TIM Free Lecture Series

January 25th

Art and Artists in the City and The Fair:

The Work and Times of Moya del Pino

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Visit San Francisco's community of art and artists before and during the Golden Gate International Exposition, through the life and 

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work of Spanish artist Jose Moya del Pino. He arrived in San Francisco in 1925 on an international tour of his paintings, and never left. In the1930s, his paintings and murals at Coit Tower, the Merchants' Exchange, and other exhibitions gained him a respected reputation. At the fair, Moya produced enormous works in the California Building and the Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace, meanwhile developingimportant relationships with artists, architects and leaders of the time, including Diego Rivera, Antonio Sotomayor, Adaline Kent, John Bolles and Dr. Stanley Armstrong Hunter. Learn more about his time on the Island and the legacy it inspired after the Exposition.

Speaker: Fran Cappelletti, Librarian, Jose Moya del Pino Library/Ross Historical Society

Lectures start at 10:30 am in the lobby of Building One, and are free of charge. Treasure Island can be reached by public bus, car or bicycle.

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These ongoing talks on the past, present and future of Treasure Island cover topics including Treasure and Yerba Buena Island history, San Francisco world’s fairs, naval history, current island activities and redevelopment, island sustainability, the Golden Gate International Exposition, and art and architecture on Treasure Island.

Construction Notice:  As redevelopment progresses, street and transit access and parking will be in flux. Here are current directions, but they will change from time to time.

Driving, as you approach Building One don't turn right at the detour sign, but go straight past the sign into the parking lot. The Muni 25 stop has been reinstated on Clipper Cove Way across from Building One (inbound) and on Treasure Island Road at the Clipper Cove Way intersection (outbound to San Francisco).

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See the Directions page for maps and directions to the safer new westbound Bay Bridge on-ramp.

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The “Little Island, Big Ideas” lecture series is presented with support from the Treasure Island Development Authority and funding from the Historic Preservation Fund of the City and County of San Francisco, Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

Coming Lectures

January 25                       Art and Artists in the City and the Fair
2020                                The Work and Times of Moya del Pino

Visit San Francisco's community of art and artists before and during the Golden Gate International Exposition, through the life and work of Spanish artist Jose Moya del Pino. He arrived in San Francisco in 1925 on an international tour of his paintings, and never left. In the
1930s, his paintings and murals at Coit Tower, the Merchants' Exchange, and other exhibitions gained him a respected reputation. At the fair, Moya produced enormous works in the California Building and the Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace, meanwhile developing
important relationships with artists, architects and leaders of the time, including Diego Rivera, Antonio Sotomayor, Adaline Kent, John Bolles and Dr. Stanley Armstrong Hunter. Learn more about his time on the Island and the legacy it inspired after the Exposition. Speaker: Fran Cappelletti, Librarian, Jose Moya del Pino Library/Ross Historical Society

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February 29                     From Classy to Brassy and Fantasy to Fact

                                          Cultural Contradictions at the GGIE

Speaker: Lisa Rubens, Historian and Academic Specialist, Emerita, UC Berkeley

March 28                           Little Pieces of China
                                          Chinese Villages at the GGIE and Other Fairs

Speaker: Prof. Jean-François Staszak, Director, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Geneva

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April 25                              The Goddess Who Moved to the Peninsula

                                           The Fair’s Pacifica and Her Namesake City

Speaker: Stephen Johnson, Pacifica Historical Society 

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May 16                                 A New Visualization of Native Art

                                            Navajo Demonstrators at the Golden Gate International Exposition

Speakers: Ira Jacknis, Head of Research and Information, Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, and Hadley Jensen, Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology, Bard Graduate Center/American Museum of Natural History

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