Creativity Explored – Visual art center for people with disabilities

I got busted by a flat foot last week, but not before I snagged these photos of artist Daniel Green's work showing in an exhibition of developmentally challenged folk of the arts organization Creativity Explored in San Francisco. The building I work in (which is an open/public access space in the Financial District) collaborates with …

Moving Behind Moses Project – 11 months down, 6 more to go

I didn't think I was going to get this grant because there appeared to be a poet purist on the selection committee who didn't think a visual artist/poet/playwright/karate black belt/samba dancer/Berkeley MBA making a living in finance would ever pool it off – "not going to happen," she told her fellow judges/jurists.  She used Paul …

UC Berkeley “Lost” Sargent Johnson Art – Million $ Relief “$Found” for $150.00 then Reacquired by the Huntington Library

This is an amazing report of  a 22 foot relief  by celebrated African American artist tied to the Bay Area "lost" to one of the school's storage stacks, sold for the pre-tax price of $150.00 then resold to the Huntington library – its first major acquisition of an African American artist. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/arts/design/art-by-sargent-johnson-berkeleys-loss-is-museums-gain.html?sq=sargent%20johnson&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1329890593-5MP8NaOLMk/sf9zpdimRiA

Artist Mark Bradford – collaging a life with paper/glue/string – retrospective now at SFMOMA/YBC Feb 18 – Jun 17

I have to admit I was somewhat skeptical of SFMOMA’s full page ad in The Examiner announcing Mark Bradford’s concurrent show with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; skeptical of what I would actually see on their white walls.  “Mark Bradford’s lush, richly textured, large-scale works express the energy of the urban environment through layers …

Missing Morocco

I miss Morocco.  The breadth and call five times a day.  The men who almost look like me, their hair like mine.  I miss the push of the street, the meat, the vegetables, the village dust.  I miss the mint tea, the no protein for breakfast but perhaps a little yoghurt and an egg.  I …

Black History Month – Celebrating Our Warrior Women

I took this picture while during research at Arlington Memorial, the site of the Women in Military Service for America memorial.  I found this beautiful warrior glaring, thinking.  I don’t know where she is, I don’t know where she was going.  I imagine her in a helicopter enroute to a mission with her comrades, or …

Black History Month – Buffalo Soldier Baseball

Family history had been a mystery to me prior to me “data mining” for my latest project “Moving Behind Moses – A poem celebrating African American Women’s  Contributions to the United States Military”.  My father didn’t talk much about his father, other than he left his mother.  My father was actually raised by his grandmother …