Kala Art Institute is thrilled to announce that our public art residency & community engagement project, Print Public, has evolved and is back with new funding from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Our Town program. Kala looked for projects that will tie in print and digital media in site specific and experimental ways, and will be outside and offsite.

We are excited to be hosting two artist teams that will create temporary public art that engages the community along San Pablo Avenue in Kala’s West Berkeley neighborhood. These selected artists will receive an artist stipend and a 14-month residency at Kala with 24/7 access to our printmaking studio and digital lab.

Public sites are determined by the artists and respective businesses. Kala will assist in creating relationships with surrounding partners of the past Print Public projects, or aid in coming up with new creative endeavors.

2021-2022 Print Public – San Pablo Avenue
Emma Logan and Cristine Blanco
Related Tactics: Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, & Nathan Watson

Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson) present second iteration of Ready in Climate Changing at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Foregrounding contemporary artists’ engagement with social issues and shaping institutions, Climate Changing raises critical questions as we face the entwined crises of systemic racism and a global health pandemic. What role do art and culture play in revealing legacies of oppression and violence? How might artists help imagine a different future? How can all of us, collectively, create a real climate for change?

Beginning November 19, 2020, The future now, a sprawling, site-responsive public art project will be viewable along the 3rd Street corridor of San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. Commissioned by the Thacher Gallery, this poster series illuminates facets of Black life in the city and explores the state of national politics. The map below shows the 14 poster sites, all within walking distance and visible from the street.

Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall is the first survey exhibition of Bay Area and Washington D.C.-based art collective Related Tactics. It includes a newly commissioned public art project sited in 14 storefronts within walking distance in Bayview, San Francisco’s newly designated African American Arts and Cultural District. Nov 19, 2020-Feb14, 2021

Because of COVID-19, this exhibition is online.