Come celebrate our collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission in the installation of Karen Cusolito’s ‘Bloom’ sculptures! Join us for this Opening Reception / Kick off party for SFAC’s ARTery program, and enjoy a lively evening full of live entertainment and new works of art.

The Lovers at 1123 Market St, San Francisco. Photo by George Post.

BRAF proudly announces our collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission in the installation of Karen Cusolito’s Market Street Blooms at the U.N. Plaza, from her sculptural series Infinitarium, as part of SFAC’s Art In Storefronts Project (AIS.)

In addition to debuting Cusolito’s installations, Art in Storefronts, now in its second year, returns to Central Market with six storefront installations and five murals. The latest in The ARTery Project’s efforts to revitalize a once-vibrant commercial corridor, the project temporarily places original art installations by San Francisco artists in vacant and under-used storefront windows and exterior walls.

Join BRAF and SFAC for the Market Street Blooms Opening Reception / Kick off Party for The ARTery! Enjoy a lively evening, full of live entertainment and new artworks.

Entertainment includes:

• Gamelan X
• John Brothers Piano Company
• The Jaz Sawyer Trio
• The Space Cowboys and The Unimog.

Interactive Art:

• You’re invited to play Bulbous, a temporary wall of drums created by Office Division!

• Alexis Arnold
• Vanesa Gingold
• Madeline Trait
• Erik Otto
• Indigenous Arts Coalition
• Cat U-Thasoonthorn
• Robert Harris
• Paz de la Calzada
• Vicky Knoop and Beatrice Thomas
• Rafael Landea
• Amber Hasselbring

Friday, May 13, 2011

Music, speeches and mural unveiling begin at 5:00 pm
at The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
998 Market Street
San Francisco, CA

Procession down Market St. with Gamelan X begins at 5:45

Continued festivities (with the Unimog!)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
U.N. Plaza
San Francisco, CA