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Helen Bryant is pleased to announce that Cultural Vistas is now accepting applications for our Celebrate the Connections international arts exchange program. Funded by the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, Celebrate the Connections is a creative arts exchange that will send six U.S. artists who specialize in the urban arts to India in January 2016 (Jan 23 – Feb 9) for a teaching, learning, and performance tour across four cities. The purpose of the program is to foster cross-cultural dialogue and inspire creative collaboration between artist communities using the growing global influence of urban arts. You can find out more about the program on their website: Cultural vistas . (more…)

No Public Asian American Arts Space in SF?
Asian American Women Artists Association Has an Answer!

SAN FRANCISCO, October 10, 2015 – San Francisco has long been the epicenter of Asian American life and culture. The oldest running Asian American arts nonprofit was founded here, the city has the nation’s largest yearly Asian film festival, it is the birthplace of Asian American studies, and Asians make up about one third of the city’s population. And yet, there’s no Asian American public art space in San Francisco. In addition, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center functions as a virtual center that programs arts events at various venues throughout the city. (more…)

During mid August in San Francisco we watched preparations for KAABOO a ‘mixperience’ festival that was set to begin on September 18th at Del Mar south of Los Angeles. Amanda Lynn along with other San Francisco based artists painted several immense canvas that were temporarily hung on Market at 8th St for installation at stages and entrances to the festival. KAABOO recently released press about the festival that was curated by San Francisco based Amanda Lynn and showcased many San Francisco Bay Area artists. (more…)

Jeremy Fish has been living and creating art since he arrived in San Francisco to attend art school. He embraces life on a daily basis, making the most of his talents and opportunities. (more…)

Most people have seen the art heart sculptures in Union Square and other tourist and heavy traffic areas around the City. They weren’t always there and they seem to have multiplied. (more…)

Last year a mural seemed to come out of nowhere on a building by Larkin St in the Tenderloin by BIP, an artist from New Haven. (more…)

G Lewis Heslet of Creative Lives has produced several documentaries about artists. Several names are familiar on the street. This is their latest documentary just released featuring Richard Colman. (more…)

Going school ain’t what it used to be. Back in the day there was no street art. The only art seen by the lucky ones were the WPA murals painted in 1936 at Washington High School. (more…)

With the current residential and commercial building boom taking place in San Francisco we decided to head down to the Financial District to check out the street art. Mind you we did not go looking for the usual type we post. The Financial District is all about big bucks, big budgets, big building and big ideas. All that means another type of street art – architecture, sculptures and privately owned public space. This is one place where power and creativity come together to create street art that last lifetimes, spans generations and give a sense of stability and continuity. (more…)

A few weeks ago I drove to Ocean Beach to check out the graffiti along the sea wall. Having grown up in the Outer Richmond I have mixed feelings about the neighborhood and rarely go there. As a child I loved walking along the cliffs from Baker Beach to Lands End, bicycling around Golden Gate Park, ice skating at the old Sutro Baths and going to the Fun House at Playland. Memories of being socked in by summer fog wearing winter woolens while others basked in the sunshine and wore summer clothes elsewhere lessen my nostalgia for the neighborhood. (more…)

The Hotel Zetta in San Francisco has scored again. This Viceroy Hotel located next to the San Francisco Center in the heart of the City recently upped the ante with its latest addition to the unique art experience they have created for their guests. From the moment you walk into their hip sophisticated lobby you realize the hotel will be part of your special San Francisco stay. (more…)

Been down Mission Street in Soma lately? Like any other street in that area it is transforming before our eyes with sleek new buildings. Across from one of the newest is an older building that has been transformed into a work of art on the outside. Inside a different type of art is being created daily. (more…)