Create your own Get in the Game-inspired artwork using tools from a unique, bicycle-powered, zine-making studio. Artivate artists and educators Chris Treggiari and Amy Berk have packed their mobile studio with all the tools and materials needed to create your own zine or baseball card, including a selection of prompts and pre-designed pages inspired by artists and artworks on view in Get in the Game.
2024
This year includes projects with SFMOMA, renowned muralist Oscar Lopez, ARTivate, and the International High School's Student Diversity Council. (Scroll down to view selected photos from each project. Click to enlarge)
SFMOMA Zine Machine
Summer ARTivate Our Food...
This summer we participated in a project with renowned muralist Oscar Lopez and his investigation of food justice in the project Your Food, My Work, Our Land; with artist Oscar Lopez in support of California farmworkers. We made prints inspired by his incredible project and working both in the studio and hopefully in the field to meet actual farmworkers and teens who are affiliated with farm work.
We also explored the work of the conceptual artist David Ireland at 500 Capp Street and engaged with artists in residence at that venue including artist Annie Albagli whose multimedia work explores personal and environmental narratives inextricably bound together by different forms of power, including the government, military, and industry. We worked together to conceive of imaginary narratives that tap into biology, geography and personal histories. Interns also participated in a dinner salon featuring the Recipes of Resilience David Ireland Project.
This summer nine interns, two TA’s, and three artists worked with Annie Albagli, artist-in-residence at 500 Capp Street, to conceive of speculative narratives that tap into biology, geography and personal histories. These narratives and drawings can be seen in a limited-edition ‘zine entitled “Stories From the Jar.” The jar of course was inspired by the work of David Ireland who the interns also explored as part of their summer program.
ARTivate team includes Amy Berk, Cheryl Meeker and TA’s Hayley Blonstein and Vicky Li. Our Participating Interns were Margot Blatherwick; Amaris Medina-Kelley; Grady Ryan; Jasmine Moon Guo; Chi Chun Lau; Esme Charles; Kim Lee; Corban Wagner and Ada Qiu.
Partners include Haight Street Art Center, 500 Capp Street, Enterprise for Youth, the Crocker Trust and the Creative Work Fund for making this summer program possible. And especially everyone at these spaces and places that gave their time, and energy and served as inspirations to the teens.
Manifest Differently Youth Event
Manifest Differently at ATA exhibition
Last spring, Amy Berk was invited to create a collaborative mural with the Artivate program focusing on rethinking Manifest Destiny and the impact it caused on the land, the people and the environment. The Artivate program researched
Manifest Destiny as well as the powerful work of the Sanctuary City Project to create a mural on Clarion Alley entitled REORDER THE FUTURE about the contemporary manifestations of Manifest Destiny in their own lives.
Manifest Destiny as well as the powerful work of the Sanctuary City Project to create a mural on Clarion Alley entitled REORDER THE FUTURE about the contemporary manifestations of Manifest Destiny in their own lives.
Participating Artists:
Mentor Artists: Amy Berk, Chris Treggiari, Cheryl Meeker and Kristen Gundlach (And poets Dena Rod and Kim Shuck)
Young Artists: Esme Charles, Amaris Medina-Kelley, Devin Sunshine, Alex De La Cruz and Kim Lee
Manifest Differently Artists: Amy Berk, Christopher Gazaleh, Katayoun Bahrami, Kim Shuck and Megan Wilson
International Day of Action
ARTivate was invited by Day of Action is an event organized by International High School’s Student Diversity Council (SDC) where, in lieu of classes, our high school students participate in all-day, on-campus workshops and off-campus volunteer opportunities with organizations doing amazing work around San Francisco to build students’ civic engagement.
The theme was “Creative Expression in Social Justice” and we brought our Mobile Art Bike to create workshops to help students engage with the importance of creativity and its power to voice social justice.
