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 Find out what others are saying about Root Division. SFoodie / SF Weekly Taste 2010 Preview This year, Root Division's TASTE! exhibition - an event that historically hinges on food-centric themes - will take it's inspiration from Hieronymous Bosch's painting... [read more] Golden Gate X-Press SFSU Sick Multiplying like bacteria, the crowd attending the exhibit opening of "SICK" did nothing other than grow bigger and bigger and bigger Saturday evening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.... [read more] Mission Local Taste 2009 As Scott Weaver, a Santa Rose artist, held his wife’s hand and they left the church as a newly wedded couple in 1989, his friends threw toothpicks in lieu of rice.... [read more] 7x7 Taste 2009 Deciphering our food and its origins has been quite the rage, but it doesn't stop with books like Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and movies like Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me. Root Division presents Taste 2009, an exhibition of artwork exploring what we eat, the way we eat and where our food comes from. You won't want to miss this.... [read more] Tablehopper Taste 2009 Root Division is hosting ~TASTE 2009~, an evening celebrating the beauty of art and food in San Francisco. TASTE 2009 will feature local chefs and over 15 visual artists for a night of food, drink, music, and art. Proceeds benefit local emerging artists, as well as Root Division’s free after-school art classes for Bay Area youth.... [read more] Flavorpill Taste 2009 Bringing together visual artists and gourmet chefs, Taste 2009 features delectables from restaurants like Andalu and Beretta, paired with infusions from EOS Wine Bar and the swanky Bourbon & Branch. Skilled coffee baristas demonstrate latte art.... [read more] KGO News Talk 810 Taste 2009 Root Division hosts TASTE 2009, a unique and sumptuous evening celebrating the beauty of art & food in San Francisco. TASTE 2009 will feature 8-10 acclaimed local chefs, 16 visual artists, and live tunes.... [read more] Times-Herald Taste 2009 Root Division hosts TASTE 2009, a unique and sumptuous evening celebrating the beauty of art & food in San Francisco. TASTE 2009 will feature 8-10 acclaimed local chefs, 16 visual artists, and live tunes.... [read more] Happenstand Taste 2009 Indulge your senses and engage your mind by joining us for this savory & scrumptious event! Proceeds benefit local emerging artists, as well as Root Division’s free after school art classes for Bay Area youth.... [read more] Daily Candy The Weekend Guide After screening 180-second masterpieces by both pros and amateurs, party in style with cocktails, street food, and music... [read more] FunCheapSF.com 7th Annual Three-Minute Film Festival (Mission Dist.) What happens when both professional and first time filmmakers pledge to spend 30 days creating 3-minute cinematic masterpieces? Find out at the 7th Annual Three-Minute Film Festival Black Tie Gala and Film Screening... [read more] San Francisco Bay Guardian "Leave the Capital" A multiartist endeavor, ranging from overt to oblique, addressing the economy and matters of rough trade by: Johnny Ray Huston What is it with Bay Area group art shows named after album and song titles by the Fall?... [read more] SF Gate 'Leave the Capital' Show at Root Division As California faces off with Sacramento lawmakers amid cutback catastrophe, the time couldn't be better to stage a group show like "Leave the Capital," an exploration of alternatives to the centers of established power and privilege... [read more] SF Examiner Works you can sink your teeth into Considering how much culinary and artistic talent there is in San Francisco, its no surprise that the two often coalesce. In Taste 2009, art and food intentionally pair up in an exhibit celebrating culinary-inspired artwork that explores what we eat, the way we eat and where our food comes from... [read more] ArtBusiness.com Root Division: Taste 2009 Preview This preview for the Taste 2009 fundraiser event has a wide variety of interesting food themed artworks. A live band plays and a large crowd fills the gallery... [read more] Daily Feed BUNRAB on Taste 2009 There was some serious tasting going on in the city this evening starting out with the Share our Strengths Taste of the Nation event... [read more] VidSF Root Division Hosts a Taste of Local Art, Food and Music Ian Ernzer attends Root Division's spring fundraiser for various programs, including afterschool art for youth.... [watch video] The Parallax View The Museum of Broken Relationships Every now and again the interweb delivers news of something that is simultaneously sublime and absurd. The Museum of Broken Relationships fits this perfectly. ... [read more] Tourism Review BYE BYE LOVE! THE MUSEUM OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS CONQUERS THE WORLD There is no easy way to cope with a break-up. Most of the heartbroken rid themselves of anything mildly related to their exs. This is exactly when the Museum of Broken relationships comes in... [read more] double takes Museum of Broken Relationships The Museum of Broken Relationships is a traveling art installation that asks locals of the exhibit's current city to donate items from their failed relationships. [read more] CatSynth The Museum of Broken Relationships On Saturday (the 14th), a friend and I visited the Museum of Broken Relationships, which is currently at Root Division here in San Francisco. The museum was founded in Zagreb, Croatia in 2006, dedicated to broken hearts... [read more] Lola Y Maria The Museum of Broken Relationships coming to San Francisco, CA A travelling exhibition devoted to the theme of failed relationships. Originating in Croatia, the show has visited Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia and has amassed more than 300 exhibits.... [read more] Mission Mission Celebrate Valentines Day with the Museum of Broken Relationships Some couple was in love, so they moved in together, and then one of them fell for someone else, so the broken-hearted one went out and bought an axe, and chopped up all the other ones stuff... [read more] Sanfrancisco IAM Saturday, 14 February, 2009 - Museum of Broken Relationships What are you doing on Valentines Day?This is your chance to be a part of a museum dedicated to broken hearts! The Museum of Broken Relationships is on a world tour, displaying anonymously donated objects collected in cities all over the world. Between Singapore and Stockholm is San Francisco's moment in the spotlight... [read more] SFist SFist Tonight: XO Edition Museum of Broken Relationships Popular Croatian art exhibit featuring love-stained artifacts from anonymous folks who failed at love. The exhibit showcases objects of heartbreak such as teddy bears and photos, but also bizarre examples like leg prosthesis and a gall stone... [read more] CultureNet Museum of Broken Relationships in Singapore and San Francisco Museum of Broken Relationships is on view as a part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival from 7th January. The project intends with its layout to create a space of 'secure memory' or 'protected remembrance' in order to preserve the material and nonmaterial heritage of broken relationships... [read more] TravelLight Museum of Broken Relationships to visit San Francisco Originally set up as an exhibit in Croatia, founders Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic have taken their Museum of Broken Relationships on an international tour. The museum is filled with artifacts from failed relationships... [read more] Missionlocal SLIDESHOW: Museum of Broken Relationships The Museum of Broken Relationships, a traveling exhibit opening on Feb.14 at Root Division Gallery, is like reading a Dear John letter you werent supposed to see. You just cant look away... [read more] San Francisco Bay Guardian Museum of Broken Relationships Underpants? An ex-axe? Fuzzy pink handcuffs from Zagreb, Croatia? While some of the artifacts on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships have us tearily dabbing our eyes with a lacy handkerchief, others aren't so lovey-dovey, ooey-gooey, or even easily understandable... [read more] FlashNews Broken Relationships Leave Trail Of Strange Stuff A tough break-up not only leaves behind heartache, it leaves behind really weird mementos. The Museum of Broken Relationships is a traveling exhibit that features the strange objects people leave behind after splitting up. ... [read more] Thrillist Museum of Broken Relationships Following a gut-wrenching breakup, there's only two prudent courses of action -- flambe photos, love notes, and every single one of those Lifehouse ticket stubs, or pretend you're still dating and keep showing up at her house with a boombox, playing Lifehouse. Or, use your pain to create art, at The Museum of Broken Relationships... [read more] NBC Bay Area Museum of Broken Relationships News video clip featuring coverage about Museum of Broken Relationships exhibition [view video] SF Gate Last Chance: Retractions Less is more, as the cliche would have it. Maybe not, but this collection of works by 30 artists, grouped around the common theme of "vacated information" suggests that it might be more interesting... [read more] KQED Art Review: Retractions What does an absence look like? It looks like what's left behind: a person leaning toward the ground because a shoulder has been withdrawn. How does one visually represent loss? It is the space around the missing, the still-present elements that highlight what has gone... [read more] SF Bay Guardian Get class-y: CAREERS & ED: A selection of courses for kids-at-heart Want to take your career in a new direction? Increase the skills you already have? Use your unemployment check for something fun and educational? We've chosen just a handful of interesting classes to occupy your time and, perhaps, to serve as a more cost-effective (and beneficial) alternative to the massively expensive dinner-and-bar outing... [read more] Tonic News Non-Profit of the Week: Root Division If theres anything I can get excited about in a hurry, its an organization that helps get art back into the schools. So I was thrilled when my friend Johanna tipped me off about this weeks featured non-profit, Root Division... [read more] SF Bay Guardian Our Weekly Picks: "Insider/Outsider" "Insider/Outsider" might be one of this year's best group shows. Its 16 artists range from veterans to new voices: David Yun's 2007 video A Taste of Home is one of a few works in which he takes on the whiteness of suburban Detroit... [read more] Flavorpill Art: Insider/Outsider Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San Francisco apartment building... [read more] KQED Art Review: Insider/Outsider My friend can't figure out where he belongs -- there or here. He grew up on the East Coast, but now lives on the west one. Sometimes he asks me, "Which is home?" Sometimes he sounds desperate, scared that if he doesn't belong in one place he must not belong anywhere... [read more] ARTslant Looking Inside: Insider/Outsider The Insider/Outsider exhibition is an art experience reflecting how the desire to assimilate manifests itself through the art-making process. All of the artists in the exhibition are first or second-generation immigrants and use adroit creative processes to understand themselves in relation to their new culture... [read more] Insider/Outsider Insider/Outsider Event Images View a gallery of images from the event! [view images] Flavorpill MORE FLAVOR: ExhibitionUnder 100: Exhibition, Sale, and Screen-Print Event From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every kind of art out there, and the wealth of choices can be intimidating for young prospective buyers... [read more] Sound Device NBC11 Sound Device Interview on NBC11 Anne Yalon, one of the curators of Sound Device, talks about a few of the pieces in the show with Bob Rendell of NBC11. [view video] SF Weekly - SF Foodie Last Night: Taste 2008 at Root Division Notes by Janine Kahn Friday, April 18, 2008 Last night, flanked by fancy food and fancier people, I ate dirt. OK, maybe drank is the more accurate term, since the nice ladies behind the counter inside the Mission's Root Division studios did swirl it around in a wine glass with some water before handing it over, instructing me to inhale the earthy aroma [read more] SF Weekly Slide Show Taste 2008 at Root Division [view slide show] Art Business Taste 2008 [view article] Flavorpill Taste 2008 Society's relationship with food is fraught with controversy and emotion what we eat can just as easily be an aphrodisiac as an arch-enemy [read more] Tablehopper the socialite: Taste 2008 [view article (scroll down to "the socialite")] SF Weekly Taste 2008 Exhibition By Michael Leaverton In 2002, Sarah Klein set up an oven in the lobby of San Joses Fairmont Plaza Office Tower and got people to make bread. She also makes homemade books about bread and videos about bread and she organizes the Brick Oven Bread Bakers Conference [read more] Libby's Niche Root Division: Taste 2008 Exhibition Event Photos by Libby Nicholaou April 13, 2008 [view photos] NBC11 Blackout [view video] KTVU GLOWING: Gallery Shows Off Self Lighting Art Root Division Art Gallery in the Mission District is showing off their new installation, 'Blackout'. The only light in the gallery is that of the art itself. [view video] [view slideshow] SF Weekly You Bright, Risen Angels by Michael Leaverton February 9, 2008 Tonight, the art in the exhibit "Blackout" will be doing double duty: first, it will illuminate your thinking, inspire your senses, all that bullshit. Second, it will illuminate, period. [read more] SFGate.com 'Blackout': Root Division show lit by the art by Reyhan Harmanci February 7, 2008 Root Division's show "Blackout" takes its title literally: The gallery will be lit solely by the assembled art pieces. [read more] Flavorpill Blackout by Tanya Feldman Anyone who's gone camping or spelunking knows that our senses become heightened in pitch-black darkness. [read more] SF Bay Guardian Weekly Picks (October 17th issue) VISUAL ART/BENEFIT Root Division Art Auction November 19, 2007 In San Francisco the notion of community is abused about as often as a coked-out starlet is abused by the stalkerazzi (and vice versa) in Los Angeles. One place that deserves to use the word, though, is Root Division, a Mission site that has joined the good fight with other neighborhood groups such as the Lab, Southern Exposure, and Intersection for the Arts in terms of sparking Bay Area artistry. [read more] Flavorpill The Gun Show by Gerry Mak November 6, 2007 The artists in this Root Division group show approach the literal, metaphorical, political, and sexual implications of the firearm. [read more] Shotgun Review Alienated Mass Historia at Root Division by Lian Ladia August 4, 2007 Arvin Flores seems to present a punk-core, nouvelle vogue, while Quintana's work is very nostalgic, almost anthropological... [read more] ArtBusiness.com SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES–OPENINGS July 14, 2007 Home - An Exhibitioin on the Aesthetics & Politics of Home [view piece, scroll to bottom] SFGate.com Home July 8, 2007 There are many depictions of living spaces in this 30-artist exhibition curated by Liena Vayzman. [read more] SFGate.com Art Adventures: Street Styles June 8, 2007 DAVe Warnke is doing a really great thing. He's providing a place where young graffiti writers can practice their art and develop their skills as artists, and they can do it in a safe and legal way. [read more and watch video] YumSugar PartySugar Behind The Bash: Taste 2007 April 27, 2007 Last Thursday night I was invited to a hip local arts event that expertly mixed art, auction and food. Hosted by Root Division—an organization that promotes creative expression and boosts the community by providing studio space to working artists in exchange for their services as art teachers—Taste 2007 was a fundraiser, exhibition, and tasting all rolled into one event. Tastes, bite sized tapas from eight acclaimed young San Francisco chefs, featured delicious, innovative nibbles along side the artwork. [read more]  A Tasty Taste 2007 April 24, 2007 By Sarah Sung I can't say "no" to food, cocktails, art and music, even on a drizzly, chilly Thursday night; so last week I joined crowds of art-and-food lovers at Taste 2007, a fundraising event at Root Division. With eight popular local chefs preparing an array of savory treats, local artists displaying their work and a jazz band playing, my senses were abuzz from the moment I walked in. [read more] ArtBusiness.com SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES–OPENINGS April 19, 2007 Taste 2007 [view piece, scroll to bottom] ArtBusiness.com SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES–OPENINGS April 14, 2007 Art for the senses includes a do-it-yourself-earthquake JELL-O-Francisco diorama by Liz Hickock amusingly reminding us that catastrophe is right around the corner, a white fur subwoofer ass-oscillator of a bench by Ryan Hackett, and more. [view piece, scroll down to Root Division] SF Bay Guardian Crime-free Creativity After-school Program Teaches the Art of Graffiti April 11, 2007 By Chris Jasmin A couple dozen of San Francisco's best young graffiti artists, many dressed in black hooded sweatshirts and baseball hats, huddle around long tables littered with markers, blank books, pens, and stickers. The artists crowded around the white paperdraped tables do a little talking and joking, but mainly they're drawing and writing, some at a fever pitch. Bright colors and stylish lettering abound. There is a sense of concentrated creativity in this large studio space something rare in classrooms these days. But this not your run-of-the-mill art class. This is Streetstyles, a free course that focuses on the misunderstood medium of graffiti and street art. Its aim is multifaceted, concentrating on the production and repercussions of urban art. The class attempts, as instructor Dave Warnke explains, "to separate the art from the act. [read more] Root Division Interviewed on Free Forum November 5, 2006 Free FM: 106.9 FM Heidi Moon interviews Michelle Mansour & Michael Krouse about the arts community, the organization, and the programs at Root Division. (Please contact us for the opportunity to hear this interview on MP3.)  Tape it, show it 'More or Less 3,480 Seconds' : Low-cost video art opens the door wider at Root Division November 9, 2006 By Reyhan Harmanci Arranging an art show with contributors from around the world is no easy feat, even after you've lined up the artists. Paintings and drawings must be safely packed and sent, with hefty insurance costs. Sculptures must be packed even tighter before shipment, with even bigger insurance costs. And then they all need to be packaged and insured for the trip back. For a small studio to mount an international show, well, forget about it. [read more] It's not easy to get art into galleries. It may be even harder to get schools to teach art. Root Division has found a way to do both. August 12, 2006 By Rachel Howard, Special to The Chronicle It's a Saturday night in the Mission District, and in a converted garage on 17th Street a youngish crowd is drinking Trumer Pils beer and talking about mixing pigments. On one wall hangs an oil painting of "Sesame Street's" Count seducing a naked woman; on another is a machine gun decorated with the Louis Vuitton logo. But most of the positive buzz in the room seems directed at a portrait of a big-eyed man and woman looking like a bohemian version of "American Gothic," adorned with a fanciful neon sign that says "SERENDIPITY." It's by Michael Krouse, an artist who bartends at three taverns 30 hours a week to help bring up a preschool-age daughter. [read more] 7x7 Calls Root Division's Adult Ed Classes "Best of the Bay" "Best Way to Hone Your Craft: Still bemoaning your choice of econ over art history because your parents insisted it was a sensible major? With a summer schedule that includes such after-work classes as this month's "Video Art Basics" and "Intro to Drawing and Painting" and August's "Creative Speed Dating" workshop (which mixes craft-making with wine drinking), the Adult Art Education classes organized by Root Division offer a way to awaken the creative spirit that's been deadened by your desk job." San Francisco Chronicle Reports on Root Division's Kids Exhibition May 18th, 2006 "The arts non-profit Root Division is part artist's collective, part educational organization. Its basic premise is to supply subsidized studio space to artists in exchange for the artists' working with children in arts programs in the public schools. The organization's "Second Saturday" show-and-tell event at its 17th Street studio on Saturday featured a celebrity guest, Giants shortstop Omar Vizquel. "You're one of the greatest shortstops of all time, huh?" asked Nolan Pita, an 8-year-old painter. "I don't know about that," was Vizquel's modest reply. "Aren't you going to the Hall of Fame?" asked Nolan. "I don't know that either," said Vizquel. "Why not?" asked Nolan. "They don't give me a vote," said Vizquel. |
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