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  • Reclaiming Memory: Mobile Shrines & The Reversal of Harm

    Join us for a tour of For-Site’s Black Gold: Stories Untold exhibition led by artist Anna Lisa Escobedo. A free charter bus will leave 500 Capp Street at 11 am and will return at the conclusion of the tour, limited seating available. After the tour join multi-media artist Malik Seneferu for an exclusive workshop at…

  • Subverting Colonial Machinations

    Join us for Subverting Colonial Machinations, a reading and conversation organized by Jonathan Cordero (Ramaytush Ohlone) and Tricia Rainwater (Choctaw), in dialogue with Native leaders and cultural workers Corrina Gould, Sabrina Garibay, Deja Gould, and Melanie C. Lacy Kusters. This gathering is presented as part of Collaborating With the Muses: Part Two, a powerful new installation by Mildred Howard at 500 Capp Street. Held in the presence…

  • Ann Meisinger

    Ann Meisinger is the Project Director, Artist-in-Residence Program at the Exploratorium, where she leads the vision and development for Artist in Residence programs and initiatives. Prior to the Exploratorium she worked as the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Headlands Center for the Arts where she produced and edited Process and Place: Headlands at 40,…

  • Nancy Nguyen

    Nancy Nguyen Organizational and Events Assistant Nancy Nguyen is an artist based in Berkeley, California. Her painting practice responds to things that seem to arrive on their own. Animals and happenings are rooted in fate and unsettle meaning. These encounters become connections that guide her work. She received a BFA from San Jose State University….

  • Natasha Loewy

    Natasha Loewy Development and Program Assistant Natasha Loewy is an artist based in Oakland, California whose work explores the intersection of drawing, sculpture, and conceptual art. Drawing inspiration from the everyday, her work expresses a full spectrum of emotions—humor, joy, sadness, fear, and angst. Loewy holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and…

  • Collaborating With The Muses: Part Two – Programming

    This Summer 500 Capp Street leads a series of free programs in conjunction with Mildred Howard’s Collaborating With The Muses: Part Two. This series brings together artists, local voices and culture-bearers to engage ancestral memory, civic monuments, and collective truth-telling. Saturday, July 12Subverting Colonial MachinationsReadings and Dialogue with artists Jonathan Cordero and Tricia RainwaterWhere: 500…