BRAF supports and promotes community, interactive art and civic participation.
Check out this video from WIRED Magazine about the Bliss Dance iPhone app that allows you to control the lighting on Bliss Dance yourself. How fun is that? To read more about the Black Rock Arts Foundation bringing Bliss Dance to Treasure Island – Click Here and Here
Seraphim Dance Theatre is a new Music and Dance performance group, summoned from the collaborative ether, featuring a fresh blend of multidimensional visionary performance art, music and story telling. With precision choreography, dynamic visual art, and live symphonic soundscapes, Seraphim focuses on offering original and inspiring art that is the evocation of revolution and the human spirit. The Seraphim show…Keep reading >>
BRAF Grantees Across the YearsThe deadline for applying for a grant from the Black Rock Arts Foundation is fast approaching… Attention artists! In an effort to streamline our grant application process, the Black Rock Arts Foundation has initiated a new step to our application instructions. To apply for a grant from BRAF, you will now need to submit a Letter…Keep reading >>
Click here for a unique visit with one of our grant recipients. A visit with one of our grant recipients. Wish we could be there!
Spire of Fire will be lit up again Friday, Oct. 7 and Tuesday Oct. 11 and then on Sat. Oct. 29 for a HALLOWEEN EVENT by the Riverside Merchants Association! Dj’s and Fire Spinners. Not to be missed, these great FREE downtown events! photo: Mark Hammon
Immerse youself in a realm rich in imagination, expression and inspiration! Be the art! Saturday, November 19 at 6:00pm – November 20 at 2:30am Location The Bently Reserve 400 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA BRAF presents our fifth annual: Artumnal Gathering Feast of Imagination Dinner 6:30 pm… Artumnal Celebration 9:30 pm Join us at the magnificent Bently Reserve and enjoy…Keep reading >>
BRAF throws quite a party on the Playa! Hope you got to stop by and say Hi!Rachel Carpenter and Nick Morgan from our Board of Directors Nick Morgan and Joe Olivier, Joe is the Treasurer of the Board Elba, Dolores Huerta and Brooke Oliver, BRAF attorney, enjoying the party Maria Partridge and Affinity The Partiers More Partiers JennyBird and Miss…Keep reading >>
Our 2010 Presence at Burning Man For many of us in the BRAF community, Burning Man is more than an event. It’s our organization’s birthplace. It continues to be our source of inspiration — an example of a society where art serves an intrinsic connective function for the community. We eagerly look forward to our stay on the playa as…Keep reading >>
In the spirit of the revolutionary interactive art of Burning Man and BRAF, we invite YOU to come out to celebrate and pARTicipate in the Mobule experience! Get involved with this great BRAF grantee project and help make it happen! New York, Black Rock City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. You know you want to , so make it happen!…Keep reading >>
The talented creators of the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, which is part of the Black Rock Arts Foundation Civic Arts Program, received this drawing the other day. The artist had been to San Francisco and fallen in love with the Rocketship and wanted to creator to have a copy, so we are sharing this graphite rendering with you. This is what…Keep reading >>
One of our 2009 Grantees, Cardboardia, in Moscow, put on a Haute Couture Fashion Show recently and it is delightful. It put a big smile on my face! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlyNB11Ik4w?version=3]
Bliss danced with her friends, and photographer Sidney Erthel on the 4th of July and we hope your holiday was just as beautiful. Sidney Erthal’s 2010 Burning Man photos A treat showed up in our email box last week from Roy Two Thousand, who I met at the Bliss Dance Opening Ceremony on Treasure Island. He sent a time lapse…Keep reading >>
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