space from July 28 to August 31, Keeffe will work with Alula Editions collaborator Amber Cady to make textiles comprised of these drawings collected from the hikers and other Headlands’ visitors that will then be worked into repeat patterns, silkscreened on fabric, and sewn into a to-be-determined object.

At 4PM, create your self portrait as a constellation with Jennilie Brewster. While in the Project Space Brewster will work on a series of paper sculptures, 3-D collages comprised of her old photos, postcards, and book pages—painted and stapled into quirky crushed paper balls that bring to mind meteors and stars, electrons, and atoms. For this program she will invite fellow visitors to bring with them ephemera of their lives to create their own “self-portraits” and place them in the piece. Hung, clustered, and pinned throughout the room; shifting in and out of various formations; evolving constellations of human experience.

Lovin’ 941 Gallery

If you haven’t had the chance to go check out 941 then now’s the time. The gallery is huge with two roll-up doors, an open layout and a conspicuous entry (i.e. look for the “Smog Check” sign and enter). Here is a sneak peek of what you will see…

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941 is located at 941 Geary St., SF.

Original Art by Kelly Allen via Warholian

Original Art by Kelly Allen via Warholian

A Book Posting on a Friday, You Say? Damn Straight.

Here’s the thing: I treat my books like the precious pieces of art that they are.  In fact, the new Pigment layout is lacking my book list which will be up sooner than later. So naturally when I saw that the 10th Annual National Book Festival was approaching I couldn’t wait until Monday to spread the news.  Read this and THEN enjoy the normal Friday festivities.

About the Festival:
The 10th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The festival, a celebration of the joy of reading for all ages, is free and open to the public.

Artist Call: Night/Light Photos After Dark

SFAC Gallery and PhotoAlliance are seeking artists for an upcoming exhibit, Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark.

About the Exhibit:

Exhibition Dates: September 16 – January 14, 2010
Location: SFAC Gallery, Art at City Hall, ground floor
Submissions should be of works that explore what happens after sunset and before sunrise. Nighttime images of interest will range from landscapes to portraits, from photodocumentary essays to fantastical narratives. The SFAC Gallery will be looking for technical proficiency, creative innovation, and a wide variety of subject matter.
Submissions Due: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 6pm

For more information or to see the submission guidelines: contact the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 oraimee.leduc@sfgov.org or visit our website here.

Photo taken by Daniel Chimowitz (no affiliation to the SFAC)

Original Art by Alison Rash

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Alison Rash

!Women Art Revolution-Movie Snipet

The second installment in the SF Arts Commission’s Now and When series is on display.  Lynn Hershman Leeson and her epic film, !Women Art Revolution documents the journey toward completing this film which stretches back to its beginnings nearly 42 years ago and provides a glimpse into the process of creating this monumental film project. Now & When offers local audiences a chance to view clips of !Women Art Revolution before it premieres at MOMA in New York. The trailer is provided below.

Stop by the Main Gallery on Groove St. for a sneak peek of the film before the closing date, September 4th.