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Tehmina Khan’s Poetry
Tehmina Khan's poem, “Casualties of a War on Creativity,” reflects on the consequences of losing art classes at City College. An ekphrastic poem, it takes inspiration from the No Business as Usual Exhibit of Protest Art at the now closed Fort Mason Campus. The poem...
Deborah Shaw’s Art for the CCSF Diego Rivera Art Project
Deborah Shaw's Description of Drawing, Paulette Goddard, 2020 Pencil drawing of Actress Paulette Goddard in a 1953 American film noir crime film, Vice Squad. The film is also known as The Girl in Room 17. Paulette Goddard starred opposite Edward G. Robinson as escort...
Jeff Kaliss’s Poetry for CCSF Diego Rivera Art Project
Jeff Kaliss's description of his Poem, Celia, and how it relates to the Diego Rivera Pan American Unity Mural - Through numerous discussions with Celia Malheiros, the inspiration of my epoymous poem, I became convinced of the progressive and international approach...
Suzanne Cowan’s CCSF Diego Rivera Art Project Art
Suzanne Cowan, Intersectionality, Oil Pastel on Oil Paper, 2021 Come see Suzanne Cowan's art! The four panels of her picture illustrate different aspects of intersectionality: Organizational (with the Democratic Socialist rose symbol near the center); racial / ethnic;...
Diego Rivera Mural Documentary with CCSF’s Will Maynez
NBC Documentary on Rivera Mural - Diego Rivera: Moving a MasterpieceDiego Rivera’s treasured Pan American Unity mural is massive. Together, all 10 panels measure 22 feet high by 74 feet wide and weigh over 60,000 pounds. Moving it from City College of San Francisco to...