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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bahar Behbahani All water has a perfect memory Installation at Wave Hill
September 15 - December 1, 2019
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
Longitude + Latitude Rodney Ewing Solo Exhibition
at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) SF
May 8 - June, 23, 2019
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
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
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
re:home Artadia + Keenlee Reception
With Artadia Awardees, Travis Somerville, Sergio De La Torre, and Weston Teruya
December 11, 2018
re:home Feature in Bob Cut Magazine's 'What Is Home? An Exploration Of The "Homeland"'
December 10, 2018
by Megumi Hiramoto
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
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
re:home Immigrant Rights Commission & Consulate Reception
Hosted by the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs
Minnesota Street Project
December 5, 2018
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
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
Jetzt Feature on Michelle Hartney
Artist hangs additional information to Gauguin and Picasso in the MET
November 11, 2018
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
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
Frieze Feature on Michelle Hartney
Do Museum Wall Labels Hide Artists’ Misogyny? Gauguin and Picasso Protested at Met
November 8, 2018
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
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
Hyperallergic Feature on Michelle Hartney
Artist Covertly Hangs #MeToo-Inspired Wall Labels at the Met Museum
November 7, 2018
by Jasmine Weber
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
Rodney Ewing in Artifacts at the National Veterans Art Museum
Chicago, IL
May 19 - September 22, 2018
"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
Bahar Behbahani Selected for Brown Foundation
Fellows Program Salon at the Dora Maar House
Ménerbes, France
August 16, 2018 at 6pm
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
Rodney Ewing SFAC Public Art Commission Unveiling Reception
The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
Friday, June 15, 2018 from 6-8pm
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
Rodney Ewing San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Public Art Installation
Sanctuary City in The Art Newspaper
by James H. Miller
May 7, 2018
Bahar Behbahani Selected for The Drawing Center's Open Sessions Two-Year Program
New York, NY
May 1, 2018 - April 1, 2020