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Berkeley Art Center
CATALOGS
Email, call 510.644.6893 or fax 510.540.0343 the Berkeley Art Center to order or inquire after any of the following:
From Isolation to Connection: Adult Artists Living with Psychiatric Disabilities
Unbound and Under Covers: Experiments in Visual Writing (2003)
The Whole World's Watching:Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960's and 1970's (2001)
Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind (2000)
Crossings: The Installation Art of Mildred Howard (1997)
Science Imagined: An Exhibition of the Book as Art (1996)
Bodies and Souls: Photographs by Ruth Morgan, Gayle Tanaka, Kenneth R. Wilkes (1994)
Arbie Williams Transforms the Britches Quilt (1993)
Asian Roots/Western Soil: Japanese Influences in American Culture (1994)
Artists' Portfolio: 10 x 10 Ten Women, Ten Prints
From Isolation to Connection: Adult Artists Living with Psychiatric Disabilities from Bonita House's Creative Living Center and Berkeley Mental Health
ISBN: 0-942744-13-6 $9.95 |
From Isolation to Connection is an exhibition which offers an opportunity for fourteen psychiatrically challenged but creative people to emerge from isolation through their art, allowing the larger community an opportunity to appreciate and connect with this often-misunderstood population. The exhibition was curated by Arline Rodini, artist/therapist and teacher, who teaches programs at Berkeley Mental Health and Bonita House's Creative Living Center through the Berkeley Adult School. |
She has worked with these institutions since 1988 and still continues her work connecting the healing power of art to people with psychiatric disabilities.
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Sacred Spaces: An Exhibition of Installations, June 27 - August 7, 2004
Curated by Terri Cohn
Catalog essays by Terri Cohn and Meredith Tromble
ISBN: 0-942744-12-8 $14.99 |
Sacred Spaces is an exhibition that explores the sacred and how artists might interpret it. The six artists diverse backgrounds in the show inform the work, and remind the viewer that experiencing the sacred is both universal and unique. The works in this catalog represent each artist?s installation that considers our current condition, while finding within it places of renewal through reflection, meditation, and community participation.
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Unbound and Under Covers:Experiments in Visual Writing Presenting the work of Betsy Davids, Marie Carbone and Dale Going, Susan E. King, Lisa Kokin, Stephen Ratcliffe, Jaime Robles, Teague Soderman, Indigo Som, and Meredith Stricker
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The Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960's and 1970's
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A marvelously evocative presentation of a stirring, complex, colorful era... which, overall, helped to civilize the society and culture dramatically... -Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Whole World's Watching brings the Sixties and Seventies alive in a remarkable set of photos and essays. The photos are strikingly dramatic and will recall to those who lived in those years the emotion, the anger, the joy of participating in the great social movements of our time. The essays are short, pungent, and wide-ranging as they recall the richness, the cameraderie of those historic struggles for peace and justice. -Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's History of the United States These photos and narrative capture the spirit of the sixties. The spirit lives."-David Hilliard, Chief of Staff, Black Panther Party |
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The photos and text bring forth... love and inspiration to my heart and eyes, and imspire not only myself to continued work, but, I hope, younger generations to come. -Winona LaDuke, Native American activist and Green Party candidate for U. S. Vice President, 2000
The Berkeley Art Center is proud to announce the publication of The Whole World's Watching, an extraordinary collection of gripping photographs combined with moving and thoughtful commentary by 20 writers. The work documents the rich history of the social movements of the 1960's and 1970's with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area. Distinguished writers explore the rise of the Black Panthers, the Free-Speech and Anti-war movements, feminism, disability rights, environmental activism, the strugle for gay rights, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, the occupation of Alcatraz and the cultural milieu of the era.
The book includes over 50 handsome duotone photographs taken by nearly 30 noted photographers. Powerful essays honor both the larger story and the individual participants of these movements who had the courage and vision to change history.
By examining the organizations and events that arose in California during this tumultuous period in U. S. history the Berkeley Art Center provides us with a living memory of this important and dramatic era.
For libraries, schools and anyone who lived through those times or wants to know more about them.
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Participating Writers: Donna Amador, Joshua Bloom, Clayborne Carson, Edward Castillo, Chris Clarke, Peter Coyote, HolLynn D'Lil, Richard Garcia, Judy Grahn, Alice Sachs Hamberg, Leon F. Litwack, Jeffrey Lustig, William Mandel, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Ruth Rosen, Wendy Marian, Schlesinger, Clark Smith, Charles Wollenberg |
Participating Photographers Harold Adler, George Elfie Ballis, Richard Bermack, Kathryn Biglow, Jeffrey Blankfort, Nacio Jan Brown, Cathy Cade, Bob Fitch, Howard Harawitz, Robert Hsiang, Larry Keenan, Ken Light, Richard Misrach, Helen Nestor, John Pearson, Howard Petrick, Ronald J. Riesterer, Harvey Wilson, Richards, Stephen Shames, Ted Streshinsky, Michelle Vignes, Douglas Wachter |
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Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind (2000)
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Ethnic Notions... must be seen for its painful lessons in the power of images. These insidious articles owe their power not only to an iconography of mochery and derision but also to the fact that so many of them were mass-produced. Particles of toxic propaganda, they pervaded America like fallout from the Civil War and the ineradicable sin of black enslavement that detonated it. ...Ethnic Notions has the force of an expose. It exposes, beneath overt social inequities, a never-ending covert war on the morale and self-respect of African Americans and on the conscience of whites. -Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 2000
These pages accurately depict the ways in which the black image was distorted and black people misrepresented in the broader American culture from 1847 to the present day in order to establish and reinforce the existing social discrepancies, justify discrimination, and perpetuate traditional majority/minority relationships in the country. Ethnic Notions is very highly recommended reading for Black Studies, social issues, and American cultural history reading lists and library reference collections. -Midwest Book Review, November, 2000
...Faulkner's collection... [shows] the way that the mammy and servant images [have] been used to narrowly define and limit the lives of black people. -Andrea Lewis, The Progressive, February, 2001
9.5 x 8.5 in, 80 pages, illustrated with 56 black and white photographs; ISBN 0-942744-07-1; paper $19.95
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Paintings and installations about our most precious resource. Featuring the work of Barbara Adair, Lee Michael Altman, Spencer Chen, Nikki B. Davis, Danae Mattes, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Anne Subercaseaux and Brian Tripp; with an essay by curator, Patrice Wagner.
Crossings: The Installation Art of Mildred Howard (1997)
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Mildred Howard is one of our most distinguished younger African American artists. The book discusses her themes, methods, and personal background, and it stresses the importance of her work within the context of art from the African diaspora.
Bodies and Souls: Photographs by Ruth Morgan, Gayle Tamaka, Kenneth R. Wilkes (1994)
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Arbie Williams Transforms the Britches Quilt, by Eli Leon (1993)
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Published by The University of California at Santa Cruz in conjunction with the Berkeley Art Center, the book shows a large sampling of the quilts of this National Heratige Award-winning African American artist. The author examines the artist's work within the context of African textile tradition. |
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Asian Roots/Western Soil: Japanese Influences in American Culture by Robert Hanamura (1994)
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Sensitively conceived [and] crafted... diversity triumphs over divisiveness with an eglitarianism that erodes boundaries and erects bridges. -Harry Roche, San Francisco Bay Guardian The book looks at the work of 42 artists of diverse ehtnicities including Japanese, Japanes-American, Chinese, Jewish, African American, Greek, Italian and AngloAmerican and underscores the contributions of Japanese aesthetic traditions to American culture. |
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BAC has produced two limited edition silkscreen portfolios. Beyond 1992: (Artists Respond to the Columbus Enterprise) is sold out. It is in many public collections including: The Cambridge Art Council (MA), U. C. Santa Cruz, the Guadalupe Cultural Center (San Antonio, TX), The Neue Gesellschaft Fur Bildende Kunst (Berlin, Germany), U. C. Berkeley, the Mexican Museum (SF), and the Achenbach Collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (SF).
10 x 10 Ten Women Ten Prints
is a portfolio of silkscreen prints published by the Berkeley Art CEnter and executed by master printer, Jos Sances of Alliance Graphics. The portfolio, in an archival clamshell box, consists of 10 individually signed silkscreen prints on 22" x 22" acid free 100% rag paper in an edition of 75. The artists are: Juana Alicia, Kim Anno, Claudia Bernardi, Mildred Howard, Hung Liu, Yolanda M. Lopez, Ruth Morgan, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Faith Ringgold, and Carrie Mae Weems.
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Only 3 portfolios remain. They have been acquired by many institutions including: The Brooklyn Museum, The Oakland Museum, the Kresge Museum of Michigan State University, the Weisman Museum (University of Minnesota), the Tubman African American Museum of Macon, GA, and the Mills College Art Gallery.
They are priced at $3000 each.
