TERRENCE BREWER & CITIZEN RHYTHM FEATURING JOE COHEN Terrence Brewer – guitar; Doug Ebert – bass; Rob Rhodes – drums; Michael Coleman – keyboards; Joe Cohen – tenor saxophone Miles Davis, SouLive, and Cream get into a bar fight…it’s the closest imagery that describes the sound of San Francisco based music collective, Citizen Rhythm. It is the music of Mingus, Monk, Miles, and more [...]

Art meets science at Intersection! Intersection for the Arts presents By-product Becomes Product, an innovative cross-disciplinary project using excess wood waste to explore safer alternatives to working with toxic material. Featuring lead artist Christine Lee (sculpture, furniture), U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL, the country’s leading wood research institute) Research Engineer John F. Hunt, [...]

All performances are FREE and happen every Friday afternoon from 12 to 2pm in collaboration with Off The Grid‘s food trucks! Location: Minna Street tunnel, between 5th Street and Mary Alley, near corner of 5th and Mission Streets.  Click here for map! FRIDAY MARCH 1, 2013, 12 to 2pm HOWARD WILEY TRIO Howard Wiley – saxophone; John Turk [...]

HOWARD WILEY QUARTET: I LOVE THE 80s Howard Wiley – saxophone; Michael Aaberg – piano; Sly Randolph – drums; Marcus Shelby – bass Howard Wiley brings a new quartet to Intersection performing music influenced by favorite pop hits from the 80s. Howard Wiley’s grandfather, Sam Wiley, played saxophone in Count Basie’s Orchestra, and gave constant advice to the young musician growing [...]

This event is presented in conjunction with Intersection for the Arts’s exhibition By-product Becomes Product, which explores contemporary issues of materials reclamation, resource conservation and recycling. Join the artists in this exhibition – lead artist Christine Lee, Russell Baldon, Julia Goodman, Barbara Holmes, Scott Oliver, and Julia Goodman – along with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest [...]

LES GWAN JUPONS – VINTAGE CARIBBEAN FOLK-JAZZ Cory Wright – clarinet; Rob Ewing – trombone; John Finkbeiner – guitar; Lisa Mezzacappa – acoustic bass; John Hanes – drums & percussion Les Gwan Jupons play vintage party music from the French, Spanish and English-speaking Caribbean – biguine from Martinique, calypso from Trinidad, cumbia from Colombia, cha-cha and bolero from Cuba. [...]

This event is presented in conjunction with Intersection for the Arts’s exhibition By-product Becomes Product, which explores contemporary issues of materials reclamation, resource conservation and recycling. A presentation by Danielle Siembieda-Gribben on healthier and safer practices in the art studio. The Art Inspector is committed changing for the better how artists, collectors, curators and collectors impact the [...]

Intersection for the Arts presents the unveiling of a public art installation and a sculptural component of the 5Ws Project. The WHO sculpture–a 10 foot long, 300lb steel bench–is a physical question offering an opportunity for inquiry, learning, change and growth. Artist Ana Teresa Fernandez and designer & architect Johanna Grawunder, have created five illuminated [...]

February 28, 2013  5pm (Intersection for the Arts) - we announce the ten selected Artist-Investigators, as well as many of the 30 finalists from our applicant pool—creators who are shaping the future of the field! The Artist-Investigator project seeks to support artists from a variety of disciplines—theater, dance, performance and visual art, multidisciplinary artists, and those exploring social practice—who [...]

Jazz at the Intersection 2013 Spring Series continues with our first Sunday Matinee show! Scott Amendola – drums & electronics; Wil Blades – Hammond B3 organ Scott Amendola and Wil Blades conjure various sonic deities though only a duo. Their live shows have been generating a buzz around the Bay Area.  The two got their [...]