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Today we announced Further Afield, a series of four exhibitions organized by Further Executive Director @zullyadler. The shows bring Bay Area art histories into view - from LSD blotter art to a local gardener’s world of carvings.

Featuring Martin Wong, Paulina Peavy, Demetrio Braceros, and Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the exhibitions tell stories about underground, offbeat, and vernacular art-making, inviting us to look closer at the distinctive art of Northern California and the unexpected places it takes root. The shows will be on view in San Francisco and Berkeley during the Further Triennial season, from March - June 2027.

Thank you to @bbrianbboucher at @artnews and Max Blue at the @sfexaminer for sharing the story. Read both articles and catch up on Triennial news at the link in our bio.

#FurtherTriennial #FurtherAfield #BayAreaArt #SanFranciscoArt #NorthernCaliforniaArt by @furthertriennial

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Art is hiding everywhere in Northern California. Sometimes in plain sight and sometimes secreted away. Many times it’s right under your nose.

Further Triennial brings together nearly 100 visual arts organizations from across the Greater Bay Area for a season of original exhibitions that illuminate our creative past and present.

Watch Executive Director Zully Adler @zullyadler pull back the curtain on just a few of our strange and amazing artists and places.

Follow @furthertriennial for a sneak peek of what will unfold.

📹: @oliviamerrion and @kristian_melom

#FurtherTriennial #NorthernCaliforniaArt #BayAreaArt #SanFranciscoArt #VisitCalifornia by @furthertriennial

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80+ exhibitions. 3 months. 1 region. So. Much. Art.

Some people ask: What is Further, exactly? 👀

Today we’re excited to fill you in.

Our first edition, Further Triennial: Around Here, lands in 2027—bringing together arts organizations across the Greater Bay Area to explore the creative life of Northern California: past, present, vivid, and a little strange (just how we like it).

Expect new takes on skate culture, Funk art, California craft, Bay Area Dada, and Zen Buddhism. Explore local legends like Dewey Crumpler, Maija Peeples-Bright, Kota Ezawa, Gay Outlaw, Maria Silk, and Catherine Wagner. And discover the underground heroes and nonconformists who shaped this place. Some shows look back. Others look forward. All are grounded right here.

Guess what, there’s more:
✨ An exhibition series curated by Zully Adler uncovering lost art histories
🚐 A retrofitted vintage vehicle turned roaming art hub
📍 Twelve weekends of events and performance across each region
💸 A new fund supporting community-rooted organizations

Curious? Hit the link in bio and follow along.

#FurtherTriennial #Further #NorCalArts #BayAreaArts #CaliforniaArts by @furthertriennial

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Further merch has landed at Park Life. Our limited-edition tote and long-sleeve tee feature artwork by Santa Cruz folk hero Charlie Tweddle. Both are now available through @parklifesf.

If you caught yesterday’s newsletter, you’ve already had a first look – alongside our newly announced Further Afield exhibitions. More to come. For now, something to wear and something to carry. Shop both at the link in our bio.

#FurtherTriennial #BayAreaArt #ParkLifeSF #NorthernCalifornia #SanFranciscoArt

📷: @aaronwojack

Artist's clothes hanger by @isabella__manfredi taken in PARK LIFE by @furthertriennial

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In our September newsletter, which drops tomorrow, Oakland-based artist Kota Ezawa discusses the Bay Area colors that have found their way into his work and ‘long story short’, his first museum career survey.

“Our initial idea was a survey exhibition because I’ve been at it for more than 20 years. But I don’t feel comfortable just looking back, so the show will also include a new installation. I’m putting a lot of thought and labor into this work. I think of it almost like an artist statement in the form of an artwork, rather than a piece that thinks about one very small topic,” says Ezawa.

Opening in 2027, the exhibition will bring together 20 years of work and a new animation at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis @manettishrem, curated by @susiekantor.

Subscribe to the Further newsletter to read the full conversation, along with some big announcements about the Triennial. Link in bio.

#FurtherTriennial #KotaEzawa #BayAreaArt #NorthernCaliforniaArt #ManettiShrem

Image credits:
1: Photograph by Colin H. Johnson.
2–3: Kota Ezawa, Vector drawing based on scene from “Jo no mai” (1984), directed by Sadao Nakajima, 2025 (detail in image 2). Courtesy of the artist.
4: Kota Ezawa, Beatles Über California, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
5: Photograph courtesy of Paulson Fontaine Press. taken in Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis by @furthertriennial

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Jo Hanson looked where most people didn’t. She made art from sidewalk litter and found objects.

“Unearthed” at the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence (AIR) Program @recologyair will pair Hanson’s artwork with decades of archival material to tell the story of an artist who saw beauty in what others discarded. Along the way, the exhibition revisits the founding of the Recology AIR Program and Hanson’s role in shaping a distinctly San Franciscan vision of art, environmentalism, and civic responsibility.

On view at the Recology Artist in Residence Program, March - June 2027 for Further Triennial.

#JoHanson #RecologyAIR #BayAreaArt #NorthernCaliforniaArt #FurtherTriennial

All images courtesy of Recology Artist in Residence (AIR) Program and Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) @wead.artists taken in Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program by @furthertriennial

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In Judith Scott’s hands, everyday objects became something else.

Keys, plastic tubing, bicycle wheels, chairs, and even a shopping cart became the cores of sculptures. Scott bound and knotted them in layers of yarn, twine, rope, and strips of fabric until the objects inside were nearly concealed.

Scott, who had Down syndrome and was Deaf, began attending @creativegrowth in Oakland in 1987. In a fiber workshop, she found the materials and method that would define her work. She made her first fiber sculpture in 1988 and continued working at Creative Growth until her death in 2005.

During Further in 2027, Scott’s work will be presented at @creativegrowth in “Icons”, a group exhibition bringing together nine Creative Growth artists whose work has shaped contemporary art in the Bay Area and beyond.

Image credits:
1: Photograph by @leonborensztein, courtesy of @creativegrowth
2, 4, and 5: Courtesy of @andrewedlingallery
3: Courtesy of @creativegrowth

#JudithScott #CreativeGrowth #FurtherTriennial #BayAreaArt #DisabilityArts taken in Creative Growth Art Center by @furthertriennial

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Emile Norman made his first sculpture at eleven. He carved a piece of granite and ruined his father’s wood chisels.

Born in 1918, Norman moved to Big Sur in 1946, where he built a home and studio with his partner, Brooks Clement. He worked with plastic, wood, glass, shells, foliage, metal, and other found materials.

His largest and best-known work is the monumental Endomosaic at the California Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco. Unveiled in 1957, the 48-by-38-foot mural comprises 45 panels. Norman made them with 180 hues of crushed glass, seashells, foliage, metal, sliced vegetable matter, and soil pressed between layers of clear acrylic.

Norman invented the word “endomosaic” for this process. The finished work is neither a conventional mosaic nor stained glass. Its images trace the history of California and the symbols of Freemasonry.

Norman’s Endomosaic and a new permanent exhibition devoted to his life and work at the California Masonic Memorial Temple will be part of Further Triennial in 2027.

March 10 – June 10, 2027

#FurtherTriennial #EmileNorman #Endomosaic #BayAreaArt #SanFrancisco taken in California Masonic Memorial Temple by @furthertriennial

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Steven Arnold was a worldbuilder.

Part home, part studio, part salon, “Zanzabar” was where the Oakland-born, Los Angeles-based artist gathered friends to stage elaborate photographs using handmade sets, costumes, and found materials. It became the center of a practice shaped by Arnold’s own mythology, drawing on Hollywood, religion, and ancient cultures as readily as California’s queer underground.

Arnold died from AIDS-related complications in 1994. This spring, the GLBT Historical Society @glbt_history will present “Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven” as part of Further Triennial, bringing one of California’s great queer visionaries back to the Bay Area.

#StevenArnold #QueerArt #BayAreaArt #FurtherTriennial #SanFranciscoArt

Image credits:

1, 4, 5 - Courtesy Del Vaz Projects and © ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

2, 3, 6 - © Tim Street-Porter. taken in The GLBT Historical Society by @furthertriennial

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Bay Area galleries: join us after hours.

Further Triennial and SF Art Week are teaming up for three Gallery Nights during Further in the spring of 2027, inviting galleries across the Bay Area to stay open late, host a reception, or plan a special event around exhibitions exploring Northern California artists and art history.

Applications for @FurtherTriennial x @sf_artweek Gallery nights are now open. Apply by October 11 at the link in bio.

#FurtherTriennial #SanFranciscoArtWeek #BayAreaArts by @furthertriennial

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“I am very interested in the geopolitics of labor and how that affects the land. I felt that a lot when I was working on my map of Asian farmworker history in California, because much of the farmland in Northern California was first irrigated by Chinese workers who came to the region in the late 1800s to work on the railroads. When these Chinese workers were no longer needed for railroad work, they had to find other jobs and that was farmwork.”

In our latest newsletter, artist Connie Zheng @yconniezheng discusses mapping Northern California, the people who built its landscape, and “Catch Us If We Fall”, her project at EastSide Arts Alliance @eastsidecultural for Further in 2027.

Read the full conversation in our newsletter – and subscribe for Northern California artist interviews and stories from across the triennial. Link in bio.

📷 1, 2, 4: @particulr

📷 3: @skygreene by @furthertriennial

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Inspired by @helloforevor ✨

Alicia McCarthy putting ideas to the test and we’re here for it: “A negative-space weave has a kind of patchwork effect, which will offset the colors more. It will stand out more on the road than a full-color weave, which is important. In the end, a van is really just a rectangle, and you can play around with that more with a negative-space weave with that shape.”

Her work is utopian, underground, iconic, and completely welcoming—all the things we hope Furthermore will be, too. Read the full story at the link in bio via @sfchronicle, by @tonybravosf.

📷: @minimowine by @furthertriennial

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