NIAD virtual studio facilitator Chelsea Smith has put together an exhibition exploring a range of creative responses to the diminishing returns of our Earth and the power of visual art to reckon with the complicated possibilities of climate change. The three artists involved in this show - including NIAD artist Luis Estrada - address ongoing issues of human/place displacement and the urgency of interspecies care.
PURE JOY: 14 Disabled Visual and Performance Artists Curated by Chella Man Panteha Abareshi, Jezz Chung, Robert Andy Coombs, Shannon Finnegan, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Jerron Herman, Gudrun Hasle, Rebecca Watson Horn, Christine Sun Kim, Chella Man, Kate Meissner, Marlon Mullen, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Tourmaline Exhibition Dates: June 30 – August 13, 2022 Opening: Thursday, June 30 from 6-8pm 39 White Street, Tribeca 1969 Gallery presents PURE JOY, a group exhibition of 14 emerging and mid-career artists curated by Chella Man. This exhibition acknowledges the persistent tokenization of disabled artists, contradicting this cycle by centering ideologies of Read More ...
As a creative and colorful celebration of our common threads and our tight-knit community, the exhibition A Little Bit of Everything has a little something for everyone.
A Little Bit of Everything, on view in NIAD's Main Gallery from Friday July 1 to Saturday July 30.
These pieces are just a few from NIAD’s current cohort, that helps me embody the possibility of the tangible space I occupy each day as well as the infinite spaces just out of my reach or yet to be imagined.
The San Francisco Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists' publications. The event is FREE and OPEN to the public and features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists' multiples. NIAD will be launching a special new publication at the fair, and SFABF visitors will have first dibs—stay tuned for details!
About Touching Touching brings together a selection of works that expand, contract, distort, and modify. Through this they make some sense of the world. They are texturally complex, engaging, thoughtful, and irreverent. They open up like portals; through a variety of materials and approaches they offer us windows to an elsewhere. About Zachary Epcar Zachary Epcar (b. San Francisco) is an experimental filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals, museums, microcinemas, and DIY venues worldwide. He lives in Oakland, California where he is a member of Light Field, an artist-run film programming collective based in the Bay Area. View Zachary Read More ...
Superheroes are Real. They live among us…sometimes they are Us. They do what is right at any cost, and they do what we are scared to do even in the face of insurmountable odds. Everyday Heroes presents the various ways that these guardians become symbols embodying the personal mythologies of those who love them.
Join us for a lively walkthrough and conversation with curators and artists involved in A Little Bit of Everything, broadcast live via zoom. Experience fashion at NIAD from the comfort of virtual space!
On Friday, July 29th, DJ Surface Tension invites KALX listeners to tune in to an ear-opening conversation with the "sounding artists" of NIAD Art Center as they discuss their most recent release Sounding Artists R Sweet and So R You. Featured in this conversation are artists Luis Estrada, Christian Vassel, and Raven Harper. This studio compilation captures the rawness of NIAD's community artists at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recorded in early 2020 over the phone and in zoom, the outcome is equal parts poignant, hilarious, beautiful and boundary-pushing. Sounding Artists R Sweet and So R You is a sonic answer to the age old question: what is music? Find the Read More ...
After a long hiatus, NIAD's artist-designers are bursting at the seams with bold and boundary-pushing fiber and fashion creations. See it all in motion on the NIAD runway in the culminating event of "A Little Bit of Everything." The title says it all.