When: Friday, June 04, 2010 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Where: Seed Gallery at Thoreau Center
Health, Healing and Community (HH&C) Part One
ArtSeed’s 2010 annual end-of-the-school-year exhibition celebrates the organization’s tenth anniversary. Selected student works are featured here with three professional artists whose own work has been influenced by their close association with three public schools. The second part of this exhibition opens August 12, 5-7pm and features artists and youth involved in ArtSeed’s Summer Intensive and Apprenticeship Program. Stay tuned for the details of (HH&C) Part Two.
Marissa Kunz, a teaching artist and founder of ArtSeed, co-conceived The Print Exchange Project: 8x10x10 (eight by ten inches by ten artists) who are scattered across the globe and who at one point intersected at the San Francisco Art Institute. Here these artists intersect again by way of collaboratively altered prints handed off to each other through the post. Also represented are samples of Marissa’s students’ work from Sherman Elementary School where she teaches.
Teaching artist Manon Bogerd-Wada shows work made in her pre-k classes at the Burnett Child Development Center in Bayview Hunters Point. In addition, she shows architectural renderings by children from Lincoln Elementary School involved with the HEARTH Community Art Garden Project, this latter, funded by the OPEN CIRCLE Foundation.
Patricia Warren is represented by new work made this past February in her Community Portrait Project. Patricia set up a professional photography studio at the Burnett Child Development Center where she made portraits of fifteen families from the neighborhood. The resulting photographs were framed and given to their subjects free of charge. ArtSeed also received framed copies to display at the exhibition. Sales of the art support ArtSeed’s Schools Programs.
Both Marissa and Manon have received support as teaching artists through the California Arts Council’s Artists in Schools program. Patricia Warren’s Community Portrait Project was also made possible by Tony and Caroline Grant and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.
For further information, contact Josefa Vaughan, Executive Director: josefa@artseed.org or (415) 409-1761
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