April 17th - May 2nd
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Opening
April 17th, 5-9pm
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Vic Wong on the Midisteel
April 25th, 2pm
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Closing
Motherland
Jackie Katz & Teatro Almas Libres
May 2nd, 2pm
Spanning Dream Farm Commons, the Annex, and our new Mezzanine Micro Cinema, this exhibition is a celebration of the 20 artists that have joined us in residence during our first 3 years of Upstream.
Upstream is an artist-run micro residency located on the unceded lands of the Me-wuk (Southern Sierra Miwok), Chukchansi, Yokuts and Chikchansi, in a rural town close to Yosemite National Park.
Hosted once a year by Meghana Bisineer and Charlotte Law, and founded by Pree and Maya Kolari, Upstream began as a conversation and an offer of time and space. Flush with enthusiasm this offer soon shape-shifted into a bigger idea: to gift that time and space to others.
Three years on, Upstream has taught us much and strengthened our connections along the way, with
brilliant, creative minds joining as our selection committee, and as artists in residence.
As the world lurches in ways that destabilize us all, Upstream acts as a buoyancy aid and each year
offers multiple reasons to keep going.
We’re so grateful to our founders, to the artists that come, and to those that apply but don’t quite make it too. When Upstream started we had a personal, dreamy wish, that friends would make it over from other places we’ve called home, instead Upstream has been a place where artists gather and build community, art and friends are made and our home expands.
Trans-disciplinary in spirit Three Years Upstream encompasses animation, moving image, beading,
sculpture, works on and with paper, comics, theatre, field-work photography and spoken word, new media interactive experiences, instrument building, field recording and experimental sound.
We invite you to spend time here
Exhibiting Artists
Aabha Sewak (NYC, India, Animation)
Angie Amero (SF, Animation)
Anna Firth (Oakland, Animation and Sculpture)
Claire Rabkin (Oakland, 2d works on paper)
Emily Zullo (NYC, Comic)
Emma Fenton-Miller (Oakland, Handmade paper and pigments, within an artist book)
Gabi Orion (SF, Music and Sensory Installation)
Helen Shewolfe Tseng (SF, Drawing, Prototype PawPad)
Jackie Katz (Marin, Theatre)
James Thacher (NYC, Animation)
Jillian Blackwell (Detroit, Beadwork)
John Konrad (Tucson, Comic)
Kyungwon Song (Oakland, Interactive Experience and Animation)
L Song Wu (Stanford, Drawing)
Mary Welcome (Palouse, Field Work)
Roger Kim (Oakland, Interactive Experience and Animation)
Sarah Grace Graves (Belgium, Experimental Voice)
Vic Wong (SF, Instrument Building and Music)
Ximaps Dong (SF, Sculpture)
Yasmeen Abedifard (Oakland, Comic)
During the exhibition we will host two special performances
April 25th at 2pm
Vic Wong will present and perform on his self-built instrument, the Midisteel.
May 2nd at 2pm
Teatro Almas Libres will be joining us for a reading from their third play Motherland
Motherland honors immigrant mothers, working mothers, ancestral matrilineal wisdom, and was written by the women of Teatro Almas Libres in collaboration with Jackie Katz during her residency in 2025. The reading will be followed by a q&a.
Donations are welcome