Fashioning San Francisco @West
Join us for a wonderful art talk! FASHIONING SAN FRANCISCO: A Century of Style
Join us for a wonderful art talk! FASHIONING SAN FRANCISCO: A Century of Style
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, come participate in our Gond painting workshop. Gond painting is a famous folk art of the Gond community, one of India’s largest Indigenous groups. The paintings often portray the interdependence among all living things and is known for its striking use of color.
Learn from highly skilled artist and teacher, Mayashree, how to use geometric shapes and patterns to create a beautiful Gond painting.
Express your creativity on canvas with our paint-by-numbers activity. It’s a canvas with guided numbered spaces that match to a corresponding color. See the image unveil before you!
Join us for this fun and relaxing two-part activity with music, art references and a final product you get to take home.
Open to teens and adults. No experience needed. Drop-in (no registration required).
*Limited supplies provided
Cuadros Por Números
Abril 9 & 16, 4-6 PM
Join us again at the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch in the Community Meeting Room for an afternoon choir performance starring UC Berkeley's choral ensemble NICE, Dil Se (a Southeast Asian A capella group), Mahiwaga (a Filippino A Capella group) and Berkeley Chinese A Capella (Chinese A Capella group)
All ages welcomed!
Now that everyone has a smartphone, and millions of (mostly forgettable) images are posted daily, can photography still challenge, engage, delight, and unsettle us? How have visual artists used photography to participate in the postmodern redefinition of art as social engagement and cultural critique? Learn about three contemporary photographers—Vik Muniz, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Zanele Muholi—whose work involves new materials, new processes, and new subjects.
Join us on this auspicious day, the day after 'arrival of spring' in the lunar calendar. Artist Pauline Tsui will present a talk on customs of the Lunar New Year, with origins of the Dragon Dance, stories of the Zodiac animals, and a description of how people celebrate the Spring Festival today. After the talk, explore basic techniques of Chinese brush painting. You will learn to paint flowers and animals and learn to write simple characters and phrases.
Space is limited. Please call West Branch Library at (510) 981-6270 to register.
Create art that celebrates the value of being kind with the Center for ArtEsteem. We'll have all of the materials you'll need to make a mini-canvas to keep or add to a larger community piece. For ages 8 to 80. Please join us for an afternoon of inspiration, skill sharing, and fun. Call 510-981-6280 for more information.
Make art based on three newly discovered special mathematical shapes: "the turtle," "the hat," and "the spectre." No special artistic ability needed! We will be using stencils with various media such as colored pencils and watercolors to easily make fascinating and beautiful art to take home.
These new shapes were just discovered in 2023 after 50 years of searching and are already being used in the design world. Irregular shapes are also used by scientists to create very strong and resilent materials.
Tentative Schedule:
Mystery room:
2:00pm Bilingual Mandarin Storytime w/ Tianxin (Aries) Wang & Kato
2:30pm Cal Fei Tian Dancers
3:00pm Cal VSA Lion Dancers
3:30pm Leung’s White Crane Lion Dancers
4:00pm SF Guzheng Music Society
Historic lobby next to mystery room:
2-3:30pm Paper lantern and dragon crafts
4:00pm Polymer Clay Food craft w/ Eugenia Yoh
Join us every week for different projects with a Teaching Artist from MOCHA.
Our Winter/Spring 2024 series will be at:
West Community Room (1125 University Ave) - Thursdays, 3:30-5:00pm, 1/18-5/16
Central 4th Floor Children's Nonfiction Room (2090 Kittredge St) - Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm, continuing through 5/24
Kids and family welcome!
Sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library