Where Is Here, curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur, evokes the real and conceptual space through which we travel. The exhibition presents the works of contemporary artists who are developing personal and engaged visual and musical systems to claim, make, and describe space. The imagery is both straightforward and poetic.

Please join us for a talk with Where is Here curators and artists. In the gallery, co-curators Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur will facilitate a tour of the exhibition. Participating artists Adia Millet, Alan deSouza, and David Huffman will speak to their work. The evening will culminate with a discussion with the audience about the issues raised by the exhibition, including the theme of place and location and more broadly to the African diasporic experience.

‍Jacqueline Francis teaches US art history and researches critical questions about minority identities and identification represented in historical and contemporary visual culture. She is the author of Making Race: Modernism and "Racial Art" in America (2012). She is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies and the Department of Painting and Drawing at the California College of the Arts.

‍Kathy Zarur is a curator and art historian with a focus on the art, visual culture and the growing museum industry in the Middle East. She was Assistant Curator at the 2011 Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates). In her research, Zarur considers the historic status and recent reception to work by artists from the Middle East in the mainstream, Western art world contexts. She teaches contemporary art at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

‍Adia Millett is an artist whose practices include photography, sculpture, drawing, collage, video, and installation. She was born in Los Angeles and lives and works in Oakland.‍

Allan deSouza is a Kenya-born, British raised photographer and multimedia artist. He works in Berkeley.

‍David Huffman is a painter who was born in Berkeley, CA. He lives and works in Oakland.‍

The program will include a wine reception

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