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Pay 2012 Dues Online
Yep, it's that time of the year again.
In order to continue to do all of the things we do for our member businesses, we do ask that members please pay their dues on time.
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0 Comment(s)Union Bank – Small Business Lending - up to $500 fee waiver
Act now to receive a fee waiver on business loans and lines of credit. Requests tp to $100M or 50% off bank origination fees for requests greater than $100M and up to $250M.
Completed applications must be submitted by January 31, 2012 and book by March 31, 2012. For details please contact Sr. Relationship Banker, Wendy Venegas at 415-358-1023 or wendy.venegas@unionbank.com.
LEFT TO CHANCE: IN SEARCH OF THE ACCIDENTAL BOOK ART
How has chance affected the book arts today? What are way in which luck, chaos, randomness or other manifestations of chance are employed in the creation of a book art?
2012 marks the centennial of John Cage’s birth - inventor, composer, printmaker, and mycologist. In this exhibition,The San Francisco Center for the Book pays tribute to Cage and his in?uence on visual arts, as well as his enduringlegacy and love of experimentation with music, wild mushrooms, Zen Buddhism, I-Ching, visual art, printmaking,and typography.
Curated by Hanna Regev, Left to Chance appreciates the range and impact of Cage’s work across various disciplines byinviting book artists to use serendipity, randomness, unpredictability, luck, found objects, and chance-determinedprocedures to generate new works that are free of any particular order or rule, as well as using new technologies (e.g.,laser cutting, digital printing, video works). These processes form new shapes and structures that challenge traditional bookmaking, and may result in unexpected works such as collage, edible handmade paper, or 3-D structures that ?oat on cyberspaceplatforms.
Left to Chance also builds on the curator’s earlier exhibitions, including the Seduction of Duchamp, Get Lucky: theCulture of Chance, at SomArts, San Francisco, and Herbert Molderings’ book Duchamp and The Aesthetics of Chance: TheArt as an Experiment.
Curator Hanna Regev has an extensive background in the museum ?eld with master’s degrees in Museum Studiesand Modern European History. Her areas of practice focus on curation, public programs and teaching. She works withmany cultural organizations and art galleries in San Francisco and the Bay Area developing public programs associ-ated with exhibitions she produces.
For the San Francisco Center for the Book, Ms. Regev’s most recent exhibition was Banned and Recovered: ArtistsRespond to Censorship (2008) spanning venues at both SFCB and the African American Museum and Library atOakland, which then became a traveling exhibition Banned and Recovered: Artists Intervention, under the manage-ment of Exhibit Envoy, formerly the California Exhibition Resources Alliance.
Talk With 2011 Imprint Artist In Residence Kota Ezawa
San Francisco Center for the Book 2011 Imprint Publications Artist in Residence Kota Ezawa will be giving a talk in conjunction with his 2011 residency on the creation of Paper Space, a 4-page pop-up book consisting of paper cut-out dioramas based on film and TV depictions of historic events from the mid 19th century to the present. Ezawa will speak on the production of the piece, as well as situating Paper Space within the context of his other work.
About the artist: Kota Ezawa is a kind of video, film and photography archeologist, unearthing animations and still images that are hidden in archival footage. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions domestically and internationally. Ezawa is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts and lives in San Francisco and Berlin.
The talk will include viewing of the exhibition currently on display in the Austin/Burch Gallery, featuring earlier work by Ezawa. The event is free and open to the public. The artists' book Paper Space will be available for sale.
In-Symmetry Grand Reopening
You're invited to meet the In-Symmetry team and experience their fantastic new home.
There will be:
- TASTINGS BY: Fog Hollow Farm, Pastoral Plate, and Red Circle Tea
- RAFFLE
- GIFT CERTIFICATE GIVEAWAYS
- CHINESE CUPPING DEMONSTRATIONS
- FACIAL GIFT CERTIFICATES AT 15% OFF
- SIGN UPS FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE DELIVERED TO THEIR LOCATION
- ART BY LOCAL ARTISTS ON DISPLAY AND FOR SALE
Please R.S.V.P. on their Facebook page, and feel free to extend the invitation to your friends and family.
When: Friday January 20, 2012.
Time: 5:30-8:30pm.
Location: 650D Florida Street.
