Closing Reception Featuring The Great Tortilla Conspiracy
Saturday, August 20, 12pm-2pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
A closing reception for the exhibition Artist of Conscience featuring edible art inspired by Emmy Lou Packard!
About the Great Tortilla Conspiracy: The Great Tortilla Conspiracy is a collective based on edible artwork. After much experimentation and technological developments the Conspirators developed a secret recipe that has been called delicious by many a quesadilla acolyte. The edible artwork produced by the Conspiracy is screen printed on tortillas and cooked on a griddle so that the image is affixed to the substrate. Simultaneously cheese is melted on the reverse side. Salsa is optional. The art consumer can both eat and enjoy the aesthetic sensation that is the Great Tortilla Conspiracy.
Top image: Artwork design by the Great Tortilla Conspiracy
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Create art for environmental justice in Richmond!
Join the Fencelines team for ahands-on art workshop that will provide space to reflect on local conditions of environmental injustice in Richmond. Participants will paint on recycled wooden fence slats with images, messages and stories that respond to the following prompts:“What message do you have for the polluting industry here in Richmond?” and “What vision do you have for your community in the future?”
The slats created in is workshop will be used to form a temporary public art installation along a city-owned fence bordering the Chevron refinery and North Richmond neighborhoods in fall 2022. Additionally, this installation will be shown in an exhibition at Richmond Art Center in spring 2023.
This workshop is part of a series of workshops that will be presented at Richmond Art Center every third Saturday this summer. Additional workshops will be presented out in Richmond at local community events. All workshops are free to attend.
Fencelines Art Workshops at Richmond Art Center
Saturday, June 18, 2pm-4pm
Saturday, July 16, 12pm-2pm
Saturday, August 20, 12pm-2pm
Saturday, September 17, 12pm-2pm
Fencelines Workshops in the Community
Saturday, June 18, 10am-12pm: Urban Tilth Volunteer Day at Unity Park
Saturday, July 9: Richmond LAND: Love Your Block Event in North Richmond
Saturday, August 6: APEN Refinery Explosion 10 Year Memorial Event; Hood Day in North Richmond at Shields-Reid Park
… and other summer 2022 events with Richmond Our Power Coalition TBD!
Fencelinesaspires to create a unique, celebratory monument with the community in Richmond by: facilitating the creation of artwork by the community itself, promoting conversation and connection between Richmond community members, bringing awareness to issues of environmental injustice, and beautifying and activating an otherwise underutilized space. The project design and participatory format is explicitly designed to center and amplify the voices of the community.
The Fencelines team is made up of local artists, organizers, and community members, Princess Robinson, Graham L.P., Dulce Galicia and Gita Khandagle. This project is presented as a partnership between Richmond Our Power Coalition, Richmond Art Center, and Fencelines.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Join us on Saturday, August 20, 12pm-2pm for a reception to celebrate the launch of Richmond Art Center’s new mural Who Decides? S.P.O.T.S. The Game.
This mural was created throughout the summer of 2022 in the S.P.O.T.S. youth public arts program. Ten young artists from Richmond came together to create this mural that addresses contemporary issues such as war, education, bodily autonomy, and choice.
Artists: Luis Camarena, Maat Ou, Miranda Guzman, Yahir Garcia, Sonia Galindo, Andrea Vasquez, Mariella Gutierrez, Andrew Chico, Azahria Addison, Leslie Poblano
Lead Artists/Directors: Keena Romano, Fredericko Alvarado
Join art collective Liberación Gráfica at Low Rider Sunday!
This summer Liberación Gráfica will be out in Richmond engaging youth and families at community events and local gathering places with live screen printing demonstrations. The prints will raise awareness to social issues faced in Richmond while reflecting the joy and resilience of the community. The goal of this project is to bring art directly to the people and inspire the community to engage with Richmond and each other through art.
Liberación Gráfica at the Richmond Juneteenth Festival Saturday, June 18, 12pm-3pm Nicholls Park, 3230 Macdonald Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Liberación Gráfica at Low Rider Sundays Sunday, July 31, 3pm-5pm 23rd Street Between Grant and Rheem Avenues
Liberación Gráfica at Richmond Flea Market Sunday, August 21,12pm-3pm 716 W. Gertrude Avenue, Richmond, CA 94801
More dates and locations to be announced. If you are interested in inviting Liberación Gráfica to a community event this summer, please contact Roberto Martinez at roberto@richmondartcenter.org
Liberación Gráfica is a community based art collective whose mission is to provide opportunities for self and community expression through silkscreen printing. The collective is made up of Richmond-based artists, teachers, and community organizers: Eddy Chacon, Lisette Vera, Daniel Cervantes and Francisco Rojas. Liberación Gráfica was established in 2019 and since has worked towards teaching youth the process of silkscreen printing through a social justice lens with the intention to bridge gaps between communities of color and bring awareness to social injustices faced by the Richmond community.
Una Tarde con The Great Tortilla Conspiracy at SFMOMA
Special Event to Celebrate Two Exhibitions: Diego Rivera’s America at SFMOMA and Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience at Richmond Art Center
Thursday, August 4, 3:30pm-7:30pm
SFMOMA, Howard Street Entrance
Join Bay Area political performance collective The Great Tortilla Conspiracy for an irreverent night of screen-printed quesadillas, communal snacking, and graphics inspired by Diego Rivera’s America!
To complement both Diego Rivera’s America at SFMOMA and Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience at Richmond Art Center, this four-hour event brings the unorthodox materials and mischievous humor of The Great Tortilla Conspiracy (GTC) to the museum. In an interactive performance reminiscent of Diego Rivera’s own demonstration at the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, GTC artists Jos Sances, Art Hazelwood, and Río Yañez will screen print graphics inspired by Rivera and Packard (Rivera’s principal assistant on Pan American Unity) onto tortillas with edible ink. After cooking them on a traditional comal, the collective will serve them up—with a side of playful conversation—to museum visitors.
Women Weaving Stories: Collaborative Learning Circle
A Workshop by Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Saturday, July 30, 1:30pm-3:30pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
Members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas will facilitate a hands-on creation workshop using various materials such as fabric and thread, paper and markers to reflect and question on the concepts of heart, community and borders in a friendly and creative environment. The workshop will be given in Spanish and Mam.
Español
Mujeres Tejiendo Historias: Círculo de Aprendizaje
Un taller de Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Sábado 30 de julio, 1:30-3:30pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
GRATIS
Miembras de Mujeres Unidas y Activas impartirán un taller de creación manual usando diversos materiales como telas, hilos, papel y plumones, para reflexionar nos y cuestionar los conceptos de corazon, comunidad y fronteras en un entorno amable y creativo. El taller se impartirá en español y Mam.
Mam
Xuj nchechmon qe o’-che’x tuj: Círculo te tuntb’ant qu’n
Jun yek’b’il chu’n Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Sabado 30 de julio
1:30-3:30
Txjalil Mujeres Unidas y Activas k-elix chq’on jun yek’bil, tij alkyechaq jaka b’ant tun q-q’ab’, ch-a’jb’lal naksis eyb’aj tisin: mant, k’lab, txaq u’j, ex qe tze te q’ol tk’a (plumones), tun qximin ti’j ex tun qyolin ti’j jun qximb’itz tu’j qanmi, qtanmi ex qmonjon tuk’il jul tnam at qtxlaj ex naksin tu’n. A jun xnaq’tzb’il kxel q’on tun tyol a’m ex tuj qyol (Mam).
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Art historian, curator and writer Terezita Romo will facilitate an artist panel discussion that explores Emmy Lou Packard’s artistic and social legacy in the Bay Area. Artist panelists are Miranda Bergman, Elaine Chu, and Lucía González Ippolito.
BIOS
Terezita “Tere” Romo is an art historian, curator and writer with a long career as an arts administrator and foundation officer. Most recently, she served as the Program Officer for Arts and Culture at the San Francisco Foundation. Previously, she was the Arts Project Coordinator at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC). Romo also served as the Arts Director at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago and Resident Curator at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco. An art historian, Romo has published essays on Chicana/o art in journals, anthologies and exhibition catalogues and is the author of Malaquias Montoya (2011). She is currently an independent curator as well as Associate Faculty and Lecturer within the UC, Davis Chicana/o Studies Department.
Miranda Bergman is a veteran of the community mural movement, transforming urban space by painting in the streets for over 40 years. Her murals stretch from various sites in the United States, to Mexico, Central America, and Palestine. Bergman grew up in the San Francisco Mission District and currently lives in Oakland. In the 1970s, she joined other artists in the Haight-Ashbury Muralists. From 1972 to 1976 Bergman created labor-themed posters with Jane Norling for the Working Peoples’ Artists collective. In 1986, Bergman worked with Juana Alicia, Hector Noel Méndez, Ariella Seidenberg, and Arch Williams to create the mural El Amancer (The Dawn) in a park in Managua, Nicaragua. In 1994 she was one of the seven women artists who in 1994 created the MaestraPeace mural, the largest mural in San Francisco, which covers The Women’s Building. She teaches visual arts and muralism to many constituencies. Her artwork and essays have been published in over 30 books, and appear in several films.
Elaine Chu was born and raised in San Francisco. She graduated from the School of the Arts High school and continued to study drawing, painting and art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In 2005 Chu joined the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program while living in Philadelphia and worked as a mural artist and teaching artist. When she returned home to San Francisco in 2011 she began working for Precita Eyes Mural Arts Association, training and inspiring her development as an artist under the guidance and mentorship of its founder, master muralist Susan Cervantes. For over a decade she has worked at Precita as the Director’s assistant, a teaching artist and as a muralist. Chu is also the co-founder of the mural collaborative Twin Walls Mural Company alongside her best friend Marina Perez-Wong. Since 2013 they have painted over 30 murals together.
Lucía González Ippolito is a Mexican-American artist, teacher and activist born and raised in the San Francisco Mission District, a neighborhood vastly impacted by gentrification, one of the many themes of focus in her social/political artwork. She directed and designed the Mission Makeover mural, a 25-foot mural addressing issues of wealth inequality and displacement in the Mission neighborhood, as well as the Women of the Resistance mural, depicting 38 women activists in San Francisco’s Balmy Alley. She was a lead collaborator on the most recent and largest mural of the Latinx Cultural District, “Alto al Fuego en la Mision,” honoring the life of Amilcar Perez Lopez. Ippolito is also a screen printer and co-founder of the San Francisco Poster Syndicate, a collective of students and artists who live-print free political posters at protests and community events. Their posters are in the collection of the Library of Congress. She studied at the Chicago Art Institute, and graduated from City College of San Francisco and San Francisco Art Institute.
Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience was made possible with support from The Jay DeFeo Foundation. Vital support was also provided by California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Create art for environmental justice in Richmond!
Join the Fencelines team for ahands-on art workshop that will provide space to reflect on local conditions of environmental injustice in Richmond. Participants will paint on recycled wooden fence slats with images, messages and stories that respond to the following prompts:“What message do you have for the polluting industry here in Richmond?” and “What vision do you have for your community in the future?”
The slats created in is workshop will be used to form a temporary public art installation along a city-owned fence bordering the Chevron refinery and North Richmond neighborhoods in fall 2022. Additionally, this installation will be shown in an exhibition at Richmond Art Center in spring 2023.
This workshop is part of a series of workshops that will be presented at Richmond Art Center every third Saturday this summer. Additional workshops will be presented out in Richmond at local community events. All workshops are free to attend.
Fencelines Art Workshops at Richmond Art Center
Saturday, June 18, 2pm-4pm
Saturday, July 16, 12pm-2pm
Saturday, August 20, 12pm-2pm
Saturday, September 17, 12pm-2pm
Fencelines Workshops in the Community
Saturday, June 18, 10am-12pm: Urban Tilth Volunteer Day at Unity Park
Saturday, July 9: Richmond LAND: Love Your Block Event in North Richmond
Saturday, August 6: APEN Refinery Explosion 10 Year Memorial Event; Hood Day in North Richmond at Shields-Reid Park
… and other summer 2022 events with Richmond Our Power Coalition TBD!
Fencelinesaspires to create a unique, celebratory monument with the community in Richmond by: facilitating the creation of artwork by the community itself, promoting conversation and connection between Richmond community members, bringing awareness to issues of environmental injustice, and beautifying and activating an otherwise underutilized space. The project design and participatory format is explicitly designed to center and amplify the voices of the community.
The Fencelines team is made up of local artists, organizers, and community members, Princess Robinson, Graham L.P., Dulce Galicia and Gita Khandagle. This project is presented as a partnership between Richmond Our Power Coalition, Richmond Art Center, and Fencelines.
