Translation, Public Art and Activism in Occupied Palestine

"Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice" continues on Tuesday evening, April 1 with Susan Greene, who will present and discuss several of her public art projects in Palestine, while addressing the questions: What are some of the dynamics between translation and solidarity? And, when and how can public art activate social spaces?

at Get Lost Travel Books
1825 Market Street
(betwn. Valencia and Guerrero)
7 pm

Susan Greene is an artist, educator and clinical psychologist. Her
practice straddles a range of cultural arenas, new media, and public art, while focusing on borders, migrations, decolonization and memory. Greene is one of four Jewish American women artists who formed Break the Silence Mural Project in 1989. Break the Silence artists have returned to Occupied Palestine numerous times to facilitate community mural projects, conduct arts workshops, and create sculpture in refugee camps in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Beit Hanoun and Rafah. They have presented their work to high school, university, and community audiences across the United States including at the San Francisco Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Alternative Museum in New York. The group has also produced an award winning video. Greene has led or participated in more than 30 public art projects worldwide. Originally from NYC, she has been a resident of the Bay Area 25 years. She teaches and directs the Learning Center at the San Francisco Art Institute.