Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), based in San Francisco, is uniquely positioned as one of the only museums in the world focused exclusively on the African Diaspora, or the migration of African people and their culture away from their homeland. MoAD brings visitors of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds together to appreciate the culture, history and art of the people of African descent within the United States and throughout the world.
Museum of the African Diaspora - San Francisco
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MoAD Museum of the African Diaspora (V SS 2)
History and Background
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is a San Francisco based nonprofit organization that was conceived as a cornerstone of the economic and cultural revitalization of downtown San Francisco. Since it opened in December 2005 MoAD has become an anchor with its neighbors, the San Francisco MoMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Zeum, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, in making this dynamic cultural corridor a premier cultural destination.
As a dynamic, world class institution, MoAD brings people of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds together so they can enjoy, study and appreciate, through enriching exhibitions, public and educational programs, the culture, history and art of people of African descent within the United States and throughout the world. . .
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MOAD, the Museum of the African Diaspora, has a jazzy new exhibit featuring modern quiltmaking from across America. Luis Cancel interviews Grace Stanislaus about the show. . .
MoAD Highlight Reel 2017
Featuring 2017 exhibitions and programs from Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, CA USA
Opera Noir Divas & Desserts at the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora
African Americans in San Francisco: Before, During, and After the 1915 World's Fair
On April 30, 2015 the California Historical Society hosted a panel discussion on the experiences, successes, and struggles of African Americans before, during, and in the decades following the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco's 1915 World’s Fair. Follow broad and important moments in this twenty year history as well as individual stories both unique and indicative of the struggles and successes of African Americans in the early 1900s.
Panelists:
Professor Lynn M. Hudson teaches courses on slavery and abolition in the U.S., western history, social movements, public history, and the history of gender and sexuality. She is a specialist in African American history and has been active in women's studies and ethnic studies programs.
Professor Douglas Daniels is professor in the Department of Black Studies and in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph. D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rick Moss is a graduate of UCLA (B.A., 1977, M.A. History, 1980) and UC Riverside’s Program for Historic Resources Management (M.A. 1987). Since July 2001 he has been the Director and Chief Curator of the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO).During his twenty-two year museum career, Mr. Moss has created many exhibitions and collaborated with many of the finest institutions and professionals across the nation. In 2008 Mr. Moss opened Visions Towards Tomorrow: The African American Community in Oakland, 1890-1990, the permanent multi-media history exhibition for the African American Museum & Library.
Dr. Leon Litwack is an American historian and Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007. He has received the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He is the winner of the 1980 Francis Parkman Prize and the 1981 National Book Award . He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant. Professor Litwack retired to emeritus status at the end of the Spring 2007 semester, went on a lecture tour that resulted in his most recent work, How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow published in February 2009.
Presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora and the African American Museum and Library in Oakland.
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) Annual Gala 2013
MoAD 2013 - Palace Hotel - San Francisco, CA
BEE AFRAID, B! at the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) San Francisco
Ramekon O'Arwisters performs Bee Afraid, B! at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) Third Thursday Think Tank, 20 August 2009
BEE AFRAID, B! is the metaphorical transformation of a common honey bee into a so-called Africanized Killer Bee.
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Tongo Eisen-Martin performs “Cut a Hand From a Hand”
Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin performed at MoAD during the culminating event of the 2018 Poets-in-Residence series on December 12, 2018.
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book of poems titled, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series and received the California Book Award for Poetry in 2018.
MoAD Poets-in-Residence is a 4-month writing residency from September – December for two poets of African descent who immerse themselves in the current exhibitions and are provided space to write using the museum as their muse. They partner with Arise High School in Oakland to teach students creative writing poetry workshops at the high school. Each poet-in-residence develops curriculum for classroom visits and a trip to MoAD. The classes receive a tour of MoAD’s exhibitions and then have a chance to create their own poetry in response to the art in our exhibitions. The program ends with a closing reception at MoAD with the students and their families for a reading of the original poetry created by the students. By the end of the program we hope that each student finds a voice to express themselves through the connection between creative writing and visual art.
MoAD’s 2018 Poets-in-Residence were Tongo Eisen-Martin and Raina J. León.
This program is made possible by generous support from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation
2011 Etta Simpson Ray@ The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco 5/11
Etta answers a Freedom Riders question related to how helpful the press was to the movement. Journalist Belva Davis moderates the discussion. Carol Ruth Silver is the other panelist. Event took place on May 12, 2011 in San Francisco, CA
MoAD 2014 Gala Awards Video - Randall Kline
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Tongo Eisen-Martin performs “I Have to Start Talking to Myself Different Now ” & more
Tongo Eisen-Martin performs “I Have to Start Talking to Myself Different Now | Faceless | Wave At The People Walking Upside Down”
Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin performed at MoAD during the culminating event of the 2018 Poets-in-Residence series on December 12, 2018.
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book of poems titled, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series and received the California Book Award for Poetry in 2018.
MoAD Poets-in-Residence is a 4-month writing residency from September – December for two poets of African descent who immerse themselves in the current exhibitions and are provided space to write using the museum as their muse. They partner with Arise High School in Oakland to teach students creative writing poetry workshops at the high school. Each poet-in-residence develops curriculum for classroom visits and a trip to MoAD. The classes receive a tour of MoAD’s exhibitions and then have a chance to create their own poetry in response to the art in our exhibitions. The program ends with a closing reception at MoAD with the students and their families for a reading of the original poetry created by the students. By the end of the program we hope that each student finds a voice to express themselves through the connection between creative writing and visual art.
MoAD’s 2018 Poets-in-Residence were Tongo Eisen-Martin and Raina J. León.
This program is made possible by generous support from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation
Visiting the Yerba Buena Gardens | San Francisco
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Planning a trip to San Francisco? Learn about the Yerba Buena Gardens, one of the city's nicest parks, in this travel video.
San Franciscans love their parks, and Yerba Buena Gardens is a local favorite. This park covers two city blocks with open space and carefully tended gardens. It’s an escape from the city within the city and it’s also a good destination for those travelling with children.
The park has many kid-friendly amenities, including a vintage carousel, an ice-skating rink, and the Children’s Creativity Museum.
The gardens are also a place to experience local arts. Public art can be found throughout the park. The most notable piece of artwork is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Fountain. This awe-inspiring monument is made up of shining slabs of glass with excerpts from Dr. King’s speeches inscribed upon them, water flowing over the words.
Yerba Buena Gardens doesn’t limit itself to public art. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, located right in the park, welcomes all kinds of contemporary artists.
The fine arts are well represented in the Center’s museum, while musicians and dancers take the stage. Independent films of all genres are also given screenings here.
Many of San Francisco’s best museums are also in the vicinity of the park. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Museum of the African Diaspora are all minutes away.
The Yerba Buena Gardens’ location and amenities make it a cultural oasis in the middle of the city.
New Exhibit at de Young Museum in S.F. Spotlights Art from African American South
A new exhibit title Revelations features a wide range of media that share one common component. KPIX 5's Christin Ayers takes a long look with museum curator Timothy Anglin Burgard. (2-18-18)
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Tongo Eisen-Martin performs “Immigrants in the Rock”
Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin performed at MoAD during the culminating event of the 2018 Poets-in-Residence series on December 12, 2018.
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book of poems titled, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series and received the California Book Award for Poetry in 2018.
MoAD Poets-in-Residence is a 4-month writing residency from September – December for two poets of African descent who immerse themselves in the current exhibitions and are provided space to write using the museum as their muse. They partner with Arise High School in Oakland to teach students creative writing poetry workshops at the high school. Each poet-in-residence develops curriculum for classroom visits and a trip to MoAD. The classes receive a tour of MoAD’s exhibitions and then have a chance to create their own poetry in response to the art in our exhibitions. The program ends with a closing reception at MoAD with the students and their families for a reading of the original poetry created by the students. By the end of the program we hope that each student finds a voice to express themselves through the connection between creative writing and visual art.
MoAD’s 2018 Poets-in-Residence were Tongo Eisen-Martin and Raina J. León.
This program is made possible by generous support from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation