THIS EVENT TOOK PLACE ON MARCH 8, 2025

Join Fort Mason Art and Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture during the final weekend of Kota Ezawa’s Here and There – Now and Then exhibition to celebrate the release of the exhibition catalog and to dive deeper into the show’s main works: Alcatraz Is an Idea, co-created with Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen, Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie); Grand Princess, set on the cusp of the COVID-19 pandemic; and a suite of works taking up the artist Kurt Schwitters and his Merzbau studio/home art environment.

Event Details:
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Store House, Landmark Building D & Gallery 308, Building A (Next to Radhaus Alpine Beerhall & Restaurant)
Free Admission (Please register in advance)

Among the event participants at The Store House in Building D are members of the 2019 Alcatraz Canoe Journey family, including Eloy Martinez, L Frank, Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Costanoan Ohlone-Mutson, Chumash), Antonio Moreno, and Manny Lieras (Navajo, Comanche); the writer Dodie Bellamy; and the SFMOMA curator Rudolf Frieling. Maxe Crandall of Small Press Traffic brings Jasmine Zhang and Kevin CK Lo to stage poetic interventions inspired by Schwitters’ sound poetry, and Tom Comitta leads a call-and-response to take everyone home. A reception in the exhibition itself follows (Gallery 308, Building A), with a special in-gallery performance by The Red Room Orchestra; their version of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” with vocals by Petra Haden, can be heard in the Grand Princess video.

Both the Store House program and the Gallery 308 reception are free by reserving space in advance. Pre-order the catalog online or purchase copies at the closing program.

Event Schedule:

Schedule for The Store House, Building D

• 3:00 p.m.: Attendees go behind-the-scenes of the 2019 Alcatraz Canoe Journey, depicted in Ezawa and NoiseCat’s Alcatraz Is an Idea, with Eloy Martinez, L Frank, Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Costanoan Ohlone-Mutson, Chumash), Antonio Moreno, and Manny Lieras (Navajo, Comanche). Sharaya Souza (Taos Pueblo, Ute, Kiowa) of FMCAC resident group the American Indian Cultural District gives opening remarks.
• Sounding: Maxe Crandall
• 4:00 p.m.: SFMOMA curator Rudolf Frieling and Kota Ezawa discuss artist Kurt Schwitters
• Sounding: Kevin CK Lo
• 4:30 p.m.: Dodie Bellamy recounts her close encounters with Ezawa, Alcatraz, and Grand Princess 
• Sounding: Jasmine Zhang
• Outro: Tom Comitta

Schedule for Gallery 308, Building A

• 5:30 p.m.: Gallery 308 reception
• 6:00 p.m.: The Red Room Orchestra, with founder Marc Capelle, Petra Haden (vocals), Tom Ayres (guitars), Pete Straus (bass), and Jordan Glenn (drums)

Free Admission (Please register in advance)

Catalog Description: A fully illustrated publication accompanies Kota Ezawa’s Here and There — Now and Then exhibition, with texts from writer Dodie Bellamy; curator Rudolf Frieling; activist and writer Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen, Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie); and an introduction from Frank Smigiel. This FMCAC book is edited by Fort Mason Art’s Marijane Kubow and designed by McCall Associates. It is released on March 8, 2025, during the closing weekend of the show.

ORDER A BEAUTIFUL, PRINTED KOTA EZAWA:
HERE AND THERE — NOW AND THEN CATALOG.

Kota Ezawa Catalog Pre-Sale
(Available to ship March 8, 2025)

$40.00