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Joint Member Day

For Members

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Date/Time:
Saturday, Mar. 20; 11 AM-5 PM (Hours vary depending on participating institution)
Contact: info@thecjm.org

About the Program

On Saturday, March 20, seven San Francisco cultural institutions are teaming up with the CJM to offer members reciprocal admission, tours, and discounts. Members from each institution can enjoy complimentary admission for 2 people at any of the other participating institutions, which include the Asian Art Museum, Cartoon Art Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Please present your membership card for admission.

Participating museums, hours and programs for Joint Member Day are:

Museum Details

Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St (Civic Center)
San Francisco CA 94102
10 AM–5 PM
415.581.3500
On View
Shanghai (February 12—September 5, 2010)
Shanghai explores, through the mirror of its art, the tumultuous history that has resulted in one of Asia’s most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities today. The exhibition features more than 130 oil paintings, Shanghai Deco furniture and rugs, revolutionary posters, works of fashion, movie clips, and contemporary installations. These artworks drawn mainly from the collections of the Shanghai Museum, The Shanghai Art Museum, the Shanghai City History Museum, and the Lu Xun Museum, include the most significant visual documents of the city’s rich and ever changing culture.

Special Events
Docent-led tours and audio tours available for collection galleries and special exhibition.


Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission St
San Francisco CA, 94105
11 AM–5 PM

On View
Drawing the Sword: Samurai in Manga and Anime
Samurai have a rich tradition in Japanese art dating back centuries. This exhibition follows the Samurai from woodblock prints to their more modern incarnations, in film, comics and animation.

Batman: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Since his debut in 1939, few fictional characters have been as popular and enduring as DC Comics’ Batman. This exhibition looks at some of the most iconic and innovative artists to draw Batman over the past 70 years.

Ed Hannigan: Covered
Marvel and DC Comics artist Ed Hannigan designed some of the most iconic comic book covers of the 1970s and 1980s featuring characters including Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. This exhibition looks back at his career in a special collaboration with The Hero Initiative which will culminate in a charity auction to raise money to offset Hannigan’s medical expenses as he battles multiple sclerosis.


Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street
San Francisco
11 AM - 6 PM
415.358.7200

On View

Africa Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals (March 19, 2010 – August 28, 2010)

African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals is featured in MoAD’s special exhibitions gallery and includes 39 color and black and white photographs by Bryan Wiley, a highly regarded Bay area photo historian who has traveled extensively throughout the Atlantic Black Diaspora documenting altars and ritual practices by African descendants in Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, South Carolina, and New Orleans. Wiley has exhibited his photographs in traditional and nontraditional venues in the U.S. and abroad and has been the photographer of record for several important documentary and feature films.

The exhibition also features contemporary examples of Afro-Atlantic altars that are derived from altar worship among the Akan, Bakongo, Fon, Ejagham, Mande and Yoruba of West and Central Africa. With the altars, which often include color coded fabrics, food, photographs, musical instruments, symbolic figurative sculpture, tools and candles related to specific deities, the exhibition and the entire museum become sacred spaces and focal points of worship.

African Continuum enriches, enlightens, challenges and educates visitors of all ages and cultural backgrounds through Wiley’s extraordinary photographs, the sacred altars created by local practitioners and MoAD’s engaging schedule of interpretive and public programs.

Discount
Members of participating museums will receive 10 percent off Museum Store purchases during the day.


Museum of Craft and Folk Art
51 Yerba Buena Lane, San Francisco
11 AM–5 PM
415.227.4888

On View

Rhythm and Hues: Cloth and Culture of Mali, West Africa gives long overdue recognition to the talented Africans who create stunning fabrics and other art, by showing brilliant contemporary examples of their work. Social issues such as empowerment of women, the status of dress, and current trends in fabrics are explored.

Discount
Members of participating museums will receive 10 percent off Museum Store purchases during the day.


SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street, second floor, San Francisco
12-5 PM

On View

An Autobiography of San Francisco Part II: The Future Lasts Forever
In celebration of its 35th Anniversary, SF Camerawork is presenting the second part of a special two-part exhibition. Featuring more than 30 artists, over 125 works, and organized in three sections, the works exhibited in The Future Lasts Forever all reflect the passage of time in various ways. Some works shine a light on important historical events that still have an impact on our current lives, and others highlight archival work that is being revitalized. The exhibition also features important ongoing projects that span the decades and continue on into the future, as well as newly commissioned projects by artists whose work involves a merging of histories.


SF Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St
San Francisco, CA 94103-3107
11 AM-5:45 PM
415.357.4071

On View
75 Years of Looking Forward (selected exhibitions on view through Jan 16, 2011)

SFMOMA celebrates its 75th anniversary with a suite of anniversary-related exhibitions that illustrates the stories of the artists, collectors, cultural visionaries, and community leaders who founded, built, and have animated the museum. Individual exhibitions include The Anniversary Show, The View From Here, Focus on Artists, Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco, Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection, and Dispatches from the Archives.

Luc Tuymans (February 6–May 2, 2010)
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with a mastery of painting to explore issues of history, memory, and the mass media. The artist has addressed the lingering effects of World War II, the postcolonial situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the dramatic turn of world events after 9/11. Making ingenious use of cropping, close-ups, framing, and sequencing, Tuymans's paintings initially suggest relatively innocuous depictions of everyday life — but another meaning almost always lurks beneath their surfaces.

Special Events
Free docent tours at 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30 p.m.

Complimentary multi-media tours available all day

Discount
Members of participating museums will receive 10 percent off MuseumStore purchases during the day.


Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
San Francisco
12-8 PM

On View
Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams
features new projects as well as selected earlier works by the San Francisco-based artist Renée Green that includes short films, drawings, banners, audio projects, a window installation at street level and a related publication. For more than 20 years, Green has been creating works of art that critically assess the intersection of ideas, processes and creativities around a range of topics including cultural history, transnational travel, feminism and biography. On view in the terrace galleries is Death’s Boutique by Los Angeles based artists Kara Tanaka and Marco Rios. For their first collaborative exhibition, Tanaka and Rios investigate death by delving into heavy subject matter with both humor and sincerity, with a new series of sculptures accompanied by photographs, video and printer matter. For this project, the artists journey to Sweden (to investigate the newest and most ecological burial technique) and Lithuania  (the country with the world’s highest suicide rate) to explore the motivations of those who preemptively seek and plan for their own moment of expiration and those willing to conjure the magic of a well-considered ending. Also, visit The Global Lives Project, featuring 24 hours in the lives of ten people from around the world.

Special Events
Enter to win!

YBCA will raffle off a free membership, performance and film tickets.

Artist Workshop: Rios & Tanaka
Free for Members, 2-4pm