Album / Aquatic Gardener, Godspeed (GÄD’SPĒD)
DC musician Jamal Gray’s latest project is this rich instrumental collection of moody hip-hop beats.
Photograph of Musgrove courtesy of UMBC
Website / Black Power in DC
George Derek Musgrove, a UMBC professor and coauthor of the essential DC book Chocolate City, is behind this en-grossing new resource (blackpowerindc.umbc.edu), which maps important sites of Black activism. It launches February 1.
Photograph of Guy Picciotto of the band Rites of Spring courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Podcast / End on End
Two appropriately unpolished hosts work through the entire Dischord Records catalog, album by album. You probably won’t hear in-depth interviews about most of these recordings anywhere else.
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.
Lake View Gets Lifted
SAN ANGELO, TX – San Angelo s number one smoke shop has expanded for the third time and this time they decided to venture up north.
Lifted Smoke and Vape has now opened a third location at 2502 N. Chadbourne next to Panchitas Tortilla Factory.
The first location was near the Angelo State University Campus then Lifted opened up a second location in downtown San Angelo. When asked why they keep expanding owner Jonathan Parker said We wanted our store and products to be easily accessible to all parts of San Angelo.
Lifted Smoke and Vape Located at 25h and Chadbourne (LIVE! Photo/Matt Trammell)
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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.