A Periodic Reminder
Namely, that the vagaries of San Francisco real estate aside, the Cartoon Art Museum is very much a going concern, and permanent home or no, they are Doing Stuff. Quite a bit of Stuff in the coming weeks, in fact. Let’s take a look.
- A week from Monday (that would be 18 April, in the 2016th year of the Common Era¹), CAM (in conjunction with the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics Program) welcomes cartoonist Leila Abdelrazaq to CCA’s campus. Abdelrazaq will be discussing her new graphic novel, Baddawi, inspired by her father’s life growing up in the refugee camps of Lebanon. The program kicks off at 7:00pm in Timken Hall, 1111 8th Street in San Francisco.
- Three days later on the 21st, CAM continues its Third Thursdays series (this time in conjunction with the Museum of Performance + Design) with a program devoted to figure sketching and performance mapping. This one will tie into MP+D’s current exhibition (through 4 June) Mapping Dance: The Scores of Anna Halprin, a collection of scores and performance videos from the collection of choreographer Halprin (which exhibit itself is a partnership with the California Historical Society).
That’s an awful lot of institutions working in concert to bring significant and celebrated arts to a wider (and participatory) audience, which in and of itself is an impressive undertaking. If you’ve wanted to improve your ability to represent movement into drawing seeing Halprin’s choreographic scores seems like a good place for inspiration. The event runs 5:30pm – 8:00pm at 893 Folsom Street.
At this pace, there will not be a block or cultural institution in San Francisco that hasn’t done something in conjunction with CAM, and given that comics and cartoons are among the most widely distributed of the arts, that’s appropriate. Drop by either or both events, enjoy yourself, and when you see the donation jar that’s funding a new home for CAM, be generous.
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¹ Alternately, the 64th, 6766th, 7524th, 3182nd, 5776th, 28th, or 105th year of (respectively) the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the Assyrian calendar, the Byzantine calendar, the Discordian calendar, the Hebrew calendar, the Heisei era, or the life of the Eternal President of a batshit crazy hermit nation/personality cult. Calendars are weird, man.
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