“The TL: The Beating Heart of San Francisco” with the 3.9 Art Collective Ft. Jacqueline Francis, S.
Schedule
Thu Jun 20 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
398 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94102 | San Francisco, CA
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To mark the Juneeteenth holiday, 3.9 Art Collective members Jacqueline Francis, S. Reneé Jones, & Trina Michelle Robinson present creative work at TLM and reflect on the Tenderloin’s role and influence on their lives and artistic practices. Organized for this year’s annual Juneteenth holiday, “The Beating Heart of San Francisco” presents the creative work of the 3.9 Art Collective. Established in 2010, the 3.9 Art Collective is an association of San Francisco African American artists, curators, and writers who came together to draw attention to the city’s dwindling black population. The program features 3.9 Art Collective Jacqueline Francis, S. Reneé Jones, & Trina Michelle Robinson, whose work is also on view in the Tenderloin Museum’s gallery space called Home and Away.
In her presentation, Jacqueline Francis will read from “Look A Way,” an in-progress short story, informed by her first visit to San Francisco: a weeklong stay at a Tenderloin hotel in the fall of 1987. The irrepressible TL is the star of the story–a self-sustaining ecosystem of significance, dispensed in myriad ways.
Trina Michelle Robinson will discuss how her choice to live in the Tenderloin has shaped both her art practice and her experience in the Bay Area. Her photogravure prints and the handmade paper made from palm fronds she collected in Cameroon, explore migration, specifically, her West African lineage and the long forgotten time before her ancestors arrived in California, or even this country. Her projection features highlights from her video essays exploring her California roots.
S. Renée Jones will talk about the numerous times she’s worked in the TL as a photographer and volunteer (before choosing to live there). Her black and white photos tell the story of the TL through the relationships she formed in the Tenderloin National Forest. The eight-year project of photographing twice a week, during the day and at night, as a member of and teacher at the 6th Street Photography Workshop, produced a well-rounded body of work. The people from the TL neighborhood participated as subjects and models, and they got an introduction to photography from Workshop members. The images that the Worksop members printed in the darkroom were given out weekly to TL residents; they also were exhibited at the 509 Gallery and the 10’x10’ shack near the entrance to the Tenderloin National Forest.
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