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The Making Of...

Thursday, May 30, 2013

10 a.m.

Meet Bay Area makers and artists featured in The Making Of…, a community collaboration by award-winning radio producers The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) and KQED. The Making Of… is a multimedia series about what people make in the Bay Area and why, capturing the art, creativity, and innovation happening in backyards, workplaces, cultural institutions, and public spaces throughout one of the most diverse and innovative regions in the country.

Making Demonstrations (various locations throughout the museum and on Third Street in front of the museum):

The Making of… Featured Maker Location
A Hot Rod Ignacio “Notch” Gonzales, Top Notch Kustoms, San Jose Third Street
The Karaoke Ice Cream Truck Treatbot, San Jose Third Street
La Burbuja (The Bubble) Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Eric Pearse Chávez, Sonic Trace, KCRW, Santa Monica Haas Atrium
The Homobile: A Story of Transportation, Civil Rights, and Glitter Lynn Breedlove, Erica Berman, and Sam Lowther, San Francisco Haas Atrium
The Remaking Of…A Museum Snøhetta, Oslo/New York, and SFMOMA, San Francisco Haas Atrium
The Workshop Residence Braden Weeks Earp with Phil Ross (fungal furniture), Johanna Grawunder (lighting devices), Lauren DiCioccio (trompe l’oeil embroidery), Agelio Batle (upcycled plastic), and Maki Aizawa and Tsuyo Onodera (kimono masters), San Francisco Haas Atrium
The Remaking Of…Storytelling Hosted by Zeega; noon: The Unmaking Of…The Typewriter, Jeremy Mayer, Oakland; 1 p.m.: The Making Of…Wood, Evan Shively, Arborica, Marshall; 2 p.m.: The Making Of…Localore, Sue Schardt, AIR (The Association of Independents in Public Radio); 3 p.m.: The Making Of…Zeega, Kara Oehler, Jesse Shapins, and James Burns, San Francisco Koret Center
Al’s Attire Al Ribaya, San Francisco Third-floor landing
TechShop Blaine Dehmlow and Jess Harrington Au, San Francisco Third-floor landing
A Campsite Alite Designs, San Francisco Rooftop
Cheese Peggy Smith and Maureen Cunnie, Cowgirl Creamery, Petaluma/Point Reyes/San Francisco Rooftop
Chocolate Zohara Mapes and Shiao Williams-Sheng, TCHO Chocolate, San Francisco Rooftop
The Cinema Snowglobe JD Beltran and Scott Minneman, San Francisco Rooftop
Everything (A Revolving Table of Community Makers) 10 a.m.: The Making Of…A Diddley Bow, Marilyn McNeal, Berkeley; 11 a.m.: The Making Of…Fungal Furniture, Phil Ross, San Francisco; noon: The Making Of…Indigo, Matt Dick, Small Trade Company San Francisco; 1 p.m.: The Making Of…A Democracy, Attack of the Typewriters, San Francisco; 2 p.m.: The Making Of…An Animated Film, Ornana, San Rafael; 3 p.m.: The Making Of…An Amplifier, Trash Amps, San Francisco Rooftop
Kimchi SunHui Chang and Ellen Sebastian Chang, FuseBOX, Oakland Rooftop

Making Discussions (Koret Visitor Education Center):

  • 5:00 p.m. The Making Of…Rebar and the Alvord Lake Bridge, with Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, KALW, San Francisco
  • 5:30 p.m. The Making Of…The Making Of…, with The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) with Nathan Dalton, and KQED Public Radio, San Francisco