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SUMMARY:Art Swap: Celebrating Multitudes
DESCRIPTION:Art Swap: Celebrating Multitudes is a co-created gallery and art-trading happy hour from Coqtail Hour\, the Bay Area’s new pop-up creative community built around bringing artists and creatives together through after-hours events\, workshops\, and social hours. \nEvery guest arrives with a hand-sized piece of art they’ve made. A sketch\, a poem\, a tiny ceramic\, a photograph\, a collage\, whatever they’ve been making in their creative practice. As the room fills\, those pieces go up in the center of the space and a living gallery takes shape\, built entirely from the people who showed up. It’s a celebration of the multitudes creative people carry. The designer who writes poetry. The engineer who paints. The product manager with a ceramics practice. \nAfter a short window of facilitated creative collisions\, where guests move through small group conversations designed to surface the story behind each piece and its artist\, the gallery becomes a trading floor. Guests pick a piece\, find the maker\, talk\, and swap. Everyone leaves with someone else’s work and new connections. The evening closes with a social hour all in the historic venue: FLAX Art & Design. \nSchedule \n6:30 PM. Doors\, check-in\, and gallery installs as guests arrive. \n6:50 PM. Welcome and opening words from Coqtail Hour founders and partners. \n7:00 PM. Creative collisions: small group conversations with facilitated prompts. \n7:30 PM. The gallery becomes a trading floor. 8:00 PM. Social hour\, new connections\, and refreshments. \nHosts Sama Srinivas and Jacqueline Vu\, co-founders of Coqtail Hour. East Bay raised\, five years in NYC\, back home to build the creative community the Bay Area deserves. \nPartners FLAX Art & Design\, the Bay Area’s beloved legacy art supply store since 1938\, joining as our venue partner. \nFind your people in our Bay Area creative crowd. A living gallery built by the people in the room. Facilitated conversation prompts designed to move past “so what do you do.” A chance to explore new mediums with FLAX Art & Design materials. Refreshments on site. A memorable take-home piece of original art from someone new.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/art-swap-celebrating-multitudes/
LOCATION:FLAX Art & Design\, Fort Mason Center\, 2 Marina Blvd Center\, San Francisco\, California\, 94123\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Coqtail Hour":MAILTO:coqtailhour@gmail.com
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