a For Freedoms exhibition exploring the plight of political and economic refugees in the San Francisco Bay Area—examining sanctuary city, homelessness, and the flight of the creative class
Featured artists include Marina Abramović, Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Randy Colosky + Alison OK Frost, Rodney Ewing, Summer Mei Ling Lee + Laura Boles Faw, Julio César Morales, Joel Daniel Phillips, Travis Somerville, SOUND MADE PUBLIC, and Shadi Yousefian, with additional works, performances, interventions, and community activations by
Somaieh Amini, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Miguel Arzabe, Patti Bartelstein, Bahar + Shamsy Behbahani,
Sofía Córdova, John Craig Freeman, Eliza Gregory,
Michelle Hartney, Anna Hentschel + Invisible Playground,
Astrid Kaemmerling + The Walk Discourse, Shireen Liane,
Hung Liu, Ericka McConnell, Lisette Morales, Rasta Dave, Sanctuary City Project, Mahsa Shoghi, Brian Singer / someguy, Weston Teruya, and Azar Zohrabi, among others
Curated by
Amy Kisch + Candace Huey + Suzanne Zuber
Minnesota Street Project
Saturday, December 1 – Saturday, December 29, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, Dec. 1, 5-8pm
+ RSVP to the Opening Reception: Dec. 1, 5-8pm HERE
+ Share the Opening Reception Facebook Event HERE
+ View Photos from the Opening Reception HERE
Family + Community Day: Saturday, Dec. 8, 11am-2pm
+ Share the Family + Community Day Facebook Event HERE
+ Reserve your spot in Astrid Kaemmerling's The
Community Walking Laboratory HERE
+ View Photos from Family + Community Day HERE
Walkshop: Displaced Wellbeing: Saturday, Dec. 15, 2-4pm
+ Register for the Walkshop HERE
For Freedoms Town Hall: Saturday, Dec. 15, 6-8pm
+ RSVP to the For Freedoms Town Hall: Dec. 15, 6-8pm HERE
+ Share the For Freedoms Facebook Event HERE
+ Watch the Recording of the For Freedoms Town Hall Event
Location
Gallery 200
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.243.0825
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am-6pm
or viewing by appointment: info [at] AKArt.com
Media Contacts
Danielle Smith
[FRAMEWORK]
Amy Kisch
[AKArt + Collect For Change]
Candace Huey
[re.riddle]
re:home has been developed in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut San Francisco with the support of Minnesota Street Project, Facebook Art Department, and Pamela + David Hornik, as well as a powerful creative community dedicated to meaning and action, including:
ADVOCARTSY
ArtTable
Artadia
ARTogether
Asian Art Museum
Madeline Crawley Beck
Graham Bond Media
Rimma Boshernitsan
Rena Bransten Gallery
BREAKBEATBILLY | Willy Johnson Photography
CatchLight
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST)
Creative Capital
CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
Annie Donovan
Erin Dunigan
Elizabeth Etienne Creative Project Management
Facebook Analog Research Lab
Facebook Artist in Residence Program
Facebook Creative Education
Jade Fogle
Tiffany Foster
FRAMEWORK PR & Communications
Gaumenkitzel Restaurant, Bier & Wein Bar
German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Golden Gate Computing
Barbara Goldstein & Associates
Golestan Education
Todd Hancock
Headlands Center for the Arts
Homeless Prenatal Program
Astrid Kaemmerling
Kids In Need of Defense (KIND)
Suzy Kisch
Komaaj Food Group
The Lab
Lava Mae
Anne-Christine Layani
Dana Lynn Martin
Brittney Matirne
Ericka McConnell
Matt McKinley
Maria Medua
Mr. Mopps' Children's Books and Toys
Rachel Neumann
Gallery Wendi Norris
Oakland International High School
Pacific Felt Factory
Panoramic Interests
Parallax Press
Patti Bartelstein + THE PROJECT ROOM
Paulson Fontaine Press
Jen Pearson
Adam Pomata
Preston | Kalogiros
San Francisco-Marin Food Bank
San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs
Sigrid Savelsburg
Robert Saywitz Graphic Design
Simone Segal
Kim Selvaggi
SF Homeless Project
SFAC
SFArtsED
SFMOMA/SECA
Jessica Shaefer
Small Potatoes Catering & Events
Danielle Smith
SPUR (San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association)
Sushmita Subramanian
Three Point Nine Art Collective
True Story Branding
YBCA
Yield Wine Bar
Wei Ying Yu
Jale Yoldas
ZERO1
47 Hills Brewing Company
re:home Satellite Exhibition
In partnership with re:home, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions is pleased to introduce a public-facing residency and exhibition by Bosnian born, San Francisco-based artist Jasko Begović (Sko Habibi). Begović’s residency/exhibition HUMAN_E.T. will feature immersive installation, tapestry collages, and custom one-of-a-kind wearable sculpture, exploring themes of immigration, home, and identity. From November 30 - December 14, Begović will activate CULT with workshops, performances, and interactive art-making sessions incorporating his community of makers. HUMAN_E.T. aims to make empathic connections aiding in localized creative micro-solutions for current societal issues at large. CULT is located at 1217 B Fell Street in San Francisco’s NOPA neighborhood. Read more about the HUMAN_E.T. exhibition HERE.
+ View the re:home Catalogue
+ Read the re:home Press Release
+ View the Complete Lineup of re:home Programming
+ Download the re:home For Freedoms Reading Library
Suggested Book Titles for Children, Teens, and Adults
+ re:home SPONSORSHIP
Developed in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, re:home is a For Freedoms exhibition and community action, that examines how the broad societal crises of sanctuary city, homelessness, and the flight of the creative class intersect in the San Francisco Bay Area. On view at Minnesota Street Project from December 1 - 29, 2018, an opening reception will be held Saturday, December 1 from 5-8pm. A related For Freedoms Town Hall event will take place on Saturday, December 15 from 6-8pm.
The exhibition is accompanied by a Community Action Center, for attendees to connect with organizations—such as Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), Oakland International High School, Lava Mae, Homeless Prenatal Program, Creative Capital, and Headlands Center for the Arts, among many others—working on the forefront of the issues reflected in the show. To further democratize access to the artwork and concepts within re:home, a Pop-Up shop of prints, artist editions, and books will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition, as well as a For Freedoms lending library of books focused on the relevant topics. Through the Collect For Change™ platform, portions of proceeds from select works offered in the re:home exhibition and Pop-Up Shop will go to relevant organizations selected by each of the participating artists.
re:home pushes forward the conversation sparked by Making Heimat. Germany, Arrival Country, which was developed by Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and first presented in the German Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. re:home examines how the concepts of “Heimat” (Homeland) and “Arrival City” invoke contemporary regional struggles, exploring what it means to be a political refugee, and the modes of displacement endured by economic refugees. The exhibition reflects upon and critiques the lights and shadows of San Francisco as an “Arrival City,” and more importantly, presents and models the ways in which it can become a more effective one.
Throughout the exhibition, programming, performances, and special events will be held in collaboration with various organizations, institutions, galleries, collectives, corporate entities, individuals, and foundations. On Saturday December 8, from 11am-2pm a re:home Family + Community Day will feature free art-making workshops and interventions by Sanctuary City Project (supported by Facebook Art Department), and Ramekon O'Arwisters' Crochet Jam (with the generous support of Pamela + David Hornik).
A For Freedoms Town Hall event will take place in Minnesota Street Project’s Atrium on Saturday, December 15 moderated by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, current Chief of Program and Pedagogy at YBCA—and newly-appointed Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.. The Town Hall will begin with a reading by students from Oakland International High School (OIHS) featured in the book I AM HOME: Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers (edited by Rachel Neumann, foreword by author + artist Thi Bui, photography by Ericka McConnell, published by Parallax Press). Joseph will then perform a poetic response to Douglas Saunders’ ‘eight theses’ on what constitutes an ‘arrival city,’ posed in his book Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World, which became the basis for the original Making Heimat exhibition. Other key participants include Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)'s Katie Annand; Founder and CEO of Lava Mae Doniece Sandoval; Taylor D. Duckett, author, songwriter, educator, spoken word artist, and Founder and Creative Director of Conviction 2 Change publishing company; Founder of Love Beyond Walls + The Dignity Museum Terence Lester; artists and activists Rodney Ewing, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Alison O. K. Frost, Thi Bui, and Jasko Begović; Co-Founder of Minnesota Street Project, Deborah Rappaport; Executive Director of Headlands Center for the Arts, Sharon Maidenberg; and Owen Levin from Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST).
Celebrating the universal truth that food is a bridge, and with the goal of nourishing a deeper sense of community and authentic dialogue surrounding re:home, various food interventions will take place in conjunction with the exhibition, including a food drive benefiting San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. Drives also will be held to support Homeless Prenatal Program and California Community Foundation's Wildfire Relief Fund—to respond to ongoing and real-time displacement crises.
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EXHIBITION ARTWORK
POP-UP SHOP
INSTALLATION PHOTOGRAPHS