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She was one of approximately six million Black people who moved out of the American South to Western, Northern and Midwestern states in the era known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/migrations/great-migration\">the Great Migration\u003c/a>. My grandfather, a physician who had limited opportunities in the Jim Crow South, moved the family to Porterville, California in the Central Valley. They lived in Palo Alto for five or so years before ultimately settling in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those facts of my family’s migration story were front of mind as I walked through the new exhibition \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/program/movement-every-direction-legacies-great-migration\">\u003ci>A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, on view at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive through Sept. 22, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translating this epic American story of the Great Migration, which has so many facets and truths (and warranted \u003ca href=\"http://warmth.isabelwilkerson.com/\">622 pages from scholar Isabel Wilkerson\u003c/a>), into a walkable, visual experience is a feat. \u003ci>A Movement in Every Direction\u003c/i>, which was co-organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art and features 12 artists, beautifully showcases how this is a shared history for millions, with very intricate, individual stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13955970 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-800x288.jpg\" alt=\"Charcoal drawing depicting various Black people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-800x288.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-1020x367.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-160x58.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-768x276.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-1536x552.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-2048x736.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-1920x690.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Pruitt, ‘A Song for Travelers,’ 2022; Charcoal, conté, and pastel on paper, mounted onto four aluminum panels. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Adam Reich)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Pruitt’s large-scale charcoal drawing \u003ci>A Song for Travelers\u003c/i> (2022) feels emblematic of that intricacy — both in the craft of the piece and the story it tells. Pruitt draws inspiration from his personal archive (a family reunion photo from the 1970s) and the historical archive of his hometown Houston to depict a community of past and present-day figures offering gifts to a traveler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer you look at this piece, the more detail is revealed. Noticing each gift elicits the bright-eyed feel of answering the question “Where’s Waldo?” It’s a feast for the eyes and the spirit, as one can imagine sitting in the traveler’s seat, receiving the support of the ancestors and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13955972 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Two woven textiles hang on a white wall\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akea Brionne, ‘School Children’ (left) and ‘Porch Sittin’ (right) from the series ‘An Ode To (You)’all,’ 2022; Jacquard tapestry, poly-fil, rhinestones. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist; Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The intricacy of stories is also evident in the detailed stitching of Akea Brionne’s tapestries for her installation \u003ci>An Ode to (You)’all\u003c/i> (2022), which reflects on Black maternal family structures through the lives of her great-grandmother and great-aunts. The textiles are eye-catching. By transforming old family photographs into jacquard weavings, which she bedazzles with sparkly embellishments, Akea Brionne honors the women who helped her family move north from Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some artists, like Torkwase Dyson, take a more abstract approach to the topic. Dyson, who researched plantation economies and Black liberation theory for her piece \u003ci>Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches)\u003c/i> (2022), says the abstract sculpture reflects how Black people “bend space to have life” throughout history. Dyson’s trapezoidal shapes, made of smoky glass, steel and aluminum, indeed invoke a number of musings about space, place and time; I was reminded of sci-fi-like portals to other locations or dimensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13955974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"Trapezoidal figures connected by bent metal bars displayed in the corner of a musuem.\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-768x428.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-1536x855.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-2048x1140.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-1920x1069.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torkwase Dyson, ‘Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches),’ 2022; Painted steel, glass, painted aluminum, dry-erase marker. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery; Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The exhibition is anchored by some big names (that were, admittedly, the first to catch my eye when the exhibition was announced). Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates and Mark Bradford all contribute powerful new works. I never miss an opportunity to see Bradford’s work and his mural-sized installation – which duplicates a 1913 “WANTED” ad inviting Black families to join a Jim Crow-free settlement in New Mexico – doesn’t disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weems’s video installation, titled \u003ci>Leave! Leave Now!\u003c/i> (2022), is simultaneously haunting and gorgeous. In it, Weems narrates what she knows of her grandfather’s journey to Chicago after he was presumed dead following an attack by a white mob in 1936. She also asks questions about the things she doesn’t know: “What was those early years like for you? When did you become a union organizer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13955971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white digital image floats in front of a slightly open red curtain\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Mae Weems, ‘Leave! Leave Now!,’ 2022; Single-channel digital video (color, sound) installation with mixed media, 25 min. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leaving the exhibition, I too felt moved to ask more questions about my family’s migration story. I called my mother, realizing I’d never heard the specific reason they landed in Porterville first. “My father got a resident physician job at Porterville State Hospital [now Porterville Developmental Center] and the job came with a house,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I won’t be surprised if other Black Californians are prompted to reflect on how and when their family members first arrived in the state after experiencing \u003ci>A Movement in Every Direction\u003c/i>. In fact, they’re invited to, via an interactive component where visitors can record memories about their family’s migration story to join a growing archive. (The program notes that more than 300,000 Black people arrived in the Bay Area during the Great Migration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For everyone who visits, the show and archive are a reminder of how strong the Black American spirit is — and how it continuously strives, in both life and in art.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration’ is on view through Sept. 22, 2024 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2155 Center St.). \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/program/movement-every-direction-legacies-great-migration\">Find more details and information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"‘A Movement in Every Direction’ presents intricate, individual family stories in work by 12 artists.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713462723,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1024},"headData":{"title":"BAMPFA Show Tells Stories of the Great Migration Through Art | KQED","description":"‘A Movement in Every Direction’ presents intricate, individual family stories in work by 12 artists.","ogTitle":"BAMPFA’s Great Migration Show Brings Nuance to a History Shared by Millions","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"BAMPFA’s Great Migration Show Brings Nuance to a History Shared by Millions","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"BAMPFA Show Tells Stories of the Great Migration Through Art %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"BAMPFA’s Great Migration Show Brings Nuance to a History Shared by Millions","datePublished":"2024-04-15T20:19:50.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-18T17:52:03.000Z","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/13955969/a-movement-in-every-direction-bampfa-the-great-migration-review","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>My mother was six years old when her family migrated west from Tallahassee, Florida in 1954. She was one of approximately six million Black people who moved out of the American South to Western, Northern and Midwestern states in the era known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/migrations/great-migration\">the Great Migration\u003c/a>. My grandfather, a physician who had limited opportunities in the Jim Crow South, moved the family to Porterville, California in the Central Valley. They lived in Palo Alto for five or so years before ultimately settling in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those facts of my family’s migration story were front of mind as I walked through the new exhibition \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/program/movement-every-direction-legacies-great-migration\">\u003ci>A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, on view at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive through Sept. 22, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translating this epic American story of the Great Migration, which has so many facets and truths (and warranted \u003ca href=\"http://warmth.isabelwilkerson.com/\">622 pages from scholar Isabel Wilkerson\u003c/a>), into a walkable, visual experience is a feat. \u003ci>A Movement in Every Direction\u003c/i>, which was co-organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art and features 12 artists, beautifully showcases how this is a shared history for millions, with very intricate, individual stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13955970 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-800x288.jpg\" alt=\"Charcoal drawing depicting various Black people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-800x288.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-1020x367.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-160x58.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-768x276.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-1536x552.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-2048x736.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/A-Song-for-Travelers-final-1920x690.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Pruitt, ‘A Song for Travelers,’ 2022; Charcoal, conté, and pastel on paper, mounted onto four aluminum panels. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Adam Reich)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Pruitt’s large-scale charcoal drawing \u003ci>A Song for Travelers\u003c/i> (2022) feels emblematic of that intricacy — both in the craft of the piece and the story it tells. Pruitt draws inspiration from his personal archive (a family reunion photo from the 1970s) and the historical archive of his hometown Houston to depict a community of past and present-day figures offering gifts to a traveler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer you look at this piece, the more detail is revealed. Noticing each gift elicits the bright-eyed feel of answering the question “Where’s Waldo?” It’s a feast for the eyes and the spirit, as one can imagine sitting in the traveler’s seat, receiving the support of the ancestors and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13955972 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Two woven textiles hang on a white wall\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_Great_Migration_207_o3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akea Brionne, ‘School Children’ (left) and ‘Porch Sittin’ (right) from the series ‘An Ode To (You)’all,’ 2022; Jacquard tapestry, poly-fil, rhinestones. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist; Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The intricacy of stories is also evident in the detailed stitching of Akea Brionne’s tapestries for her installation \u003ci>An Ode to (You)’all\u003c/i> (2022), which reflects on Black maternal family structures through the lives of her great-grandmother and great-aunts. The textiles are eye-catching. By transforming old family photographs into jacquard weavings, which she bedazzles with sparkly embellishments, Akea Brionne honors the women who helped her family move north from Mississippi.\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>Some artists, like Torkwase Dyson, take a more abstract approach to the topic. Dyson, who researched plantation economies and Black liberation theory for her piece \u003ci>Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches)\u003c/i> (2022), says the abstract sculpture reflects how Black people “bend space to have life” throughout history. Dyson’s trapezoidal shapes, made of smoky glass, steel and aluminum, indeed invoke a number of musings about space, place and time; I was reminded of sci-fi-like portals to other locations or dimensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13955974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"Trapezoidal figures connected by bent metal bars displayed in the corner of a musuem.\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-768x428.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-1536x855.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-2048x1140.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DysonT_Install_04-1920x1069.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torkwase Dyson, ‘Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches),’ 2022; Painted steel, glass, painted aluminum, dry-erase marker. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery; Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The exhibition is anchored by some big names (that were, admittedly, the first to catch my eye when the exhibition was announced). Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates and Mark Bradford all contribute powerful new works. I never miss an opportunity to see Bradford’s work and his mural-sized installation – which duplicates a 1913 “WANTED” ad inviting Black families to join a Jim Crow-free settlement in New Mexico – doesn’t disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weems’s video installation, titled \u003ci>Leave! Leave Now!\u003c/i> (2022), is simultaneously haunting and gorgeous. In it, Weems narrates what she knows of her grandfather’s journey to Chicago after he was presumed dead following an attack by a white mob in 1936. She also asks questions about the things she doesn’t know: “What was those early years like for you? When did you become a union organizer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13955971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white digital image floats in front of a slightly open red curtain\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2022_TGM_MMA_321_o3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Mae Weems, ‘Leave! Leave Now!,’ 2022; Single-channel digital video (color, sound) installation with mixed media, 25 min. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leaving the exhibition, I too felt moved to ask more questions about my family’s migration story. I called my mother, realizing I’d never heard the specific reason they landed in Porterville first. “My father got a resident physician job at Porterville State Hospital [now Porterville Developmental Center] and the job came with a house,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I won’t be surprised if other Black Californians are prompted to reflect on how and when their family members first arrived in the state after experiencing \u003ci>A Movement in Every Direction\u003c/i>. In fact, they’re invited to, via an interactive component where visitors can record memories about their family’s migration story to join a growing archive. (The program notes that more than 300,000 Black people arrived in the Bay Area during the Great Migration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For everyone who visits, the show and archive are a reminder of how strong the Black American spirit is — and how it continuously strives, in both life and in art.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration’ is on view through Sept. 22, 2024 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2155 Center St.). \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/program/movement-every-direction-legacies-great-migration\">Find more details and information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955969/a-movement-in-every-direction-bampfa-the-great-migration-review","authors":["11296"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_2227","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_13952","arts_769","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13955973","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13955781":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955781","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955781","score":null,"sort":[1712859198000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judee-sill-genius-lost-angel-documentary-review","title":"A Judee Sill Documentary Ensures Her Musical Genius Won't Be Forgotten","publishDate":1712859198,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Judee Sill Documentary Ensures Her Musical Genius Won’t Be Forgotten | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Unlike many of the famous people interviewed in the documentary \u003ci>Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill\u003c/i>, I can’t remember exactly when I first heard Sill’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know it was decades after the 1971 release of her self-titled debut album, released by David Geffen’s brand-new Asylum Records. It was definitely long after her death, in 1979, by overdose. As someone who wasn’t alive in the ’60s and ’70s, I placed Sill’s music into my mental filing cabinet alongside contemporaries and label-mates like Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, as if it had always been there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she took up far more of my mental space than that crowd. Sill’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kTAesI73E1U?feature=shared\">Jesus Was a Cross Maker\u003c/a>” became my go-to example of a baffling yet perfect breakup song. At low points, I listened to “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kyPhvHEtRuw?feature=shared\">The Kiss\u003c/a>,” from her 1973 sophomore album, on repeat. Her haunting voice, sliding through strange tempo shifts and baroque-inspired compositions, still sends shivers down my spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Person with eyes closed singing into mic with rose-colored glasses\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1536x1049.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1920x1311.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo of Judee Sill singing. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What I didn’t understand then, and what \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> explains patiently, admirably, is just how short-lived Sill’s career was, and how far she had fallen from the heights she hoped to achieve as “the world’s greatest living songwriter” before her death at age 35. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the strange landscape of endlessly available streaming music, songs are now often loosed from albums, free-floating from any connection to era or location. This can lead to a transcendent form of time travel, like when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM18Wuw3Tns\">modern artists cover Sill’s work\u003c/a> in front of massive cheering crowds. But it can also obscure significant biographical facts and musical context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, directed by Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom, carefully stitches Judee Sill’s life and music back together. It’s a story that follows a familiar music industry arc, but still holds surprises. We learn that it was in reform school, for instance, that Sill gained her “gospel licks” as the church organist. And that she arrived in reform school after she was arrested, at age 18, as a “teen-age housewife who joined three friends in staging over a dozen robberies ‘just for kicks’” (according to the San Fernando \u003ci>Valley Times\u003c/i>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYc-cLZUEs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sill showed early musical aptitude, learning to harmonize with herself on a piano as a young girl at her father’s Oakland bar. After his death, Sill’s mother married a Disney animator and moved the family to Los Angeles. By Sill’s accounts, it was a chaotic and abusive household she couldn’t wait to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear from family, friends, lovers and musicians who came up with Sill in Los Angeles piano bars and folk music haunts. (Many of those musicians found extraordinary success.) We see bits of her songwriting, her drawings and diaries. Animations illustrate some of her more occult and religious themes — she credited divine inspiration for her songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most excellent parts of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> arrive in Sill’s own voice. It’s a relief when various star-studded covers melt into Sill’s original versions. Her singing is so crystalline it’s utterly heartbreaking: pure beauty coming out of all that pain, loss and addiction. In the final years of her life she went through numerous surgeries after a car accident; she fell back into hard drugs after doctors wouldn’t prescribe her painkillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard with album cover and information set against blue sky\" width=\"900\" height=\"611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The billboard Asylum Records rented in November 1971 for the release of Judee Sill’s debut album. In the documentary, Sill says she rented a car to sit across the street and just look at it. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the songs, we also hear her tell parts of her own story. At one point, a recorded interview shows her striving, thankful for what she has, but restless. Also a treat: her deadpan on-stage banter (when her audience was receptive), in which Sill frames her songs with tidbits of biography I’m sure listeners believed were wildly embellished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> doesn’t bother with the precise dates of performances or arrive at a definitive answer to why Asylum dropped Sill after just two albums. Linda Ronstadt offers perhaps the final word on that matter. “There wasn’t anybody out to get her,” Ronstadt says. “She just didn’t deliver the goods that would have resonated in that culture in that time.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total precision is not the goal of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, which relies much on 50-year-old memories. But this film does achieve what it ardently sets out to do: introduce Sill to those who are ready to experience the resonance of her music in the present moment. Footage of countless YouTube covers of “The Kiss” scrolls past, and the talking heads offer up an idea of valiantly living on through one’s art. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure Judee Sill would agree. I just wish she was here to tell us so.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill’ begins streaming on Amazon and Apple TV on April 12, 2024. It comes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/\">4 Star\u003c/a> (2200 Clement St., San Francisco) April 16—17 with live pre-show music from \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm-62pdl\">Silverware\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm\">Free Key Choir\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The short life and career of the ’70s singer-songwriter are carefully stitched together in ‘Lost Angel.’","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713462800,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":928},"headData":{"title":"A Judee Sill Documentary Ensures Her Musical Genius Won't Be Forgotten | KQED","description":"The short life and career of the ’70s singer-songwriter are carefully stitched together in ‘Lost Angel.’","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Judee Sill Documentary Ensures Her Musical Genius Won't Be Forgotten","datePublished":"2024-04-11T18:13:18.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-18T17:53:20.000Z","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/13955781/judee-sill-genius-lost-angel-documentary-review","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Unlike many of the famous people interviewed in the documentary \u003ci>Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill\u003c/i>, I can’t remember exactly when I first heard Sill’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know it was decades after the 1971 release of her self-titled debut album, released by David Geffen’s brand-new Asylum Records. It was definitely long after her death, in 1979, by overdose. As someone who wasn’t alive in the ’60s and ’70s, I placed Sill’s music into my mental filing cabinet alongside contemporaries and label-mates like Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, as if it had always been there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she took up far more of my mental space than that crowd. Sill’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kTAesI73E1U?feature=shared\">Jesus Was a Cross Maker\u003c/a>” became my go-to example of a baffling yet perfect breakup song. At low points, I listened to “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kyPhvHEtRuw?feature=shared\">The Kiss\u003c/a>,” from her 1973 sophomore album, on repeat. Her haunting voice, sliding through strange tempo shifts and baroque-inspired compositions, still sends shivers down my spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Person with eyes closed singing into mic with rose-colored glasses\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1536x1049.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1920x1311.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo of Judee Sill singing. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What I didn’t understand then, and what \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> explains patiently, admirably, is just how short-lived Sill’s career was, and how far she had fallen from the heights she hoped to achieve as “the world’s greatest living songwriter” before her death at age 35. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the strange landscape of endlessly available streaming music, songs are now often loosed from albums, free-floating from any connection to era or location. This can lead to a transcendent form of time travel, like when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM18Wuw3Tns\">modern artists cover Sill’s work\u003c/a> in front of massive cheering crowds. But it can also obscure significant biographical facts and musical context.\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>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, directed by Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom, carefully stitches Judee Sill’s life and music back together. It’s a story that follows a familiar music industry arc, but still holds surprises. We learn that it was in reform school, for instance, that Sill gained her “gospel licks” as the church organist. And that she arrived in reform school after she was arrested, at age 18, as a “teen-age housewife who joined three friends in staging over a dozen robberies ‘just for kicks’” (according to the San Fernando \u003ci>Valley Times\u003c/i>).\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/FSYc-cLZUEs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FSYc-cLZUEs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Sill showed early musical aptitude, learning to harmonize with herself on a piano as a young girl at her father’s Oakland bar. After his death, Sill’s mother married a Disney animator and moved the family to Los Angeles. By Sill’s accounts, it was a chaotic and abusive household she couldn’t wait to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear from family, friends, lovers and musicians who came up with Sill in Los Angeles piano bars and folk music haunts. (Many of those musicians found extraordinary success.) We see bits of her songwriting, her drawings and diaries. Animations illustrate some of her more occult and religious themes — she credited divine inspiration for her songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most excellent parts of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> arrive in Sill’s own voice. It’s a relief when various star-studded covers melt into Sill’s original versions. Her singing is so crystalline it’s utterly heartbreaking: pure beauty coming out of all that pain, loss and addiction. In the final years of her life she went through numerous surgeries after a car accident; she fell back into hard drugs after doctors wouldn’t prescribe her painkillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard with album cover and information set against blue sky\" width=\"900\" height=\"611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The billboard Asylum Records rented in November 1971 for the release of Judee Sill’s debut album. In the documentary, Sill says she rented a car to sit across the street and just look at it. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the songs, we also hear her tell parts of her own story. At one point, a recorded interview shows her striving, thankful for what she has, but restless. Also a treat: her deadpan on-stage banter (when her audience was receptive), in which Sill frames her songs with tidbits of biography I’m sure listeners believed were wildly embellished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> doesn’t bother with the precise dates of performances or arrive at a definitive answer to why Asylum dropped Sill after just two albums. Linda Ronstadt offers perhaps the final word on that matter. “There wasn’t anybody out to get her,” Ronstadt says. “She just didn’t deliver the goods that would have resonated in that culture in that time.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total precision is not the goal of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, which relies much on 50-year-old memories. But this film does achieve what it ardently sets out to do: introduce Sill to those who are ready to experience the resonance of her music in the present moment. Footage of countless YouTube covers of “The Kiss” scrolls past, and the talking heads offer up an idea of valiantly living on through one’s art. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure Judee Sill would agree. I just wish she was here to tell us so.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill’ begins streaming on Amazon and Apple TV on April 12, 2024. It comes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/\">4 Star\u003c/a> (2200 Clement St., San Francisco) April 16—17 with live pre-show music from \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm-62pdl\">Silverware\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm\">Free Key Choir\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955781/judee-sill-genius-lost-angel-documentary-review","authors":["61"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_21958","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_977","arts_769"],"featImg":"arts_13955793","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13955679":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955679","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955679","score":null,"sort":[1712792950000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"beyonce-election-year-politics-drag-oasis-nightclub-san-francisco-cowboy-carter","title":"Beyoncé Fans Reflect on Election Year Concerns at San Francisco Drag Show","publishDate":1712792950,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Beyoncé Fans Reflect on Election Year Concerns at San Francisco Drag Show | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-Beyonce%CC%81Fans-JY-050_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a white sequined dress and cowboy hat kneels on one leg on a catwalk, surrounded by the audience and lit in red\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bionka Simone performs Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ at Oasis in San Francisco on Saturday, April 6, 2024. The show drew a sold-out crowd of drag fans and members of the Beyhive as an all-Black cast celebrated the release of Beyoncé’s new album, ‘Cowboy Carter.’ \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/beyonce\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>’s \u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em> galloped into the national psyche in all of its flag-waving, countrified glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering Beyoncé’s status as an artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/20366/six-beyonce-pieces-by-women-of-color-that-you-should-read-right-now\">unafraid to invoke political imagery in both her music and her visuals\u003c/a> — not to mention the way this album has turned into a battleground over who “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905263/from-beyonce-to-lil-hardin-my-black-country-celebrates-the-undersung-black-history-and-future-of-country-music\">owns country\u003c/a>”— it’s unsurprising that many of her fans consider themselves politically conscious, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We at KQED set out to ask Beyoncé fans at San Francisco’s Oasis nightclub, directly before a Beyoncé-themed drag show, about the state of America and the issues with which they’re most concerned in this election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A trio of tattooed and flamboyant people, including two in cowboy hats, smile and line up before a pink and red mural.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Lance Derick, Joshua Carrasco and James Aceves. Carrasco, who is a pediatric resident at UCSF, says access to healthcare and health insurance is a huge factor in his voting decisions. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joshua Carrasco came to the Beyoncé party with two friends, having arrived in San Francisco from Texas almost a year ago. As a pediatric resident at UCSF, Carrasco says he’s concerned about the links between poor health, underfunded education and a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to queer communities, housing is such an important social determinate of health that I think is undervalued within the San Francisco area,” Carrasco said. “A lot of the Props that were voted on [in the last election] went in a direction that I was not anticipating. I think San Francisco flaunts itself as progressive, but I think in action, it’s less progressive than I had anticipated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman wearing a wide brimmed black hat and leather jacket stands with a shorter woman wearing her hair in braids and a short skirt. They are standing before a pink and red mural.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annika Gabriel (L) and Gabby Huckabee (R). Both expressed concern about the age of the presidential candidates, as well as concern for their friends of color. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked how she’s feeling about the 2024 election, Annika Gabriel said simply: “I’m real worried about my trans friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Gabriel’s side was Gabby Huckabee, who said she is “upset for my Muslim friends [and] for my friends of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13955021']Huckabee continued, “It’s very upsetting to me that out of everyone they could have possibly chosen for both parties, [Biden and Trump] are the two they still have come up with. I’m not optimistic for the future. I’m still going to vote for Joe Biden. Because I’m very clearly opposed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html\">Donald Trump grabbing people by the pussy\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-003-KQED-e1712693509298.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiles broadly in front of a neon-lit O sign at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron McCall has the environment at the forefront of his mind during this election year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite not feeling enthusiastic about either presidential candidate, Aaron McCall was another attendee determined to make a difference in whichever way he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we are choosing people to vote for, it is not a moral statement and it’s not a statement of who we like,” the climate charity worker emphasized. “It is a statement of who we’re going to work with and who’s going to work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans have actively said they are going to target and attack queer [folks] and people of color,” McCall continued, “and they’re going to destroy the environment in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955647\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-008-KQED-e1712695709640.jpg\" alt=\"A slender white man in a Beyonce t-shirt, an Arabic man wearing a blue shirt and an Asian woman in a black leather jacket stand with arms around each other outside a nightclub.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Sean Dante Remigio, Mahmoud Dabbah and Mara Lee. Dabbah isn’t happy with President Biden’s support of Israel and feels there isn’t much difference between Biden and Trump. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahmoud Dabbah, a Palestinian who has lived in America for three years, believes Biden’s ability to get reelected will be greatly impacted by the president’s support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Israel’s military actions in Gaza.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that clearly. I think the whole world is pissed off,” Dabbah said. “This war is horrible and the U.S. is a big part of it. I hope it stops soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13940030']Asked if he worries about the consequences of another Trump presidency, Dabbah stated: “After what I saw from Biden, I don’t care anymore. It’s all the same for me as an immigrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dabbah’s friend Sean Dante Remigio agreed. “It feels very much a losing game either way,” he said. “I mean, it’s not even choosing between a lesser of two evils. There is no choice. That is the conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Two young people of color stand side by side inside a nightclub with thoughtful expressions on their faces.\" width=\"1402\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png 1402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1402px) 100vw, 1402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L) Rogue and (R) Stephane are both concerned about houselessness and access to healthcare in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remigio’s thoughts were echoed by Rogue and Stephane. (Both declined to give last names.) Though the friends remain concerned with housing and healthcare in San Francisco, they don’t see an upcoming face-off between Trump and Biden offering real solutions to the nation’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the options are not great,” Stephane, an international student, said. “Even if I was allowed to vote, I would need better options. I don’t really care about either of the candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” Rogue laughed, “it’s like: Poo-Poo or Pee-Pee!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two white women, one with a ponytail, one with cropped purple hair, stand close together, smiling warmly at each other. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Married couple Sunny and Reece Johnson are politically disillusioned — one more so than the other. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also disillusioned with the election are Sunny and Reece Johnson, who’ve been happily married for 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you that I have stopped thinking about [the election] because it’s distressing,” Reece said. “I do feel very unmotivated to vote, because I’m so burned out on the drama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would never \u003cem>not\u003c/em> vote, though,” Sunny interjected. “Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reece shrugged. “I would like to say that I would never not vote, but I’m so disenchanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-024-KQED-e1712707940654.jpg\" alt=\"A drag queen strikes a pose in black lingerie and red dressing gown, next to a wooden fence decorated with lights.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xochitl the Queen poses on the roof deck of Oasis shortly before performing on April 5, 2024. Xochitl works in deportation defense at USF Law and uses her drag to make political statements. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One fan who wishes she could vote is drag queen Xochitl. Shortly before her performance as auburn-haired temptress Jolene, Xochitl said she is “low-key scared” about the upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My future as a performer, as an artist, as an immigrant and as a member of this society is at risk, depending on who wins,” she said. “They say we have a choice, but it’s an illusion of a choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a DACA recipient, Xochitl is not eligible to vote, but strives to make a difference through her job at USF Law. She also utilizes performance to express herself politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make my voice heard by doing art, doing drag,” Xochitl explained. “My drag is inherently political. I’ve done numbers on stage where I burn the American flag as protest, as part of my work in deportation defense. I express my fear about drag bans through my art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-006-KQED-e1712693763217.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses and short dark haircut, stands hands in pockets in front of a pink and red mural. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dani Arevalos says their biggest concern as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is being respected and acknowledged as a person. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many people we spoke with at Oasis, LGBTQ issues are front and center for Dani Arevalos, who feels dehumanized by recent attacks on gender nonconforming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking to the future, my biggest concern is being respected as a human being,” Arevalos said. “I come from the Latin community, and also being LGBTQ … Honestly two very different communities [with] the same issue of being oppressed. I think going forward, being respected and being acknowledged [will help us] to move forward as a nation together.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At Oasis nightclub, fans expressed concerns about housing, climate change, Gaza, LGBTQ rights and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712945992,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1376},"headData":{"title":"Beyoncé Fans Reflect on Election Year Concerns at San Francisco Drag Show | KQED","description":"At Oasis nightclub, fans expressed concerns about housing, climate change, Gaza, LGBTQ rights and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Beyoncé Fans Reflect on Election Year Concerns at San Francisco Drag Show","datePublished":"2024-04-10T23:49:10.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-12T18:19:52.000Z","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/13955679/beyonce-election-year-politics-drag-oasis-nightclub-san-francisco-cowboy-carter","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-Beyonce%CC%81Fans-JY-050_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a white sequined dress and cowboy hat kneels on one leg on a catwalk, surrounded by the audience and lit in red\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bionka Simone performs Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ at Oasis in San Francisco on Saturday, April 6, 2024. The show drew a sold-out crowd of drag fans and members of the Beyhive as an all-Black cast celebrated the release of Beyoncé’s new album, ‘Cowboy Carter.’ \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/beyonce\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>’s \u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em> galloped into the national psyche in all of its flag-waving, countrified glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering Beyoncé’s status as an artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/20366/six-beyonce-pieces-by-women-of-color-that-you-should-read-right-now\">unafraid to invoke political imagery in both her music and her visuals\u003c/a> — not to mention the way this album has turned into a battleground over who “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905263/from-beyonce-to-lil-hardin-my-black-country-celebrates-the-undersung-black-history-and-future-of-country-music\">owns country\u003c/a>”— it’s unsurprising that many of her fans consider themselves politically conscious, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We at KQED set out to ask Beyoncé fans at San Francisco’s Oasis nightclub, directly before a Beyoncé-themed drag show, about the state of America and the issues with which they’re most concerned in this election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A trio of tattooed and flamboyant people, including two in cowboy hats, smile and line up before a pink and red mural.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Lance Derick, Joshua Carrasco and James Aceves. Carrasco, who is a pediatric resident at UCSF, says access to healthcare and health insurance is a huge factor in his voting decisions. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joshua Carrasco came to the Beyoncé party with two friends, having arrived in San Francisco from Texas almost a year ago. As a pediatric resident at UCSF, Carrasco says he’s concerned about the links between poor health, underfunded education and a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to queer communities, housing is such an important social determinate of health that I think is undervalued within the San Francisco area,” Carrasco said. “A lot of the Props that were voted on [in the last election] went in a direction that I was not anticipating. I think San Francisco flaunts itself as progressive, but I think in action, it’s less progressive than I had anticipated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman wearing a wide brimmed black hat and leather jacket stands with a shorter woman wearing her hair in braids and a short skirt. They are standing before a pink and red mural.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annika Gabriel (L) and Gabby Huckabee (R). Both expressed concern about the age of the presidential candidates, as well as concern for their friends of color. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked how she’s feeling about the 2024 election, Annika Gabriel said simply: “I’m real worried about my trans friends.”\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>At Gabriel’s side was Gabby Huckabee, who said she is “upset for my Muslim friends [and] for my friends of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955021","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Huckabee continued, “It’s very upsetting to me that out of everyone they could have possibly chosen for both parties, [Biden and Trump] are the two they still have come up with. I’m not optimistic for the future. I’m still going to vote for Joe Biden. Because I’m very clearly opposed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html\">Donald Trump grabbing people by the pussy\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-003-KQED-e1712693509298.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiles broadly in front of a neon-lit O sign at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron McCall has the environment at the forefront of his mind during this election year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite not feeling enthusiastic about either presidential candidate, Aaron McCall was another attendee determined to make a difference in whichever way he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we are choosing people to vote for, it is not a moral statement and it’s not a statement of who we like,” the climate charity worker emphasized. “It is a statement of who we’re going to work with and who’s going to work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans have actively said they are going to target and attack queer [folks] and people of color,” McCall continued, “and they’re going to destroy the environment in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955647\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-008-KQED-e1712695709640.jpg\" alt=\"A slender white man in a Beyonce t-shirt, an Arabic man wearing a blue shirt and an Asian woman in a black leather jacket stand with arms around each other outside a nightclub.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Sean Dante Remigio, Mahmoud Dabbah and Mara Lee. Dabbah isn’t happy with President Biden’s support of Israel and feels there isn’t much difference between Biden and Trump. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahmoud Dabbah, a Palestinian who has lived in America for three years, believes Biden’s ability to get reelected will be greatly impacted by the president’s support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Israel’s military actions in Gaza.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that clearly. I think the whole world is pissed off,” Dabbah said. “This war is horrible and the U.S. is a big part of it. I hope it stops soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13940030","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Asked if he worries about the consequences of another Trump presidency, Dabbah stated: “After what I saw from Biden, I don’t care anymore. It’s all the same for me as an immigrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dabbah’s friend Sean Dante Remigio agreed. “It feels very much a losing game either way,” he said. “I mean, it’s not even choosing between a lesser of two evils. There is no choice. That is the conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Two young people of color stand side by side inside a nightclub with thoughtful expressions on their faces.\" width=\"1402\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png 1402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1402px) 100vw, 1402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L) Rogue and (R) Stephane are both concerned about houselessness and access to healthcare in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remigio’s thoughts were echoed by Rogue and Stephane. (Both declined to give last names.) Though the friends remain concerned with housing and healthcare in San Francisco, they don’t see an upcoming face-off between Trump and Biden offering real solutions to the nation’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the options are not great,” Stephane, an international student, said. “Even if I was allowed to vote, I would need better options. I don’t really care about either of the candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” Rogue laughed, “it’s like: Poo-Poo or Pee-Pee!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two white women, one with a ponytail, one with cropped purple hair, stand close together, smiling warmly at each other. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Married couple Sunny and Reece Johnson are politically disillusioned — one more so than the other. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also disillusioned with the election are Sunny and Reece Johnson, who’ve been happily married for 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you that I have stopped thinking about [the election] because it’s distressing,” Reece said. “I do feel very unmotivated to vote, because I’m so burned out on the drama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would never \u003cem>not\u003c/em> vote, though,” Sunny interjected. “Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reece shrugged. “I would like to say that I would never not vote, but I’m so disenchanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-024-KQED-e1712707940654.jpg\" alt=\"A drag queen strikes a pose in black lingerie and red dressing gown, next to a wooden fence decorated with lights.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xochitl the Queen poses on the roof deck of Oasis shortly before performing on April 5, 2024. Xochitl works in deportation defense at USF Law and uses her drag to make political statements. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One fan who wishes she could vote is drag queen Xochitl. Shortly before her performance as auburn-haired temptress Jolene, Xochitl said she is “low-key scared” about the upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My future as a performer, as an artist, as an immigrant and as a member of this society is at risk, depending on who wins,” she said. “They say we have a choice, but it’s an illusion of a choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a DACA recipient, Xochitl is not eligible to vote, but strives to make a difference through her job at USF Law. She also utilizes performance to express herself politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make my voice heard by doing art, doing drag,” Xochitl explained. “My drag is inherently political. I’ve done numbers on stage where I burn the American flag as protest, as part of my work in deportation defense. I express my fear about drag bans through my art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-006-KQED-e1712693763217.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses and short dark haircut, stands hands in pockets in front of a pink and red mural. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dani Arevalos says their biggest concern as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is being respected and acknowledged as a person. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many people we spoke with at Oasis, LGBTQ issues are front and center for Dani Arevalos, who feels dehumanized by recent attacks on gender nonconforming people.\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>“Looking to the future, my biggest concern is being respected as a human being,” Arevalos said. “I come from the Latin community, and also being LGBTQ … Honestly two very different communities [with] the same issue of being oppressed. I think going forward, being respected and being acknowledged [will help us] to move forward as a nation together.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955679/beyonce-election-year-politics-drag-oasis-nightclub-san-francisco-cowboy-carter","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_1686","arts_1556","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_3226","arts_10555","arts_5826"],"featImg":"arts_13955736","label":"arts"},"arts_13955613":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955613","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955613","score":null,"sort":[1712622682000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit","title":"Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Withdraw from Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit","publishDate":1712622682,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Withdraw from Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>A group of artists who call themselves California Jewish Artists for Palestine have withdrawn their work from a group exhibition opening June 6 at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists’ decision came after disagreements with CJM leadership over sources of museum funding, as well as how their art would be contextualized in the exhibit \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecjm.org/upcoming_exhibitions\">\u003ci>California Jewish Open\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. The exhibition will now include a blank wall to symbolize the absence of the artists’ perspectives. Their action follows an international wave of pro-Palestinian protests at museums, including one where artists modified their own works at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, located directly across the street from CJM. [aside postid='arts_13952460,arts_13954119']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the open call for \u003cem>California Jewish Open \u003c/em>late last year, Jewish artists Micah Bazant, Jules Cowan, Rebekah Erev, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Steph Kudisch, Kate Laster, Ava Sayaka Rosen, Sophia Sobko, Arielle Tonkin and Irina Zadov submitted works with pro-Palestinian messages. They expected to be rejected. Instead, guest curator Elissa Strauss chose five of their works for the show, which centers on the theme of connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selected artists then sent museum leadership a list of demands that included a call to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which aims to discourage international institutions from collaborating with Israeli institutions. PACBI is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement\u003c/a>, which calls for a boycott of Israel until it ends its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, gives equal rights to ethnically Palestinian citizens of Israel and allows Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Sobko said it would be hypocritical for the museum to feature art criticizing Israel’s bombardment of Gaza “while receiving funding that directly … facilitates the material oppression that we’re trying to raise awareness to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko added, “I wish for some ethical clarity and backbone and courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A spray painted background with brown, black and purple, overlaid with white letters that say \"CA Jewish Artists for Palestine.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘CA Jewish Artists for Palestine,’ 8″ x 8″, papercut and spray paint on paper, 2024 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The photo piece that Sobko withdrew, \u003ci>The Four Mitzvot of the Queer Soviet Jewish Diaspora\u003c/i>, is a collaboration with Zadov and Aravah Berman-Mirkin under the name Krivoy Kolectiv. It features Ukrainian head scarves embroidered with four mitzvahs, or commandments, including one for a free Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJM’s interim Executive Director Kerry King told artists it would not join PACBI. In a \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">press release issued April 5\u003c/a>, the California Jewish Artists for Palestine raised the fact that CJM has previously received funding from the Israeli government. (King said CJM hasn’t received funding from the Consulate General of Israel or other Israeli organizations since 2021.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, another museum funder, the Helen Diller Family Foundation, has been \u003ca href=\"https://forward.com/news/411355/revealed-canary-mission-blacklist-is-secretly-bankrolled-by-major-jewish/\">accused of funneling money into Canary Mission\u003c/a>, an organization known for doxxing anti-Zionist students and professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said many of CJM’s donors have a variety of philanthropic projects that are out of CJM’s control. “We have donors who support the arts and support having a Jewish museum in San Francisco,” she told KQED. Because of these donors, added King, “We are able to do what we do. We’re able to continue to operate and have our doors open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg\" alt=\"A photo of people looking into the distance while waving colorful flags.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Sayaka Rosen, Arielle Tonkin and collaborators. ‘Morocco to the Bay: A diasporic Prayerformance.’ \u003ccite>(M Fields. Albany, California, 2023.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another point of contention between California Jewish Artists for Palestine and museum leaders arose around the wall text that would have accompanied their artworks. Senior Curator Heidi Rabben told KQED that CJM was open to artists using the phrase “anti-Zionist” to describe their political stance, but the parties disagreed on how to contextualize the term, which means different things to different people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their list of demands, the artists wanted full control over wall text and the right to modify or withdraw their works at any time, which the museum refused. Rabben and King said they disagree with the artists’ characterization of this as censorship in their press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We simply asked that they define what they meant in using [‘anti-Zionist’] and include that as well in the statement so that it was very clear,” Rabben said, noting that she respects the artists’ decision to withdraw their work. “What they meant by it, as we understood their work to be about, was not questioning the right of Israel to exist, but to say that they were envisioning Jewish futures outside of nationalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko said abstract debates about terminology distract from the real-life suffering of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Zionism [is enacted] as a Jewish ethno-nation state. And then that creates an apartheid system against Palestinians,” Sobko said. “To me, anti-Zionism is … a refusal to create hierarchies of people within militarized nation states, in this case being Jewish supremacy. But I’m also against it on Turtle Island in the United States just as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about our Jewishness bringing us here, ethically, to stand up and say, ‘This is unacceptable,’” said fellow collective member Kate Laster, who withdrew a print reading, “No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of our consent can be manufactured to conflate any justification for apartheid, or genocide [of Palestinians],” Laster added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A print that says \"No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘Solidarity is Essential,’ 11″ x 17″, collagraph on paper, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another artist, Liat Berdugo, separately withdrew from \u003ci>California Jewish Open\u003c/i>, concerned that the exhibit wouldn’t sufficiently address what she describes as the Israeli government weaponizing Jewish grief after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to justify the killings and displacement of Palestinians. She said the language in CJM’s contract made her uneasy about whether the message of her work would be lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multimedia work Berdugo withdrew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.liatberdugo.com/work/trees\">\u003ci>Seeing It For the Trees\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, examines an Israeli organization that plants trees under the guise of environmentalism. “But really a lot of it is greenwashing,” she said. “Planting forests over the ruins of Palestinian villages strategically to camouflage them … to claim lands that were Palestinian and make them public parks, which then are subject to different legal jurisdictions, and deny the right of return.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to withdraw from the show was difficult for Berdugo, because she specifically wanted a Jewish audience to see her piece. “I think these conversations are necessarily messy,” she said. “Is there a way to have these conversations not on the surface, but on a tectonic level, that identifies structures and systems?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Jewish Artists for Palestine are in the early stages of organizing their own exhibition, and say they invite artists, Contemporary Jewish Museum staff and other creative professionals to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko describes the collective’s goals with a hopeful vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We’re] putting our energy toward creating something new, visible-izing our perspectives toward drawing that attention to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and, obviously, Palestinian resistance and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The artists called for the museum to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which leadership refused. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713557381,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1215},"headData":{"title":"Pro-Palestinian Artists Pull Out of Contemporary Jewish Museum | KQED","description":"The artists called for the museum to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which leadership refused. ","ogTitle":"Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Withdraw from Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Pull Out of Contemporary Jewish Museum","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Pro-Palestinian Artists Pull Out of Contemporary Jewish Museum %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Withdraw from Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit","datePublished":"2024-04-09T00:31:22.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-19T20:09:41.000Z","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-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/e7ab8198-9bf5-4e33-a279-b15301022e24/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of artists who call themselves California Jewish Artists for Palestine have withdrawn their work from a group exhibition opening June 6 at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists’ decision came after disagreements with CJM leadership over sources of museum funding, as well as how their art would be contextualized in the exhibit \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecjm.org/upcoming_exhibitions\">\u003ci>California Jewish Open\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. The exhibition will now include a blank wall to symbolize the absence of the artists’ perspectives. Their action follows an international wave of pro-Palestinian protests at museums, including one where artists modified their own works at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954119/an-embattled-ybca-to-reopen-amid-censorship-accusations-ceos-resignation\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, located directly across the street from CJM. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13952460,arts_13954119","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the open call for \u003cem>California Jewish Open \u003c/em>late last year, Jewish artists Micah Bazant, Jules Cowan, Rebekah Erev, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Steph Kudisch, Kate Laster, Ava Sayaka Rosen, Sophia Sobko, Arielle Tonkin and Irina Zadov submitted works with pro-Palestinian messages. They expected to be rejected. Instead, guest curator Elissa Strauss chose five of their works for the show, which centers on the theme of connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selected artists then sent museum leadership a list of demands that included a call to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which aims to discourage international institutions from collaborating with Israeli institutions. PACBI is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement\u003c/a>, which calls for a boycott of Israel until it ends its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, gives equal rights to ethnically Palestinian citizens of Israel and allows Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Sobko said it would be hypocritical for the museum to feature art criticizing Israel’s bombardment of Gaza “while receiving funding that directly … facilitates the material oppression that we’re trying to raise awareness to stop.”\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>Sobko added, “I wish for some ethical clarity and backbone and courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A spray painted background with brown, black and purple, overlaid with white letters that say \"CA Jewish Artists for Palestine.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/3-Kate-Laster-CA-Jewish-Artists-for-Palestine-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘CA Jewish Artists for Palestine,’ 8″ x 8″, papercut and spray paint on paper, 2024 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The photo piece that Sobko withdrew, \u003ci>The Four Mitzvot of the Queer Soviet Jewish Diaspora\u003c/i>, is a collaboration with Zadov and Aravah Berman-Mirkin under the name Krivoy Kolectiv. It features Ukrainian head scarves embroidered with four mitzvahs, or commandments, including one for a free Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJM’s interim Executive Director Kerry King told artists it would not join PACBI. In a \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">press release issued April 5\u003c/a>, the California Jewish Artists for Palestine raised the fact that CJM has previously received funding from the Israeli government. (King said CJM hasn’t received funding from the Consulate General of Israel or other Israeli organizations since 2021.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, another museum funder, the Helen Diller Family Foundation, has been \u003ca href=\"https://forward.com/news/411355/revealed-canary-mission-blacklist-is-secretly-bankrolled-by-major-jewish/\">accused of funneling money into Canary Mission\u003c/a>, an organization known for doxxing anti-Zionist students and professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said many of CJM’s donors have a variety of philanthropic projects that are out of CJM’s control. “We have donors who support the arts and support having a Jewish museum in San Francisco,” she told KQED. Because of these donors, added King, “We are able to do what we do. We’re able to continue to operate and have our doors open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg\" alt=\"A photo of people looking into the distance while waving colorful flags.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening.jpeg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/1.-Ava-Sayaka-Rosen-Arielle-Tonkin-and-collaborators.-Morocco-to-the-Bay-opening-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Sayaka Rosen, Arielle Tonkin and collaborators. ‘Morocco to the Bay: A diasporic Prayerformance.’ \u003ccite>(M Fields. Albany, California, 2023.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another point of contention between California Jewish Artists for Palestine and museum leaders arose around the wall text that would have accompanied their artworks. Senior Curator Heidi Rabben told KQED that CJM was open to artists using the phrase “anti-Zionist” to describe their political stance, but the parties disagreed on how to contextualize the term, which means different things to different people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their list of demands, the artists wanted full control over wall text and the right to modify or withdraw their works at any time, which the museum refused. Rabben and King said they disagree with the artists’ characterization of this as censorship in their press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We simply asked that they define what they meant in using [‘anti-Zionist’] and include that as well in the statement so that it was very clear,” Rabben said, noting that she respects the artists’ decision to withdraw their work. “What they meant by it, as we understood their work to be about, was not questioning the right of Israel to exist, but to say that they were envisioning Jewish futures outside of nationalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko said abstract debates about terminology distract from the real-life suffering of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Zionism [is enacted] as a Jewish ethno-nation state. And then that creates an apartheid system against Palestinians,” Sobko said. “To me, anti-Zionism is … a refusal to create hierarchies of people within militarized nation states, in this case being Jewish supremacy. But I’m also against it on Turtle Island in the United States just as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about our Jewishness bringing us here, ethically, to stand up and say, ‘This is unacceptable,’” said fellow collective member Kate Laster, who withdrew a print reading, “No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of our consent can be manufactured to conflate any justification for apartheid, or genocide [of Palestinians],” Laster added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A print that says \"No one is free in apartheid. Free Palestine. Solidarity is essential.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2.-Kate-Laster-Solidarity-is-Essential-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Laster. ‘Solidarity is Essential,’ 11″ x 17″, collagraph on paper, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another artist, Liat Berdugo, separately withdrew from \u003ci>California Jewish Open\u003c/i>, concerned that the exhibit wouldn’t sufficiently address what she describes as the Israeli government weaponizing Jewish grief after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to justify the killings and displacement of Palestinians. She said the language in CJM’s contract made her uneasy about whether the message of her work would be lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multimedia work Berdugo withdrew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.liatberdugo.com/work/trees\">\u003ci>Seeing It For the Trees\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, examines an Israeli organization that plants trees under the guise of environmentalism. “But really a lot of it is greenwashing,” she said. “Planting forests over the ruins of Palestinian villages strategically to camouflage them … to claim lands that were Palestinian and make them public parks, which then are subject to different legal jurisdictions, and deny the right of return.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to withdraw from the show was difficult for Berdugo, because she specifically wanted a Jewish audience to see her piece. “I think these conversations are necessarily messy,” she said. “Is there a way to have these conversations not on the surface, but on a tectonic level, that identifies structures and systems?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Jewish Artists for Palestine are in the early stages of organizing their own exhibition, and say they invite artists, Contemporary Jewish Museum staff and other creative professionals to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobko describes the collective’s goals with a hopeful vision.\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>“[We’re] putting our energy toward creating something new, visible-izing our perspectives toward drawing that attention to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and, obviously, Palestinian resistance and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_1787","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_8838","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13955612","label":"arts"},"arts_13954980":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954980","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954980","score":null,"sort":[1711672727000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-mexican-museum-audit-reopening","title":"What’s Going on at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum?","publishDate":1711672727,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What’s Going on at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s city auditor released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/OCII-RED%20The%20Mexican%20Museum%20Audit%20-%20Final%20Report%2003.21.24.pdf\">bombshell report\u003c/a> on San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mexicanmuseum.org/\">Mexican Museum\u003c/a>, claiming the 49-year-old nonprofit has misused city grant funds and made little progress on fundraising to reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum, meanwhile, says it “respectfully disagrees with much of the purported conclusions.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To even an average observer, the Mexican Museum has had noticeable troubles. It has been without a director since 2015, and without a home since 2018, when it left Fort Mason Center after falling behind on rent. Its new building at the corner of Third and Mission, adjacent to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFMOMA and other cultural institutions, remains empty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit’s findings, based on a yearlong investigation requested by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, raise questions about the museum’s ability to fundraise for or manage planned interior improvements at 706 Mission St., a city-owned space at the base of a luxury condo building. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the findings, and a subsequent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-mexican-museum-audit-19324002.php\">\u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> story\u003c/a>, the museum, currently without dedicated fundraising staff, is determined to open the first phase of its space by the end of 2025. To do so, its board chair Andrew M. Kluger said in an interview with KQED, requires the cooperation of the city. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting and clearing a path for the museum is a no-brainer for the city,” board secretary Xochitl Casteñeda told KQED. “It’s going to be a win-win situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955001\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the Mexican Museum’s planned interior improvements. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Mexican Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The history of the Mexican Museum’s move downtown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Mexican Museum was founded in 1975 at the corner of Folsom and 15th Streets by the late artist Peter Rodriguez. In 1982, it moved to Fort Mason Center, where it remained for 36 years, amassing a collection of over 16,500 objects, mostly through donations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Museum holdings span 2,500 years of history, from pre-Hispanic objects to contemporary artworks. The museum is dedicated to “the complexity and richness of Latino art and culture throughout the Americas.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13654906']The Mexican Museum has had periods of instability over the past three decades. A planned move to the Yerba Buena neighborhood to join the city’s other major cultural institutions has been in the works since 1993. In the mid-’90s, the museum was rocked by major staff turnover, accusations of misspent grant funds and lackluster fundraising for the planned move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2017, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13654906/mexican-museum-defends-collection-over-authenticity-concerns\">report commissioned by the museum board\u003c/a> found that only 83 of 2,000 artifacts from the museum’s pre-Hispanic collection could be authenticated. But those 80-some objects, the museum argued in a subsequent press release, are “significant and rare — one piece in the collection being so unique that nothing like it exists in Mexico.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since leaving Fort Mason in 2018, the collection has been in storage. The museum finally took possession of the first four floors of 706 Mission in July 2023. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Were grant funds misused?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city audit, officially titled “The Mexican Museum Has Not Demonstrated That It Can Meet the City’s Contractual Obligations, and OCII Has Not Effectively Enforced the Museum’s Grant Agreement” has two main findings: misuse of city grant funds and fundraising shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the museum entered into a $10.6 million grant agreement with the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfocii.org/homepage-landing\">Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure\u003c/a> (OCII) — funds meant to go towards “predevelopment and interior improvements” at the new location. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only $4 million of that grant has been spent, but the grant agreement expires June 14, 2024, leaving the museum less than three months to spend the remaining $6.6 million. (During the period of the audit, which began in March 2022, the museum says OCII paused all grant reimbursements.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955004\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of planned gallery space in the Mexican Museum. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Mexican Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The audit found that the museum has spent nearly $1 million of that grant on “ineligible and questionable activities,” including duplicate expenses, artwork storage and staff salaries. But a response from OCII tempers those findings, explaining that “some level of funding for [the museum’s] current operations was necessary to ‘benefit’ the proposed project in the former Yerba Buena Center Project Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, OCII argues, the grant \u003ci>should\u003c/i> cover things like storage and some operational costs — so that there might still \u003ci>be\u003c/i> a museum to move into 706 Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, the Mexican Museum says “all budgets and scope of work were not only approved by OCII staff, but also by the OCII commission.” Its representatives refute one duplicate expense and acknowledge the other as a clerical error “out of hundreds of submittals to OCII.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does the museum have adequate funds to reopen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audit found that the museum has raised only 2% of the nearly $49.8 million it’s estimated to need to reopen. But the museum says this is an old number, and that the new, lower estimate for construction is actually $38 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By their calculations, the museum says it still has $19.9 million left to raise. But it has made some progress in its search for new funding sources. “We’re the only museum outside of the Republic of Mexico that was granted a tax deductible status” by Mexico, says board chair Andrew Kluger. That means Mexican companies and individuals can donate up to 7% of the taxes they owe to the museum as a write-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum has employed a fundraising consultant through the end of 2024, and a representative says the museum has received over $200,000 in cash contributions in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda admits fundraising for the museum has an uphill journey to her dream goal of $100 million. “I need an army of people to help us,” she says. “You know, how many of the museums today — and I’m not just talking about construction, but operations — are in the red area? We need 10 pesos, $10, you know? Any contribution is welcome and will add to our dream of $100 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1901px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit.jpg\" alt=\"Composite image with empty building at left and gallery renderings at right\" width=\"1901\" height=\"1814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit.jpg 1901w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-800x763.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-1020x973.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-160x153.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-768x733.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-1536x1466.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1901px) 100vw, 1901px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exhibit included in the audit, showing the museum premises in July 2023 (left) and design plans (right). \u003ccite>(City Services Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why hasn’t the museum started construction?\n\u003c/h2>\u003cp>The Mexican Museum has a 66-year-lease with the city on the first four floors of 706 Mission (with the option to extend another 33 years), for what breaks down to about ¢.02 a year. But all interior improvements on the 48,000 square-foot space — turning the shell of the building into a climate-controlled art institution — are on the museum. So far, it has made no material progress on those improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum received keys to the space in July 2023. That was after a lawsuit over a missing staircase was dismissed, with the museum and the city agreeing to work out their differences. The space was built without a public staircase connecting two floors of the museum, as originally planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2023/07/24/mexican-museum-lawsuit-dismissed-audit-s-f.html\">San Francisco Business Times\u003c/a>\u003c/em> reported last year, the city acknowledged that it had intentionally not built the staircase, saying it “planned to sublease only half the space to the Mexican Museum due to growing concerns that the museum’s financial health would not allow it to build out the entire 48,000 square feet as envisioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What also hindered interior improvements, the museum says, was the audit itself. “We are all prepared to construct,” says Castañeda. “This audit was impeding us from doing a lot of things … and now we are being blamed for not doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While museum representatives say the OCII’s pause on grant reimbursement did not prevent them from approaching donors over the past year, the audit did cast a shadow over fundraising efforts, causing some donors to put certain time and milestone requirements on their pledges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The museum says it now needs the support of OCII. In order for their contractors to submit permit applications, it needs to know that OCII will reimburse those expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Controller’s Office will continue to monitor the museum’s progress, following up every six months on the implementation of their recommendations for record-keeping and grant disbursal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Mexican Museum’s representatives affirm that its rightful place is downtown, alongside institutions like the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Museum of the African Diaspora. “We want to decolonize this idea of a museum, traditionally, that is for the elite,” Castañeda says. “This museum is for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A city audit raises questions about the museum’s future; museum leaders say the audit has delayed their progress on reopening.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712689095,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1498},"headData":{"title":"What’s Going on at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum? | KQED","description":"A city audit raises questions about the museum’s future; museum leaders say the audit has delayed their progress on reopening.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"What’s Going on at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum?","datePublished":"2024-03-29T00:38:47.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-09T18:58:15.000Z","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/13954980/san-francisco-mexican-museum-audit-reopening","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s city auditor released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/OCII-RED%20The%20Mexican%20Museum%20Audit%20-%20Final%20Report%2003.21.24.pdf\">bombshell report\u003c/a> on San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mexicanmuseum.org/\">Mexican Museum\u003c/a>, claiming the 49-year-old nonprofit has misused city grant funds and made little progress on fundraising to reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum, meanwhile, says it “respectfully disagrees with much of the purported conclusions.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To even an average observer, the Mexican Museum has had noticeable troubles. It has been without a director since 2015, and without a home since 2018, when it left Fort Mason Center after falling behind on rent. Its new building at the corner of Third and Mission, adjacent to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFMOMA and other cultural institutions, remains empty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit’s findings, based on a yearlong investigation requested by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, raise questions about the museum’s ability to fundraise for or manage planned interior improvements at 706 Mission St., a city-owned space at the base of a luxury condo building. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the findings, and a subsequent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-mexican-museum-audit-19324002.php\">\u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> story\u003c/a>, the museum, currently without dedicated fundraising staff, is determined to open the first phase of its space by the end of 2025. To do so, its board chair Andrew M. Kluger said in an interview with KQED, requires the cooperation of the city. \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>“Supporting and clearing a path for the museum is a no-brainer for the city,” board secretary Xochitl Casteñeda told KQED. “It’s going to be a win-win situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955001\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TEN_201_RD_05-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the Mexican Museum’s planned interior improvements. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Mexican Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The history of the Mexican Museum’s move downtown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Mexican Museum was founded in 1975 at the corner of Folsom and 15th Streets by the late artist Peter Rodriguez. In 1982, it moved to Fort Mason Center, where it remained for 36 years, amassing a collection of over 16,500 objects, mostly through donations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Museum holdings span 2,500 years of history, from pre-Hispanic objects to contemporary artworks. The museum is dedicated to “the complexity and richness of Latino art and culture throughout the Americas.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13654906","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Mexican Museum has had periods of instability over the past three decades. A planned move to the Yerba Buena neighborhood to join the city’s other major cultural institutions has been in the works since 1993. In the mid-’90s, the museum was rocked by major staff turnover, accusations of misspent grant funds and lackluster fundraising for the planned move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2017, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13654906/mexican-museum-defends-collection-over-authenticity-concerns\">report commissioned by the museum board\u003c/a> found that only 83 of 2,000 artifacts from the museum’s pre-Hispanic collection could be authenticated. But those 80-some objects, the museum argued in a subsequent press release, are “significant and rare — one piece in the collection being so unique that nothing like it exists in Mexico.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since leaving Fort Mason in 2018, the collection has been in storage. The museum finally took possession of the first four floors of 706 Mission in July 2023. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Were grant funds misused?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city audit, officially titled “The Mexican Museum Has Not Demonstrated That It Can Meet the City’s Contractual Obligations, and OCII Has Not Effectively Enforced the Museum’s Grant Agreement” has two main findings: misuse of city grant funds and fundraising shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the museum entered into a $10.6 million grant agreement with the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfocii.org/homepage-landing\">Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure\u003c/a> (OCII) — funds meant to go towards “predevelopment and interior improvements” at the new location. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only $4 million of that grant has been spent, but the grant agreement expires June 14, 2024, leaving the museum less than three months to spend the remaining $6.6 million. (During the period of the audit, which began in March 2022, the museum says OCII paused all grant reimbursements.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955004\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TMM-INTERIOR-5_A-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of planned gallery space in the Mexican Museum. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Mexican Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The audit found that the museum has spent nearly $1 million of that grant on “ineligible and questionable activities,” including duplicate expenses, artwork storage and staff salaries. But a response from OCII tempers those findings, explaining that “some level of funding for [the museum’s] current operations was necessary to ‘benefit’ the proposed project in the former Yerba Buena Center Project Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, OCII argues, the grant \u003ci>should\u003c/i> cover things like storage and some operational costs — so that there might still \u003ci>be\u003c/i> a museum to move into 706 Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, the Mexican Museum says “all budgets and scope of work were not only approved by OCII staff, but also by the OCII commission.” Its representatives refute one duplicate expense and acknowledge the other as a clerical error “out of hundreds of submittals to OCII.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does the museum have adequate funds to reopen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audit found that the museum has raised only 2% of the nearly $49.8 million it’s estimated to need to reopen. But the museum says this is an old number, and that the new, lower estimate for construction is actually $38 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By their calculations, the museum says it still has $19.9 million left to raise. But it has made some progress in its search for new funding sources. “We’re the only museum outside of the Republic of Mexico that was granted a tax deductible status” by Mexico, says board chair Andrew Kluger. That means Mexican companies and individuals can donate up to 7% of the taxes they owe to the museum as a write-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum has employed a fundraising consultant through the end of 2024, and a representative says the museum has received over $200,000 in cash contributions in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda admits fundraising for the museum has an uphill journey to her dream goal of $100 million. “I need an army of people to help us,” she says. “You know, how many of the museums today — and I’m not just talking about construction, but operations — are in the red area? We need 10 pesos, $10, you know? Any contribution is welcome and will add to our dream of $100 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1901px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit.jpg\" alt=\"Composite image with empty building at left and gallery renderings at right\" width=\"1901\" height=\"1814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit.jpg 1901w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-800x763.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-1020x973.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-160x153.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-768x733.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/OCII-RED-The-Mexican-Museum-Audit-1536x1466.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1901px) 100vw, 1901px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exhibit included in the audit, showing the museum premises in July 2023 (left) and design plans (right). \u003ccite>(City Services Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why hasn’t the museum started construction?\n\u003c/h2>\u003cp>The Mexican Museum has a 66-year-lease with the city on the first four floors of 706 Mission (with the option to extend another 33 years), for what breaks down to about ¢.02 a year. But all interior improvements on the 48,000 square-foot space — turning the shell of the building into a climate-controlled art institution — are on the museum. So far, it has made no material progress on those improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum received keys to the space in July 2023. That was after a lawsuit over a missing staircase was dismissed, with the museum and the city agreeing to work out their differences. The space was built without a public staircase connecting two floors of the museum, as originally planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2023/07/24/mexican-museum-lawsuit-dismissed-audit-s-f.html\">San Francisco Business Times\u003c/a>\u003c/em> reported last year, the city acknowledged that it had intentionally not built the staircase, saying it “planned to sublease only half the space to the Mexican Museum due to growing concerns that the museum’s financial health would not allow it to build out the entire 48,000 square feet as envisioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What also hindered interior improvements, the museum says, was the audit itself. “We are all prepared to construct,” says Castañeda. “This audit was impeding us from doing a lot of things … and now we are being blamed for not doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While museum representatives say the OCII’s pause on grant reimbursement did not prevent them from approaching donors over the past year, the audit did cast a shadow over fundraising efforts, causing some donors to put certain time and milestone requirements on their pledges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The museum says it now needs the support of OCII. In order for their contractors to submit permit applications, it needs to know that OCII will reimburse those expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Controller’s Office will continue to monitor the museum’s progress, following up every six months on the implementation of their recommendations for record-keeping and grant disbursal. \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>Meanwhile, the Mexican Museum’s representatives affirm that its rightful place is downtown, alongside institutions like the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Museum of the African Diaspora. “We want to decolonize this idea of a museum, traditionally, that is for the elite,” Castañeda says. “This museum is for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954980/san-francisco-mexican-museum-audit-reopening","authors":["61"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_3648","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13955000","label":"arts"},"arts_13954709":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954709","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954709","score":null,"sort":[1711478721000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"alta-shameless-hussy-press-dies-at-81","title":"Alta, ‘Shameless Hussy’ and Founder of Nation's First Feminist Press, Dies at 81","publishDate":1711478721,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Alta, ‘Shameless Hussy’ and Founder of Nation’s First Feminist Press, Dies at 81 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1533px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with a short bob haircut stands in a collared shirt and pants at a large metal printing press in a cluttered room.\" width=\"1533\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-1020x1277.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-768x962.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-1226x1536.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1533px) 100vw, 1533px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta at her printing press, circa 1972. Founded in 1969, Shameless Hussy Press was first to publish the work of Ntozake Shange and others, and is recognized as the first feminist press in the United States. \u003ccite>(Paul Steinbrink)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alta Gerrey loved being in the thick of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The award-winning poet, gallerist and people magnet — who published under a single moniker, Alta — kicked down the door to the predominately male preserve of publishing in the early 1970s. With a keen eye for talent, she ushered some of the most consequential women writers of that turbulent era onto the literary scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She died March 10 at the age of 81, at home in Oakland, after a long struggle with cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954752\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-800x711.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-1020x907.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-768x683.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-1536x1366.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in the 1970s. Photographer unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kia Simon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many women who joined the feminist movement’s second wave in the late 1960s, Alta had been active in the civil rights movement. After realizing that she and her peers couldn’t get their work published, she launched \u003ca href=\"https://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/alta\">the nation’s first feminist press\u003c/a> in 1969, Shameless Hussy Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ribald name signaled both Alta’s irreverent sensibility and her openness to writers who were sidelined and ignored by mainstream publishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had been reading Anaïs Nin’s diaries, and I knew that she and Henry Miller had made books on a letterpress,” she told Irene Reti in an interview for an essay about Shameless Hussy Press for the UC Santa Cruz University Library, which holds the \u003ca href=\"https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf396nb2dv/admin/\">Shameless Hussy archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1211px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1211\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg 1211w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-800x1268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-1020x1617.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-160x254.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-768x1218.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-969x1536.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1211px) 100vw, 1211px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta’s 1980 anthology, ‘The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry.’ \u003ccite>(Crossing Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shameless Hussy was the first to publish Ntozake Shange’s \u003cem>for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf\u003c/em>, which went on to become a Tony-winning Broadway play. It introduced Mitsuye Yamada, whose \u003cem>Camp Notes and Other Poems\u003c/em> were written during and after her experience in Minidoka, the internment camp in Hunt, Idaho. Shameless Hussy was also the first to publish work by Pat Parker, Susan Griffin, and Mary Mackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mackey credits Alta with launching a career that now includes \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> best-selling novels and eight volumes of poetry. Even with Fred Cody serving as her agent, Mackey couldn’t find a publisher for her first novel, 1972’s \u003cem>Immersion\u003c/em>, a roman à clef about “a woman looking for her own personal and sexual liberation in the jungles of Costa Rica,” Mackey said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta looked at it and said, ‘I’m going to print it.’ She had the ability to look at a piece of work and not care who you knew, what class you were, or how you identified. She could see things in the work itself,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta, holding court in 1988. \u003ccite>(Harold Parrish)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Susan Griffin was part of an Oakland women’s group with Alta and had faced multiple rejections from mainstream publishing houses when Shameless Hussy published her books \u003cem>The Sink: Six Short Stories\u003c/em> and \u003cem>dear sky\u003c/em>, a collection of poems. Part of the book deal involved working with Alta’s AB Dick 360 offset press, which she moved to San Lorenzo after receiving multiple death threats from people offended by work she had published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would come out to San Lorenzo and help a couple of days in the printing process,” Griffin recalled. “She was a bit wacky, mostly in a great way, but sometimes not. Alta was just one of the most courageous people I knew. She was very very honest, unless she was on purpose not being honest. She would tell you about anything, say anything, or do anything she thought was right. That made her very effective regarding social change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid 1970s, Alta had returned to Oakland, where she continued printing batches of groundbreaking poetry, essays and novels until 1989. The press’s biggest money maker was \u003cem>Calamity Jane’s Letters to her Daughter\u003c/em>, a collection of uncertain provenance that got increased attention in 2016 when actor Ethan Hawke listed it as one of the best books he’d recently read. (Alta quickly printed up a batch of new copies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1536x1194.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Shameless Hussy Press titles included ‘Calamity Jane’s Letters to Her Daughter’ and Ntozake Shange’s ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.’ \u003ccite>(Shameless Hussy Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Running her own press gave Alta tremendous freedom, but it wasn’t a one-woman show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was part of the operation,” said her daughter Kia Simon, an independent video editor who sometimes works for KQED. “In elementary school we were making 10 cents an hour to fold books. It was a family business. My stepdad was pumping gas at a service station when they met, and he moved in with us. He was very focused on distribution, and the press actually paid for itself for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in Oakland, in 2010. \u003ccite>(Kia Simon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in 1942 in Reno, Nevada, Alta was 12 when her family moved to Berkeley so that her brother could attend the California School for the Blind. In the early 1960s, she dropped out of UC Berkeley to teach in the South. After the end of her first marriage to Danny Bosserman, she became caught up in the Bay Area’s literary ferment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her partnership with poet and noted Spanish-language translator John Oliver Simon ended in 1970, she founded a commune in Oakland for women seeking refuge from abusive relationships, which she wrote about enduring herself. Her second marriage to Daniel “Angel” Skarry in the early 1970s ended in divorce a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta’s 1980 book \u003ci>The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry\u003c/i> won a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Other volumes include 1990’s \u003ci>Traveling Tales: Flings I’ve Flung in Foreign Parts\u003c/i> and 2015’s \u003ci>Another Moment: Living Well with a Dread Disease and Everything That Grows Can Also Shrink\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in early 2024. \u003ccite>(Pam Strayer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Always looking to stay in the mix culturally, she opened Alta Galleria in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood in 2006, representing local artists and artists from China. She was forced to close the gallery due to the financial straits of the 2008 recession. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Alta spent many years studying healing and diet while contending with increasingly limited mobility. She was a regular presence in her Temescal neighborhood, hanging out for hours with other writers, academics and artists at Pizzaiolo, where she always had a copy of the \u003cem>Financial Times\u003c/em> and never seemed to pick up a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta had a superpower for eating for free at restaurants,” Simon said. “There are a bunch of places where she wouldn’t get a bill, and Pizzaiolo was one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta is survived by her daughters Lorelei Bosserman of Oakland and Kia Simon of San Francisco, as well as her granddaughter Tesla Rose Moyer. A memorial will be held at noon on April 21 at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shameless Hussy \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i am one of the true hussies;\u003cbr>\ni have no shame;\u003cbr>\ni was a housewife, and\u003cbr>\nstretched from the housiness of it (hus)\u003cbr>\nand the wifiness of (wif/hus-wif) to\u003cbr>\na woman who cant bear wifedom (hussy) / i\u003cbr>\ngrew beyond the house, like alice after eating\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies. exactly what i did; i ate\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies; lovers, poetry, moving my\u003cbr>\nbody in a new way, an old way, the way women\u003cbr>\nlike me have always moved, largely; with great\u003cbr>\nmotions beyond our allotted sphere, with more\u003cbr>\nneed than fear, and more grace than shame.[1]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>—By Alta\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From her East Bay press, the poet published groundbreaking work by Ntozake Shange and others. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712689062,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1328},"headData":{"title":"Alta, ‘Shameless Hussy’ and Founder of Nation's First Feminist Press, Dies at 81 | KQED","description":"From her East Bay press, the poet published groundbreaking work by Ntozake Shange and others. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Alta, ‘Shameless Hussy’ and Founder of Nation's First Feminist Press, Dies at 81","datePublished":"2024-03-26T18:45:21.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-09T18:57:42.000Z","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/13954709/alta-shameless-hussy-press-dies-at-81","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1533px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with a short bob haircut stands in a collared shirt and pants at a large metal printing press in a cluttered room.\" width=\"1533\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-1020x1277.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-768x962.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-1226x1536.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1533px) 100vw, 1533px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta at her printing press, circa 1972. Founded in 1969, Shameless Hussy Press was first to publish the work of Ntozake Shange and others, and is recognized as the first feminist press in the United States. \u003ccite>(Paul Steinbrink)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alta Gerrey loved being in the thick of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The award-winning poet, gallerist and people magnet — who published under a single moniker, Alta — kicked down the door to the predominately male preserve of publishing in the early 1970s. With a keen eye for talent, she ushered some of the most consequential women writers of that turbulent era onto the literary scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She died March 10 at the age of 81, at home in Oakland, after a long struggle with cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954752\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-800x711.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-1020x907.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-768x683.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-1536x1366.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in the 1970s. Photographer unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kia Simon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many women who joined the feminist movement’s second wave in the late 1960s, Alta had been active in the civil rights movement. After realizing that she and her peers couldn’t get their work published, she launched \u003ca href=\"https://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/alta\">the nation’s first feminist press\u003c/a> in 1969, Shameless Hussy Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ribald name signaled both Alta’s irreverent sensibility and her openness to writers who were sidelined and ignored by mainstream publishing.\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 had been reading Anaïs Nin’s diaries, and I knew that she and Henry Miller had made books on a letterpress,” she told Irene Reti in an interview for an essay about Shameless Hussy Press for the UC Santa Cruz University Library, which holds the \u003ca href=\"https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf396nb2dv/admin/\">Shameless Hussy archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1211px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1211\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg 1211w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-800x1268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-1020x1617.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-160x254.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-768x1218.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-969x1536.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1211px) 100vw, 1211px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta’s 1980 anthology, ‘The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry.’ \u003ccite>(Crossing Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shameless Hussy was the first to publish Ntozake Shange’s \u003cem>for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf\u003c/em>, which went on to become a Tony-winning Broadway play. It introduced Mitsuye Yamada, whose \u003cem>Camp Notes and Other Poems\u003c/em> were written during and after her experience in Minidoka, the internment camp in Hunt, Idaho. Shameless Hussy was also the first to publish work by Pat Parker, Susan Griffin, and Mary Mackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mackey credits Alta with launching a career that now includes \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> best-selling novels and eight volumes of poetry. Even with Fred Cody serving as her agent, Mackey couldn’t find a publisher for her first novel, 1972’s \u003cem>Immersion\u003c/em>, a roman à clef about “a woman looking for her own personal and sexual liberation in the jungles of Costa Rica,” Mackey said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta looked at it and said, ‘I’m going to print it.’ She had the ability to look at a piece of work and not care who you knew, what class you were, or how you identified. She could see things in the work itself,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta, holding court in 1988. \u003ccite>(Harold Parrish)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Susan Griffin was part of an Oakland women’s group with Alta and had faced multiple rejections from mainstream publishing houses when Shameless Hussy published her books \u003cem>The Sink: Six Short Stories\u003c/em> and \u003cem>dear sky\u003c/em>, a collection of poems. Part of the book deal involved working with Alta’s AB Dick 360 offset press, which she moved to San Lorenzo after receiving multiple death threats from people offended by work she had published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would come out to San Lorenzo and help a couple of days in the printing process,” Griffin recalled. “She was a bit wacky, mostly in a great way, but sometimes not. Alta was just one of the most courageous people I knew. She was very very honest, unless she was on purpose not being honest. She would tell you about anything, say anything, or do anything she thought was right. That made her very effective regarding social change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid 1970s, Alta had returned to Oakland, where she continued printing batches of groundbreaking poetry, essays and novels until 1989. The press’s biggest money maker was \u003cem>Calamity Jane’s Letters to her Daughter\u003c/em>, a collection of uncertain provenance that got increased attention in 2016 when actor Ethan Hawke listed it as one of the best books he’d recently read. (Alta quickly printed up a batch of new copies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1536x1194.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Shameless Hussy Press titles included ‘Calamity Jane’s Letters to Her Daughter’ and Ntozake Shange’s ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.’ \u003ccite>(Shameless Hussy Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Running her own press gave Alta tremendous freedom, but it wasn’t a one-woman show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was part of the operation,” said her daughter Kia Simon, an independent video editor who sometimes works for KQED. “In elementary school we were making 10 cents an hour to fold books. It was a family business. My stepdad was pumping gas at a service station when they met, and he moved in with us. He was very focused on distribution, and the press actually paid for itself for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in Oakland, in 2010. \u003ccite>(Kia Simon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in 1942 in Reno, Nevada, Alta was 12 when her family moved to Berkeley so that her brother could attend the California School for the Blind. In the early 1960s, she dropped out of UC Berkeley to teach in the South. After the end of her first marriage to Danny Bosserman, she became caught up in the Bay Area’s literary ferment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her partnership with poet and noted Spanish-language translator John Oliver Simon ended in 1970, she founded a commune in Oakland for women seeking refuge from abusive relationships, which she wrote about enduring herself. Her second marriage to Daniel “Angel” Skarry in the early 1970s ended in divorce a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta’s 1980 book \u003ci>The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry\u003c/i> won a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Other volumes include 1990’s \u003ci>Traveling Tales: Flings I’ve Flung in Foreign Parts\u003c/i> and 2015’s \u003ci>Another Moment: Living Well with a Dread Disease and Everything That Grows Can Also Shrink\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in early 2024. \u003ccite>(Pam Strayer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Always looking to stay in the mix culturally, she opened Alta Galleria in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood in 2006, representing local artists and artists from China. She was forced to close the gallery due to the financial straits of the 2008 recession. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Alta spent many years studying healing and diet while contending with increasingly limited mobility. She was a regular presence in her Temescal neighborhood, hanging out for hours with other writers, academics and artists at Pizzaiolo, where she always had a copy of the \u003cem>Financial Times\u003c/em> and never seemed to pick up a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta had a superpower for eating for free at restaurants,” Simon said. “There are a bunch of places where she wouldn’t get a bill, and Pizzaiolo was one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta is survived by her daughters Lorelei Bosserman of Oakland and Kia Simon of San Francisco, as well as her granddaughter Tesla Rose Moyer. A memorial will be held at noon on April 21 at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shameless Hussy \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i am one of the true hussies;\u003cbr>\ni have no shame;\u003cbr>\ni was a housewife, and\u003cbr>\nstretched from the housiness of it (hus)\u003cbr>\nand the wifiness of (wif/hus-wif) to\u003cbr>\na woman who cant bear wifedom (hussy) / i\u003cbr>\ngrew beyond the house, like alice after eating\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies. exactly what i did; i ate\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies; lovers, poetry, moving my\u003cbr>\nbody in a new way, an old way, the way women\u003cbr>\nlike me have always moved, largely; with great\u003cbr>\nmotions beyond our allotted sphere, with more\u003cbr>\nneed than fear, and more grace than shame.[1]\u003c/em>\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>\u003cstrong>—By Alta\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954709/alta-shameless-hussy-press-dies-at-81","authors":["86"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_1270","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_1143","arts_1091","arts_1496","arts_22041"],"featImg":"arts_13954754","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_13954297":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954297","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954297","score":null,"sort":[1710981176000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-symphony-musicians-urge-leadership-to-keep-esa-pekka-salonen","title":"San Francisco Symphony Musicians Urge Leadership to Keep Esa-Pekka Salonen","publishDate":1710981176,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco Symphony Musicians Urge Leadership to Keep Esa-Pekka Salonen | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony are calling for the Symphony’s board to retain Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Symphony announced on March 14 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954083/esa-pekka-salonen-steps-down-sf-symphony\">the upcoming 2024–25 season will be Salonen’s last as music director\u003c/a>, framing the departure as a simple contract expiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a statement shared with KQED, Salonen said, “I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the Board of Governors,” without elaborating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, the orchestra delivered a bouquet of flowers onstage to Salonen. After a performance on Saturday, musicians stationed outside Davies Symphony Hall distributed flyers to patrons, asking them to email Symphony leadership and “urge them to do what it takes to retain our world-class Maestro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 688px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/SFS.Flyer_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"912\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/SFS.Flyer_.jpg 688w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/SFS.Flyer_-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer distributed outside Davies Symphony Hall on Saturday, March 16, 2024, calling on patrons to urge the Symphony to keep Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dispute is widely understood to be about cost-cutting measures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the flyer and a press release distributed on Monday, orchestra musicians criticized the board’s decision to cancel the orchestra’s European tour and make cuts to its digital projects, educational initiatives and its nightclub-environment series, SoundBox. They added that the cancellations and cuts raise “serious questions about the future of the Symphony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a representative, Salonen declined comment to KQED. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13954083']“Esa-Pekka is a force for innovation and experimentation in classical music, and that kind of innovation requires investment,” said Catherine Payne, the Symphony’s piccolo player and a representative from the musicians’ artistic and action committees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne believes it’s still feasible for the Symphony board to reverse course and keep Salonen, who, at least to the orchestra, appears to want to stay, should certain conditions be met. According to the musicians’ flyer, Salonen had also personally argued for the Symphony to restore musicians’ salaries to pre-pandemic levels, like other major orchestras have done. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Symphony provided no immediate comment for this story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musicians argue that the Symphony’s endowment — currently among the largest of American orchestras, at $324.5 million — should be utilized to pay for restoring programs, touring and Salonen’s salary. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to publicly available records that the Symphony is required to file as a nonprofit, Salonen’s total compensation for the fiscal year ending in August of 2021 was $2,065,642, comparable to that of his predecessor, Michael Tilson Thomas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in black clothing stands against a black background, hands clasped at front.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954086\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, will exit his position in June 2025. \u003ccite>(Cody Pickens)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Large nonprofits are typically hesitant to dip into endowment funds to cover deficits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what is the endowment for?” asked Payne. “Is it to fund the music director’s artistic vision, or is it to just sit there and be added to, and grown and grown? The money in the endowment is to fund programing and the kind of projects that the orchestra is known for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/esa-pekka-salonens-resignation-san-180044875.html\">classical music critic Mark Swed of the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>, “Boards tend to be composed of highly successful individuals who are not always in the habit of listening to others, especially others who want to risk their money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Spivey, the Symphony’s CEO, told other outlets last week that he understood Salonen’s decision to leave in the wake of the cuts to programming, and that the organization faced “significant financial pressures” that had become “impossible to ignore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13953312']Salonen’s tenure began in 2020, during the pandemic, which worsened what Spivey characterized as already existing budget problems. Spivey announced the canceled European tour and other programming cuts to the orchestra in January of this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne said that the musicians have been “deeply troubled” by the board’s decisions, adding that Salonen, who had been attracted to the creative possibilities of the Bay Area’s technology sector, had plans for new digital projects with Apple and Google on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really a flagship institution that constantly pushes the boundaries of classical music, and is doing cutting-edge things,” said Payne, who has been with the orchestra for nearly 30 years. “It’s so sad to see all the progress that we’ve made over the decades, and how quickly that is going away.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Orchestra members say the cost-cutting decision raises ‘serious questions about the future of the Symphony.’","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711124200,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":764},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Symphony Musicians Urge Leadership to Keep Esa-Pekka Salonen | KQED","description":"Orchestra members say the cost-cutting decision raises ‘serious questions about the future of the Symphony.’","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"San Francisco Symphony Musicians Urge Leadership to Keep Esa-Pekka Salonen","datePublished":"2024-03-21T00:32:56.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-22T16:16:40.000Z","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/13954297/san-francisco-symphony-musicians-urge-leadership-to-keep-esa-pekka-salonen","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony are calling for the Symphony’s board to retain Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Symphony announced on March 14 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954083/esa-pekka-salonen-steps-down-sf-symphony\">the upcoming 2024–25 season will be Salonen’s last as music director\u003c/a>, framing the departure as a simple contract expiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a statement shared with KQED, Salonen said, “I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the Board of Governors,” without elaborating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, the orchestra delivered a bouquet of flowers onstage to Salonen. After a performance on Saturday, musicians stationed outside Davies Symphony Hall distributed flyers to patrons, asking them to email Symphony leadership and “urge them to do what it takes to retain our world-class Maestro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 688px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/SFS.Flyer_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"912\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/SFS.Flyer_.jpg 688w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/SFS.Flyer_-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer distributed outside Davies Symphony Hall on Saturday, March 16, 2024, calling on patrons to urge the Symphony to keep Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dispute is widely understood to be about cost-cutting measures. \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>In the flyer and a press release distributed on Monday, orchestra musicians criticized the board’s decision to cancel the orchestra’s European tour and make cuts to its digital projects, educational initiatives and its nightclub-environment series, SoundBox. They added that the cancellations and cuts raise “serious questions about the future of the Symphony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a representative, Salonen declined comment to KQED. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13954083","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Esa-Pekka is a force for innovation and experimentation in classical music, and that kind of innovation requires investment,” said Catherine Payne, the Symphony’s piccolo player and a representative from the musicians’ artistic and action committees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne believes it’s still feasible for the Symphony board to reverse course and keep Salonen, who, at least to the orchestra, appears to want to stay, should certain conditions be met. According to the musicians’ flyer, Salonen had also personally argued for the Symphony to restore musicians’ salaries to pre-pandemic levels, like other major orchestras have done. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Symphony provided no immediate comment for this story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musicians argue that the Symphony’s endowment — currently among the largest of American orchestras, at $324.5 million — should be utilized to pay for restoring programs, touring and Salonen’s salary. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to publicly available records that the Symphony is required to file as a nonprofit, Salonen’s total compensation for the fiscal year ending in August of 2021 was $2,065,642, comparable to that of his predecessor, Michael Tilson Thomas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in black clothing stands against a black background, hands clasped at front.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954086\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/03_ESA_PEKKA_II_SF_SYMPHONY_0557-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, will exit his position in June 2025. \u003ccite>(Cody Pickens)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Large nonprofits are typically hesitant to dip into endowment funds to cover deficits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what is the endowment for?” asked Payne. “Is it to fund the music director’s artistic vision, or is it to just sit there and be added to, and grown and grown? The money in the endowment is to fund programing and the kind of projects that the orchestra is known for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/esa-pekka-salonens-resignation-san-180044875.html\">classical music critic Mark Swed of the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>, “Boards tend to be composed of highly successful individuals who are not always in the habit of listening to others, especially others who want to risk their money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Spivey, the Symphony’s CEO, told other outlets last week that he understood Salonen’s decision to leave in the wake of the cuts to programming, and that the organization faced “significant financial pressures” that had become “impossible to ignore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13953312","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Salonen’s tenure began in 2020, during the pandemic, which worsened what Spivey characterized as already existing budget problems. Spivey announced the canceled European tour and other programming cuts to the orchestra in January of this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne said that the musicians have been “deeply troubled” by the board’s decisions, adding that Salonen, who had been attracted to the creative possibilities of the Bay Area’s technology sector, had plans for new digital projects with Apple and Google on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really a flagship institution that constantly pushes the boundaries of classical music, and is doing cutting-edge things,” said Payne, who has been with the orchestra for nearly 30 years. “It’s so sad to see all the progress that we’ve made over the decades, and how quickly that is going away.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954297/san-francisco-symphony-musicians-urge-leadership-to-keep-esa-pekka-salonen","authors":["185"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_1312","arts_10342","arts_6180","arts_10278","arts_1146","arts_1367"],"featImg":"arts_13849055","label":"arts"},"arts_13954306":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954306","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954306","score":null,"sort":[1710846037000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-bay-area-hip-hop-made-cozy-clothes-cool","title":"How Bay Area Hip-Hop Made Cozy Clothes Cool","publishDate":1710846037,"format":"aside","headTitle":"How Bay Area Hip-Hop Made Cozy Clothes Cool | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Person in white beanie, plaid jacket, dark shirt, cross-body bag opens jacket and smiles\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler poses for a photo in Oakland on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> Fit Check is a series about style and personal expression in the Bay Area. See other installments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/fit-check\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah David Coogler — stage name \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ogdayv/\">OG Dayv\u003c/a> — stands outside his grandmother’s house in February as thick, gray clouds condense all over Oakland. In a knit beanie and a quilted jacket, Coogler looks right at home beneath an overcast sky. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='fit-check' label='More from Fit Check']Even when he’s on stage performing tracks like “Limoncello” from the \u003ci>Wakanda Forever\u003c/i> soundtrack, Coogler keeps it comfy in a bucket hat, Dickies and a roomy trench coat that lightly billows as he moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would describe my sense of style as the three Cs: comfy, cozy and cool,” says Coogler, who was born in Oakland and now lives in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the Bay is known for its laid-back clothing, Coogler says we don’t give enough credit where credit is due — and he doesn’t mean to Patagonia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Person sits relaxed in corner of long green couch in living room\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler gets comfy in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Coogler, cozy and cool is Mac Dre on the cover of his 1991 EP \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://i.discogs.com/1mK5OvFj9P61mwJc7fOuu98vgSyjrVCErFnSSFR-87E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk2MzEx/Mi0xNTUyOTMzNDE2/LTQwNjUuanBlZw.jpeg\">California Livin’\u003c/a>\u003c/i>: posted up on a cushy, white couch in jeans and an oversized white baseball tee, leaning back on his elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just screams Bay Area,” Coogler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And whether Coogler is chilling at home playing \u003ci>Pokémon Platinum\u003c/i> on his Nintendo DS or heading out to a music video shoot, there are two cultural touchstones that guide his wardrobe: hip-hop and the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oversized, underrated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“From what I’ve observed in my 33 years, hip-hop is the most influential thing on the planet,” Coogler says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes its influence on what people wear. Cool, comfy Bay Area style is Keak Da Sneak wearing oversized T-shirts and jeans in the ’90s. It’s LaRussell sporting Crocs in 2024. And it’s rooted in a fusion of hip-hop and skater culture that began in the mid-’90s. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in beanie with cross-body back looks out windows\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler wears a favorite beanie on a rainy day in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coogler points to the mid-aughts Bay Area rap group The Pack, who came on the scene just as he was figuring out his sense of style, as the embodiment of that fusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Pack — they bridged the gap between rap culture and skate culture,” he says. “They came out of Berkeley and they were baggy: big hoodies, big jeans and the Vans, which was such a crazy polarizing look during a time when everyone was wearing Jordans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The longshoreman-meets-Black Panther aesthetic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Coogler’s grandmother’s house, the only decor on the porch is a worn-out “Welcome to Wakanda” doormat — an ode to Coogler’s older brother, co-writer and director of the \u003ci>Black Panther\u003c/i> movies, Ryan Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doormat doesn’t mark the only noteworthy entryway in the neighborhood. Just a few blocks away is the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/04/the-black-panther-partys-original-headquarters-in-north-oakland-may-be-replaced-with-apartments/\">original headquarters of the Black Panther Party\u003c/a> on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, another part of Coogler’s family history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11830384']Long before the late Chadwick Boseman took up the mantle of T’Challa, a man named Clarence Thomas (not the Supreme Court Justice) was a student at San Francisco State University in the 1960s. Thomas participated in a wave of student protests organized by the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">the creation of the school’s ethnic studies department\u003c/a> (the country’s first). He’s also Coogler’s uncle and style icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Panthers never looked disheveled, rusty or dusty — it’s casual clothing, but it’s \u003ci>neat\u003c/i>,” Coogler said.\u003ci> “\u003c/i>And that’s what I always noticed about my uncle — he was always put together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler sports a Burberry rain jacket and his favorite gold jewelry staples. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Clarence wore hardy, wide-legged work pants and a dark blue, wool coat that kept him warm while he worked at the Port of Oakland as a longshoreman, Coogler remembers. And when his uncle wasn’t working — like when he took a young Coogler to a Black history exhibit in Oakland — he carried himself with that same composed ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when he wore jeans they would be crisp,” Coogler remembers. “Always had a nice leather belt, nice shirt, really nice jacket and maybe a turtleneck.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a throughline between the practical longshoreman workwear and the semi-professional, Ivy-leaning sensibility of the Black Panthers that cohered in Uncle Clarence’s style. And it resonated with Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Coogler’s Dickies, his roomy houndstooth jacket and his collared dress shirt echo all those entwined memories and local family histories, he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in a houndstooth coat he wears during performances. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The displacement of style\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Coogler was just a few years old, his parents couldn’t afford to live in Oakland anymore, despite their strong community ties. Like many other Black families, they were forced to move elsewhere — in the Coogler family’s case, to Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh man, so when you walk through Oakland now, when you walk through Berkeley now, you can feel the culture shift,” he says. “I remember growing up in the Bay in the ’90s and the early 2000s — I remember it was minorities everywhere, not just Black people, and what happens is we get priced out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler sees the corporate techy style that’s overtaken the Bay as part and parcel of that precipitous gentrification, which has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/01/oakland-home-histories-a-legacy-of-black-homeownership-in-maxwell-park/\">decreased Black homeownership in Oakland\u003c/a> enormously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a real Bay head, you know that Bay Area people don’t rock Patagonia like that — \u003cem>new\u003c/em> Bay Area people do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in plaid jacket, jeans, beanie and sunglasses\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in his ideal silhouette: comfy with a little structure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gorp-y outerwear and soft basics are still very much a part of the Bay’s vernacular. But the regional brand staples for Coogler are like him — they came up in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wore North Face, but the reason we wore North Face is because we got a North Face dealer in Berkeley,” he explains. “Gap hoodies — big Bay Area thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler wants to move back to Oakland one day, but he recognizes how it’s changed; it’s apparent in how people dress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you remove the people that make a place special, you lose the culture,” he says, “you lose the feel, you lose the zest, the flavor.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"OG Dayv explains why ‘OGs don’t rock Patagonia’ and how hip-hop and the Black Panthers impacted regional style.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711507198,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1182},"headData":{"title":"How Bay Area Hip-Hop Made Cozy Clothes Cool | KQED","description":"OG Dayv explains why ‘OGs don’t rock Patagonia’ and how hip-hop and the Black Panthers impacted regional style.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How Bay Area Hip-Hop Made Cozy Clothes Cool","datePublished":"2024-03-19T11:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-27T02:39:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Fit Check","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/fit-check","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/741d3b2f-239c-487d-ae11-b13b0109e642/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13954306/how-bay-area-hip-hop-made-cozy-clothes-cool","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Person in white beanie, plaid jacket, dark shirt, cross-body bag opens jacket and smiles\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler poses for a photo in Oakland on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> Fit Check is a series about style and personal expression in the Bay Area. See other installments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/fit-check\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah David Coogler — stage name \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ogdayv/\">OG Dayv\u003c/a> — stands outside his grandmother’s house in February as thick, gray clouds condense all over Oakland. In a knit beanie and a quilted jacket, Coogler looks right at home beneath an overcast sky. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"fit-check","label":"More from Fit Check "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even when he’s on stage performing tracks like “Limoncello” from the \u003ci>Wakanda Forever\u003c/i> soundtrack, Coogler keeps it comfy in a bucket hat, Dickies and a roomy trench coat that lightly billows as he moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would describe my sense of style as the three Cs: comfy, cozy and cool,” says Coogler, who was born in Oakland and now lives in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the Bay is known for its laid-back clothing, Coogler says we don’t give enough credit where credit is due — and he doesn’t mean to Patagonia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Person sits relaxed in corner of long green couch in living room\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler gets comfy in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Coogler, cozy and cool is Mac Dre on the cover of his 1991 EP \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://i.discogs.com/1mK5OvFj9P61mwJc7fOuu98vgSyjrVCErFnSSFR-87E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk2MzEx/Mi0xNTUyOTMzNDE2/LTQwNjUuanBlZw.jpeg\">California Livin’\u003c/a>\u003c/i>: posted up on a cushy, white couch in jeans and an oversized white baseball tee, leaning back on his elbow.\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>“It just screams Bay Area,” Coogler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And whether Coogler is chilling at home playing \u003ci>Pokémon Platinum\u003c/i> on his Nintendo DS or heading out to a music video shoot, there are two cultural touchstones that guide his wardrobe: hip-hop and the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oversized, underrated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“From what I’ve observed in my 33 years, hip-hop is the most influential thing on the planet,” Coogler says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes its influence on what people wear. Cool, comfy Bay Area style is Keak Da Sneak wearing oversized T-shirts and jeans in the ’90s. It’s LaRussell sporting Crocs in 2024. And it’s rooted in a fusion of hip-hop and skater culture that began in the mid-’90s. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in beanie with cross-body back looks out windows\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler wears a favorite beanie on a rainy day in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coogler points to the mid-aughts Bay Area rap group The Pack, who came on the scene just as he was figuring out his sense of style, as the embodiment of that fusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Pack — they bridged the gap between rap culture and skate culture,” he says. “They came out of Berkeley and they were baggy: big hoodies, big jeans and the Vans, which was such a crazy polarizing look during a time when everyone was wearing Jordans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The longshoreman-meets-Black Panther aesthetic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Coogler’s grandmother’s house, the only decor on the porch is a worn-out “Welcome to Wakanda” doormat — an ode to Coogler’s older brother, co-writer and director of the \u003ci>Black Panther\u003c/i> movies, Ryan Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doormat doesn’t mark the only noteworthy entryway in the neighborhood. Just a few blocks away is the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/04/the-black-panther-partys-original-headquarters-in-north-oakland-may-be-replaced-with-apartments/\">original headquarters of the Black Panther Party\u003c/a> on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, another part of Coogler’s family history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11830384","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Long before the late Chadwick Boseman took up the mantle of T’Challa, a man named Clarence Thomas (not the Supreme Court Justice) was a student at San Francisco State University in the 1960s. Thomas participated in a wave of student protests organized by the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">the creation of the school’s ethnic studies department\u003c/a> (the country’s first). He’s also Coogler’s uncle and style icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Panthers never looked disheveled, rusty or dusty — it’s casual clothing, but it’s \u003ci>neat\u003c/i>,” Coogler said.\u003ci> “\u003c/i>And that’s what I always noticed about my uncle — he was always put together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler sports a Burberry rain jacket and his favorite gold jewelry staples. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Clarence wore hardy, wide-legged work pants and a dark blue, wool coat that kept him warm while he worked at the Port of Oakland as a longshoreman, Coogler remembers. And when his uncle wasn’t working — like when he took a young Coogler to a Black history exhibit in Oakland — he carried himself with that same composed ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when he wore jeans they would be crisp,” Coogler remembers. “Always had a nice leather belt, nice shirt, really nice jacket and maybe a turtleneck.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a throughline between the practical longshoreman workwear and the semi-professional, Ivy-leaning sensibility of the Black Panthers that cohered in Uncle Clarence’s style. And it resonated with Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Coogler’s Dickies, his roomy houndstooth jacket and his collared dress shirt echo all those entwined memories and local family histories, he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in a houndstooth coat he wears during performances. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The displacement of style\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Coogler was just a few years old, his parents couldn’t afford to live in Oakland anymore, despite their strong community ties. Like many other Black families, they were forced to move elsewhere — in the Coogler family’s case, to Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh man, so when you walk through Oakland now, when you walk through Berkeley now, you can feel the culture shift,” he says. “I remember growing up in the Bay in the ’90s and the early 2000s — I remember it was minorities everywhere, not just Black people, and what happens is we get priced out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler sees the corporate techy style that’s overtaken the Bay as part and parcel of that precipitous gentrification, which has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/01/oakland-home-histories-a-legacy-of-black-homeownership-in-maxwell-park/\">decreased Black homeownership in Oakland\u003c/a> enormously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a real Bay head, you know that Bay Area people don’t rock Patagonia like that — \u003cem>new\u003c/em> Bay Area people do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in plaid jacket, jeans, beanie and sunglasses\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in his ideal silhouette: comfy with a little structure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gorp-y outerwear and soft basics are still very much a part of the Bay’s vernacular. But the regional brand staples for Coogler are like him — they came up in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wore North Face, but the reason we wore North Face is because we got a North Face dealer in Berkeley,” he explains. “Gap hoodies — big Bay Area thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler wants to move back to Oakland one day, but he recognizes how it’s changed; it’s apparent in how people dress.\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>“When you remove the people that make a place special, you lose the culture,” he says, “you lose the feel, you lose the zest, the flavor.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954306/how-bay-area-hip-hop-made-cozy-clothes-cool","authors":["11872"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_76","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_1696","arts_10278","arts_10422","arts_3961"],"featImg":"arts_13954326","label":"source_arts_13954306"},"arts_13953248":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13953248","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13953248","score":null,"sort":[1710518428000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"topless-at-the-condor-movie-review-carol-doda-documentary-north-beach-history","title":"‘Topless at the Condor’ Profiles Carol Doda and the Tawdry Raunch of 1960s North Beach","publishDate":1710518428,"format":"aside","headTitle":"‘Topless at the Condor’ Profiles Carol Doda and the Tawdry Raunch of 1960s North Beach | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1857px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful blond woman wearing a white coat, miniskirt and boots under a marquee advertising Carol Doda at the Condor.\" width=\"1857\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-scaled.jpg 1857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-800x1103.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1020x1406.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-768x1059.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1114x1536.jpg 1114w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1485x2048.jpg 1485w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1920x2647.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1857px) 100vw, 1857px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Doda poses outside the Condor in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Tim Boxer/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re familiar with North Beach anecdotes, you might have heard the one about the man who died on the Condor Club’s infamous hydraulic piano. The story goes that in 1983, Jimmy “the Beard” Ferrozzo was having sex with a girlfriend on the piano when he accidentally flipped a switch and wound up crushed against the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many revelations in the new documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951078/carol-doda-documentary-san-francisco-release-date\">Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, is that Ferrozzo was, more likely, murdered by the mob. Friends confirm that he was in trouble with some very dangerous people at the time, and news footage featured in the film demonstrates that police originally considered the death a homicide. What initially seems like a quirky little legend takes on a much more sinister air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13951126']That, in a nutshell, is the message of \u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em>: much of what’s been passed down as amusing stories actually belies a much darker underbelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary follows Doda, the first woman to dance topless in North Beach, who sparked a craze in 1964 that ultimately transformed the neighborhood. Her story here initially seems a lighthearted one. The dainty, energetic, go-go-dancing cocktail waitress first bared her breasts at the Condor by wearing the most preposterous swimsuit in history — designer Rudi Gernreich’s \u003ca href=\"https://us.rudigernreich.com/products/monokini\">monokini\u003c/a>. Prior to that, nightclub dancers always covered their nipples with burlesque-style pasties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doda was such an instant sensation that topless novelty acts quickly emerged all over North Beach. Other bars scrambled to keep up with the Condor, introducing their own spins on Doda’s act. (The topless band at Tipsy’s is a particular highlight here. As is Judy Mamou, the dancer who incorporated snakes and a monkey into her routine.) Soon the entire neighborhood had topless fever; a menswear store opened with topless assistants, along with a topless shoeshine stand. (Those last two proved to be a step too far for local authorities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTITyLpW9nI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, unfortunately, is right about where the fun ends. \u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> reveals that Doda was the product of childhood neglect and an abusive early marriage. Doda also apparently had two children during that marriage — a fact that comes up almost as an aside towards the end of the movie. (\u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> would have benefited from more on that topic.) Doda spent her life desperately seeking love wherever she could find it — and her audience was the most immediate and consistent source. That emotional reliance on the limelight, paired with a dearth of other job options ultimately left Doda overworked and underpaid. Though her likeness graced the Condor’s sign for decades, the club’s owners cruelly locked her out of any revenue shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bleaker, it was the Condor’s publicist Davey Rosenberg who first encouraged Doda — a naturally very small-chested woman — to get silicon injections. Though she spent her life making jokes about the largeness of her enhanced assets, behind the scenes, the injections caused Doda lifelong pain, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/goodpasture-syndrome\">the disease that ultimately killed her\u003c/a> in 2015. (A rival topless dancer interviewed in the film followed Doda’s lead, had her breasts pumped full of silicon and lost both of them at the age of 30 after developing gangrene.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_10755111']Though \u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> does its best to explore whether Doda’s decision to take it all off could be considered a feminist act, the issue is far too complex for the film’s soundbites. Within Doda’s story, there are seeds of joy: bold women exercising the freedom to show off whatever body parts they wanted. The film attempts to draw a parallel between second-wave feminists who burned their bras and Doda’s decision to free her nipples. But this point is a stretch, at best. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another line of argument, the film weighs dancers’ individual financial gains against the collective effects of normalized objectification. Unfortunately, despite some solid input from commentators like Wednesday Martin and Florence Williams, there simply isn’t enough time here to effectively unpack questions of empowerment and exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the film does more successfully is transport the audience back to the sights, sounds, lights and music of 1960s North Beach. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936538/sly-stone-memoir-autobiography-thank-you-ben-greenman-questlove-funk\">Sly Stone\u003c/a>’s history in the neighborhood is a welcome addition to the narrative, as is the music of Teddy & George. The documentary is also outstanding when it comes to exploring Doda’s moxie, personal motivations and drive to survive. Some of the nuggets uncovered here about Doda’s later life — like the fact that she performed with a metal band at the DNA Lounge in the 1980s — are captivating. Any time interview footage of Doda is used, her charisma and complexity shine through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doda was a product of her time and circumstances and she paid dearly for both her boundary-pushing and endearing, devil-may-care attitude. The film works hard over its 100 minutes to pay Doda her dues and immortalize her life and legacy in a meaningful way. But, like so many who flocked to North Beach in the ’60s in search of a good time, viewers of \u003cem>Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> might be surprised to find out just how much grime was lurking underneath all of that glitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor’ opens at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/carol-doda-topless-at-the-condor/\">Roxie Theater\u003c/a> (3117 16th St.) and San Rafael’s \u003ca href=\"https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/carol-doda-topless-at-the-condor/\">Smith Rafael Film Center\u003c/a> (1118 4th St.) on March 22, 2024. The documentary expands to screens nationwide on March 29.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Empowerment and exploitation commingle in an entertaining new documentary about the legendary North Beach dancer.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710875474,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":975},"headData":{"title":"‘Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor’ Review: Glitz, Grime, ’60s SF | KQED","description":"Empowerment and exploitation commingle in an entertaining new documentary about the legendary North Beach dancer.","ogTitle":"‘Topless at the Condor’ Profiles Carol Doda and the Raunch of 1960s North Beach","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"‘Topless at the Condor’ Profiles Carol Doda and the Raunch of 1960s North Beach","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"‘Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor’ Review: Glitz, Grime, ’60s SF %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"‘Topless at the Condor’ Profiles Carol Doda and the Tawdry Raunch of 1960s North Beach","datePublished":"2024-03-15T16:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-19T19:11:14.000Z","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/13953248/topless-at-the-condor-movie-review-carol-doda-documentary-north-beach-history","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1857px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful blond woman wearing a white coat, miniskirt and boots under a marquee advertising Carol Doda at the Condor.\" width=\"1857\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-scaled.jpg 1857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-800x1103.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1020x1406.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-768x1059.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1114x1536.jpg 1114w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1485x2048.jpg 1485w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-72626589-1920x2647.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1857px) 100vw, 1857px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Doda poses outside the Condor in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Tim Boxer/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re familiar with North Beach anecdotes, you might have heard the one about the man who died on the Condor Club’s infamous hydraulic piano. The story goes that in 1983, Jimmy “the Beard” Ferrozzo was having sex with a girlfriend on the piano when he accidentally flipped a switch and wound up crushed against the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many revelations in the new documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951078/carol-doda-documentary-san-francisco-release-date\">Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, is that Ferrozzo was, more likely, murdered by the mob. Friends confirm that he was in trouble with some very dangerous people at the time, and news footage featured in the film demonstrates that police originally considered the death a homicide. What initially seems like a quirky little legend takes on a much more sinister air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13951126","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That, in a nutshell, is the message of \u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em>: much of what’s been passed down as amusing stories actually belies a much darker underbelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary follows Doda, the first woman to dance topless in North Beach, who sparked a craze in 1964 that ultimately transformed the neighborhood. Her story here initially seems a lighthearted one. The dainty, energetic, go-go-dancing cocktail waitress first bared her breasts at the Condor by wearing the most preposterous swimsuit in history — designer Rudi Gernreich’s \u003ca href=\"https://us.rudigernreich.com/products/monokini\">monokini\u003c/a>. Prior to that, nightclub dancers always covered their nipples with burlesque-style pasties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doda was such an instant sensation that topless novelty acts quickly emerged all over North Beach. Other bars scrambled to keep up with the Condor, introducing their own spins on Doda’s act. (The topless band at Tipsy’s is a particular highlight here. As is Judy Mamou, the dancer who incorporated snakes and a monkey into her routine.) Soon the entire neighborhood had topless fever; a menswear store opened with topless assistants, along with a topless shoeshine stand. (Those last two proved to be a step too far for local authorities.)\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>\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/tTITyLpW9nI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/tTITyLpW9nI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>That, unfortunately, is right about where the fun ends. \u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> reveals that Doda was the product of childhood neglect and an abusive early marriage. Doda also apparently had two children during that marriage — a fact that comes up almost as an aside towards the end of the movie. (\u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> would have benefited from more on that topic.) Doda spent her life desperately seeking love wherever she could find it — and her audience was the most immediate and consistent source. That emotional reliance on the limelight, paired with a dearth of other job options ultimately left Doda overworked and underpaid. Though her likeness graced the Condor’s sign for decades, the club’s owners cruelly locked her out of any revenue shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bleaker, it was the Condor’s publicist Davey Rosenberg who first encouraged Doda — a naturally very small-chested woman — to get silicon injections. Though she spent her life making jokes about the largeness of her enhanced assets, behind the scenes, the injections caused Doda lifelong pain, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/goodpasture-syndrome\">the disease that ultimately killed her\u003c/a> in 2015. (A rival topless dancer interviewed in the film followed Doda’s lead, had her breasts pumped full of silicon and lost both of them at the age of 30 after developing gangrene.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_10755111","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> does its best to explore whether Doda’s decision to take it all off could be considered a feminist act, the issue is far too complex for the film’s soundbites. Within Doda’s story, there are seeds of joy: bold women exercising the freedom to show off whatever body parts they wanted. The film attempts to draw a parallel between second-wave feminists who burned their bras and Doda’s decision to free her nipples. But this point is a stretch, at best. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another line of argument, the film weighs dancers’ individual financial gains against the collective effects of normalized objectification. Unfortunately, despite some solid input from commentators like Wednesday Martin and Florence Williams, there simply isn’t enough time here to effectively unpack questions of empowerment and exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the film does more successfully is transport the audience back to the sights, sounds, lights and music of 1960s North Beach. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936538/sly-stone-memoir-autobiography-thank-you-ben-greenman-questlove-funk\">Sly Stone\u003c/a>’s history in the neighborhood is a welcome addition to the narrative, as is the music of Teddy & George. The documentary is also outstanding when it comes to exploring Doda’s moxie, personal motivations and drive to survive. Some of the nuggets uncovered here about Doda’s later life — like the fact that she performed with a metal band at the DNA Lounge in the 1980s — are captivating. Any time interview footage of Doda is used, her charisma and complexity shine through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doda was a product of her time and circumstances and she paid dearly for both her boundary-pushing and endearing, devil-may-care attitude. The film works hard over its 100 minutes to pay Doda her dues and immortalize her life and legacy in a meaningful way. But, like so many who flocked to North Beach in the ’60s in search of a good time, viewers of \u003cem>Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> might be surprised to find out just how much grime was lurking underneath all of that glitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor’ opens at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/carol-doda-topless-at-the-condor/\">Roxie Theater\u003c/a> (3117 16th St.) and San Rafael’s \u003ca href=\"https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/carol-doda-topless-at-the-condor/\">Smith Rafael Film Center\u003c/a> (1118 4th St.) on March 22, 2024. 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