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• PRS Museum Visit- Ruth Asawa Retrospective at SFMOMA

  • When
    18 May 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    SFMOMA, 151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103
  • Registered
    12 registrants

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  PRS Musuem Visit:
  

  Ruth Asawa Retrospective at SFMOMA

  Sunday, May 18, 2025 | 11:00 AM
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
  151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA

  Join Pacific Rim Sculptors for a special visit to experience Ruth Asawa: Retrospective at SFMOMA—the most comprehensive exhibition of Asawa’s work to date. This landmark show features over 300 pieces spanning six decades, including her iconic looped- and tied-wire sculptures, intricate drawings, paintings, clay masks, and cast bronze works. The exhibition also explores how Asawa's San Francisco home and garden served as the epicenter of her creative universe, highlighting her role as an educator and civic leader . 

  We'll meet at the museum entrance at 11:00 AM. Admission is free for SFMOMA members; general admission tickets can be purchased online or at the door.

  Don't miss this opportunity to delve into the life and legacy of one of the Bay Area's most influential artists.

  
  For more information and to purchase tickets: https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/ruth-asawa-retrospective/

  
  

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• Curators Tour - di Rosa Downtown: Second Nature

  • When
    31 May 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    di Rosa Downtown, 1300 First St., Ste 251, Napa, CA 94559

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  Curator's Tour 

  di Rosa Downtown: Second Nature

  An exhibition featuring

  PRS members Annette Goodfriend & Ruth Tabancay

  Join us for a free curatorial tour led by Annette Goodfriend at 5:00pm with ample time to view and ask questions.
  

  “Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects and urchin shells to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet’s creatures.”

  Curatorial tour led by Annette Goodfriend at 5:00 with ample time to view and ask questions.
  

  Following the tour visitors are invited to join a unique foraged-based dinner  and fundraising event for di Rosa Center for Contemporary Arts with live music $70/per person

  To sign up for the dinner- https://www.mariafinn.com/event-details/daylighting-upwelling-the-story-of-a-river-a-community-1
  

  *** Please note that this exhibition is located at the di Rosa's satellite campus in downtown Napa.*** 

  Location: di Rosa Downtown at 1300 First St., Ste 251, Napa, CA.
  Exhibition Dates: March 8 – June 1, 2025.
  Free and open to the public Friday – Sunday, 12 – 4 p.m.

  

  Ester Traugot, Sea Urchin

  More about the dinner:

  Daylighting & Upwelling: The Story of a River & A Community
  May 31st: 6:30-9:00 
  di Rosa Downtown (1300 First Street, Ste. 251)
  $70/person

  Join us for an evening celebrating the dynamic waterways of the Napa region, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Second Nature at di Rosa Downtown.

  With menu by Maria Finn, author of Forage. Gather. Feast. Feast and founder of The Institute for Ecosystem Based Living;

  Musical performance from Kitka trio of water-based songs;

  
  

  Menu

  Portside Sourdough with Tsar Nicolai smoked sturgeon rillettes & seaweed butter

   Star Route Farms salad greens with pickled bladderwrack & shallots, kombu gomasio, and puffed quinoa and dressed with mulberry & kombu vinaigrette. Self-garnish with wildflowers of the Napa Valley.

  Uni Cacio & Pepe pasta with crème fraiche, preserved lemon & pink peppercorn

  California Bay nut & Rose petal jam cookies & fresh fruit 

  Poseidon Vineyard Rosé for the Bay by Obsidian Wines.

  
  

  Participants

  Maria Finn is a writer, chef, and storyteller. She’s the author of the recently published cookbook Forage. Gather. Feast. and founder of Flora & Fungi Adventures and The Institute of Ecosystem Based Living. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. and has taught creative and feature writing at Stanford University among other places.  Maria has told stories for The Moth Mainstage at the Museo del Barrio in New York City and the Castro Theater in San Francisco. She was a fellow in the first creative cohort in the Design Science Studio and Living Systems Collaboratory, as part of the Buckminster Fuller Society. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Autodesk, Pier 9 maker space and created an edible map of the San Francisco Bay that is on display at the San Francisco Exploratorium. She was chef-in-residence for Stochastic Labs, a residency for artists, scientists, and tech innovators in Berkeley. 

  
  

  Kitka Trio - Music Concert and Presentation
  A trio from the acclaimed Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble presents a short concert featuring a variety of traditional polyphonic music—work songs, healing songs, sacred/liturgical, and ritual melodies—from Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Caucasus Georgia. The music reflects the lives of everyday women—revealing a range of traditional ecologies, folklore, and the deeply communal nature of multi-voiced singing traditions. The trio consists of Kelly Atkins, Kristine Barrett, and Janet Kutulus.

  
  

  About the Artists:

  Annette Goodfriend was born and raised in Northern California. She completed her undergraduate degree at U.C. Berkeley, where she studied Genetics and Art, and received her M.F.A. at the California College of the Arts. Goodfriend is a winner of the International Art Competition Premio O.R.A. Italia, the Malamegi Lab 15, 20, & 24 International Art Prizes, and is one of 18 artists from 15 countries whose work was chosen for the YICCA International Art Prize. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Discovered Award, a grant and exhibition funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Creative Sonoma, and was honored with residencies at the Morris Graves Foundation and the Headlands Center for the Arts.
  
  Her sculpture has been exhibited in solo and group shows locally, nationally, and internationally, including the Museum of Sonoma County, Monterey Museum of Art, Kellogg University Art Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, HDLU Pavilion in Zagreb, Croatia, and 3)5 Arte Contemporanea, a contemporary art gallery in Viterbo, Italy, among many others. Her work has been featured in exhibition catalogues, newspapers, and reviews, and is published in the books Artists of the Bay Area, Embodied Forest, and Entanglements(2).
  
  Goodfriend lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, son, and menagerie.

  For more information about Annette and her work:  www.annettegoodfriend.com

  

  Annette Goodfriend, MacrocystisAmbulataurus

  
  

  Ruth Tabancay's passion for science led her to study microbiology in college. Following a stint as a hospital laboratory technologist, she went on to medical school. After 11 years in private practice, she left medicine to study art. Her bodies of work include those based on microscopy and magnification, geometry (both Euclidean and non-Euclidean), and ecological systems. Her techniques include embroidery, stitching, crochet, assemblage, rotary knitting, Jacquard weaving, felting, cast sugar, and installation. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley; University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco; and California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, including The Textile Museum, Washington, D. C.; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; World Financial Center, New York City; and San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She lives in Berkeley, California.

  For more information about Ruth and her work: www.ruthtabancay.com

  
  

  Ruth Tabancay, Plastic Reef

  
  

  About the exhibition:

  Second Nature features work by three Northern California artists: Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot. Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects, urchin shells, and tea bags to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet’s creatures.

  Working primarily with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, Annette Goodfriend creates sculptures that explore human anatomy, often hybridized or contrasted with non-human animal or plant forms. Goodfriend’s works featured in Second Nature depict an oceanic world in retreat: starfish crawling on human finger-like limbs, sea life held in anthropomorphic vise grips, an ambulatory kelp forest. Drawing on her background studies in genetics, Goodfriend’s work explores human interdependence with our oceans and seas, even as warming waters threaten this fragile ecosystem.

  With a background in bacteriology and medicine, Ruth Tabancay’s work combines textile techniques that she taught herself as a child — crochet and knitting — with an interest in environmental issues such as the bleaching of the coral reefs, the ability of some micro-organisms to digest plastic, and ecological systems such as mycorrhizal networks and bee colonies. Using materials as varied as tea bags, thread, yarn, beeswax, and sugar, Tabancay weaves and stitches micro-organisms digesting plastic, coral reefs constructed around plastic medical waste, and macro colonies of the bacteria that is on us and in us.

  Esther Traugot grew up in an idealistic farming community during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970’s, an experience which influences the relationship between herself and the natural world on view in her work. Stitching with her own hand-dyed golden yarns, she crochets wrappings in and around found natural objects — bees, trees, sea urchin shells — nurturing, protecting, and making them whole again.

  Organized by Annette Goodfriend, a version of this exhibition was previously mounted at Marin Art and Garden Center in 2024.

  
  

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• Second Sunday Studio Visit - Jeff Key

  • When
    08 Jun 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    5645 Oakgrove Ave., Oakland, CA 94618

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  Second Sunday Studio Visit
  with PRS Member Jeff Key

  Join us for an intimate afternoon in the studio of Pacific Rim Sculptors member Jeff Key, a long-time Bay Area artist, educator, and community builder. Jeff’s interdisciplinary work explores material, memory, and movement through sculpture, digital media, and installation.

  A San Francisco native, Jeff received his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and spent over two decades teaching Sculpture and Media Arts at Head-Royce School in Oakland, where he also served as Chair of the Fine Arts Department. In 2009, Jeff founded Media Enterprise Alliance (now Youth Beat), a nonprofit supporting underserved Oakland youth through digital media education.

  This visit is a unique opportunity to explore Jeff’s current sculptural practice, hear stories from his impactful career, and connect with fellow members of the PRS community.

  For more information about Jeff and his work visit his website: jeffmkey.com

  or his Instagram:

  https://www.instagram.com/jeffmkey/
  

  Date/Time: Sunday, June 8, 2024, 1-3pm

  Location: 5645 Oakgrove Ave., Oakland, CA 94618

  **This is an in-person studio visit. Space is limited and you must register to attend.**

  

  Sculpture garden view of Jeff Key's studio

  Are you interested in hosting a studio visit or demo at your studio? Reach out to the PRS Events Committee to see how you can sign up! Email us at events@pacificrimsculptors.org

  

  QUESTIONS?  Contact Events@PacificRimSculptors.org

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• Second Sunday Studio Visit - Stephanie Metz

  • When
    13 Jul 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    1043C Garland Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126

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  Second Sunday Studio Visit
  with PRS Member Stephanie Metz

  Join Pacific Rim Sculptors for an exclusive Second Sunday Studio Visit with  artist Stephanie Metz. Known for her innovative use of wool and felt, Stephanie creates sculptures that are both alluring and thought-provoking. Her work explores the intersection of natural and unnatural, challenging perceptions of material and form. 

  This visit offers a unique opportunity to delve into Stephanie's creative process, view her latest projects, and engage in meaningful discussions about contemporary sculpture. Don't miss this chance to connect with fellow PRS members, art enthusiasts and gain insight into the work of Stephanie Metz.

  For more information about Stephanie and his work visit his website: https://www.stephaniemetz.com/

  or her Instagram:

  https://www.instagram.com/stephanie_metz_sculpture/
  

  Date/Time: Sunday, July 13, 2025, 1-3pm

  Location: 1043C Garland Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126

  **This is an in-person studio visit. Space is limited and you must register to attend.**

  
  

  Are you interested in hosting a studio visit or demo at your studio? Reach out to the PRS Events Committee to see how you can sign up! Email us at events@pacificrimsculptors.org

  

  QUESTIONS?  Contact Events@PacificRimSculptors.org

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