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CE is hiring a Development Director
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Creativity Explored is currently accepting applications for DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. Interested applicants may download the complete position description and see application instructions below. Development Director The Development Director is responsible for...
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Selected Spectrum works are for sale online
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Selected works from Spectrum are available for purchase by phone now through August 11, 2010. Work may be viewed here. Please call us for prices and availability, and note that...
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CE Gallery closed for 4th of July weekend
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Creativity Explored will be closed July 3 through July 5 for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. We will resume normal gallery and studio hours on Tuesday, July 6. All...
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CE Gallery closed for Memorial Day weekend
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Creativity Explored’s gallery will be closed to the public Friday, May 28, through Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day and renovations. The studio will be closed for the holiday on...
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CE is hiring an Art and Exhibition Preparator
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Creativity Explored is currently accepting applications for ART AND EXHIBITION PREPARATOR. Interested applicants may download the complete position description and see application instructions below. Art and Exhibition Preparator The Art...
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CE will be closed April 5
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CE’s studio and gallery will be closed on Monday, April 5, 2010. Regular business hours will resume on Tuesday, April 6....
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Selected Santos y Otros Creatures works for sale online!
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Selected works from Santos y Otros Creatures are available for purchase by phone now through February 11, 2010. Work may be viewed here. Please call us for prices and availability,...
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CE year-end hours
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The CE Gallery will be closed through January 6, 2010. We are open by appointment only December 30 and 31, and January 4 - 6. Please call (415) 863-2108. The...
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Current CE Gallery exhibition work now for sale online!
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Calling all art lovers, near and far — we’ve added a section to our Online Gallery where we’ll be featuring artwork from our current San Francisco Gallery exhibitions. Work from...
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Gallery closed Friday for installation
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The Gallery will be closed Friday, October 2, 2009, for installation of ‘Science” Fiction. We will reopen on Saturday. The Studio will be open as usual for artists....
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And the second round of winners are….
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Kieren D. from Oakland, Lawrence P. from San Francisco, and Silvia C. from Madera are the three winners of our second survey drawing! Thank you for completing our audience questionnaire....
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And the first round of winners are…
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Tada…tada! Christine J. from San Francisco, Erica G. from Oakland, and Claire R. from Brisbane are the three winners of our first survey drawing! Thank you for completing our audience...
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Second chance to express your opinion and get free stuff!
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If you have not completed our audience questionnaire, it’s not too late to express your opinion to Creativity Explored — and win some free stuff! If you complete the survey...
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July 4th holiday hours
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The CE Gallery will be open from 2:00 to 7:00 pm on Thursday, July 2, and closed July 3 and July 4. Our studios will be closed on Friday. Regular...
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TaDa! CE is on Facebook!
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Creativity Explored now has a Facebook page! Check it out, tell us what you think, make comments, and join our list of fans! And, of course, tell all your friends....
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20 video clips of studio artists posted on CE’s website
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Creativity Explored has recently posted short video clips of some of the artists working in our main studio on our website. Filmed by Ming Mur-Ray, CE Visual Arts Instructor, the...
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Yet another creative way to direct money to Creativity Explored!
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Oakland artist donates auction proceeds to Creativity Explored: Now you can share in the experience of Amoeba Music’s Third Annual Art Show – even if you missed the party on...
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CE is hiring an Associate Director!
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This position has been filled as of March 25, 2009 Creativity Explored is currently looking to hire a part-time Associate Director. Interested applicants may view the complete position description and...
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CE holiday hours
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Creativity Explored will be closed on the following dates for the holidays: December 25 through December 28, December 31, and January 1. The studio and gallery will be open during...
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CE closed to the public until the Holiday Art Sale!
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Creativity Explored will be closed on Friday and Saturday for the Thanksgiving Holiday. On Monday, studio artists will return to work in the studio, The gallery will be closed to...
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CE welcomes new staff!
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Creativity Explored completed the hiring process for the positions we opened in September. We received hundreds of applications from many talented and interesting people, and we appreciate everyone’s interest in...
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2008 job openings at CE!
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These positions have been filled as of November 23, 2008 Creativity Explored is currently looking for talented, creative people to fill several positions. If you are interested in working with...
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CE Gallery will be open on Labor Day
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Looking for a perfect way to wind up Slow Food Nation 2008 weekend events? Partake in Tasty, our current gallery exhibition and sale of works dedicated to food, glorious food!...
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Donor Preview Receptions
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Creativity Explored will now host a special Donor Preview Reception for ALL Color Wheel donors before EVERY Creativity Explored Gallery exhibition opening. Donor Preview Receptions will be held from 6:00...
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25th Anniversary Celebration tickets are on sale!
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Tickets for our 25th Anniversary Celebration are now available! You can purchase tickets online, by phone at (415) 863-2108, or in person at our San Francisco Gallery. Tickets purchased through...
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Taproots, Shoots, and Fruits of Labor at Rainbow Grocery
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Creativity Explored recently completed a mural in collaboration with artists from Rainbow Grocery. The completed mural, Taproots, Shoots, and Fruits of Labor now hangs above the produce section at Rainbow....
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CE extends Thursday Gallery hours
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We are pleased to inform you that we have extended our gallery hours on Thursday evenings. As of Thursday, March 13, we will be open until 7:00 pm. Gallery patrons...
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Main premises temporarily closed, all artists will work at second studio
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Our gallery and main studio at 3245 16th Street will be closed the week of February 18 while the floors are being stripped and refinished. Tuesday through Friday, February 19...
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CE releases new book by Michael Bernard Loggins
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Studio Artists & Staff News
Imaginationally: Michael’s Lovable Fun of Dictionaries Written and Illustrated by Michael Bernard Loggins Published by Manic D Press $14.95, 140 pages, Hardcover Have you ever felt terrifical? Are you in...
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Project: Home Phase 3 is installed!
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Project: Home, a mural that has been part of the Mission District for almost ten years, recently grew into its digs. In 1998, the original Project: Home mural, designed by...
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Send us your Mail Art and be part of our next exhibition!
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Creativity Explored’s upcoming Transmissions gallery exhibition will feature mail art correspondence between artists from CE and Studio by the Tracks in Irondale, Alabama. The show will continue in the studio,...
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“James F. Miles Is A Boyfriend And A Girlfriend” Book Release
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Studio Artists & Staff News
In conjunction with CE’s upcoming exhibition, Miles in the Sky, San Francisco’s esteemed Gallery 16 releases a new book of James Miles’ work titled “James F. Miles Is A Boyfriend...
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2007 San Francisco Notables benefit on April 12
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Creativity Explored’s Third Annual San Francisco Notables event is coming in April! Thursday, April 12, 2007 Portrait auction and reception from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm 111 Minna Gallery Between...
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Steele Collection travels to Bay Area Discovery Museum
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Creativity Explored is proud to partner with the Bay Area Discovery Museum to display a selection of art created by CE studio artists from CE’s Steele Collection. This exhibition of...
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Fears of Your Life at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts February 23-25
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Kim Epifano’s Epiphany Productions in collaboration with AXIS Dance Company and Creativity Explored present the world premiere of FEARS OF YOUR LIFE. Monsters, speeding bus drivers, hugs from someone you...
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Avalon at Mission Bay art collection reviewed on SocketSite
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The folks from SocketSite were at the reception last night at Avalon Mission Bay and loved the Creativity Explored art in the building. You can see a great picture of...
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CE to celebrate new Mission District mural on October 18
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Please plan to join us to celebrate our recently completed mural, “Music in the City”. Ten Creativity Explored artists collaborated with community muralist Susan Greene to produce a 55-foot mural...
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CE2 to participate in SF Open Studios October 7 and 8
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We invite you into our second studio location at 1 Arkansas Street, Suite E on October 7 and 8. We’ll be participating in SF Open Studios that weekend, so plan...
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CE partners with Avalon at Mission Bay
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We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Avalon at Mission Bay, a residential community at 4th and King Streets in San Francisco. Studio artists have recently completed...
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CE hiring Development Manager
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Position Summary: Creativity Explored (CE), a 501©(3) public benefit corporation that has been in existence since 1983, is currently seeking a part-time, independent contractor to work with the Executive Director...
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CE artists begin work on public mural
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Studio artists began creating a mural to be mounted at the corner of 21st and Mission Streets in San Francisco. CE artists are collaborating with community muralist, Susan Greene to...
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XTOWN2NE
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XTOWN2NE, an exhibition of art influenced by cartoons and comics, features artists from Creativity Explored, NIAD Art Center (Richmond), Creative Growth (Oakland), and other Bay Area artists. The exhibition is...
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CE artists at Studio Gallery
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A zany line up of cartoons, characters and critters by more than 40 Bay Area artists will be featured in MISCHIEF at Studio Gallery. Creativity Explored artists include Camille Holvoet,...
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2006 SF Notables event a smashing success! Thank you!
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Our 2006 San Francisco Notables reception and portrait auction was a huge success! For our second annual event, thanks to 28 studio CE studio artists who created portraits of 49...
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San Francisco Notables benefit on March 30
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 Auction and reception from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm 111 Minna Gallery Between Mission and Howard near 2nd Street San Francisco Purchase tickets online at the...
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Delicious at Studio Gallery includes CE artists
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If you like art and you like food, then Studio Gallery may be the place to fulfill all your needs! DELICIOUS is Studio’s second annual group show of art inspired...
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“Fears of Your Life” hits the stage at UC Davis in February
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This February the UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance will present “Fears of Your Life: Study I”, a high-energy, tragicomic, multi-sensory stage performance exploring the emotion of fear in...
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CE releases limited edition of linocut prints
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Creativity Explored’s 2005 Holiday Sale will feature a spectacular portfolio of limted edition linocut prints. Prints were made in collaboration with master printmaker, Emmanuel Montoya, and CE studio artists Peter...
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CE work travels to Zen Hospice Project
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Zen Hospice will host an art exhibit and selected readings from In Passing: A Book About Death, an intimate chronicle of responses to death, dying, and grieving. Edited by Todd...
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Utopia! to be found in San Francisco for three hours ONLY!
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Utopia! is an interactive public event in Dolores Park with the Roadside Show & Tell and Creativity Explored artists. You can experience Utopia! for a very limited time only, so...
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CE supporters pack “San Francisco Notables” at 111 Minna Gallery
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Creativity Explored’s fundraising event, “San Francisco Notables” on Thursday, April 28 had the hip 111 Minna Gallery in downtown San Francisco packed with aficionados of outsider art and some very...
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San Francisco Notables benefit on April 28
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Celebrities, Community Leaders and Colorful Characters from the City by the Bay Strike a Pose to Benefit Creativity Explored Paparazzi, take note! The place to be on April 28, 2005...
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CE artists exhibit at Arts Benicia Gallery
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Creativity Explored artists are exhibiting work at Arts Benicia Gallery in Benicia, CA. The exhibition, Compelled to Create, features work created in five California visual arts centers for artists with...
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CE thanks The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
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Creatiivty Explored sincerely thanks the The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for their ongoing support. Several Sisters graciously blessed the artists, their work, and the people attending the opening reception of...
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CE thanks Lunar Design
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CE thanks Lunar Design, a Bay Area based product design firm, for their generosity. Lunar Design celebrated their 20th anniversary and designed a commemorative plate and commissioned Heath Ceramics to...
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CE thanks the community for a GREAT 2004 Holiday Art Sale
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Creativity Explored extends a huge thanks to everyone attending our 2004 Holiday Art Sale this past weekend. Attendance was fabulous, and everyone had a great time. We welcomed a lot...
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“Life Itself” to screen at SF Public Library, SF Poet Laureate to chat with CE author
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“Life Itself,” a documentary film by CE instructors Francis Kohler and Todd Herman will screen at the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Libary on Wednesday, October 13, 2004. Following “Life...
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Presenting the CE Steele Art Collection
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We are pleased to announce that the Creativity Explored Steele Art Collection has been mounted on our website. This collection of two-dimensional art was established in memory of Charles Sean...
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“Don’t Call Me Retard” at SF Main Public Library
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“Don’t Call Me Retard” will open at the Jewett Gallery in The San Francisco Main Public Library on Saturday, August 7, 2004. An opening reception will be held in the...
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Outside Insight: CE work at The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley
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Creativity Explored artists are exhibiting work now through October 11, 2004 at The Graduate Theological Union in the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library at 2400 Ridge Road in Berkeley, CA. Outside...
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CE at Feria Urbana at The Canvas Gallery
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Creativity Explored will be participating in Feria Urbana at the The Canvas Gallery on Saturday, June 26. Feria Urbana is an urban fair made up of 20 to 25 local...
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Pineda chair will go to the highest bidder
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The chair by Abel Pineda featured on the postcard and email invitation for the Functionable exhibition will be auctioned to the highest bidder at the show’s opening reception. Advanced interest...
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The Bead Shop in Palo Alto partners with CE artists in unique benefit event
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The Bead Shop in Palo Alto is holding a unique art and bead fundraising event to benefit Creativity Explored. The Bead Shop’s in-house designers used Creativity Explored artwork as inspiration...
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“Portraits…and then some” showing at Embellish
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Art by Creativity Explored member artists is currently being shown at Embellish. Embellish, located at 177 Brannan (between the Embarcadero and Delancey Street) in San Francisco, is a fun and...
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CE thanks the community
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Creativity Explored extends a heartfelt thanks to the generous people in the Bay Area who helped us recoup the equipment losses we sustained in a robbery two weeks ago. A...
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Weekend theft at CEII wipes out animation program equipment
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We discovered Monday morning that someone had broken into our newly relocated studio site and had stolen computers, cameras, scanners, etc. Unfortunately, the thieves cleaned out almost all the equipment...
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CEII has moved into our new Potrero Hill studio
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We are pleased to announce that we have completed all studio renovations at our new CEII studio site at One Arkansas, Studio E. We moved the studio located at 16th...
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Psst. Hey! Be Mine?
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Creativity Explored artists are currently exhibiting at San Francisco’s Chatterbox Gift Gallery. In “Psst. Hey! Be Mine?”, Creativity Explored artists take a look at the many facets of love and...
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CE signs lease to relocate second studio
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Creativity Explored signed a lease agreement today and is pleased to announce that we will be moving our second studio, CE II, in mid-January. The space at One Arkansas Street,...
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CE announces winner of October drawing to win free art
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CE is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Wilson is the winner of our October art drawing. We hope Elizabeth enjoys an original work created by Creativity Explored artist Abel Pineda....
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CE announces relocated PROJECT: HOME mural
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San Francisco’s PROJECT: HOME mural, once located at 16th and Dolores Streets, has been revived, expanded, and moved to the 16th and Mission Street Walgreen’s Store. The collaborative mural project,...
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CE establishes the Charles Sean Steele Exhibition Fund
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In memory of Charles Sean Steele, a committed and beloved CE board member and Vice President, Creativity Explored has established the Charles Sean Steele Exhibition Fund. The fund will be...
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CE announces new Saturday gallery hours
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The Creativity Explored Gallery is now open on Saturday from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Our Monday through Friday gallery hours are still 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. We hope...
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CE pays tribute to Margarete Connolly
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Margarete Connolly, 92, a tireless advocate for people with developmental disabilities, passed away on April 28, 2003. Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco said of Mrs. Connolly, “Margarete’s work on...
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CE seeks musician to play traditional Japanese instrument for April 2 reception
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CE is looking for a musician (or two) to play traditional Japanese instruments during the April 2 opening reception for our Japanese ROCK N’ California ROLL exhibition. The ambient music...
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CE artists begin work with visiting artists from Japan
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Creativity Explored welcomed Masami Yamamoto and Junko Kamata from Japan to our studios to begin a collaborative artmaking project involving CE member artists and artists from Oakland based Creative Growth...
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CE changes closing date of upcoming gallery exhibition
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Due to a scheduling conflict, “Lit”, an exhibition of lights, lanterns, and shadow, will show in our gallery February 20 through March 24, 2003. We apologize for any inconvenience this...
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CE finalizes plans to collaborate with artists from Japan
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Plans were finalized this week to complete a collaborative artmaking project with a group of artists from Japan. As part of a project funded by Japan-US Community Education and Exchange...
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CE announces 2002 Holiday Art Sale Raffle
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Creativity Explored is holding a drawing this weekend at our 2002 Holiday Art Sale. Raffle tickets may be purchased this week in our San Francisco Gallery. Thanks to the generous...
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The Creativity Explored website continues to grow!
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The Creativity Explored website now features an online archive of past exhibitions for you to browse. We’ve also added a News section featuring the latest news from Creativity Explored, and...
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Neil Young and Thanh Diep, studio artist, at the 2006 SF Notables fundraiser (photo by Erik Auerbach)
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