Amanda is a San Francisco bay area born and raised film maker / media educator. Amanda receive her BFA in film/video from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and since then has moved back to the bay working at June Jordan School for Equity and at Out of Site loving every minute of it!
Saria is a theater, literary and music artist, committed to freedom of expression as a means to develop action, connection, and intimacy. Her solo theater show HOMELESS IN HOMELAND incorporates poetry with 17 character monologues and 7 forms of dance. The show has been performed at theater venues, festivals and colleges on both east and west coasts and has received praise for both its interdisciplinary nature and capacity to compassionately tackle the complicated topics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of urban Jewish American identity. It will be presented next on November 17th and 18th at La Pena in Berkeley. Saria has worked with theater and dance companies in New York and Los Angeles including La Mama ETC, WE GOT ISSUES, Great Leap, Contra-Tiempo and the Moving Torah Company. Her poetry has been featured in print and on audio compilations. Her album of original poetry and music compositions about Jewish identity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was released in July of 2012.
Saria has been an arts educator for thirteen years, teaching dance, theater poetry and music in diverse environments including elementary schools, youth detention centers and colleges. Her Poetry to Performance workshops were facilitated for 3 years at Art Share Los Angeles. She has also done short Poetry to Performance Intensives as an artist in residence at UCLA, San Francisco’s public arts high school (SOTA) and at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco. She is continually inspired by the fly poet/performers she has the privilege of guiding through the journey of writing and performative articulation. www.sariaidana.com
Imin creates sculptures, installations, downloadable crafts, and participatory artist-led projects. She is a recipient of a 2012 commission from the San Jose Museum of Art supported by the Irvine Foundation, 2011 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant, a 2010 Irvine Fellowship at the Sally and Don Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo Art Center and awarded a 2 x 2 Solos exhibition at ProArts Gallery in 2010. She received a 2009 Barclay Simpson MFA Award (2009), the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship (2008) and the Yozo Hamaguchi Endowed Scholarship in 2007. She has had recent residencies at Blue Mountain Center (NY), Montalvo Art Center (CA) and Mission Grafica (CA). She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has had shown her work at SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Art, Incline Gallery, Southern Exposure, Meridian Gallery, Mission Cultural Center, ProArts Gallery in Oakland, 18 Reasons, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. She has an upcoming project at the Zero1 Biennal and at Intersection for the Arts. She has just finished running a year-long fake contemporary art space called SpaceBi (www.spacebi.org) that takes place in the Asian Art Museum, though she has never exhibited at the Asian Art Museum.
Alfie teaches Afro-Brazilian drumming and percussion ensemble. He has studied and performed with noted percussionists, Gamo Paz and Jorge Alabe from Brazil, and locally with Carlos Aceituno, Zeke Neally and Kwaku Dady as well as ensembles including Aguas de Bahia and Fogo Na Roupa. He is an accomplished salsa dance instructor and also teaches with Loco Bloco, the San Francisco Arts Education Project and Project Avary, a summer arts camp for at-risk youth. Alfie is also the musical director of both Loco Bloco & the dance company Sambaxé. He and his drumming students regularly collaborate with Sambaxé. Alfie has been with Out of Site for three years. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
Maggie is a native Northern Californian who earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts, and has taught at Out of Site since 2009. She has exhibited her photo-based artwork at many galleries and non-profit institutions including SF Camerawork, Queen’s Nails Projects, Houston Center for Photography, Ampersand International Arts and the SF Arts Commission Gallery. She is currently an artist-in-residence at RayKo Photo Center.
Craig taught at Out of Site for the first time in the Spring of 2012, leading the final design/build phase of the Mama Arts Café parklet in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco.
A designer at Sagan Piechota Architecture in San Francisco, Craig studied architecture at the University of Washington after working eight years as an artist-blacksmith in Seattle, Washington. Formerly a director of Smoke Farm, a non-profit arts and education experiment on a 360-acre farm near Seattle, managing habitat restoration projects and founding its annual summer arts festival, Craig is an internationally certified Passive House Designer and a co-chair of Passive House California. With a decade of experience as both a designer and builder, Craig’s projects include grass-roots community design/build projects, custom houses, restaurants and cafés, and large public architectural projects.