Please join us for the opening reception of Thinking and Feeling with the Marshall Islands by artists Alexis Peck, Anita Chang, Alexandria Sepulveda, Lyanne Nisperos, Nang Hliang, Adriana Fimbres, Brooklyn Aguilar, Cindy Kim, and David Oronos Where: Artists’ Television Access (ATA) 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA When: Thursday, October 26, 6 -8pm FREE […]
Please Join Us for the Opening of Dear Angel, Don’t Try to Colonize Me
Please join us for the opening of Adrian Arias’ work, Dear Angel, Don’t Try to Colonize Me Sunday, October 8, 2023, 3L30 – 3:30 – 5:30pm Artists’ Television Access (ATA) 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 ManifestDifferently.org
Cherokee Storytelling – with Kim Shuck and Mary Jean Robertson
Please join Kim Shuck and Mary Jean Robertson for an afternoon of Cherokee Storytelling. Saturday, September 16, 1 – 3pm Artists’ Television Access (ATA) 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA This event is FREE and open to the public. We’ll have snacks and beverages available. Please wear masks if you can. Mary Jean Robertson serves […]
Please join us for the Opening Celebration and Mural Unveiling for Manifest Differently on Clarion Alley
Please join us for the Opening Celebration and Mural Unveiling for Manifest Differently on Clarion Alley. WHEN: Saturday, September 25, 2003, 12noon – 5pm WHERE: Clarion Alley (between Mission and Valencia, 17th & 18th streets), San Francisco, CA WHAT: Led by Clarion Alley Mural Project, Manifest Differently is a new project developed and directed […]
Opening Saturday, September 2 @ 3 – 5pm at ATA: Carolyn Castaño Cali es Cali: Home Here and There
Manifest Differently Exhibition opening: Carolyn Castaño | “Cali Es Cali – Home Here and There” September 2-26th ATA | 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 2nd, 3:00 – 5:00 pm In “Cali es Cali”, or “Cali is Cali”, artist Carolyn Castano plays with two popular expressions: the first, “Cali es […]
Introducing Vaimoana Niumeitolu – Manifest Differently Artist
Our next inspiring artist is Vaimoana Niumeitolu born in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, raised in Hawai’i and Utah, based in New York, NY, she earned her undergraduate degree from New York University in painting and performance, the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship in painting & drawing at the Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, and attended […]
Introducing Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu – Manifest Differently Poet
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu is a Tongan/Pacific Islander scholar, storyteller and community organizer. Her literary work, community service and academic research are all interconnected and they center issues of: climate and environmental justice, ending violence against women, prison abolition and restorative justice and the protection of Indigenous sacred sites here in the Bay Area such as the […]
Meet the Awesome Team Behind the Manifest Differently Project – Megan Wilson, co-curator/organizer, artist, writer
Megan Wilson, Manifest Differently co-curator and CAMP co-director/artist/writer grew up in Montana in the seventies and eighties. She was inspired by the beauty of its majestic landscape – the colors, the mountains, the forests, the rivers, the wildflowers. Wilson’s mother was also a strong influence on her daughter – as an artist herself and as […]
Meet the Awesome Team Behind the Manifest Differently Project – Veronica Torres, Social Media & Communications Specialist/Artist
Veronica Torres, Manifest Differently Social Media/Communication Specialist, is an abstract artist with over three decades of experience. She employs a mixed-media approach, often featuring pen, ink, and gold foil flakes in her work. Her creative process is fueled by a diverse range of influences, including her own life experiences, Mexican culture, Goth-Subculture, and music. As […]
Meet the Awesome Team Behind the Manifest Differently Project – Katayoun Bahrami, project coordinator / assistant curator / artist
Katayoun Bahrami, Manifest Differently Project Coordinator/Assistant Curator/Artist, is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist and curator living and working in the Bay Area. Through her art, Bahrami delves into the intricate relationship between women’s bodies and boundaries, examining their dynamic interplay as subjects and dominators and how their limits catalyze change and transformation. Drawing on Iranian women’s […]
Meet the Awesome Team Behind the Manifest Differently Project – Kim Shuck, co-curator/organizer, poet, artist
Kim Shuck, Manifest Differently co-curator/poet/artist, embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell, and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the […]
Introducing Barbara Mumby-Huerta
Barbara Mumby was born and raised in California’s rural Central Valley, where her family’s Native American heritage and work as migrant farmers greatly influenced her passion for social justice. The youngest of five children raised by a single mother, the arts became an integral part of her life and worked as a coping mechanism for […]
Introducing Josiah Luis Alderete – Manifest Differently Poet
Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poeta who has been an active part of La Area Bahia’s Spoken Word scene for over twenty years. He was one of the founding members of outspoken word group The Molotov Mouths and is the curator and host of the long running monthly Latinx reading […]
Please join us for the Opening Celebration and Mural Unveiling for Manifest Differently on Clarion Alley
Please join us for the Opening Celebration and Mural Unveiling for Manifest Differently on Clarion Alley. This community-based event features new murals, speakers, music, and poetry. We hope to see you there! Led by Clarion Alley Mural Project, Manifest Differently is a new project developed and directed by Megan Wilson and Kim Shuck. Over […]
Introducing Adrian Arias – Manifest Differently Artist
Adrian Arias is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope in the San Francisco Bay Area. Arias is one of the founders and creators of MAPP (Mission Arts […]
Introducing Aileen Cassinetto – Manifest Differently Poet
Please give a warm welcome to our next magnificent poet, Aileen Cassinetto. Aileen was named a YBCA 100 honoree in 2023 for her contributions in building regenerative and equitable communities through poetry. An Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and 2022 Metro Film and Arts Foundation grantee, she also served as San Mateo County Poet […]
Introducing Carolyn Castaño – Manifest Differently Artist
Carolyn Castaño is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work in painting, drawing, video, and mixed-media installations has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors (2013), the California Community Foundation Getty Fellow Mid-Career Grant (2011), and the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist […]
Introducing Dena Rod – Manifest Differently Poet
Dena Rod is a trans-non-binary poet whose work has been widely published and highlighted in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, The Rumpus, and more. Their debut poetry collection, Scattered Arils, is now in its third printing from Milk and Cake Press. A fellow of Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab, […]
WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM QUILT
When: June 10, 2023, 11am – 4pm Where: AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park We cordially invite you to the “Woman Life Freedom” Quilt exhibit, hosted by Iranian Women in Network (IWIN). This event celebrates women’s empowerment through art and raises awareness about discrimination which is at the core of IWIN’s mission. […]
Manifest Differently 2023/24
CAMP is thrilled to announce the launch of Manifest Differently, a new project developed, curated, and led by artist/poet Kim Shuck and artist/writer Megan Wilson. Over the next year, Clarion Alley Mural Project, a project of Independent Arts & Media, will be working together with 38 diverse, multigenerational visual/media artists and poets to interrogate the […]