Kala Fellowship Public Programs

Kala Art Institute's mission is to help artists sustain their creative work over time and to share this work with our community through public programs. We hope that you can join us for our Fellowship Program series, which is an opportunity to gain first-hand access to the practices of both local, national, and international artists working at Kala.

Upcoming Programs:

May 29: Residency Projects Exhibition

June 21: Kala Fellowship Event: Collaborative performance with James Sterling Pitt and Danny Paul Grody

July 5-26: Kala Fellowship Event Series: Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music & Expanded Cinema Art by John Davis

July 24: Kala Fellowship Talks: Tammy Rae Carland and Corey Escoto

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Summer 2014

Para-Aparattus: Residency Projects: New Work by 2013-2014 Kala Fellows
May 29– July 26, 2014
Kala Gallery
2990 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, CA 94702

Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-5:00pm; Sat, 12-4:30pm


Collaborative Performance with James Sterling Pitt and Danny Paul Grody
Saturday, June 21, 4-7pm
Kala Gallery
2990 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, CA 94702

In his studio practice, James Sterling Pitt records his experience of a time and place in a drawn sketch, and then converts it to sculpture referring to his personal memory of the experience. Over the course of his fellowship at Kala, Pitt has been working collaboratively with musician Danny Paul Grody. Together, they have recorded sound and image in both natural and constructed locations, including Mineral Springs in Tilden Park and Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands. In addition to field recordings, they have documented spontaneous sounds made during Pitt’s process of drawing, painting, and printmaking in his project space at Kala. The recordings they have made over this time have been reworked by each artist, built upon, and folded back into their collaborative work.

Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music & Expanded Cinema Art: John Davis
Saturdays, July 5, 12, 19, & 26, 7-9pm
Kala Gallery
2990 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, CA 94702

During his Kala fellowship John Davis will publish a hand made box set edition celebrating expanded cinema art. The publication will include two LPs, four DVDs and a booklet and features Craig Baldwin (film) +  Maggi Payne (music), Kerry Laitala (film) + Ben Bracken & Ashley Bellouin (music), Lawrence Jordan (film) + John Davis (music), Paul Clipson (film) + Tashi Wada (music). The project is entitled Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music & Expanded Cinema Art, and culminates at the end of John's residency period with four performance events each Saturday in July 2014 in the Kala Gallery. The performances will feature a selection of Bay Area moving image artists and musicians in conjunction with one of the pairs of artists featured in the publication release, and includes Joshua Churchill, Mary Helena Clarke, Chris Duncan, Steven Dye, Keith Evans, Jim Haynes, Anthony Iammurri, Zach Ianazzi, Marielle Jakobsons, Kent Long, Collin McKelvey, Vanessa O'Neill, Thad Povey, Andy Puls, Jeremy Rourke, Mark Taylor and Sweet Tooth. Schedule TBD.

More information about this series can be found here.

Artist Talks: Tammy Rae Carland and Corey Escoto
Thursday, July 24, 7-9pm
Kala Gallery
2990 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, CA 94702

Join us for a night of artist talks with 2013-2014 fellowship artists Tammy Rae Carland and Corey Escoto.