Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass is a research-based exhibition organized by artist collective Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) that examines systemic racism, exclusion, and inequity in the field of glass. Much like a game of telephone, Disclosure invited a series of artists to creatively translate hard data about the demographics of the glass field. The exhibition showcases three iterative stages of interpretation: originating data visualizations by Related Tactics; artist instruction responses by Joyce Scott, Ché Rhodes, Einar & Jamex de la Torre, Cheryl Derricotte, Corey Pemberton, and Emily Leach; and glass responses by Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez, Vanessa German, Helen Lee, Pearl Dick, Kim Thomas, and Raya Friday.

Kala Art Institute is thrilled to announce that our public art residency & community engagement project, Print Public, has evolved and is back with new funding from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Our Town program. Kala looked for projects that will tie in print and digital media in site specific and experimental ways, and will be outside and offsite.

We are excited to be hosting two artist teams that will create temporary public art that engages the community along San Pablo Avenue in Kala’s West Berkeley neighborhood. These selected artists will receive an artist stipend and a 14-month residency at Kala with 24/7 access to our printmaking studio and digital lab.

Public sites are determined by the artists and respective businesses. Kala will assist in creating relationships with surrounding partners of the past Print Public projects, or aid in coming up with new creative endeavors.

2021-2022 Print Public – San Pablo Avenue
Emma Logan and Cristine Blanco
Related Tactics: Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, & Nathan Watson

Organized by Astria Suparak with University of San Francisco’s MA in Museum Studies Curatorial Practicum class in collaboration with Thacher Gallery
San Francisco
November 19, 2020—February 14, 2021
www.usfca.edu/become-the-monuments

Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall is the first survey exhibition of Bay Area and Washington D.C.-based art collective Related Tactics. It includes a newly commissioned public art project sited in 14 storefronts within walking distance in Bayview, San Francisco’s newly designated African American Arts and Cultural District.

Beginning November 19, 2020, The future now, a sprawling, site-responsive public art project will be viewable along the 3rd Street corridor of San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. Commissioned by the Thacher Gallery, this poster series illuminates facets of Black life in the city and explores the state of national politics. The map below shows the 14 poster sites, all within walking distance and visible from the street.

Supply Chain is an interactive installation by Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson) in the Museum of Capitalism (curated by Fictilis) that invites museum visitors to question the impact of consumption of goods within global capitalism, particularly on historically vulnerable communities, people of color, and the environment.

Curated by Related Tactics

Ready presents a pair of mobile stations created by Related Tactics that gather and deploy a collection of artists’ interventions, tools and strategies that can be used by audiences to interrupt systems of marginalization, exploitation and erasure, large and small. The assembled materials range from the poetic to prompts for guerilla actions, from stickers to seeds, from prompts for literary analysis to the building blocks for temporary gatherings, but are all linked through their interest in encouraging individual agency in challenging everyday moments where we are often caught off guard or isolated from allies. Ready offers a variety of tools to be utilized beyond the exhibition.