Category: Opportunities
SOMArts Seeks Fall Semester Graphic Design & Communications Intern
SOMArts Cultural Center embraces the entire spectrum of arts practice and cultural identity. It is a multicultural, community-built space where cutting-edge events and counterculture commingle with traditional art forms. The Design & Communications Intern will work with the Director of Communications & Community Engagement to create web graphics and promotional materials related to SOMArts’ many events, classes and exhibitions.
Assigned projects may include: photo editing and layout of SOMArts’ weekly e-newsletter, development of photo-illustrations and other graphics for online avatars, banners and invitations. In addition, the Design & Communications Intern will help develop and update print materials such as flyers, education materials and postcards. The intern can expect to work independently and in a team to learn how to apply creative concepts in a non-profit setting and how to use a project management systems such as Basecamp to organize work flow.
Call to photographers, street artists, and muralists – interactive urban art exhibition!
What: Submit your street photography to the Mobile Arts Platform Exhibition at the Urban Youth Arts Festival.
How: Participate through the United Murals Flickr Group, full instructions below.
Deadline: Upload photos by July 20th, 2011
Questions: Email ayanda@somarts.org
Have you ever made a mural or street-based artwork, or taken a picture of an existing piece that you would like to share? Now’s your chance! SOMArts Cultural Center and the Mobile Arts Platform seek muralists and photographers to participate in the Mobile Arts Platform exhibition at the 15th Annual Precita Eyes Urban Youth Street Art Festival. A slide-show of the submitted photos will be displayed at the Festival on Saturday July 23rd from 1-5PM, as well as in a special online gallery on the SOMArts website.
How to Participate
Just submit your photos to the United Murals Flickr Group with a photo credit, title, and quick description of where you snapped your photo. If you encounter problems while uploading, please email ayanda@somarts.org by July 20th for assistance. All images must be owned by the person submitting them – they cannot be photographs taken or owned by another person or entity.
About the Mobile Arts Platform (MAP)
The Mobile Arts Platform (MAP) is comprised of two large-scale, interactive sculptures that are “activated” by a mobile exhibitions program. MAP brings together Peter Foucault’s Fal-Core Van and Chris Treggiari’s Mobile Store and appears in locations throughout the Bay Area. MAP is presented in collaboration with SOMArts and supported by a grant from the Creative Work Fund. MAP programming in 2010-11 will include a series of five “pop-up” exhibitions.
Through this partnership, MAP’s goal is to increase arts participation and deepen community engagement through the arts with innovative intervention at three neighborhoods street fairs & festivals in San Francisco, and two events happening at SOMArts.
MAP creates autonomous exhibition spaces accessible to the public to create strong bonds with the communities; an artistic research lab where a cross-pollination of mediums and genres can occur. MAP events variously include video screenings, visual art, performance art, live music, interactive artworks, and culinary art. In essence, MAP builds a temporary, creative microcosm where community and creativity can intersect and flourish.
MAP Urban Youth Arts Festival exhibition is supported by the Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by the generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
SOMArts Community Volunteer Orientation
Your generous volunteer support makes SOMArts programs successful and vibrant, and we are excited to tell you all about what’s going on at SOMArts in the coming months. Come to the Volunteer Orientation to mingle with staff & other volunteers, tour our unique space, and find out how your skills and interests can find a home at SOMArts.
Volunteer opportunities at SOMArts cater to a wide range of skills and interests, from event hospitality to gardening to exhibit installation and much, much more. We’re currently looking for hospitality and docent volunteers for July’s The Book exhibition, our potluck reading series Feast of Words, and October’s famous Day of the Dead exhibition. For the volunteer who prefers a desk to getting down and dirty, we are also seeking someone to help us with maintaining our database, with potential to learn Salesforce, a growing cloud-based CRM system.
What: SOMArts Community Volunteer Orientation
Where: 934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th)
When: Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
What Else: There will be a question & answer period, & light refreshments will be served.
For information, or to RSVP to attend the SOMArts Community Volunteer Orientation, please email volunteer@somarts.org or phone 415-863-1414, x111.
Call to U.S. Women Artists: Deadline May 20, 2011
Man As Object – Reversing the Gaze, curated by Karen Gutfreund & Priscilla Otani, will be exhibited November 4 – 26, 2011 as part of SOMArts’ Commons Curatorial Residency program. This call is open to all U.S. women artists and there is no entry fee required. Full prospectus and online entry form can be found here. Questions should be directed to Karen Gutfreund (karengutfreund@yahoo.com).
More About this Exhibition:
The goal of this exhibition Man as Object – Reversing the Gaze is to turn the tables and to exhibit works that put the male in the position of art subject and spectacle. What does it mean to objectify men? What does it mean to reverse the (male) gaze? What are the visible signs of maleness and masculinity? How are feminist artists challenging societal views regarding men and masculinity?
The exhibition will examine the visibility of men and masculinity from female/feminist/transgender perspectives. In so doing it necessarily problematizes notions of ‘men,’ ‘male,’ ‘masculinity,’ ‘women’ and ‘female’ while exploring new possibilities for the gaze. This is an inclusive show, and we welcome women and transgender artists to challenge what it means for ‘women’ to look at ‘men.’ (more…)
Earth Day Weekend: Garden Beautification Day
What: Earth Day Weekend Celebration: Garden Beautification Day
When: Saturday April 23, 2011 from 11:00am–4:00pm
Where: SOMArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan @8th)
Cost: FREE!
Following Earth Day this Friday April 22nd, we are eager to tackle the winter growth in our garden and patio. Join us for a fun afternoon of digging in the dirt, pulling out the weeds and getting the garden ready for all of the great events coming up this spring and summer. All volunteers are welcome.
We will develop a work plan with Amber Hasselbring of Mission Greenbelt Project, our official garden guru and artist extraordinaire. In fact, recently Amber was selected as one of the artists for the Art on Market Street. project with the Arts Commission so it is great to welcome her artistic vision (and naturalist vision) back to the garden at SOMArts.
We will have the tasks and the tools ready and we will serve up drinks and refreshments to keep the troops happy. Come and join us – when you are enjoying a nosh in the garden this summer during an event, you will thank yourself and we will thank you, too. For more information or to RSVP, email volunteer@somarts.org or phone 415-863-1414, x111.
Professional Development Series: Title This
What: Title This: Choosing the Best Titles for Your Work
Professional development workshop with Cosi0 Delaunay Art Consulting
When: Wednesday, April 20th, 5:30p.m. to 7:00p.m.
Where: SOMArts (934 Brannan Street, between 8th and 9th)
Cost: Free to SF Open Studios artists, members and artists who have participated at SOMArts within the past two years. Suggested $10 donation for general public. Now one turned away for lack of funds.
What else: Presented as part of the 2011 ArtSpan Artist Professional Development Series, supported by the SOMArts Affordable Space Program.
ArtSpan produces monthly workshops and discussions to aid artists with the professional side of their art practice. Through these community events ArtSpan creates a platform for artists to thrive, fostering a Bay Area that values the arts.
All events are held at SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St, 94103, unless otherwise noted.
Workshops are free for all SF Open Studios Artists and Members, and SOMArts Artists. General Public $10 suggested donation. No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds.
ArtSpan participates in SOMArts’ Affordable Space Program, which provides below-market rental space, production and publicity assistance to arts and cultural organizations. For more information visit http://www.somarts.org/rentals/.
Community Gardening Day is March 26—Join Us!
UPDATE: Due to wet conditions, gardening day has been postponed. The community is invited to join SOMArts and Amber Hasselbring of Mission Greenbelt Project to continue the garden/patio upgrade project. Refreshments will be served. We will be tackling weeding, raking, planting and other general get-the-garden-ready-for-Spring tasks. We will be working from 11:00am—4:00pm. Grab your gloves and join us! If you have questions or would like to sign up to join us, please email us at volunteer@somarts.org
Call for Entries: National Queer Arts Festival 2011
San Francisco’s Queer Cultural Center is seeking proposals for QIY: Queer It Yourself – Tools for Survival, an upcoming exhibit that is a part of the 2011 National Queer Arts Festival and will be hosted at SOMArts this June.
QIY invites artists to forge their own tools for surviving the everyday challenges of contemporary queer existence and will welcome submissions of artwork, ephemera, documentation, publications, zines, music, videos, installations, DIY kits, guides, instruction manuals, maps, charts, top-ten tips, alternative cosmologies, proposals for live demonstrations, workshops and interactive QIY workstations.
So gather up your “tools” for the February 22 deadline!
More detailed information on how to submit your proposal available here.
