Artsy Fartsy
Outside Lands is this weekend, August 7-9, 2015, and the director of the Eco Lands area had a fun vision to chalk the entirety of the Panhandle Mixed-Use path with art, positive thoughts, riddles, statements of fact – whatever you want to express. The main idea is to extend the cheer of the festival outside the more...
Founded in 1895 in Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum is 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. The museum was designed by the renowned Swiss architecture more...
Each year, the Urban Youth Arts Festival sets up about 1,000 square feet of portable wall space in Precita Park for artists of all ages to express themselves. 19th Annual Urban Youth Arts Festival Saturday, July 18, 2015 | 12-6 pm Precita Park (Precita Ave. & Alabama St.), SF FREE In 2015, the theme is “Collective Lands more...
Come out to Palace of Fine Arts and delve into the fun of art making without sight. Challenge the way you look at the world – use your intuition, instinct and your other senses to capture the beauty all around you. Blind Photography Challenge: Photo Walk in Blindfolds Sunday, July 12, 2015 – 1:00 more...
Come get classy and jazzy out by the lake. That’s right, the ladies of Cuddlefish are jetting over the pond and hosting a salon-style tea party at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Gangsters, flappers, lounge singers and movie stars are welcome and 1920/’30s/Speakeasy attire encouraged. This is a classy affair, so grab your long more...
Huge, 15ft puppets constructed from cardboard and rigged for performance will be on view at Heron Arts’ 3,500 square foot space from 7-10 pm at July 11, 2015. Titled Ass Kicking Contest, this immersive experience comes to you from the compulsory creative Wayne White. The hand-cut puppets crafted out of cardboard were engineered by more...
Founded in 1895 in Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum is 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. The museum was designed by the renowned Swiss architecture more...
836M Gallery brought Banksy’s “Haight Street Rat” back to the city of its origins after it was almost lost due to anti-graffiti laws. July 11, 2015 is your last chance to check out this legendary work up close and personal. Photo Credit: Gabrielle Lurie va. S.F. Examiner The owner of The Red Victorian, which more...
The San Francisco Arts Commission in partnership with Burning Man has commissioned artist David Best to reprise his popular Hayes Valley Temple, which in 2005 was the first public art installation in SF Recreation and Park Department’s Patricia’s Green. There will be a free dedication event at 11 am on Friday, more...
San Francisco has launched a new Living Innovation Zone (LIZ). The project, called Studio 1, is a mobile art studio that will be activated by a series of Bay Area artists giving lectures and performances working in the space. The installation will be up for seven weeks throughout the summer. The whole more...
Andres Amador is an earthscape artist from San Francisco who is well known for creating massive sand drawings on the beach using only a rake and some volunteers. Watch him create one of his large-scale artworks. Then watch it wash away. Andres Amador Sand Art Creation Saturday, April 11, 2015 | 9 am to more...
What do you do with your BART tickets when they only have a nickel or a dime left on them? Add value? Donate them? Throw them away? Oakland fashion designer Sean Porter spent three years saving his tiny tickets to create a designer dress, made out of 192 of blue BART more...
Art Explosion Studios, the city’s largest artist collective, is holding its annual Spring Open Studios on in the Mission District. Come see over 100 painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers and jewelers as they exhibit their work from their studios at two locations in the Mission. 15th Annual “Art Explosion” Spring Open Studios March 20-22, more...
We’ve already got a 26 inch “life-size” sculpture of Yoda in the Presidio. But that little green man seems to get around. Thanks to Twitter user Loving SF for finding the new Yoda “heart” sculpture in Union Square with quotes like, “There is no Try.” Source: Loving SF via. City of San more...
