The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a nonprofit contemporary art center and research institute in San Francisco . It is part of the California College of the Arts . The institute holds exhibitions, lectures, and symposia, releases publications, and runs the Capp Street Project residency program.
13-564: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts was founded in 1998 by Lawrence Rinder . It was originally named the CCAC Institute of Exhibitions and Public Programming, and was renamed is 2002 following the death of Phyllis C. Wattis , a San Francisco cultural philanthropist and the great-granddaughter of Brigham Young . Wattis was born in 1905 and contributed more than $ 150 million to cultural institutions in California. The art center
26-842: A New York museum by the United States chapter of the International Association of Art Critics. Prior to the Whitney, Rinder was founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts , in San Francisco, and served as Assistant Director and Curator for Twentieth-Century Art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive . Among the many exhibitions he organized at these institutions are "Searchlight: Consciousness at
39-485: A major move for the museum from an older – seismically unstable – brutalist building, to a new building designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in downtown Berkeley . He announced his retirement from BAMPFA in September 2019. Zyzzyva (magazine) Zyzzyva is a triannual magazine of writers and artists. It places an emphasis on showcasing emerging voices and never before published writers in addition to
52-626: A novella (with Colter Jacobsen) "Tuleyome", which was described by Colin Herd in 3:AM Magazine as "Comic and melancholy in equal measure, Tuleyome is the most fully realised example of a text-photo-novel I can think of, where the text and the photos are equal players in the advance of a complex and fascinating narrative, and where the formal properties of both text and photograph are interrogated and laid bare." Art Life: Selected Writings, 1991-2005 , published by Gregory R. Miller and Company in Spring 2006,
65-449: Is a contemporary art curator and museum director. He directed the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) from 2008 to 2020. Since 2014, Rinder has been a board member and advisor of Kadist . Rinder received a Bachelor of Arts in art from Reed College and an Master of Arts in art history from Hunter College . He has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley , Columbia University , and Deep Springs College . He
78-758: Is his first book of essays. His first play, “The Wishing Well," co-authored with Kevin Killian , premiered in 2006 and was published that year in The Back Room Anthology ( Clear Cut Press ). In 2003, Rinder was inducted into the National Register of Peer Professionals of the U.S. General Services Administration, and in 2005, he was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Commission by Mayor Gavin Newsom . Rinder led
91-908: The Rooftop Garden at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . The following have served as Director of the Wattis institute for Contemporary Arts: The Wattis Institute also runs the Capp Street Project, a visual arts residency dedicated to the creation and presentation of new art installations. It was founded in San Francisco in 1983, and by 2020 had supported over 100 local, national, and international artists through its residency and public exhibition programs. 37°46′02″N 122°24′00″W / 37.767160°N 122.400046°W / 37.767160; -122.400046 Lawrence Rinder Lawrence R. Rinder
104-628: The Millennium" (1999), "Knowledge of Higher Worlds: Rudolf Steiner's Blackboard Drawings" (1997), "Louise Bourgeois: Drawings" (1996), "In a Different Light" (1995), " Félix González-Torres " (1994), and "Where There Is Where There: The Prints of John Cage " (1989). In September 2007, the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, opened an installation guest curated by Rinder entitled Shahrokh Yadegari: Through Music . This installation served as
117-596: The already established. Based in San Francisco , it began publishing in 1985. ZYZZYVA' s slogan is "The Last Word," referring to " zyzzyva ", the last word in the American Heritage Dictionary . A zyzzyva is an American weevil . The accent is on the first syllable. The founder was Howard Junker . He retired from the magazine in 2010 and named Laura Cogan as editor-in-chief . In 2023, Managing Editor Oscar Villalon became editor in chief,
130-645: The latest exhibition in the Museum's REVISIONS series, in which contemporary artists create original installations based on objects in the Museum's extensive collections. He has published poetry, fiction, and art criticism in Zyzzyva , Fresh Men 2: New Voices in Gay Fiction, Flash Art, Artforum, nest, The Village Voice, Fillip , and Parkett. He is the author of a novel, Revenge of the Decorated Pigs , and
143-1110: The third editor in the publication's history. Work from the magazine has received the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and has been included in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading . Notable contributors include Haruki Murakami , Peter Orner , Kay Ryan , Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Guterson , Tom Bissell , Tatjana Soli , Ron Carlson, Luis Alberto Urrea , Amy Hempel , D.A. Powell, Matthew Dickman, Herbert Gold, Daniel Sada , Adam Johnson, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Richard Misrach, Aimee Bender , Diego Enrique Osorno, Sherman Alexie , Daniel Handler, Adrienne Rich , Robert Hass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wanda Coleman, Raymond Carver, Tom Barbash, William T. Vollmann, Sandow Birk, Kate Folk, Sean Gill , Fabián Martínez Siccardi, Dagoberto Gilb , Ed Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn, Ursula K. Le Guin , Robert Creeley, Héctor Tobar , and M.F.K. Fisher . Boonville , by Robert Mailer Anderson
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#1732802139804156-579: Was originally located on the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts, in a refurbished 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m) former Greyhound Bus maintenance facility designed in 1951 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill . The Wattis Institute opened its new location at 360 Kansas Street in January 2013. The facility was redesigned by architect Mark Jensen, best known for his work with
169-605: Was the Dean of Graduate Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco , a position he was appointed to in 2004. Rinder served as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he organized exhibitions including "The American Effect", "BitStreams", the 2002 Whitney Biennial , and "Tim Hawkinson", which was given the 2005 award for best monographic exhibition in
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