Means of Exchange (South of Market)

Means of Exchange (South of Market) was a community arts project led by Kimberley Arteche and Weston Teruya in collaboration with Kearny Street Workshop that built relationships with SoMA storefront businesses through research and dialogues that highlighted the history, knowledge, and trades of those community members. Over the course of the project, the goals shifted as a number of our partnering businesses closed (or were at the brink of closing). Instead of a site specific public project, we focused on a handful of collaborative programs which we contextualized in the history and current politics of the South of Market neighborhood.

Means of Exchange was supported through grants from the Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter & Elise Haas Foundation, and the California Arts Council’s Artists Activating Communities.

Exhibition history:

Betweenscapes, SOMArts, co-presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and KSW (2018)
SOMA: South of Market, Russell Gallery, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco (2017)