Play Porto-Lotería! If you haven’t played lately, drop by the liberry:
Arete Libro: La Frontera LA FRONTERA Opening Friday, August 16, 2013 6:00-8:00 Velvet da Vinci 2015 Polk St. San Francisco, CA 94109 Exhibition runs August 14- September 15, 2013 For the exhibition, La Frontera, we made Arete Libro: La Frontera or Earring Book of the Border A book distributed across two earrings, a wearable index…
Potrero Puzzler Art/Game to Check out from the Library Right now, the Potrero Hill District in San Francisco is the site of more construction than any other neighborhood in the city. We made the Potrero Puzzler so that friends, families, and especially neighbors could play, learn, and imagine the future of their neighborhood together. It comes in…
Getting Ready for the 11th Havana Bienal! Book and Wheel Works is working on SANcafé SANcafé includes a communal pop up café, a Map/Book and a digital Library. We’re working on the artwork the for San Agustín Farm Map/Guide to Flavors and in Spanish: Mapa de Cultivos y Manual de Sabores de San Agustín for the…
ArtPlace America Post A post on Crossing the Street appears this month and next on the new ArtPlace website. Site for the new funding consortium ArtPlace America, projects that improve urban neighborhoods are featured. Link to: Artplace Neighborhood projects funded by the Creative Work Fund on ArtPlace
50 Households in the Portola are working on the Alemany Island Project now! The 3-part Alemany Island Project will be installed under the 280 Freeway across from the San Francisco Farmers Market on Alemany Boulevard. To be unveiled in 2012, the project includes: a beautiful 50′ mural of a San Francisco Garter Snake and Mission…
Saturday, March 19, 2011 Artists’ Talk at the Portola Library We’ll tell some of the neighborhood stories that led to Crossing the Street. If you haven’t seen the Crossing the Street handmade books about the Portola District, now’s your chance. Come get your free maps! You’ll have a chance to tell your stories, too. Raffle!…
20 Great SF Neighborhood History Projects! The SF History Expo in the Old Mint showcased 20 San Francisco Neighborhood Projects. We got to meet San Franciscans working on the Bernal, Portrero and Visitacion Valley history projects. Foundsf was there, collecting oral histories and scanning visitors’ personal photographs for their website www.foundsf.org. More than 3,500 visitors…
Join us at the San Francisco History Expo This Saturday and Sunday, February 12 & 13, 2011 at the Old Mint at 5th and Mission Street. The Hours Are from 11-4 both days and the Expo is FREE! Link to the Expo
Crossing the Street Extended! The Crossing the Street exhibition at the Portola Branch Library has been extended through May 31, 2011. You’re invited to come to the library on Saturday, March 19 at 1:30 pm for an artists’ talk with us on working together with Portola residents and with the Library to make the Crossing…