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Disguise the Limit: John Yau’s Collaborations

This exhibition is the first examination of the various collaborative works that poet/author/critic John Yau has created with a range of visual artists during the past five decades. These include paintings, mixed media works on paper, print portfolios, artist books, and letterpress broadsides. As he says, "I'm into every way a poem can be done."

Yau's poetry is infused with humor and intelligence, and he uses a variety of forms to examine aspects of his Chinese-American identity, visual art and film, detective novels, and popular culture. His reviews and essays are celebrated for providing fresh insights into canonical artists and for helping to situate diverse practitioners into historical contexts and traditions.

The result of friendships and shared sensibilities, Yau's collaborations reveal his embrace of both representation and abstraction as foils for language generation. Offering nimble turns of phrase, Zen koans, road sign warnings, and fragmented and completed poems, he has been a curious and generous partner in producing these unique works with established and emerging artists including:

Phil Allen, Bill Barrette, Jake Berthot, Norman Bluhm, Tom Burckhardt, Squeak Carnwath, Aaron Cohick, Tracy Featherstone, Enrique Figueredo, Pia Fries, Max Gimblett, Richard Hull, Bill Jensen, Justine Kurland, Judy Ledgerwood, Suzanne McClelland, Malcom Morley, Ilse Sorensen Murdock, Martin Noel, Ed Paschke, Norbet Prangenberg, Archie Rand, Sydney Jean Reisen, Peter Saul, Hanns Schimansky, Pat Steir, Siv Stoldal, and Carol Szymanski, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Terrien, Richard Tuttle, Claude Viallat, Chuck Webster, and Trevor Winkfield, among others.

Yau has collaborated alongside artists in their studios or at printmaking facilities, as well as through more remote means - providing words, lines, and finished texts for use in variously produced and published endeavors. Disguise the Limit presents these works on gallery walls and in vitrines, offering rich word/image combinations that are the result of serious play and the masterful use of materials and printing/binding techniques.

Image Credit: TRACY FEATHERSTONE and JOHN YAU, Warmest Worm in the Bunch, 2023, ed. ¼, Screenprint on paper, Courtesy of Tracy Featherstone

The SMA will be closed November 19-20 and November 26-30.

Join over 40 local artists and artisans for the Annual Holiday Boutique at the historic Old City Hall gallery downtown Redding!
Shop for hand-made beautiful art, decor, and home goods!
Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am - 4pm; Saturdays 10am - 3pm.
Friday, December 6 open 10am - 6:30pm. After visiting the boutique, why not walk over to join the annual Downtown Tree Lighting at 7:00pm!

This is the museum's annual Exhibition where the members of the museum, many of whom are artists, can display their artwork to the community. The show runs for 4 weeks so come by and share the artwork of your neighbors, community, and friends.

Each year, the unique town of Jacksonville transforms into an even more charming version of itself with twinkling lights, festive decorations, and heartwarming holiday cheer during its Victorian Christmas.

The family-friendly series of events include a Holiday Lights Trolley Tours, a tree lighting ceremony, the holiday parade – featuring Father Christmas, interactive “Festive Quest Bingo,” free hot cider, and holiday music. At the same time, you'll stroll the narrow streets and step over the same thresholds as the town founders did in 1851. Please see our website for specific dates and times of our special events! https://christmasinjacksonville.com/

Preservation Workshop focusing on library and archival collections, including personal treasures. It will be during Klamath Conversations this Thursday at 3 pm. Everyone is welcomed to join. Also, bring something from your collection that needs repair. See you there!

Thursdays 6:00 - 7:30 pm
In-person and via Zoom

Calm Abiding Meditation

This meditation is common to many traditions of Buddhism. In this practice, we rest our attention on a simple meditative support, such as the breath. Instead of following thoughts and emotions as we usually do, we release them and maintain our connection to the support.

“From this practice, we can experience a stable and calm mind. We learn to maintain and return to a sense of stillness, no matter what our outer circumstances. The mind is relaxed, alert and aware. The results of this practice are serenity, freedom in the face of circumstances, and ultimately Buddhahood.”

From Meditation for Beginners, by Bokar Rinpoche.

To attend Calm Abiding Meditation via Zoom, email the office at OFFICE@KSCASHLAND.ORG to join the mailing list.

Weekly zazen group in the Honolulu Diamond Sangha tradition

Zazen in the tradition of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha, founded by Robert Aitken Roshi. Zazen, zazen instruction, Dharma discussions, and practice talks

The Modern Prometheans present “A Drunk Idiot Christmas Carol”, an improvised, drunken journey through Charles Dickens’ masterpiece.

Every performance is a brand-new Christmas Carol, playing for one night only! Using audience suggestions and random chance, our brave performers will stumble and jumble their way through ghosts, Cratchits, and Christmas cheer. Where will it be set? What characters will our performers play? What’s Tiny Tim’s whole deal? We’ll all find out together!

Along the way they’ll play minigames, take shots, and lay it all on the line for your entertainment. It’s a game, it’s a show, it’s A Drunk Idiot Christmas Carol!

Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm from December 6th-21st.

Tickets are $20. $30 VIP tickets include drinks and artisanal chocolates.

Get your tickets at www.modernprometheans.org/tickets

Starring Noah Fitterer, Rhyon Ingalls, Finlo Laney, and Jackie McGarry, with alternate players Grace Angelucci and Michelle Rowe. Hosted by Paul Cosca.

ADVISORIES: This is not an age-restricted show, but does contain drinking. The show may contain adult language, innuendos, and bad taste

Disguise the Limit: John Yau’s Collaborations

This exhibition is the first examination of the various collaborative works that poet/author/critic John Yau has created with a range of visual artists during the past five decades. These include paintings, mixed media works on paper, print portfolios, artist books, and letterpress broadsides. As he says, "I'm into every way a poem can be done."

Yau's poetry is infused with humor and intelligence, and he uses a variety of forms to examine aspects of his Chinese-American identity, visual art and film, detective novels, and popular culture. His reviews and essays are celebrated for providing fresh insights into canonical artists and for helping to situate diverse practitioners into historical contexts and traditions.

The result of friendships and shared sensibilities, Yau's collaborations reveal his embrace of both representation and abstraction as foils for language generation. Offering nimble turns of phrase, Zen koans, road sign warnings, and fragmented and completed poems, he has been a curious and generous partner in producing these unique works with established and emerging artists including:

Phil Allen, Bill Barrette, Jake Berthot, Norman Bluhm, Tom Burckhardt, Squeak Carnwath, Aaron Cohick, Tracy Featherstone, Enrique Figueredo, Pia Fries, Max Gimblett, Richard Hull, Bill Jensen, Justine Kurland, Judy Ledgerwood, Suzanne McClelland, Malcom Morley, Ilse Sorensen Murdock, Martin Noel, Ed Paschke, Norbet Prangenberg, Archie Rand, Sydney Jean Reisen, Peter Saul, Hanns Schimansky, Pat Steir, Siv Stoldal, and Carol Szymanski, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Terrien, Richard Tuttle, Claude Viallat, Chuck Webster, and Trevor Winkfield, among others.

Yau has collaborated alongside artists in their studios or at printmaking facilities, as well as through more remote means - providing words, lines, and finished texts for use in variously produced and published endeavors. Disguise the Limit presents these works on gallery walls and in vitrines, offering rich word/image combinations that are the result of serious play and the masterful use of materials and printing/binding techniques.

Image Credit: TRACY FEATHERSTONE and JOHN YAU, Warmest Worm in the Bunch, 2023, ed. ¼, Screenprint on paper, Courtesy of Tracy Featherstone

The SMA will be closed November 19-20 and November 26-30.