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2007 San Francisco Notables

Benefit Event

3rd ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO NOTABLES
Celebrities, community leaders and colorful characters from the City by the Bay strike a pose to benefit Creativity Explored

Thursday, April 12, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO…Creativity Explored’s celebrity portrait auction and fundraiser returns for a third year with a whole new cast of San Francisco Notables! The place to be on April 12, 2007 from 7 to 10 pm will be the 111 Minna Gallery where San Francisco’s finest will all be hanging out…on the walls, that is. The inimitable artists of Creativity Explored have created one-of-a-kind portraits of more than 40 notable San Franciscans which will be sold through a silent auction that night to benefit this extraordinary visual arts center for adults with developmental disabilities. Tickets are $50.

Creativity Explored’s Wall of Fame includes many of the celebrities, community leaders and colorful characters that give San Francisco and the Bay Area its unique reputation for tolerance, innovation and eccentricity. Participating luminaries include the Zodiac Killer; politico Kamala Harris and former mayor Art Agnos; Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White; party planner extraordinaire Stanlee Gatti; writers Beth Lisick, Ayelet Waldman and Maxine Hong-Kingston; Spearhead frontman Michael Franti; legendary St. Francis doorman Tom Sweeney; the Chronicle’s own Jon Carroll and art critic Kenneth Baker; food activist and chef Alice Waters; other notable chefs Annie Sommerville of Greens, Nancy Oakes of Boulevard and Melinda Randolph of 2223 Market; beloved KTVU News Anchor Dennis Richmond; San Francisco hippie icon Wavy Gravy; Bay Guardian sex advice columnist Isadora Allman; artist Ruth Asawa; KQED host Josh Kornbluth; choreographer Margaret Jenkins; SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman; founder of Mother Jones Magazine Adam Hochschild; actress Rhodessa Jones; Berkeley Rep’s Tony Taccone; drag performer Vicki Marlane; musicians John Santos, Marcus Shelby and Ralph Carney; Yelp’s Nish Nadaraja; the Zen Center’s famed Buddhist teacher Norman Fischer; financier Tully Friedman and many, many more.

As part of the evening’s entertainment, Jonathan Richman will make a guest appearance on the stage. And several of the city’s hip restaurants will provide the food for this one-of-a-kind event.

Director Amy Taub is looking forward to this third annual event. “This is always such a fun evening,” she says. “And what is always particularly meaningful are the interactions between the many notables that come out to see and bid on their portraits and the artists from our studio that did the work. The really enjoy meeting each other, and I think everyone leaves feeling really jazzed about the incredibly diverse and unique personalities in our city.”

Creativity Explored is a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art.

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# Posted on March 1, 2007