Galeria de la Raza

Join the Caravan for the Children Campaign as they head to Washington D.C to mark 100 days of the campaign and to remind the Biden-Harris administration that promises were made for their first 100 days and we will continue to hold them accountable to #UncageReunifyHeal the children held in ICE custody. We are honored to be part of the program for the May Day Immigrant Justice March on May 1 in Washington D.C hosted by SEIU. Tune in to this virtual program through our livestream broadcast on Facebook live and Youtube on Saturday, May 1, 11:10 am EDT, 8:10 am PDT

Such an amazing event! We are beyond grateful for all the work that went into this event and the 43 day Hunger Strike!

Today we are asking you to add your voice to those who are fighting for the rights of immigrant children and their families! Show your support through Caravan for the Children campaign by signing our petition and showing the Biden-Harris administration that there is overwhelming support for the Uncaging, Reunification and Healing of the children and their families in ICE custody. Let’s hold this administration accountable before their first 100 days in office are over. We kn...ow you care about this issue as much as we do won’t you add your name today? Help us reach our goal of 10,000 signatures before this campaign heads to Washington D.C. Sign the petition at the link below: bit.ly/UncageReunifyHealPetition #UncageReunifyHeal #CaravanForTheChildren @paoladelacalle @galeriadelaraza @chicanalatinafoundation @institutofamiliarsf @carecen_sf @latinoequity

Vice President Harris is visiting her hometown, Oakland, TODAY for the first time as VP, and after recently being tasked by President Biden to stem migration and implement a plan to address the root causes of migration to the U.S/Mexico Border. Tweet VP Harris through the link below and make our Bay Area community presence known we demand that these efforts expedite and prioritize what’s best for migrant children and their families. bit.ly/TweetVPHarris... #UncageReunifyHeal #CaravanForTheChildren Paola de la Calle, Galeria de la Raza, Chicana Latina Foundation, Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Inc., Carecen SF, Latinx Racial Equity Project

Olga Talamante, Co-Chair of our campaign, Caravan for the Children, provides a response to President Biden's address to the nation. #CaravanForTheChildren #Unca...geReUnifyHeal #CaravanaPorLosNiños #LiberarReunificarSanar Sign our petition: bit.ly/UncageReunifyHealPetition Take action with our Media Toolkit: http://bit.ly/CaravanForTheChildrenToolkit @galeriadelaraza @chicanalatinafoundation @institutofamiliarsf @CarecenSanFrancisco @latinxracialequityproject @dianagamerosmusic @paoladelacalle

The Caravan has landed! Join us this Sat., May 1st. #uncagereunifyheal

Join us for a virtual conversation with noted activist and founder of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Cleve Jones as Galería de la Raza prepares to present an art intervention in Washington D.C on May 1 as part of the May Day Immigrant Justice March. We explore the importance of art activism and the impact that words, poetry, and music have in carrying a message to the masses. We will talk to interdisciplinary artist, Paola de la Calle, and musician Francisco Herrera, with a special literary performance by Mercy Tullis-Bukhari. Tune in to this virtual program through our livestream broadcast on Facebook live and Youtube on Monday, April 26 at 6PM PDT.

Vice President Harris will be visiting her hometown, Oakland, on Monday for the first time as VP, and after recently being tasked by President Biden to stem migration and implement a plan to address the root causes of migration to the U.S/Mexico Border. Tweet VP Harris through the link below and make our Bay Area community presence known we demand that these efforts expedite and prioritize what’s best for migrant children and their families. bit.ly/TweetVPHarris... #UncageReunifyHeal #CaravanForTheChildren Paola de la Calle, Galeria de la Raza, Chicana Latina Foundation Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Inc., Carecen SF, Latinx Racial Equity Project

Lunada New Moon Virtual Literary Lounge- October 16, 2020

The time is now! Voting has begun and we must mobilize our communities. Galería de la Raza & Chicana Latina Foundation have partnered to host Opportunity for All, a conversation to discuss the upcoming election and the impact of Prop 16 on our communities. We will hear from a panel of leaders committed to change in the fight for social justice. Together let us amplify our voices, needs and dreams! Let our vote echo through the government chambers and be counted. Moderator: ...Olga Talamante, Board Member & Executive Director Emeritus, Chicana Latina Foundation Speakers: Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., Public Health Leader Debra Gore-Mann, President and CEO, Greenlining Institute Vincent Pan, Co-Executive Director, Chinese for Affirmative Action Christina Fletes-Romo, Civil Rights Attorney, ACLU

Galería de la Raza Executive Director, Ani Rivera, has joined Silicon Valley Community Foundation in a conversation on approaching race equity. You can tune into this discussion here!

We have an exciting announcement!! Galería de la Raza has its very own podcast! Hosted by our very own Executive Director, Ani Rivera, and Curatorial Program Coordinator, Ivette Diaz! ... We will be announcing future episodes and guests very soon, stay tuned! Listen Here: https://soundcloud.com/galeriadelaraza/episode-0

We have an exciting announcement!! Galería de la Raza has its very own podcast! Hosted by our very own Executive Director, Ani Rivera, and Curatorial Program Coordinator, Ivette Diaz! ... We will be announcing future episodes and guests very soon, stay tuned! Listen Here: https://soundcloud.com/galeriadelaraza/episode-0

Attention San Francisco Families! Galería de la Raza is distributing funds with the support of The San Francisco Family Relief Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, and Give2SF through a partnership with Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) to our community suffering under the impact of COVID-19. We are nearing the end of distribution and are looking for an additional 14 families to receive funds. If you have not been granted funds from an organization under The San Franc...isco Foundation network, we encourage you to apply. Link: https://forms.gle/mtpzngk3wzG1Hcgt7 Illustration by N.O. Bonzo (@nobonzo) ¡Atención familias de San Francisco! Galería de la Raza está distribuyendo fondos con el apoyo de The San Francisco Family Relief Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, Give2SF, a través de una asociación con la Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de la Misión (MEDA) a nuestra comunidad que sufre bajo el impacto de COVID-19. Nos acercamos al final de la distribución de fondos y estamos buscando 14 familias adicionales para recibir fondos. Si no ha recibido fondos de una organización de la red de la Fundación de San Francisco, le animamos a llenar un formulario. Link: https://forms.gle/mtpzngk3wzG1Hcgt7 Ilustración de N.O. Bonzo (@nobonzo)

Galería de la Raza presents... The Sanctuary City Project. From its inception, The Sanctuary City Project has aimed to engage audiences in creating and spreading stories of migration deeply informed by the community’s participation and contributions in direct relation to their lived experiences. Through interactive installations, mobile print shops, and public art interventions, artists Sergio de la Torre and Chris Treggiari have collected and archived over 700 responses to q...uestions that reflect on the notion of sanctuary. Responses to these questions have been collected and turned into posters, banners and public art projects. Galería de la Raza is thrilled to partner with Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) to temporarily activate the 2205 Mission Street façade with The Sanctuary City Project. Installed on a site used by the local Mission community as a vending hub, as well as a site earmarked for future affordable housing, this public art intervention will center community dialogue around the politics of sanctuary and who gets counted in this country. As we enter a contentious election season on top of a global pandemic that has disproportionately affected Brown, Black, and Indigenous communities, and the ongoing calls for racial justice and police defunding, The Sanctuary City Project highlights the importance of public space as instrumental for mobilization and essential to our community’s mental and physical well being during abnormal times. Through this public art intervention we aim to provide a moment of respite while also joining local and national conversations that concern our communities. ARTIST BIOS As an artist and educator, Sergio De La Torre’s work often invokes collaborations with the subjects and invites both intimate and critical reflections on topics related to housing, immigration, and labor, to mention only a few. De La Torre purposely works with individuals from marginalized sectors of the cities he works in, including factory workers (Tijuana), shoeshine boys (Mexico City), undocumented immigrants (Los Angeles and San Francisco), and evicted families (Oakland). In his work De La Torre has tried to approach the lives of these individuals, not as victim-subjects, but rather has attempted to reexamine the meaning of their actions in the context of shifting global conditions. Chris Treggiari's artistic practice strives to investigate how art can enter the public realm in a way that can connect wide ranges of people and neighborhoods in a variety of communities. Chris has shown internationally including the Venice Biennale 2012 American Pavilion as well as nationally at SFMOMA, the Torrance Art Museum, the Getty Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Jose Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of California, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Affordable Housing Opportunity Rental opportunities for 1990 Folsom-Casa Adelante are now available! Don’t miss the opportunity to enter the lottery for one of 104 available affordable housing units in what will be the same building of Galería’s future home. Apply now via DAHLIA, the San Francisco Housing Portal! Application deadline is November 3, 2020 at 5PM. Find the listing to apply below. Share far and wide with our community!... https://housing.sfgov.org/listings/a0W4U00000HlhaDUAR See more

Join the conversation with Creative Justice Initiative featuring our Executive Director Ani Rivera!

Affordable Housing Opportunity Rental opportunities for 1990 Folsom-Casa Adelante are now available! Don’t miss the opportunity to enter the lottery for one of 104 available affordable housing units in what will be the same building of Galería’s future home. Apply now via DAHLIA, the San Francisco Housing Portal! Application deadline is November 3, 2020 at 5PM. Find the listing to apply below. Share far and wide with our community!... https://housing.sfgov.org/listings/a0W4U00000HlhaDUAR See more

The Creative Justice Initiative are hosting several virtual conversations over the next two months with discussions about the way artists can use their work to aid in eradicating systematic injustices that oppress Black, Afro Latin, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTQ+/Two Spirit, People with Disabilities, and economically poor White communities. Independently and collectively we must ask ourselves how are we defining our work, and more importantly, how is our work evolving at th...is moment? These conversations explore the ways in which we continue to secure a future with global and national allies. We must examine and determine how unjust laws can be changed, ensuring that we institute actual legal protections as we thrive, not just survive. We must establish the basis for just frameworks - new philanthropic models that shore up funding for our community based cultural organizations, as informed by our knowledge, our work, and shaped by our mission and voices. The CONVERSATIONS are designed to address the systemic injustices that continue to oppress and limit the possibilities of the majority of the nation’s Black, Afro Latin, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTQIA+/Two Spirit, People with Disabilities, and economically poor White communities. Our commitment and actions will continue to create the society that is promised by the Constitution of the United States built on the humanistic democracy principles of the Iroquois Nation. We will be honored and humbled by your virtual presence and participation. PLEASE REGISTER TO JOIN US VIA FACEBOOK LIVE, YOUTUBE and ZOOM! Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, President and Founder, Creative Justice Initiative https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-on-culture-race-

When you imagine our future, what do you see? Throughout the last few months, Artist in residence, Paola de la Calle has explored the Census’ importance in our communities’ futures by posing questions and asking you all to contribute your statements and declarations about the future in the Census 2020 campaign, El Futuro Es De Todos. This campaign has centered the Census, but acted as a conduit for larger conversations happening within our communities: the disproportionate im...pact of COVID-19 in Black and Latino communities, the call for justice of Black lives and defunding the police, climate change and returning occupied land to Indigenous peoples, healthcare accessibility, affordable housing. These conversations do not end here, and they will certainly continue in order for our communities to reach that future we are asking you to imagine. Your contributions have inspired the completion of this series with these final three designs. Galería de la Raza and Paola de la Calle present these to the community as a small respite to our communities that continue to fight for our future. Thank you to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for their continued support throughout this project. Fill out the Census before October 5 if you have not already!

With the deadline for the 2020 Census nearing us (October 5th!), we bring you one last look into the process of @Paola de la Calle for her Census campaign, "El Futuro Es De Todos"! Paola discusses the importance of the use of printmaking in her work and specifically to this campaign as well. She delves into the history of what printing means to public engagement and activism while citing some of her inspirations in printmaking. Watch as she installs her project on the corner ...of 18th St. and Mission St. in San Francisco. Don't forget to stop by and see it in person! You can learn more about Paola and her residency with Galería de la Raza in an interview with our project partner, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. You can find the interview here: https://ybca.org/paola-de-la-calle-imagining-a-collective-/ This work is made possible with the generous support of Kenneth Rainin Foundation Paola de la Calle Artist Residency, El Futuro Es De Todos When you imagine our future, what do you see? Paola uses this question as the starting point to examine the impact of the Census in our communities. This residency is in dialogue with the community and findings will inform a series of images that depict our collective vision of the future. This residency is in partnership with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts #elfuturoesdetodos #Census2020 #cometoyourcensus #YBCA

Last week the Galería de la Raza team installed two projects on the corner of 18th St. and Mission St. in San Francisco. Stop by 2205 Mission St. and take a look at the floor level installation created by our current artist in residence, Paola de la Calle, for the ongoing Census 2020 campaign, El Futuro Es De Todos! You will also find designs created by @sanctuarycityproject installed on the upper level for our upcoming collaboration with Sergio de la Torre and Chris Treggia...ri for Sanctuary City Project! Stay tuned this week to see footage from these installations along with some exciting new announcements to be made!! Projects made in partnership with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)!

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