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Feb 24, 2021
The year is 2121, one hundred years from today. A young San Francisco student, say an eighth grader, is given a school assignment to create a presentation capturing a significant moment in the city s history. He/she/they heads to the San Francisco Main Public Library and is directed to the City Archives. With a little encouragement the research topic is chosen: 2021: the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Among the Archives collection of posters and flyers and other documents our student finds in the city s COVID -19 Time Capsule are four 100-year-old portfolios, both print and digitally produced by four specially selected artists who used their imaginations and skills to leave a record of what it was like to live during the COVID-19 crisis.
Creatives in Place asks: What do artists need to survive and thrive in the Bay Area?
Iris M. Crawford
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Dolores “Lolis” Garcia is a musician who specializes in traditional Mexican musical styles and instruments and is one of the 22 Bay Area artists featured in Creatives in Place.Jean MelesaineShow MoreShow Less
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Yosimar Reyes, is a poet and activist in East San Jose whose work challenges the narrative of undocumented immigrants.Jean MelesaineShow MoreShow Less
How do we nurture reciprocity rather than transactional relationships in art? How do we sustain community through gentrification, a pandemic and revolution? What would it take to decolonize art? And what do creative and cultural communities need in order to stay rooted in the Bay Area?