Calvin Keys, Widely Loved Jazz Guitarist With Endless Soul, Dies at 82
Eleanor Coppola, Matriarch of a Filmmaking Family, Dies at 87
Trina Robbins, Feminist Cartoonist and ‘Wimmen’s Comix’ Founder, Dies at 85
Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist Who Embodied ‘Radical Love’
Photographer David Johnson, Who Chronicled San Francisco’s Black Culture, Dies at 97
Jess Curtis, Choreographer and Accessibility Champion, Has Died
Chita Rivera, Broadway’s ‘First Great Triple Threat,’ Dies at 91
Dejan Milojević, the Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach, Has Died at 46
Laura Lynch, Founding Member of The Chicks, Dies at 65 in Texas Car Crash
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He was 82. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keys was surrounded at Berkeley’s Alta Bates Medical Center on Sunday by family and loved ones from the Bay Area music scene, said his close friend and musical collaborator, Art Maxwell. The cause of death was complications due to a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world has just lost a wonderful person and musician,” said the bassist Henry Franklin, who played and recorded with Keys. “He was very prolific on his instrument, very inventive, and I’m sure he’s got one of the first seats in the big orchestra in the sky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1264\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956010\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027.jpg 1264w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-800x1215.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-1020x1549.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-768x1167.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-1011x1536.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1264px) 100vw, 1264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys performing in San Francisco, circa 1977. \u003ccite>(Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to Ray Charles and Ahmad Jamal, Keys played with the likes of Donald Byrd, Lou Donaldson, Bobby Hutcherson, Tony Bennett, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Joe Henderson, Carmen McRea, Pharoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Eddie Henderson, Stanley Turrentine and many, many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxwell remembered first seeing Keys at Laney College in Oakland in 1978, and later joining his band for shows at 57th Street Gallery and Geoffrey’s Inner Circle. Eventually he would become Keys’ musical director, and played with him for the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Calvin was the real deal,” Maxwell said. “He was a very handsome man, very warm, and extremely nice to almost everybody.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxwell recalled when Keys, a few years ago, successfully petitioned Spotify to pay him for royalties due. “He took me out to a restaurant,” Maxwell said, “and said ‘Go ahead, get the best steak! Get everything, dessert, whatever you want!’ That was Calvin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-1536x1145.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calvin Keys was born Feb. 6, 1942 in Omaha, Nebraska. As a young boy, his father, a drummer, used to sneak him into local ballrooms to hear performers like Little Richard and James Brown. He would soon learn guitar, and join jam sessions in town with touring artists like George Benson and Brother Jack McDuff. At the age of 15, Keys moved to Kansas City and soon began touring as a young teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keys played in top trios with popular organists like Jimmy McGriff and Jimmy Smith, and worked with Ray Charles on and off for 15 years. A move to Los Angeles in the late 1960s connected him with the Black Jazz record label, for which he recorded two era-defining albums: 1971’s \u003cem>Shawn-Neeq\u003c/em> and 1974’s \u003cem>Proceed With Caution\u003c/em>. He moved to the Bay Area in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Watch\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/pC0Qa1zJmrM?si=DF1HedoMKLdhiH5J&t=3907\">Calvin Keys on stage at KQED, interviewed by Bianca Taylor\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After joining pianist Ahmad Jamal’s group, Keys spent six years touring and recording with the jazz giant. He sometimes told the story of Miles Davis, an avowed Jamal fan, once asking Jamal after a show if he could audition Keys for his own group — an offer Keys declined. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1535px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1535\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16.jpg 1535w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-768x961.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-1228x1536.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1535px) 100vw, 1535px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys on stage with his hollow-body guitar on stage. Keys performed at small clubs and community events into his 80s. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gregory Howe, the Bay Area producer and musician who under his Wide Hive Records label released four albums by Keys starting in 2000, said that Keys “was just an authoritative voice on his instrument.” He recalled his first experience with Keys in the recording studio, when he nailed a guitar solo in one take. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He arrived in this \u003cem>huge\u003c/em> ’70s Cadillac,” Howe said. “We had this little recording studio in North Beach, and we couldn’t find anywhere to park the car!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13935159']Howe also remembered Keys’ sharp personal style, and how he would show up to record in “really clean” outfits that matched his high-class talent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he would play, you \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to listen,” Howe said. “The way he could weave a solo, I don’t know any other guitarist that had that caliber of soulfulness and musical strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keys enjoyed a small renaissance in the 2010s as his early albums garnered more attention, including in places as distant as Europe and Japan. In 2012, the Bay Area label Tompkins Square reissued \u003cem>Shawn-Neeq\u003c/em>; \u003cem>Proceed With Caution\u003c/em> and 1985’s \u003cem>Full Court Press\u003c/em> have also been reissued in recent years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956009\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys’ first album as a leader, ‘Shawn-Neeq,’ has been reissued multiple times since its release in 1971. \u003ccite>(Black Jazz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keys was a teacher at the Oakland Public Conservatory and frequently taught his skills to the younger generation at camps and in private lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Keys continued to perform locally, including at clubs like Yoshi’s, up to the end. He refused suggestions to retire, even as he underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 1997 and back surgery in recent years, Maxwell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrace Martin, the famed keyboardist and hip-hop producer, and Keys’ godson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5yGq43r6gh/?hl=en&img_index=1\">said on Instagram\u003c/a>: “A true master teacher has transitioned. Rest in power, love and peace to Calvin Keys. I love you.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The stylish Oakland guitarist, remembered as innovative and generous, played with dozens of jazz greats.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713399419,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":881},"headData":{"title":"Calvin Keys, Jazz Guitarist With Endless Soul, Dies at 82 | KQED","description":"The stylish Oakland guitarist, remembered as innovative and generous, played with dozens of jazz greats.","ogTitle":"Calvin Keys, Widely Loved Jazz Guitarist With Endless Soul, Dies at 82","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Calvin Keys, Widely Loved Jazz Guitarist With Endless Soul, Dies at 82","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Calvin Keys, Jazz Guitarist With Endless Soul, Dies at 82 %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Calvin Keys, Widely Loved Jazz Guitarist With Endless Soul, Dies at 82","datePublished":"2024-04-15T21:16:21.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-18T00:16:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/f582ee74-90eb-466c-aa23-b15500fe9994/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955977/calvin-keys-jazz-guitarist-dies-obit-oakland","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Calvin Keys, the Oakland-based jazz guitarist who worked with giants like Ray Charles and Ahmad Jamal, and who possessed a unique style both on stage and records, died Sunday afternoon. He was 82. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keys was surrounded at Berkeley’s Alta Bates Medical Center on Sunday by family and loved ones from the Bay Area music scene, said his close friend and musical collaborator, Art Maxwell. The cause of death was complications due to a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world has just lost a wonderful person and musician,” said the bassist Henry Franklin, who played and recorded with Keys. “He was very prolific on his instrument, very inventive, and I’m sure he’s got one of the first seats in the big orchestra in the sky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1264\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956010\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027.jpg 1264w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-800x1215.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-1020x1549.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-768x1167.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-507929027-1011x1536.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1264px) 100vw, 1264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys performing in San Francisco, circa 1977. \u003ccite>(Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to Ray Charles and Ahmad Jamal, Keys played with the likes of Donald Byrd, Lou Donaldson, Bobby Hutcherson, Tony Bennett, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Joe Henderson, Carmen McRea, Pharoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Eddie Henderson, Stanley Turrentine and many, many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxwell remembered first seeing Keys at Laney College in Oakland in 1978, and later joining his band for shows at 57th Street Gallery and Geoffrey’s Inner Circle. Eventually he would become Keys’ musical director, and played with him for the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Calvin was the real deal,” Maxwell said. “He was a very handsome man, very warm, and extremely nice to almost everybody.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxwell recalled when Keys, a few years ago, successfully petitioned Spotify to pay him for royalties due. “He took me out to a restaurant,” Maxwell said, “and said ‘Go ahead, get the best steak! Get everything, dessert, whatever you want!’ That was Calvin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/5-1536x1145.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calvin Keys was born Feb. 6, 1942 in Omaha, Nebraska. As a young boy, his father, a drummer, used to sneak him into local ballrooms to hear performers like Little Richard and James Brown. He would soon learn guitar, and join jam sessions in town with touring artists like George Benson and Brother Jack McDuff. At the age of 15, Keys moved to Kansas City and soon began touring as a young teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keys played in top trios with popular organists like Jimmy McGriff and Jimmy Smith, and worked with Ray Charles on and off for 15 years. A move to Los Angeles in the late 1960s connected him with the Black Jazz record label, for which he recorded two era-defining albums: 1971’s \u003cem>Shawn-Neeq\u003c/em> and 1974’s \u003cem>Proceed With Caution\u003c/em>. He moved to the Bay Area in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Watch\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/pC0Qa1zJmrM?si=DF1HedoMKLdhiH5J&t=3907\">Calvin Keys on stage at KQED, interviewed by Bianca Taylor\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After joining pianist Ahmad Jamal’s group, Keys spent six years touring and recording with the jazz giant. He sometimes told the story of Miles Davis, an avowed Jamal fan, once asking Jamal after a show if he could audition Keys for his own group — an offer Keys declined. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1535px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1535\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16.jpg 1535w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-768x961.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/16-1228x1536.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1535px) 100vw, 1535px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys on stage with his hollow-body guitar on stage. Keys performed at small clubs and community events into his 80s. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gregory Howe, the Bay Area producer and musician who under his Wide Hive Records label released four albums by Keys starting in 2000, said that Keys “was just an authoritative voice on his instrument.” He recalled his first experience with Keys in the recording studio, when he nailed a guitar solo in one take. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He arrived in this \u003cem>huge\u003c/em> ’70s Cadillac,” Howe said. “We had this little recording studio in North Beach, and we couldn’t find anywhere to park the car!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13935159","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Howe also remembered Keys’ sharp personal style, and how he would show up to record in “really clean” outfits that matched his high-class talent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he would play, you \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to listen,” Howe said. “The way he could weave a solo, I don’t know any other guitarist that had that caliber of soulfulness and musical strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keys enjoyed a small renaissance in the 2010s as his early albums garnered more attention, including in places as distant as Europe and Japan. In 2012, the Bay Area label Tompkins Square reissued \u003cem>Shawn-Neeq\u003c/em>; \u003cem>Proceed With Caution\u003c/em> and 1985’s \u003cem>Full Court Press\u003c/em> have also been reissued in recent years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956009\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/61i8yhpYBqL._UF10001000_QL80_-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Keys’ first album as a leader, ‘Shawn-Neeq,’ has been reissued multiple times since its release in 1971. \u003ccite>(Black Jazz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keys was a teacher at the Oakland Public Conservatory and frequently taught his skills to the younger generation at camps and in private lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Keys continued to perform locally, including at clubs like Yoshi’s, up to the end. He refused suggestions to retire, even as he underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 1997 and back surgery in recent years, Maxwell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrace Martin, the famed keyboardist and hip-hop producer, and Keys’ godson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5yGq43r6gh/?hl=en&img_index=1\">said on Instagram\u003c/a>: “A true master teacher has transitioned. Rest in power, love and peace to Calvin Keys. I love you.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955977/calvin-keys-jazz-guitarist-dies-obit-oakland","authors":["185"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_235","arts_1564"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_22080","arts_1420","arts_21789"],"featImg":"arts_13956006","label":"arts"},"arts_13955930":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955930","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955930","score":null,"sort":[1712966959000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"eleanor-coppola-matriarch-of-a-filmmaking-family-dies-at-87","title":"Eleanor Coppola, Matriarch of a Filmmaking Family, Dies at 87","publishDate":1712966959,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Eleanor Coppola, Matriarch of a Filmmaking Family, Dies at 87 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola died Friday surrounded by family at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. No cause of death was given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor, who grew up in Orange County, California, met Francis while working as an assistant art director on his directorial debut, the Roger Corman-produced 1963 horror film \u003cem>Dementia 13\u003c/em>. (She had studied design at UCLA.) Within months of dating, Eleanor became pregnant and the couple were wed in Las Vegas in February 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955933\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1536x1014.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Coppola and wife, Eleanor, pose July 16, 1991, in Los Angeles. Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ and who raised a family of filmmakers, died Friday, April 12, 2024. She was 87. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Chris Martinez, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their first-born, Gian-Carlo, quickly became a regular presence in his father’s films, as did their subsequent children, Roman (born in 1965) and Sofia (born in 1971). After acting in their father’s films and growing up on sets, all would go into the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what the family has given except I hope they’ve set an example of a family encouraging each other in their creative process whatever it may be,” Eleanor told The Associated Press in 2017. “It happens in our family that everyone chose to sort of follow in the family business. We weren’t asking them to or expecting them to, but they did. At one point Sofia said, ‘The nut does not fall far from the tree.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gian-Carlo, who’s seen in the background of many of his father’s films and had begun doing second-unit photography, died at the age of 22 in a 1986 boating accident. He was killed while riding in a boat piloted by Griffin O’Neal, son of Ryan O’Neal, who was found guilty of negligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_201208101000']Roman directed several movies of his own and regularly collaborates with Wes Anderson. He’s president of his father’s San Francisco-based film company, American Zoetrope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia became one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of her generation as the writer-director of films including \u003cem>The Virgin Suicides\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Lost in Translation\u003c/em> and the 2023 release \u003cem>Priscilla\u003c/em>. Sofia dedicated that film to her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955934\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1536x1005.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Coppola, seen in her Los Angeles home in January 1992, turned the turbulent making of ‘Apocalypse Now’ in the Philippines by her husband, Francis Coppola, into ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.’ \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Craig Fujii)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In joining the family business, the Coppola children weren’t just following in their father’s footsteps but their mother’s, too. Beginning on 1979’s \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, Eleanor frequently documented the behind-the-scenes life of Francis’ films. The Philippines-set shoot of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em> lasted 238 days. A typhoon destroyed sets. Martin Sheen had a heart attack. A member of the construction crew died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor documented much of the chaos in what would become one of the most famous making-of films about moviemaking, 1991’s \u003cem>Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just trying to keep myself occupied with something to do because we were out there for so long,” Eleanor told CNN in 1991. “They wanted five minutes for a TV promotional or something and I thought sooner of later I could get five minutes of film and then it went on to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept shooting but I had no idea … the evolution of myself that I saw with my camera,” continued Eleanor, who ended up shooting 60 hours of footage. “So, it was a surprise for both of us and a life changing experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor also published \u003cem>Notes: On the Making of ‘Apocalypse Now’\u003c/em> in 1979. While the film focused on the film set tumult, the book charted some of Eleanor’s inner turmoil, including the challenges of being married to a larger-than-life figure. She wrote of being a “woman isolated from my friends, my affairs and my projects” during their year in Manilla. She also frankly discusses Francis having an extramarital affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is part of me that has been waiting for Francis to leave me, or die, so that I can get my life the way I want it,” wrote Eleanor. “I wonder if I have the guts to get it the way I want it with him in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1474px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1474\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955935\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg 1474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-800x1042.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1020x1329.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-768x1000.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1179x1536.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1474px) 100vw, 1474px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated portrait of Eleanor Coppola, released by the Coppola family. Eleanor Coppola died on Friday at 87. \u003ccite>(Chad Keig/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They remained together, though, throughout her life. And Eleanor continued to seek out creative outlets for herself. She documented several more of her husband’s films, as well as Roman’s \u003cem>CQ\u003c/em> and Sofia’s \u003cem>Marie Antoinette\u003c/em>. She wrote a memoir in 2008, \u003cem>Notes on a Life\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, at the age of 80, Eleanor made her narrative debut in \u003cem>Paris Can Wait\u003c/em>, a romantic comedy starring Diane Lane. She followed that up with \u003cem>Love Is Love Is Love\u003c/em> in 2020. Eleanor had initially set out only to write the screenplay to \u003cem>Paris Can Wait\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One morning at the breakfast table my husband said, ‘Well you should direct it.’ I was totally startled,” Eleanor told The AP. “But I said ‘Well, I never wrote a script before and I’ve never directed, why not?’ I was kind of saying ‘why not’ to everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor died just as Francis is preparing a long-planned, self-financed epic, \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>, which is to premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is survived by her husband; her son Roman and his wife, Jen, their children, Pascale, Marcello and Alessandro; her daughter Sofia and her husband, Thomas, their children Romy and Cosima; her granddaughter Gia and her husband, Honor, and their child Beaumont; and by her brother William Neil and his wife, Lisa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor recently completed her third memoir, the family said. In the manuscript she wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appreciate how my unexpected life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary ways and taken me in a multitude of directions beyond my wildest imaginings.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The mother to Sofia and Roman Coppola and wife to Francis Ford Coppola died at home in Napa County.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712966959,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1127},"headData":{"title":"Eleanor Coppola, Matriarch of a Filmmaking Family, Dies at 87 | KQED","description":"The mother to Sofia and Roman Coppola and wife to Francis Ford Coppola died at home in Napa County.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Eleanor Coppola, Matriarch of a Filmmaking Family, Dies at 87","datePublished":"2024-04-13T00:09:19.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-13T00:09:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955930/eleanor-coppola-matriarch-of-a-filmmaking-family-dies-at-87","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola died Friday surrounded by family at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. No cause of death was given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor, who grew up in Orange County, California, met Francis while working as an assistant art director on his directorial debut, the Roger Corman-produced 1963 horror film \u003cem>Dementia 13\u003c/em>. (She had studied design at UCLA.) Within months of dating, Eleanor became pregnant and the couple were wed in Las Vegas in February 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955933\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1536x1014.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Coppola and wife, Eleanor, pose July 16, 1991, in Los Angeles. Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ and who raised a family of filmmakers, died Friday, April 12, 2024. She was 87. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Chris Martinez, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their first-born, Gian-Carlo, quickly became a regular presence in his father’s films, as did their subsequent children, Roman (born in 1965) and Sofia (born in 1971). After acting in their father’s films and growing up on sets, all would go into the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what the family has given except I hope they’ve set an example of a family encouraging each other in their creative process whatever it may be,” Eleanor told The Associated Press in 2017. “It happens in our family that everyone chose to sort of follow in the family business. We weren’t asking them to or expecting them to, but they did. At one point Sofia said, ‘The nut does not fall far from the tree.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gian-Carlo, who’s seen in the background of many of his father’s films and had begun doing second-unit photography, died at the age of 22 in a 1986 boating accident. He was killed while riding in a boat piloted by Griffin O’Neal, son of Ryan O’Neal, who was found guilty of negligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_201208101000","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Roman directed several movies of his own and regularly collaborates with Wes Anderson. He’s president of his father’s San Francisco-based film company, American Zoetrope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia became one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of her generation as the writer-director of films including \u003cem>The Virgin Suicides\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Lost in Translation\u003c/em> and the 2023 release \u003cem>Priscilla\u003c/em>. Sofia dedicated that film to her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955934\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1536x1005.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Coppola, seen in her Los Angeles home in January 1992, turned the turbulent making of ‘Apocalypse Now’ in the Philippines by her husband, Francis Coppola, into ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.’ \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Craig Fujii)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In joining the family business, the Coppola children weren’t just following in their father’s footsteps but their mother’s, too. Beginning on 1979’s \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, Eleanor frequently documented the behind-the-scenes life of Francis’ films. The Philippines-set shoot of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em> lasted 238 days. A typhoon destroyed sets. Martin Sheen had a heart attack. A member of the construction crew died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor documented much of the chaos in what would become one of the most famous making-of films about moviemaking, 1991’s \u003cem>Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just trying to keep myself occupied with something to do because we were out there for so long,” Eleanor told CNN in 1991. “They wanted five minutes for a TV promotional or something and I thought sooner of later I could get five minutes of film and then it went on to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept shooting but I had no idea … the evolution of myself that I saw with my camera,” continued Eleanor, who ended up shooting 60 hours of footage. “So, it was a surprise for both of us and a life changing experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor also published \u003cem>Notes: On the Making of ‘Apocalypse Now’\u003c/em> in 1979. While the film focused on the film set tumult, the book charted some of Eleanor’s inner turmoil, including the challenges of being married to a larger-than-life figure. She wrote of being a “woman isolated from my friends, my affairs and my projects” during their year in Manilla. She also frankly discusses Francis having an extramarital affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is part of me that has been waiting for Francis to leave me, or die, so that I can get my life the way I want it,” wrote Eleanor. “I wonder if I have the guts to get it the way I want it with him in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1474px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1474\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955935\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg 1474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-800x1042.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1020x1329.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-768x1000.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1179x1536.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1474px) 100vw, 1474px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated portrait of Eleanor Coppola, released by the Coppola family. Eleanor Coppola died on Friday at 87. \u003ccite>(Chad Keig/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They remained together, though, throughout her life. And Eleanor continued to seek out creative outlets for herself. She documented several more of her husband’s films, as well as Roman’s \u003cem>CQ\u003c/em> and Sofia’s \u003cem>Marie Antoinette\u003c/em>. She wrote a memoir in 2008, \u003cem>Notes on a Life\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, at the age of 80, Eleanor made her narrative debut in \u003cem>Paris Can Wait\u003c/em>, a romantic comedy starring Diane Lane. She followed that up with \u003cem>Love Is Love Is Love\u003c/em> in 2020. Eleanor had initially set out only to write the screenplay to \u003cem>Paris Can Wait\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One morning at the breakfast table my husband said, ‘Well you should direct it.’ I was totally startled,” Eleanor told The AP. “But I said ‘Well, I never wrote a script before and I’ve never directed, why not?’ I was kind of saying ‘why not’ to everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor died just as Francis is preparing a long-planned, self-financed epic, \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>, which is to premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is survived by her husband; her son Roman and his wife, Jen, their children, Pascale, Marcello and Alessandro; her daughter Sofia and her husband, Thomas, their children Romy and Cosima; her granddaughter Gia and her husband, Honor, and their child Beaumont; and by her brother William Neil and his wife, Lisa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor recently completed her third memoir, the family said. In the manuscript she wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appreciate how my unexpected life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary ways and taken me in a multitude of directions beyond my wildest imaginings.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955930/eleanor-coppola-matriarch-of-a-filmmaking-family-dies-at-87","authors":["byline_arts_13955930"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_235","arts_1564"],"tags":["arts_3852","arts_1855","arts_22076","arts_21789"],"featImg":"arts_13955932","label":"arts"},"arts_13955821":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955821","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955821","score":null,"sort":[1712873447000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trina-robbins-feminist-cartoonist-dies-at-85","title":"Trina Robbins, Feminist Cartoonist and ‘Wimmen’s Comix’ Founder, Dies at 85","publishDate":1712873447,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Trina Robbins, Feminist Cartoonist and ‘Wimmen’s Comix’ Founder, Dies at 85 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A senior white woman smiling as she holds up a comic book titled 'It Aint Me Babe.’\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1920x2878.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Robbins, the first woman to draw Wonder Woman and an underground force for women in comics, died in San Francisco on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/ The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trina Robbins, the groundbreaking San Francisco comic book artist, writer, editor and feminist, died on Wednesday at the age of 85. Robbins is primarily remembered for establishing — and popularizing — feminist comic books, raising women’s voices and for being the first woman to ever draw Wonder Woman comics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comic book world was quick to share its grief and reverence for Robbins and her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You showed me what it looks like to lift up others,” Bay Area cartoonist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marinaomiart/\">MariNaomi\u003c/a> wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/marinaomi/posts/pfbid0jaoBGfzSATry1CH3MUn9v3KS3xyG6QEJKAuYXaiQAggXpZmvipcAjfEEi7aQstU2l\">on Facebook\u003c/a>, “how easy it is to do, and how much that small gesture can mean to a young artist. It can change their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She proved over and over that you didn’t have to be ‘one of the boys’ to make comics,” wrote the Canadian graphic novelist \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/miriam.libicki/posts/pfbid0XuhDt8dkGtGG5LHdT9R8gisXwFCTyLWP8ZRJhJQ7uVfpR4znQurJ8qcYAmKThuP7l\">Miriam Libicki\u003c/a>. “She made highly influential superhero and underground comics, she wasn’t afraid to be a reviled feminist ball-buster, and she did it all unapologetically as a fashion-loving femme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1.jpg\" alt=\"A senior white woman sits on a blanket-covered couch smiling.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Robbins at her San Francisco home near Duboce Triangle in 2016. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Robbins first arrived in San Francisco from New York in 1970, she faced an underground comics scene that was thriving but still very much a boys’ club. Feeling shut out and lacking in collaborators, Robbins gathered together every female cartoonist she could find. Together, they made \u003cem>It Ain’t Me, Babe\u003c/em>, the first collection of comics created entirely by women. Printed by San Francisco underground comics publisher \u003ca href=\"https://lastgasp.com/\">Last Gasp\u003c/a>, it was a swift hit, selling 40,000 copies in three printings. It was also a game-changer for comic book artistry in the Bay and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within two years, \u003cem>It Ain’t Me, Babe\u003c/em> had grown into a serialized collection called \u003cem>Wimmen’s Comix\u003c/em>. (Robbins’ contributions to the first issue included “\u003ca href=\"https://worldqueerstory.wordpress.com/tag/sandy-comes-out/\">Sandy Comes Out\u003c/a>,” featuring the first openly lesbian character in comics.) The uncompromising publication was edited by 10 different women over 17 issues, and would go on to run for 20 years. In 2016, every issue of \u003cem>Wimmen’s Comix\u003c/em> was immortalized in a two-volume book published by Fantagraphics. At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/22085/sex-drugs-and-equal-pay-wimmens-comix-get-their-due\">Robbins discussed her early motivations\u003c/a> with KQED Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the early ’70s, many of the guys’ comics were very misogynistic,” Robbins said. “When I would criticize [their comics] depicting rape as funny, they’d say ‘Oh, you just don’t have a sense of humor.’ So much of our [inspiration] was just saying, ‘Women have to have a voice.’ We have to be able to speak out if we want things to improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1.jpg\" alt=\"A full page illustration of a worried girl and a man standing nearby. It's titled "A Teenage Abortion."\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-1020x920.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-768x693.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Wimmen’s Comix’ depicted women’s issues in unapologetic terms. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her work, Robbins also illuminated forgotten female comic book artists who had inspired her growing up, including \u003ca href=\"//www.amazon.com/Gladys-Parker-Comics-Passion-Fashion/dp/1613451814/ref=sr_1_4\">Gladys Parker\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Lily-Ren%C3%A9e-Escape-Artist-Holocaust/dp/0761381147/ref=sr_1_5m\">Lily Renée\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Nell-Brinkley-Woman-Early-Century/dp/0786411511/ref=sr_1_25\">Nell Brinkley\u003c/a>, bringing them to life in a series of graphic novels. Robbins also penned \u003ca href=\"https://www.parigibooks.com/pages/books/23594/trina-robbins/a-century-of-women-cartoonists\">\u003cem>A Century of Women Cartoonists\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/136566\">\u003cem>The Great Women Cartoonists\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/fromgirlstogrrrl0000robb\">From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of [Female] Comics From Teens to Zines\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>Her 2017 memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/last-girl-standing\">\u003cem>Last Girl Standing\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, featured a 1966 photograph of Robbins on the cover, surrounded by friends backstage at a Donovan concert in Los Angeles. At the time, before the ascent of her comics, she worked as a fashion designer and boutique owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s, Robbins created unabashedly feminine series like \u003ca href=\"https://www.indyplanet.com/california-girls\">\u003cem>California Girls \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbr.com/misty-young-girl-comic-marvel/\">Meet Misty\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>which was published by Marvel’s Star Comics imprint. In 1985, her work on \u003cem>Wonder Woman\u003c/em> began, immortalized with \u003cem>The Legend of Wonder Woman\u003c/em> series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’90s, Robbins published \u003cem>Choices\u003c/em>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Choices-pro-choice-anthology-National-Organization/dp/B0028GAGHQ\">comics anthology for the National Organization of Women\u003c/a> that raised money for pro-choice causes. She also cofounded Friends of Lulu — an organization that, for almost two decades, elevated women’s voices in the comic book industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Robbins was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame at San Diego Comic-Con.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Decades of love for this art and this community. There is no replacement for her,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/gail.simone.90/posts/pfbid032RF5TWBDHVHtKsXjQnTnRviy7ERTeGWNicFXfwFfZXiTdtj7ansNqCUQ6LANRxC4l\">Gail Simone wrote\u003c/a> in Robbins’ honor. “We are blessed with her books, her art, and her guidance, and those all will live on.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Robbins popularized feminist comic books and became the first woman to draw Wonder Woman comics.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712878423,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":765},"headData":{"title":"Obituary: Trina Robbins, Groundbreaking Feminist Cartoonist | KQED","description":"Robbins popularized feminist comic books and became the first woman to draw Wonder Woman comics.","ogTitle":"Trina Robbins, Feminist Cartoonist and ‘Wimmen’s Comix’ Founder, Dies at 85","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Trina Robbins, Feminist Cartoonist and ‘Wimmen’s Comix’ Founder, Dies at 85","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Obituary: Trina Robbins, Groundbreaking Feminist Cartoonist %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Trina Robbins, Feminist Cartoonist and ‘Wimmen’s Comix’ Founder, Dies at 85","datePublished":"2024-04-11T22:10:47.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-11T23:33:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955821/trina-robbins-feminist-cartoonist-dies-at-85","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A senior white woman smiling as she holds up a comic book titled 'It Aint Me Babe.’\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-1321644250-1920x2878.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Robbins, the first woman to draw Wonder Woman and an underground force for women in comics, died in San Francisco on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/ The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trina Robbins, the groundbreaking San Francisco comic book artist, writer, editor and feminist, died on Wednesday at the age of 85. Robbins is primarily remembered for establishing — and popularizing — feminist comic books, raising women’s voices and for being the first woman to ever draw Wonder Woman comics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comic book world was quick to share its grief and reverence for Robbins and her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You showed me what it looks like to lift up others,” Bay Area cartoonist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marinaomiart/\">MariNaomi\u003c/a> wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/marinaomi/posts/pfbid0jaoBGfzSATry1CH3MUn9v3KS3xyG6QEJKAuYXaiQAggXpZmvipcAjfEEi7aQstU2l\">on Facebook\u003c/a>, “how easy it is to do, and how much that small gesture can mean to a young artist. It can change their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She proved over and over that you didn’t have to be ‘one of the boys’ to make comics,” wrote the Canadian graphic novelist \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/miriam.libicki/posts/pfbid0XuhDt8dkGtGG5LHdT9R8gisXwFCTyLWP8ZRJhJQ7uVfpR4znQurJ8qcYAmKThuP7l\">Miriam Libicki\u003c/a>. “She made highly influential superhero and underground comics, she wasn’t afraid to be a reviled feminist ball-buster, and she did it all unapologetically as a fashion-loving femme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1.jpg\" alt=\"A senior white woman sits on a blanket-covered couch smiling.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Trina-Robbins-2016-Emma-Silvers-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina Robbins at her San Francisco home near Duboce Triangle in 2016. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Robbins first arrived in San Francisco from New York in 1970, she faced an underground comics scene that was thriving but still very much a boys’ club. Feeling shut out and lacking in collaborators, Robbins gathered together every female cartoonist she could find. Together, they made \u003cem>It Ain’t Me, Babe\u003c/em>, the first collection of comics created entirely by women. Printed by San Francisco underground comics publisher \u003ca href=\"https://lastgasp.com/\">Last Gasp\u003c/a>, it was a swift hit, selling 40,000 copies in three printings. It was also a game-changer for comic book artistry in the Bay and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within two years, \u003cem>It Ain’t Me, Babe\u003c/em> had grown into a serialized collection called \u003cem>Wimmen’s Comix\u003c/em>. (Robbins’ contributions to the first issue included “\u003ca href=\"https://worldqueerstory.wordpress.com/tag/sandy-comes-out/\">Sandy Comes Out\u003c/a>,” featuring the first openly lesbian character in comics.) The uncompromising publication was edited by 10 different women over 17 issues, and would go on to run for 20 years. In 2016, every issue of \u003cem>Wimmen’s Comix\u003c/em> was immortalized in a two-volume book published by Fantagraphics. At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/22085/sex-drugs-and-equal-pay-wimmens-comix-get-their-due\">Robbins discussed her early motivations\u003c/a> with KQED Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the early ’70s, many of the guys’ comics were very misogynistic,” Robbins said. “When I would criticize [their comics] depicting rape as funny, they’d say ‘Oh, you just don’t have a sense of humor.’ So much of our [inspiration] was just saying, ‘Women have to have a voice.’ We have to be able to speak out if we want things to improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1.jpg\" alt=\"A full page illustration of a worried girl and a man standing nearby. It's titled "A Teenage Abortion."\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-1020x920.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/teenage-abortion-1440x1299-1-768x693.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Wimmen’s Comix’ depicted women’s issues in unapologetic terms. \u003ccite>(Emma Silvers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her work, Robbins also illuminated forgotten female comic book artists who had inspired her growing up, including \u003ca href=\"//www.amazon.com/Gladys-Parker-Comics-Passion-Fashion/dp/1613451814/ref=sr_1_4\">Gladys Parker\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Lily-Ren%C3%A9e-Escape-Artist-Holocaust/dp/0761381147/ref=sr_1_5m\">Lily Renée\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Nell-Brinkley-Woman-Early-Century/dp/0786411511/ref=sr_1_25\">Nell Brinkley\u003c/a>, bringing them to life in a series of graphic novels. Robbins also penned \u003ca href=\"https://www.parigibooks.com/pages/books/23594/trina-robbins/a-century-of-women-cartoonists\">\u003cem>A Century of Women Cartoonists\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/136566\">\u003cem>The Great Women Cartoonists\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/fromgirlstogrrrl0000robb\">From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of [Female] Comics From Teens to Zines\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>Her 2017 memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/last-girl-standing\">\u003cem>Last Girl Standing\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, featured a 1966 photograph of Robbins on the cover, surrounded by friends backstage at a Donovan concert in Los Angeles. At the time, before the ascent of her comics, she worked as a fashion designer and boutique owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s, Robbins created unabashedly feminine series like \u003ca href=\"https://www.indyplanet.com/california-girls\">\u003cem>California Girls \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbr.com/misty-young-girl-comic-marvel/\">Meet Misty\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>which was published by Marvel’s Star Comics imprint. In 1985, her work on \u003cem>Wonder Woman\u003c/em> began, immortalized with \u003cem>The Legend of Wonder Woman\u003c/em> series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’90s, Robbins published \u003cem>Choices\u003c/em>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Choices-pro-choice-anthology-National-Organization/dp/B0028GAGHQ\">comics anthology for the National Organization of Women\u003c/a> that raised money for pro-choice causes. She also cofounded Friends of Lulu — an organization that, for almost two decades, elevated women’s voices in the comic book industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Robbins was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame at San Diego Comic-Con.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Decades of love for this art and this community. There is no replacement for her,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/gail.simone.90/posts/pfbid032RF5TWBDHVHtKsXjQnTnRviy7ERTeGWNicFXfwFfZXiTdtj7ansNqCUQ6LANRxC4l\">Gail Simone wrote\u003c/a> in Robbins’ honor. “We are blessed with her books, her art, and her guidance, and those all will live on.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955821/trina-robbins-feminist-cartoonist-dies-at-85","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_11615","arts_75","arts_1564"],"tags":["arts_7584","arts_1942","arts_10278","arts_1962","arts_21789"],"featImg":"arts_13955849","label":"arts"},"arts_13954520":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954520","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954520","score":null,"sort":[1711043746000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"remembering-zoe-reidy-watts-oakland-artist-poet","title":"Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist Who Embodied ‘Radical Love’","publishDate":1711043746,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist Who Embodied ‘Radical Love’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>People close to Zoe Nika Reidy Watts remember her for her exuberant energy. At friends’ shows, she’d usually be in the front, cheering the loudest. In poetry workshops, she would volunteer to share first, making others feel comfortable with getting vulnerable, too. And in the ceramics studio, her warmth and enthusiasm left everyone in the room feeling at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The young artist’s death is deeply felt in the many creative communities she was a part of in Oakland and San Francisco. On March 1, the 25-year-old was \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/08/oakland-man-charged-with-beating-girlfriend-to-death/\">killed in an alleged domestic violence incident\u003c/a> in her boyfriend Victor Frieson III’s Oakland apartment. Frieson is currently being held without bail on murder charges in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people grieve alone. I can’t this time around because my friendship with Zoe was so marked and largely defined by our connection to community,” says musician and activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510\">Jada Imani\u003c/a>, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4dqWXNxprl/?img_index=5\">organizing a memorial event\u003c/a> for Reidy Watts at Oakland’s Alan Blueford Center for Justice on March 31. A similar gathering was held recently at Clayroom SF, where Reidy Watts was an artist in residence, and another is planned for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4wmHQsRlOU/?img_index=1\">March 21 at her alma mater\u003c/a>, San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1512px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629.jpeg 1512w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts in 2023. \u003ccite>(Eric Peterson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imani describes her connection with Reidy Watts as “cosmic.” The two became close in high school. They shared the same birthday, and bonded over their mixed Black and white heritage and similar upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So basically we were twins,” Imani says. “We started just doing life together — making our vision boards together, making art together, visiting jams and cyphers and open mics and gatherings together. And healing, really getting into the generational trauma and challenges, and our role on planet Earth and the kind of people we wanted to be, the magic we wanted to conjure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reidy Watts’ artistic talents and drive were evident early on. As a teen, she joined Youth Speaks’ SPOKES Youth Advisory Board, and began performing at poetry slams. Poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jtlusong/\">Jean JT Teodoro\u003c/a> was the program coordinator at the time, and remembers her enthusiastic, vibrant presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She persevered through a lot of struggle [at home],” Teodoro says, “and she [was] also a role model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A young woman lays in the grass at Lake Merritt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts. \u003ccite>(Sasha Tahergorabi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teodoro never forgot Reidy Watts’ performance at the 2017 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam, where her verses revealed a sharp analysis of class inequality that was well beyond her years. “She was talking about how people were being exploited [and] commodified, and how there are a wealthy few who are taking too much,” they add.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those days, Reidy Watts had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@crazygirlheartbreaka\">YouTube channel\u003c/a> where she’d upload videos of herself in her bedroom, reciting poems where she reflected on her personal growth and offered encouraging words for others. Over the years, her love of poetry expanded into rapping and hosting open mics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/vnPhi8HH-N8?si=REYfE2g82ZPTNeTF\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was so unafraid to put her whole self into her art with no embarrassment, no shame,” says musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/1yciaa\">Lycia Yousfi\u003c/a>, another friend since high school. “You would look at it and be like, ‘I feel something from this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yousfi considered Reidy Watts to be an embodiment of what she calls “radical love.” She was “the first person who really pushed me to be positive and be happy despite the circumstances,” Yousfi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photographer and interdisciplinary artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gaia.te/\">Gaia\u003c/a> also had a spiritual connection with Reidy Watts. With another close friend, they formed a spiritual group called Bay Area Brujxs, where they came together to “learn about different types of Indigenous wisdom, altar building, poetry making, painting,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts (center) and friends model hoodies she designed. \u003ccite>(Gaia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her commitment to community was also evident in the way she supported her friends through challenging life circumstances, including abusive relationships and family problems. Her sisterhood, Gaia says, “healed me through one of the hardest things that I’ve ever had to experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender-based violence was the subject of a body of screen printed work Reidy Watts created in 2019 for an Oakland exhibition called \u003ca href=\"https://rootsartistregistry.com/eve.html?fbclid=IwAR3xkV1m9xl9D9R2ArBZQslbBYIBYtQaxOfRrnxyxRnZ0zaGPJr8I1K-0kE\">\u003cem>EvE: Empowerment vs. Exploitation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, presented by the arts nonprofit Tea Roots. She made pieces that addressed her Black foremothers’ trauma, and grappled with her mixed identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A piece called \u003ci>Ghost Ride the Wind\u003c/i> turned the focus to healing. In her artist statement, Reidy Watts wrote: “The image is one of safety. The mother is passing down the secrets of the wind to her children as they look up to their ancestors riding the wind in the sky. It is these moments of beauty … that we feel safe enough to heal from the trauma in our blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Reidy Watts worked as a screen printing instructor at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Two years later, she got a job at Clayroom SF as a technician, and became an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clayroomsf/p/CvtHAVlLpS7/?img_index=1\">artist in residence\u003c/a> in 2023. She spent her residency building out a world of amoeba-like ceramic organisms inspired by her love of nature. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cicada.ceramics/?hl=en\">Jonah Nuñez\u003c/a>, the studio manager at the time, says it became clear she was going through difficulties when she missed sessions, but she was determined to push through and complete her exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I vividly remember her emotions after the show and how proud she was,” he says. “She kept saying that this is only the start. She immediately applied to other residencies. … It was really cool to see how empowered she felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of friends laugh together. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts’ loved ones remember her magnetic personality. \u003ccite>(Gaia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reidy Watts’ untimely death has left her many communities devastated. It’s also forced conversations about how to address domestic violence within them. Reidy Watts had previously accused Frieson of abuse and sexual assault, according to police. He has a prior conviction for causing serious bodily injury during a battery, and is a registered sex offender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reidy Watts’ poetry mentor Teodoro and others say there needs to be a cultural shift of men holding other men accountable. “There’s so much in our culture that normalizes violence against women and violence in general,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men in their own circles need to tell their friends to stop doing what they’re doing,” says Yousfi. “Their friends, their brothers, their cousins. Because that’s how you get across to someone, when someone who looks and thinks like them is being like, ‘Yo, this is wrong.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to holding the vigil at Alan Blueford Center on March 31, Jada Imani is rallying Reidy Watts’ friends and supporters to show up to Frieson’s plea hearing at 9 a.m. on April 10 at Oakland’s Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, wearing T-shirts and buttons with her image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though highly critical of the criminal justice system and carceral punishment, Imani says it feels like the only choice here. “This world is unfortunately extremely unimaginative and built on violence,” she says. “And I hate to participate in that with this call for a life sentence. However, I feel I have no other choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A celebration of life for Zoe Reidy Watts takes place at the Alan Blueford Center for Justice (2434 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) on March 31, 3–6 p.m. There will be an altar, story circle, dancing and more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The beloved poet, ceramicist and multihyphenate artist was killed March 1 in an alleged domestic violence incident. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712689042,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1282},"headData":{"title":"Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist at the Start of Her Career | KQED","description":"The beloved poet, ceramicist and multihyphenate artist was killed March 1 in an alleged domestic violence incident. ","ogTitle":"Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist Who Embodied ‘Radical Love’","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist Who Embodied ‘Radical Love’","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist at the Start of Her Career %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Remembering Zoe Reidy Watts, an Artist Who Embodied ‘Radical Love’","datePublished":"2024-03-21T17:55:46.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-09T18:57:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13954520/remembering-zoe-reidy-watts-oakland-artist-poet","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>People close to Zoe Nika Reidy Watts remember her for her exuberant energy. At friends’ shows, she’d usually be in the front, cheering the loudest. In poetry workshops, she would volunteer to share first, making others feel comfortable with getting vulnerable, too. And in the ceramics studio, her warmth and enthusiasm left everyone in the room feeling at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The young artist’s death is deeply felt in the many creative communities she was a part of in Oakland and San Francisco. On March 1, the 25-year-old was \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/08/oakland-man-charged-with-beating-girlfriend-to-death/\">killed in an alleged domestic violence incident\u003c/a> in her boyfriend Victor Frieson III’s Oakland apartment. Frieson is currently being held without bail on murder charges in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people grieve alone. I can’t this time around because my friendship with Zoe was so marked and largely defined by our connection to community,” says musician and activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510\">Jada Imani\u003c/a>, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4dqWXNxprl/?img_index=5\">organizing a memorial event\u003c/a> for Reidy Watts at Oakland’s Alan Blueford Center for Justice on March 31. A similar gathering was held recently at Clayroom SF, where Reidy Watts was an artist in residence, and another is planned for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4wmHQsRlOU/?img_index=1\">March 21 at her alma mater\u003c/a>, San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1512px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629.jpeg 1512w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_7629-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts in 2023. \u003ccite>(Eric Peterson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imani describes her connection with Reidy Watts as “cosmic.” The two became close in high school. They shared the same birthday, and bonded over their mixed Black and white heritage and similar upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So basically we were twins,” Imani says. “We started just doing life together — making our vision boards together, making art together, visiting jams and cyphers and open mics and gatherings together. And healing, really getting into the generational trauma and challenges, and our role on planet Earth and the kind of people we wanted to be, the magic we wanted to conjure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reidy Watts’ artistic talents and drive were evident early on. As a teen, she joined Youth Speaks’ SPOKES Youth Advisory Board, and began performing at poetry slams. Poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jtlusong/\">Jean JT Teodoro\u003c/a> was the program coordinator at the time, and remembers her enthusiastic, vibrant presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She persevered through a lot of struggle [at home],” Teodoro says, “and she [was] also a role model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A young woman lays in the grass at Lake Merritt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_1891-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts. \u003ccite>(Sasha Tahergorabi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teodoro never forgot Reidy Watts’ performance at the 2017 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam, where her verses revealed a sharp analysis of class inequality that was well beyond her years. “She was talking about how people were being exploited [and] commodified, and how there are a wealthy few who are taking too much,” they add.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those days, Reidy Watts had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@crazygirlheartbreaka\">YouTube channel\u003c/a> where she’d upload videos of herself in her bedroom, reciting poems where she reflected on her personal growth and offered encouraging words for others. Over the years, her love of poetry expanded into rapping and hosting open mics.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vnPhi8HH-N8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vnPhi8HH-N8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“She was so unafraid to put her whole self into her art with no embarrassment, no shame,” says musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/1yciaa\">Lycia Yousfi\u003c/a>, another friend since high school. “You would look at it and be like, ‘I feel something from this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yousfi considered Reidy Watts to be an embodiment of what she calls “radical love.” She was “the first person who really pushed me to be positive and be happy despite the circumstances,” Yousfi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photographer and interdisciplinary artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gaia.te/\">Gaia\u003c/a> also had a spiritual connection with Reidy Watts. With another close friend, they formed a spiritual group called Bay Area Brujxs, where they came together to “learn about different types of Indigenous wisdom, altar building, poetry making, painting,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/48057411378_2f29dace91_o-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts (center) and friends model hoodies she designed. \u003ccite>(Gaia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her commitment to community was also evident in the way she supported her friends through challenging life circumstances, including abusive relationships and family problems. Her sisterhood, Gaia says, “healed me through one of the hardest things that I’ve ever had to experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender-based violence was the subject of a body of screen printed work Reidy Watts created in 2019 for an Oakland exhibition called \u003ca href=\"https://rootsartistregistry.com/eve.html?fbclid=IwAR3xkV1m9xl9D9R2ArBZQslbBYIBYtQaxOfRrnxyxRnZ0zaGPJr8I1K-0kE\">\u003cem>EvE: Empowerment vs. Exploitation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, presented by the arts nonprofit Tea Roots. She made pieces that addressed her Black foremothers’ trauma, and grappled with her mixed identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A piece called \u003ci>Ghost Ride the Wind\u003c/i> turned the focus to healing. In her artist statement, Reidy Watts wrote: “The image is one of safety. The mother is passing down the secrets of the wind to her children as they look up to their ancestors riding the wind in the sky. It is these moments of beauty … that we feel safe enough to heal from the trauma in our blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Reidy Watts worked as a screen printing instructor at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Two years later, she got a job at Clayroom SF as a technician, and became an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clayroomsf/p/CvtHAVlLpS7/?img_index=1\">artist in residence\u003c/a> in 2023. She spent her residency building out a world of amoeba-like ceramic organisms inspired by her love of nature. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cicada.ceramics/?hl=en\">Jonah Nuñez\u003c/a>, the studio manager at the time, says it became clear she was going through difficulties when she missed sessions, but she was determined to push through and complete her exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I vividly remember her emotions after the show and how proud she was,” he says. “She kept saying that this is only the start. She immediately applied to other residencies. … It was really cool to see how empowered she felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of friends laugh together. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/IMG_6756-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Reidy Watts’ loved ones remember her magnetic personality. \u003ccite>(Gaia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reidy Watts’ untimely death has left her many communities devastated. It’s also forced conversations about how to address domestic violence within them. Reidy Watts had previously accused Frieson of abuse and sexual assault, according to police. He has a prior conviction for causing serious bodily injury during a battery, and is a registered sex offender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reidy Watts’ poetry mentor Teodoro and others say there needs to be a cultural shift of men holding other men accountable. “There’s so much in our culture that normalizes violence against women and violence in general,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men in their own circles need to tell their friends to stop doing what they’re doing,” says Yousfi. “Their friends, their brothers, their cousins. Because that’s how you get across to someone, when someone who looks and thinks like them is being like, ‘Yo, this is wrong.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to holding the vigil at Alan Blueford Center on March 31, Jada Imani is rallying Reidy Watts’ friends and supporters to show up to Frieson’s plea hearing at 9 a.m. on April 10 at Oakland’s Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, wearing T-shirts and buttons with her image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though highly critical of the criminal justice system and carceral punishment, Imani says it feels like the only choice here. “This world is unfortunately extremely unimaginative and built on violence,” she says. “And I hate to participate in that with this call for a life sentence. However, I feel I have no other choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A celebration of life for Zoe Reidy Watts takes place at the Alan Blueford Center for Justice (2434 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) on March 31, 3–6 p.m. There will be an altar, story circle, dancing and more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954520/remembering-zoe-reidy-watts-oakland-artist-poet","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_1564"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_1143","arts_1091","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13954546","label":"arts"},"arts_13954236":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954236","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954236","score":null,"sort":[1710782337000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"photographer-david-johnson-obituary-san-francisco-black-culture","title":"Photographer David Johnson, Who Chronicled San Francisco’s Black Culture, Dies at 97","publishDate":1710782337,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Photographer David Johnson, Who Chronicled San Francisco’s Black Culture, Dies at 97 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>David Johnson generally wasn’t interested in people posing for his camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the photographer and civil rights activist put it in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Lcv7xyh-w\">2017 interview\u003c/a> at the University of California, Berkeley: “A big smiling photograph? That wasn’t my style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died at his home in Greenbrae, north of San Francisco, earlier this month. According to his stepdaughter, he was suffering from advanced dementia and had pneumonia. He was 97 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13950886']Johnson was the first Black student of the famous nature \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/10/07/141149616/retracing-the-steps-of-ansel-adams\">photographer Ansel Adams\u003c/a> and became known as one of the foremost chroniclers of San Francisco’s Black urban culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his most famous images, shot early in his career in 1946, Johnson depicts a street corner in San Francisco’s Fillmore District — once a hub for the city’s thriving Black community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957757/why-san-franciscos-fillmore-district-is-no-longer-the-harlem-of-the-west\">until redevelopment later in the century\u003c/a> forced nearly all of them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2016px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photograph of busy street corner with pedestrian, car and bus traffic\" width=\"2016\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954239\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg 2016w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-800x1016.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1020x1295.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-768x975.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1209x1536.jpg 1209w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1613x2048.jpg 1613w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1920x2438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Looking South on Fillmore, 1946,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The image has energetic angles and stark contrasts of light and shadow. And it’s shot from above. In the UC Berkeley interview, Johnson said he clambered up four stories on a nearby construction scaffold to get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I focused my camera and took one photograph,” Johnson said. “I was kind of anxious to get this little job over with and go back down to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A tough childhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson was born in 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida, to an impoverished single mother who handed her baby off to be raised by a cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201307251030/photographer-david-johnson-capturing-san-franciscos-black-community-in-the-1940s-and-50s\">2013 interview\u003c/a> with KQED, Johnson said he got his first camera by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just started snapping pictures around the neighborhood. And I got kind of fascinated with that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1758px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of older person sitting in front of framed photo of young person\" width=\"1758\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg 1758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-800x1165.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1020x1485.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-160x233.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-768x1118.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1055x1536.jpg 1055w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1407x2048.jpg 1407w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1920x2796.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Johnson in 2023 with one of his photographs, ‘Clarence,’ at an award luncheon at UC Berkeley honoring the photographer. \u003ccite>(Peg Skorpinski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson was drafted into the U.S. Navy right out of high school. He was stationed in San Francisco, where he fell in love with the city, and was then sent to the Philippines for the remainder of World War II. After returning, he wanted to develop his photography skills in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1946, and budding photographers were clamoring to get into the program that master lensman Adams had just launched at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (later known as the San Francisco Art Institute). Its star-studded faculty included Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco-bound\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson wanted in. So he sent Adams a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote to Ansel and said, ‘I’m interested in studying photography. I have the GI Bill. And I would like for you to evaluate my [application].’ Ansel wrote me back and said, ‘There are no vacancies in the class,’” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a student dropped out, making room for Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopped on a segregated train that took him from Jacksonville to San Francisco. After living in Adams’ house for a while, he eventually found a low-rent room in the Fillmore District and started taking lots of photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Signed black-and-white photograph of woman posing with children on a stage\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Eartha Kitt with Neighborhood Children, 1947,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>( The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of these images appeared decades later in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h2meDtdm8&t=186s\">KQED documentary\u003c/a> about the Fillmore’s status — and eventual demise — as one of the country’s most vibrant Black neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11957757']“He would go to the clubs in the evenings, take incredible photographs of musicians,” said Christine Hult-Lewis, the pictorial curator of special collections at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, which houses the \u003ca href=\"https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UCS_BER:UCB&search_scope=DN_and_CI&tab=Default_UCLibrarySearch&docid=alma991036750439706532\">David Johnson archive\u003c/a>. “He had very easy relationships with people in the barbershops and the folks in the churches and folks on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said his college instructors encouraged these pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, most of the photographs I have seen of Black people were just not very complimentary,” he told KQED. “I said, ‘My photographs will have Black people photographed in a dignified manner.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Documenting street life, famous figures and civil rights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hult-Lewis said that as a freelance press photographer, Johnson took candid photos of Black celebrities who came to town, such as Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of a man signing a book held by another person\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2197\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-800x687.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1020x876.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-768x659.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1536x1318.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-2048x1758.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1920x1648.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nat King Cole at Fairmont Hotel, 1949,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he used his camera to spark conversations about civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one really iconic photograph of a woman listening to a speech and she’s got kind of a dubious look on her face, but in her glasses are reflected the American flag,” Hult-Lewis said. “There’s another incredible photograph of a young African American boy sitting, holding an American flag in the embrace of a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also often participated in direct political action. He attended the 1963 March on Washington, and organized the first Black caucus at the University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1896px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of American flag reflected in woman's glasses in a crowd\" width=\"1896\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg 1896w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1020x1377.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-768x1037.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1137x1536.jpg 1137w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1516x2048.jpg 1516w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1920x2593.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1896px) 100vw, 1896px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Reflections in Glasses, 1963,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>( The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was part of a group that successfully sued the San Francisco Unified School District to compel them to more fully desegregate the schools,” Hult-Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson never became a big name like his teacher Adams. By the 1980s he’d stopped taking photos altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interest in Johnson’s work has grown in recent years, as cities across the country grapple with the negative impacts that urban redevelopment can have. His work is in the collection of major institutions, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_S._Johnson/\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\u003c/a>, and was the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/david-johnson-zone-1945-1965\">solo exhibition\u003c/a> at San Francisco City Hall in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The photographs tell life, life as it was then, life that cannot be duplicated or recreated in today,” Johnson’s wife, Jacqueline Sue, told KQED in 2013. “It’s a marker of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Johnson’s candid photographs captured daily life and historic moments, including the 1963 March on Washington. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710782439,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1070},"headData":{"title":"David Johnson, Photographer of Black Culture, Dies at 97 | KQED","description":"Johnson’s candid photographs captured daily life and historic moments, including the 1963 March on Washington. ","ogTitle":"Photographer David Johnson, Who Chronicled San Francisco’s Black Culture, Dies at 97","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Photographer David Johnson, Who Chronicled San Francisco’s Black Culture, Dies at 97","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"David Johnson, Photographer of Black Culture, Dies at 97 %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Photographer David Johnson, Who Chronicled San Francisco’s Black Culture, Dies at 97","datePublished":"2024-03-18T17:18:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-18T17:20:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"WpOldSlug":"photographer-david-johnson-who-chronicled-san-franciscos-black-culture-dies-at-97","nprByline":"Chloe Veltman","nprImageAgency":"Peg Skorpinski","nprStoryId":"1239005042","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1239005042&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/1239005042/photographer-david-johnson-san-francisco-black-culture-dead?ft=nprml&f=1239005042","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:44 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:44 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13954236/photographer-david-johnson-obituary-san-francisco-black-culture","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>David Johnson generally wasn’t interested in people posing for his camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the photographer and civil rights activist put it in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Lcv7xyh-w\">2017 interview\u003c/a> at the University of California, Berkeley: “A big smiling photograph? That wasn’t my style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died at his home in Greenbrae, north of San Francisco, earlier this month. According to his stepdaughter, he was suffering from advanced dementia and had pneumonia. He was 97 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13950886","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Johnson was the first Black student of the famous nature \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/10/07/141149616/retracing-the-steps-of-ansel-adams\">photographer Ansel Adams\u003c/a> and became known as one of the foremost chroniclers of San Francisco’s Black urban culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his most famous images, shot early in his career in 1946, Johnson depicts a street corner in San Francisco’s Fillmore District — once a hub for the city’s thriving Black community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957757/why-san-franciscos-fillmore-district-is-no-longer-the-harlem-of-the-west\">until redevelopment later in the century\u003c/a> forced nearly all of them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2016px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photograph of busy street corner with pedestrian, car and bus traffic\" width=\"2016\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954239\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg 2016w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-800x1016.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1020x1295.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-768x975.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1209x1536.jpg 1209w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1613x2048.jpg 1613w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1920x2438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Looking South on Fillmore, 1946,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The image has energetic angles and stark contrasts of light and shadow. And it’s shot from above. In the UC Berkeley interview, Johnson said he clambered up four stories on a nearby construction scaffold to get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I focused my camera and took one photograph,” Johnson said. “I was kind of anxious to get this little job over with and go back down to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A tough childhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson was born in 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida, to an impoverished single mother who handed her baby off to be raised by a cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201307251030/photographer-david-johnson-capturing-san-franciscos-black-community-in-the-1940s-and-50s\">2013 interview\u003c/a> with KQED, Johnson said he got his first camera by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just started snapping pictures around the neighborhood. And I got kind of fascinated with that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1758px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of older person sitting in front of framed photo of young person\" width=\"1758\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg 1758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-800x1165.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1020x1485.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-160x233.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-768x1118.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1055x1536.jpg 1055w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1407x2048.jpg 1407w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1920x2796.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Johnson in 2023 with one of his photographs, ‘Clarence,’ at an award luncheon at UC Berkeley honoring the photographer. \u003ccite>(Peg Skorpinski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson was drafted into the U.S. Navy right out of high school. He was stationed in San Francisco, where he fell in love with the city, and was then sent to the Philippines for the remainder of World War II. After returning, he wanted to develop his photography skills in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1946, and budding photographers were clamoring to get into the program that master lensman Adams had just launched at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (later known as the San Francisco Art Institute). Its star-studded faculty included Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco-bound\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson wanted in. So he sent Adams a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote to Ansel and said, ‘I’m interested in studying photography. I have the GI Bill. And I would like for you to evaluate my [application].’ Ansel wrote me back and said, ‘There are no vacancies in the class,’” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a student dropped out, making room for Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopped on a segregated train that took him from Jacksonville to San Francisco. After living in Adams’ house for a while, he eventually found a low-rent room in the Fillmore District and started taking lots of photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Signed black-and-white photograph of woman posing with children on a stage\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Eartha Kitt with Neighborhood Children, 1947,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>( The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of these images appeared decades later in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h2meDtdm8&t=186s\">KQED documentary\u003c/a> about the Fillmore’s status — and eventual demise — as one of the country’s most vibrant Black neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11957757","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He would go to the clubs in the evenings, take incredible photographs of musicians,” said Christine Hult-Lewis, the pictorial curator of special collections at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, which houses the \u003ca href=\"https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UCS_BER:UCB&search_scope=DN_and_CI&tab=Default_UCLibrarySearch&docid=alma991036750439706532\">David Johnson archive\u003c/a>. “He had very easy relationships with people in the barbershops and the folks in the churches and folks on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said his college instructors encouraged these pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, most of the photographs I have seen of Black people were just not very complimentary,” he told KQED. “I said, ‘My photographs will have Black people photographed in a dignified manner.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Documenting street life, famous figures and civil rights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hult-Lewis said that as a freelance press photographer, Johnson took candid photos of Black celebrities who came to town, such as Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of a man signing a book held by another person\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2197\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-800x687.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1020x876.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-768x659.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1536x1318.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-2048x1758.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1920x1648.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nat King Cole at Fairmont Hotel, 1949,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he used his camera to spark conversations about civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one really iconic photograph of a woman listening to a speech and she’s got kind of a dubious look on her face, but in her glasses are reflected the American flag,” Hult-Lewis said. “There’s another incredible photograph of a young African American boy sitting, holding an American flag in the embrace of a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also often participated in direct political action. He attended the 1963 March on Washington, and organized the first Black caucus at the University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1896px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of American flag reflected in woman's glasses in a crowd\" width=\"1896\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg 1896w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1020x1377.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-768x1037.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1137x1536.jpg 1137w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1516x2048.jpg 1516w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1920x2593.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1896px) 100vw, 1896px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Reflections in Glasses, 1963,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>( The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was part of a group that successfully sued the San Francisco Unified School District to compel them to more fully desegregate the schools,” Hult-Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson never became a big name like his teacher Adams. By the 1980s he’d stopped taking photos altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interest in Johnson’s work has grown in recent years, as cities across the country grapple with the negative impacts that urban redevelopment can have. His work is in the collection of major institutions, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_S._Johnson/\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\u003c/a>, and was the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/david-johnson-zone-1945-1965\">solo exhibition\u003c/a> at San Francisco City Hall in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The photographs tell life, life as it was then, life that cannot be duplicated or recreated in today,” Johnson’s wife, Jacqueline Sue, told KQED in 2013. “It’s a marker of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954236/photographer-david-johnson-obituary-san-francisco-black-culture","authors":["byline_arts_13954236"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_1564","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1091","arts_822","arts_1146","arts_2996"],"featImg":"arts_13954238","label":"arts"},"arts_13953995":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13953995","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13953995","score":null,"sort":[1710355425000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jess-curtis-choreographer-accessibility-champion-dance-obituary","title":"Jess Curtis, Choreographer and Accessibility Champion, Has Died","publishDate":1710355425,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Jess Curtis, Choreographer and Accessibility Champion, Has Died | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921238\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Jess Curtis, a white man with short white hair and a black T-shirt, looks into the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Jess-Curtis-photo-by-Sven-Hagolani-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jess Curtis championed accessibility in the performing arts for blind and visually impaired people. \u003ccite>(Sven Hagolani)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dancer and choreographer Jess Curtis, a champion of accessibility in the performing arts, has died, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ceCmKx3m7/?hl=en\">an announcement\u003c/a> on Instagram from his sister Jenene, close collaborator Keith Hennessy and several others. On Instagram, Hennessy posted that Curtis collapsed from an apparent heart issue during a bike ride in San Francisco on March 11 and passed away unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jess’ community of friends and peers is deep and wide,” the statement reads. “The positive impact of his creative work will be felt for years. Earlier that same day Jess expressed gratitude for the wonderful life and network of friends he was enjoying. We are all in shock and deep grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis had been a major figure in dance for decades. In 2000, he founded the company Gravity, which has brought critically acclaimed performances to 60 cities and 13 countries, and became a crucial platform for the art form in San Francisco and Berlin. In 2017, Curtis launched Gravity Access Services, a leader in accessibility for the performing arts, especially for blind and visually impaired audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been really interested in finding ways that allow people to experience dance-based performance not just by looking at it,” Curtis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13812697/dances-you-dont-have-to-see-to-appreciate\">told KQED that year\u003c/a>, “but by feeling it whooshing past you, and hearing the performers, describing what’s happening, in poetic ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Watch:\u003c/strong> Jess Curtis \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/spark/jess-curtis/\">explains his creative process\u003c/a> in a 2015 episode of KQED’s ‘Spark*.’]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gravity Access Services’ offerings include live, creative audio descriptions of what takes place on stage, haptic tours that invite blind and visually impaired people to feel a performance space before the show, and consulting on accessibility in show logistics and marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gravity was really my main entrance into dance because a lot of dancers or disabled people aren’t welcome in traditional training [spaces],” dancer and Gravity Access Services consultant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921184/jess-curtis-gravity-dance-accessibility-disability-justice\">Tiffany Taylor told KQED in 2022\u003c/a>. “Jess turned the table and said, ‘You are welcome on this stage.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, in November 2023, Gravity’s performance \u003cem>Into the Dark\u003c/em> at CounterPulse invited audiences into a nearly dark space where narration and occasional, sparse light conveyed a dance performance that \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> critic Rachel Howard described as both “profoundly discomforting” and “surprisingly life-affirming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Keith Hennessy’s Instagram post, dancers and friends responded with an outpouring of love for Curtis as an artist, mentor and friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to express gratitude for his immense support of my practice and many others. It would be no exaggeration to say that he helped me be the person I am today,” wrote artist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m at a loss. Jess was such an amazing performer, choreographer and leader. So vibrant and full of life on his bicycle, brilliant in the studio, and a delightful, marvelously aware presence to chop it up with,” wrote Ted Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for a memorial will be announced.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The visionary artist pushed boundaries to make dance accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences. 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On Instagram, Hennessy posted that Curtis collapsed from an apparent heart issue during a bike ride in San Francisco on March 11 and passed away unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jess’ community of friends and peers is deep and wide,” the statement reads. “The positive impact of his creative work will be felt for years. Earlier that same day Jess expressed gratitude for the wonderful life and network of friends he was enjoying. We are all in shock and deep grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis had been a major figure in dance for decades. In 2000, he founded the company Gravity, which has brought critically acclaimed performances to 60 cities and 13 countries, and became a crucial platform for the art form in San Francisco and Berlin. In 2017, Curtis launched Gravity Access Services, a leader in accessibility for the performing arts, especially for blind and visually impaired audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been really interested in finding ways that allow people to experience dance-based performance not just by looking at it,” Curtis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13812697/dances-you-dont-have-to-see-to-appreciate\">told KQED that year\u003c/a>, “but by feeling it whooshing past you, and hearing the performers, describing what’s happening, in poetic ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Watch:\u003c/strong> Jess Curtis \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/spark/jess-curtis/\">explains his creative process\u003c/a> in a 2015 episode of KQED’s ‘Spark*.’]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gravity Access Services’ offerings include live, creative audio descriptions of what takes place on stage, haptic tours that invite blind and visually impaired people to feel a performance space before the show, and consulting on accessibility in show logistics and marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gravity was really my main entrance into dance because a lot of dancers or disabled people aren’t welcome in traditional training [spaces],” dancer and Gravity Access Services consultant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921184/jess-curtis-gravity-dance-accessibility-disability-justice\">Tiffany Taylor told KQED in 2022\u003c/a>. “Jess turned the table and said, ‘You are welcome on this stage.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, in November 2023, Gravity’s performance \u003cem>Into the Dark\u003c/em> at CounterPulse invited audiences into a nearly dark space where narration and occasional, sparse light conveyed a dance performance that \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> critic Rachel Howard described as both “profoundly discomforting” and “surprisingly life-affirming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Keith Hennessy’s Instagram post, dancers and friends responded with an outpouring of love for Curtis as an artist, mentor and friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to express gratitude for his immense support of my practice and many others. It would be no exaggeration to say that he helped me be the person I am today,” wrote artist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m at a loss. Jess was such an amazing performer, choreographer and leader. So vibrant and full of life on his bicycle, brilliant in the studio, and a delightful, marvelously aware presence to chop it up with,” wrote Ted Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for a memorial will be announced.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13953995/jess-curtis-choreographer-accessibility-champion-dance-obituary","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_1564"],"tags":["arts_879","arts_9693","arts_10342","arts_10278"],"featImg":"arts_13954027","label":"arts"},"arts_13951264":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13951264","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13951264","score":null,"sort":[1706653939000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chita-rivera-broadways-first-great-triple-threat-dies-at-91","title":"Chita Rivera, Broadway’s ‘First Great Triple Threat,’ Dies at 91","publishDate":1706653939,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Chita Rivera, Broadway’s ‘First Great Triple Threat,’ Dies at 91 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2046px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman sits for a photographic portrait.\" width=\"2046\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-scaled.jpg 2046w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-768x961.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1228x1536.jpg 1228w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1637x2048.jpg 1637w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1920x2402.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2046px) 100vw, 2046px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera in May 1977. \u003ccite>(Evening Standard/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chita Rivera, who appeared in more than 20 Broadway musicals over six decades has died, according to her daughter, Lisa Mordente. The three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend created indelible roles — Anita in \u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em>, Rose in \u003cem>Bye Bye Birdie\u003c/em>, Velma Kelly in \u003cem>Chicago\u003c/em>, and Aurora in \u003cem>Kiss of the Spiderwoman\u003c/em>. She was 91.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera “was everything Broadway was meant to be,” says Laurence Maslon, co-producer of the 2004 PBS series, \u003cem>Broadway: The American Musical\u003c/em>. “She was spontaneous and compelling and talented as hell for decades and decades on Broadway. Once you saw her, you never forgot her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9_fi5ZmqyU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might think Chita Rivera was a Broadway baby from childhood — but she wasn’t. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero in Washington, D.C., she \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/IPZBX8SiySA?si=ELIWcuAvLBe7puIV&t=448\">told an audience\u003c/a> at a Screen Actors Guild Foundation interview that she was a tomboy and drove her mother crazy: “She said, ‘I’m putting you in ballet class so that we can rein in some of that energy.’ So I am very grateful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera took to ballet so completely that she got a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in New York. But when she went with a friend to an audition for the tour of the Broadway show \u003cem>Call Me Madam\u003c/em>, Rivera got the job. Goodbye ballet, hello Broadway. In 1957, she landed her breakout role, Anita in \u003cem>West Side Story, \u003c/em>with a score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing ‘America’ was just mind-boggling, with that rhythm,” Rivera \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14744266\">told NPR \u003c/a>in 2007 for the musical’s 50th anniversary. “I just couldn’t wait to do it. It was such a challenge. And, being Latin, you know, it was a welcoming sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-800x780.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-1020x995.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-160x156.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-768x749.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera, center, works with choreographer Jerome Robbins, second from left, and her fellow ‘West Side Story’ cast members in a rehearsal on July 22, 1957. \u003ccite>(AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em> allowed Rivera to reveal not only her athletic dancing chops, but her acting and singing chops. She recalls Leonard Bernstein teaching her the score himself: “I remember sitting next to Lenny and his starting with ‘A Boy Like That,’ teaching it to me and me saying, ‘I’ll never do this, I can’t hit those notes, I don’t know how to hit those notes.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she did hit them, and being able to sing, act and dance made her a valuable Broadway commodity, said Maslon. “She was the first great triple threat. Broadway directors like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse saw the need to have performers who could do all three things and do them really well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, from 1960 to 2013, she headlined some big hits — as well as some major flops. In 1986, Rivera was in a serious taxi accident. Her left leg was shattered, and the doctors said she’d never dance again, but she did — just differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951271\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM.png\" alt=\"A young woman and an older woman stand on stage, arms outstretched towards one another.\" width=\"1298\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-768x509.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera, right, and Michelle Veintimilla perform at the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2015 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/ Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all have to be realistic,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5048067\">told NPR\u003c/a> in 2005. “I don’t do flying splits anymore. I don’t do back flips and all the stuff that I used to do. You want to know something? I don’t want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her stardom never diminished. And the accolades flowed: she won several Tony Awards, including one for lifetime achievement, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=871162\">Kennedy Center honor\u003c/a>, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rivera didn’t do much television or film — she was completely devoted to the stage, says Maslon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why they’re called Broadway legends,” he says. “Hopefully you get to see them live because you’ll never get to see them in another form in quite the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from former president Barack Obama during a ceremony at the White House on Aug. 12, 2009. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Chita+Rivera%2C+Broadway%27s+%27First+Great+Triple+Threat%2C%27+dies+at+91&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Tony Award-winning Broadway legend created indelible roles, including Anita in ‘West Side Story’ and Velma Kelly in Chicago.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1706653939,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":737},"headData":{"title":"Chita Rivera, Broadway’s ‘First Great Triple Threat,’ Dies at 91 | KQED","description":"The Tony Award-winning Broadway legend created indelible roles, including Anita in ‘West Side Story’ and Velma Kelly in Chicago.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Chita Rivera, Broadway’s ‘First Great Triple Threat,’ Dies at 91","datePublished":"2024-01-30T22:32:19.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-30T22:32:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Evening Standard","nprByline":"Jeff Lunden","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"975467882","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=975467882&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/975467882/chita-rivera-dead?ft=nprml&f=975467882","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:09:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:04:36 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:22:55 -0500","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13951264/chita-rivera-broadways-first-great-triple-threat-dies-at-91","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2046px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman sits for a photographic portrait.\" width=\"2046\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-scaled.jpg 2046w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-768x961.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1228x1536.jpg 1228w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1637x2048.jpg 1637w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gettyimages-3318072_enl-3b553c8e9e94b4f8a48c717d3b03be854617faea-1920x2402.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2046px) 100vw, 2046px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera in May 1977. \u003ccite>(Evening Standard/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chita Rivera, who appeared in more than 20 Broadway musicals over six decades has died, according to her daughter, Lisa Mordente. The three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend created indelible roles — Anita in \u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em>, Rose in \u003cem>Bye Bye Birdie\u003c/em>, Velma Kelly in \u003cem>Chicago\u003c/em>, and Aurora in \u003cem>Kiss of the Spiderwoman\u003c/em>. She was 91.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera “was everything Broadway was meant to be,” says Laurence Maslon, co-producer of the 2004 PBS series, \u003cem>Broadway: The American Musical\u003c/em>. “She was spontaneous and compelling and talented as hell for decades and decades on Broadway. Once you saw her, you never forgot her.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/g9_fi5ZmqyU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/g9_fi5ZmqyU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>You might think Chita Rivera was a Broadway baby from childhood — but she wasn’t. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero in Washington, D.C., she \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/IPZBX8SiySA?si=ELIWcuAvLBe7puIV&t=448\">told an audience\u003c/a> at a Screen Actors Guild Foundation interview that she was a tomboy and drove her mother crazy: “She said, ‘I’m putting you in ballet class so that we can rein in some of that energy.’ So I am very grateful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera took to ballet so completely that she got a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in New York. But when she went with a friend to an audition for the tour of the Broadway show \u003cem>Call Me Madam\u003c/em>, Rivera got the job. Goodbye ballet, hello Broadway. In 1957, she landed her breakout role, Anita in \u003cem>West Side Story, \u003c/em>with a score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing ‘America’ was just mind-boggling, with that rhythm,” Rivera \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14744266\">told NPR \u003c/a>in 2007 for the musical’s 50th anniversary. “I just couldn’t wait to do it. It was such a challenge. And, being Latin, you know, it was a welcoming sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-800x780.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-1020x995.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-160x156.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.24.19-PM-768x749.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera, center, works with choreographer Jerome Robbins, second from left, and her fellow ‘West Side Story’ cast members in a rehearsal on July 22, 1957. \u003ccite>(AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em> allowed Rivera to reveal not only her athletic dancing chops, but her acting and singing chops. She recalls Leonard Bernstein teaching her the score himself: “I remember sitting next to Lenny and his starting with ‘A Boy Like That,’ teaching it to me and me saying, ‘I’ll never do this, I can’t hit those notes, I don’t know how to hit those notes.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she did hit them, and being able to sing, act and dance made her a valuable Broadway commodity, said Maslon. “She was the first great triple threat. Broadway directors like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse saw the need to have performers who could do all three things and do them really well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, from 1960 to 2013, she headlined some big hits — as well as some major flops. In 1986, Rivera was in a serious taxi accident. Her left leg was shattered, and the doctors said she’d never dance again, but she did — just differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951271\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM.png\" alt=\"A young woman and an older woman stand on stage, arms outstretched towards one another.\" width=\"1298\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.25.58-PM-768x509.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera, right, and Michelle Veintimilla perform at the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2015 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/ Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all have to be realistic,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5048067\">told NPR\u003c/a> in 2005. “I don’t do flying splits anymore. I don’t do back flips and all the stuff that I used to do. You want to know something? I don’t want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her stardom never diminished. And the accolades flowed: she won several Tony Awards, including one for lifetime achievement, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=871162\">Kennedy Center honor\u003c/a>, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rivera didn’t do much television or film — she was completely devoted to the stage, says Maslon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why they’re called Broadway legends,” he says. “Hopefully you get to see them live because you’ll never get to see them in another form in quite the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-30-at-2.28.09-PM-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chita Rivera receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from former president Barack Obama during a ceremony at the White House on Aug. 12, 2009. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Chita+Rivera%2C+Broadway%27s+%27First+Great+Triple+Threat%2C%27+dies+at+91&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13951264/chita-rivera-broadways-first-great-triple-threat-dies-at-91","authors":["byline_arts_13951264"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_1564","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_2347","arts_13825"],"featImg":"arts_13951273","label":"arts"},"arts_13950548":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13950548","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13950548","score":null,"sort":[1705601175000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dejan-milojevic-the-golden-state-warriors-assistant-coach-has-died-at-46","title":"Dejan Milojević, the Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach, Has Died at 46","publishDate":1705601175,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Dejan Milojević, the Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach, Has Died at 46 | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Dejan Milojević, an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors, died unexpectedly from a heart attack on Wednesday. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team said Wednesday morning Milojević had been hospitalized the night before during a team dinner in Salt Lake City. About an hour after the team’s announcement, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WarriorsPR/status/1747649384089808930\">the NBA postponed\u003c/a> the Warriors’ Wednesday night game against the Utah Jazz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 3:30 p.m., the team announced Milojević’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are absolutely devastated by Dejan’s sudden passing,” head coach Steve Kerr said. “This is a shocking tragic blow for everyone associated with the Warriors and an incredibly difficult time for his family, friends, and all of us who had the incredible pleasure to work with him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr added, “In addition to being a terrific basketball coach, Dejan was one of the most positive and beautiful human beings I have ever known, someone who brought joy and light to every single day with his passion and energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milojević is survived by his wife, Natasa, and his children, Nikola and Masa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milojević, a native of Belgrade, Serbia, was in his third season as the assistant coach with the Warriors. Before that, he spent one season as the head coach of the Budućnost team in the Adriatic Basketball Association league in Montenegro. He additionally was the head coach for the Mega Basket team, in Belgrade for eight years, and participated in summer leagues for the Atlanta Hawks, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The NBA mourns the sudden passing of Golden State assistant coach Dejan Milojević, a beloved colleague and dear friend to so many in the global basketball community,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to his coaching career, Milojević played professional basketball for 14 seasons internationally, and was named the most valuable player of the Adriatic league three times in a row, from 2004 to 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ABA Liga family is deeply saddened by the too-early passing of Dejan Milojević, we express our deepest condolences to his loved ones,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aba-liga.com/news/50286/the-aba-league-family-mourns-the-loss-of-dejan-milojevic/\">the Adriatic league said.\u003c/a> “Dejan was a player, coach, and most importantly a great man, he gave us many legendary memories both on and off the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ABA league said it would hold a minute of silence for Milojević in several of its games, while the Los Angeles Lakers \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8kd7MSWDmWA?si=82DMlnbp6SiPOBfB\">held a minute of silence\u003c/a> for Milojević in its Wednesday night game against the Dallas Mavericks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Dejan+Milojevi%C4%87%2C+the+Golden+State+Warriors+assistant+coach%2C+has+died+at+46&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Milojević was in his third season with the Warriors. He won three MVPs in the Adriatic Basketball Association as a player.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705601175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":438},"headData":{"title":"Dejan Milojević, the Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach, Has Died at 46 | KQED","description":"Milojević was in his third season with the Warriors. 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