24 episodes
Local Voices Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Local Voices is a new podcast series from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco designed to celebrate art and Bay Area creativity. Local Voices highlights unique perspectives from Bay Area visual artists, musicians, scholars, community leaders, and thinkers aimed to reframe exhibitions and collections through relevant and local narratives. Through these diverse access points, we welcome the Bay Area community and beyond to engage in meaningful and inspiring narratives.
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Lava Thomas
Join us for the last episode of Season 3 with multidisciplinary artist Lava Thomas. Drawing from her family’s Southern roots and current historical socio-political events, artist Lava Thomas, centers on ideas that amplify visibility, healing, and empowerment in the face of erasure, trauma, and oppression.
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See Black Womxn
Hear from Angela Hennessy and Tahirah Rasheed , co-founders of the Bay Area artist collective See Black Womxn. Through art and theory, See Black Womxn, are telling their own stories as well as their communities in order to recognize and affirm the beauty, diversity, and complexity of Black Womxn and their aesthetic traditions.
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Catherine Wagner
Hear from Catherine Wagner, a conceptual multidisciplinary artist, whose process emphasizes investigation and deep appreciation for science. Learn more about Wagner’s practice, collaborations, and site-specific installations all across the Bay Area and the world.
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Susan Cervantes
A pioneer of San Francisco's community art movement, Susan Cervantes, has dedicated the last 57 years to foster community collaboration through murals. Hear from the founder and director of the Precita Eyes Muralists in the Mission District, on the importance of public art as a way to elevate voices and raise visibility.
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Dana King
Meet Dana King, classical figurative sculptor and creator of many public monuments of Black Bodies in Bronze. King opens up her studio space and shares how sculptures can provide culturally impactful memories and moments of connection.
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Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
Hear from Fredrika Newton and Xavier Buck of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation as they speak about the importance and responsibility of preserving the legacy of the Black Panther Party and its founder Dr. Huey P. Newton. Through love, strength and resilience, Fredrika and Xavier share the significance of correcting false narratives and memorializing the party’s historic contributions.