Come Join Us Please! The Black Rock Arts Foundation presents… ARTumnal Gathering: TRIBES and TREASURES Saturday, November 22, 2008 9pm to 2am (Get there for the start and stay late!) at The Historic Bently Reserve http://www.bentlyreserve.com/ 400 Sansome St.San Francisco, CA 94111 Just $20 Presale for Main Event; $30 at the door (get your tix now!) Pre-event Dinner tix start…Keep reading >>

I told you that Language of the Birds by Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn was coming to the NW corner of Broadway where Grant and Columbus Streets intersect in San Francisco. I am writing to let you know that the Dedication will be: November 23 at DuskIs that the same as sunset (4:54)? The SF Weekly lists the dedication time…Keep reading >>

It was a brisk day but we had a good crowd in the Mangrove, sipping coffee and eating soup, while enjoying three really fun bands. The afternoon started out with Freaks of Nurture featuring Doyle Stewart and Jill Snyder… these two met when their teenage cello playing kids, Emily and Gabe, were dating each other. Doyle and Jill realized that…Keep reading >>

Installation Site photo Anna FitchBrian and Dorka photo Anna Fitch Digital Illustration of completed installation by Brian Goggin I was in a car a couple of days ago, and guess what I saw, Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn in a boom lift installing ‘Language of the Birds’. Language of the Birds is one of BRAF’s 2007 Grants-to-Artists recipients. It is…Keep reading >>

The Black Rock Arts Foundation believes public art helps engage a community and define themselves in unique and creative ways, help strengthen pride in the community, connects individuals and communities across boundaries of geography and points of view and enhances the opportunity for the community to interact with artists and art as a means to connect with each other. This…Keep reading >>

The Black Rock Arts Foundation was pleased to fund the Burning Basket Project as part of our 2007 Grants-to-Artists Program, to travel to Hawaii, connecting the geographically disparate communities across the Pacific through a common, temporal event. The ‘Burning Basket Project’, developed in Homer, Alaska by Mavis Muller, is designed to unite geographically disparate communities through recognition and celebration of…Keep reading >>

EMERGENCE is having a Catalogue Launch Party tomorrow in New York. If you are out that way, check it out. CATALOGUE LAUNCH PARTYWED, OCT 29TH 20087PM to 9PMBARRAMUNDISecond Floor, 67 Clinton St,New York (Rivington and Stanton) – Cash Bar

Passage by Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito Homouroboros by Peter Hudson The Temple by David Best Flock by Michael Christian The biggest little city in the world, Reno, Nevada, has two Black Rock Arts Foundation projects right now. We have been blogging about the happenings at the The Mangrove, and now there is a photography exhibit of Burning Man/Black…Keep reading >>

We had a great time meeting some of you at San Francisco Decompression. We got to talk about our Grants to Artists Program, our upcoming ARTumnal Gathering, and whatever you wanted to know about the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Thanks for coming by, it was good to see you! Dr. Really, Jewel and Josie grace the BRAF Booth See previously:…Keep reading >>

Our very own Maria Partridge manned the Mangrove/Black Rock Arts Foundation booth at Reno Decompression this weekend. It looks like even the little ones had a great time.

Spider Ball is an annual fundraising Halloween extravaganza hosted in tandem by the Bently Reserve and Playa Love, a Burning Man camp dedicated to promoting local organizations and communities both on the playa and at home. The historic Bently Reserve in San Francisco hosts this Halloween celebration, mixing an underground approach of decadence with the elegance and style of this…Keep reading >>