de Young Calendar http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp New de Young Events en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT webmaster@famsf.org webmaster@famsf.org <![CDATA[Docent Tour: "Art of the Americas"]]>
This tour will cover the permanent collection of Mesoamerican Art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Introduction to the de Young]]>
This tour will introduce the permanent collection of the de Young.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving</i>]]>
This tour will cover the exhibition For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Gilbert & George</i>]]>
This tour will cover the exhibition Gilbert & George]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: 20th-Century and Contemporary Art]]>
This tour will cover 20th-century and contemporary art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Introduction to the de Young]]>
This tour will introduce the permanent collection of the de Young.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Art of the Americas]]>
This tour will cover the permanent collection of Mesoamerican art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Art in America to the 20th Century]]>
This tour will cover the American galleries, from colonial to contemporary art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Arts of Oceania and Africa]]>
This tour will cover the permanent collections of Oceanic and African art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: In Pursuit of Excellence: American Decorative Arts]]>
This tour will cover the permanent collection of American decorative arts.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Women: Worldly and Otherworldly]]>

Women have inspired some of the greatest works of art throughout time and cultures. Please join a Fine Arts Museums' Docent for a tour to celebrate woman in all of her manifestations, worldly and otherworldly.

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young celebrates the art of Gilbert & George; Youth Speaks Poetry Slam; and bi-coastal jazz]]>
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.

In Koret Auditorium
6:00 p.m.
Youth Speaks presents the New Word Series
The New Word Series is an audience-judged team poetry slam. Teams of three perform before an audience that determines which poems advance to the championship round. Youth Speaks slam champs, participating slam poets, and poet-mentors will team up to bust spoken-word that moves the crowd. Come and participate as Youth Speaks introduces the literary world to new words that bring the noise from the margin to the core!


In Wilsey Court
6:00–6:45 p.m.
Lloyd Gregory
Guitarist Lloyd Gregory's distinguished musical taste and style captivate audiences throughout the world. A musician and bandleader in great demand, Gregory has performed and toured with such noted artists as Stanley Clarke, Martha Reeves, Gerald Albright, Rodney Franklin, Felton Pilate and Freda Payne, George Duke, Freddie Stewart (Sly and the Family Stone), Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), the Dells, and Lowell Fulsom, among many others. Lloyd Gregory's albums show his versatility and depth of musical consciousness.


7:00-8:30 p.m.
Ambrose Akinmusire
Akinmusire was born and raised in Oakland. Before he was eighteen, he had already performed with such famed musicians as saxophonists Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, and Steve Coleman and drummer Billy Higgins. After graduating from Berkeley High School in 2000, he moved to New York to begin a full scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2007 Akinmusire won two of the most prestigious jazz competitions in the world, the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition.

Art-making for Everyone
Create your own colored paper collage inspired by jazz and Stuart Davis’s Night Life.



]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Young @ Art<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 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.

Young @ Art
The Young @ Art Gala showcases the arts from all San Francisco public and private schools and brings together all of the festival participants in celebration. Young @ Art features an exhibition of 1,000 works of art, 45 student performances, a media arts day, hands-on art activities and a literary arts event. Highlights of the Gala evening include Stagewrite’s annual presentation of plays written by students about artworks in the museum and performances by two stellar high school orchestras from the School of the Arts and Lowell High School.

Art-making for Everyone
Join in on the community project and help us create our own art based on El Anatsui’s Hover II.




]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "All That Glitters . . . Jewelry at the Fine Arts Museums"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Peggy Gordon]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "Super Cool Liquid: Understanding the Studio Glass Movement"]]>

Lecturer: Martha Drexler Lynn, PhD, author and lecturer on contemporary craft and former curator of 20th-century craft, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young celebrates <i>Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving</i>; Eliyahu & Qadim; Odes to Neruda; Artist-in-Residence-at-Large Tucker Nichols]]>
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
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Eliyahu & Qadim: Mystical Music of the Near East
Eliyahu Sills has been studying and performing music for over 20 years on many instruments, including upright bass, bansuri, the bamboo flute of India, and the ney, the reed flute of the middle east. He has performed and recorded traditional spiritual music of the Middle East with Za’atar, West African folk music with the Palm Wine Boys, soul roots reggae with the Original Intentions, acoustic soul with Sparlha Swa, and revolutionary hip-hop with Rebels Advocate. Recently, he has been making music with Ethiopian-born jazz/soul vocalist Meklit Hadero, has recorded devotional music with Shimshai and with m.j. greenmountain of Hamsa Lila, and has toured with Rupa and the April Fishes and with oudist/composer Yuval Ron.
 
Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
ADORNO Ensemble: Odes to Neruda
The ADORNO Ensemble premieres a new work, Odes to Neruda, a song cycle by Peruvian-American composer Gabriela Lena Frank set to the words of the famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The work features soprano Lucy Shelton, two-time winner of the Walter Naumburg Award. A champion of more than 100 premieres, Ms. Shelton has been an inspirational muse for the most active and leading composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Frank’s music incorporates Latin American mythology, archeology, art, poetry, and folk music into western classical forms, In celebration of poetry, language, and song, students of Poetry Inside Out will also join the event with readings throughout the concert. Funding by Barlow Foundation of Music Composition and the Clarence Heller Foundation.
  • Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and electronics
  • Pablo Ortiz, Hipermilonga for clarinet, violin and piano
  • George Crumb, Madrigals Book I for vibraphone and double bass
  • Gabriela Lena Frank, Odes to Neruda for soprano, violin, double bass, clarinet, percussion, and piano (world premiere)
Art-making for everyone
Create a fabric assemblage inspired by the designs of the Turkmen carpets on view in For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving.

Kimball Education Gallery
6:00–8:30 p.m. Reception
7:15 p.m. Artist talk: In conversation with Griff Williams, owner of Gallery 16
In an unusual new program, Bay Area artist Tucker Nichols was commissioned to be Artist-in-Residence-at-Large at the de Young this spring. Since January, Nichols has been making work in and around the museum in a variety of media: unexpected photographs of the building; drawings on paper and photographs; and temporary interventions using tape and other everyday materials. Taken as a whole, the commission offers a fresh look at the museum from the eyes of a living artist.
]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook, 1970-2007]]>
Cranbrook Academy of Art has been a hothouse environment for graduate studies in the visual arts for more than 75 years. In particular, the program in fiber, under the successive leadership of Gerhardt Knodel and Jane Lackey, has contributed to a rethinking of the field, redefining and shifting it in new directions. In this exciting lecture Gerhardt Knodel will discuss the legacy he and Jane Lackey have built at Cranbrook, mentoring more than 275 graduates over the course of three decades. He will also discuss his own recent work.

This event is sponsored by ARTWEAR in the Galleries and the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Textile Arts Council Lecture: Gerhardt Knodel, Cranbrook Academy of Art]]>
The Cranbrook Academy of Art has been a hothouse environment for graduate studies in the visual arts for more than 75 years. In particular, the program in fiber under the successive leadership of Gerhardt Knodel and Jane Lackey has contributed to the rethinking of the field, redefining and shifting it in new directions. In this exciting lecture, Knodel will discuss the legacy he and Lackey have built at Cranbrook, mentoring, over the course of three decades, more than 275 graduates, all of whom have contributed to the ever-expanding field of fiber. He will also share his own recent body of work. ]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Textiles
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 artworks in the collection of textiles.

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Textiles
Family tour and art activity for children aged 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. Projects relate to the collection of textiles.

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Curator's Lecture: "Dale Chihuly: Breathing Life into Glass"]]>
Timothy Anglin Burgard, Ednah R. Root Curator in Charge of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[The de Young Poetry Series: Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino]]>
The de Young Poetry Series is curated by Paul Hoover, a poet, editor, and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. On the first Friday of the month in April, May, June, September, October, and November, major U.S. poets read from their works, followed by a book signing.

Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino

Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino are among the country’s leading innovative poets; they are also widely known and respected internationally. Associated with language poetry, inter-genre practice, and collaborative writing, they have contributed to an historical shift in how poetry is created and understood.

Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her most recent books include A Border Comedy (Granary Books), Slowly and The Beginner (Tuumba Press), The Fatalist (Omnidawn), and Happily (Post-Apollo Press). The U.C. Press published her widely praised essay collection, The Language of Inquiry, in 2000. She has received a writing fellowship from the California Arts Council and a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for Description (1990) and Xenia (1994), by Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. She is an editor for Tuumba Press and co-edited Poetics Journal with Barrett Watten. With Travis Ortiz, she co-directs Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets. Other collaborative projects include Qúê Trân, with music by John Zorn; the award-winning documentary film Letters Not about Love, directed by Jacki Ochs; and The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, co-written with nine other poets. In the spring of 2007, she was elected as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches in the English department at U.C. Berkeley.

Leslie Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, poem-plays, and criticism. Her most recent book, It’s go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974–2006, was published by U.C. Press in 2008. Other poetry collections include New Time (Wesleyan), The Tango (Granary), It’s go in / quiet illumined grass / land (Post-Apollo Press), and way and Considering how exaggerated music is (North Point Press). Her inter-genre fiction includes R-hu (Atelos), Defoe (Green Integer), Dahlia’s Iris (F2), and, recently reprinted by Talisman, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy. She grew up in Berkeley, studied at Reed College and U.C. Berkeley, and lives in Oakland, where she is editor and publisher of O Books, a leading publisher of innovative writing. She has been awarded two NEA Fellowships and a Poetry Center Award from San Francisco State University. She currently teaches in the Bard College MFA program and Mills College.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>
Art of Mesoamerica Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Activities relate to the collection of Mesoamerican art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Cityscapes: Contemporary Artists' Views of Urban Landscapes"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Mina Shea]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>
Art of Mesoamerica
Family tour and art activity for children aged 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. Projects relate to the collection of Mesoamerican art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Members-Only Preview Hours: Chihuly at the de Young]]>
Members-only preview hours for the exhibition Chihuly at the de Young.

For questions, please call 415.750.7674.
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Members’ evening for the exhibition Chihuly at the de Young, with music and cash bar.

For questions, please call 415.750.7674.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Seascapes

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 collection of seascapes.

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Seascapes
Family tour and art activity for children aged 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. Projects relate to the collection of seascapes.

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Session 1: Claws, Paws, Wings, and Tails

Ages 4-6

Students will look at animal imagery among objects in the museum's collection and use a variety of media to create their own works of art, including paintings, prints, and puppets.

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Session 2: Art Outdoors

Ages 9-12

Students will create real and imaginary landscapes using paints, pastels, and charcoals.

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Textile Arts Council Slide Lecture:<br><i>Golden Waterfalls, Windblown Pines: The Story of Kimono</i>]]>
Speaker: Betsy Sterling Benjamin

Betsy Sterling Benjamin is an internationally recognized silk artist, a researcher, and the author of The World of Rozome: Wax Resist Textiles of Japan. She spent 18 years living in Japan and teaching at the college level and is currently on the faculty of Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Animals 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 the collection of animals in art.

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Animals in Art
Family tour and art activity for children aged 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. Projects relate to the collection of animals in art.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Art in the Summer]]>

Session 3: Sculpture

Ages 5-8

Inspired by the sculptures in the de Young's sculpture garden as well as the collections of African, Oceanic, and Mesoamerican art, students will experiment with a variety of materials to build their own works of art.

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Session 4: Drawing and Painting in the Park

Ages 8-11

The Japanese Tea Garden, the Arboretum, and the Conservatory of Flowers are some of the sites selected for this class. Students will learn to "see" flora and fauna, ponds, and architectural sites through drawing and painting exercises. Materials include water-based color pencils, oil pastels, pens, and watercolors.

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Session 5: Drawing and Painting in the Galleries and the Park

Ages 9-12

With this introduction to basic ideas of space, color, and composition, students will learn how to use pastels, pencils, and paints.

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Session 6: Painting with Watercolor

Ages 11-14

Students will develop basic skills in watercolor. Techniques such as applying washes, working "wet-in-wet," and dry brush will be introduced, as well as the fundamentals of composition, color, and perspective.

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Session 8: Beginning Printmaking

Ages 10-14

This class will introduce the fundamentals of reproducing images from monoprints and rubber stamps as well as using three-dimensional objects to create prints on paper and fabric.

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Session 7: Beginning Drawing

Ages 7-10

Students will learn the fundamentals of drawing and will experiment with a variety of materials, including pencils, charcoals, and oil pastels.

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Session 9: Myths and Monsters

Ages 8-11

Students will create their own mythological monster and write their own myth describing their monster's origins and escapades.

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Session 10: Free to Paint

Ages 6-9

Explore landscape, still-life, and portrait painting while experimenting with color mixing and style]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Art in the Summer]]>
Session 11: Drawing and Painting

Ages 11-14

In this class, students will learn about the ways people create portraits. A variety of materials, including charcoals, pastels, inks, and pastels, will be used. Basic facial structure and anatomy will also be taught.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Art in the Summer]]>
Session 14: Art to Wear
Ages 4-6
By looking at paintings and sculptures, students will discover how the art of self decoration changes in different times and places. Related projects will include jewelry-making, face-painting, costumes, and mask-making.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23 PDT <![CDATA[Art in the Summer]]>

Session 12: Art That Tells a Story
Ages 8-11
Students will explore art, music, and drama and will make musical instruments, puppets, and scenery

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Session 13: Art in Motion

Ages 7-10

This class will explore ritual art and art depicting motion or movement in the African, Oceanic, and Mesoamerican collections. Projects will include painting, drawing, mask-making, sculpture, and musical instruments.

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Session 15: Masks
Ages 6-9
Masks from the collections of African, Oceanic, and Mesoamerican art will be seen in relation to their actual function, and students will draw, paint, and build their own masks using paper, foil, paint, beads, and found objects.

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Session 16: Art from Nature
Ages 7-10
Create sculpture and collage using natural materials such as twigs, leaves, fabric, wood, and handmade paper.

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