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Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Michael Arcega (b. 1973, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in San Francisco, CA) works with a wide range of materials and creates sculptures and installations that are informed by historical narratives, sociopolitical dynamics, and power relations. His work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Arcega received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and MFA from Stanford University, and currently is a faculty member at San Francisco State University. He is the Recipient of an Artadia grant, Joan Mitchell MFA Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Presented in conjunction with Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, on view Sep 28, 2017–Jan 28, 2018 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
Uploaded Aug 28, 2017.
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid presents newly commissioned works of art by sixteen contemporary artists in response to a selection of tales from Jewish folklore. Acting as modern maggids—storytellers, transmitters of knowledge, secrets revealers—they explore the many facets of these stories’ characters, themes, and metaphors. Artists include: Michael Arcega, Julia Goodman, Dina Goldstein, Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth Hope, Vera Iliatova, David Kasprzak, Mads Lynnerup, Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Mike Rothfeld, Tracey Snelling, Chris Sollars, M. Louise Stanley, Inez Storer, and Young Suh and Katie Peterson.
Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Lead sponsorship is provided by the Koret Foundation. Major support is provided by Gaia Fund, Wendy Kesser, and Dorothy R. Saxe. Sponsorship is provided in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum thanks The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for its major support of The Museum’s exhibition program.