Mission Mission

Southern Exposure tonight hosts the culmination of artist Brion Nuda Rosch‘s month-long residency, which has featured an ice cream stand and a series of ice cream socials:

Throughout the month, ice cream has been served and conversations have been had. Visit the gallery for a final social and opportunity to experience the ephemera of past activities and actions. The Portable Ice Cream Stand is a happening, and we offer you an invitation to participate.

Link. Party starts at 6pm.

Tonight at Doc’s Clock, it’s Barbie Destruction Night, a benefit for Creativity Explored:

Doc’s Clock will provide the Barbie and art supplies, and you bring your twisted imagination to transform Barbie into your worst nightmare!

Link. Party starts at 8pm.

Photo by dinahdk.

My sister makes cute little felt turntable slipmats, and she just made them available via her new Etsy shop. So even though she almost never comes to visit, and even though she thinks blogging is dumb, please click here to view her inventory

SF Print Collective is having some kind of gallery opening next week, so I was perusing their site and came across a whole series of posters produced years ago for something called the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition. This beauty stirs up varying sets of emotions for me. Was anybody around when this campaign was in full swing? Link.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Gentrification Implications of Sidewalk Stencils

It’s time for the 9th Annual Expo for Independent Arts, and for the first time it’s being held outdoors, in our favorite place in the world, Dolores Park:

The 2008 Expo is an all-day extravaganza in Dolores Park featuring more than 100 Bay Area arts organization exhibitors, a couple dozen D.I.Y. workshop and education events, delicious food, a children’s activity area, and two stages for live music, performances, circus acts and hundreds of local artists and musicians. Attendees can browse tables staffed by local galleries, nonprofits, collectives and small businesses; present their portfolios; and join in workshops on grant proposals, censorship, arts marketing, underground art history, making a demo tape and more.

We’re looking forward to performances by Ralph Carney, SFC Double Dutch and Uni and Her Ukulele. See you there? (via funcheapSF)

This guy Will Yackulic had an exhibition at Adobe Books years ago called Finest Pure, and he did the cover art for a poetry compendium I got at Needles + Pens called Le Palais de Nuit. Back then, he worked with cubes and pyramids, whereas now it looks like he’s into triangles and spheres. Libby at Libby’s Niche interviewed Yackulic and got him to talk about his process (which these days sometimes involves typewriters) and cool places to go in NYC. He also uses some cool words I’ve never heard before like “phosphene.” Link.

More Will Yackulic at Gregory Lind Gallery.

This week saw a couple of new Bodé pieces along Valencia, but this one’s particularly good. Alarming, right?

Although no one actually died last night at the Literary Death Match, I died a little on the inside when my least favorite competitor actually won the final prize, a cardboard crown. The night featured a whole host of characters – and the other three d. matchers (Tom Perrotta Tom Barbash, Rhea De Ross-Wiess, and Damion Searls), all of whom had written some extraordinary pieces provided a laugh a minute. Maybe next time the winner should be chosen based on merit rather than who can find an audience member with a belly scar. Just a thought?

I often forget how rewarding hearing authors read their own works can be. Promoted heavily at this event was Litquake when a Deathmatch that will rate even higher on the Richter scale will occur on October 6 and whose last hurrah, the Litcrawl, takes place in the Mission on October 11 and is FREE!

Tonight, Needles + Pens hosts an opening for a new photo exhibition titled Welcome All, featuring work by locals Andrew M. Scott and Geoffrey Ellis. Looks like the pair cruised around some Middle American backroads and snapped some artful shots of colorful old junk falling apart. The party starts at 6pm. (via SF Art & Design Lover)

I found this poster in the window of the Mission Street Safeway yesturday. I love the little drawings, as well as the tear-stained face at the bottom of the poster. I hope they’ve been returned by now.