>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san

francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store.

in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media.

how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare.

>> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to

you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you

have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only one earth.

this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop.

>> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise

is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team. regular meeting the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for september 23, 2014, is now called to order roll call please. mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell

dr. murase ms. norton mr. sartipi's president fewer ms. sin at and mr. chin please join me in the allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all so also doing public comment so - thank you

okay. this is approval of the board minutes of the regular board meeting of september 9, 2014, motion and second please. roerment. >> ms. sonata mr. haney mr. chin ms. maufass ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer 6 i's thank you presentation to the board of education superintendent carranza thank you and this coming saturday we'll be having our second reinforcement conference on denman school it brings together families to be involved in air children's education and

10:00 a.m. the conference begins martha will, our keynote speaker about ways to have teachers resilience in the early education our equality department and office of family and community lead and annexed our community partners in organizing this great event please note that r.s.v.p. is for childcare you can go to the website family conference or call 415241 6185 for spanish or or english and another one for chinese this saturday september 27th at

9:00 a.m. james middle school i wanted to announce at the beginning of the school year this is a story that is important for our public to know a student at washington school was diagnosed with a physical sdanlt and didn't want to go to school the nurse take action to meet with the school counselor and cropped the efforts with the support team the is the is now thriving at the school and excelled and attending regularly this is one of the examples how nurses from the sfusd support our ask the in a confidential way for students to participate in school nurse boyer school is one of the nurses and thanks our our enrichment education fund the number of nurses has doubled from 10 years ago this november

we'll have an opportunity to reauthorize peace on the booklet that provides millions of delores to our school program and also this past friday i along with vice president dr. murase and the superintendent as well as other staff members including our chief academic officer attended our indian ceremonies and also our commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell was there as well the indian education has a new home on sanchez elementary school that has traditionally native american food and thank you for the education with our indian education are coordinator for the event it was a true community present e event and

took uppermost of the playground with all of us in attendance with that dr. murase let's have a great next week and back to you president fewer. >> thank you superintendent i understand also you have an agenda announcement. >> yes. thank you president fewer graduation up to date is being presented at a future meeting. >> thank you very much now item c the recognition and accommodations superintendent. >> thank you president fewer we have a special service ward for our interpretation united and i'd like to invite millie smith to come forward to read the service award. >> good evening, commissioners and thank you for this opportunity to present this

award this very special service award to some incredible reinstates i want to address the interpretation unit their leader is here with tonya and lillian and i absolutely want to recognize those who folks if the unit who are here working together e tonight since they work nights and weekend to make sure that stakeholders have language capacity and margaret are some of the folks here today (clapping.) i think this a really great award one the units that when everything is working you don't notice them so sometimes they don't get the recognition this

team has done great things to provide the services for the families of the school district and have worked hard together to insure that non-english speaking families have equal access to the languages they've worked hard to promote a capable team of continues improvement and social justice and took on the huge task of creating a glossary of education jonathan you know we have a lot of jargon so that was huge. >> and feinstein finally they've developed strong connections so we can expand the languages tagalog and vietnam

are some of the languages. >> good evening, commissioners and the superintendent we're honored to receive the special award this means a lot to our team the interpretation team is lucky to have talented and committed employees our work is not easy it is some translations some clients e think we translate but it is carefully done we have bad days but our interpreters strife to do the best once the interpretation start is in the

background they get the message across and get us to meaningful conversations tonight we are being recognized and beyond gratified for the important work we do everyday we are proud to get this report card with the board of education and we'll share that with our coworkers that are not able to be here thank you (clapping.) thank you very much. >> my name is an online liquify i work in 70 san francisco unified school district for 3 years and a half many times i was asked you are listening to one language and interpreting it into another at the same time how do you do that there's no mask and i'm not a super person

it is only hard work and work behind the scenes that matters it is the key to success we also get the consent information before we go to work and semi interpretations is a race against the time we have to join ourselves instead of and speak fast so practicing practicing is the mask of our work in the office our team called for a meeting to talk about documents we do research and find retains and have multiple conversations and finalize a term in vietnam in the course thank you board and superintendent for this recognition this is really an exciting encourage time we share the enjoying enjoying joy with our coworkers and who couldn't

make it tonight and especially i want to mention mr. andy who was retired an important person that set the ground work for our chinese i'm proud to be part of the team and contribute to the side community in this position i may not secure one hundred percent outcome but i'll try my one one hundred percent effort (clapping). >> madam president, of the board and mr. superintendant, members of the board and ladies and gentlemen, i'm a team member of the interpretation of the san francisco unified school district on behalf of the coworkers i want to thank you for the recognition we feel

confident you'll continue to support us and to provide all the resources we'll need not future to continue to perform and deliver the best translation to the school county of san francisco thank you very much (clapping). >> everybody come on over here for a photograph. >> thank you congratulation thank you. >> thank you so much hurry, hurry, hurry get in there (laughter). >> get in get in

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>> commissioner maufas i believe wants to say something. >> i too want to congratulate the translation and interpretation department i think i've done on amazing job in the san francisco unified school district i think you've grown so much over the recent years and all of the positive comments we hear from families that didn't expect on interpretation or the district does something we have live interpretation and the families hear all that's unhappy and the quality my, my quality of the