Speaker Pelosi & Feminist History Tree Ring Event Highlights, New Art Reviews + Tix for Thursday w/Whitney Curator & Ken on Art & AI
Afternoon of Feminist Art & Action at di Rosa SF & Premiere of Updated 8 Min Film "We Are Here" Sharing Where We're Headed Next!
What an exhilarating afternoon of feminist art and action at di Rosa SF! Speaker Pelosi was incredibly inspiring and talked about the importance of art—“The arts are what are going to save us”— and how “every women’s success is every women’s success.” All the speakers were so powerful, and a big thank you to di Rosa, our sponsors, Eve’s Ark, & Women Connect4Good, our amazing partners, and the 400+ people who attended and made the magic that happens when you combine art, important conversations, and community!
My experiment with my artwork Gravitas: Participatory Pendulums doing intimate amplified conversations on a swing in front of an audience…worked! (Exhale.) The Swing State “Moving Conversations” officially happened and went great! Will definitely do more of those. I’ll be doing highlights on video soon so you can see it in motion.
Here’s more background about my creative process on making this swing artwork and what led me to turning it into a participatory experience.
New Art Reviews
When you work hard on an art exhibition, reading insightful reviews by writers who get what you set out to do and make new observations you hadn’t thought of, it feels good. Not going to pretend it doesn’t;). Ken and I loved the way Jan Wurm wrote about the art in Roborant here. (We couldn’t believe who she compared us to!) There was also a thoughtful review by Janis Hashe in EBX with some great quotes by curator Twyla Ruby. Tom Teicholz, who wrote one of our favorite reviews of the exhibition for Forbes when it was down in LA for Getty PST ART at the Skirball, has a new review of the expanded exhibition in SF at di Rosa here. Ken and I loved the Tribute to a Tree article by Ellen Newman exploring our participatory tree tributes Acknowledge where we’re asking visitors to submit information on their favorite tree. Those of you who have been to the show, be sure to send us info about your favorite tree, so we can honor it with a tribute at the museum and online. Then lastly, I did an energizing Zoom conversation with the London-based organization TreeSisters that focuses on my feminist history tree ring that you can watch here.
Get Tix for This Thursday: Art, Artifice & AI: A Conversation with Whitney Museum Curator Christiane Paul and Ken Goldberg
March 12th 6:30-8:30 pm at di Rosa SF
New media—from photography to the internet—has continually reshaped how we define art & its role in society. How are artists using AI to create new forms of visual expression today? Join Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, & Ken, a pioneer of digital art whose work is in the Whitney permanent collection, for a provocative conversation that will incorporate the AI used and referenc in our exhibition Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology.
Tickets di Rosa $15 here (sliding scale)
More Highlights from Feminist History Tree Ring on Eve of International Women’s Day Event Below
The Premiere of Our Updated Version of Film “We Are Here” Announcing where Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring Is Headed Next
Watch 8 min film below→
Upcoming Public Events at Ancient Wisdom at di Rosa SF
Thursday, March 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Art, Artifice, & AI: Ken in Conversation with Whitney Museum Curator Christiane Paul: Tickets
Thursday, March 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m Ecology Now: Krista Tippett in Conversation with Me & Ken: In partnership with The Long Now Foundation, co-hosted by Lisa Landers. Tickets
Saturday, March 28th 4:00 to 6pm Havdala Art Tour RSVP
Tuesday, March 31, 1:00-3:00 p.m. PT Online Artist Tour: For those of you out of town, join us for an online Zoom tour of Ancient Wisdom. RSVP
Sat, April 11, 6-9 p.m Closing Night Celebration & Dance Party Benefit for di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. di Rosa has the foremost collection of Northern California art and has been incredible to work with on Ancient Wisdom. Join us Saturday, April 11, 6-9 p.m for a dance party to benefit their work. We’ll have an great live band, The Hot Einsteins. Tickets $25 going to di Rosa here
We invite you to become a member to support di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in SF and Napa. please do so here. Supporting arts organizations right now is everything.
A big thank you to Piraye Yurttas Beim, PhD of Eve’s Ark in white, andMaggie O’Neill from Vote for Your Daughter, and a board member of Dr. Nancy O’Reilly’s Women Connect4Good, our two incredible supporters of the feminist history tree ring moveable monument initiative. Women make !@#$% happen.
and all of our amazing partners below:
And our speakers:
The Let it Ripple and di Rosa team, all the incredible attendees …and Drew Altizer for the great photos…
and again, big love for trailblazing Speaker Pelosi. So many of our speakers shared how much she supported them and paved the trail. To women continuing to widen the path for generations to come!
We look forward to seeing you at one our upcoming events for the exhibition.
To Art, Love & Community,
Tiffany
So inspiring to see this gathering come together. Moments like this remind me how powerful it is when art, conversation, and community share the same space. I especially love seeing feminist art reach so many people and spark dialogue across generations. Events like this show how art can carry history forward while also opening new paths for collective action. Here’s to more spaces where creativity, storytelling, and feminist energy continue to ripple outward. 🎨✨ Brava!!
Such a privilege to be part of this conversation on behalf of Red Tent Fund. Thanks for all your convening power, Tiffany!