Lost and Found, A Museum of Lesbian Memory, mixed-media work based on archival materials displayed at the James Hormel Center at the San Francisco Public Library; a collaboration between the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society and artists E.G. Crichton and Kim Anno, 2000.

CWF Lead Artist: E.G. Crichton
Project Title: Lost and Found: Museum of Lesbian Memory
Recipient Organization: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society
Lead Artists: E.G. Crichton and Kim Anno
Genre and Date Awarded: Visual Arts, June 2000
Presented: November 2000, December 2001, May 2002

In setting out on this collaboration, the artists wrote, “We envision a project in which public spaces come alive with unexpected displays to engage the viewer. This model is part Museum and part Science Fair. It is created with the assumption that history itself is a construct of the experience and imagination of both teller and interpreter.” Susan Stryker, then director of the Historical Society, told The San Francisco Chronicle, “Art is what makes history alive for a wider audience…[the project] helps to show the work we do as archivists and historians.”

The project culminated with exhibitions at the Center for Sexual Diversity in San Francisco, the San Francisco New Main Public Library, the Richmond Health Center, and as part of a group show at San Francisco’s GLBT Community Center. Each exhibition was on public view for between six and eight weeks, and included an interactive web site. The Richmond Health Center installation, not anticipated in the original plan, came as the result of an invitation based on the first project. This proved to be a particularly gratifying community interaction for the artists, who wrote “Unlike San Francisco, Richmond is relatively untouched by Gay Liberation…We met amazing and courageous people we wouldn’t normally encounter, and felt that our project was able to make a difference in mediating tensions around homophobia.”

Each of the exhibitions was distinct. At the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society of California, they created a large blackboard mural covering two walls that included a map detailing the sites of long-gone lesbian bars, a satirical mixed-media collection of locks of women’s hair, and a low-tech, interactive community site. At the San Francisco New Main Library, the presentation included large-scale photographs, a clothing exhibition, a sculptural video “book” based on lost lesbian history in San Francisco’s North Beach, and a cloth-bound artist book focusing on manifestos from the local lesbian community. At the Richmond Health Center, the exhibit featured a series of posters, an oversized mock newspaper with articles based on oral histories of citizens of Richmond, a photo-text display by teenagers in the Gay/Straight Alliance of El Cerrito High School, and a 2-sign LED display.

Artist E.G. Crichton’s practice spans both public and traditional art venues. She is a professor of intermedia art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a long-time resident of San Francisco. Kim Anno, an Oakland resident, is a painter, public artist, and professor of painting and ethnic studies at the California College of the Arts. Crichton and Anno previously collaborated with one another on a multi-media art installation at the Mission Cultural Center as well as on numerous cultural and political events as members of such groups as Mainstream Exiles and Stonewall.

Founded in 1985, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society is home to one of the oldest, largest, most accessible community archives of any kind: more than 22,000 periodicals, 10,000 photographs, and thousands of oral histories. Since its founding the Society has “steadily and lovingly” rescued and preserved the history of the Bay Area’s vibrant GLBT presence, maintaining a strong activist base yet building an archives of national and international renown. The Society provided the artists with access to membership, archival materials, assistance of the archivists, work space, and equipment.

E.G. Crichton

Lead artist E.G. Crichton’s work uses a range of technologies and media in site installations, sculptures, and printed imagery. Using physical forms that integrate viewer-activated electronics, sound, projection, video, and computer manipulation, her projects explore particular sites and histories. Her collaborative public projects include “Partial Recall” (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), “Before/After” (Lancaster, England), “Bounty” (Fairfield, California), and “1-800-TELL-ALL” (Santa Cruz, California). She has had solo exhibitions in Bergen, Norway, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz.

Solo Exhibitions

• “In the Year of Her Age,” Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California (April, 2002)
• “Cross My Heart,” Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (November-December, 2001)
• “Rise, Sally, Rise,” Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California (May-June, 2001)
• “Post Proper,” two-person exhibition, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, California (1996)
• “Broken Record,” Porter Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California (1996)
• “Miss Ogilvy's Closet,” Door 3 Gallery, Oakland, California (1993)
• “Points of Contention,” Women's Art Project gallery, San Francisco, California (1993

Collaborative Installations

• “Stories of Courage,” Richmond Health Center, Richmond, California (w/ Kim Anno) (2001)
• “Lost and Found,” San Francisco New Main Public Library, San Francisco Center for Sexual Diversity (w/ Kim Anno) (2000)
• “Partial Recall, Auto-Biography,” Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (w/ E. Stephens) (1998)
• “Trouble in Toyland,” Richard Reynolds Gallery, Stockton, California (w/ E. Stephens, M. Tsiongas) (1998)
• “Lick My Lips,” Innovative Solutions LLC., web show "Contempo Lesbos" (w/ E. Stephens) (1998)
• “Before / After,” Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (w/ E. Stephens) (1997)
• “1-800-TELL ALL,” Santa Cruz, California (w/ E. Stephens, Scott Brookie) (1997)
• “Bounty,” Fairfield Art Center, Fairfield, California (w/ M. Tsiongas) (1996)
• “Rocking Red Rocking,” UCSC Women's Center, Santa Cruz, California (w/ E. Stephens) (1995)
• “Babs: An Unburied Woman,” Mackey Hall, Oakland, California (w/ Mary Tsiongas) (1992)

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Queer Photography Exhibition, Harvey Milk Institute/LGBT Community Center, San Francisco, California (2003)
• “Technology Tools Gender,” Richard Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California (2003)
• GLBT Historical Society Auction, Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, San Francisco, California (2001, 1999)
• Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, California (2001, 1999)
• “Corporeal Sky” (3-person traveling show) The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand (1999)
• “Corporeal Sky,” Artspace, Sydney, Australia (1999)
• Provincetown Video Festival, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts (1999)
• “Commotion,” SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, California (1999)
• “Context,” Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1998)
• “Labyrinth,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (1998)
• “Out Inside,” Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, California (1998)
• “Techno-Seduction,” Cooper Union School of Art, New York, New York (1997)
• “ChikTek '97,” Art-Tech Gallery, San Jose, California (1997)
• “FIGURE,” Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (1997)
• “In Memory Of,” Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA (w/ Kim Anno) (1997)
• “The Body Beautiful,” The Art Gallery, Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington (1994)
• “Identity, Media and Representation,” Works Gallery, San Jose, California (1994)
• “Hypothalamic Inqueeries,” S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco, California (1993)
• American Photography Institute, Tisch School of Art, NYU, New York, New York (1993)

Curatorial

“Mortal Coil: Mourning Becomes Electronic,” co-curator with Margaret Morse; Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California (1996)

Awards

• First Place, Queer Photography Competition, Harvey Milk Institute/San Francisco LGBT Center (2003)
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, Sweet Briar, Virginia (2003)
• American Embassy/Oslo, Norway: grant for exhibit at Hordaland Kunstsenter (2001)
• Creative Work Fund grant (2000)
• UCIRA Community Arts Program Grant (2000)
• KunsthØgskolen Visiting Artist fellowship, Bergen, Norway (2000)
• Astraea Foundation Cultural/Media Grant (2000)
• San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant (1999)
• MacDowell Colony residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire (1998)
• Nexus Gallery Public Art commission (1998)
• National First Night Creative Programming Award/First Night USA (1997)
• Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County Project Grant (1997)
• Art Matters Inc. Fellowship Award (1996)
• Fairfield Art Center Installation Commission (1996)
• Faculty research grants, Arts Division and Academic Senate, University of California, Santa Cruz (1994-2003)
• American Photography Institute National Fellowship, New York University (1993)

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor of Art, University of California at Santa Cruz (2001-present)
• Assistant Professor of Art, University of California at Santa Cruz (1994-2001)
• Instructor in Electronic Art, California College of Arts and Crafts (1994)
• Adjunct Professor of Electronic Art, California State University, Hayward (1993-94)
• Founder and Art Director of Out/Look Magazine (1987-90)

Kim Anno

Kim Anno’s artwork consists of painting, multi-media installation, and public art. Examples of her previous work with sound, object, and inter-active photographic elements include a collaborative installation with E.G. Crichton at the Mission Cultural Center; a streetscape banner project based in Oakland’s Fruitvale district; the site-specific monumental installation, “No Fly Zone,” sponsored by Secession Gallery, on San Francisco’s Embarcadero; and “Rooms of Despair,” based on recordings of interviews with individuals about depression, exhibited at Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael, California. In 1994-95 Anno was one of ten women artists collaborating with printmaker Jos Sances to produce the portfolio “10 x 10,” one of the Creative Work Fund’s first grants in the visual arts.

RESUME HIGHLIGHTS

Solo Exhibitions

• Marcel Sitcoske Gallery San Francisco, California (2003)
• Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2001)
• Zaloren Arte Contemporaneo Gallery, Mexico City (2000)
• Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2000)
• Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California (1997)
• "No Fly Zone" Outdoor installation, Secession Gallery, the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California (1996)
• Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, California (1996, 1995)
• Shaklee Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, California (1995)
• San Jose State University Gallery, San Jose, California (1992)
• “Despair Room” Falkirk Cultural Center, San Raphael,California (1992)
• “Ritual Works” Meredian Gallery, San Francisco, California (1992)
• Paintings, C.N. Gorman Museum Davis, California (1991)
• Paintings, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana (1990)

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Fleishhaker Award Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum (2005)
• Tucson Museum of art curated by Julie Sasse (2004)
• Chautauqua Center for the arts, Chautauqua New York, with Al Held, Martin Kline
• Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana (2003)
• “Being There 45 Oakland Artists” Oakland Museum, Oakland, California (2002)
• Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (2002)
• Ben Shan Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne,New Jersey (2002)
• State University of New York, Fredonia Gallery (2002)
• Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2002)
• Sara Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (2002)
• “Watercolor in the Abstract” curated by Pamela Auchincloss (2001)
• Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York (2001)
• “Drawing Residency” Refusalen, San Francisco, California (2001)
• “Calligraphy Legacy” Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, California (2001)
• San Francisco Main Branch Public Library, "Lost and Found, Museum of Lesbian Memory" public art project in collaboration with EG. Crichton (2000)
• "Abstraction:Watercolor" curated by Pamela Auchincloss and Alex Muse (2000)
• Maier Art Museum, Lynchberg, Virginia (2000)
• Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center For the Arts, Walnut Creek,California (2000)
• Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland, Calif. "Indigenous Festivals" (2000)
• Art in General, "Yaddo artists and Writers" New York, New York (2000)
• Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York (2000)
• Ambassador General's Estate, Kualalampur, Indonesia, Art in Embassies Program (2000)
• Gay and Lesbian Historical Society Auction, Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, San Francisco,California (1999)
• Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, California (1999)
• "Show and Tell" Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California (1998)
• A.T. Kearney Corporation, sponsored by the San Francisco Asian Art Museum (1998)
• "Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California," at Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA & Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California (1998)
• "Women Artists of the American West" Web site gallery, Purdue University (1998)
• "Silk Road," Abstract Paintings, at Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco,California & Zen Hospice, San Francisco, California (1998)
• "Material Girls," Gallery 128, New York, New York (1997)
• "The Intimate Brush," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California (1997)
• "Discards" Secession benefit, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California (1997)
• "Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters," Mills College Gallery, Oakland, California (1997)
• Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California (1996)
• Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California (1996)
• Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, California (1996)
• Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, California (1996)
• 25th SFAI Anniversary Exhibition, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, California (1996)
• “Discards” Secession, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California (1995)
• Asian Artists Exhibition, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California (1995)
• "10 x10," Silkscreen Portfolio Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California (1995)
• “The Exchange Show: Twelve painters from San Francisco and Rio De Janeiro”, at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, California & Museum of Modern Art, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (1994)
• “Yellow Forest,” South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, California (1994)
• Group show, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (1993)
• Yuma Symposium Show, Yuma Art Center, Arizona (1993)
• Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, California (1993)
• Richmond Art Center, Public Art Show, Collaboration: Richmond Citizens (1993)
• “Executive Order 9066” San Jose Art League, San Jose, California (1992)
• Visiting Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (1992)
• "Beyond Christmas: Traditional Festivals in Contemporary America,” Lowie Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California (1992)
• "Spirit As Source", Bade Museum, Berkeley, California (1992)
• Asian American Artists, Lite Rail Gallery, Sacramento, California (1992)
• Art and History: A Curriculum," San Francisco State University, S.F., California (1991)
• Paintings, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan (1991)
• Obudai Galeria Aicsy Uastely, Budapest, Hungary (1991)
• ATLA Gallery, Los Angeles, California (1991)

Awards and Commissions

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Humanities Visiting Fellowship (2004)
• Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation (2003)
• California Arts Council Residency Fellowship for American Violence Art Project (2002)
• St. Benedict's Press Artists' Book Commission for The Mirror of Simple Souls with poet Anne Carson (2001)
• Gerbode Foundation Purchase Award for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Honolulu Academy of Art Museum (2001)
• City of Richmond, West Contra Costa County Health Center “Mirgration Stories” Exhibition Grant (2001)
• Astraea Foundation Fellowship (2000)
• Creative Work Fund Grant (with E.G. Crichton and the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society) (2000)
• San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission (1999)
• John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship at Yaddo Corporation (1999)
• Fleishhaker Foundation Eureka Fellowship Nominee (1998)
• Western States Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship (1996)
• City of Oakland Public Art Commission, Fruitvale Streetscape Project (1996)
• Flintridge Foundation Award, Djerassi Foundation Residency, Woodside, California (1995)
• City of Richmond, Public Art Commission (1993)
• University of California, Davis, Mural Commission (1991)
• San Francisco Conservation Corp, Mural Commission (1990)
• California Arts Council Grant, Artists in Institutions (1990, 1989, 1988)
• Oakland Arts Council Grant, Artists in Communities (1987, 1986)

Teaching Experience

• California College of Arts and Crafts, Associate Professor, Painting (1996-present)
• University of California, Berkeley, Painting, Drawing (1995-96)
• Stanford University, Visiting Lecturer, Drawing (1994-95)
• San Francisco Art Institute, Visiting Artist, Painting (1993-96)
• California State University, Hayward, Lecturer, Painting (1994)
• University of California, Berkeley, Lecturer, Painting, Drawing, Design (1992-94)
• Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing (1991)
• California College of Arts and Crafts, Lecturer, Design (1990-91)

Professional Experience

• Co-Curator, Bernice Bing Retrospective, SOMART, San Francisco (1999)
• Panel, "Women's Issues in Art History" WCA San Francisco Conference (1999)
• San Francisco Education Project, project with Claire Lillienthal Elementary, exhibition, curated by Larry Rinder
• Light Rail Transit Public Art Jury, San Francisco Arts Commission (1998)
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln Slide lectures on my work & Diversity Education Workshops across the campus (1998)
• Slide Lecture, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, California (1997)
• Juror, "Growing Up Asian in America" Asia Pacific Fund Program for K-12 (1997)
• Panel Lecture, (The first lesbian artist panel at MOMA) ”Multi-Culturalism and Personal History” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995)
• University Art Museum panel lecture, Public Art in Urban Environments (1995)
• Juror, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento (1995)
• Curator, Artists in Recovery, Meredian Gallery (1994)
• Panel, The Exchange Show, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (1994)
• Lecture, Shifting Gears in Artist’s Careers, College Art Association, New York City (1994)
• Appointed by Walnut Creek Arts Commission to Arts Advisory Council, Bedford Gallery (1994)
• Curator, “Four Directions: Women Honor Native Land” Pro-Arts, Oakland (1992)
• Lecture, “Individual and Social Aspects in Art” University of California Santa Cruz (1992)
• Lecture, International Artists conference, San Francisco State University, “Socially Engaged Public Art” (1992)
• Lecture, Panel “The Spirit As Source” Women’s Caucus For Art, Mills College, Oakland, California (1992)
• Exhibitions Coordinator, West Oakland Billboard Public Art Project (1990)
• Fine Arts Editor, Golden Turtle Press (1990)
• Artist in Residence, San Bruno County Jail (1990); San Bruno Jail, "World House" Installation (1988)

Selected Public Collections

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Honolulu Academy of Fine Art
• Brooklyn Museum
• Herzog-Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunshweig, Germany
• San Francisco State University
• Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
• Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of California Berkeley Library
• Arizona State University Gallery, Tempe, Arizona
• Kresge Museum, Michigan State University Gallery
• Wiseman Art Gallery, University of Minnesota
• Richard Brush Gallery, St. Lawerence University
• College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
• South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Indiana
• Wichita State University Museum
• Harriet Tubman Museum, Macon, Georgia