Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life is a timely examination of the Bay Area arts ecosystem. This exhibition features 23 Bay Area artists who have stuck it out during the many crises of our times. It features 23 artists who call the Bay Area a creative home, the works featured will reveal a narrative of the struggle of living and working in an untenable city鈥揻rom the joy of finding chosen communities and families, to the loss of affordable housing and studio space.
Recent narratives have placed San Francisco and its surrounding urban areas 鈥渋n the shadow鈥� of larger art metropolises like Los Angeles or New York. The Bay Area finds itself in the penumbral margins of the art world conversation. So too is craft often marginalized or footnoted in the canon of art history. To survive and thrive in the margins is a radical act that occasionally requires the will to fight.
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Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life is a timely examination of the Bay Area arts ecosystem. This exhibition features 23 Bay Area artists who have stuck it out during the many crises of our times. It features 23 artists who call the Bay Area a creative home, the works featured will reveal a narrative of the struggle of living and working in an untenable city鈥揻rom the joy of finding chosen communities and families, to the loss of affordable housing and studio space.
Recent narratives have placed San Francisco and its surrounding urban areas 鈥渋n the shadow鈥� of larger art metropolises like Los Angeles or New York. The Bay Area finds itself in the penumbral margins of the art world conversation. So too is craft often marginalized or footnoted in the canon of art history. To survive and thrive in the margins is a radical act that occasionally requires the will to fight.
Artists on show
- Adia Millett
- Ala Ebtekar
- Alexander Hernandez
- Angela Hennessy
- Cathy Lu
- Charlene Tan
- Cheryl Patrice Derricotte
- Craig Calderwood
- Erica Deeman
- Jenifer K. Wofford
- Lauren A. Toomer
- Leila Weefur
- Libby Black
- Liz Harvey
- Liz Hernandez
- Margaret Tedesco
- Michelle Yi Martin
- Nasim Moghadam
- Ramekon O'Arwisters
- Related Tactics
- Richard Jonathan Nelson
- Woody de Othello
- Yetunde Olagbaju
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The Museum of Craft and Design opened Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, on view since April 15.
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life examines how artists stay 鈥� or don鈥檛 鈥� in an area with steep rents, scarce studio space, and a high cost of living.
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