The San Francisco Arts of the Pacific Asia Show,
Opening Preview, Feb. 4, 2010 6pm - 9pm
The San Francisco Arts of the Pacific Asia Show,
Feb. 5 -7, 2010, Friday and Sat. 11am - 7pm, Sunday 11am -5pm
Bonhams & Butterfields,
Fine African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art Auction
220 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco
Public preview: Feb 8 - 11, 12pm -5pm. Auction: February 12, 10am
The San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show,
Opening Preview, Feb. 11, 2010 6pm -9pm
The San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show,
Feb. 12 - 14, 2010, Friday and Sat. 11am - 7pm, Sunday 11am -5pm
The Marin Show: Art of the Americas,
Opening Preview Feb 12, 2010
The Marin Show: Art of the Americas,
Feb 13 - 14, 2010 Sat. 10am - 6pm, Sunday 11am -5pm
Panel Discussion: Collectors, Dealers and the Law
12:00 pm, Thursday, February 11, 2010
Marin Civic Center
Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA) sponsored panel discussion featuring members of the judicial, legal, academic and museum communities as well as a representative from the tribal dealer community. Directed toward collectors, dealers and the general public to increase awareness of applicable laws as well as the responsibilities of collectors and dealers. Attendance is free.
Lecture/Book Signing: Basketry Plants of Western
North America
12:00 pm, Saturday February 13, 2010
Embassy Suites
Renowned California basket maker, collector and teacher, Justin Farmer will discuss his new book. Mr. Farmer served on the Board of Trustees of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, The Autry Center, in Los Angeles, and he is a member of virtually every Indian museum in Southern California. Attendance is free.
Lecture - One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record -
Dr. Candace Greene, an anthropologist with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will give a lecture exploring a pictorial calendar, or "winter count", a rare chronicle of Kiowa history, drawn by the gifted artist Silver Horn, or Haungooah. Dr. Greene will explain how she deciphered the meaning of this history, recorded only in pictures, which traces one hundred years of Kiowa history from 1828-1928. Greene is the author One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record (2009); The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (2007); and Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa (2001). Presented by Friends of Ethnic Arts. Sun., Feb. 14, 10:00am at the Marin Center.
A Thousand Years of Southwestern Pottery - Marin Museum of the American Indian extends the exhibit through Feb. 2009 as part of Arte du Monde week (
www.marinindian.com)