Real Talks: Elena Yu & Emma Spertus

March 07, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Elena Yu and RTS member Emma Spertus Thursday, March 21st from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Elena Yu is an interdisciplinary artist and arts organizer from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice weaves together many mediums and intentions including textiles, performance, drawing, sculpture, archival research and community practice. Elena is currently a UCSB Arts Equity Commons Campus Artist-in-Residence, where she is working in partnership with the UCSB Art Department, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive (CEMA), and UCSB Library’s Ethnic and Gender Studies (EGS) collection. During her residency at UCSB and RTS, Elena is working on archival research, a series of workshops, and objects for an intervention in the UCSB library that aims to engage students with histories of radical student organizing towards racial justice and the formation of Ethnic Studies programs at UCSB. For her Real Talk, Elena will be speaking about this project and sharing in-progress works. 

In both her artist and organizing practices, Elena’s emphasis is on developing public programs and exhibitions that consider and care for all aspects of a community ecosystem, bringing together local residents, artists, partnering organizations and sites around contemporary art and issues. She has worked in arts programming at Arts Connection the Arts Council of San Bernardino (2022-2023), High Desert Test Sites (2016-2022), Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MAK Center. In 2022, she co-founded The Firehouse (@thefirehousejt) and Sun Spot (@sun___spot), two artist-run spaces in Joshua Tree, CA. Elena is currently the Ruffin Gallery and Visiting Artist Coordinator at University of Virginia’s Department of Art in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Emma Spertus creates sculptures and architectural interventions, which bring attention to two- and three-dimensional space in humorous or unexpected ways. Her work focuses on questions around the vacancy, materiality, resource use, language, and display. Emma lives and works in the Bay Area. She is founding director of Real Time & Space. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York, and BA from Macalester College in St. Paul. This July, Emma will be in residence at the Winslow House Project, Vallejo, CA. www.emmaspertus.com

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Real Talks: Dena Al-Adeeb

February 13, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Dena Al-Adeeb & Kathy Zarur Wednesday, February 21st from 6-8pm PST in person and via Zoom.

125 10th St. Oakland Ca

Zoom Meeting Link

Meeting ID: 838 0562 0710
Passcode: 435956

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keJn4hASUQ

Dena Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi born feminist scholar-activist, artist-cultural worker, educator, and mother. Her transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of U.S. imperial war geographies, militarism, and extractive capitalist economies in West Asia with an emphasis on visual, material, and petro-culture of the Arab/Muslim worlds. Dena’s creative practice explores gendered histories and lived experiences of war, refugee narratives and collective memory, affect and embodied survival practices through a decolonial framework. Her artwork takes on varied practices including live art, video art, installation, digital art, photography, text, and activism. She creates performative, relational works, dedicated to participatory art, socially engaged projects, collaborative engagement and the cultivation of solidarity. Her work appears in a diversity of publications and shown internationally in spaces ranging from national museums to abandoned buildings. She is a recipient of numerus awards including a Mellon Artist and Practitioner fellowship at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration as well as the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has undertaken many academic research positions throughout her career including her role as Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, San Francisco State University, and Expression College for Digital Arts. Dena holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Culture and Representation, from New York University, M.A. in Sociology-Anthropology from the American University in Cairo, and a B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University. Dena curates DIWAN: SWANA Futurisms and is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and HEKLER Collective. After completing her residency at Real Time & Space, she will be a resident artist with CULTURE HUB; Dresher Ensemble; and ARAB.AMP.

https://linktr.ee/denaaladeeb

Kathy Zarur is an educator and culture worker in San Francisco. Through courses, exhibitions, and conferences, she seeks to highlight artists and histories that have historically been sidelined. Preferring metaphor over representation, her approach to exhibition making centers around place to explore topics including belonging, identity, and the landscape. Previously at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates, she was an assistant curator and producer of live art. More recently as an independent curator, she has created exhibitions for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Arts Commission, Minnesota Street Project, and SOMArts. She has organized conferences with San Francisco State University at the de Young and Asian Art Museum. Her writings and editorial work appear in Art in AmericaBroadsheet, and a Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts publication with Sternberg Press. She is Associate Professor of Art History at Skyline College, Fellow of Modern and Contemporary South West Asian and North African art at Smarthistory.org, and a board member of Arab.AMP. Kathy has a PhD in Art History and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan.

www.kathyzarur.com

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REAL TIME RESIDENCY OPEN CALL

February 01, 2024

RTS is excited to announce our 2024-2025 Residency Open Call.There are 2 residency tracks. Track 1: 3 local artists will be awarded a 3-month period residency with a $2000 stipend. Track 2: 3 out of town (non Bay Area person) artists will be awarded a 1 month residency, a $1000 stipend, and a $2000 travel and housing stipend. Note you can only apply to one, not both tracks.The residency studio at RTS is 170 sq. ft and includes access to a communal wood shop. RTS is centrally located near BART and downtown Oakland.
Requirements for the residency:
Work on-site at the studio for a minimum of 15 hrs a week
Give 1-2 artist talks during the residency period
Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 10) for the RTS Residency archive
Note: No hazardous or toxic materials may be used in the studio space.

Deadline for applications is April 12, 2024. 

All applicants will be notified by May 1 , 2024.

Program begins June 1, 2024.

If you have any questions please email BOTH realtimeandresidency@gmail.com & realtimeandevents@gmail.com

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/287030/rts-real-residency-open-call-2024-2025


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RTS and PACBI

January 22, 2024

Real Time and Space stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against Israeli occupation and genocide.

Therefore RTS is committing to the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel or PACBI.

We emphatically invite all art organizations regardless of size to take every action possible to stop the killing of Palestinian people and the destruction of Palestinian culture.

PACBI was launched in Ramallah in 2004 and is part of the wider Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement. PACBI guidelines are simple: they ask institutions to refuse support from the state of Israel and reject projects that normalize the occupation of Palestine and dispossession of Palestinians.

You can read more about PACBI at bdsmovement.net/PACBI

If you need help getting your organization in alignment with PACBI don’t hesitate to reach out to us at RTS.PACBI@gmail.com

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Real Talks: Jin Zhu & Dena Al-Adeeb

November 07, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Jin Zhu & Dena Al-Adeeb Wednesday, December 6th from 6-8pm PST.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89323155669?pwd=dWpueDdRYTdrcWNZeUVKUGJxaFl1Zz09

Meeting ID: 893 2315 5669

Passcode: 958009

Dial by your location

• +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

• +1 669 444 9171 US

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keiQuDbZoM

Jin Zhu is an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist who works with video and text to examine local housing and environmental justice issues. Her practice often involves interviews with impacted communities, public document queries, collaboration with activists and collectives, attending meetings with regulatory agencies, direct action documentation, and visits to sites of contamination, displacement or colonization. Her toolkit consists of cameras, conversation and, increasingly, code. She has presented or exhibited work at SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Southern Exposure, SF Arts Commission Galleries, and the Cantor Arts Center, among others. She holds an MFA from UC Berkeley. Currently, she is particularly interested in conversing about archives, storytelling games and diving birds.

Dena Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi born feminist scholar-activist, artist-cultural worker, community organizer and mother. Her transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of U.S. imperial war geographies, militarism, and petroculture in West Asia with an emphasis on contemporary transnational art, visual and material culture of the Arab/Muslim worlds. Her creative practice investigates the relationship between the politics, poetics and aesthetics of embodied fugitive survival practices, intergenerational narratives, and memory. Her artwork takes on varied practices including performance, video art, installation, digital art, photography, text, and activism. She creates performative, relational works, dedicated to participatory art, socially and politically engaged projects and collaborative engagement. Her work appears in a diversity of publications and shown globally in spaces ranging from national museums to abandoned buildings. She is a recipient of the 2021 Mellon Artist and Practitioner fellowship at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and 2020-2018 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has undertaken many academic research positions throughout her career including her role as a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, San Francisco State University, and Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. She holds a PhD from New York University, MA from The American University in Cairo and BA from San Francisco State University.

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Real Talks: Cristine Blanco & Jin Zhu

August 28, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Cristine Blanco and Jin Zhu Wednesday, September 13th from 6-8 pm PST.

Real Talks will be held via zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84396703416?pwd=VHhBaWdLVVcrazg4UXBPTEFuYjJBZz09

Meeting ID: 843 9670 3416 Passcode: 783307Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbZqkQvWIj

Cristine Blanco is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture and installation. Her works take environmental injustices, the precarity of resources, and lineage as her starting point. Her labor intensive practice combines material and weight to explore both tension and care. Blanco holds an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Mills College. She is a recipient of California Arts Council Individual Fellowship and a Murphy Cadogan Award. She has exhibited works at Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul, Korea, Berkeley Art Center, Kala Art Institute, SF Arts Commission’s Main Gallery, /slash library and SOMArts Cultural Center. Blanco attended residencies at Balay Kreative, ARROZidency and Kala’s Print Public.

Jin Zhu is an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist who works with video and text to examine local housing and environmental justice issues. Her practice often involves interviews with impacted communities, public document queries, collaboration with activists and collectives, attending meetings with regulatory agencies, direct action documentation, and visits to sites of contamination, displacement or colonization. Her toolkit consists of cameras, conversation and, increasingly, code. She has presented or exhibited work at SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Southern Exposure, SF Arts Commission Galleries, and the Cantor Arts Center, among others. She holds an MFA from UC Berkeley. Currently, she is particularly interested in conversing about archives, storytelling games and diving birds.

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Real Talks: Angel Anjos & Torreya Cummings

April 10, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Angel Anjos and Torreya Cummings Wednesday, May 10th from 7-9pm PST.

Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again. We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

Angel Albie Anjos is a first-generation Brazilian-American, multidisciplinary Queer and Trans Artist based in Oakland, CA, and working in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Anjos recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s in Art Practice and a minor in Art History, primarily focusing on Painting and Ceramics.

Their art practice is introspective and reflective of the emotional and physical experience of queerness/transness but specifically articulates its profound and historical resilience. By examining lived, intimate moments captured through photography, they aim to empower those misunderstood for their intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Angel teleports the viewer into a visual world that accepts and fosters authentic freedom. They explore multicultural identity, queer visual representation in society and history, and “The Queer Body” through a multidisciplinary lens, primarily using figurative painting, ceramic sculpture, and photography. Each piece contemplates the combination of the queer body with symbolic metaphors illustrated through nature, texture, and an emphasis on highly saturated color to develop a dramatized and exaggerated exposition of queerness and transness in its highest form.

Torreya Cummings works in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, installation, performance and video, using drag aesthetics, poor substitutions, reflections, hardware store materials, theater tricks, and the language of interpretive sites. Projects usually begin with a site or event, and then incorporate historical, scientific or experiential research. Their current focus is queer landscape. Cummings is a Bay Area Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and an artist in residence at Recology beginning fall 2023.


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Residency Open Call

February 19, 2023

RTS is excited to announce our 2023-2024 residency program open call.

There are 2 residency tracks.

Track 1: 3 local artists will be awarded a 3-month period residency with a $2000 stipend.

Track 2: 3 out of town (non-Bay Area person) artists will be awarded a 1-month residency, a $1000 stipend, and a $2000 travel and housing stipend.

Note you can only apply to one track, not both tracks.

The residency studio at RTS is 170 sq. ft and includes access to a communal wood shop. RTS is centrally located near BART and downtown Oakland.

Requirements for the residency:

  • Work on-site at the studio for a minimum of 15 hrs a week
  • Give 2 artist talks during the residency period
  • Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 10) for the RTS Residency archive

Note: No hazardous or toxic materials may be used in the studio space.

Application Fee: $10. Please Paypal application fee to @ realtimeandspace@gmail.com. If we DO NOT receive your application fee via PayPal your application will not be reviewed. 

Application link: https://forms.gle/7wujoMf57qWddvw4A

Deadline for applications is March 31, 2023. 

12 finalists will be selected–6 finalists for track 1; 6 finalists for track 2. The finalists will be notified via email. Finalist, please keep your calendar clear for the below dates. We will notify finalists Monday, April 10th with which 15 min slot you will have.

Finalist Interviews: 

                   Saturday, April 15, 1:00-2:30 pm

                   Monday, April 17, 6:00-7:30 pm

Each Interview will be 15 minutes.

All applicants will be notified by May 1, 2023.

Program begins June 1, 2023.

If you have any questions please email BOTH realtimeandresidency@gmail.com & realtimeandevents@gmail.com

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Real Talks: Ahn Lee & Angel Anjos

January 04, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Ahn Lee and Angel Anjos Wednesday, January 25th from 7-9pm PST.

Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again. We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

Ahn Lee is a nonbinary (they/she), queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary practice of ceramics, research and performance relies on a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and research on the Cantonese diaspora. As a person of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Ahn explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research historiography, critical race and gender theory.

Ahn received their MFA in May 2022 from UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department, where they were the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Awardee. Ahn previously studied in UCLA’s Gender Studies Department as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow before leaving the program to pursue art full time. Their work has been shown at SOMArts, Root Division, The SF International Asian American Film Festival (CAAMFEST), TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, and as an Emerging Artist with Disabilities Grant recipient and a Creative Capital Artist Training Grant recipient at The Kennedy Center. In 2022, Ahn received the Simone V. Leigh Zenobia Award for the Watershed Ceramics Residency. Ahn is currently a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a resident at Real Time and Space, Oakland.

Angel Albie Anjos is a first-generation Brazilian-American, multidisciplinary Queer and Trans Artist based in Oakland, CA, and working in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Anjos recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s in Art Practice and a minor in Art History, primarily focusing on Painting and Ceramics.

My art practice is introspective and reflective of the emotional and physical experience of queerness/transness but specifically articulates its profound and historical resilience. By examining lived, intimate moments captured through photography, I aim to empower those misunderstood for their intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. I teleport the viewer into a visual world that accepts and fosters authentic freedom. I explore multicultural identity, queer visual representation in society and history, and “The Queer Body” through a multidisciplinary lens, primarily using figurative painting, ceramic sculpture, and photography. Each piece contemplates the combination of the queer body with symbolic metaphors illustrated through nature, texture, and an emphasis on highly saturated color to develop a dramatized and exaggerated exposition of queerness and transness in its highest form.

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Studio Available Feb 1

Happy New Year!!! We have a studio available Feb 1 at RTS. If you want to be our newest member please apply. Deadline for application is Sunday, Jan 15th.We are made up of 16 studios and have 15 members. Our facility has a wood shop and a common space. The studio space is on the second floor, is 166 sq. ft. and rent is $340. Pictures to come soon!!!! Application link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYvznwxwre_cfWRqrQHYlmMyI0LdWKX_oWspchovztL_hbfA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Auction/Raffle Fundraiser

November 09, 2022

We are excited to host an auction & raffle fundraiser event Saturday, December 3 from 12-5 pm. The event will be in person(125 10th St Oakland, Ca). We will also be raffling amazing prizes. Raffle Tickets are $5.

Refreshments will be outside.

Safety precautions: everyone who enters the building must wear a mask, keep distance between each other, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

All proceeds will fund our 2023-2024 residency program. Our program awards 4 local bay area artists. Each artist receives a space for a 3-month period, a stipend, access to facilities, and more. Please help keep this amazing program alive. Thank you.

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Real Talks: Leena Joshi & Ahn Lee

October 24, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Leena Joshi and Ahn Lee Wednesday, November 9th from 6-8pm PST.

Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again!!!! We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work can be found in SFMoMA’s Open Space, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They work as the Digital Media Arts Instructor at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.

Ahn Lee is a nonbinary (they/she), queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary practice of ceramics, research and performance relies on a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and research on the Cantonese diaspora. As a person of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Ahn explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research historiography, critical race and gender theory.Ahn received their MFA in May 2022 from UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department, where they were the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Awardee. Ahn previously studied in UCLA’s Gender Studies Department as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow before leaving the program to pursue art full time. Their work has been shown at SOMArts, Root Division, The SF International Asian American Film Festival (CAAMFEST), TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, and as an Emerging Artist with Disabilities Grant recipient and a Creative Capital Artist Training Grant recipient at The Kennedy Center. In 2022, Ahn received the Simone V. Leigh Zenobia Award for the Watershed Ceramics Residency. Ahn is currently a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a resident at Real Time and Space, Oakland.

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Real Talks: Chris Hamamoto & Leena Joshi

August 02, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Chris Hamamoto and Leena Joshi Thursday, August 18th from 6-8pm PST.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81760779031

Meeting ID: 817 6077 9031

Chris Hamamoto is a designer, artist, and educator based in the Bay Area and teaching at California College of the Arts. In addition to teaching, he pursues an independent practice focused on how automation and algorithms affect communication and aesthetics – a topic he explores through graphic design, and software design and development. He has shown work, published, and lectured internationally at institutions such as Printed Matter, the Walker Art Center, Hongik University, Rutgers MGSA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work can be found in SFMoMA’s Open Space, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They work as the Digital Media Arts Instructor at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.

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Real Talks: Connie Zheng & Chris Hamamoto

April 30, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Connie Zheng and Chris Hamamoto Thursday, May 19th from 6-8pm PST.

Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 868 3621 3582
Passcode: 966721

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2022-23 Artists in Residence

April 05, 2022

We are very excited to announce our residents for 2022-23!  Thank you so much to everyone who applied!  Congrats to Albie Anjos, Leena Joshi, Chris Hamamoto, Ahn Lee

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We’re Back

February 20, 2022

Our application is OPEN!!!

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/212878/bay-area-open-call-2022-2023

New Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 8th

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Thank you

February 02, 2022

Thank you to everyone who attended our virtual/in-person Auction last December.Thank you to all the artists who contributed their time and work. Thank you so much for supporting the  RTS fundraiser and RTS as a whole. We raised over $3,000. These funds support our 2022-2023 residency program. Your contribution helped keep our program alive and well.

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Residency OPEN CALL 2022-2023

January 27, 2022

Hi All. We are excited to announce our residency open call. On February 1 our application drops. The link below:

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/212878/bay-area-open-call-2022-2023

The application deadline is February 28th. We will notify all applicants by end of March. The program starts May 1, 2022.

Our program: * 3-month long period * Studio with access to common space and woodshop * Stipend * Create an edition of 10 works for our RTS residency archive. * Give an artist talk

This is for local bay area artists only. If you live in these 5 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin San Francisco and San Mateo, you are eligible and may apply. 

Exciting news!!!!

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Real Talks: Alex Arzt & Connie Zheng

January 18, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Alex Arzt and Connie Zheng Thursday, February 17th from 6-8pm PST via zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87071010727?pwd=R3FPOVYyeXRZTFNPNnRQbkNWYjREUT09

Meeting ID: 870 7101 0727 Passcode: 855661

Alex Arzt
Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, Alex Arzt facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of publications, interactive objects, workshops, group performances, lectures, videos, and experimental gardens. From 2018-2021, she was an Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain, and her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, she was awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation towards the completion of The Positions and Situations Project book series. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has since attended residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Hambidge Center, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time. She is currently a lecturer at UC Davis’ Department of Art and Art History and has taught at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and VCU.

Connie Zheng
Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, filmmaker, and occasional field recordist based out of xučyun / Oakland, California. Her work primarily focuses on nonlinear representations of time and history as well as polyvocal, speculative fiction-based approaches to navigating environmental crisis. She has exhibited work in the Netherlands and around the United States, through venues such as the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, CA), Framer Framed (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and the IMPAKT Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands), with coverage of her work appearing in Hyperallergic, KQED Arts, MUBI Notebook, and other outlets. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, among others. Her written work has appeared in publications such as Errant Journal and SFMOMA’s Open Space, and she recently published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. She graduated with BAs in Economics and English from Brown University, an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California — Berkeley, and is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California — Santa Cruz.

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Studio Vacancy

December 08, 2021

Studio space is available on January 1, 2022. The studio space is private. This is a long-term, not a sublet situation. The monthly rent is $200 with a deposit of $261.05.

70 sq ft of working space plus 20 sq ft of storage space. Total sq ft 95

Application deadline Wednesday, Dec 15.

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