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SF artist and educator. 1/3 of MOB.
2025 Artadia + Artpower Awardee.
Now: Mead Museum, SFMOMA, KALW
Recent: 730 Stanyan, Silverlens NY
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We have an exceptional cohort of artists shaping Remittance – one of the two exhibitions currently on view at the Mead. Learn more about one of those artists, from their upbringing to what motivates their art, and if this post leaves you wanting more, make sure to check out Jenifer K Wofford’s installation (and all the other artworks featured in the exhibition) in person until January 3! Pictures courtesy of Jenifer K Wofford and and Mel Taing. Jenifer K Wofford was born in San Francisco, but she was raised in Hong Kong, Dubai, Malaysia, and the Bay Area. Wofford’s style features strong color, line and pattern, a crisp visual approach, and a touch of absurdism. In addition, her art is shaped by a deeply felt sense of curiosity, irony, and tragicomedy. For Remittance, Wofford produced a mixed media installation entitled “Utang/Na Loob”, a slight twist on the Filipino phrase for one’s “debt of gratitude.” It names an obligation that is at once intimate and infinite—the debt owed to those who sacrificed for you, who carried you, who went away so that you could stay. Part confessional, part photo booth, part Western Union kiosk, the booth is a space for transactions: Inside, visitors can sit and reflect at a window staffed by a large, glowing rock. While thinking, they’re invited to pass prompts designed by the artist through to the other side. Want to learn more? Come visit Remittance until Jan. 3, 2027!
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NEW YORK:Silverlens is excited to announce Empress, an exhibition of new work by Jenifer K Wofford, running November 5 through December 19, 2026. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 5, followed by an artist walkthrough on Saturday, November 7, at 2:00 PM. What if basketball had been invented by Filipinas, and they still ruled the court? That’s the premise of Jenifer K Wofford’s speculative origin myth for the game. The real history belongs to another empire. American teachers brought the game to the colonial Philippines as a sport for girls, then struck it from the curriculum, worried that young women in bloomers would pick up aggression, promiscuity, or even lesbianism. Filipinos fell hard for basketball, but mostly for the men’s game. “Not that any nation celebrates women’s athletics equally, to be clear,” Wofford notes. Her paintings world-build around a 1910s photograph of a girls’ team from Apalit, Pampanga, letting its players break loose. Now they’re diwata, spiritual protectresses, leaping and contorting in poses lifted from art history, colliding in a frenzy without losing an athlete’s precision. Woven banig mats line the gallery walls, turning the gallery into a clubhouse crossed with a tiki lounge. Under the loud colors and crisp lines are serious questions about empire, gender, and who gets to play. 🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio. #Silverlens #JeniferKWofford
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Day 1 of Amherst, MA trip- a walk to Emily Dickinson’s grave, amazing conversation about my book with @intifadabatata ‘s Poetry I class, finding art by @woffsilog !!! at @meadartmuseum , lovely dinner with @rholanderpoet , and attending a @keetjekuipers reading that still has me buzzing - so much gratitude and love and brilliant words of poetry swimming in my brain with thanks to @amherstcreativewriting for the invitation and of course to @perugiapress for everything.
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Art + Water has a new identity and a new website, and we couldn’t be more thrilled with how they turned out. It feels like us: open, curious, colorful, a little salty from the bay, and ready for a lot of people to walk through the door. Which is exactly what’s coming. The walls are going up at Pier 29, the studios are taking shape, and in December we open to all of you. Come see what artists, mentors, and a whole city can build together. Hugest thanks to MacFadden & Thorpe, and especially to Maggie, Scott, Brett, Anisha, and Caroline. You listened closely, brought incredible design and generosity, and gave us something we’ll be proud to grow into for years. @macfaddenandthorpe Take a look around: link in bio. See you on the water in December. #artpluswater #bayareaartists #pier29 #sanfranciscoarts #bayareaartist
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"Remittance", curated by Trisha Lagaso Goldberg @tza_lagoldberg explores global themes of resilience, displacement, interdependence, and the enduring ties of family and community. Across the world, remittances—the transfer of money or goods by a foreign worker to an individual, usually a family member, in their home country—provide essential income for households, form a vital part of many nations' economies, and embody profound acts of care and devotion that sustain millions of families. Through installations and multimedia works, the artists in "Remittance" consider specific topics that involve remittances—from Filipino domestic and healthcare workers seeking opportunities abroad, to the complexities of Indigenous nationhood within North America—and together, the exhibition provides a platform to map the legacies of global power structures shaping remittance economies. In a poignant meditation on these bonds that reach across time, borders, and generations, "Remittance" invites us to grapple with the forces that are driving labor migration, and the realities faced by migrant workers, through the deeply personal lens of familial debt and devotion. "Remittance" debuts in Amherst at the Mead Art Museum @meadartmuseum on September15 2026 through January 3, 2027. Artists: Pio Abad @pioabad Frances Wadsworth Jones @fwj__studio Bhen Alan @bhen_alan Xyza Cruz Bacani @xyzacruzbacani Victoria Grace Canby @victoriagrace2244 ETC Magazine @_etcmagazine Dejan Kaludjerovic @studio_dk__dejan_kaludjerovic Guadalupe Maravilla @guadalupemaravilla Keith Tallett @valley2alley Stephanie Misa @steph.misa Rayanne Tabet #rayannetabet Jenifer K Wofford @woffsilog
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Remittance is open TODAY through January 3, 2027. Featuring multimedia installations by a dozen contemporary artists, Remittance illuminates the financial, familial, and emotional dimensions of global remittance practices. While it goes by many names, a remittance–simply defined–is a transfer of money or goods by a foreign worker to an individual, traditionally in their home country. The Mead is honored to debut this touring show. Join the curator (@tza_lagoldberg) and many of the artists to celebrate this during a deluxe opening weekend, Oct. 1-3. Learn more through the events calendar linked in our bio or go to amherst.edu/mead/events.
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Join us for a Day of Public Art in Chinatown! Celebrate a day of new public art commissions across Chinatown: three venues, one neighborhood, all just minutes apart. Come see it all in person on Saturday, September 12: 📍 Chinatown–Rose Pak Station Artist-led tour 11:00 AM–12:00 PM · Activations through 4:00 PM 📍 CCC Art Center & Design Store, 667 Grant Ave Meet the artists · 11:00 AM–3:00 PM 📍 Empress of China, 838 Grant Ave CMAC Community open house · 11:00 AM–4:00 PM · Ceremony at 1:00 PM Free and open to all. Presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission, Chinese Culture Center, and Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative.
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Tonight is the opening night for Made in this Place: Bay Area Artists In Their Own Words. Brought to you by @artisawesome_podcast @kalwpublicmedia and @inglesidegallery !! Join us in celebrating this new art show with the reception with the artists and curators is at 5-8PM at 220 Montgomery street, SF. We will have light refreshments and snacks. Come see the amazing work of the 14 artists on view and hear from them in person and via their podcasts. Artworks are available for purchase at inglesidegallery.com and in person 🔴 For questions please email inglesidegallery@gmail.com
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Museum day with my lovely sister and nephew 🤍
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🇵🇭💜🏀 Sports for the people It’s always #gametime when Filipino American communities show up for each other through our collective love of sports! Congratulations to us!✊🏾🙌🏿👊🏽 Thank you @missionlocal for the coverage Thank you to all communities of sports who support @somapilipinas 🙏🏾 FHN is but one play we & our community-first organizational teammates run for our people! The Dekada FUNdraising🤗🇵🇭 campaign continues. Y’all know Filipinos thrive in tournament play! Join us! Collectively, we all #kapwatizesports ✨ #wherescoachtoday #sportsforall Repost @missionlocal The Golden State Valkyries Filipino Heritage Night Sunday brought in a slew of Filipinos with a long history in South of Market, or SoMa.⁠ ⁠ “I think it’s really important to support women’s sports, and of course, Filipinos love basketball, and there is really a groundswell of support for Pinays and also Filipino families coming out for this game,” said Raquel Redondiez, director of SoMa Pilipinas, which cohosted the event. ⁠ ⁠ Before the game, Mission Local asked attendees what Filipino Heritage Night means to them. ⁠ ⁠ “It means family and celebrating our representation in these spaces,” Tina Solano said. ⁠ ⁠ “The Filipino community is very integral to Bay Area and California history, tonight is about being together and recognizing that,” Amanda Wilson Bergado said.⁠ ⁠ “It means everything,” Anabelle Hermosura said. “The culture, the family aspect, the food, the dancing, the music — I’m very proud to be a part of it.”⁠ ⁠ “As a first generation immigrant, it means supporting my culture and being unapologetically proud of it,” Erika Ventura said. ⁠ ⁠ Read more from Aaliyah Español-Rivas at the link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ 📸: Aaliyah Español-Rivas, Zoe Malen
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😳🥹🥳🦀 FORTY!!!🦀🥳🥹😳 This crab is very much looking forward to this new decade, where my hope is to care less about the things that don’t matter and just the right amount about the things that do, tell people I love them more often, and ask for the things I want. So many of the coolest people I know are already in this club, I’m happy to finally join. Thanks for all the well wishes from near and far, and the celebrations both big and small. The last few days have included: AL’s bday dinner @truelaurels (their smoked salmon dip is one of the very best things I’ve had in SF), scrubbing away all my woes and emerging reborn at Pearl Spa, finding a $50!!! Issey Miyake dress at my favorite secondhand store, my bday dinner at our beloved @mr_rintaro, and a GG park picnic on a classically cloudy SF summer day, complete with dogs and friends, old and new 😊. I’m worn out from all this fun and definitely FEEL 40 in mind, body, and spirit 😂 It’s a gift to age feeling both healthy and loved! Thank you most of all to my amazing husband @albert_harold_lewis who pulled out all the bday magic for me💗💗💗
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(1) BLUE SILK RIBBON, ARCHIVED AT FRENCH CORRAL, CA Water-soluble graphite on watercolor paper, hand-sewed to hand-dyed canvas 7’x5′ 2026 My Art Thesis project, exhibited at SOMArts in San Francisco in the Fine Arts + Design Thesis Show Between The Lines! This was such a labor of love (by me and everyone in my class (thank you) and my wonderful professor @woffsilog. Thank u all for all the encouragement and saying I could definitely do it even when I was like oh god. i don't have enough time LOL TY ILY). Fun facts about this piece: the hand-sewing by itself took 14 hours! (I listened to Frankenstein for the first time and it was great) Also, I'd never dyed fabric before??? So that was fun process. And if anyone ever needs watercolor paper...I got u lmao!!!...Everything else I need to say I think I already said my statement so I'm just gonna post that below. This piece is about how much I loved being a girl. Even though I'm not a woman anymore, I still feel very connected to femininity and am fascinated by the opposite of my experience: becoming a woman on purpose. Eleanor Morietti (left) and Vivian Greyhound (right) are from my recent fiction stories, set in the Sierra Nevada mountains. French Corral is a ghost town on one end of the first long distance telephone line, in use from 1878 1898. Sewing Eleanor and Vivian together and to the telephone line ties them to the history of the Sierra Nevada and to my personal practices of mending and archiving. Illustrating Eleanor and Vivian at life size means taking my work and their struggles with femininity (and subsequently, my own) seriously.
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