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Exhibition showcases work from the elegantly precise, to the remarkably poetic and expressive
Dario Robleto, Sparrows (detail).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- Museum of Craft and Design begins the year with a new virtual exhibition, Imagining Data, available online.
Over the years data has become a buzzword, and a precious commoditywhat we divulge through online activity is more valuable than the purchases and transactions we may be making. Our current statuspersonal, societal, political, environmentalcan be described in terms of numbers and algorithms. Even the Covid-19 pandemic has made statistics an international obsession as we follow contagion, spikes, vaccine efficacy rates, and hospital capacities.
Tiburon s Gertrud Parker founded Museum of Craft & Folk Art
Gertrud Valerie Grossman Parker, an artist and art collector who founded the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, died Jan. 10 of natural causes at her Tiburon home. She was 96.
Born Dec. 27, 1924, in Vienna, Austria, Mrs. Parker was the only child of Otto Grossman and Helen Pick Grossman.
Her maternal grandfather, Karl Pick, was a member of Austria’s elected parliament and the founder of a labor union for office workers. He was instrumental in establishing modern labor laws as well as workers’ housing and hospitals, according to an essay about Mrs. Parker by art scholar Amy Winter. A building and street in Vienna is named for him, said Mrs. Parker’s son Jonathan.
Comedian Maria Bamford returns to SF Sketchfest s virtual 2021 event. (Courtesy of Pat Mazzera / spinningplatters.com) 22 Fun Things to Do This Week (1.25.21)
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Jan 24, 2021
Raise your hand if you could use a solid belly laugh! Yeah, we thought so. Get ready to LOL at SF Sketchfest s Festpocalypse, a virtual showcase of standup comedy, music, and more with headliners Maria Bamford, Kids in the Hall, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, and more this week.
Plus, DIY a Causwells cheeseburger, stream Sundance Film Festival flicks, and enjoy the hundreds of magnolias now blooming at San Francisco Botanical Garden.
Purchase a new-and-improved Honey Bear Hunt Kit, featuring a colorful Mask Bear printed in better quality then before. By hanging one of Fnnch s iconic bears in your window for at least three months, you ll join more than 12,000 Honey Bear Hunt participants worldwide and add a bit joy to your neighborhood. // Purchase ($18) on fnnch.com.
Sam Whiting January 21, 2021Updated: January 24, 2021, 11:53 am
Gertrud Parker at the 2006 Museum of Craft and Folk Art gala in San Francisco. Photo: Parker family
The San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum opened in 1982 in a small Richmond District home owned by its founder Gertrud Parker a fiber artist with a belief that ceramics and wood carvings were as legitimate a form as fine art painting.
Parker had no fear of failure, or anything else. As a teenager, she’d narrowly escaped the Nazis by train out of her native Vienna. She trusted her hunch about folk art and she was right. Her museum outgrew the house and moved to Fort Mason before landing downtown as the renamed Museum of Craft and Folk Art. Its opening nights were packed up until its closing night, in October 2012 after a 30-year run at up to 60,000 visitors per annum.