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My, what an Exquisite Corpse you have.
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Artists from both CE studios are collaborating with artists from The Studio (Eureka,CA) and Art From the Heart (Portland, OR) on an air-mail version of the classic Surrealist method for...
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In Motion
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Dancing comes naturally to many CE artists. Around 1:30pm every Friday, to celebrate a week spent furiously creating, the artists put down the brushes and pencils, and express themselves through...
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Things I See…Finale
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The workshop has ended at the Arkansas St. studio but the artworks created from it will keep the memory of “The Things I See Every Day” alive and bustling for...
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Things I See…update
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The artists at our Arkansas Street studio have been busy making pieces for the “Things I See Every Day” workshop. Each artist has chosen the photograph that will be the...
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Things I See Every Day
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An interesting workshop, “Things I See Every Day”, has begun at our Arkansas Street studio. Led by guest artist Leah Tischler, the workshop’s goal is to generate four projects from...
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Left Out
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When the studio empties of people every afternoon, and the day’s activity settles into the building, what gets left out on the work tables is nearly as poetic as the...
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MJ 4 Ever
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To celebrate what would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday, and to mourn his passing, we have assembled a small offering of some of the art coming out of our...
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Copying Myself
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A few artists working with teacher Larry Morace have been transferring smaller works to larger canvases. Walter Kresnik, Jason Monzon, and Hung Kei Shu have used their small original drawings...
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Behind the scenes of an installation
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Bessie Kunath, CE’s installation goddess, installs a scroll by Bertha Otoya in the front window!...
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A Studio Serenade
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Jonathan Richman stopped by on Tuesday and sang a few songs for us. It felt like a serenade. He wandered through the studio, accompanying himself on guitar, and sang in...
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Video Portraits
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Though we’d love it if everyone could come in to our studios to meet the artists and see them at work, we realize that making the trip to 16th Street...
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Sidewalk Planting
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CE artists Lance Rivers, Ka Wai Shiu, and Stella Tse took a break from making art to plant flowers in the sidewalk planters outside the gallery and studio on 16th...
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Getting Ready To Go Back In Time
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In preparation for our annual benefit event on June 6th, several CE staff and volunteers spent a recent Sunday afternoon at our Arkansas St. studio silk screening fabric panels to...
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New floors and signage!
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The lower level in our main studio has been updated with a squeaky-clean new floor. Hopefully, the nonslip, rubber tiling will bring some welcome back relief, and traction, for folks...
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CE makes the news again
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A film crew spent the day here on May 7th shooting a piece for MSN’s Practical Guide to Healthier Living series. They interviewed several artists and our Development Director Ann...
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The Otoya Scroll
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The scroll is considered the first form of editable text (erasing on a clay tablet was impossible). Yet despite the scroll’s ancient origin and intervening centuries of neglect, it once...
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Sounds of the Studio
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Local musician Steve Dood came in to record the sounds of the artists at our 16th Street studio this week. What does the making of art sound like? He captured...
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Works In Progress
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More than a dozen Creativity Explored artists have been busy working on 15 commissioned paintings and drawings for Avalon Bay Communities, Inc. These original artworks will be installed at Avalon’s...
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Time Traces
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David Bowie sang about them in 1971 and now, in 2009, the New Year has brought its changes to Creativity Explored’s 16th Street location. After much shuffling, building, tearing down,...
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25 years = PARTY!
In the Studio
Have you ever wanted to shoot hoops indoors, take two steps to the left and toss a beanbag for prizes while shaking it to a DJ’s beat in the middle...
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July 4th Festivities
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On July 3rd, the artists, staff, and volunteers of both studios got together to celebrate Independence Day. Everyone headed over to our Arkansas Street studio, where we grilled hot dogs,...
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Monday Men’s Sewing Circle
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In preparation for the upcoming CE exhibit Fibrocosm (opening October 9), studio artists have been experimenting with various textile techniques—many for the first time. One by one, Creativity Explored artists...
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Taproots, Shoots and Fruits of Labor: the workshop, the mural
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Outside the Studio
Food is often a topic of interest, trade, obsession and festivity at Creativity Explored (as it is around the globe). The daily visit of the “food truck” at break time...
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Collaborative Art at Creativity Explored II
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Melvin Geisenhofer and Tony Gomez have been collaborating on a joint mural-sized painting. I work with them once a week through my position as San Francisco City College Art Instructor...
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Check out the floors!
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We are all absolutely thrilled with our new floors! Thanks to a generous grant from Bothin Foundation, we were able to lay bamboo flooring in the gallery and strip the...
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Two stylin’ handrails
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Volunteer Jason Shields built and installed two beautiful handrails for one of the auxiliary exits in our second studio on Potrero Hill. Thank you Jason! We’ll be walking down these...
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Wire Workshop
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Diane Komater, visiting community artist, collaborated with studio artists in a series of workshops in January and February. Studio artists and Komater created these wall pieces and other 3D sculpture...
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Songlines: Johanna Rocha
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This entry is excerpted from volunteer Jurgen Trautwein’s personal blog about his experiences volunteering at CE2 since October 2007. He has been working on a project involving two CE2 artists,...
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The Why and How of Overlapping Art Forms: Learning from Elizabeth Murray and Frank Stella
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When my teacher Pilar said, “Let’s do something different with your paintings,” I had no idea what she was talking about. I had painted some new art and had done...
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James Montgomery’s Upcoming Show
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Studio artist James Montgomery has been working hard in preparation for his upcoming solo exhibition at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Here are a few photos of the artist...
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Giants Roam the Earth Again
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Melvin Geisenhofer uses collage to create shapes and reinforce the surface of his paintings. Recently Melvin has been working in cardboard, creating larger than life figures. He draws on scraps...
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Making Art One Stitch at a Time
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We often make quilts at Creativity Explored, and have done wedding quilts and crazy quilts in which several artists participated with their design and their stitches. This textile wall piece...
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Bread & Roses in the Studio
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Earlier today Bread & Roses brought Rich Kuhns to the CE studio for a great performance. We all enjoyed his classic blues and rock tunes. Rich said that the art...
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