We're Hiring!

Kala is looking for a Communications and Development Manager to join Kala's creative team. Do you love storytelling? Do you have experience with marketing and fundraising? This new, full-time position will work with Kala’s staff to foster, fund, and promote creative and welcoming artist and community programs. The right candidate will join Kala's commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion and will be fully aligned with Kala’s vision of nurturing a place of creativity, discovery, and mutual respect, celebrating diverse artists and art practices, and building opportunities for inclusion and belonging. Applications are due November 9th.

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Not Apart, Together - Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Date & Time: Nov 15, 7-9pm (Doors open at 6:30, program starts at 7pm)
Location: Kala Gallery

Kala Gallery is excited to present Not Apart, Together, a film screening by The Mycos Project with live original music score by Irene Sazer and Kate Stenberg. The evening includes a panel discussion featuring esteemed Ohlone leaders Corrina Gould, Ruth Orta, Kanyon Coyote Woman Sayers-Roods and environmental biologist Ravinder Sehgal. The discussion will be moderated by writer/educator Anna Lappé.

Free admission. In lieu of event admission fees, we encourage the audience to make donations to The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Costanoan Indian Research, and Partners for Sustainable Development.

Learn more about the event here.

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Artist Talk with Anna Scherbyna

Date and Time: Thursday, November 10 at 6pm
Location: Kala Gallery

Join us on Thursday, November 10th at 6 pm in the Kala Gallery to learn about Anna Scherbyna's creative path! Many thanks to CEC Artslink for supporting Anna's artist residency at Kala! During the artist talk, Anna will speak about the evolution of her artistic practice, show recent work, discuss her experience with arts education in Ukraine, share thoughts about craft and art, and is looking forward to exchanging thoughts and ideas about these topics and about the importance of community.

Anna Scherbyna (b. 1988, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine), artist, illustrator, curator. Anna's work covers a wide range of topics including natural landscapes and their political connotations, war, gender performativity and violence. She also shows interest and sensitivity in the distribution of power and knowledge and uses imagination to envision possible futures. Her practice examines the critical potential of a medium such as installation and video, drawing and painting. For her complete bio, click here.

Photo by Lucy Ivanova

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Print Public - Municipal Artist-in-Residence Opportunity

Berkeley Civic Arts is partnering with Kala on a second round of the Print Public municipal artist-in-residence program. Two artists or artist teams will be selected to be this year's cultural strategists working with the City of Berkeley's Planning Department. This is an exciting opportunity for artists to creatively engage with either the City's long term planning efforts for the San Pablo Avenue corridor or with the City/s Climate Action Plan. Selected artists will receive $9,000 (and an additional $1,000 for materials) and a 16-month residency at Kala with 24/7 access to Kala's printmaking studio, digital lab, darkroom, and other facilities. The deadline is Friday, November 18, 2022.

Image credit: Lara Kaur's Print Public gallery installation 2022
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Adult Class Highlights

Drawing Now

Saturday & Sunday, Nov 12 & 13, 10am - 4pm
Instructor: Theodora Varnay Jones
Location: Kala Gallery & Classroom

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Multiple Plates and Color Intaglio (Portfolio Part III)

Saturdays, Nov 12 - Dec 3,
10am - 4pm
Instructor: Kazuko Watanabe
Location: Kala Printmaking Studio

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Modern Lithography: Mokulito and Polyester Plate Overlay

Sundays, Nov 13 - Dec 4,
10am - 3pm
Instructor: Karen Olsen-Dunn
Location: Kala Gallery & Classroom

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Ink Optional: Screenprinting with Alternative Materials

Saturdays, Dec 10 & 17,
10am - 2pm
Instructor: Defne Beyce
Location: Kala Printmaking Studio

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More News... In Brief

Open studios with Kala artists Karen Olsen Dunn and Meghan Pohlod this weekend at Pacific Felt Factory in San Francisco, Nov 5-6, 11am-5pm.

East Bay Open Studio this weekend and next, Nov 5-6 and Nov 12-13. Self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay.

Call for Artists: The Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery has an open call for their upcoming exhibition, Connections: Art and Music. Applications due Nov 11, 11:59pm.

Kala's 2022-2023 Artists' Annual is on view now - Jan 13th, 2023 in the Kala Gallery. Stop by Tues - Fri, noon - 5pm to see work by Kala's diverse community of artists in a variety of media.

Become a part of the dynamic and creative Kala community by joining Friends of Kala Membership program today. Support Kala and receive all sorts of benefits!