See more at We visit Bay Area Now 7 exhibition partner Estria Foundation, whose annual Battle Festival of aerosol art has grown into a national two-week celebration of public art.
The Estria Foundation creates art in public spaces to raise awareness and inspire action in the movement to resolve human and environmental issues. Dedicated to making lasting, systemic social change by empowering local communities to work collectively and participate in a global network, The Estria Foundation works towards creating a society that places value on people and the environment above the accumulation of wealth. Now in its sixth year, The Estria Battle Festival is a national urban art competition that honors and advances creativity in hip-hop and urban public art. With a growing audience of more than 6000, an ever-increasing number of participating artists, and more than 75 community partners, it has expanded into a two-week celebration of public art. Both the Battle and the accompanying Arts Festival highlight the most talented and prolific public artists in the United States and aim to lift up the art forms through community building, public education, and engagement.
Through the work of artists who capture the spirit of "now," YBCA's signature triennial, Bay Area Now, brings to life current perspectives for both this art center and the regional art scene. In its seventh edition, BAN7 is experimenting with a new approach to curating that highlights collaborations with our region's artists and arts organizations and pushes beyond presentation toward a multidisciplinary celebration of the diversity of artistic practices in the Bay Area.
BAN7's core idea is to decentralize the curatorial process, and centralize the public presentation of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the region today.
As a common shared site for the presentation of works, BAN7 aims to create a lucid web of creative activity in the Bay Area. Our vision to create a platform for new work and experimentation is rooted in the belief that a decentralized curatorial process will open up an opportunity for a wider range of voices and create spaces for dialogue beyond the arts.
The visual arts component of Bay Area Now 7 has been reconceived through an open and rigorous selection process. By inviting noncommercial, small- to mid-size regional visual arts organizations to curate site-specific projects with Bay Area artists in YBCA's galleries, we are making visible the rich complexity of our many arts communities. Using an art fair style format in which the selected participants curate projects for specific locations throughout an exhibition space, BAN7 celebrates visual arts organizations as vital players in the local arts ecology. The exhibition aims to foster increased appreciation for Bay Area art, artists, and organizers, and to promote a greater understanding of the vast range of practices and individual visions that make the Bay Area such a vibrant center for contemporary art.
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