Formalist without Formula: Don Woodford Selected Works 1972-2022
Formalist without Formula: Don Woodford Selected Works 1972-2022
Opening at RAFFMA on February 7, 2022
On Display: Feb. 7 – April 9, 2022
The museum is reopening our doors and we invite you to join us. RAFFMA will resume normal operating hours after almost two years of closure. Open to the public and free admission. Mark your calendar!
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Happy International Museum Day!
Today we celebrate museums as an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.
Interested to see how our latest exhibition came together? Check out the process video and let us know what you think about the future of virtual exhibitions.
Huge thanks to RAFFMA Staff and Students that made this virtual exhibition possible!
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Personal to Political Exhibition is LIVE tomorrow!
At the heart of this show is a Berkeley based fine art print studio—Paulson Fontaine Press—who over the past two decades has developed an unparalleled roster of internationally celebrated artists - artists like Martin Puryear, Kerry James Marshall, and the Gee’s Bend Quilters – who characterize the fresh perspectives that are today’s avant-garde.
View tomorrow on the RAFFMA website
Bedford Gallery
Spectrum News1 - Festival de Calaveras 2020
RAFFMA was featured by Spectrum News 1 for its virtual Festival de Calaveras, where campus and community participants decorated a calavera (skull), which will be auctioned to raise money for scholarships.
View the exhibition: https://www.csusb.edu/raffma/visit/events/festival-de-calaveras
RAFFMA @ Home: Art Break
Join us this Wednesday on Facebook Live for the last activity in our summer Art Break. Leonardo da Vinci is renowned for his mirror image journal entries. Why he did this is not entirely clear but we often speculate that he was hiding his work and thoughts from peering eyes. Da Vinci was also ambidextrous meaning he would write and even paint with both hands and with his left hand he would write mirror image or backward. In this activity, we will learn how to mirror write and how we can more easily embrace ambidextrous writing through mirror writing.
Recommended age: 10+ (some concepts in this activity may be more easily understood by older ages)
Materials:
Pen or pencil
Lined paper
A small mirror (optional)
RAFFMA @ Home: Art Break
Wednesday, August 12
3:30 - 4 p.m.
Join us this Wednesday for the next activity in our summer Art Break. We will learn some calligraphy using just a couple of pencils and some tape. The style of calligraphy we learn is a variation of Fraktur known as William's Style of German text. We will be learning from a handout available for download. The live session will show you how to get started and go over the lesson on page 1 of the downloadable handout. The additional pages are for you to continue your practice on your own.
Great for ages 12 and up!
Material Needed:
2 pencils
Tape
RAFFMA @ Home: Art Break
Join us this Wednesday on Facebook Live, for the next activity in our summer Art Break, as we create a simple talking anthropomorphic puppet. The word anthropomorphic means to be like a human. Usually anthropomorphic describes something that is half-animal and half-human. So in this activity, we’ll be creating a puppet with an animal head and it can be any animal you want!
Material:
Construction paper/ Cardstock (thicker paper will work better than thin printer paper)
Pencil
Decorating materials
Markers
Color pencils
Crayons
Collage materials
Colored paper
Glue
Scissors
Tape
Straw/popsicle stick/skewer
RAFFMA @ Home: Art Break
July 29, 2020
3:30 - 4 p.m.
Live on Facebook
Join us this Wednesday for the next activity in our summer Art Break! Time to enjoy the great outdoors and get some sunshine! Create your own flowers using construction paper!
Supplies Needed:
construction paper
scissors
tape/glue
RAFFMA @ Home: Art Break
July 15, 2020
Every Wednesday until August 19, 2020
3:30 - 4 p.m.
Live on Facebook
Join us this Wednesday for the next activity in our summer Art Break! Design your own bird finger puppet origami! Only a few supplies needed and perfect for all ages.
Supplies Needed:
Square piece of paper – we used A4 cut down into two sheets of 15 x 15cm to make two birds (experiment with different sizes to fit your children’s hands!)
Any supplies you want to decorate
Color pencils
Markers
Sequins
Activity sourced from redtedart.com