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Where are The Whales Now?

May 12, 2021 The Guardsman Allison Cummings, Shayna Gee, Works of Art Committee, The Whales, Sunnyside History Project, Whale Sculpture, Golden Gate International Exposition, Robert Boardman Howard, Treasure Island, Steinhart Aquarium, Coit Tower, California Academy of Sciences, Power and Light, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, De Young Museum, facebook, San Francisco Arts Commission, Maria Iclea Kava, PG&E, SFAC, Jane Solis Schafgans, San Francisco Remembered, Maritime Museum, The Phoenix, Barbara Lass

The Whales fountain sculpture by Robert Boardman Howard sat under tarps in a fenced lot for almost a decade and half at City College’s Ocean Campus. In 2019, it was moved off-campus where it remains in storage.

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Conversations Online: SF Journalists Join the Classroom

April 28, 2021 The Guardsman A.C. Thompson, Guest Speakers, ProPublica, KQED, PBS Frontline, juan gonzales, Internet Journalism, journalism department, Investigative Journalism, social media, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, distance learning, Shayna Gee

Journalism Department Chair Juan Gonzales, who has built a substantial network of professionals, has been inviting guest instructors such as acclaimed journalists Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and A.C. Thompson to his digital classrooms.

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The Guerrilla Girls Still Behaving Badly 36 Years Later

April 14, 2021 The Guardsman feminism, bell hooks, SFPL, Manon Cadenaule, Shayna Gee, One City One Book, Guerrilla Girls, Chronicle Books, MOMA, MET, frida kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz

Legendary disruptors of the art world, The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of artist-activists exposing gender and racial discrimination in the arts. ‘Behaving badly’ and self-proclaimed ‘professional complainers,’ they began their careers in 1985, carrying posters and glue to post around the city.

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Survival Beyond The Pandemic: Women’s History Month

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 The Guardsman Dolores Huerta, associated students, We Keep Each Other Safe, Patrisse Cullors, Queer Resource Center, Free Events, Alicia Garza, march, Chanel Miller, and Opal Tometi, project survive, Brittany DeBarros, Essential Workers, Women's Resource Center, Workers Right, Frontline Workers, Women’s History Month, Trabajadores Unidos Workers United, Center of Economic and Policy Research, SFPL, VAWA, Economic Policy Institute, #MeToo, National Nurses United, Black Lives Matter, Tarana Burke, Serena Sacharoff, UFW, Shayna Gee

This year’s Women’s History Month theme is “We Keep Each Other Safe.” The programming offers a series of 13 free remote events including multiple healthy relationship workshops with Project SURVIVE. The Women’s and Gender Studies department, Women’s Resource Center, Queer Resource Center, and Associated Students have also organized events.

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Committee Seeks New Design Team for The Diego Rivera Theater

March 10, 2021March 11, 2021 The Guardsman SFMOMA, board of trustees, PAEC, design, Chancellor Vurdien, mural, Shayna Gee, music, DRT, diego rivera, Trustee Davila, students, Design Build, Theater Arts, Contract, pan american unity mural, DSA, architecture

Throughout the years, San Franciscans voted to fund a new Diego Rivera Theater through an $845 million state bond measure and the school received its complete funds in 2020. Many students, faculty, and staff have long awaited its completion.