MAPP at PFF

On the first Saturday of every even month, Pacific Felt Factory (PFF) joins Mission Art and Performance Project (MAPP) for an evening of art and performance. Curated by 14 Black Poppies. ...................... NEXT EVENT: DECEMBER 5TH

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Join Queer Rebels, 14 Black Poppies & MAPP for an evening of performance and video at the Pacific Felt Factory! 7PM - Sat Dec 5th - 2830 20th St - SF

YOU BELONG! FREE!

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Live in San Francisco County Jail, by Naima Shalhoub

19 track album

More on the project at http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/11/29/naima-shalhoub/

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Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project

http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/titus-kaphar-the-jerome-project

In 2011, Kaphar began searching for his father’s prison records. When he visited a website containing photographs of people who have recently been arrested, he found dozens of men who shared his father’s first name, Jerome, and last name. The artist was influenced by the writings of Michelle Alexander and William Julius Wilson on the prison-industrial complex and the use of policing and imprisonment by the US government as a means to address economic, social and political problems. - See more at: http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/titus-kaphar-the-jerome-project#sthash.jbpFgQHK.dpuf

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Former Black Panther Launches Oakland Urban Farm to Give Ex-Prisoners a Fresh Start

Elaine Brown is no stranger to radical ideas. The 72-year-old former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party has long advocated on behalf of prisoners. Now she is determined to transform a once-blighted vacant lot in West Oakland, California into a thriving urban farm business that employs former offenders. And the produce they cultivate is destined... Read More

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Here's an article on 7 companies that benefit from the Prison Industrial Complex.

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Actor Kaly Jay onset for the filming of "Locked [in]." (Photo: Niema Jordan) H...

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Zine by 'Fats', George Frison, William Jones, Erica R. Meiners, James Piggues, Sarah Ross, Johnny Taylor, Devon Terrell, Feresteh Toosi, and Alan White, October 2014.

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http://www.temporaryservices.org/supermax_subscriptions.pdf

Supermax Subscriptions

Supermax Subscriptions seeks to connect the surplus of well-traveled citizens to a population that never goes anywhere: prisoners in American supermax prisons.

As most of you know, frequent flyer miles often expire before it is possible to save enough of them for a free airline ticket, seating upgrade, or other costly prize. Supermax Subscriptions asks people with these surplus miles to exchange small quantities of unused miles for magazine subscriptions to supermax prisoners. For as few as 300 miles, you can give the gift of a yearly magazine subscription to a prisoner with little or no reading material.

The first goal of Supermax Subscriptions is to provide every prisoner in Tamms C-MAX supermax prison with at least one magazine subscription. Men in Tamms are in their cells 23-24 hours a day in permanent solitary confinement. The men have been there for years on end, many for ten years. They have no communal activity, no phone calls, no programs, no education, no work, no librarian, and virtually no reading (mostly children’s books). A magazine subscription is one way to give these men your support. Your gift will not be taken for granted.

This project is a collaborative effort by Tamms Poetry Committee, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Sarah Ross, Temporary Services, and you!

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Non-commercial since 1998

‘Zine projects for prisons by Temporary Services

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A critique of social practice art | International Socialist Review

LOCATED IN Houston’s predominantly African-American Third Ward, the Project Row Houses stand today as one of the most-lauded examples of a burgeoning genre of contemporary art: “social practice.” In...

A great critique of the limitation of social practice art within the context of its ability to make social change. 

At PFF’s bi-monthly Artist Salon on October 3rd from 3pm to 5pm, we will  be talking about Social Practice as a form of art making: its limitations, its liberations, its blind spots, its possibilities. Come and join the conversation. Share your practices and perspectives. Learn something new. Shift your frame.

PFF’s Artist Salon is produced by 14 Black Poppies and A Simple Collective. Support is provided by Media Alliance and Independent Arts and Media. Additional Co-sponsors for this event include Hanna Regev and Anthony Julius Williams and the Iruke Project. It is in conjunction with the Mission Arts and Performance Project. www.mappsf.com

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Social practice is going mainstream as more artists focus their work on making an impact on problems like homelessness and pollution. But the question of how to

At PFF’s bi-monthly Artist Salon on October 3rd from 3pm to 5pm, we will  be talking about Social Practice as a form of art making: its limitations, its liberations, its blind spots, its possibilities. Come and join the conversation. Share your practices and perspectives. Learn something new. Shift your frame. 

PFF’s Artist Salon is in conjunction with the Mission Arts and Performance Project. www.mappsf.com. It is produced by 14 Black Poppies and A Simple Collective. Support is provided by Media Alliance and Independent Arts and Media. Additional Co-sponsors for this event include Hanna Regev and Anthony Julius Williams and the Iruke Project. 

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