The 38th annual Stanford Spring Faire is a regional fine arts and crafts faire held every year on the Stanford campus on Mother’s Day weekend. More than 100 artisans exhibit and sell their work during this three-day event, which also features food and free entertainment including the Bay Area Morris Dancers, a capella singing groups, and a swing dancing performance. The Faire is free and open to the public.

Enjoy a free day at the museum with Wells Fargo Free Second Sundays. The Oakland Museum of California provides unique collections, exhibitions and educational opportunities designed to generate a broader and deeper understanding of and interest in California’s environment, history, art and people. (more…)

The Oakland Museum of California hosts a day of fun for “all” California families—with a special welcome to those with adopted, foster, mixed-race, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members. The event includes  live music from Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus Otto Voci ensemble, Magician Timothy James, a Martial arts demonstration by Destiny Arts, Gold panning and more. (more…)

Erick Lyle (formerly known as Iggy Scam) looks back at the past ten years of activism and guerilla art in San Francisco with his new book “On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City“. Come join Lyle and collaborators in a night of free vegan food, art, readings, and live punk rock music, featuring Zara Thustra, Sy Loady, Shotwell, Black Rainbow, and many more. Dinner at 6pm, Music at 9pm

Come exploring the art and inner workings of Area 2881, studio to Carl Pisaturo. Learn about reliable electrics and electric nervous systems and the mysteries of led pusling strobe lights. Explore the processing and properties of materials like 2 part urethane polymers, belts, shafts and ball bearings, silicone elastomers and miniature, wire rope. Source: SF Weekly

11th Annual United States of Asian America Festival - “The Location of Identity,” moderated by Berin Golonu. Presented as part of the “East of the West” exhibit.

Enjoy the Real Greek Experience - three days of Greece by the Bay. Fabulous Greek food, drink, music and dance and much, much more.

Friday, May 16, 2008: 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. (Free from 10 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Saturday, May 17, 2008: 10 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Sunday, May 18, 2008: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. (or come earlier to experience our liturgy service at 10 a.m.) (Free from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.) (more…)

The Artists Guild of San Francisco is the oldest outdoor art collective in the country. Its mission is twofold: first, to bring art and artists into the community for public interaction and education; and secondly, to help artists sustain themselves with art as a full-time career.

Mission Bazaar is a twice a year “shopping spectacle” which combines a more traditional arts and craft expo with a dynamic performance and music event. Taking place inside the 40,000 sq. ft. drill court of The Historic Armory, over 200 artisans exhibiting their uniquely designed creative products and accessories and over 20 hours of live performances by singers, musicians, circus and dance acts, performance artists, DJs and much more, Mission Bazaar is an extraordinary happening in one of San Francisco’s landmark buildings. From http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/465861/ (more…)

The City’s annual San Leandro Heritage Faire will be held at the San Leandro Main Library, located at 300 Estudillo Avenue in downtown San Leandro, on Saturday, May 17, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to celebrate San Leandro’s diverse community and rich cultural heritage. This free celebration includes entertainment, multicultural exhibits and a variety of ethnic foods. All are invited to attend.

The event features performances by the Ballet Folklorico Mexicano, the Chinese lion dancers from San Leandro’s Shao Lin King Fu Chan School, the percussion group Drummm! and the McBride Irish Dance group. Also appearing will be Asheba, who brings to life the culture of Trinidad through folktales and songs, Swetha Dixit who entertains guests with Indian dancing and storytelling and Chin-Chin, a master of magic.

Vendors will sell textiles, crafts and gift items from many countries, and a kids’ craft area will offer children the chance to make arts and crafts from different cultures, including Mexican pinatas, Portuguese toy sailboats, ndbele bracelets from Zimbabwe and haida painted sticks from Alaska. The Arts Council of San Leandro will also show children how to make beautiful Lunar New Year kites.

For more information, call (510) 577-3971

Good Vibrations is proud to present Terry Furry in our Polk Street Gallery. Join the artist and friends for a special reception of the artist’s erotic figure paintings. Terry explains: “My focus at this time is on closely cropped details of the body, depicting a sensuous, erotic nature of man. The Panels in this current exhibition show this close viewpoint of a cropped moment in time where the viewer is an intruder on a private and intimate moment. I love contradiction in my work; the contradiction of a red drawn graphic line producing realism in relation of the modeled form, the contradiction of cloth sometimes feeling more life than that of flesh..” Exhibition runs through June 22, 2008. Visit http://www.terryfurry.com for a sneak peek!

Good Vibrations and Upper Playground are proud to present a new vibrator, “Barry the Beaver”, designed by local celebrity artist Jeremy Fisher. Come by, meet the artist and have him sign your vibe. This limited edition vibrator is already a collector’s item, so be sure to get yours before they’re gone! Visit http://www.vinylpulse.com/2008/02/jeremy-fish—b.html for a sneak peek.

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. But we are more than just an art museum—we are your ticket to Asia. Here, travel through 6,000 years of history, trek across seven major regions, and sample the cultures of numerous countries. Target First Free Sundays”—free admission to all on the first Sunday of every month and the family programs offered on that day—is made possible by Target.

The Legion of Honor displays a collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an exquisite Beaux-Arts building in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The museum is located in Lincoln Park near 34th Avenue and Clement Street.

Founded in 1895 in Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum s a landmark art museum to showcase the museum’s priceless collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, and art of the native Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. In 2005, the de Young Museum re-opened in a state-of-the-art new facility that integrates art, architecture and the natural landscape in one multi-faceted destination that will inspire audiences from around the world and was designed by the renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan Architects in San Francisco.

In the striking Mario Botta-designed building, SFMOMA houses the West Coast’s most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century art including painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.

The stellar collection tells the story of modern and contemporary art through master works by Ansel Adams, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Richard Diebenkorn, Eva Hesse, Frida Kahlo, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Sherrie Levine, Gordon Matta-Clark, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, Clyfford Still, and Edward Weston, among many others. (more…)

The Cartoon Art Museum is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of cartoon art in all its forms. This unique institution houses approximately 6,000 original pieces in its permanent collection; a complete volume research/library facility is located on the museum’s premises. In addition to seven major exhibitions a year, the museum has a classroom for cartoon art and a bookstore. (more…)

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is the Bay Area’s premier venue for adventurous art. A multidisciplinary art Center, it features exhibitions, performance, film/video and community engagement programs.