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Eugene E. White

Eugene E. White

ABOUT EUGENE E. WHITE Born in Ozan, Arkansas in 1933, White traveled the world observing and documenting the Black experience from Nigeria to France to Chicago. He arrived in the Bay Area in 1958, and opened the first Black owned art gallery in San Francisco. He...
Lucia Berlin

Lucia Berlin

Lucia Berlin - Pen Pals Lucia Berlin - Mama Lucia Berlin - UnmanageableLucia Berlin - My JockeyLucia Berlin - Angels Laundromat ABOUT LUCIA BERLIN Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the...
The Rifleman’s Violin

The Rifleman’s Violin

ABOUT THE RIFLEMAN’S VIOLIN In July 1945, 19-year-old rifleman Stuart Canin found himself on the veranda of President Harry S. Truman’s temporary “little White House” in Potsdam, Germany. The president asked Canin to play the violin in order to break the ice of...
Hidden in Plain Sight! T-Shirts and the Curation of Identity

Hidden in Plain Sight! T-Shirts and the Curation of Identity

ABOUT Hidden in Plain Sight! T-Shirts & the Curation of Identity 15,000+ visitors engaged with our multimedia installation July 23 – November 1, 2015, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. That exhibition is coming soon to the East Bay JCC in Berkeley....