Bay Area History & Community
Shanna Strauss & Jess Sabogal
Urban Peace Movement
Emory Douglas
San Francisco has a way of finding its people. For artist Paola de la Calle, it was a print of a Zapatista portrait wheat pasted on a wall in the Mission that called out to her during her first visit in spring 2016. She shared this pivotal memory with me during a visit to her […]
A CHANT’S ENCOUNTER WITH EAST OAKLAND’S CONTROVERSIAL KUMU I’m hoofing it to catch a 57 bus that cuts across the entire city to Kumu Hula Mark’s Halau, the Academy of Hawaiian Arts (AHA), which is located in a strip mall in deep East Oakland. I’m bumping along to Po’okela Chants, Kumu Hula Mark’s groundbreaking first […]
