In conjunction with our exhibition ‘Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Love & War’ and the inaugural SF Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Project, Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present an Artist in Conversation featuring Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kate Eilertsen. The conversation will take place in our gallery at 1275 Minnesota Street on July 23 from 2-4pm. 

Artist, writer, publisher, activist, and San Francisco legend, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been painting with the eye of a poet for over six decades. Throughout his career in literature and decades long affair with the written and spoken word, Ferlinghetti has maintained a visual art practice charged with his spirit, political convictions, and humanism. The works selected for this exhibition look at Ferlinghetti’s world of love and war, and possess an awareness and depth that could only have been born of a life as rich and complex as his. 

Kate Eilertsen is an arts advocate, curator, and educator. Initially working in East Coast institutions including the Metropolitan Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, Ms. Eilertsen moved to San Francisco in 1988 and has taught at California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was Associate Dean.  She served as Director of the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco and Acting Director of Visual Arts for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and most recently as Executive Director for the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, which hosted the exhibition ‘Cross Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’ in 2012. Kate Eilertsen believes art can make the world a better place.

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