SFAC Votes to Remove ‘Dragon Relief’ Over Broadway Tunnel
A New Piece of Public Art Makes a Point Above Yerba Buena Island
New Art on BART Reminds Us We All Can Help End Domestic Violence
This Juneteenth, Sculptures Honoring African Ancestors Arrive in Golden Gate Park
Artist-Led Task Force Wants SF to Rethink Approach to Public Monuments
SFAC Apologizes to Lava Thomas for Mishandling Maya Angelou Monument
In Oakland, Plunging Hotel Tax Revenue Threatens to Gut Arts Funding
‘Everything She Touched,’ Emotionally Textured Biography of Ruth Asawa
San Francisco's Search for a Maya Angelou Monument is Back at Square One
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But letters, petitions and public comment directly from Chinatown community members and neighborhood organizations made it clear this was a unique opportunity to reassess the sculpture’s suitability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big moment for the community,” said Jenny Leung, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/\">Chinese Culture Center\u003c/a>, of the committee’s decision. “There’s so much structural exclusion of people of color from making these big decisions about public spaces and public art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CCC was one of seven Chinatown organizations that wrote a letter arguing for the sculpture’s removal, stating that \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> “does not inspire community pride, does not have a foundation in community process, and holds little value toward community health and wellness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti Bowler, who died in 1992, designed \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> as one of the first commissions under the city’s Art Enrichment Ordinance, which sets aside a percentage of a building’s budget for public art. The 56-foot-long ribbon of metal was fabricated in Santa Rosa by Wade Lux and installed in 1970 on the Clarence Mayhew-designed health center. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891329/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-dragon-sitting-on-top-of-s-fs-broadway-tunnel\">KQED previously reported\u003c/a> that Bowler’s husband, architect J. Carson Bowler, was once employed by Mayhew, who selected Bowler for the $27,500 project.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Visual Arts Committee member JD Beltran noted in the Nov. 15 meeting, the selection of Bowler, in consultation with seemingly no other stakeholders than the architect, is no longer the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the six decades since this was created, our process as a commission has completely changed — for the better,” said Beltran. “We don’t even take a step forward until we actually consult with the community. And I think now that we do have those processes in place … since this is public art and it is community art, I think we should honor that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to questioning the relationship between Bowler’s artwork and the neighborhood served by the health center, letters and public comment touched on concerns for the safety and privacy of patients; a desire to honor Bowler’s original design; and potential distractions to drivers and pedestrians. Ultimately, no comments emerged as strongly in favor of relocating the sculpture to another part of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Architectural rendering of glass-fronted building with red wrapping shape and Chinese characters on column\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the planned upgrades to the Chinatown Public Health Center, as seen from Mason Street. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Public Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the city may make an attempt to keep \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> in public view, large pieces of public artwork do not often reemerge from storage. According to their presentation at the meeting, the SFAC has removed 12 large-scale public artworks over the past 20 years — only one has been successfully relocated to another city property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing an an artwork like \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> in storage, then, is not a decision to be taken lightly. In recent years, the SFAC has worked to build back public trust after the high-profile debacle of Lava Thomas’ rejected, then re-awarded \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889089/sfac-awards-the-maya-angelou-monument-to-lava-thomas-finally\">Maya Angelou monument\u003c/a>, when top-down decision making seemed to fly in the face of both public desires and the SFAC’s own commissioning processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFAC staff members noted that the amount of community outreach done around \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> went beyond their usual approach, and was informed by their work with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/content/monuments-and-memorials-advisory-committee\">Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, established in 2020 to reevaluate the city’s historical markers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seismic upgrades and a modernization of the health center are planned to begin in spring 2025 and last two years, pending voter approval of a bond measure on the November 2024 ballot. The SFAC will have a budget of $691,461 for new art enrichment in the building, which could include an exterior mosaic, interior murals and the purchase of two-dimensional work. The CCC will work with the SFAC to facilitate applications by monolingual artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.papercutlady.com/index.html\">Yumei Hou\u003c/a>, whose \u003ca href=\"https://sfartscommission.org/experience-art/projects/central-subway-public-art-program\">artwork\u003c/a> in the Central Subway’s Chinatown station is based on her traditional cut paper pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we can speak more holistically about what it means to have an artwork that is representative of the community, having something that represents their story, having something that actually excites and galvanizes the community to be a part of,” said CCC Deputy Director Hoi Leung at the Nov. 15 meeting. “The community really cares about art if they’re educated and empowered to think about art.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After an outpouring of community feedback, the SFAC took the opportunity to reassess the 1970 sculpture.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705003072,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":851},"headData":{"title":"SFAC Votes to Remove ‘Dragon Relief’ Over Broadway Tunnel | KQED","description":"After an outpouring of community feedback, the SFAC took the opportunity to reassess the 1970 sculpture.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"SFAC Votes to Remove ‘Dragon Relief’ Over Broadway Tunnel","datePublished":"2023-11-20T22:58:38.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T19:57:52.000Z","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/13938291/sfac-remove-dragon-relief-broadway-tunnel-chinatown","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a Visual Arts Committee meeting on Nov. 15, members of the San Francisco Arts Commission voted unanimously to remove the bronze and brass dragon sculpture over the Broadway Tunnel and place the public artwork in storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision was prompted by planned upgrades to the 1968 Chinatown Public Health Center, which include enlarging the windows over the tunnel and eliminating the wall on which the sculpture is currently mounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11891329","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Also on the table was the option of relocating Patti Bowler’s \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> to the building’s roof or in a vertical rearrangement to its Broadway-facing side. But letters, petitions and public comment directly from Chinatown community members and neighborhood organizations made it clear this was a unique opportunity to reassess the sculpture’s suitability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big moment for the community,” said Jenny Leung, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/\">Chinese Culture Center\u003c/a>, of the committee’s decision. “There’s so much structural exclusion of people of color from making these big decisions about public spaces and public art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CCC was one of seven Chinatown organizations that wrote a letter arguing for the sculpture’s removal, stating that \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> “does not inspire community pride, does not have a foundation in community process, and holds little value toward community health and wellness.”\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>Patti Bowler, who died in 1992, designed \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> as one of the first commissions under the city’s Art Enrichment Ordinance, which sets aside a percentage of a building’s budget for public art. The 56-foot-long ribbon of metal was fabricated in Santa Rosa by Wade Lux and installed in 1970 on the Clarence Mayhew-designed health center. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891329/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-dragon-sitting-on-top-of-s-fs-broadway-tunnel\">KQED previously reported\u003c/a> that Bowler’s husband, architect J. Carson Bowler, was once employed by Mayhew, who selected Bowler for the $27,500 project.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Visual Arts Committee member JD Beltran noted in the Nov. 15 meeting, the selection of Bowler, in consultation with seemingly no other stakeholders than the architect, is no longer the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the six decades since this was created, our process as a commission has completely changed — for the better,” said Beltran. “We don’t even take a step forward until we actually consult with the community. And I think now that we do have those processes in place … since this is public art and it is community art, I think we should honor that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to questioning the relationship between Bowler’s artwork and the neighborhood served by the health center, letters and public comment touched on concerns for the safety and privacy of patients; a desire to honor Bowler’s original design; and potential distractions to drivers and pedestrians. Ultimately, no comments emerged as strongly in favor of relocating the sculpture to another part of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Architectural rendering of glass-fronted building with red wrapping shape and Chinese characters on column\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/CPHCUpgrade2_2000-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the planned upgrades to the Chinatown Public Health Center, as seen from Mason Street. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Public Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the city may make an attempt to keep \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> in public view, large pieces of public artwork do not often reemerge from storage. According to their presentation at the meeting, the SFAC has removed 12 large-scale public artworks over the past 20 years — only one has been successfully relocated to another city property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing an an artwork like \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> in storage, then, is not a decision to be taken lightly. In recent years, the SFAC has worked to build back public trust after the high-profile debacle of Lava Thomas’ rejected, then re-awarded \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889089/sfac-awards-the-maya-angelou-monument-to-lava-thomas-finally\">Maya Angelou monument\u003c/a>, when top-down decision making seemed to fly in the face of both public desires and the SFAC’s own commissioning processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFAC staff members noted that the amount of community outreach done around \u003ci>Dragon Relief\u003c/i> went beyond their usual approach, and was informed by their work with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/content/monuments-and-memorials-advisory-committee\">Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, established in 2020 to reevaluate the city’s historical markers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seismic upgrades and a modernization of the health center are planned to begin in spring 2025 and last two years, pending voter approval of a bond measure on the November 2024 ballot. The SFAC will have a budget of $691,461 for new art enrichment in the building, which could include an exterior mosaic, interior murals and the purchase of two-dimensional work. The CCC will work with the SFAC to facilitate applications by monolingual artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.papercutlady.com/index.html\">Yumei Hou\u003c/a>, whose \u003ca href=\"https://sfartscommission.org/experience-art/projects/central-subway-public-art-program\">artwork\u003c/a> in the Central Subway’s Chinatown station is based on her traditional cut paper pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we can speak more holistically about what it means to have an artwork that is representative of the community, having something that represents their story, having something that actually excites and galvanizes the community to be a part of,” said CCC Deputy Director Hoi Leung at the Nov. 15 meeting. “The community really cares about art if they’re educated and empowered to think about art.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13938291/sfac-remove-dragon-relief-broadway-tunnel-chinatown","authors":["61"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_2654","arts_3835","arts_2628","arts_1146","arts_1879"],"featImg":"arts_13938298","label":"arts"},"arts_13930310":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13930310","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13930310","score":null,"sort":[1686356076000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hiroshi-sugimoto-yerba-buena-island-public-art","title":"A New Piece of Public Art Makes a Point Above Yerba Buena Island","publishDate":1686356076,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A New Piece of Public Art Makes a Point Above Yerba Buena Island | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>While crossing the Bay Bridge or looking out from the Embarcadero, you may have noticed a silvery, pointy, futuristic-looking shape atop the western part of Yerba Buena Island. Below is everything you need to know about the new piece of public art by world-renowned artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/\">Hiroshi Sugimoto\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em>. Sugimoto says an infinity point “means the edge of the universe.” Contemplating that idea, he designed a conceptual piece that he describes as “two lines coming closer and closer, but never meeting. But finding that the meeting point was at the infinity point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugimoto is best known for his black-and-white photography, but over his long career, he has also created a number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/site-specific-arts\">site-specific works\u003c/a> like the one that now sits atop Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-800x1260.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white coat and jeans stands in front of a large sculpture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-768x1209.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, with his work, “Point of Infinity.” \u003ccite>(Sugimoto Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For this work, he also drew inspiration from Treasure Island’s history. The island was originally built to host the Golden Gate International Exposition (aka the World’s Fair) in 1939, which featured a sundial sculpture called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/f42e9a38615e276872ede846cc59b6d2/\">Tower of the Sun\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Sugimoto says a sense of time is a key concept in all his art and \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> is also meant to serve as a sundial on the spring and autumnal equinoxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this can be like an ancient ruin. A symbol of this 21st century civilization,” Sugimoto said at a press event earlier this week. “Just in case humans disappeared, this piece would remain, as we look at the Egyptian pyramids [from] 5,000 years before. So I hope this can be a symbol of our time of civilization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is it a sculpture or …?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, yes. But more specifically, Sugimoto describes it as “a mathematical model, [that] has a sculptural form.” He’s done this kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/mathematical-models\">mathematical modeling\u003c/a> with his art before; he actually used math equations to achieve this design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The base is made out of concrete panels reinforced by glass fiber that gives it a slight mosaic look when seen up close, and the upper part is mirror-polished marine-grade stainless steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How big is \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em>?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 69 feet tall with a 23-foot base that tapers to the point, which is just a teeny-tiny seven-eighths of an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13930380 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View.jpg\" alt=\"A gray and silver sculpture in a park.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Point of Infinity” sculpture in Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island with a view of Treasure Island. \u003ccite>(Sugimoto Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s it doing on Yerba Buena Island?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> is the inaugural artwork commissioned for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/content/treasure-island-arts-master-plan\">Treasure Island Art Program\u003c/a>, a project run by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/treasure-islandyerba-buena-island-development-project\">Treasure Island Development Authority\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_10826872']In 2005, when plans to redevelop Treasure Island were taking shape, Jill Manton, the director of the SFAC’s Public Art Trust and Special Initiatives, successfully lobbied then-mayor Gavin Newsom to apply a city rule that new building projects set aside one percent of the construction budget for public art. That translates to a fund of up to $50 million for the Treasure Island Art Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program issued a public call for artwork, Sugimoto was one of the first to apply, and was ultimately selected from a finalist pool that included artists Chakaia Booker and Andy Goldsworthy. A number of other to-be-revealed works are currently in progress, but Sugimoto’s \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> leads the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw his sculpture on the site, I was moved to tears,” Manton said. “Because it was really the fulfillment of a dream that I had to make Treasure Island this incredible destination for the arts. And what better way than to start with a truly landmark, monumental artwork like this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"A sculpture on a hill at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of “Point of Infinity” on Yerba Buena Island at night. \u003ccite>(Sugimoto Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where exactly is it located? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> sits in \u003ca href=\"https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/hilltop\">Hilltop Park\u003c/a>, one of two new parks designed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/\">Hood Design Studio\u003c/a>, the firm of Bay Area landscape architect and MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant recipient \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2019/walter-hood#searchresults\">Walter Hood\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can anyone go to the park and see it up close?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon! Both the park and artwork are expected to open to the public in November. In addition to seeing \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em>, you will have a beautiful 360-degree view of the Bay. So when you visit, you could say you’re looking to infinity … and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Have you spied a silvery spire from the freeway? We’ve got the answers to all your questions about Hiroshi Sugimoto’s new sculpture.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005390,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":765},"headData":{"title":"New Public Art Makes a Point Above Yerba Buena Island | KQED","description":"Have you spied a silvery spire from the freeway? 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Below is everything you need to know about the new piece of public art by world-renowned artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/\">Hiroshi Sugimoto\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em>. Sugimoto says an infinity point “means the edge of the universe.” Contemplating that idea, he designed a conceptual piece that he describes as “two lines coming closer and closer, but never meeting. But finding that the meeting point was at the infinity point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugimoto is best known for his black-and-white photography, but over his long career, he has also created a number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/site-specific-arts\">site-specific works\u003c/a> like the one that now sits atop Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-800x1260.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white coat and jeans stands in front of a large sculpture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity-768x1209.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Sugimoto-with-Point-of-Infinity.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, with his work, “Point of Infinity.” \u003ccite>(Sugimoto Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For this work, he also drew inspiration from Treasure Island’s history. The island was originally built to host the Golden Gate International Exposition (aka the World’s Fair) in 1939, which featured a sundial sculpture called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/f42e9a38615e276872ede846cc59b6d2/\">Tower of the Sun\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Sugimoto says a sense of time is a key concept in all his art and \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> is also meant to serve as a sundial on the spring and autumnal equinoxes.\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 think this can be like an ancient ruin. A symbol of this 21st century civilization,” Sugimoto said at a press event earlier this week. “Just in case humans disappeared, this piece would remain, as we look at the Egyptian pyramids [from] 5,000 years before. So I hope this can be a symbol of our time of civilization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is it a sculpture or …?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, yes. But more specifically, Sugimoto describes it as “a mathematical model, [that] has a sculptural form.” He’s done this kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/mathematical-models\">mathematical modeling\u003c/a> with his art before; he actually used math equations to achieve this design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The base is made out of concrete panels reinforced by glass fiber that gives it a slight mosaic look when seen up close, and the upper part is mirror-polished marine-grade stainless steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How big is \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em>?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 69 feet tall with a 23-foot base that tapers to the point, which is just a teeny-tiny seven-eighths of an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13930380 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View.jpg\" alt=\"A gray and silver sculpture in a park.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinty-Alt-View-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Point of Infinity” sculpture in Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island with a view of Treasure Island. \u003ccite>(Sugimoto Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s it doing on Yerba Buena Island?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> is the inaugural artwork commissioned for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/content/treasure-island-arts-master-plan\">Treasure Island Art Program\u003c/a>, a project run by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/treasure-islandyerba-buena-island-development-project\">Treasure Island Development Authority\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_10826872","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2005, when plans to redevelop Treasure Island were taking shape, Jill Manton, the director of the SFAC’s Public Art Trust and Special Initiatives, successfully lobbied then-mayor Gavin Newsom to apply a city rule that new building projects set aside one percent of the construction budget for public art. That translates to a fund of up to $50 million for the Treasure Island Art Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program issued a public call for artwork, Sugimoto was one of the first to apply, and was ultimately selected from a finalist pool that included artists Chakaia Booker and Andy Goldsworthy. A number of other to-be-revealed works are currently in progress, but Sugimoto’s \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> leads the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw his sculpture on the site, I was moved to tears,” Manton said. “Because it was really the fulfillment of a dream that I had to make Treasure Island this incredible destination for the arts. And what better way than to start with a truly landmark, monumental artwork like this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"A sculpture on a hill at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Point-of-Infinity-Nighttime.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of “Point of Infinity” on Yerba Buena Island at night. \u003ccite>(Sugimoto Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where exactly is it located? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em> sits in \u003ca href=\"https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/hilltop\">Hilltop Park\u003c/a>, one of two new parks designed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/\">Hood Design Studio\u003c/a>, the firm of Bay Area landscape architect and MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant recipient \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2019/walter-hood#searchresults\">Walter Hood\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can anyone go to the park and see it up close?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon! Both the park and artwork are expected to open to the public in November. In addition to seeing \u003cem>Point of Infinity\u003c/em>, you will have a beautiful 360-degree view of the Bay. So when you visit, you could say you’re looking to infinity … and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13930310/hiroshi-sugimoto-yerba-buena-island-public-art","authors":["11296"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_2628","arts_1879","arts_1925"],"featImg":"arts_13930376","label":"arts"},"arts_13925483":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13925483","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13925483","score":null,"sort":[1677258016000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lets-talk-about-us-domestic-violence-bart-muni-amanda-phingbodhipakkiya-asian-womens-shelter","title":"New Art on BART Reminds Us We All Can Help End Domestic Violence","publishDate":1677258016,"format":"audio","headTitle":"New Art on BART Reminds Us We All Can Help End Domestic Violence | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>If you’ve taken BART or Muni in San Francisco or Oakland over the past week, you might have noticed the affirming messages on station walls, billboards and bus shelters in Tagalog, Spanish, Chinese and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love shouldn’t hurt,” reads a poster featuring an illustration of a mother kissing her smiling daughter on the forehead. “Be the friend who brings it up,” reads another depicting two friends holding each other in an emotional embrace. Colorful spring flowers surround the figures, inviting feelings of renewed hopefulness and warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alonglastname.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya\u003c/a> created these artworks for a new domestic violence awareness campaign in partnership with Asian Women’s Shelter and BART, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.letstalkaboutus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Rather than positioning abuse as a private issue between partners or family members, Phingbodhipakkiya takes a different approach: calling on the public to foster more nurturing relationships and address violence in our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through art, we just boldly say that domestic violence prevention is a shared responsibility, and that really everyone has a role,” Phingbodhipakkiya tells KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_.jpg 1555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya hugs Justine Choy of Hella Heart Oakland at the press conference for ‘Let’s Talk About Us’ on Feb. 15 at Powell Street BART Station. \u003ccite>(Kristie Song/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in Georgia to Thai and Indonesian parents, Phingbodhipakkiya is currently in a civic practice artist residency with San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. The Brooklyn-based artist works across mediums — murals, textiles, sculptures, public art campaigns and participatory installations — with the intention of “invoking joy and belonging in the face of grief and injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I think my work dares us to imagine shared futures that redefine inherited narratives,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaws.org/\">Asian Women’s Shelter\u003c/a> — a 35-year-old San Francisco organization that offers emergency shelter, case management, a crisis line and other services in multiple languages — approached Phingbodhipakkiya to collaborate after seeing her 2020 public art campaign in New York. Titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/media/pair-believe.page\">\u003cem>I Still Believe in Our City\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, her billboards — placed on subways and in prominent locations like Times Square — depicted Asian Americans standing up against COVID scapegoating and xenophobia. An outtake from \u003cem>I Still Believe in Our City\u003c/em> even landed on a \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5947622/time-cover-anti-asian-american-violence-atlanta-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2021 cover of \u003ci>TIME\u003c/i> magazine\u003c/a>, accompanying a feature about the United States’ legacy of anti-Asian violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Asian Women’s Shelter invited Phingbodhipakkiya to collaborate, the artist didn’t just get to work behind her desktop in New York — she came to San Francisco and conducted deep listening sessions with the shelter’s multicultural, multilingual staff. Some of their insights took her creative process to places she didn’t expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kept on hearing stories of fraught relationships between Asian mothers and daughters and how that is filled with tension,” she says. “I wanted to honor those stories, because I think mental health is something that is still quite stigmatized within AAPI communities. And oftentimes when mental health isn’t addressed, it can manifest as harm against the ones that we love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieces from Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya and Asian Women’s Shelter’s ‘Let’s Talk About Us’ campaign are on view at over a dozen BART stations, aboard trains, at bus shelters and on billboards in San Francisco neighborhoods such as SoMa, Chinatown and the Mission. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other images for the campaign feature a family looking hopefully towards the future with the words “Everyone Deserves Respect,” and a woman making strong eye contact with the viewer while imploring, “Just Listen.” A joyous, collage-like assembly of babies, fathers, grandmothers and other loved ones reminds us: “Our Community Our Responsibility.” Each poster accompanies a QR code that takes viewers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.letstalkaboutus.org/art-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resources from Asian Women’s Shelter\u003c/a>. [aside postid='arts_13918908,arts_13925416']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things I appreciate most about Asian Women’s Shelter is that when we support survivors, there’s no judgment towards the survivors, not even towards the abusers,” said Saara Ahmed, community resource coordinator at Asian Women’s Shelter, at the Feb. 15 press conference for \u003cem>Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/em> at the Powell Street BART Station. “At AWS, we recognize that each and every one of us is capable of screwing up, of making mistakes and causing harm. It doesn’t make us bad people. But if we accept that harm as a norm, if we accept the normalcy of violence and refuse to change, it’s bound to repeat itself over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of mass shootings that shook Asian communities in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay in January, Phingbodhipakkiya and Asian Women’s Shelter want to emphasize the connection between intimate forms of abuse and large-scale violence. “When over \u003ca href=\"https://efsgv.org/press/study-two-thirds-of-mass-shootings-linked-to-domestic-violence/\">60% of mass shooters have had a history of domestic violence\u003c/a>, it’s hard not to wonder how many people have accepted that individual’s bad behavior before,” Ahmed continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925494\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters from ‘Let’s Talk About Us’ at Powell Street BART Station. \u003ccite>(Katie Thyken)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By encouraging difficult conversations and pointing people to experts who can help, \u003cem>Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/em> aims to foster the kind of frank, compassionate discussions needed to make change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that \u003cem>Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/em> has gone up, Phingbodhipakkiya’s work in the Bay Area is not over. As part of her Asian Art Museum residency, the artist is currently working on an archive of AAPI stories called \u003cem>Let the Future Speak\u003c/em>, where she’s interviewing local Asian and Asian American residents from ages five to 95. Much like the public art campaign, it falls in line with her hopeful vision of art as a means of imagining a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been asking people to reflect on their inheritance — so their pasts, their histories,” Phingbodhipakkiya says, “and also thinking about how the past shapes their present, and how it can seed our shared futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kristie Song contributed reporting to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.letstalkaboutus.org/\">Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/a>‘ is on view at over a dozen BART stations in San Francisco and Oakland, aboard trains and on Muni bus shelters and billboards in San Francisco neighborhoods such as SoMa, the Mission and Chinatown. Learn more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaws.org/resources\">Asian Women’s Shelter’s resources here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Let's Talk About Us' by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya and Asian Women's Shelter points riders to resources.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005806,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1101},"headData":{"title":"New Art on BART Reminds Us We All Can Help End Domestic Violence | KQED","description":"'Let's Talk About Us' by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya and Asian Women's Shelter points riders to resources.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"New Art on BART Reminds Us We All Can Help End Domestic Violence","datePublished":"2023-02-24T17:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:43:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/2f016e6f-e3cd-4406-bfec-afba013e8b77/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13925483/lets-talk-about-us-domestic-violence-bart-muni-amanda-phingbodhipakkiya-asian-womens-shelter","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve taken BART or Muni in San Francisco or Oakland over the past week, you might have noticed the affirming messages on station walls, billboards and bus shelters in Tagalog, Spanish, Chinese and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love shouldn’t hurt,” reads a poster featuring an illustration of a mother kissing her smiling daughter on the forehead. “Be the friend who brings it up,” reads another depicting two friends holding each other in an emotional embrace. Colorful spring flowers surround the figures, inviting feelings of renewed hopefulness and warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alonglastname.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya\u003c/a> created these artworks for a new domestic violence awareness campaign in partnership with Asian Women’s Shelter and BART, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.letstalkaboutus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Rather than positioning abuse as a private issue between partners or family members, Phingbodhipakkiya takes a different approach: calling on the public to foster more nurturing relationships and address violence in our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through art, we just boldly say that domestic violence prevention is a shared responsibility, and that really everyone has a role,” Phingbodhipakkiya tells KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/new-lets-talk-about-us-edited-6_.jpg 1555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya hugs Justine Choy of Hella Heart Oakland at the press conference for ‘Let’s Talk About Us’ on Feb. 15 at Powell Street BART Station. \u003ccite>(Kristie Song/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in Georgia to Thai and Indonesian parents, Phingbodhipakkiya is currently in a civic practice artist residency with San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. The Brooklyn-based artist works across mediums — murals, textiles, sculptures, public art campaigns and participatory installations — with the intention of “invoking joy and belonging in the face of grief and injustice.”\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>“And I think my work dares us to imagine shared futures that redefine inherited narratives,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaws.org/\">Asian Women’s Shelter\u003c/a> — a 35-year-old San Francisco organization that offers emergency shelter, case management, a crisis line and other services in multiple languages — approached Phingbodhipakkiya to collaborate after seeing her 2020 public art campaign in New York. Titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/media/pair-believe.page\">\u003cem>I Still Believe in Our City\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, her billboards — placed on subways and in prominent locations like Times Square — depicted Asian Americans standing up against COVID scapegoating and xenophobia. An outtake from \u003cem>I Still Believe in Our City\u003c/em> even landed on a \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5947622/time-cover-anti-asian-american-violence-atlanta-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2021 cover of \u003ci>TIME\u003c/i> magazine\u003c/a>, accompanying a feature about the United States’ legacy of anti-Asian violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Asian Women’s Shelter invited Phingbodhipakkiya to collaborate, the artist didn’t just get to work behind her desktop in New York — she came to San Francisco and conducted deep listening sessions with the shelter’s multicultural, multilingual staff. Some of their insights took her creative process to places she didn’t expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kept on hearing stories of fraught relationships between Asian mothers and daughters and how that is filled with tension,” she says. “I wanted to honor those stories, because I think mental health is something that is still quite stigmatized within AAPI communities. And oftentimes when mental health isn’t addressed, it can manifest as harm against the ones that we love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/respect-BART.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieces from Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya and Asian Women’s Shelter’s ‘Let’s Talk About Us’ campaign are on view at over a dozen BART stations, aboard trains, at bus shelters and on billboards in San Francisco neighborhoods such as SoMa, Chinatown and the Mission. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other images for the campaign feature a family looking hopefully towards the future with the words “Everyone Deserves Respect,” and a woman making strong eye contact with the viewer while imploring, “Just Listen.” A joyous, collage-like assembly of babies, fathers, grandmothers and other loved ones reminds us: “Our Community Our Responsibility.” Each poster accompanies a QR code that takes viewers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.letstalkaboutus.org/art-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resources from Asian Women’s Shelter\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13918908,arts_13925416","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things I appreciate most about Asian Women’s Shelter is that when we support survivors, there’s no judgment towards the survivors, not even towards the abusers,” said Saara Ahmed, community resource coordinator at Asian Women’s Shelter, at the Feb. 15 press conference for \u003cem>Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/em> at the Powell Street BART Station. “At AWS, we recognize that each and every one of us is capable of screwing up, of making mistakes and causing harm. It doesn’t make us bad people. But if we accept that harm as a norm, if we accept the normalcy of violence and refuse to change, it’s bound to repeat itself over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of mass shootings that shook Asian communities in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay in January, Phingbodhipakkiya and Asian Women’s Shelter want to emphasize the connection between intimate forms of abuse and large-scale violence. “When over \u003ca href=\"https://efsgv.org/press/study-two-thirds-of-mass-shootings-linked-to-domestic-violence/\">60% of mass shooters have had a history of domestic violence\u003c/a>, it’s hard not to wonder how many people have accepted that individual’s bad behavior before,” Ahmed continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925494\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/0N0A8390.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters from ‘Let’s Talk About Us’ at Powell Street BART Station. \u003ccite>(Katie Thyken)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By encouraging difficult conversations and pointing people to experts who can help, \u003cem>Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/em> aims to foster the kind of frank, compassionate discussions needed to make change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that \u003cem>Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/em> has gone up, Phingbodhipakkiya’s work in the Bay Area is not over. As part of her Asian Art Museum residency, the artist is currently working on an archive of AAPI stories called \u003cem>Let the Future Speak\u003c/em>, where she’s interviewing local Asian and Asian American residents from ages five to 95. Much like the public art campaign, it falls in line with her hopeful vision of art as a means of imagining a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been asking people to reflect on their inheritance — so their pasts, their histories,” Phingbodhipakkiya says, “and also thinking about how the past shapes their present, and how it can seed our shared futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kristie Song contributed reporting to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>\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>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.letstalkaboutus.org/\">Let’s Talk About Us\u003c/a>‘ is on view at over a dozen BART stations in San Francisco and Oakland, aboard trains and on Muni bus shelters and billboards in San Francisco neighborhoods such as SoMa, the Mission and Chinatown. Learn more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaws.org/resources\">Asian Women’s Shelter’s resources here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13925483/lets-talk-about-us-domestic-violence-bart-muni-amanda-phingbodhipakkiya-asian-womens-shelter","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_2455","arts_10278","arts_2628"],"featImg":"arts_13925484","label":"arts"},"arts_13896901":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13896901","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13896901","score":null,"sort":[1620349764000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-juneteenth-sculptures-honoring-african-ancestors-arrive-in-golden-gate-park","title":"This Juneteenth, Sculptures Honoring African Ancestors Arrive in Golden Gate Park","publishDate":1620349764,"format":"standard","headTitle":"This Juneteenth, Sculptures Honoring African Ancestors Arrive in Golden Gate Park | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>If everything goes as planned, come June 19, Oakland artist and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seeblackwomxn.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">See Black Womxn\u003c/a> co-founder \u003ca href=\"https://danakingart.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dana King\u003c/a> will unveil a 350-piece art installation in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse. Sponsored by the Museum of the African Diaspora and the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.monumentalreckoning.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monumental Reckoning\u003c/a>\u003c/i> will surround the site of the toppled Francis Scott Key statue, and remain in place for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King is currently working to complete the installation for its Juneteenth unveiling, fashioning four-foot-tall sculptures from steel and vinyl that represent the 350 African ancestors who were abducted and forcibly taken to the United States as the country’s first enslaved people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really see that people acknowledge the need for a piece that speaks truth to the story of African descendants and brings their memories out into the public,” King says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11826151']The Key statue was removed from the park after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826151/how-do-we-heal-toppling-the-myth-of-junipero-serra\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">protesters pulled it down\u003c/a> last Juneteenth, along with statues of Father Junípero Serra and Ulysses S. Grant. In addition to penning the poem that became the national anthem, Key was a slaveholder who opposed abolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with King’s installation, the phrase “Lift Every Voice” will shine on top of the Spreckels Temple of Music. The phrase comes from James Weldon Johnson’s poem \u003cem>Lift Every Voice and Sing\u003c/em>, which has been known as “The Black National Anthem” for over a century. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Davis, CEO of the nonprofit organization Illuminate, says the decision to use this phrase fell into place because it directly opposes Key’s legacy as the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found it interesting that we could be celebrating the Black national anthem at one end of the music concourse, while there was this vacated monument to the national anthem at the other end,” Davis reflects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/533256187\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ci>Monumental Reckoning\u003c/i> project has received support from a number of Black women leaders, including Mayor London Breed and former Black Panther member, Fredrika Newton. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King has relied on neighbors and other artists to help finish the hundreds of sculptures by June. She says she has to complete around 80 sculptures a week to stay on schedule. Illuminate launched a \u003ca href=\"https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/monumental-reckoning\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> on May 1 to help fund the installation, aiming to raise $350,000.[aside postID='arts_13889089'] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m actually a little overwhelmed at the approval and the ease of this process,” King says. “It reinforces my faith in humankind because I do believe that we are much better than we are. It really is proof of a shift, of a reckoning.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project will still need to be approved by San Francisco’s planning commission and the historical preservation committee early next month. It’s expected to be exhibited through June of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is an integral answer to the struggle, because if one aspect is missing, then it’s not a hundred percent,” King emphasizes. “We all have to work in the arenas that we do and continue to fight for equity and justice.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dana King’s ‘Monumental Reckoning’ will circle the site of the toppled Francis Scott Key statue.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008411,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":537},"headData":{"title":"This Juneteenth, Sculptures Honoring African Ancestors Arrive in Golden Gate Park | KQED","description":"Dana King’s ‘Monumental Reckoning’ will circle the site of the toppled Francis Scott Key statue.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"This Juneteenth, Sculptures Honoring African Ancestors Arrive in Golden Gate Park","datePublished":"2021-05-07T01:09:24.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:26:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Gabriella Frenes","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13896901/this-juneteenth-sculptures-honoring-african-ancestors-arrive-in-golden-gate-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If everything goes as planned, come June 19, Oakland artist and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seeblackwomxn.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">See Black Womxn\u003c/a> co-founder \u003ca href=\"https://danakingart.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dana King\u003c/a> will unveil a 350-piece art installation in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse. Sponsored by the Museum of the African Diaspora and the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.monumentalreckoning.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monumental Reckoning\u003c/a>\u003c/i> will surround the site of the toppled Francis Scott Key statue, and remain in place for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King is currently working to complete the installation for its Juneteenth unveiling, fashioning four-foot-tall sculptures from steel and vinyl that represent the 350 African ancestors who were abducted and forcibly taken to the United States as the country’s first enslaved people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really see that people acknowledge the need for a piece that speaks truth to the story of African descendants and brings their memories out into the public,” King says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11826151","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Key statue was removed from the park after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826151/how-do-we-heal-toppling-the-myth-of-junipero-serra\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">protesters pulled it down\u003c/a> last Juneteenth, along with statues of Father Junípero Serra and Ulysses S. Grant. In addition to penning the poem that became the national anthem, Key was a slaveholder who opposed abolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with King’s installation, the phrase “Lift Every Voice” will shine on top of the Spreckels Temple of Music. The phrase comes from James Weldon Johnson’s poem \u003cem>Lift Every Voice and Sing\u003c/em>, which has been known as “The Black National Anthem” for over a century. \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>Ben Davis, CEO of the nonprofit organization Illuminate, says the decision to use this phrase fell into place because it directly opposes Key’s legacy as the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found it interesting that we could be celebrating the Black national anthem at one end of the music concourse, while there was this vacated monument to the national anthem at the other end,” Davis reflects.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"vimeoLink","attributes":{"named":{"vimeoId":"533256187"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ci>Monumental Reckoning\u003c/i> project has received support from a number of Black women leaders, including Mayor London Breed and former Black Panther member, Fredrika Newton. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King has relied on neighbors and other artists to help finish the hundreds of sculptures by June. She says she has to complete around 80 sculptures a week to stay on schedule. Illuminate launched a \u003ca href=\"https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/monumental-reckoning\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> on May 1 to help fund the installation, aiming to raise $350,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13889089","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m actually a little overwhelmed at the approval and the ease of this process,” King says. “It reinforces my faith in humankind because I do believe that we are much better than we are. It really is proof of a shift, of a reckoning.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project will still need to be approved by San Francisco’s planning commission and the historical preservation committee early next month. It’s expected to be exhibited through June of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is an integral answer to the struggle, because if one aspect is missing, then it’s not a hundred percent,” King emphasizes. “We all have to work in the arenas that we do and continue to fight for equity and justice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13896901/this-juneteenth-sculptures-honoring-african-ancestors-arrive-in-golden-gate-park","authors":["byline_arts_13896901"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_10422","arts_2427","arts_7465","arts_2628","arts_901"],"featImg":"arts_13896916","label":"arts"},"arts_13887448":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13887448","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13887448","score":null,"sort":[1602023427000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"artist-led-task-force-wants-sf-to-rethink-approach-to-public-monuments","title":"Artist-Led Task Force Wants SF to Rethink Approach to Public Monuments","publishDate":1602023427,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Artist-Led Task Force Wants SF to Rethink Approach to Public Monuments | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s been a particularly tumultuous year for San Francisco’s public monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870742/sfac-maya-angelou-women-statues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debacle surrounding the commissioning of a memorial honoring the poet and activist Maya Angelou\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toppling and defacing of several bronze statues representing the country’s colonial history\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the city’s hasty removal of the imposing bronze statue of Christopher Columbus by Coit Tower\u003c/a>, have opened up questions about San Francisco’s relationship with its monuments and whether some of the artworks in the municipal collection should exist at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As city officials trundle along with the slow process of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883431/city-to-evaluate-public-monuments-but-community-questions-its-track-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reviewing all 87 monuments\u003c/a> under their purview—and have yet to announce the set of criteria they plan to use to assess the artworks—a group of creative industry workers known collectively as the \u003ca href=\"https://newmonumentstaskforce.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Monument Taskforce\u003c/a> have taken it upon themselves to conduct their own parallel report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being artists, we can move much faster than the city,” says \u003ca href=\"https://cheyenneconcepcion.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheyenne Concepcion\u003c/a>, the San Francisco artist and designer who founded the task force and is the report’s main author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887501\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco-based artist and designer Cheyenne Concepcion is the founder of the New Monuments Taskforce and the main author of ‘The Relic Report,’ the task force’s first publication. \u003ccite>(Quentin Langlois)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the city’s ongoing official survey, the task force (which Concepcion playfully calls a “fantastical municipal body”) came out this week with \u003ca href=\"https://files.cargocollective.com/c800012/TheRelicReport-PartOne.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Relic Report: An Unofficial Municipal Study of SF’s Monuments\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The slender volume groups the 87 monuments under six headings. Each of the six sections features images of the categorized artworks as well as written commentary on the groupings. It’s like a slimmed-down version of an Audubon bird guide, but for public memorials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Relic Report\u003c/em>’s taxonomy includes colonial statues (or “Original Gentrifiers”—OGs—in \u003cem>Relic Report\u003c/em> parlance) such as the 1939 statue of St. Francis of Assisi in Golden Gate Park; war memorials like the five memorializing the Spanish-American war; statues to political and cultural icons including Robert Louis Stevenson, Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare; non-representational monuments like pop artist George Segal’s \u003ci>The Holocaust\u003c/i>, a 1982 memorial made from bronze, wire and concrete, installed in Lincoln Park; and a group of misfits, like the Volunteer Fireman Memorial, a 1932 sculpture depicting a trio of firefighters mounted on a marble plinth located in Washington Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can scroll through a complete list of the city’s monuments \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/file/219/5/2195-Civic%20Art%20Collection%20Monuments%20and%20Memorials%20DETAIL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the largest group in the \u003cem>Relic Report\u003c/em> by far is “The Boys Club”—a section devoted to monuments mostly depicting dead white men. “Monuments tell us about who we are, where we have been,” Concepcion writes in her report. “So what does that entail when there are three women and fifty-three men represented in the San Francisco Civic Art Collection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concepcion says she hopes grouping the city’s collection in this way will help members of the public see patterns in San Francisco’s approach to commissioning monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there’s a correlation between that number of monuments and their messaging,” she says. “So the fact that there are fewer modern monuments tells us that maybe that’s not as important to us. And then the fact that the most patriarchal monuments is the biggest group, maybe that kind of weighs heavier in terms of the level of importance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force currently consists of \u003ca href=\"https://newmonumentstaskforce.org/About\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12 members\u003c/a> representing an array of backgrounds, including Elizabeth Gessel, director of public programs at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Museum of the African Diaspora\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a> deputy director Xavier G. Buck. The majority of the members are Bay Area-based. But there are some exceptions, like Paul Farber, director of \u003ca href=\"https://monumentlab.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monument Lab\u003c/a>, a public art and history studio in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cheyenne Concepcion’s New Monuments Taskforce and \u003cem>The Relic Report\u003c/em> are part of a fascinating and meaningful wave of local interventions that also address the national reckoning over monuments,” says Farber. “Even when a city runs official oversight over public art and keeps data on its own public monuments, we rely on artists and critical thinkers to animate and push those civic processes—to draw out potential connections, complex motifs and timely entry points for further action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concepcion is one of 18 \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/art/stp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaping the Past\u003c/a>\u003c/em> artistic fellows supported by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.goethe.de/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goethe Institut, \u003c/a>Germany’s foreign cultural institute. \u003cem>Shaping the Past\u003c/em> projects aim to reflect on cultural memory in the U.S. and across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cheyenne’s approach is deeply connected to the questions that \u003cem>Shaping the Past\u003c/em> is addressing in general: What social repercussions are associated with the rooting of history in monuments and memorials, and how can those narratives be shifted or upended through alternative, innovative approaches to memorialization?” says Bettina Wodianka, former program curator at the Goethe Institut in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the task force’s \u003cem>Relic Report\u003c/em> is live (paper versions are currently available for free at \u003ca href=\"http://www.adobebooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Books\u003c/a> in the Mission District), Concepcion says the plan is to solicit feedback from the public about the city’s monuments. The window for public comment runs through Oct. 25. People can submit their responses to the task force’s series of questions via an \u003ca href=\"https://newmonumentstaskforce.org/Public-Comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online survey\u003c/a> or a mail-in one, which can be found inside each hard-copy version of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-800x438.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-800x438.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-1020x558.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-768x420.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-1536x840.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-2048x1120.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-1920x1050.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Relic Report’ includes a survey asking members of the public to share their views about San Francisco’s monuments. It can be completed online or via the mail-in survey enclosed with each hard copy of the report. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The New Monuments Taskforce)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After that, Concepcion says, the task force will meet to discuss the findings. The public input will form the basis of a second report, a set of recommendations for San Francisco monuments going forwards, which the task force plans to share with city officials in December. “It’s a means to apply political pressure regarding more meaningful representation through public art in our public spaces,” Concepcion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concepcion says she started reaching out to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Arts Commission\u003c/a>, one of three city departments tasked with surveying and rethinking San Francisco’s monuments processes and policies, a couple of months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says someone from that department finally got back to her last week. “It sounds like they’re open to at least seeing what I have to say to them,” Concepcion says. “I see this as a resource for them too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Arts Commission has no comment because we are not partnering on this project,” wrote the arts commission’s acting director of communications, Rachelle Axel, in an email to KQED. “These are parallel efforts. Members of our team had a call with Cheyenne last Friday to get more information from her on her task force plans. But we aren’t working together … Cheyenne’s is an artistic endeavor and ours is very much about the future disposition of the City’s monuments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I view my version as a punk rock version; it’s less serious and more snarky than the city’s,” Concepcion says, noting the advantages of being unofficial. “I’m hoping that people will feel like they can be more honest, so we can generate meaningful reflections.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The New Monument Taskforce has launched an independent survey of the city’s statues and memorials.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020027,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1286},"headData":{"title":"Artist-Led Task Force Wants SF to Rethink Approach to Public Monuments | KQED","description":"The New Monument Taskforce has launched an independent survey of the city’s statues and memorials.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Artist-Led Task Force Wants SF to Rethink Approach to Public Monuments","datePublished":"2020-10-06T22:30:27.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:40:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13887448/artist-led-task-force-wants-sf-to-rethink-approach-to-public-monuments","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been a particularly tumultuous year for San Francisco’s public monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870742/sfac-maya-angelou-women-statues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debacle surrounding the commissioning of a memorial honoring the poet and activist Maya Angelou\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toppling and defacing of several bronze statues representing the country’s colonial history\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the city’s hasty removal of the imposing bronze statue of Christopher Columbus by Coit Tower\u003c/a>, have opened up questions about San Francisco’s relationship with its monuments and whether some of the artworks in the municipal collection should exist at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As city officials trundle along with the slow process of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883431/city-to-evaluate-public-monuments-but-community-questions-its-track-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reviewing all 87 monuments\u003c/a> under their purview—and have yet to announce the set of criteria they plan to use to assess the artworks—a group of creative industry workers known collectively as the \u003ca href=\"https://newmonumentstaskforce.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Monument Taskforce\u003c/a> have taken it upon themselves to conduct their own parallel report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being artists, we can move much faster than the city,” says \u003ca href=\"https://cheyenneconcepcion.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheyenne Concepcion\u003c/a>, the San Francisco artist and designer who founded the task force and is the report’s main author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887501\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/RS45211_Cheyenne-Concepcion-by-Quentin-Langlois-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco-based artist and designer Cheyenne Concepcion is the founder of the New Monuments Taskforce and the main author of ‘The Relic Report,’ the task force’s first publication. \u003ccite>(Quentin Langlois)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the city’s ongoing official survey, the task force (which Concepcion playfully calls a “fantastical municipal body”) came out this week with \u003ca href=\"https://files.cargocollective.com/c800012/TheRelicReport-PartOne.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Relic Report: An Unofficial Municipal Study of SF’s Monuments\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The slender volume groups the 87 monuments under six headings. Each of the six sections features images of the categorized artworks as well as written commentary on the groupings. It’s like a slimmed-down version of an Audubon bird guide, but for public memorials.\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>\u003cem>The Relic Report\u003c/em>’s taxonomy includes colonial statues (or “Original Gentrifiers”—OGs—in \u003cem>Relic Report\u003c/em> parlance) such as the 1939 statue of St. Francis of Assisi in Golden Gate Park; war memorials like the five memorializing the Spanish-American war; statues to political and cultural icons including Robert Louis Stevenson, Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare; non-representational monuments like pop artist George Segal’s \u003ci>The Holocaust\u003c/i>, a 1982 memorial made from bronze, wire and concrete, installed in Lincoln Park; and a group of misfits, like the Volunteer Fireman Memorial, a 1932 sculpture depicting a trio of firefighters mounted on a marble plinth located in Washington Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can scroll through a complete list of the city’s monuments \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/file/219/5/2195-Civic%20Art%20Collection%20Monuments%20and%20Memorials%20DETAIL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the largest group in the \u003cem>Relic Report\u003c/em> by far is “The Boys Club”—a section devoted to monuments mostly depicting dead white men. “Monuments tell us about who we are, where we have been,” Concepcion writes in her report. “So what does that entail when there are three women and fifty-three men represented in the San Francisco Civic Art Collection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concepcion says she hopes grouping the city’s collection in this way will help members of the public see patterns in San Francisco’s approach to commissioning monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there’s a correlation between that number of monuments and their messaging,” she says. “So the fact that there are fewer modern monuments tells us that maybe that’s not as important to us. And then the fact that the most patriarchal monuments is the biggest group, maybe that kind of weighs heavier in terms of the level of importance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force currently consists of \u003ca href=\"https://newmonumentstaskforce.org/About\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12 members\u003c/a> representing an array of backgrounds, including Elizabeth Gessel, director of public programs at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Museum of the African Diaspora\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a> deputy director Xavier G. Buck. The majority of the members are Bay Area-based. But there are some exceptions, like Paul Farber, director of \u003ca href=\"https://monumentlab.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monument Lab\u003c/a>, a public art and history studio in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cheyenne Concepcion’s New Monuments Taskforce and \u003cem>The Relic Report\u003c/em> are part of a fascinating and meaningful wave of local interventions that also address the national reckoning over monuments,” says Farber. “Even when a city runs official oversight over public art and keeps data on its own public monuments, we rely on artists and critical thinkers to animate and push those civic processes—to draw out potential connections, complex motifs and timely entry points for further action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concepcion is one of 18 \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/art/stp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaping the Past\u003c/a>\u003c/em> artistic fellows supported by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.goethe.de/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goethe Institut, \u003c/a>Germany’s foreign cultural institute. \u003cem>Shaping the Past\u003c/em> projects aim to reflect on cultural memory in the U.S. and across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cheyenne’s approach is deeply connected to the questions that \u003cem>Shaping the Past\u003c/em> is addressing in general: What social repercussions are associated with the rooting of history in monuments and memorials, and how can those narratives be shifted or upended through alternative, innovative approaches to memorialization?” says Bettina Wodianka, former program curator at the Goethe Institut in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the task force’s \u003cem>Relic Report\u003c/em> is live (paper versions are currently available for free at \u003ca href=\"http://www.adobebooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Books\u003c/a> in the Mission District), Concepcion says the plan is to solicit feedback from the public about the city’s monuments. The window for public comment runs through Oct. 25. People can submit their responses to the task force’s series of questions via an \u003ca href=\"https://newmonumentstaskforce.org/Public-Comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online survey\u003c/a> or a mail-in one, which can be found inside each hard-copy version of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-800x438.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-800x438.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-1020x558.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-768x420.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-1536x840.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-2048x1120.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-13.05.43-1920x1050.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Relic Report’ includes a survey asking members of the public to share their views about San Francisco’s monuments. It can be completed online or via the mail-in survey enclosed with each hard copy of the report. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The New Monuments Taskforce)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After that, Concepcion says, the task force will meet to discuss the findings. The public input will form the basis of a second report, a set of recommendations for San Francisco monuments going forwards, which the task force plans to share with city officials in December. “It’s a means to apply political pressure regarding more meaningful representation through public art in our public spaces,” Concepcion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concepcion says she started reaching out to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Arts Commission\u003c/a>, one of three city departments tasked with surveying and rethinking San Francisco’s monuments processes and policies, a couple of months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says someone from that department finally got back to her last week. “It sounds like they’re open to at least seeing what I have to say to them,” Concepcion says. “I see this as a resource for them too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Arts Commission has no comment because we are not partnering on this project,” wrote the arts commission’s acting director of communications, Rachelle Axel, in an email to KQED. “These are parallel efforts. Members of our team had a call with Cheyenne last Friday to get more information from her on her task force plans. But we aren’t working together … Cheyenne’s is an artistic endeavor and ours is very much about the future disposition of the City’s monuments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I view my version as a punk rock version; it’s less serious and more snarky than the city’s,” Concepcion says, noting the advantages of being unofficial. “I’m hoping that people will feel like they can be more honest, so we can generate meaningful reflections.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13887448/artist-led-task-force-wants-sf-to-rethink-approach-to-public-monuments","authors":["8608"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_2628","arts_1879"],"featImg":"arts_13887449","label":"arts"},"arts_13884238":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13884238","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13884238","score":null,"sort":[1596511049000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfac-apologizes-to-lava-thomas-for-mishandling-maya-angelou-monument","title":"SFAC Apologizes to Lava Thomas for Mishandling Maya Angelou Monument","publishDate":1596511049,"format":"audio","headTitle":"SFAC Apologizes to Lava Thomas for Mishandling Maya Angelou Monument | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco officials hit pause on plans to erect a monument to poet Maya Angelou once again Monday, this time in response to criticism from the Bay Area arts community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been nearly a year since the SFAC came close to green-lighting a proposal by local artist Lava Thomas for a public artwork honoring Angelou. But in October 2019, city officials rejected Thomas’ design, saying the artist’s book-shaped sculpture etched with an image of Angelou’s face wasn’t what they had in mind: a traditional, figurative statue of the poet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13883431,arts_13870742,news_11794018\" label=\"public art in sf\"]So the SFAC restarted the entire process in January, issuing a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/find-opportunities/calls-for-artists/statue-honoring-dr-maya-angelou-san-francisco-library-main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">request for qualifications\u003c/a> (with an increased budget of $250,000, up from $180,000). Thomas declined to be considered. In March, the commission’s pre-qualification panel selected a short list of 19 artists. Another panel was scheduled to select finalists later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, meanwhile, says her efforts to make contact with the SFAC or gain further understanding about what happened to her proposal went largely unacknowledged during the past year. She appeared at a July 15 Visual Arts Committee meeting to offer public comment during a discussion about evaluating the city’s monuments; Thomas questioned SFAC’s desire to remove symbols of white supremacy while seeking to honor Angelou in the very same visual language. Her comment was cut short by a two-minute time limit—a move that subsequent public commenters and presenters objected to as disrespectful, calling for the SFAC to give Thomas additional time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday’s meeting, Thomas held the floor with her own agenda item, reading a 10-minute statement that detailed her own experiences and called for the SFAC to take steps towards restorative justice, beginning with pausing the new selection process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way in which this process was handled is an insult to Dr. Angelou’s legacy and the principles that she stood for,” Thomas said. “Mockery of due process, a pattern of disrespect, the erasure of our expertise and intellectual and creative labor, and the insistence of upholding racist tropes to represent one of the most celebrated exceptional Black women of our time in the name of honoring her, is beyond outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Roberto Ordeñana apologized to Thomas on behalf of the SFAC. “I want to remind us all that when there are systems failures, the individuals and communities that end up experiencing the most harm as a result of said failures are those of us who experience oppression and marginalization,” he said. “Due to our failures, we have caused significant harm to an incredibly talented Black woman artist, and we have caused deep pain to members of the Black artist community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of Lava Thomas' proposed monument to Maya Angelou, 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,' outside the SFPL main branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,’ outside the SFPL main branch. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visual Arts Committee Chair Dorka Keehn also formally apologized to Thomas, announcing that she would recuse herself from future engagement with the Maya Angelou project, as well as from her involvement with the evaluation of the city’s public monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly two hours of public comment, artists, curators and other members of the Bay Area arts community stated their support for the demands of Thomas and the collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/seeblackwomxn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See Black Womxn\u003c/a>, formed late last year. Among the collective’s demands are a public apology from Supervisor Catherine Stefani, the monument’s legislative sponsor; that the SFAC change the language in the RFQ back from “statue” to “artwork”; that Keehn and Stefani resign; and that the SFAC arrange a meeting between See Black Womxn and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public called for Thomas to be paid for the emotional and physical labor she has put into bringing attention to the issue. One commenter played a clip of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ywTJvBwTc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angelou reading poetry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CC32JF5B3yJ/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts commissioners voted unanimously to pause the selection process in favor of “engaging stakeholders in a meaningful way” to have “clarity and transparency moving forward.” Ordeñana initially proposed a delay of 30–60 days to address the issues raised by Thomas, but conversation between the commissioners following the lengthy period of public comment acknowledged more time would be needed to reestablish public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Director of Cultural Affairs Rebekah Krell said the budget for the publicly funded monument, which was scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, will not be impacted by the delay. However, the board of supervisors or the mayor will need to approve a deadline extension into 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever the time frame is, it is what it is,” said commissioner Linda Parker Pennington, who earlier identified herself as the lone Black woman on the SFAC. “If that requires we have to go back and defer the ordinance, so be it. I really do think we need to allow the time to be taken that’s needed to repair what’s happened.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a lengthy meeting, city officials paused the selection process for a monument to Maya Angelou. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020338,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":876},"headData":{"title":"SFAC Apologizes to Lava Thomas for Mishandling Maya Angelou Monument | KQED","description":"In a lengthy meeting, city officials paused the selection process for a monument to Maya Angelou. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"SFAC Apologizes to Lava Thomas for Mishandling Maya Angelou Monument","datePublished":"2020-08-04T03:17:29.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:45:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2020/08/VeltmanAngelouDelay.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13884238/sfac-apologizes-to-lava-thomas-for-mishandling-maya-angelou-monument","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco officials hit pause on plans to erect a monument to poet Maya Angelou once again Monday, this time in response to criticism from the Bay Area arts community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been nearly a year since the SFAC came close to green-lighting a proposal by local artist Lava Thomas for a public artwork honoring Angelou. But in October 2019, city officials rejected Thomas’ design, saying the artist’s book-shaped sculpture etched with an image of Angelou’s face wasn’t what they had in mind: a traditional, figurative statue of the poet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883431,arts_13870742,news_11794018","label":"public art in sf "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So the SFAC restarted the entire process in January, issuing a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/find-opportunities/calls-for-artists/statue-honoring-dr-maya-angelou-san-francisco-library-main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">request for qualifications\u003c/a> (with an increased budget of $250,000, up from $180,000). Thomas declined to be considered. In March, the commission’s pre-qualification panel selected a short list of 19 artists. Another panel was scheduled to select finalists later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, meanwhile, says her efforts to make contact with the SFAC or gain further understanding about what happened to her proposal went largely unacknowledged during the past year. She appeared at a July 15 Visual Arts Committee meeting to offer public comment during a discussion about evaluating the city’s monuments; Thomas questioned SFAC’s desire to remove symbols of white supremacy while seeking to honor Angelou in the very same visual language. Her comment was cut short by a two-minute time limit—a move that subsequent public commenters and presenters objected to as disrespectful, calling for the SFAC to give Thomas additional time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday’s meeting, Thomas held the floor with her own agenda item, reading a 10-minute statement that detailed her own experiences and called for the SFAC to take steps towards restorative justice, beginning with pausing the new selection process.\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>“The way in which this process was handled is an insult to Dr. Angelou’s legacy and the principles that she stood for,” Thomas said. “Mockery of due process, a pattern of disrespect, the erasure of our expertise and intellectual and creative labor, and the insistence of upholding racist tropes to represent one of the most celebrated exceptional Black women of our time in the name of honoring her, is beyond outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Roberto Ordeñana apologized to Thomas on behalf of the SFAC. “I want to remind us all that when there are systems failures, the individuals and communities that end up experiencing the most harm as a result of said failures are those of us who experience oppression and marginalization,” he said. “Due to our failures, we have caused significant harm to an incredibly talented Black woman artist, and we have caused deep pain to members of the Black artist community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of Lava Thomas' proposed monument to Maya Angelou, 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,' outside the SFPL main branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,’ outside the SFPL main branch. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visual Arts Committee Chair Dorka Keehn also formally apologized to Thomas, announcing that she would recuse herself from future engagement with the Maya Angelou project, as well as from her involvement with the evaluation of the city’s public monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly two hours of public comment, artists, curators and other members of the Bay Area arts community stated their support for the demands of Thomas and the collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/seeblackwomxn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See Black Womxn\u003c/a>, formed late last year. Among the collective’s demands are a public apology from Supervisor Catherine Stefani, the monument’s legislative sponsor; that the SFAC change the language in the RFQ back from “statue” to “artwork”; that Keehn and Stefani resign; and that the SFAC arrange a meeting between See Black Womxn and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public called for Thomas to be paid for the emotional and physical labor she has put into bringing attention to the issue. One commenter played a clip of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ywTJvBwTc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angelou reading poetry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CC32JF5B3yJ"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Arts commissioners voted unanimously to pause the selection process in favor of “engaging stakeholders in a meaningful way” to have “clarity and transparency moving forward.” Ordeñana initially proposed a delay of 30–60 days to address the issues raised by Thomas, but conversation between the commissioners following the lengthy period of public comment acknowledged more time would be needed to reestablish public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Director of Cultural Affairs Rebekah Krell said the budget for the publicly funded monument, which was scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, will not be impacted by the delay. However, the board of supervisors or the mayor will need to approve a deadline extension into 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever the time frame is, it is what it is,” said commissioner Linda Parker Pennington, who earlier identified herself as the lone Black woman on the SFAC. “If that requires we have to go back and defer the ordinance, so be it. I really do think we need to allow the time to be taken that’s needed to repair what’s happened.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13884238/sfac-apologizes-to-lava-thomas-for-mishandling-maya-angelou-monument","authors":["8608","61"],"categories":["arts_1"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_5206","arts_1680","arts_2628","arts_1300","arts_1879"],"featImg":"arts_13870771","label":"arts"},"arts_13879146":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13879146","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13879146","score":null,"sort":[1587670557000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-oakland-plunging-hotel-tax-revenue-threatens-to-gut-arts-funding","title":"In Oakland, Plunging Hotel Tax Revenue Threatens to Gut Arts Funding","publishDate":1587670557,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In Oakland, Plunging Hotel Tax Revenue Threatens to Gut Arts Funding | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>In 2009, Oakland voters passed a ballot measure to increase arts funding as part of the city’s economic recovery from the Great Recession. [aside postID=arts_13878335,arts_13861153,arts_13873207]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure C raised the city’s hotel tax from 11 percent to 14 percent, with the added revenue supporting Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, tourism agency Visit Oakland, festivals such as Art + Soul, and organizations including the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) and Chabot Space and Science Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decade since, annual hotel tax revenue has more than tripled, reaching $33 million in 2019. Last year, roughly a third of the $1.2 million that Oakland granted to artists and small arts nonprofits derived from hotel taxes, and Oakland Museum of California received nearly $1 million from the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the benefits have been modest, outstripped by rising housing costs. Oakland arts figures have in recent years agitated elected officials for additional funding with mixed success—securing one time boosts only to see them dropped from subsequent budgets or diverted to other uses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a new economic crisis is erasing the limited gains and threatening to plunge public art support to historic lows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the current shelter-in-place orders, Bay Area hotel occupancy rates have plummeted to below 20 percent, and in some cities, rates are in the single digits. Oakland’s budget director projects hotel tax revenue falling by $9 million to $18.01 million this fiscal year alone—part of a potential $80 million budget shortfall over the next 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size and scale of these revenue shortfalls is like nothing Oakland has ever before experienced,” reads the \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4420613&GUID=6DAD55FD-A354-4DE0-A6C0-E376CE95DDE2&Options=&Search=\">finance report\u003c/a> received by Oakland City Council on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13875808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain.jpg\" alt=\"The creation and erasure of a mural catalyzes an anti-gentrification coalition in 'Alice Street.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13875808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The creation and erasure of a mural catalyzes an anti-gentrification coalition in ‘Alice Street.’ \u003ccite>(Zoe Mountain/Courtesy of filmmaker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Museum of California, the city’s largest cultural organization, has for the past two years relied on hotel tax allocation for approximately $70,000 per month in operations support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re anticipating that goes away completely for the foreseeable future,” Lori Fogarty, director of the museum, said in an interview. “That’s absolutely one of our biggest hits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact follows the cancellation of the museum’s annual gala March 14, which aimed to raise $350,000 (many supporters donated regardless), and comes atop the ongoing losses from ticket sales and programming. OMCA expects to lose $1.5 million through the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13878335/oakland-museum-of-california-announces-hours-reductions-affecting-106-workers\">reduced the hours\u003c/a> of 106 full-time employees, a measure meant to avoid layoffs. Only with the help of a federal loan was the museum able to temporarily restore them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fogarty noted the $2.5 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877253/sf-pledges-2-5-million-to-new-arts-relief-program\">Arts Relief Program\u003c/a> in San Francisco, saying Oakland arts leaders could better organize to advocate for emergency relief from local government. But municipal budget crises tend to hasten privatization: The last recession spurred OMCA, for decades run by the City of Oakland, to reform as an independent nonprofit in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some parallels,” she said. “We were facing a decrease in funding then. But this is even more abrupt and far-reaching—I don’t know if there’s been a comparable moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA.jpg\" alt=\"Plunging hotel tax revenue threatens an important funding source for the Oakland Museum of California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1116\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-768x446.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-1020x593.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plunging hotel tax revenue threatens an important funding source for the Oakland Museum of California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy OMCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberto Bedoya, Oakland’s cultural affairs manager, said in a statement that the effects of city finances on his department will become clear in the coming months as officials reassess the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cultural Funding Program (CFP) regularly supports performing arts organizations such as Oakland Ballet, Lower Bottom Playaz and Ubuntu Theater; murals by Community Rejuvenation Project and Attitudinal Healing Connection; and has funded projects by metalworker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13873207/the-hustle-karen-smith-metalsmith-oakland\">Karen Smith\u003c/a>, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875585/in-alice-street-oakland-artist-activists-build-power-by-bridging-communities\">Alice Street\u003c/a>\u003c/em> director Spencer Wilkinson and \u003cem>There, There\u003c/em> author Tommy Orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018 the cultural affairs unit published Oakland’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875113/oakland-appoints-cultural-affairs-commissioners\">Cultural Plan\u003c/a> in decades, detailing proposals to alleviate cost-of-living pressures on local artists and sustain community identity. Recently staff also worked to revive Oakland’s long-dormant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875113/oakland-appoints-cultural-affairs-commissioners\">Cultural Commission\u003c/a>. But the unit has struggled to win additional funding above and beyond its hotel tax allocation to enact most of its policy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even assuming a continuing uptick in hotel tax revenue, the CFP’s grant-making budget was poised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861153/its-criminal-cultural-funding-cuts-frustrate-oakland-artists\">shrink\u003c/a> this year as a one-time boost from the 2017 budget cycle lapses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s recent precedent for officials raiding arts funds: $100,000 set aside for murals in 2017 disappeared before it could be spent, Bedoya said at a committee hearing earlier this year, due to anticipated revenue shortfalls after council members voted to reduce cannabis taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Arnold, Community Rejuvenation Project spokesperson and a longtime observer of Oakland’s equity and culture initiatives, believes the CFP’s few gains since the recession are in serious jeopardy—especially without a grassroots campaign to advocate for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one-time increases for arts funding that we have seen came directly from community pressure,” Arnold said. “Right now, who’s even organized to make a budget request?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13861187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development.jpg\" alt=\"A panel of the disappearing "Universal Language" mural, showing the Congolese artist Malonga Casquelourd, in front of Oakland's changing skyline.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1155\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13861187\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-1200x722.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel of the disappearing “Universal Language” mural, showing the Congolese artist Malonga Casquelourd, in front of Oakland’s changing skyline. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Arts Commission and related entity Grants for the Arts also expect hotel tax funding for cultural programs—significantly boosted by the 2018 passage of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702680/proposition-e-seeks-to-restore-s-f-s-arts-and-culture-funding-clout\">Proposition E\u003c/a>—to dwindle as city finance officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6821861-March-Joint-Report-Memo-ACTIVE.html\">project\u003c/a> staggering losses of up to $288 million this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco has more diversified revenue sources for its arts support, and Proposition E actually limits the losses to the Hotel Tax for the Arts fund. Hence, allocations to the fund are expected to only decline by $4.6 million to $28.8 million, according to a March 31 finance report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Miller, co-founder of Center for New Music, a San Francisco venue supported by Grants for the Arts, expects the grant-maker’s reserves to delay the effects on small nonprofits. For now, he’s more concerned about missing rental income that normally subsidizes programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hearing Grants for the Arts funding next year is kind of set in stone,” said Miller. “We’re really going to see the impact of that the following year, and then I don’t know what we’ll do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts funders at the state level are also shuddering. At a livestreamed California Arts Council meeting on April 1, commissioners debated relief measures, such as loosening grant restrictions to let organizations cover immediate payroll and rent costs with awards meant for specific projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s grant-making budget has multiplied in recent years, totaling $35 million in 2020. But when talk turned to the council’s financial outlook, commissioners seemed to brace for cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ayanna Kiburi, the council’s deputy director, showed doubts about additional funding for cultural districts included in Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal from this past January. “That probably won’t—we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Kiburi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state funder is in turn awaiting federal support. The $2 trillion federal aid package approved last month includes $75 million each for the national endowments for the humanities and the arts, with 40 percent reserved for state partners such as California Arts Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the money remains in limbo. Nashormeh Lindo, a council member based in Oakland, said the “amount, timing and mechanism” of the additional national endowment funding is unknown.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new economic crisis jeopardizes Oakland arts funding’s limited gains of the past decade.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020857,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1303},"headData":{"title":"In Oakland, Plunging Hotel Tax Revenue Threatens to Gut Arts Funding | KQED","description":"A new economic crisis jeopardizes Oakland arts funding’s limited gains of the past decade.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"In Oakland, Plunging Hotel Tax Revenue Threatens to Gut Arts Funding","datePublished":"2020-04-23T19:35:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:54:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13879146/in-oakland-plunging-hotel-tax-revenue-threatens-to-gut-arts-funding","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2009, Oakland voters passed a ballot measure to increase arts funding as part of the city’s economic recovery from the Great Recession. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13878335,arts_13861153,arts_13873207","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure C raised the city’s hotel tax from 11 percent to 14 percent, with the added revenue supporting Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, tourism agency Visit Oakland, festivals such as Art + Soul, and organizations including the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) and Chabot Space and Science Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decade since, annual hotel tax revenue has more than tripled, reaching $33 million in 2019. Last year, roughly a third of the $1.2 million that Oakland granted to artists and small arts nonprofits derived from hotel taxes, and Oakland Museum of California received nearly $1 million from the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the benefits have been modest, outstripped by rising housing costs. Oakland arts figures have in recent years agitated elected officials for additional funding with mixed success—securing one time boosts only to see them dropped from subsequent budgets or diverted to other uses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a new economic crisis is erasing the limited gains and threatening to plunge public art support to historic lows.\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>With the current shelter-in-place orders, Bay Area hotel occupancy rates have plummeted to below 20 percent, and in some cities, rates are in the single digits. Oakland’s budget director projects hotel tax revenue falling by $9 million to $18.01 million this fiscal year alone—part of a potential $80 million budget shortfall over the next 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size and scale of these revenue shortfalls is like nothing Oakland has ever before experienced,” reads the \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4420613&GUID=6DAD55FD-A354-4DE0-A6C0-E376CE95DDE2&Options=&Search=\">finance report\u003c/a> received by Oakland City Council on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13875808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain.jpg\" alt=\"The creation and erasure of a mural catalyzes an anti-gentrification coalition in 'Alice Street.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13875808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/photo-by-Zoe-Mountain-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The creation and erasure of a mural catalyzes an anti-gentrification coalition in ‘Alice Street.’ \u003ccite>(Zoe Mountain/Courtesy of filmmaker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Museum of California, the city’s largest cultural organization, has for the past two years relied on hotel tax allocation for approximately $70,000 per month in operations support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re anticipating that goes away completely for the foreseeable future,” Lori Fogarty, director of the museum, said in an interview. “That’s absolutely one of our biggest hits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact follows the cancellation of the museum’s annual gala March 14, which aimed to raise $350,000 (many supporters donated regardless), and comes atop the ongoing losses from ticket sales and programming. OMCA expects to lose $1.5 million through the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13878335/oakland-museum-of-california-announces-hours-reductions-affecting-106-workers\">reduced the hours\u003c/a> of 106 full-time employees, a measure meant to avoid layoffs. Only with the help of a federal loan was the museum able to temporarily restore them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fogarty noted the $2.5 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877253/sf-pledges-2-5-million-to-new-arts-relief-program\">Arts Relief Program\u003c/a> in San Francisco, saying Oakland arts leaders could better organize to advocate for emergency relief from local government. But municipal budget crises tend to hasten privatization: The last recession spurred OMCA, for decades run by the City of Oakland, to reform as an independent nonprofit in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some parallels,” she said. “We were facing a decrease in funding then. But this is even more abrupt and far-reaching—I don’t know if there’s been a comparable moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA.jpg\" alt=\"Plunging hotel tax revenue threatens an important funding source for the Oakland Museum of California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1116\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-768x446.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/OMCA-courtesy-OMCA-1020x593.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plunging hotel tax revenue threatens an important funding source for the Oakland Museum of California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy OMCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberto Bedoya, Oakland’s cultural affairs manager, said in a statement that the effects of city finances on his department will become clear in the coming months as officials reassess the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cultural Funding Program (CFP) regularly supports performing arts organizations such as Oakland Ballet, Lower Bottom Playaz and Ubuntu Theater; murals by Community Rejuvenation Project and Attitudinal Healing Connection; and has funded projects by metalworker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13873207/the-hustle-karen-smith-metalsmith-oakland\">Karen Smith\u003c/a>, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875585/in-alice-street-oakland-artist-activists-build-power-by-bridging-communities\">Alice Street\u003c/a>\u003c/em> director Spencer Wilkinson and \u003cem>There, There\u003c/em> author Tommy Orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018 the cultural affairs unit published Oakland’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875113/oakland-appoints-cultural-affairs-commissioners\">Cultural Plan\u003c/a> in decades, detailing proposals to alleviate cost-of-living pressures on local artists and sustain community identity. Recently staff also worked to revive Oakland’s long-dormant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875113/oakland-appoints-cultural-affairs-commissioners\">Cultural Commission\u003c/a>. But the unit has struggled to win additional funding above and beyond its hotel tax allocation to enact most of its policy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even assuming a continuing uptick in hotel tax revenue, the CFP’s grant-making budget was poised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861153/its-criminal-cultural-funding-cuts-frustrate-oakland-artists\">shrink\u003c/a> this year as a one-time boost from the 2017 budget cycle lapses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s recent precedent for officials raiding arts funds: $100,000 set aside for murals in 2017 disappeared before it could be spent, Bedoya said at a committee hearing earlier this year, due to anticipated revenue shortfalls after council members voted to reduce cannabis taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Arnold, Community Rejuvenation Project spokesperson and a longtime observer of Oakland’s equity and culture initiatives, believes the CFP’s few gains since the recession are in serious jeopardy—especially without a grassroots campaign to advocate for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one-time increases for arts funding that we have seen came directly from community pressure,” Arnold said. “Right now, who’s even organized to make a budget request?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13861187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development.jpg\" alt=\"A panel of the disappearing "Universal Language" mural, showing the Congolese artist Malonga Casquelourd, in front of Oakland's changing skyline.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1155\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13861187\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Universal-Language-Mural-Obscured-by-Development-1200x722.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel of the disappearing “Universal Language” mural, showing the Congolese artist Malonga Casquelourd, in front of Oakland’s changing skyline. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Arts Commission and related entity Grants for the Arts also expect hotel tax funding for cultural programs—significantly boosted by the 2018 passage of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702680/proposition-e-seeks-to-restore-s-f-s-arts-and-culture-funding-clout\">Proposition E\u003c/a>—to dwindle as city finance officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6821861-March-Joint-Report-Memo-ACTIVE.html\">project\u003c/a> staggering losses of up to $288 million this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco has more diversified revenue sources for its arts support, and Proposition E actually limits the losses to the Hotel Tax for the Arts fund. Hence, allocations to the fund are expected to only decline by $4.6 million to $28.8 million, according to a March 31 finance report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Miller, co-founder of Center for New Music, a San Francisco venue supported by Grants for the Arts, expects the grant-maker’s reserves to delay the effects on small nonprofits. For now, he’s more concerned about missing rental income that normally subsidizes programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hearing Grants for the Arts funding next year is kind of set in stone,” said Miller. “We’re really going to see the impact of that the following year, and then I don’t know what we’ll do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts funders at the state level are also shuddering. At a livestreamed California Arts Council meeting on April 1, commissioners debated relief measures, such as loosening grant restrictions to let organizations cover immediate payroll and rent costs with awards meant for specific projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s grant-making budget has multiplied in recent years, totaling $35 million in 2020. But when talk turned to the council’s financial outlook, commissioners seemed to brace for cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ayanna Kiburi, the council’s deputy director, showed doubts about additional funding for cultural districts included in Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal from this past January. “That probably won’t—we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Kiburi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state funder is in turn awaiting federal support. The $2 trillion federal aid package approved last month includes $75 million each for the national endowments for the humanities and the arts, with 40 percent reserved for state partners such as California Arts Council.\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>But the money remains in limbo. Nashormeh Lindo, a council member based in Oakland, said the “amount, timing and mechanism” of the additional national endowment funding is unknown.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13879146/in-oakland-plunging-hotel-tax-revenue-threatens-to-gut-arts-funding","authors":["11091"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_820","arts_3560","arts_10126","arts_7819","arts_10278","arts_10422","arts_746","arts_596","arts_1143","arts_2755","arts_2628"],"featImg":"arts_13877010","label":"arts"},"arts_13878921":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13878921","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13878921","score":null,"sort":[1587420014000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"everything-she-touched-emotionally-textured-biography-of-ruth-asawa","title":"‘Everything She Touched,’ Emotionally Textured Biography of Ruth Asawa","publishDate":1587420014,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Everything She Touched,’ Emotionally Textured Biography of Ruth Asawa | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>In a 1955 review of Ruth Asawa’s gossamer hanging wire sculptures at Peridot Gallery in New York, \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine identified the San Francisco artist as a “housewife and mother,” and reduced a sensibility drawing on Mexican weaving techniques, Great Depression-era material economy and a Black Mountain College education to “Oriental.” The article was intended to be favorable, marking the arrival of an exciting young modernist, yet it heralded Asawa alongside fellow Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi under the cringe headline “Eastern Yeast.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not the only backhanded compliment Asawa’s biomorphic abstractions, which rendered metal filament as mesh ovals, often nesting one shape within another, garnered from well-meaning critics. Some commended her art while calling it mere craft, others saw little besides feminine, womblike forms. “Far east” cliches abounded. Added to essentialist assumptions about a woman of Japanese heritage was coastal chauvinism: Asawa’s departure from Peridot in the early 1960s left her without New York representation for most of her life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878924\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 853px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover.jpg\" alt=\"'Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa' is an emotionally textured biography of the pathbreaking San Francisco sculptor.\" width=\"853\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover.jpg 853w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover-800x1013.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover-768x972.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa’ is an emotionally textured biography of the pathbreaking San Francisco sculptor. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chronicle Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout her life, when one door closed, Asawa opened another. She learned perspective from Disney illustrators interned at the same California concentration camp as her family during World War II. Refused a teaching credential due to racism, Asawa absorbed the experimental pedagogy of Black Mountain College, acquiring lifelong mentors in abstract expressionist Josef Albers and architect Buckminster Fuller. Snubbed by New York, Asawa redoubled her commitment to San Francisco, transforming public arts education and the region’s built environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/everything-she-touched\">Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa\u003c/a>\u003c/em> (Chronicle Books), the first comprehensive biography of Asawa, who died in 2013 at the age of 87, reveals the emotional life and personal trials of a social pathbreaker and civic leader who avoided memoir and political outspokenness. Author Marilyn Chase, a San Francisco journalist and teacher, connects the barbed wire and dispossession of Asawa’s early life to the artist’s transformative approach to spooled metal, and intimately conveys the teeming creative life inside her home studio as it filled with six children. The most pronounced through line is Asawa’s deliberately interwoven family and art practice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well-designed book features medium-format photography by Asawa’s close friend Imogen Cunningham. There’s installation shots, highlighting her sculptures’ undulating shadows, and pictures of Asawa laying on the ground among her kids, reaching her bandaged fingers into forming teardrops. Other imagery includes Asawa’s drawing-laden correspondence with her then-fiancé Albert Lanier, the architect and preservationist. Chase draws on original interviews and Asawa’s papers at Stanford, including granular accounts of her feverish struggle against lupus, and quotes heavily from the couple’s epistolary courtship, which the family provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1074px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth's parents, Umakichi and Haru Asawa, 1965.\" width=\"1074\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878925\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966.jpg 1074w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-800x804.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-768x772.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-1020x1026.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth’s parents, Umakichi and Haru Asawa, 1965. \u003ccite>(Photograph by Imogen Cunningham; © The Imogen Cunningham Trust)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remarkable in the letters, once thought to be destroyed, is not only the couple’s candid view of their respective families’ discomfort with the inter-racial marriage, and the stigma they would face even in enlightened San Francisco, but also Asawa’s clear articulation of her long-term desires. She repeatedly urges Lanier to love her as much as his work, and to expect her to do the same. “There’s so many voices in the letters,” Chase said in an interview. “Artistic voices, erotic voices, reverence for their teachers, heartbreaking discussions about helping their parents understand their commitment to each other—regardless of society’s opposition.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asawa was raised on a farm in Norwalk, now part of Los Angeles County, until the United States entered into World War II. The injustice of her family’s internment is a specter throughout the book. In her journal, she marked the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with what Chase calls a “laconic” note: “While in Mexico, the Japanese surrendered.” She used “colored” bathrooms in the Jim Crow South, and even at Black Mountain initially ate meals with staff in the kitchen. Chase found no trace of Asawa discussing the war with Albers, who left Germany after the Nazis closed the Bauhaus school; her children only learned parts of her wartime experience in the 1990s, helping her forge the bronze Japanese American Internment Memorial in San Jose. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most vindicating storylines is Asawa’s arts education advocacy. She brought the idea that working artists are best poised to teach art from Black Mountain to San Francisco, and through careful observation of local politics and wealthy patrons—she was known for sketching city officials at meetings—created the public arts high school that now bears her name. She was at the forefront of many other trends now taken for granted: Reusing materials, farm to table dining, the false binary of arts and crafts. But other causes remain woefully unresolved: The few gains made in public arts funding since the Great Recession are being erased as the economy spirals, and wanting artists to financially partake in their work’s resale value still seems like a long shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962.jpg\" alt=\"Lanier Family, Christmas 1962.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-1020x676.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lanier Family, Christmas 1962. \u003ccite>(Photograph by Paul Hassel; Courtesy Estate of Ruth Asawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asawa has long been something of a household name in the Bay Area, and the biography recounts the physical toil and political maneuvering behind her many iconic public art commissions. But Chase reminds readers Asawa’s national stature, exemplified lately by signature postage stamps, wasn’t assured. Jonathan Laib, the New York curator, wasn’t familiar with Asawa when her children approached him about selling an Albers canvas to support her end-of-life care in the late 2000s. His advocacy—including shifting the nagging perception of her fine art sculptures as design objects—helped propel her work’s value to the stratosphere in the years before her death, and today she’s represented by the powerhouse David Zwirner gallery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Asawa received another sendoff, one more aptly reflecting her values and restless spirit. Her son Paul mixed her ashes with those of Lanier and their son Adam and created from them ceramic works for his siblings. As Chase writes, “Ruth made sure her earthly matter was not destroyed but rather transformed until, in the end, Ruth Asawa herself became a work of art.” \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The sculptor and arts education advocate deliberately interwove her family and art practice. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020875,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":1102},"headData":{"title":"‘Everything She Touched,’ Emotionally Textured Biography of Ruth Asawa | KQED","description":"The sculptor and arts education advocate deliberately interwove her family and art practice. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"‘Everything She Touched,’ Emotionally Textured Biography of Ruth Asawa","datePublished":"2020-04-20T22:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:54:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13878921/everything-she-touched-emotionally-textured-biography-of-ruth-asawa","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a 1955 review of Ruth Asawa’s gossamer hanging wire sculptures at Peridot Gallery in New York, \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine identified the San Francisco artist as a “housewife and mother,” and reduced a sensibility drawing on Mexican weaving techniques, Great Depression-era material economy and a Black Mountain College education to “Oriental.” The article was intended to be favorable, marking the arrival of an exciting young modernist, yet it heralded Asawa alongside fellow Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi under the cringe headline “Eastern Yeast.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not the only backhanded compliment Asawa’s biomorphic abstractions, which rendered metal filament as mesh ovals, often nesting one shape within another, garnered from well-meaning critics. Some commended her art while calling it mere craft, others saw little besides feminine, womblike forms. “Far east” cliches abounded. Added to essentialist assumptions about a woman of Japanese heritage was coastal chauvinism: Asawa’s departure from Peridot in the early 1960s left her without New York representation for most of her life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878924\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 853px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover.jpg\" alt=\"'Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa' is an emotionally textured biography of the pathbreaking San Francisco sculptor.\" width=\"853\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover.jpg 853w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover-800x1013.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Everything-She-Touched_Ruth-Asawa-flat-cover-768x972.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa’ is an emotionally textured biography of the pathbreaking San Francisco sculptor. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chronicle Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout her life, when one door closed, Asawa opened another. She learned perspective from Disney illustrators interned at the same California concentration camp as her family during World War II. Refused a teaching credential due to racism, Asawa absorbed the experimental pedagogy of Black Mountain College, acquiring lifelong mentors in abstract expressionist Josef Albers and architect Buckminster Fuller. Snubbed by New York, Asawa redoubled her commitment to San Francisco, transforming public arts education and the region’s built environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/everything-she-touched\">Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa\u003c/a>\u003c/em> (Chronicle Books), the first comprehensive biography of Asawa, who died in 2013 at the age of 87, reveals the emotional life and personal trials of a social pathbreaker and civic leader who avoided memoir and political outspokenness. Author Marilyn Chase, a San Francisco journalist and teacher, connects the barbed wire and dispossession of Asawa’s early life to the artist’s transformative approach to spooled metal, and intimately conveys the teeming creative life inside her home studio as it filled with six children. The most pronounced through line is Asawa’s deliberately interwoven family and art practice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well-designed book features medium-format photography by Asawa’s close friend Imogen Cunningham. There’s installation shots, highlighting her sculptures’ undulating shadows, and pictures of Asawa laying on the ground among her kids, reaching her bandaged fingers into forming teardrops. Other imagery includes Asawa’s drawing-laden correspondence with her then-fiancé Albert Lanier, the architect and preservationist. Chase draws on original interviews and Asawa’s papers at Stanford, including granular accounts of her feverish struggle against lupus, and quotes heavily from the couple’s epistolary courtship, which the family provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1074px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth's parents, Umakichi and Haru Asawa, 1965.\" width=\"1074\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878925\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966.jpg 1074w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-800x804.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-768x772.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Umakichi-and-Haru-Asawa-1966-1020x1026.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth’s parents, Umakichi and Haru Asawa, 1965. \u003ccite>(Photograph by Imogen Cunningham; © The Imogen Cunningham Trust)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remarkable in the letters, once thought to be destroyed, is not only the couple’s candid view of their respective families’ discomfort with the inter-racial marriage, and the stigma they would face even in enlightened San Francisco, but also Asawa’s clear articulation of her long-term desires. She repeatedly urges Lanier to love her as much as his work, and to expect her to do the same. “There’s so many voices in the letters,” Chase said in an interview. “Artistic voices, erotic voices, reverence for their teachers, heartbreaking discussions about helping their parents understand their commitment to each other—regardless of society’s opposition.” \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>Asawa was raised on a farm in Norwalk, now part of Los Angeles County, until the United States entered into World War II. The injustice of her family’s internment is a specter throughout the book. In her journal, she marked the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with what Chase calls a “laconic” note: “While in Mexico, the Japanese surrendered.” She used “colored” bathrooms in the Jim Crow South, and even at Black Mountain initially ate meals with staff in the kitchen. Chase found no trace of Asawa discussing the war with Albers, who left Germany after the Nazis closed the Bauhaus school; her children only learned parts of her wartime experience in the 1990s, helping her forge the bronze Japanese American Internment Memorial in San Jose. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most vindicating storylines is Asawa’s arts education advocacy. She brought the idea that working artists are best poised to teach art from Black Mountain to San Francisco, and through careful observation of local politics and wealthy patrons—she was known for sketching city officials at meetings—created the public arts high school that now bears her name. She was at the forefront of many other trends now taken for granted: Reusing materials, farm to table dining, the false binary of arts and crafts. But other causes remain woefully unresolved: The few gains made in public arts funding since the Great Recession are being erased as the economy spirals, and wanting artists to financially partake in their work’s resale value still seems like a long shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962.jpg\" alt=\"Lanier Family, Christmas 1962.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/lanier-family-1962-1020x676.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lanier Family, Christmas 1962. \u003ccite>(Photograph by Paul Hassel; Courtesy Estate of Ruth Asawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asawa has long been something of a household name in the Bay Area, and the biography recounts the physical toil and political maneuvering behind her many iconic public art commissions. But Chase reminds readers Asawa’s national stature, exemplified lately by signature postage stamps, wasn’t assured. Jonathan Laib, the New York curator, wasn’t familiar with Asawa when her children approached him about selling an Albers canvas to support her end-of-life care in the late 2000s. His advocacy—including shifting the nagging perception of her fine art sculptures as design objects—helped propel her work’s value to the stratosphere in the years before her death, and today she’s represented by the powerhouse David Zwirner gallery. \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>Yet Asawa received another sendoff, one more aptly reflecting her values and restless spirit. Her son Paul mixed her ashes with those of Lanier and their son Adam and created from them ceramic works for his siblings. As Chase writes, “Ruth made sure her earthly matter was not destroyed but rather transformed until, in the end, Ruth Asawa herself became a work of art.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13878921/everything-she-touched-emotionally-textured-biography-of-ruth-asawa","authors":["11091"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_928","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_596","arts_2628"],"featImg":"arts_13878922","label":"arts"},"arts_13870742":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13870742","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13870742","score":null,"sort":[1579914004000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfac-maya-angelou-women-statues","title":"San Francisco's Search for a Maya Angelou Monument is Back at Square One","publishDate":1579914004,"format":"audio","headTitle":"San Francisco’s Search for a Maya Angelou Monument is Back at Square One | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump, Margaux Kelly was looking for an antidote to the anger she felt about the president’s attitudes towards women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13872482,news_11794018,arts_13864632' label='Public Art News']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My colleague and I came up with the idea of adding art pieces to the civic art collection,” said Kelly, who at the time was a young aide to then-San Francisco city supervisor Mark Farrell. “We wanted to help add additional female representation in the public realm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their effort is taking off again as the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) reboots a plan to erect a statue honoring Maya Angelou in front of the main branch of the public library. On Friday, Jan. 24, the SFAC \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Maya-Angelou-RFQ_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a Request for Qualifications\u003c/a> inviting artists to submit proposals for a sculpture honoring Dr. Angelou. Specifically, a “3-dimensional statue depicting Dr. Angelou.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes three months after city officials ordered the commission to start the process over again from scratch for failing to deliver an artwork that met their expectations, upsetting many in the local arts community in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said it was former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios’ efforts to put women on U.S. currency that originally inspired her to launch the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every image that I came across of a woman was an allegorical woman,” Rios said in a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/FpndNAYmvhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 TED talk\u003c/a> on the topic. “It wasn’t a real woman. Kind of Lady Liberty. Or women in togas. Or sometimes no togas. But every image that I came across of a man was a real man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13870796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaux Kelly. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelly and her colleague learned there are nearly 90 statues of nonfictional men scattered across San Francisco’s public spaces, compared to just three of women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they drafted legislation to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was to increase the number of women honored with things like monuments and street names by 30 percent before the end of 2020—the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. (The ordinance no longer specifies 30 percent representation on city property by 2020; that number is now an ongoing goal.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first woman they wanted to honor with a statue was writer and activist Maya Angelou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly says Angelou was the perfect fit for their ambitious first project. “She lived in San Francisco and she was the first African-American streetcar conductor here,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The verso of Lava Thomas' 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-768x621.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-1020x825.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was also fitting that the statue was planned for outside the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, which Angelou loved to frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s arts commission sent out a call to artists late last year. By early August, a selection panel had whittled more than 100 proposals down to just three. The front runner was a nine-foot-tall bronze book with Angelou’s face etched on the cover, designed by Berkeley-based artist Lava Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a rare move, the city turned that proposal down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly says that’s because it wasn’t a statue in the traditional sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted a piece of art, but we also wanted to make a political statement,” said Kelly. “The statue portion of it was important to us. And the understanding was that the end art piece would be a female figure that you could recognize was a female figure from afar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the word “statue” was written into the original legislation. This was changed after the city’s arts commissioners said the language was too restrictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13870771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lava Thomas speaks at the Oct. 16 arts commission meeting about her disappointment in the process. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to provide artists with an opportunity to portray Maya Angelou and other women in the future in more contemporary and creative ways,” said arts commissioner Dorka Keehn of the language change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a public meeting in mid-October, Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who worked with Kelly and her colleagues on pushing the enabling legislation through, told a room full of grim-faced arts professionals that nothing short of an actual statue of Maya Angelou would do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I carry the legislation across the finish line to elevate women in monuments, I wanted to do it in the same way that men have been historically elevated in this city,” Stefani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people present at the meeting that day, including artist Lava Thomas, were angered by the decision. They questioned the motives behind it (someone called them “shady”) and said women should be honored differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t believe that a conservative statue in the manner of European figurative traditional monuments, that Confederate and colonial monuments are based on, that we are here discussing this in this city, San Francisco, that’s known for being progressive in every way,” Thomas said. “Come on, people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kittykendra1972/status/1192897617501442048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are those who don’t think it’s worth building monuments at all. When KQED asked people on social media what they thought, many said they would rather see the city work to get women equal pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arts commission issuing a fresh callout to artists for the Maya Angelou monument, on what is SFAC head Tom DeCaigny’s last day on the job after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13872482/sf-begins-search-for-new-head-of-cultural-affairs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stepping down\u003c/a>, the project schedule starts over. The full arts commission is scheduled to approve panel recommendations by July 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The SF Arts Commission relaunches its selection process three months after city officials withdrew the opportunity from local artist Lava Thomas.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021424,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":973},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco's Search for a Maya Angelou Monument is Back at Square One | KQED","description":"The SF Arts Commission relaunches its selection process three months after city officials withdrew the opportunity from local artist Lava Thomas.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"San Francisco's Search for a Maya Angelou Monument is Back at Square One","datePublished":"2020-01-25T01:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:03:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/10/VeltmanMayaAngelou.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13870742/sfac-maya-angelou-women-statues","audioDuration":101000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump, Margaux Kelly was looking for an antidote to the anger she felt about the president’s attitudes towards women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13872482,news_11794018,arts_13864632","label":"Public Art News "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My colleague and I came up with the idea of adding art pieces to the civic art collection,” said Kelly, who at the time was a young aide to then-San Francisco city supervisor Mark Farrell. “We wanted to help add additional female representation in the public realm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their effort is taking off again as the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) reboots a plan to erect a statue honoring Maya Angelou in front of the main branch of the public library. On Friday, Jan. 24, the SFAC \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Maya-Angelou-RFQ_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a Request for Qualifications\u003c/a> inviting artists to submit proposals for a sculpture honoring Dr. Angelou. Specifically, a “3-dimensional statue depicting Dr. Angelou.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes three months after city officials ordered the commission to start the process over again from scratch for failing to deliver an artwork that met their expectations, upsetting many in the local arts community in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said it was former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios’ efforts to put women on U.S. currency that originally inspired her to launch the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every image that I came across of a woman was an allegorical woman,” Rios said in a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/FpndNAYmvhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 TED talk\u003c/a> on the topic. “It wasn’t a real woman. Kind of Lady Liberty. Or women in togas. Or sometimes no togas. But every image that I came across of a man was a real man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13870796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaux Kelly. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelly and her colleague learned there are nearly 90 statues of nonfictional men scattered across San Francisco’s public spaces, compared to just three of women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they drafted legislation to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was to increase the number of women honored with things like monuments and street names by 30 percent before the end of 2020—the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. (The ordinance no longer specifies 30 percent representation on city property by 2020; that number is now an ongoing goal.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first woman they wanted to honor with a statue was writer and activist Maya Angelou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly says Angelou was the perfect fit for their ambitious first project. “She lived in San Francisco and she was the first African-American streetcar conductor here,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The verso of Lava Thomas' 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-768x621.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-1020x825.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was also fitting that the statue was planned for outside the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, which Angelou loved to frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s arts commission sent out a call to artists late last year. By early August, a selection panel had whittled more than 100 proposals down to just three. The front runner was a nine-foot-tall bronze book with Angelou’s face etched on the cover, designed by Berkeley-based artist Lava Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a rare move, the city turned that proposal down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly says that’s because it wasn’t a statue in the traditional sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted a piece of art, but we also wanted to make a political statement,” said Kelly. “The statue portion of it was important to us. And the understanding was that the end art piece would be a female figure that you could recognize was a female figure from afar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the word “statue” was written into the original legislation. This was changed after the city’s arts commissioners said the language was too restrictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13870771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Lava-Thomas-at-Oct-16-arts-commission-meeting-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lava Thomas speaks at the Oct. 16 arts commission meeting about her disappointment in the process. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to provide artists with an opportunity to portray Maya Angelou and other women in the future in more contemporary and creative ways,” said arts commissioner Dorka Keehn of the language change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a public meeting in mid-October, Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who worked with Kelly and her colleagues on pushing the enabling legislation through, told a room full of grim-faced arts professionals that nothing short of an actual statue of Maya Angelou would do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I carry the legislation across the finish line to elevate women in monuments, I wanted to do it in the same way that men have been historically elevated in this city,” Stefani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people present at the meeting that day, including artist Lava Thomas, were angered by the decision. They questioned the motives behind it (someone called them “shady”) and said women should be honored differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t believe that a conservative statue in the manner of European figurative traditional monuments, that Confederate and colonial monuments are based on, that we are here discussing this in this city, San Francisco, that’s known for being progressive in every way,” Thomas said. “Come on, people!”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1192897617501442048"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Then there are those who don’t think it’s worth building monuments at all. When KQED asked people on social media what they thought, many said they would rather see the city work to get women equal pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arts commission issuing a fresh callout to artists for the Maya Angelou monument, on what is SFAC head Tom DeCaigny’s last day on the job after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13872482/sf-begins-search-for-new-head-of-cultural-affairs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stepping down\u003c/a>, the project schedule starts over. The full arts commission is scheduled to approve panel recommendations by July 2020.\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13870742/sfac-maya-angelou-women-statues","authors":["8608"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_5206","arts_1680","arts_2628","arts_1879"],"featImg":"arts_13870789","label":"arts"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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