Linda Lucero named Artistic Director of Yerba Buena Arts & Events
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Linda Lucero named
Artistic Director of Yerba Buena Arts & Events
San Francisco, CA. December 1, 2004. The Board of Directors of Yerba Buena Arts & Events, producer of the annual Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, is pleased to announce the appointment of Linda Lucero as the organization's Artistic Director. As Artistic Director Ms. Lucero will be responsible for the artistic direction and the daily operations of the organization.
"I am delighted to join Yerba Buena Arts & Events at this important juncture. My goal is to expand partnerships with our neighbors and deepen our commitment to the artists and communities of the Bay Area through programs that are meaningful, dynamic, and accessible," said Ms. Lucero.
"I know that I speak for the entire board when I say how pleased we are to have Linda Lucero join us, said Board Chair Natalie Berg. "We look forward to working with her to expand and strengthen our service to the Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood, and to continue to produce an outstanding Arts Festival for the people of San Francisco and our many visitors."
Yerba Buena Arts & Events (YBA&E) is a presenting organization dedicated to a curated season of artistic, community, and cultural programs in the parks and open spaces of Yerba Buena Gardens. YBA&E's central program is the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, an annual series of free outdoor performances that focuses on artists from the San Francisco Bay Area's many cultures and communities. Yerba Buena Gardens Festival includes popular, international, classical, and operatic music, dance of all styles and genres, community festivals and fairs, visual art displays, and poetry and spoken word performances. The Festival has a unique place in the cultural landscape of San Francisco - of the 230 parks in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Gardens is the only curated "arts park" that is fully dedicated to the long-term presentation of artistic and cultural events. Artistic excellence, inclusion, accessibility, innovation, and presentation of local artists are hallmarks of each Festival Season. All told, Festival events attract an audience of San Francisco and Bay Area residents, tourists, and convention attendees that numbers more than 100,000 each year.
Linda Lucero Background
Linda Lucero has a life-long commitment to arts, culture and community. She is a former curator of performing arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where she curated the Community Partnerships Program and the Celebration of Family Series. In her nine years at YBCA, she created successful artist residencies with local, national and international artists including hip-hop theater artists Danny Hoch, Sarah Jones, Will Power, and Jonzi D; playwrights/performers Anne Galjour, David Cale, Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash, Sean San José, Word for Word Theater Company, Brenda Wong Aoki; and composers Omar Sosa, Jennifer Higdon, and Rebeca Mauléon. (continued)
At YBCA, Ms. Lucero worked alongside Mario Garcia Durham during the creation of the program that became Yerba Buena Arts & Events/Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. She curated Yerba Buena Gardens 10th Anniversary Celebration in 2003 and has been a key figure in the development of the annual Festival.
Previously, Ms. Lucero was Executive Director of La Raza Graphics Center and Grants Director of Vanguard Foundation. She has been an advisor to The San Francisco Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, The California Arts Council, The Marin Community Foundation, The Paul Robeson Fund for Film and Video, and UC Santa Barbara's California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. Ms. Lucero is a founding board member of the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture.
Free Artistic and Cultural Programming in Yerba Buena Gardens is made possible through the generosity of The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, The National Endowment for the Arts, MJM Management Group, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The W.A. Gerbode Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The Fleishhacker Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Walter & Elise Haas Fund, and individual contributions. Media sponsors for the 2004 Festival are WB20, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, KDFC, JC Decaux, Laser.Com, and San Francisco Downtown Magazine. Yerba Buena Arts & Events, organizer of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, is located at 760 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Phone (415) 543-1718; Fax (415) 543-1755; e-mail: ybgf@ybgf.org
http://ybgf.org
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