de Young Calendar http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp New de Young Events en-us Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST webmaster@famsf.org webmaster@famsf.org <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Exploring World Cultures — Art from Africa or the Pacific Islands]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: In Pursuit of Excellence — American Decorative Arts]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: From Gallery to Garden — Sculpture at the de Young]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Posing as Art: Photographs of People, 19th Century to Now</i>]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Exploring World Cultures — Art from Africa or the Pacific Islands]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown</i>]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: A Few of Our Favorite Things]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown</i>]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: American Art — Colonial through Contemporary]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[March Artist-in-Residence: Joe Cunningham]]>
Every month the museum invites artists to install and demonstrate their art form at the de Young. This interactive program enables visitors to meet artists and gives the artists an opportunity to work with the public. Artists working in various media are encouraged to apply.

Artists are on site Wednesday–Sunday, 1:00–5:00 p.m. (until 8:45 p.m. on Fridays through November 26, 2010).

Joe's Quilt Shop
Join quiltmaker Joe Cunningham and experiment with your own ideas about how to make a quilt. Learn the hand-quilting stitch. Quilt on a frame. Paste it all together, take a picture, and print it out right here in the Quilt Shop.

Friday, March 26
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Closing Reception in the Kimball Education Gallery
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Anderson Gallery — Works on Paper]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 2nd Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 2nd grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 2nd grade.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

The Art and Artists of California

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to the art and artists of California.

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The Art and Artists of California

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to the art and artists of California.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture and Film: "Cultural Continuity: The Weiss Collection of Southwestern Pottery" and <em>Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter</em>]]>
This lecture and film were originally scheduled at the Legion of Honor.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young <i>Amish Abstractions</i>, presented by the <i>San Francisco Bay Guardian</i>]]>
Join us on Friday Nights, when the museum stays open until 8:45 p.m., for a celebration of the arts . Each Friday Nights program is themed and offers a variety of activities, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The café is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art-making activities for everyone. Most activities are free of charge.

Wilsey Court
6:00–7:00 p.m.;
8:00–8:45 p.m
DJ sets by KUSF's DJ Schmeejay, bringing you a psychedelic barndance with honky tonk, texas swing, bluegrass, and outlaw country
 
7:00–8:00 p.m.
Live music by Red Meat
Red Meat began in a Mission District garage in 1993, but they trace their musical roots much farther back—to the hard honky-tonk songs of their youths in Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Ohio, as well as the rock music of the ’60s and ’70s that they grew up with. Throw in the Ozark gospel harmonies from Scott Young’s childhood, and you have the basic backbone of the Red Meat sound. It was this sound that they unleashed on an unsuspecting San Francisco, a city known for its unusual music and its off-kilter bands. To early audiences, Red Meat’s hard Bakersfield-style country music was sometimes dumbfounding, but the band was prophetic in anticipating a roots-sound that would soon gain in popularity.

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for all ages with Art Diva Kim Erickson: Abstract Art. Using cut paper and playing with positive and negative shapes, create your own abstract art piece.

Piazzoni Murals Room
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Artist demonstrations by Vera Costa and Sonya Philip

Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
Poetry Series: Michael Ondaatje
$10/members and students, $15/non-members
Most famous for his novel The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje is a poet, editor, professor, filmmaker, and novelist. Ondaatje introduced his characteristic style of writing in Coming Through Slaughter, which has been adapted for the stage and is soon to be a film production. Originally from Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje has become part of the literary cloth of Canada as an editor with Coach House Books, and in 1988 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Seating is first come first served, and advance ticket purchase is recommended.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[de Young Poetry Series with Michael Ondaatje]]>
Michael Ondaatje
Bestselling Author of The English Patient and Divisidero

Michael Ondaatje is one of the world’s foremost writers. His artistry and aesthetic have influenced an entire generation of writers and readers. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje’s work also encompasses memoir, poetry, and film, and reveals a passion for defying conventional form. In his transcendent novel The English Patient—later made into the Academy Award–winning film—he explores the stories of people history fails to reveal, intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II. 
 
Ondaatje is himself an interesting intersection of cultures. Born in Sri Lanka, the former Ceylon, of Indian/Dutch ancestry, he went to school in England, and then moved to Canada. He is now a Canadian citizen. From the memoir of his childhood, Running in the Family, to his Governor-General’s Award–winning book of poetry, There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning To Do, to his classic novel The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje casts a spell over his readers. And having won the British Commonwealth’s highest honor, the Booker Prize, he has taken his rightful place as a contemporary literary treasure.
 
He is the author of four collections of poetry including The Cinnamon Peeler and, most recently, Handwriting. His works of fiction include Anil's Ghost, The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.

In 2000, Michael Ondaatje was awarded the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor-General’s Award, and the Giller Prize for his novel Anil’s Ghost. Michael Ondaatje’s most recent nonfiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. His latest novel, entitled Divisadero (2007), recently won the Governor-General’s Award.

“Each of [Ondaatje’s] books is filled with passages of such finesse and vividness that they become part of us. He is a writer whose best paragraphs hover just over the page, then fly into the mind.”
—The New Yorker]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

People in Art

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to discovering people in art.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

People in Art

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to discovering people in art.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art after School:3rd Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 3rd grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 3rd grade.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Farewell to Tut: Say Goodbye to King Tut in Style. Costume Contest!]]>
On Friday nights, the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The café is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. Programs are subject to change.

Farewell to Tut: Say goodbye to King Tut in style. Costume contest!
Prizes awarded to the most creative costumes celebrating ancient or modern Egypt.

Wilsey Court
Theatrical Egyptian Crowns and Circlets
5:30–8:30 p.m. A special Egyptian-inspired art project with Corinne Okada Takara
Create your own unique theatrical Egyptian headdress and embellish it with beads and gold foil papers. A playful dash of Art Deco and modern drama mixes with ancient motifs to make a fun project for young and old alike. You will walk away with the perfect accessory for an evening of dancing and celebrating.

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on artmaking for all ages with Art Diva Kim Erickson: Tut Accessories. Create your own Egyptian-inspired jewelry using recycled materials.

6:30–7:30 p.m.
Al Afra Al Saeed (Weddings of the South)
This Egyptian operetta performed by Sausan Academy of Egyptian Dance centers around a young betrothed couple; villagers perform Egypt's regional dances as they gather in a town square. Some women come to collect water at a well while some sashay with their black shawls called the Maleya Leff. The men meet at the café and enjoy a cabaret dance. Jealousy erupts, and the men show their prowess with their sticks, called Tahtib. All comes to a sweet end with the marriage of the betrothed.

7:30–8:45 p.m.
Around-the-world dance party with DJ Neon Bunny and photo opportunity with our own “King Tut,” portrayed by Jaime Martinez and friends.

Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
“A Touch of Insight: Tactility and Transcendence in African Art”
Lecture by Dr. Polly Nooter Roberts
The arts of Africa are multisensory, and touch and tactility are integral to the experience of many kinds of objects. Visual effects of such tactile engagement may be smooth or worn surfaces or accumulated and “integumented” ones—that is, “skins” of or thresholds to powers within. For tactility is not just skin-deep. The act of touching a work of art can sometimes lead to insight. Through examples of Luba art from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other cultures of central and west Africa, this lecture will trace the complex aesthetic practices that link tactility to the attainment of inner vision.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Bay Area Artists

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to the permanent collection of art by Bay Area artists.

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Bay Area Artists

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to the permanent collection of art by Bay Area artists.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo and the Stairwell Sisters]]>
Join us on Friday Nights, when the museum stays open until 8:45 p.m., for a celebration of the arts . Each Friday Nights program is themed and offers a variety of activities, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The café is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art-making activities for everyone. Most activities are free of charge.

“What’s So Funny?” is a continuation of a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo and organized by Annice Jacoby in partnership with Precita Eyes Muralists. Mission comix perform, plus live music, and talks related to Mission District artists.

Wilsey Court
6:30–7:15 and 7:45–8:30 p.m. 
The Stairwell Sisters are career women, organizers, activists, and mamas making ends meet working and living in San Francisco. They also happen to crank out acoustic, old-time music with a punk-rock intensity. From old fiddle tunes to original songs of trial and loss and all-night parties, the Stairwell Sisters' third album carries the spirit and message of the urban evolution of country string band music. www.stairwellsisters.com

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for everyone with Art Diva Kim Erickson. Weave your own wall hanging with fabric and trimmings.

Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
Lecture by Julie Silber, “Off the Wall: ‘Maverick Quilts.’" Throughout history, many quiltmakers expressed personal flair in their work; a few found thoroughly original ways to produce quilts of unforgettable graphic strength. These quilts, which reveal unique vision and unusual technique, are known as “Maverick quilts.” Amusing, surprising, sometimes challenging, this group of eccentric quilts represents a largely unnoticed and unappreciated aspect of our quiltmaking tradition. This slide talk features fabulous examples of both completely original quilts, and truly memorable variations—quirky and personal—on traditional, recognizable designs. Julie Silber is a nationally known lecturer, author, consultant, and curator. For more than 35 years, she has been speaking on quilts as a focus for uncovering the rich world of our female past. www.thequiltcomplex.com

Kimball Education Gallery
5:00–8:45 p.m.
Miission Muralismo: What’s So Funny? Mission Comix Styles
The de Young hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco:  Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby for Precita Eyes Muralists, with a foreword by Carlos Santana. The series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. 

Tonight we are featuring Spain Rodrigues and Sirron Norris. There is an explosion of comic talent among Mission muralists, including Spain Rodriguez and Sirron Norris, who will be creating works in the Kimball Education Gallery throughout the day and into the evening.

Piazzoni Murals Room
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Quilting, spinning, and weaving demonstrations with the San Francisco Quilters Guild and Spindles and Flyers. These local groups will demonstrate their craft with hands-on learning. www.sfquiltersguild.org www.spindlesandflyers.org
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Amish Quilts: Geometry and Simplicity, Community and Belief"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Kay Payne]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Amish Quilts: Geometry and Simplicity, Community and Belief"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Judy Cunningham

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "An African American Art Experience"]]>
Lecturer: Sharon Walton]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[April Artist-in-Residence: Ken Holden]]>
Every month the museum invites artists to install and demonstrate their art form at the de Young. This interactive program enables visitors to meet artists and gives the artists an opportunity to work with the public. Artists working in various media are encouraged to apply.

Artists are on site Wednesday–Sunday, 1:00–5:00 p.m. (until 8:45 p.m. on Fridays through November 26, 2010).

Visual Interpretations in Photography
Join fine arts photographer Ken Holden to learn what a “photo anagram” is and how to interpret an environment with an impressionistic eye. Learn how to create a photo anagram by using replicated photographs to form a design. Apply that knowledge to create an impressionistic photograph (or interpretation). Bring your camera to experiment with photo anagrams and impressionism.

Friday, April 23
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Closing Reception in the Kimball Education Gallery
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 4th Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 4th grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 4th grade.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "Fashion in Art: Dress in Impressionist/Post-Impressionist Paintings"]]>

Lecturer: Melissa Leventon, Principal, Curatrix Group Museum Consultants and Appraisers; Senior Adjunct Professor, Fashion Design and Visual Studies, California College of Arts; and former Curator in Charge of Textiles, FAMSF

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Discarded to Divine and Fishtank Ensemble]]>
On Friday nights, the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The café is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. Programs are subject to change.

Discarded to Divine returns to the de Young with its 5th annual event, in partnership with the St. Vincent de Paul Society, to showcase this year's talented designers and their recycled-clothing couture.

Wilsey Court 
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Live music by Fishtank Ensemble, leaders in high-energy, cross-pollinated gypsy music. From California, they bring their unique blend of Romanian, Gypsy jazz, flamenco, Balkan, Turkish and tango–influenced music to the world. www.fishtankensemble.com

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for everyone with Art Diva Kim Erickson. Create a necklace out of recycled materials.

Piazzoni Murals Room and Wilsey Court
Discarded to Divine
Each year, we look forward to Discarded to Divine, a “very San Francisco” fashion event that presents creativity with a community-minded twist to raise awareness and much-needed funds for St. Vincent de Paul Society programs supporting low-income people in need and victims of domestic violence. The garments here on view at this sneak preview are inventive and wearable pieces created by student and emerging designers from the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as special guests, including Jay Nicolas Sario and Sweet P. of Project Runway, Colleen Quen, Cari Borja, and others. www.discardedtodivine.org

Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
Lecture by Lynda Grose on fashion sustainability. Lynda Grose cofounded Esprit’s Ecollection line, which was the first ecologically responsible clothing line developed by a major corporation and set pioneering standards for the textile industry. As a practicing designer, consultant, and educator, Lynda has worked with clients ranging from artisans and farmers to nonprofits and clothing companies. Identified in 2008 by London's Financial Times as one of the “green power brokers,” Lynda currently serves as associate professor in the fashion design program of the California College of the Arts.
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "By Hand: American Women with Needle and Thread"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Kay Payne]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Amish Quilts: Geometry and Simplicity, Community and Belief"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Kay Payne]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "The Impressionist Mind: An Intellectual and Visual Framework"]]>
Lecturer: Meredith Tromble, Associate Professor, San Francisco Art Institute]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents New Generation—Celebrating Americana Art and Culture: Past and Present<br>]]>
On Friday nights, the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The café is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. Programs are subject to change.

This special event celebrates Americana art and culture from the past to the present, featuring artworks, films, performances, and live art drawing by students and faculty from San Francisco Bay Area universities, colleges and community-based art centers. Their Americana-inspired works bring awareness to the unique and distinct spirit of Americana, expressed through iconic images, fashion styles, architecture, art objects, rural and urban everyday scenes, traditional and popular pastimes, and various forms of cultural expression.

Participating institutions include City College of San Francisco,San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco Fort Mason, Academy of Art University, Art Institute of California–San Francisco, Berkeley City College, U.C. Berkeley, San Jose State University, Foothill College, Santa Rosa Community College, Cal State University East Bay, Hospitality House, and Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA.

The evening includes:
• a variety of Americana dance tunes, past and present, spun by DJ Lamont
• a special Americana-inspired dance performance by Emily Palanza Dance Company
• an Americana film series in the Koret Auditorium
• a fashion contest for best/most creative and unique Americana chic/funky hairstyles and fashion styles. Visitors are encouraged to dress in Americana chic and funky style. Don’t miss out.

Join Rick Rodrigues and his students for their sketching performance celebrating Americana, and view amazing handmade bikes created by talented youth working with the Crucible.

Check out San Francisco Bay Area Contemporary Americana Art and Culture, a College Night satellite venue:
5:30- 9 p.m.
Friday, April 30
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

Thanks to Robert Melton, Rick Rodrigues, and the Crucible for their major contributions to this event.

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for everyone with Art Diva Kim Erickson. Design a “skateboard” with your own logo.

Amish Abstractions exhibition entrance (upper level)
7:00–7:45 p.m.
Collectors Faith and Stephen Brown will lead a tour of the Amish Abstractions exhibition and discuss their 35-year love affair with antique Amish quilts, the cultural and artistic significance of these quilts, how and why they began collecting, and what attracted them to particular quilts in the collection. (Museum admission required.)
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Insight and Inspiration: A Panel of Studio Art Quilt Associates]]>
Moderated by Judith Content, local quilt artist and President Emeritus of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), a panel of SAQA member artists discuss their careers in fiber. Panel members are:

Marion Coleman: artist, past president of the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, and past board member of TAC.

Charlotte Bird: artist, current president of the board of Quilt San Diego, and chairman of the Quilt Visions No Boundaries Biennial Exhibition.

Kris Sazaki and Deb Cashatt: artists and partners in the Pixeladies design firm and current Northern California/Nevada SAQA regional representatives.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Bouquets to Art Members-Only Evening]]>
Bouquets to Art is a week-long celebration of spring featuring 150 floral exhibits interpreting artworks from the de Young Museum's permanent collection. www.bouquetstoart.org]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Erik Jekabson Quartet + Strings, Closing Reception for Ken Holden, and the de Young Poetry Series]]>
On Friday nights, the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The café is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. Programs are subject to change.

Wilsey Court
6:30–7:15 and 7:45–8:30 p.m.
Erik Jekabson Quartet and Strings play modern jazz. Erik Jekabson has led and performed with bands in New Orleans, New York, and around the country. Featuring Erik Jekabson, trumpet; Dayna Stephens, tenor sax; Anthony Blea, violin; Charith Prewardhana, viola; John Wiitala, bass; Smith Dobson, drums. www.erikjekabson.com

Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
The de Young Poetry Series presents a book signing and reading with Bay Area poets Andrew Joron, Rachel Loden, and C. S. Giscombe. Click here for more information.

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for everyone with Art Diva Kim Erickson. Create a brooch inspired by nature.

Artist Studio/Kimball Education Gallery
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Closing Reception for Ken Holden’s installation Visual Interpretations in Photography. Join fine arts photographer Ken Holden to learn what a photo anagram is and how to interpret an environment with an impressionistic eye. Bring your camera to experiment with photo anagrams and impressionism. www.kenholden.com

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[de Young Poetry Series with Andrew Joron, Rachel Loden, and C. S. Giscombe]]>
Join us for a reading and book signing with Andrew Joron, Rachel Loden, and C. S. Giscombe

Andrew Joron was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1955, and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Missoula, Montana. He attended U.C. Berkeley, where he majored in history and philosophy of science. After a decade and a half spent writing science-fiction poetry, culminating in his volume Science Fiction (Pantograph Press, 1992), he turned to a more philosophical mode of speculative lyric. This work has been collected in The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003) and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008). He is also the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 1998), and of the surrealist Richard Anders's aphorisms and prose poems. His literary essays have been collected in The Cry at Zero (Counterpath Press, 2008). City Lights will publish his Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems in the spring of 2010.  Joron lives in Berkeley, where he works as a freelance bibliographer and indexer.

Rachel Loden is the author of Dick of the Dead, which came out in 2009 and has been called "oddly sublime" and "intoxicating" by the Poetry Project Newsletter and "expansive and whimsical" by the Brooklyn Rail. Her first book, Hotel Imperium, won the Contemporary Poetry Series competition and was selected as one of the ten best poetry books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, which called it "quirky and beguiling." It was also shortlisted for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Loden has pubished four chapbooks, including The Last Campaign (which won the Hudson Valley Writers' Center chapbook prize) and The Richard Nixon Snow Globe. Her work has appeared in New American Writing, the Paris Review, Jacket, two editions of the Best American Poetry series, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council, an &NOW Award, and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.

C. S. Giscombe has authored books of poetry Prairie Style, Giscombe Road, and Here, and the nonfiction book Into and Out of Dislocation. His poetry has been published in serveral anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, Lyric Postmoderns, and elsewhere. Giscombe was recently awarded the American Book Award for 2008 for Prairie Style. He currently is a Professor of Poetry at U.C. Berkeley.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "The Jolika Collection"]]>
]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Soccer, Sweets, and Salsa"]]>
Lecturer: Edith Freeman]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 5th Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 5th grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 5th grade.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture"" Impressionist Paintings: Individual Insights into 19th-Century Paris"]]>
Lecturer: Julie Charles, Associate Curator of Education, SFMOMA]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Member Appreciation Days]]>

Members may enjoy a double discount on regularly-priced items at both Museum Stores, a $12 members-only lunch special at both museum cafés and complimentary coffee, tea, and sweets
from 1-3 pm in the de Young's Piazzoni Murals Room. Proof of membership required.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Homemade Workshop with <i>East Bay Express</i>, Jonathan Poretz with Moodswing Orchestra, and Dance Lessons by Cynthia Glinka]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone.

Wilsey Court  
6:00–6:30 pm
Back by popular demand! Dance coach and choreographer Cynthia Glinka instructs, inspires, and entertains. With her dance tips and tricks, you won't miss a beat! Join us on the dance floor and learn some new moves, partner-dance style. www.cynthiaglinka.com

6:30–8:30pm
Jonathan Poretz and the Moodswing Orchestra. The "Rat Pack Is Back" alum Jonathan Poretz swings the songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bobby Darin, and Tony Bennett. He's backed by Mike Young's 12-piece Moodswing Orchestra, known for its authentic covers of the great Big Bands of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. Bring your dancing shoes! www.jonathanporetz.com

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for everyone with Art Diva Kim Erickson. Get your fingers into the dancing action with swing-dance puppets.

Piazzoni Murals Room
6:00–8:45 p.m.
Inspired by Amish craftsmanship, the East Bay Express brings a Handmade Workshop where visitors can learn how Bay Area artisans hand-make everyday items. From garden tools to furniture, jewelry to clothing, such items handmade with quality and precision are hard to find in this era of mass production.

Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Manuel Jordan, “Revisiting Chokwe: A Historiography of Chokwe Art.” The lecture focuses on the body of documentation on the art of Chokwe and related peoples gathered by scholars and ethnographers since the 19th century, all of which led to definitions of Chokwe style(s) and typologies of royal art versus people’s art. The presentation considers the competing (and often conflicting) contexts and sources of influence for what we have come to identify as Chokwe art.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Member Appreciation Days]]>
Members may enjoy a double discount on regularly-priced items at both Museum Stores, a $12 members-only lunch special at both museum cafés and complimentary coffee, tea, and sweets
from 1-3 pm in the de Young's Piazzoni Murals Room. Proof of membership required.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "In Pursuit of Style: Shoes in History"]]>

The lecture follows the changes in fashionable footwear—from early Roman sandals, through high button shoes and stiletto heels, to wedgies and platforms—reminding us that, throughout the ages, shoes have always reflected the personality and status of the wearer.

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. All Friday Night programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby, with a foreword by Carlos Santana, as part of the museum’s weekly program Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young.

This series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. These programs are offered free of charge in the free zone of the museum.

Throughout 2010: First Fridays, 6:00–8:45 p.m. FREE

May 7: Directional Signals: Pranksters and Preachers, Paste and Stencil
June 4: Balmy Alley/PLACA
July 2: Graff Generations
Aug 6: Film Series: Quality of Life; La Misión; Mi Name Is Chula; Low Riders
Sep 3: Film Series: Piece by Piece; Style Wars; Bombit
Oct 1: Clarion Alley CAMP
Nov 5: Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution

www.missionmuralismo.com]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Members-Only Preview Hours]]>

Join us to celebrate the opening of Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay!
Tickets for Members-Only Previews are available beginning April 30. Tickets are limited; timed ticket reservations required.

Reserve free member tickets online https://tickets.famsf.org/public/show.asp, onsite at the de Young or the Legion of Honor, or by calling 800-777-9996. Please note: a $3 transaction fee does apply to phone orders. This exhibition opens to the public at the de Young on May 22, 2010. For more information: http://www.orsay.famsf.org/

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Members-Only Preview Hours]]>

Join us to celebrate the opening of Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay!
Tickets for Members-Only Previews are available beginning April 30. Tickets are limited; timed ticket reservations required.

Reserve free member tickets online https://tickets.famsf.org/public/show.asp, onsite at the de Young or the Legion of Honor, or by calling 800-777-9996. Please note: a $3 transaction fee does apply to phone orders. This exhibition opens to the public at the de Young on May 22, 2010. For more information: http://www.orsay.famsf.org/

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. All Friday Night programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby, with a foreword by Carlos Santana, as part of the museum’s weekly program Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young.

This series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. These programs are offered free of charge in the free zone of the museum.

Throughout 2010: First Fridays, 6:00–8:45 p.m. FREE

June 4: Balmy Alley/PLACA
July 2: Graff Generations
Aug 6: Film Series: Quality of Life; La Misión; Mi Name Is Chula; Low Riders
Sep 3: Film Series: Piece by Piece; Style Wars; Bombit
Oct 1: Clarion Alley CAMP
Nov 5: Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution

www.missionmuralismo.com]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Members Fund Appreciation Reception]]>

Enjoy complimentary wine and light hor d'ouevres along with a lecture by Lynn Federle Orr, Ph.D., Curator in Charge of European Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. If you would like to be included in the event, click the link below. All members donating $150 or more before May 1 will be invited.

Your fully tax-deductible contribution to the Members Fund DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL. Make a Member's Fund donation>>

]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[7th Annual Carol Walter Sinton Program for Craft Art: Traditional Yup'ik Eskimo Designs in Contemporary Clothing]]>
Textile Arts Council presents Vernon L. Chimegalrea, cultural activist, broadcaster and native Alaskan (Yup'ik). He has worked with the Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hands Across Alaska, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. He has coordinated performance and outreach programs among the native peoples of his state and juried the All-Alaska Native Art Show.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. All Friday Night programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby, with a foreword by Carlos Santana, as part of the museum’s weekly program Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young.

This series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. These programs are offered free of charge in the free zone of the museum.

Throughout 2010: First Fridays, 6:00–8:45 p.m. FREE

July 2: Graff Generations
Aug 6: Film Series: Quality of Life; La Misión; Mi Name Is Chula; Low Riders
Sep 3: Film Series: Piece by Piece; Style Wars; Bombit
Oct 1: Clarion Alley CAMP
Nov 5: Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution

www.missionmuralismo.com]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Textile Arts Council presents the Seventh Annual Carol Walter Sinton Program for Craft Art: Dream Weavers of Sarawak, Borneo]]>
Textile Arts Council presents a morning of images and music from visiting artisans.

The impact of dreams on the creation of ceremonial weavings is unique to Borneo. We are pleased to welcome Iban weavers and musicians from this remote culture. Edric Ong is President of the Society Atelier Sarawak, dedicated to protecting the cultural heritage of Sarawak. With Mr. Ong will be ikat weavers Bangie ak. Embol and Nancy anak Ngali, who have both been honored with the UNESCO Craft Seal of Excellence. We also look forward to music from Mathew Ngau Jau, an accomplished performer on the sapeh, a traditional stringed instrument.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. All Friday Night programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby, with a foreword by Carlos Santana, as part of the museum’s weekly program Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young.

This series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. These programs are offered free of charge in the free zone of the museum.

Throughout 2010: First Fridays, 6:00–8:45 p.m. FREE

Aug 6: Film Series: Quality of Life; La Misión; Mi Name Is Chula; Low Riders
Sep 3: Film Series: Piece by Piece; Style Wars; Bombit
Oct 1: Clarion Alley CAMP
Nov 5: Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution

www.missionmuralismo.com]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. All Friday Night programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby, with a foreword by Carlos Santana, as part of the museum’s weekly program Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young.

This series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. These programs are offered free of charge in the free zone of the museum.

Throughout 2010: First Fridays, 6:00–8:45 p.m. FREE

Sep 3: Film Series: Piece by Piece; Style Wars; Bombit
Oct 1: Clarion Alley CAMP
Nov 5: Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution

www.missionmuralismo.com]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. All Friday Night programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby, with a foreword by Carlos Santana, as part of the museum’s weekly program Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young.

This series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. These programs are offered free of charge in the free zone of the museum.

Throughout 2010: First Fridays, 6:00–8:45 p.m. FREE

Oct 1: Clarion Alley CAMP
Nov 5: Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution

www.missionmuralismo.com]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Mission Muralismo]]>
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. All Friday Night programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009), edited by Annice Jacoby, with a foreword by Carlos Santana, as part of the museum’s weekly program Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young.

This series celebrates one of San Francisco’s greatest assets—the Mission District arts community, a rising star on the global art map. Both cutting-edge and traditional street artists will offer lectures and performances, sharing their art, insights, musings, experiences, and perspectives. These programs are offered free of charge in the free zone of the museum.

Throughout 2010: First Fridays, 6:00–8:45 p.m. FREE

Nov 5: Art and Revolution: Centennial Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution. This will be our last Mission Muralismo event of the season!

www.missionmuralismo.com]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22 PST