Insights

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    View from Afar: Angel Island Insight

    Entering the San Francisco Art Institute’s deserted longtime home, a fortresslike, two-building campus perched atop Russian Hill with unobstructed views of Alcatraz Island and Coit Tower, is like wandering into…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Angel Island Insight #8: Megan & Chris Wong

    Angel Island Insight #8: Megan & Chris Wong

    MEGAN and CHRIS WONG’s grandfathers were held in the Angel Island Immigration Station barracks. In 1929, Edmund Fong (Gung Gung) arrived in the belly of his mother Wun Shee Fong,…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Angel Island Insight #7: Heather Knight

    Angel Island Insight #7: Heather Knight

    What a beautiful day in the bay. Took the ferry to Angel Island and hiked to the top. Back to work Monday. Sounds like there’s plenty to write about. 😉…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Angel Island Insight #6: Mark Shigenaga

    Angel Island Insight #6: Mark Shigenaga

    Photo: Mark Shigenaga. Filming day on Angel Island with Claudia Katanayagi for A Bitter Legacy, 2012. Although photography had always been a casual interest of mine, it wasn’t until 2008,…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Angel Island Insight #5: Christine Huhn

    Angel Island Insight #5: Christine Huhn

    Photos: (top) Christine at Land’s End by Micaela Go, http://www.micaelago.com/; (above) Christine Huhn. Native Oak Limbs near Sunrise Campsites, 2021. Silver Gelatin Print. 16″ x 20″ When Andi approached me about…

  • Angel Island Insight #4: Imogen Cunningham

    IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM (April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Angel Island Insight #3: Lenore Chinn

    Angel Island Insight #3: Lenore Chinn

    LENORE CHINN, lenorechinn.comPhoto: Mia Nakano, ©Visibility Project https://www.visibilityproject.org/ I am a San Francisco based artist who focuses on the depiction of a wide spectrum of people in all their diversity…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Angel Island Insight #2 : Lai Yong

    Angel Island Insight #2 : Lai Yong

    “Lai Yong exhibits two portraits—tolerably good, but rather Chinese in style.” San Francisco Chronicle, Mechanics’ Institute Fair. Ninth Day. Art Matters—Attendance—Receipts—Programme of Music for This Evening. September 24, 1869, page…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Angel Island Insight #1 : AIISF & Del Sol Quartet

    Angel Island Insight #1 : AIISF & Del Sol Quartet

    “While there are inscriptions by immigrants from many different nations that can still be found on the walls of the detention barracks, it’s the 200+ poems left behind by Chinese…

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