Today, we want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who brings art and creativity to life at YBCA. We are grateful for the incredible visitors, teachers, staff, artists, and volunteers who make YBCA a place where art and connection thrive. Tag the person you want to give thanks to this year!
Photos by @envyyouth, Tommy Lau, and Senior Manager of Educational Programs Rea Lynn de Guzman.
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🎄🐰🩰 Get ready to experience the holiday magic at YBCA!
From heartwarming traditions to festive family fun, our stages will make your spirits bright. Tag the +1 you want to bring with you (and visit the link in our bio to get tickets)!
Thank you to our incredible community partners, @ODCSF, @sfprideband, and @smuinballet, for filling our spaces with seasonal joy.
A Revolution on Canvas trailer
Mark your calendars for Sunday, October 6 to join us at YBCA for the opening of “Nicky Nodjoumi & Nahid Hagigat!” Our galleries will be open from 11am to 5pm, with programming throughout the day:
📽️ 12 pm: Screening of the documentary “A Revolution on Canvas,” followed by a special Q&A with the filmmakers Sara Nodjoumi and Till Schauder.
🖼️ 2:30 pm: Meet the curator and artists in the galleries.
🎶 4:00 pm: Enjoy a musical performance from LuNika.
Come immerse yourself in this story of a family of artists and their unwavering commitment to creative expression. → https://bit.ly/4envV7n
#YBCA #ARevolutionOnCanvas #NahidHagigat #NickyNodjoumi #ContemporaryArt #Documentary #FilmsAboutArt #ArtInSF #OnlyInSF
Nick Dong: 11 to 88
✨ Step into a world of wonder with “Nick Dong: 11 to 88” ✨
Visitors are captivated by Nick Dong’s installations where light, mirrors, and sound come together to create an unforgettable experience.
Haven’t seen the exhibition everyone’s talking about? We encourage you to buy tickets ahead of time to make sure you don’t miss out on “Dharma Wheel of Ego & Egoless.” → https://bit.ly/4biFSl0
Video by Corey Marsau
Music composed by Stephen Carter-Hicks
Nick Dong: 11 to 88
This summer, spark your sense of wonder with Nick Dong’s immersive installations, mesmerizing objects, and more. Starting Thursday, June 6, we invite you to begin a journey of introspection and transformation. → https://bit.ly/4biFSl0
Video footage by Alvaro Parra, Crystal Wong, and Henry CK.
Music composed by Stephen Carter-Hicks.
#NickDong #11to88 #YBCA
Bay Area Now 9 | Jeffrey Cheung
Artist and co-founder of Unity Press, Unity Skateboarding, and THERE skateboards Jeffrey Cheung depicts joyous, queer bodies entangled in embrace to celebrate love and human connection. Watch this video to learn more about his playful and humorous paintings that were on display in “Bay Area Now 9” — or view his public art on display on the exterior of YBCA's building, which is dedicated to all queer and trans Palestinians.
Video produced by Corey Marsau
Bay Area Now 9 | Paz G
Paz G’s mural, sculpture, and sound piece ensemble collectively called “You Have a Broken Heart” is rooted in a journey to reconcile their personal narrative, marked as it is by the impact of the Chilean military dictatorship, which lasted from 1973 to 1990, and their father’s early militarization under the rule of Augusto Pinochet.
On February 15, 2024, Paz and 8 other artists featured in “Bay Area Now 9” altered or covered their exhibited work as part of a demonstration in support of Palestine. Watch to see how their installation prompts viewers to contemplate their personal connection to love, family, resilience, and forgiveness—and the universal resonance of personal creative expression.
Video produced by Corey Marsau
Bay Area Now 9 | Jillian Crochet
Jillian Crochet’s work explores disability, the medical industrial complex, comfort, pleasure, care, and access. Her own labor of self-advocacy in a world intentionally designed for certain bodies over others led her to a performance practice in which she peels back the layers of oppression disabled individuals face in their daily lives.
Watch our latest video to see how her work on view in “Bay Area Now 9” provides a space for relaxation and respite inspired by moss-covered rocks and ground. Blurring the space between private and public, indoor and outdoor, it offers a soft place for the disabled community to rest and find pleasure, opposing the normative gallery experience in which seating or lounging can be unyielding or scarce.
Video produced by Corey Marsau
Bay Area Now 9 | Leila Weefur
Leila Weefur’s “The Chapel of Becoming” is a video installation and transcendental space dedicated to and in celebration of the Transgender community. It resists spiritual practices centered on cis-gendered and able-bodied exceptionalism.
In this new video, Weefur shares how emblems and phrases rooted in queer and Trans literature serve as an invitation to enter “The Chapel of Becoming.” The work is also a reminder to the Trans community that becoming signifies endless possibilities in defining gender.
On February 15th, Weefur modified their artwork as “part of a collectively-organized public intervention protesting YBCA’s institutional silence on the genocide of Palestinians and its censorship of pro-Palestinian content. This action was in alignment with ‘The Chapel of Becoming’s’ invitation to resist, re-envision and create alternative futures for spaces that have historically rejected and excluded the voices and presence of marginalized people.”
Video produced by Corey Marsau
This public artwork is supported by the Office of Mayor London N. Breed and the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
Bay Area Now 9 | Lenore Chinn
Native San Franciscan and painter, photographer, and cultural activist Lenore Chinn chronicles a rapidly changing sociopolitical landscape. Watch to learn more about how she’s honored 1960s activists, artists, and culture makers and some of the historic moments she’s captured, from a 1969 peace march where a very young Buffy Saint-Marie appeared on stage to Saint-Marie’s performance fifty years later at Herbst Theatre.
Video produced by Corey Marsau
Bay Area Now 9 | Shirin Towfiq
“Bay Area Now 9” artist Shirin Towfiq explores the complexities of belonging and placemaking through archival research and intergenerational communication with a diasporic lens. On view both in our galleries and Grand Lobby, her work features Persian rugs printed on gauze fabric that ripple and turn gently like ethereal spirits.
In this new video, she tells the story behind her installations “Revolution” and “Thinking about Migration” and how they provide us with the space to reflect on freedom, transformation, and our own migrations.
Video produced by Corey Marsau
“Revolution” is a public artwork supported by the Office of Mayor London N. Breed and the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
Bay Area Now 9 | Janet Delaney
Janet Delaney’s diptychs on view in “Bay Area Now 9” span decades, capturing the dynamics of time, urban development, and societal evolution. Placed throughout the exhibition, her diptychs juxtapose images from two distinct eras of South of Market: bridging the gap between past and present, encouraging viewers to reflect on the neighborhood’s transformation.
Watch Delaney’s story to see how her work invites questions regarding the passage of time and the built environment, while highlighting the enduring spirit of a community facing ongoing shifts.
Video produced by Corey Marsau
