- January 16, 2010 - May 07, 2011
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Allison Smith: SMITHS
At multiple locations
An ongoing project by local artist Allison Smith, SMITHS is inspired by the history of general stores as intimate spaces of public exchange. By looking to the past, Smith hopes to identify useful models for creative practice in the present, particularly in times of war and economic uncertainty. During the anniversary weekend, the fifth-floor galleries will feature two SMITHS initiatives: a vibrant, immersive light and sound installation titled Fancy Work and a series of participatory programs engaging civilians and soldiers that marks the launch of Smith's Arts & Skills Service, a project that will continue throughout the spring at SFMOMA and the War Memorial Veterans Building.
For more information about the SMITHS project at SFMOMA, visit Allison Smith's website.
Past
- Allison Smith: SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service
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An ongoing project by artist Allison Smith, SMITHS gathers makers from tinsmiths to tunesmiths to share skills and stories. During the anniversary weekend, we feature two…
Read moreSaturday, January 16, 2010
noon - 10:00 p.m.
Fifth-floor galleries
- Allison Smith: SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service
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SMITHS continues with Arts & Skills Service, an investigation of SFMOMA's World War II collaboration with the Red Cross to create a series of arts workshops for wounded…
Read moreSunday, January 17, 2010
noon - 5:45 p.m.
Fifth-floor galleries
- Allison Smith: SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service
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Arts & Skills Service continues with a look at art activities for soldiers and artists exploring military subjects and themes. Smith's project continues at the museum in…
Read moreMonday, January 18, 2010
noon - 5:45 p.m.
Fifth-floor galleries
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Homefront: Rolling Bandages, Care Packages, and other “War Efforts”
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Examining intersections of art-making and war efforts from the "trench art" practices of World War I to the Art and Skills Service program designed by SFMOMA and the Red…
Read moreThursday, February 25, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Koret Visitor Education Center
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Homefront: Rolling Bandages, Care Packages, and other “War Efforts”
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Examining intersections of art-making and war efforts from the "trench art" practices of World War I to the Art and Skills Service program designed by SFMOMA and the Red…
Read moreFriday, February 26, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Schwab Room
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Homefront: Rolling Bandages, Care Packages, and other “War Efforts”
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Examining intersections of art-making and war efforts from the "trench art" practices of World War I to the Art and Skills Service program designed by SFMOMA and the Red…
Read moreSaturday, February 27, 2010
1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
SMITHS, 356 24th Street, Oakland
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Front Lines, or Quaker Guns, Camouflage, and Queer Craft
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In a Thursday evening conversation, Bryan-Wilson and Sethi take up the relationship between artistic innovation and military technology. Musing on camouflage and the Quaker Gun, a…
Read moreThursday, March 25, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Koret Visitor Education Center
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Front Lines, or Quaker Guns, Camouflage, and Queer Craft
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In a Thursday evening conversation, Bryan-Wilson and Sethi take up the relationship between artistic innovation and military technology. Musing on camouflage and the Quaker Gun, a…
Read moreFriday, March 26, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Schwab Room
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Front Lines, or Quaker Guns, Camouflage, and Queer Craft
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In a Thursday evening conversation, Bryan-Wilson and Sethi take up the relationship between artistic innovation and military technology. Musing on camouflage and the Quaker Gun, a…
Read moreSaturday, March 27, 2010
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SMITHS, 356 24th Street, Oakland
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Ammunition and Ornament
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Highlighting the historical relationship of art-making and the war effort both at home and on the battlefield, this iteration of Arts & Skills Service considers trench art of…
Read moreThursday, April 29, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Koret Visitor Education Center
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Ammunition and Ornament
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Allison Smith's Arts & Skills Service has examined the relationship of art-making and war efforts both at home and on the battlefield, from knitting and bandage rolling to…
Read more11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The Schwab Room
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Koret Visitor Education Center
- SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Ammunition and Ornament
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With Jane Kimball's Thursday night lecture on trench art in mind, we turn to arts and objects made by soldiers. Allison Smith hands over her own trench art collection for…
Read moreSaturday, May 01, 2010
4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
SMITHS, 356 24th Street, Oakland
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Smiths: Arts & Skills Service
Remarks by Allison Smith and Suellen Semekoski at noon and 6:00 p.m.
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"Here in San Francisco over fifteen hundred men a month are being sent out from our three military hospitals with a new weapon in their hands: a skill or craft with which to…
Read moreSaturday, May 29, 2010
noon - 7:00 p.m.
War Memorial Veterans Building, Room 207
401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street
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SHOUT! Celebrating Women Veterans Through the Arts
My Mom's a Soldier, Sandra Keats, 2009, 27 min., video
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With Arts & Skills Service, Bay Area artist Allison Smith organizes workshops and gatherings examining the intersection of craft and the war effort, reviving a World War II-era…
Read moreThursday, May 05, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
- Allison Smith: Arts & Skills Service
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With Arts & Skills Service, Bay Area artist Allison Smith organizes workshops and gatherings examining the intersection of craft and the war effort, reviving a World War II-era…
Read moreSaturday, May 07, 2011
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Image: Allison Smith, SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service, 2010. Photo: Charles Villyard
