Move to the groove and express yourself visually. Draw, paint or sculpt to internationally acclaimed improvisational jazz musicians India Cooke and Kele Nitoto.

Drawing materials provided, but you are welcome to bring your own. All ages are welcome.

$5 suggested family donation.

The Art Of Living Black, 16th Anniversary Exhibition. Rising Tide by John Wehrle. Ancestral Melodies by James Gayles. The Teapot, Reinterpreted group show.

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the body, politics, private/public space, and language/wordplay, that elucidate this dynamic era in our history and foreshadow the concerns of young artists working today.

This event is included with Museum admission.

Museum admission is free for BAM/PFA members, UC Students and Faculty (current and retired), and Children 12 and under. General Admission is $10 for adults and 7$ for non UC students, seniors, disabled, and young adults (13-17)

Admission is free for BAM/PFA Members, UC Students and Staff, Seniors, and Children 12 and under. 10$ for adults, and 7$ for Non UC students.

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30PM

The Bay Area’s own brilliant and groundbreaking Amy X Neuburg expands her patented “avant-cabaret” sound to take on the acoustics of our atrium gallery with works for large ensemble and electronically processed voices. Neuburg, who has “scoped out her own territory in the gulf between pop and classical” (Village Voice), is joined by wild percussionist Moe! Staiano and a large chorus for an evening of wordless and nearly wordless songs.

Programmed by Sarah Cahill

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone -  (510) 642-0808

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30PM

In 1975, California-based Dutch Conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea while attempting to cross the Atlantic in a small craft. Filmmaker Rene Daalder uses this story as the basis for a sweeping overview of contemporary art and an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean in his 2008 film Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Life of Bas Jan Ader. Before the screening, immerse yourself in a recording of ARP’s meditative electronic musical work Odyssey (For Bas Jan Ader). In conjunction with the exhibition State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970.

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone -  (510) 642-0808

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30

Flash back to the early years of BAM/PFA at this celebration of California performance art, presented in conjunction with the exhibition State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970. Three important performance artists revisit works from the early 1970s: Linda Mary Montano meditates in a chicken bed, Jim Melchert does whatever the television tells him to do, and Adam II (the late Paul Cotton) presents “Mystical Body of The Astral-Naught Bride-Groom (Living Sculpture) in Her Present State of Herm-Aphroditic Metamorphosis,” which is exactly what it sounds like.

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone -  (510) 642-0808

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30PM

Pioneer of computer-enhanced performance practice Edmund Campion transforms Gallery B with sound and visuals, including video projection, a choir spread throughout the building, and his own brand of dynamic, buoyant electronic music. Designer Raveevarn Choksombatchai, artist and 3-D animator Claudia Hart, and the Cornelius Cardew Choir come together to collaborate with Campion, a codirector of UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies.

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone - (510) 642-0808

Featuring work by: Lisa Berman, Matt Chase, Tim Fite, Rachel Foster, Claire Kessler-Bradner, Brian Kring,  Mary Laird,  Studio Lorzig, Rebecca Peters, Lisa Rappaport,  Two Fine Chaps, and more.

Co-curated with Rebecca Peters

Celebrating the art of letterpress! Come see a display of archival letterpress paraphernalia, ephemera, equipment, and more…. Bins of letterpress prints, books, and broadsides by some of the finest Bay Area letterpress artists. Libations and good times to be had.

The Year of Black & White: Perspectives on Duality

A solo exhibition of the work of Ryan David LaBonte, BFA candidate at California College of Arts (& Crafts), Oakland. LaBonte is graduating from the Printmaking program and offers works in this discipline and other various media. This exhibition showcases lithography, oil painting, comic strips, video, installation and a performance. All works are centered on the theme of Duality and the struggle for Unity in a polarized society. Exploring the political, social and natural world, LaBonte has come to the realization that seeing in Black & White will only produce endless shades of Grey. 

RDL's previous works can be viewed at rdlart.blogspot.com

The Pacific Exchange brings composers and performers from diverse areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange ideas and create music on a shared concert stage. Thingamajigs created this event to emphasize the commonalities of artists living on the Pacific Rim, as well as to showcase their diversity. We ask artists, ‘what does the Pacific Rim mean to you and how does it affect your music’. Thingamajigs, with composers and performers from Seattle, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, will host concerts, workshops, and demonstrations to foster an exchange of ideas with the local community.

Along with our Pacific Exchange concert at the Meridian Gallery, Thingamajigs will be in residence at the Oakland Museum of California for three weeks to offer interactive concerts of music created with objects from the museum’s collection. These reinterpretations of objects into performance will stimulate innovation and creativity for all ages.

Artists and groups involved in this year’s Pacific Exchange events include Paul Kikuchi (Seattle) and Tide Tables, Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan), Paul Stapleton (L.A.), Gretchen Jude (Oakland) and the Thingamajigs Performance Group (Oakland).  Please see artist biographies and schedule below.

For over five years The Pacific Exchange concerts have exhibited the music of composers from diverse Pacific regions such as Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada and the United States.

The Pacific Exchange 2012 is supported in part by the Alameda County Arts Commission, New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and generous contributions from individual and corporate donors.

Event Schedule:

Sunday, March 11^th noon-3pm: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St.
Oakland, CA 94607  (Free with Museum admission). Artists include Thingamajigs Performance Group and Paul Stapleton.

Sunday, March 18^th noon-3pm: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St.
Oakland, CA 94607  (Free with Museum admission). Artists include Thingamajigs Performance Group, Tatsuya Nakatani and Paul Kikuchi.

Sunday, March 25^th noon-3pm: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St.
Oakland, CA 94607  (Free with Museum admission). Artists include Thingamajigs Performance Group and Gretchen Jude.