The Living Past: Innovating Tradition in the Arts
October 28–January 9, 2011
3rd Floor Gallery
A group exhibition co-curated by Lydia Nakashima Degarrod and Deirdre Visser
Exhibiting Artists: Amitis Motevalli, Julie Tschiya, Karen Seneferu, Maria Adela Diaz, Omar Pimienta, Pablo Cristi, Pallavi Sharma, Shizue Seigel
Symposium: Borderlands: A Conversation about Immigration and the Arts
This exhibit celebrates the threads that keep us connected to our cultural traditions by presenting works of artists who use traditional elements from their cultures to address contemporary issues. The artists draw from a vast variety of cultures: San Francisco's Chinatown, the murals of East Los Angeles, Japanese American internment camps, Hawaii, the Mexico/United States border, Guatemala, Iran, Nepal, Japan and West Africa. The traditional is used as inspiration, material and/or technique, as these artists help us break the boundaries of time and space.
This exhibition is being held in conjunction with Performing Diaspora, a performing arts festival sponsored by CounterPULSE.