New Roots, Deep Shoots 2

Deep Roots, New Shoots II: Opening Reception and Artist Salon
January 21, 2012 12-2 PM--Artist Salon, 2-4 PM--Opening Reception

Location: NJAHS Peace Gallery 1684 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94115

Artists Salon from 12 - 2 PM. This will be an informal presentation by participating artists of the DEEP ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS II Exhibit. The artists will discuss their artwork, personal histories, and ideas about art and community art in general.

Invited participating J-town Arts artists from DEEP ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS will be Richard Tokeshi, Leon Sun, Leland Wong, Sabrena Taylor, Holly Calica, Peter Yamamoto, Betty Kano, Christine Balza, Stuart Sugawara, Nancy Hom, and Fredrick Cloyd.



J-town Arts will have an Opening Reception from 2-4 PM. Please come to eat and drink and meet the artists of DEEP ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS II. Please bring your favorite dish to share!

first program of Part II of DEEP ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS on Saturday, January 14

Dear Folks,

I know that we already decided on having the first program of Part II of DEEP ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS on Saturday, January 14. We were going to have an Artist's Salon followed by the Opening Reception.

NJAHS is going to replace all the flourescent bulbs in the building on that day. So we can't have our event then. It has been cleared with NJAHS for us to have it on the following Saturday, January 21. So I move that we accept their offer and have it on January 21. We can have the space from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. We can have the Artist's Salon from 12:00 noon til 2:00, then from 2:00-4:00 we can have the Opening Reception. I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THIS OFFER!!!! Please respond to this email with your "aye" votes!!!! (Ha-ha).

Our tentative schedule for programming for Part II of DEEP ROOTS NEW SHOOTS looks like the following:

Saturday, January 21--Noon-2:00, Artist's Salon; 2:00-4:00 Opening Reception

Saturday, February 4--2:00-4:00, either Fredrick Cloyd's Dream of the Waterchildren, a Multi-media Project, OR
Holly Calica's Women's Workshop.
Saturday, March 3--2:00-4:00, either Fredrick's Workshop or Holly's Workshop

Saturday, April 7--2:00-4:00, Book launch for Leon Sun and Pete Yamamoto. Maybe also Holly Calica.

With the change from January 14 to January 21, maybe now Sabrena can attend.

I will communicate separately with Fredrick and Holly about their programming.

Strength and Happiness,
Pete Yamamoto

At the old JAM...1982

Leland was a rat leaving the sinking ship in the beginning.

"Leland was a rat leaving the sinking ship in the beginning." -- Pete

Deep Roots, New Shoots

Sorry we haven't told you of this earlier, but we have an exhibit going on at NJAHS gallery. Here's some info on it:

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Exhibit: Deep Roots, New Shoots
40 years of Asian American art by veteran and emerging artists - On view August 24 - December 30, 2011.
Exhibit: Deep Roots, New Shoots

Location: In the NJAHS Peace Gallery at 1684 Post St., San Francisco.

This exhibit is curated by J-town Arts and presented by NJAHS. This project includes an art exhibit and public programs that cover up to 40 years of work by artists rooted in the Asian American communities of the Bay Area "Deep Roots, New Shoots” will also host artist salons, art workshops, individual artist retrospectives, visual, literary and performing arts collaborations and panel discussions on issues affecting the Japanese American community. “Deep Roots” acknowledges their past and reviews their development over the years, while “New Shoots” showcases their current work alongside the work of a new generation of artists from the community.

Featured artists include Christine Balza, Holly Calica, Frederick Cloyd, Aimee Espiritu, Nancy Hom, Judith Kajiwara, Betty Kano, Stephanie Lowe, Van Nguyen Stone, Stuart Sugawara, Leon Sun, Sabrena Taylor, Rich Tokeshi, Tai Chan Tokeshi, Leland Wong, Peter Yamamoto, and Hideo "Chester" Yoshida. For more info call 415-921-5007.

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About J-town Arts(JtA)

Seeing art and literature as a reflection of the true experiences and feelings of the common people, the JtA strives to make art accessible, relevant and inspiring, contributing to the grassroots empowerment of Asian Pacific American communities in a multicultural U.S. JtA hopes to contribute to and help sustain an informed and unified voice and vision for the Bay Area Asian American communities by providing a blank canvas for artists of the Asian American experience to express their diversity and creativity.

Programs and Activities: The JtA works with community groups and projects to promote a strong, vibrant community. This is done through collaborating on art exhibits, classes, educational panels and artist salons, among other activities. Activities such as JtA’s quarterly coffee house salons, and its monthly silkscreen, “MEN ArT WORK,” (hated by Pete) and “Women Making Art” workshops take place at community venues such as the galleries at NJAHS and JCCCNC Gallery and the Japantown Peace Plaza. JtA has actively participated in community festivals for four decades, creating artwork for local festivals such as Oshogatsu Festival, Nihonmachi Street Fair and Cherry Blossom Festival.

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Goodbye JTA Space!

Today's our last day at our JTA space.

We're having a pot luck and hang out party like from 1pm and on. Please come and celebrate with us...kiss the space goodbye! Who knows what will become of us from here on. We got this exhibit coming up next month to the end of the year at NJAHS. Can we survive as a virtual group without a real physical space? We shall see!

Moving on....

Hey supporters of JtA Workshop,
 
News of our demise is greatly exaggerated. Yes, we lost our space in the Nihonmachi Little Friends Building. But we're still around. Here are some events that we're involved in, and ways you can participate:
 
1. This coming Sunday (July 31): Our last "official" day in the NLF Building space. We're planning a final celebration to say good bye to a good space. We might find another workshop space at some point, but if not, the time that we were in that space was a good period of time. Come by and help us celebrate our closing! Potluck... Anytime during the day until around 5...
 
2. Nihonmachi Street Fair - Coming up on Aug. 13 & 14. The Street Fair Committee (headed by our own Grace Horikiri ;o) needs help in staffing the Nihonmachi Street Fair Photo Exhibit, to be set up in the Union Bank Hospitality Room (as it was last year). Let me know if you can help on Sat. morning from 9 am until 1 pm, Sat. afternoon from 1 pm until 5 pm, or on Sun., 9 am until 1 pm, or 1 pm until 5 pm. We would very much appreciate your help! Grace says if we don't get enough staffing help, we may not have this exhibit.
 
3."Deep Roots, New Shoots" art exhibit will open at the National Japanese American Historical Society, 1684 Post St., on August 24th. This exhibit will feature JtA artists, as well as other Asian American artist, both established and up-and-coming. Opening Reception will be on August 27th, from 2 pm to 6 pm, with an artist salon at 4 pm. Please come and check out what we have been doing, in the past, and currently...
 
 
-Rich