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  • Travel-Food-Writing-Identity Tonight at ATA

    imageCome by ATA tonight for a special program featuring Fred Alvarado:
    Join Fred Alvarado, who chalks with Lebanon, crawls Oakland, gets tattooed at the Vincent Price Museum in LA, makes art with the locals in Gaza, writes poetry that maps it out for us, and makes beautiful videos. Meaning streams through all of his work. It’s hilarious, tragic, and mysterious, even mystical.
    Fred Alvarado in person.
    Starts at 7:30 pm, about an hour-long program.
    Artists’ Television Access
    San Francisco
    $7-10 no one turned away for lack of $$
    Curated by Claire Bain. Part of a series on systems-power-identity

  • Now and April 17th, 8pm: ATA Window Gallery presents “Thrombotic Resurrection” by artists Marcelle Marais and Maciej Makalowski.

    ATA Window Gallery presents “Thrombotic Resurrection” by artists Marcelle Marais and Maciej Makalowski.

    Opening: April 17th, 8pm

    The soul is the formation of a clot believed by some
    to be the divine inside of an immortal intravascular mass vessel. By
    obstructing the flow of mortality through the human being, some
    believe it is the actual vehicle by which injury occurs. When a spirit
    is injured, the body uses platelets to form a blood clot to prevent
    life loss at a site distant from its point of origin and is
    subsequently resurrected and ascends.

    Marcelle Marais (born on July 6, 1985 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a
    multifaceted artist working in the mediums of painting, music and performance. Marcelle immigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen and moved to San Francisco in 2004, where she attended the San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2010. Her work expresses the continuous cycle of regeneration and degeneration of the self in various forms: the forever evolving, expanding, decaying, and rebirth through the intrinsic qualities of human nature.

    Bio: Maciej Makalowski is an interdisciplinary artist born in Poznań,
    Poland and raised in Montréal, Washington DC, and central
    Pennsylvania. His paintings, photographs, collages, and films explore
    political histories, nostalgia, popular culture, and fringe
    spirituality. He received an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco
    Art Institute in 2011 and a BFA in Painting and BA in Political
    Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008. He has
    exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Long Beach, Berkeley, Chicago,
    Portland, Tulsa, Russia, Pennsylvania, and Italy. He is also a
    founding member of the Basement artist collective in the Mission
    district of San Francisco. In his spare time, Maciej focuses on
    playing music and social work. He currently resides and works in San
    Francisco, CA. www.makalowski.com

  • OpenScreening

    openscreeningATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

    Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

    Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

    More Info: contact  
    Programming@atasite.org