Sarah Hotchkiss

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Senior Associate Editor at KQED-TV (San Francisco,CA)

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At BAMPFA, the African American Quilt Show We’ve Been Waiting For

3 weeks ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

Jun 5Failed to save articlePlease try again'Untitled (Medallion)': pieced by Sherry Ann Byrd in 1990; Richmond, California. Quilted by Irene Bankhead in 1990; Oakland, California. (Courtesy Laverne Brackens; Photo by Kevin Candland)We’ve waited a long time for a glimpse at the true scope of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s African American quilt collection.
Newsom’s Proposed Budget Ends Vital Funding to Small Performing Arts Groups

3 weeks ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss |Sara Hossaini

Jun 4Failed to save articlePlease try againPerformers dance at a house party scene in San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company's 2024 production 'Sign My Name to Freedom' at Z Space. SFBATCO is among the small performing arts nonprofits that was hoping to receive payroll reimbursements from the state.
Your Guide to Juneteenth 2025 in the Bay Area

3 weeks ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

Jun 4Failed to save articlePlease try againAlexandria Osei-Amoako enjoys the day with her children at the Hella Juneteenth event at the Oakland Museum of California’s garden on June 19, 2024. (Gina Castro/KQED)The fifth annual Juneteenth on the Waterfront offers food and drinks from 20 Black entrepreneurs, a pop-up market of local crafts and family activities.
Your Guide to This Summer’s Not-To-Miss Visual Art

1 month ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

We have arrived at the summer months during a chaotic time for the arts. Federal funding sources are drying up left and right, affecting arts nonprofits across the country, and, ultimately, artists and their audiences. It turns out the antidote to this particular dark spiral is, in fact, viewing art (and supporting the organizations you love). Art is the opposite of destruction: it’s hard and meaningful, it brings new images and ideas into the world.
The American Government No Longer Values the Arts

1 month ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

May 9Failed to save articlePlease try againThe building that houses the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Both agencies have canceled million of dollars in already-awarded grants in recent months.
NEA Grants Canceled to Bay Area Arts Nonprofits

1 month ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

May 2Failed to save articlePlease try againThe Lab's front door in the Redstone Building, at the corner of 16th and Capp Streets in San Francisco's Mission District. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)The terminations are effective as of May 31, 2025. In a budget proposal released on Friday, Trump called for eliminating the NEA entirely, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.
Sundown Cinema Has Been Canceled, Following Layoffs

1 month ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

May 1Failed to save articlePlease try again‘Sister Act 2’ screens as part of Sundown Cinema at Dolores Park in 2022. (Courtesy SF Parks Alliance)After layoffs and reports of financial disarray at the San Francisco Parks Alliance, the nonprofit’s Sundown Cinema film series has been canceled. The open-air movie screenings, staged for free in city parks throughout the summer and fall, had been an annual draw since 2003.
Let Bob Ross Guide Your Brush at WorkshopSF

1 month ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

Apr 29Failed to save articlePlease try againThe dulcet tones of Bob Ross on 'The Joy of Painting,' which aired for 31 seasons in the 1980s and '90s, continue to provide relaxation and inspiration. (Netflix)When they’re not relying on Ross as an instructor, WorkshopSF hosts professional artists and craftspeople teaching classes like an all-day sewing boot camp, beginner’s leatherworking and how to make your own natural skincare products.
Why the Bay Area’s Artistic Future Is in Peril

2 months ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

Apr 23Failed to save articlePlease try againAspiring artists have fewer places to get degrees in the Bay Area, putting the region’s artistic future in jeopardy. (Illustration by Anna Vignet)When Eli Meza applied to college in 2018, they were looking for a place to study art with an interdisciplinary approach. Mills, still a women’s college at the time, offered Meza exactly what they were looking for: courses they truly cared about, and a community welcoming to trans and nonbinary students.
At Embarcadero Plaza, a Giant Nude Sculpture Nobody Asked For

2 months ago | kqed.org | Sarah Hotchkiss

Apr 11Failed to save articlePlease try againPeople gather for the April 10, 2025 press preview of 'R-Evolution, a 45-foot metal statue created by Petaluma artist Marco Cochrane, installed at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco. (Gina Casto/KQED)On April 10, Marco Cochrane’s 45-foot-tall metal sculpture of a nude woman, titled R-Evolution, was unveiled to the public at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza.