HeARTist Video

Searching for a video to show my Career Development students during tomorrow's first day of class I came across John Kraft Hearts in SF Project V artist's video.

So fantastic to see this project continues as an inspiration for artists, audiences and the SF General Hospital Foundation. 

Hearts in the News

Hearts in San Francisco has made it back into the news. Here's an article from this week's San Francisco Chronicle.

The heArts beat on.

Heart Artist at Oakland Airport

The artworks of the Hearts in San Francisco project heart artists are in every corner of the Bay Area. Here is the work of Hung Liu in the Oakland airport. Her beautiful and compelling gold Heart was placed in front of the Asian Art Museum during the installation and then I believe it was senator Dianne Feinstein who purchased it at the auction.

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Meadow at di Rosa Preserve

After many weeks of planning a group of us went out to the di Rosa Preserve in Napa. This is a vineyard and meadow site housing a collection of contemporary artworks by San Francisco Bay Area artists collected by Rene di Rosa and his wife Veronica.

It is an amazing facility in the true casual-elegance that can only be Napa Valley. Farmhouses that are somehow old and modern in the same breath house absolutely fascinating pieces of art. Ranging from art cars to flying Virgin Mary's, the world's tallest filing cabinet to a house made of glass bottles, this is a feast of whimsy.

I was surprised by how many artists, from the Hearts in San Francisco project that I managed, were represented in the collection. Only now, four years after the event, do I fully appreciate the significance of the artists who were asked to participate. The project's creators were in effect commissioning art from the Bay Area's most edgy emerging and seasoned artists.

Most of the preserve pieces are out in a meadow and we were warned to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. However, I felt like being quite girly and decided to wear my one and only pair of high heals. Everyone was concerned about my ability to teeter totter on all the bits of rock and to step over the high grasses, but I am proud to say that I did not fall, twist an ankle or even clunk around like a ostrich on stilts. I looked quite good thank you.

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Photos of San Francisco

I'm having a hella time (that's ghetto speak for "hell of a") getting my blackberry photos to my blog. Here are a few. I'm sure once I figure out how to do this in real-time there will be more.

Image 1: A new Heart in San Francisco.

Image 2: New Contemporary Jewish Museum