San Francisco-based artist Mia Christopher is making leaps and bounds with her new body of work, which includes paintings and drawings made from a range of alternative materials- confetti, glitter, iridescents, eyeshadow, and lipstick. After graduating with a BFA from California College of the Arts in May 2012, Mia’s prolific process of making hasn’t slowed down for a second.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 by Allison Byers
Although she has long harbored artistic aspirations, it wasn't until Maine native Mati Rose McDonough ( www.matirose.com) moved to San Francisco in 2000 that she became determined to make art her livelihood. "I was working at a small art law firm as a legal assistant and wishing that instead of helping to draft contracts for the artists that I was on the other side."
Read the restPosted on Friday, July 13, 2012 by Allison Byers
While a winner has not yet been selected, Tex-Fab’s new APPLIED: Research Through Fabrication competition has already produced interesting results as four semi-finalists emerge. The competition solicited proposals that best displayed “research through computational fabrication.” The four proposals selected in the first round of adjudication address acoustics, structure, construction, material, and surface effects, each using on digital modeling and fabrication techniques.
Read the restPosted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 by Allison Byers
Fantagraphics Books and award-winning cartoonist Justin Hall have produced a definitive collection of the greatest LGBT comics created over the last four decades.
Out superheroes such as Northstar, Batwoman, and Green Lantern’s Alan Scott weren’t always a part of the landscape of comic book characters. Not so long ago even acknowledging the LGBT community was forbidden in the conventional world of comics. That didn’t stop queer cartooning and characters from existing, though.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 by Allison Byers
To protect rent-controlled units, San Francisco may ban converting apartments for student-only uses and create incentives for developers of student dwellings.
SAN FRANCISCO — Lower Nob Hill, a once stately neighborhood whose shifting fortunes have proved a draw over the years for prostitutes and petty crooks, is buzzing with new activity.
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When local multi-media artist Mia Christopher received an email asking if she'd like to collaborate on designs for nationwide women's retailer Anthropologie, she thought it was a prank.
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Mary Meyer was once a painter whose sartorial ambitions exceeded her wallet’s limitations. Thus, she began making clothes that she wanted to wear. And people just started buying it off of her. She’s still a painter. As a graduate of California College of Arts & Crafts, her fine arts skills take the place of the a design background.
Read the restPosted on Friday, June 29, 2012 by Allison Byers
This is certainly an interesting time -- and, in many respects, a challenging time -- to be a college president.
On the one hand, this country's model of higher education -- with its flexibility, broad range of opportunities, and accessibility for people of all ages and economic backgrounds -- is much envied and emulated around the world.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 by Allison Byers
Plenty of museums these days have orientation videos. For the mind-bending, truth-testing exhibition “More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness,” which opens next month at Site Santa Fe in New Mexico, Bay Area artist Jonn Herschend has, instead, created a “disorientation” video to greet visitors entering the space.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 by Allison Byers
Alongside collections of everyday objects like light-switch covers and felt bags, Rachel Gant’s SF Design Week offerings earlier this month were decidedly in-season. She was showing a series of bags that convert into picnic blankets, and in the store’s window, she put a giant spinning top on display. It was still light out when the evening event started, and I surely wasn’t the only one eying the combo for a final bit of fun before dusk.
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