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Articles by Deborah Cullinan
The Future Becoming
We are years ahead of now and when we look back to make sense of what happened, we understand that infamous years like 2020 and 2021 were years of epic reckoning that had been fomenting for centuries. In this reckoning, the world stood at a dangerously thin precipice between utter breakdown and complete breakthrough. As we look back, it is clear that these were the only choices. Nothing incremental could have been done.
The Biden-Harris administration must integrate the arts into our national recovery
“We are at our most inventive when we are falling.” This lesson from Liz Lerman, a choreographer and one of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ senior fellows, has stuck with me over this past year. Artists and the cultural sector have fallen harder in the past year than we could have ever imagined. The impacts of the pandemic on the sector are clear. Philanthropy at North American arts organizations declined by 14% from January to October 2020.
To build racial and wealth equality in post-pandemic America, invest in a Cultural New Deal
Outside the Box Published: Oct.
We Are the Asteroid: Art and the Ecological Crisis
Justin Brice Guariglia is a visual and conceptual artist known for his photographic, sculptural, and installation work that explores the relationship between humans and the natural world. In honor of Earth Day, YBCA interviewed Guariglia about his text-based public art installation WE ARE THE ASTERIOD III (2019).
Why the 2020 US Census Matters for the Arts
Lukas Brekke-Miesner, Yueqi Chen, Chris Hamamoto, and Takeshi Moro, Breaking ICE A Community Response to a Citizenship Test (2017-2020) (courtesy YBCA) SAN FRANCISCO — Many months ago, before the coronavirus pandemic changed our lives and took hold of our collective psyche, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) was approached by independent curator and activist Amy Kisch.
The Center for Art and Critical Conversations
Sat August 31st Open 11am—6pm At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), we believe that art should provoke and challenge. We are committed to being a platform for artists to share their work, voice their perspectives, and encourage us to have challenging conversations about important issues and ideas. We aim to be a place for people with diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives to engage with provocative art and ideas.
A partnership to design San Francisco’s future
Who gets to design the future of life? This is a question that we posed recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where I am very proud to work. Focusing on inquiry and our promise to be the creative home for civic action, we invited people — artists, designers, planners and more — to discuss and debate that question. And by gathering diverse perspectives around this line of inquiry, we produced a cascading series of answers that made an impact far beyond the arts.
Civic Engagement: Why Cultural Institutions Must Lead the Way
At its essence, democracy in the United States is a system of government rooted in a belief in liberty and justice for all. This system depends on the consent and participation of the people. It depends on citizen engagement. Today, we risk reducing our definition of citizenship to an annual or occasional vote rather than an ongoing, deeply held way of being as a people.
On Saturday, November 5th 2016, before the world got so much darker, several hundred people…
On Saturday, November 5th 2016, before the world got so much darker, several hundred people gathered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to celebrate the YBCA100?—?the 100 culture makers who are most inspiring our work as an organization. It is important to be clear that this is not a celebration of artists. This is a celebration of what we can do when we bring together creative change makers. As my colleague and dear friend Marc Bamuthi Joseph says “Arts centers celebrate artists every day.
What if art centers existed to ignite radical citizenship?
Yet at YBCA we know that art and creativity are essential drivers of any breakthrough change. We recently surveyed close to 1,500 Bay Area citizens and found that they know it, too: ● 81% believe that art and culture are vital parts of the human experience in everyday life — not just something you experience when you go to a museum or a cultural institution. ● 83% believe that creativity is important to imagining the future.
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