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    Art+Action's COME TO YOUR CENSUS Campaign Awarded Ford Foundation Grant Art+Action Founder + Artistic Director of Social Impact Amy Kisch along with artists Arleene Correa Valencia + Ana Teresa Fernández joined advocates, artists, filmmakers, and journalists nationwide to share tools, models, and networks to drive voter and Census participation to ensure that BIPOC, disabled, women, trans, LGBTQIA+, and immigrant voices are heard and counted—as Ford Foundation focuses support to bring the initiative to Florida and Texas.

     

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    Smithsonian Magazine Highlights Art+Action's COME TO YOUR CENSUS Campaign 

    Art+Action has responded to COVID-19 by shifting from public events to social media and online outreach—and continuing to offer their open-sourced multi-lingual arts-driven Census toolkit—to advocate for the health and strength of our communities for the next decade.

    April 2, 2020

    by Theresa Machemer

     

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    The Art Newspaper HIghlights Art+Action's COME TO YOUR CENSUS Campaign 

    Art+Action has launched a multi-pronged initiative to reach Bay Area residents in hard-to-count communities, and galvanize the art world to get behind the national headcount

    April 1, 2020

    by Tess Thackara

     

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    Hyperallergic Feature Come to Your Census: The 2020 Census is an Essential Service

    Participating in the 2020 Census helps to secure the long-term health and strength of our communities. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that completing the Census is more vital now than ever.

    April 1, 2020

     

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    Hyperallergic Features YBCA Presents 'ome to Your Census: Who Counts in America

    Learn more about YBCA’s digital art and civic engagement experience as part of an arts-driven citywide campaign led by the Art+Action coalition, commissioned by the City of San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA)

    April 1, 2020

     

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    7×7 Spring Arts Preview Features Come To Your Census

    7×7 calls out YBCA’s digital art and civic experience Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? in its roundup of art openings this Spring

    March 5, 2020

    by Anna Volpicelli

     

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    The Art Newspaper: San Francisco Fairs Reflect the Bay Area’s Widening Wealth Gap

    San Francisco as a cultural mecca with FOG and Untitled, the new SFMOMA, Pace and Gagosian, civic art programs like Art+Action, and the development of artist enclaves such as Minnesota Street Project

    January 20, 2020

    by Leora Lutz

     

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    Nancy Pelosi Launches COME TO YOUR CENSUS Campaign in San Francisco on Channel 2 News

    Channel 2 News covers the unveiling of the COME TO YOUR CENSUS campaign with the SF COUNTS 2020 Census launch with Mayor London N. Breed and Speaker Nancy Pelosi at San Francisco City Hall

    January 17, 2020

    by Rob Roth

     

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    Bahar Behbahani All water has a perfect memory Installation at Wave Hill

    September 15 - December 1, 2019

     

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    Rodney Ewing Residency + Site-Specific Exhibition at Headlands Center for the Arts

    Residency: June 10 - August 19
    Exhibition: July 28 - August 19
    Special Event: Sunday, August 11, 11am-2:30pm

     

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    Longitude + Latitude Rodney Ewing Solo Exhibition

    at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) SF

    May 8 - June, 23, 2019

     

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    re:home For Freedoms Exhibition Review in Art Practical Magazine

    An Atlas of the Invisible, in re:home at Minnesota Street Project

    January 22, 2019

    by Hoi Leung

     

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    Bahar Behbahani in OBSERVER Magazine

    Creative Capital’s 2019 Award Recipients Are 60 Percent Women, 77 Percent People of Color

    January 15, 2019

    by Helen Holmes

     

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    Bahar Behbahani Receives the 2019 Creative Capital 2019 Award

    January 11, 2019

     

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    re:home For Freedoms Town Hall

    Moderated by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact

    at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. 

    Minnesota Street Project

    December 15, 2018

     

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    SFMOMA SECA Award Announcements at re:home

    December 14, 2018

     

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    re:home Artadia + Keenlee Reception

    With Artadia Awardees, Travis Somerville, Sergio De La Torre, and Weston Teruya

    December 11, 2018

     

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    re:home Feature in Bob Cut Magazine's 'What Is Home? An Exploration Of The "Homeland"'

    December 10, 2018

    by Megumi Hiramoto

     

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    re:home Family + Community Day

    Free art-making workshops + interventions by Sanctuary City Project

    (with the support of FB AIR Program), Ramekon Oarwisters’ Crochet Jam 

    (supported by Pamela + David Hornik), and The Community Walking Laboratory with Astrid Kaemmerling

    Minnesota Street Project

    December 8, 2018

     

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    re:home Creative Capital Dinners Project

    Led by Maria Elena González—artist, educator, and chair of the sculpture department at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)

    Minnesota Street Project

    December 5, 2018

     

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    re:home Immigrant Rights Commission & Consulate Reception

    Hosted by the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs

    Minnesota Street Project

    December 5, 2018

     

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    re:home a For Freedoms Exhibition + Community Action Opening Reception

    Developed in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut San Francisco + Presented with Collect For Change™

    Minnesota Street Project

    December 1, 2018

     

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    re:home a For Freedoms Exhibition + Community Action

    Exploring the plight of political + economic refugees in the San Francisco Bay Area, 

    examining sanctuary city, homelessness, and the flight of the creative class

    Developed in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut San Francisco + Presented with Collect For Change™

    Minnesota Street Project

    December 1 - 29, 2018

     

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    Jetzt Feature on Michelle Hartney 

    Artist hangs additional information to Gauguin and Picasso in the MET

    November 11, 2018

     

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    Michelle Hartney in artnet News 

    From the Art World’s Biggest Power Players to Jeff Koons’s Embarrassing Day in Court: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week

    November 10, 2018

    by Caroline Goldstein

     

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    Politikien Feature on Michelle Hartney 

    Artist in spectacular action: "The history of Western art is purely a story of men who paint women as if they were meatballs for their speckled flowers"

    November 9, 2018

    by Torben Benner

     

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    Frieze Feature on Michelle Hartney 

    Do Museum Wall Labels Hide Artists’ Misogyny? Gauguin and Picasso Protested at Met

    November 8, 2018

     

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    The Art Newspaper Feature on Michelle Hartney 

    In a Met protest, an artist posts her own labels next to a Picasso and Gauguin

    November 8, 2018

    by Nancy Kenney

     

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    artnet News Feature on Michelle Hartney 

    ‘Museums Almost Infantilize Viewers’: A Guerrilla Artist Puts Up Her Own Wall Labels at the Met to Expose Male Artists’ Bad Behavior

    November 7, 2018

    by Sarah Cascone

     

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    Hyperallergic Feature on Michelle Hartney 

    Artist Covertly Hangs #MeToo-Inspired Wall Labels at the Met Museum

    November 7, 2018

    by Jasmine Weber

     

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    Bahar Behbahani and Hoor Al Qasimi to Curate Exhibition

    at the Sharjah Art Foundation of Works by DENA Collective
    United Arab Emirates

    September 29, 2018 - January 12, 2019

     

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    Rodney Ewing in Artifacts at the National Veterans Art Museum 

    Chicago, IL

    May 19 - September 22, 2018 

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    "Art of Living: The Haight-Ashbury Home of Die-Hard Collectors"

    Featuring Rodney Ewing's San Francisco Private Commission 

    Moving Pictures in 7x7 Magazine

    by Anna Volpicelli

    August 22, 2018

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    Bahar Behbahani Selected for Brown Foundation

    Fellows Program Salon at the Dora Maar House

    Ménerbes, France

    August 16, 2018 at 6pm 

     

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    Bahar Behbahani’s Ride the Caspian Two-Channel Video

    Collaboration with Almagul Menlibayaeva Installation on View

    in Active Forms: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection 

    Al Mureijah Square, Arts Square and the Old Sharjah Planetarium,
    Part of March Meeting, United Arab Emirates

    March 16 - June 16, 2018

     

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    Rodney Ewing SFAC Public Art Commission Unveiling Reception 

    The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco

    Friday, June 15, 2018 from 6-8pm

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    Rodney Ewing Private Art Commission Reception 

    San Francisco

    Saturday, June 9, 2018 from 6-8pm

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    OPHELIA Featured in New York Foundation for the Arts NYFA CURRENT 

    "Conversations | Nadja Verena Marcin's OPHELIA World Tour"

    by Priscilla Son

    May 24, 2018

     

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    Rodney Ewing San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Public Art Installation

    Sanctuary City in The Art Newspaper

    by James H. Miller

    May 7, 2018

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    Bahar Behbahani Selected for The Drawing Center's Open Sessions Two-Year Program

    New York, NY

    May 1, 2018 - April 1, 2020

     

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