Upcoming Events:
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CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS @ MOCFA SF » Thursday, September 2 6-9 pm |
Fall is coming - time to put away that tee shirt you've been living in all summer. Why not revamp it instead? This September CRAFT BAR goes green with a night of tee shirt upcycling! Bring in any old tee shirt (or use one of ours) and turn it into something new.
Not quite ready for your favorite tee to start a new life? Join the Stitch 'n Bitch, with drop-in instruction in knitting and crochet. Don't forget to take inspiration from the gallery and the Museum Store while you explore the creative process. Refreshments provided by Trumer Pils. Tee shirts provided by Buffalo Exchange.
CRAFT BAR is free with $5 admission to the gallery, featuring Clare Rojas: We They, We They, and all materials and instructions for the crafts. Resident crafter Amelia Strader will be doing the Etsy Virtual Lab at 1 PM on September 2 - be sure to check it out if you can't make it to CRAFT BAR!Learn more about CRAFT BAR »
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Alula Editions Party Tuesday, September 7 5-8 pm |
Join Alula Editions for the launch of their inaugural edition with San Francisco based artist Jason Jägel.
Alula Editions is an art subscription service featuring limited edition artworks made from artist designed textiles. The objects they make range from functional to sculptural, with an emphasis on carrying the concepts present in the textile designs through to the form and function of the object.
Alula Editions co-founders Helena Keeffe and Amber Cady invite you to learn about their process, check out the finished edition, and become a subscriber. Snacks made from local produce will be crafted by chef Leif Hedendal. Wine and beer will be offered as well, including the delicious Burning Oak Lager from Oakland based Linden Street Brewery. Be one of the first 30 in the door and receive a free sample of hand-printed fabric!
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Opening Reception for Volver: Mexican Folk Art into Play Thursday, September 23 Member+Press Preview: 6-7pm Public Reception: 7-9pm |
The Museum of Craft and Folk Art presents an exhibition of contemporary art that activates Mexican folk art, including works by Adrian Esparza, Maximo Gonzalez, Armando Miguelez, Favianna Rodriguez and Eduardo Sarabia.
To celebrate Mexico's Bicentennial Anniversary of Independence (September 15) and the Centennial of the Revolution (November 20), MOCFA presents Volver: Mexican Folk Art into Play, an exhibition that looks to traditional crafts from Mexico and focuses on contemporary works that imbue the materials and processes of popular folk arts with conceptual potency.
Mexico's strong history of traditional arts carries through to the present day through weaving, painting, carving, and manipulating materials. Many artists working today question the ability of those traditional objects to tell the full story of an evolving culture - and in response, new artisans and artists work to update, reform, and activate those original source traditions.
Past Events:
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Teacher Open House: 10 Museums / 1 Neighborhood Thursday August 26 4-7pm |
The museums in and around Yerba Buena Gardens invite professional educators to come visit and learn more about our field trips, tours, upcoming exhibitions, and professional development opportunities. Along with MOCFA: Museum of the African Diaspora, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Zeum, California Historical Society, Society of California Pioneers, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Cartoon Art Museum, SF Camerawork, SFMOMA. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you at the MOCFA!
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Folksy Family Day Saturday August 7 1-3pm |
Join us for a fun painting activity inspired by the exhibition, Clare Rojas: We They, We They. Create your own masterpiece with acrylic paint on wood to take home! Materials provided with a $5 donation.
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Craft Bar and Etsy Labs @ MOCFA » Thursday, August 5 6-9pm |
Want to explore your inner book worm in a whole new way? Join us for the August edition of CRAFT BAR with special guest artists Julie Schneider, Kelly Ball, Jen Hewett, and Maren Salomon, who will provide a variety of easy-to-learn bookmaking projects using found and recycled materials. Learn techniques like 'coptic stitch' and 'flag' as you make your own books! Learn how to make an embroidered greeting card with Lauren Davis, from Crooked Sister.
Don't feel like working with awls and bone folders? Local favorite The LoinSF will be on hand with a simple silk-screening project that will suit all skill levels - bring a favorite paper-based item to screen on or screen on materials provided.
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Book-reading and Folksy Family Day Saturday June 5 1-3pm |
Join us for a special afternoon of book-reading, book-signing, and art-making. Clare Rojas will be reading from her new children's storybook entitled "Pidgy", with a crafting activity offered for ages 5 & up. Materials provided with $5 donation.
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Craft Bar and Etsy Labs @ MOCFA » Thursday June 3 6-8pm |
join us as we partner with textile haven Britex Fabrics to make crochet and fabric appliquéd jewelry, or, if flowers aren't your thing, Asian pop-culture emporium Giant Robot will also be launching their pop-up store inside MOCFA; celebrate with a GR-themed craft!
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Artist Talk Thursday May 20 7pm |
Clare Rojas will be in conversation with curator Natasha Boas discussing her work, influences and process. This is a unique opportunity to meet the artist and experience the ideas behind We They, We They. Please come join us for a vibrant evening of conversation and culture. Clare will also be signing copies of her new children's book "Pidgy."
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Opening Night Thursday May 13 7-9pm |
Member/Press preview 6-7pm
Peggy Honeywell performs 7pm
Clare Rojas performs songs taken from her folk albums Green Mountain, Faint Humms, and Honey for Dinner released under the name of her alter-ego Peggy Honeywell.
Docent Tours*
1pm: First Tuesday of every month; 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month
All events marked * are free with Museum admission.
For more information about these events, please call the Museum at (415) 227-4888.
Pictured on homepage and top of this page:
Clare Rojas, installation, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco. Photo: Jay Jones.
Clare Rojas:
We They, We They
May 14 – September 12, 2010
Where neo-folk meets contemporary art, artists operate as ‘authors’ of the collective voice. The new exhibition Clare Rojas: We They, We They showcases the first San Francisco solo museum exhibition of the internationally acclaimed Bay Area artist who identifies and inserts herself in the folk art continuum. MOCFA is proud to present new work that has yet to be seen by the public.
Clare Rojas (b. 1976, Ohio, lives and works in San Francisco) is best known for her folk-inspired practice that challenges the stereotypical representations of the sexes through a naïf homespun aesthetic using flat areas of color that reveal her origins as a print-maker. Rojas uses a wide range of media, including painting, prints, installation and video, most often depicting interactions between men and women in fabled and mysterious landscapes.
“In a post-digitized world, people are searching for authenticity and community,” remarks curator Natasha Boas. “Although Clare Rojas’ work speaks to the DIY attitudes and community spirit of the Mission School—arguably the most definable art movement to emerge in the Bay Area in the late 20th century—the artist has distanced herself from the movement in creating a distinct and personal visual vocabulary, one that investigates the domestic realm through a delicate balance of abstraction and figuration. This is a seminal moment in the Rojas’ career and we are thrilled to be bringing her work to the forefront.”
This exhibition will mark a shift in Clare Rojas’ artistic focus from a preoccupation with the figure and gender politics to a broader range of formal association retaining the major proposition of her practice. Understood within contemporary art practice and a neo-folk tradition, Clare Rojas’ exhibition will focus on a large “wall quilt” configured by individual paintings on wood panels.
A large installation will be built throughout MOCFA's gallery
space—the walls of the gallery covered floor to ceiling by a patchwork of painted panels, some focused on particular figurative imagery, others assemblages of color and pattern, combining to recall a myriad of reference points from high art and popular culture—from West Coast modernism, to Latino folk art, Quaker art, Native American craft, outsider art, folklore and the tradition of story-telling and illustration.
Curated by Natasha Boas
Clare Rojas: We They, We They is a collaboration with curator Nigel Prince and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK and is supported by Chris Vroom, Gallery Paule Anglim, Kavi Gupta, Jonathan and Deborah Parker, Robin Wright, Ann Hatch, Sabrina Buell and Ratio 3, San Francisco. Thank you to Magnolia Press and Chronicle Books.
The Museum of Craft and Folk Art is generously supported by The Compton Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Gertrud and Harold Parker, The San Francisco Foundation, The Sato Foundation, Museum members, and friends.
Mentioned in the New York Times article:
"A Movement in Museums and on the Street"
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