Please join us Saturday June 4 for a fantastic day of programs celebrating artists circles & salons, in conjunction with the exhibition "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde."
+ 26 poets give all-day reading of Gertrude Stein's THE MAKING OF AMERICANS
+ 21 artists and writers give personal recollections of Bay Area 'avant-garde'...
[read more] Please join us Saturday June 4 for a fantastic day of programs celebrating artists circles & salons, in conjunction with the exhibition "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde."
+ 26 poets give all-day reading of Gertrude Stein's THE MAKING OF AMERICANS
+ 21 artists and writers give personal recollections of Bay Area 'avant-garde' histories
+ Panel on queer culture and artists circles
+ A LIVING ROOM, installed in the free public spaces on the museum's first floor, for your lounging, listening, and talking pleasure. Design by SUPERNATURAL SF. Soundscape by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Special issue of TRY! magazine, edited by David Brazil & Sara Larsen. Conversations hosted by Margaret Tedesco.
All programs FREE!
COME!
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American expatriates in Paris when the twentieth century was young, the Steins—writer Gertrude, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah—were responsible in many ways for the turn-of-the-century revolution in the visual arts, through their adventurous patronage, deep ties to leading minds of the era, and legendary Paris salon gatherings.
Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans
Haas Atrium
11:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Co-organized with Samantha Giles and Small Press Traffic
Twenty-six Bay Area poets perform an all-day marathon reading of selections from Gertrude Stein’s epic novel, The Making of Americans. Composed during the years of those legendary salons, this “history of a family’s progress” represents the beginning of Stein’s distinctive modernist style.
• 11:30 a.m. Miranda Mellis
• 11:45 a.m. Kit Robinson
• Noon Kevin Killian
• 12:15 p.m. Stacy Doris
• 12:30 p.m. Lauren Shufran
• 12:45 p.m. Colter Jacobsen
• 1 p.m. Patricia Dienstfrey
• 1:15 p.m. Bill Berkson
• 1:30 p.m. Erika Staiti
• 1:45 p.m. Jen Benka
• 2 p.m. Carol Mirakove
• 2:15 p.m. Dan Thomas-Glass
• 2:30 p.m. Carrie Hunter
• 2:45 p.m. David Brazil
• 3 p.m. Camille Roy
• 3:15 p.m. Taylor Brady
• 3:30 p.m. Lara Durback
• 3:45 p.m. Rob Halpern
• 4 p.m. Jean Day
• 4:15 p.m. Jocelyn Saidenberg
• 4:30 p.m. Cedar Sigo
• 4:45 p.m. Laura Moriarty
• 5 p.m. Stephen Ratcliffe
• 5:15 p.m. Yedda Morrison
• 5:30 p.m. Ron Palmer
• 5:45 p.m. Lyn Hejinian
LIVING ROOM
11:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Co-organized with Margaret Tedesco, artist, publisher, and curator, [ 2nd floor projects ]
The Stein family's Saturday salons in their Paris apartments were the crucible of the avant-garde art and writing of the period. In keeping with the spirit of those informal gatherings, our guests—artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, and others—hosted by Tedesco, will delight us with personal recollections of Bay Area avant-garde histories. Please join us throughout the afternoon to listen, relax, or talk with friends in our specially designed Living Room.
Conversation One: Noon–1:30 p.m.
+ Lucinda Barnes, chief curator and director of programs and collections, Berkeley Art Museum
+ Nate Boyce, visual artist
+ George Chen, musician, writer, stand-up comedian
+ Ishan Clemenco, visual artist
+ Pablo Guardiola, visual artist
+ Susan Miller, curator and writer
+ Raelle Myrick-Hodges, artistic director, Brava Theater Center
Conversation Two: 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
+ D-L Alvarez, visual artist
+ Dore Bowen, curator, writer & associate professor of contemporary art history, SJSU
+ Brynda Glazier, visual artist
+ Joanne Kyger, poet
+ Steve Seid, curator, Pacific Film Archive
+ Steven Wolf, director, Steven Wolf Fine Arts
+ Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, visual artist and musician
Conversation Three: 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
+ Lindsey Boldt, poet, publisher, performer
+ Terry Castle, professor of English, Stanford University
+ Joshua Kit Clayton, artist, musician, and computer programmer
+ Joe Goode, choreographer, founder/ director Joe Goode Performance Group
+ Marion Gray, archivist & photographer
+ Barry Jenkins, filmmaker
+ Richard O. Moore, poet, filmmaker, and public broadcasting executive
PANEL: Queer Culture and Artists' Circles
4:30 p.m.
Tammy Rae Carland, artist
Wanda Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University, and curator, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jonathan Katz, chair, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, SUNY, Buffalo
Wayne Koestenbaum, cultural critic and distinguished professor of English, City University of New York
Tammy Rae Carland, Jonathan Katz, Wanda M. Corn, and Wayne Koestenbaum as they discuss how artistic circles form and transform visual and literary artistic practices, and the place of such circles in queer histories of modern and contemporary culture.
