Megan Wilson

OCCUPY THE SCREEN!
ROXIE THEATER
March 29, 2012, 7pm

3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA

Co-Organized by: Christopher Statton, Roxie Theater; Julie Gilgoff & Alex Tonisson, IFPTE Local 21; Megan Wilson, CAPITALISM IS OVER! If You Want It

Thursday, March 29th the Roxie Theater will host a film series and panel discussion to help bring historic context to social and economic protest movements, beginning with the Civil Rights’ Movement, and extending to other movements that have reclaimed public spaces to protest injustice. The film night will serve as a continuation of the discussion brought to the forefront by the Occupy Movement. Now that the encampments have been dispersed, what are communities around the Bay Area doing to challenge social and economic inequities?

A segment of Newreel’s documentary series of the Black Panther Party, What We Want, What We Belive will be featured with several short films, including AFT 2121: The Movie, Art Strikes Back, Yes Men’s Guide to High Level Pranking, and Occupy SF – Veterans Day: Amos Gregory. The screening will be followed with a panel discussion. Panelists include:

Kiilu Nyasha, San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party.
Amos Gregory, Veteran Artist (US Navy, Submarine Force), Founder, Veterans’ Alley, San Francisco.
Reverend Paul Gaffney, Marin Interfaith Street Chaplaincy.
Ramneek Saini, Community Services Director for the San Francisco Labor Council

The People’s Federal Credit Union (based out of Oakland) will also have a table set up to provide information on how to transfer your money from a big bank to a credit union.

The event will be FREE to the public with a suggested donation. 7pm

On What We Want, What We Believe:
“The invaluable Movement documentaries Newsreel produced furthered the work of the Black Panther Party and now provide the esdentail visual record of the Party’s early days. The collection offers an extraordinary compilation that includes historic behind the scenes details taken from a wide range of interviews and contemporary events as well as the classic Newsreel films.”
—Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary, Black Panther Party, 1967–1971

BROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS | VANQUISHED TERRAINS opens:

APRIL 11, 2012 at INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS 7 – 9pm

The exhibition will be up:
APRIL 11 – MAY 26, 2012
INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS
925 Mission Street, Suite 109,
San Francisco, CA 94103

www.broadsideattractions.com

OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday April 11, 7-9pm, FREE
MEMBERS VIP RECEPTION Wednesday April 11, 6-7pm,
RSVP ryan@theintersection.org
GALLERY & COMMUNITY HOURS Tuesdays – Saturdays, 12-6pm

OPEN PROCESS: YOUR STORIES MAKE THE EXPERIENCE
Group reading with writers in the exhibition Saturday, April 21, 2012, 2pm, FREE
Group reading with writers in the exhibition Saturday, April 28, 2012, 2pm, FREE
Reading list exploring how we share information provided by The San Francisco Public Library.

IN-COMMUNITY PROGRAM
Printing The Future In collaboration with Community Partners Oasis for Girls, WritersCorps, ReAllocate, and TechShop, a 10-week screenprinting, public art, and writing workshop for young women that explores positive change in our communities.

Broadside Attractions: Vanquished Terrains takes inspiration from the historical broadside and reflects on contemporary events and culture using the theme of “vanquished terrains” as a point of departure. Historically the broadside has been defined as a large sheet of paper printed on one side and designed to be plastered onto walls in public areas to announce events, proclamations, or news. Before newspapers, magazines, and the internet, there was the broadside.

Organized in collaboration with curators Megan Wilson and Maw Shein Win, this project is part of Intersection’s larger exploration of language, place, and storytelling that pays homage to the history of printed matter, highlights cross-disciplinary work between artists and writers, and embraces a 21st Century reinterpretation of one of the original forms of public communication.
- Kevin Chen, Program Director: Visual Arts, Literary & Jazz at Intersection

Artist | Writer pairs include:
Eliza Barrios | Myron Michael
Paul Bridenbaugh | Steve Gilmartin
Karrie Hovey | Elise Ficarra
Misa Inaoka | Jaime Cortez
Keiko Ishihara | Chaim Bertman
Patricia Kelly | Vince Montague
Dwayne Marsh | Nana Twumasi
Nathaniel Parsons | Ly Nguyen
Christine Ponelle | Annice Jacoby
Matthew Rogers | Maw Shein Win
Megan Wilson | Hugh Behm Steinberg
Liz Worthy | Jenny Bitner

Please Help Support The Project by contributing through:
Intersection for the Arts as a tax-deductible donation
In the drop down menu that asks you to select where your gift goes, make sure to select “Megan Wilson Projects.”

You can also send a check directly to Intersection for the Arts and in the memo of the check, write” “for Megan Wilson Projects”

You can find us on Facebook – with regular posts on the activities/events of our artists & writers at:
https://www.facebook.com/BroadsideAttractions

Huge THANK YOU to: QueridoMundo, Littoral Press/Lisa Rappoport, Kalyn Dobbs (project coordinator), and Marissa Mossberg (catalogue and graphic designer).

Megan Wilson, 99%, International Public Project, 2012

99%
ROXIE THEATER

WINDOW INSTALLATION
March 3 – April 3 2012
3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA

Big THANKS to everyone at the Roxie, including: Christopher Statton, Rachel Hart, Rick Norris, Mike Keegan, Danny Gotimer, Sunny Angulo, Catie Roads Elliot Lavine, Katherine Jardine, Carl Elsaesser, Nick Friedman, Judi Gruber, Ben Feldman, and Braegen Joseph Carroll!

And big THANKS to Jake Thomason for helping me paint the signs!

Someone recently pointed out to me how similar Stephanie Syjuco’s new project International Orange is to my project Feminine Protection of 1997.  I was asked if she knew the work and how I felt about what in their eyes was so blatantly “copied” – and was I offended.  This of course made me giggle given that much of the conceptual framework in Stephanie’s work is based on “copying” and questions of “intellectual or aesthetic property.” So NO, I wasn’t offended … and yes, she knew the work – or at least she did fifteen years ago when we were both students at SFAI … but what I really thought was – 1) Damn! I wish I would have known how to use that graphics program then to do the layout for the installation – so much cleaner and crisper than the gouache drawings I did; and 2) how nice it was that someone remembered Feminine Protection since it was 15 years ago!!! … but I love that work can resurrect in the most unexpected ways.

Stephanie Syjuco, International Orange, Seventy-six pages of colorblocked text and images from an original 1937 publication for the opening ceremony of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Megan Wilson, Feminine Protection, 1997, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, 224 pages of email exchanges between myself and two lovers (one male, one female), using moleskin as an editing device to cover all identities and anything that made me feel vulnerable (quite unexpected as to what I did and did not cover).

Megan Wilson, gouache drawing for Feminine Protection, 1997, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, 224 pages of email exchanges between myself and two lovers (one male, one female), using moleskin as an editing device to cover all identities and anything that made me feel vulnerable (quite unexpected as to what I did and did not cover).

Stephanie Syjuco, International Orange, Seventy-six pages of colorblocked text and images from an original 1937 publication for the opening ceremony of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Megan Wilson, Feminine Protection, 1997, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, 224 pages of email exchanges between myself and two lovers (one male, one female), using moleskin as an editing device to cover all identities and anything that made me feel vulnerable (quite unexpected as to what I did and did not cover).

Stephanie Syjuco, International Orange, Seventy-six pages of colorblocked text and images from an original 1937 publication for the opening ceremony of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Megan Wilson, announcement for  Feminine Protection, 1997, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute.

Hey folks – this is a new project I launched in November 2011. Please help spread the word! I’ll be starting a Kickstarter in 2012 to raise funds to support the 99% and put some unemployed artists & sign painters back to work. Also, if you have additional languages that you could provide translation for – it would be super appreciated!

Big THANKS to translators and translator connectors: Eliza Barrios, Carolyn Castaño, Sarita Ahuja, Andre Ambrus, Srinivas Kuruganti, Kevin Chen, Violeta Krasni, Peter Haas, Taraneh Hemami, Juan Caguicla, Nano Warsono, Saideh Eftekhari, Christine Ahn, Ramon Murrillo, and Jake Thompson.

99%
99% is a public art/street art project that speaks to the need for a fundamental shift in the status quo approach to current economic models, labor, the environment, human rights, and the health and wellbeing of all. In support of the OCCUPY! movement, I am making a series of hand painted signs (1000 to start) with the statement “We Are The 99%” in different languages (so far I have English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Hebrew, Hungarian, German, Roma, Serbian/ Bosnian/ Croatian, Russian, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesian, Thai, Japanese, French, Italian, Czech, Slovakian, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Yiddish, Haitian, Swahili, Georgian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Turkish, Vietnamese, Tamil, Armenian, Urdu, Estonian, Khmer, Burmese, Shoshone, Cherokee, and Sioux).

The signs all have bold black text on a color background painted on ¼” plywood in varying sizes. These are being distributed initially in San Francisco and Oakland to:

1. OccupySF and Occupy Oakland participants to be used at marches and protests – participants will be asked to display their signs in their home windows when not in use.
2. Folks who might not have time to participate in the actual occupation, but want to lend support – to place in their windows in solidarity of the movement.
3. Small businesses to place in their windows in support and solidarity of the movement.

I am working to raise the funds to employ assistants (artists/sign painters who are currently unemployed) at $20/hour (a livable wage in the Bay Area) to help create and distribute the signs.

The project will also be presented in Southeast Asia in 2012.

WE ARE THE 99% ARTISTS!