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New ARt CIT "Welcome to CardBurg" March 29 - April 19 Cell Space
www.cardboardinstitute.com

New Art Public Intervention as part of "Grounded?" Red Carpet for the Commons will be performed, and displayed, Dec. 1 2007

New Posters @ Mission and 16th BART Station. Mission Wilderness was part of the Hypersea Inner Mission Project 2007. Nov.12 - dec.12

GET TO IT Gallery sneak preview
An online gallery of places around the Mission District that challenge the athlete inside us all. If you have a space you think is worthy and humanly possible to get too, send me a location.
GET TO IT Gallery

New Art
"Beasties" @ at the Crucible Gallery
Opening Reception: 7-10 pm Thursday, April 19th 2007

Crucible Gallery | Cell Space
2050 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA 94110

BioWaste
Participatory Sculpture Event
"CardBoard Monster Mash" hosted by Joshua Short and Scott Falkowski
at CELL Space Thursday, April 12,
5-10pm as part of the "BEASTIES" art show

New Art
"MARKS THE SPOT" fundraiser: SOEX
Saturday, April 28, 20007 7:00pm - 11:00pm Location: SomArts, Main Gallery 934 Brannan Street

7 Acres Blog
Started a blog about my experiences in public space. Blog contains writing and photos. Visit

Joshua Short
LAY #2 The Days of Plenty
This 16 page epic maps a dark future of San Francisco where firepower, false prophets and domestic terrorist rule the day. Be the first kid on your block to have the pre-street edition email.

 

All Saints SF contribute
I'm starting a series of sculptual venerations about people currently living in San Francisco whose actions could be deemed saintly. I am currently soliciting nominations. Please email me anyone you know, who can successfully be saint-ified.
nominees:
1. Betty Traine - 30 to 50 year activist and beautification citizen of the Mission District
submitted 07/19/2006
2. Susan Cervantes - muralist in the mission district. Current director of "Precita Eyes"
submitted 07/31/2006
3. Father Luis Vitale- Activist/pastor for St. Boneface Church. Advocate of non-violence and social justice movements
submitted 10/14/2006
4. Rev. Cecil Williams- CEO and Minister of Glide's National and International Ministries
submitted 10/21/2006
5. Pilar Olabarria -Art teacher at Creativity Explored in the Mission and a community artist here for the past 23 years. He has run art programs/classes at Napa State Hospital, and throughout the Northern California Prison system.
submitted 11/17/2006

 

Joshua Short
Trans-Guerro made his debut as part of Cabaret Marx Oct. 27 2007 Video is coming soon.

Video from carnaval 2007. Pheonix from the 4 month project with the Boys and Girls Club.

summer animation
June 18-21, 2007
Teaching an animation class at CellSpace. images from last years class

April 29 , 2007
Teaching silk screen printing class at Cell Space Monday 7-10pm, Thrudays 7-10, Saturdays 3-5, starting 4/29/2007

joshua shortStarting a new art and education project in collaboration with Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club, Loco Bloco, and Southern Exposure Gallery. Creating parade effects for Carnaval 2007. Picture is from a field trip to the musee mechanique

November 17, 2006
Led a personal history mapping project with World Savvy youth.

October 23 , 2006
Teaching an eight week silk screen printing class at Cell Space 7-10 Monday nights, starting 10/23/2006

September 11, 2006
Started teaching an art class at Sanchez Elementary School. Looks like it is going to be one of the most entinsive classes I ever taught.

August 06, 2006
Just got a new herb garden going in my back yard, totally killer. Looks like I'll be leading a field trip for a group of kids dealing with the issue of Immigration and Identity.

May 26, 2006
Invisible Garbage Can at Emeryville DISAPEARED! I guess someone decided that the IGC would look better with their garbage instead of Emeryvilles Garbage.


April 10 - May 17, 2006
Teaching a new class with Mabel Negrete in collaboration with the columbia Park Boys and Girls Club and SOEX. Power Park Publications is a six week class that will make and distribute publications about Kids Power Park. Pick up one of our publications around the 17th and Valencia St. Area.

March 29, 2006
Did a presentation at San Francisco Art Institute about creating art into public space, and the issues around working with the National parks system.

March 5-12, 2006
This Winter I will be embarking on a trip to Nebraska to begin work on my first documentary, "Calving Season".

January 27 , 2006
Images from my Superthugz series were shown at the "Open Process Series: Heroes & Myths" hosted by Intersection for the arts.
As an exploration of personal and political heroes, myths and legends in our own lives and the world around us, This unique evening features scenes, characters, and conversation around central themes in two new Intersection/Campo Santo plays in development-Denis Johnson's Purvis and Naomi Iizuka's Hamlet:
Blood in the Brain.