About Artship
Artship, The Ship, History Fragments [1999 - 2004]
Director's Cultural History Research Bio
Director's Cultural Curriculum Vitae Website
Publication - VATRONOŠA - English / Serbian - parallel text
Community Commons
on the Artship
Gathering space of community
groups on the Artship.(1999-2004)
Drawing by Augusto Ferrriols, founding member of Artship and
co-creatorin all of its programs for over ten years. The drawing
reproduced here is one of many he made specially for notes of
Artship performances.
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Mission Statement
The ARTSHIP mission is to offer broad access to the transforming powers of the creative process and to present new opportunities for breakthrough thinking and creative work.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we collaborate with diverse artists, arts agencies, foundations, and other socially relevant organizations. We intend to emancipate Culture Making as a convening force in the re-creation and re-interpretation of the "Community Commons." Our work addresses the current need to reinforce and protect the rights of people to gather and celebrate in public places.
As Approved By the ARTSHIP Foundation Board of Directors: April 2005
Board of Directors
Artship Foundation Board of Directors
Katie Wolf, President; Olivia Lorgen-Jones, Secretary; Kerry Yates, Treasurer; Slobodan Dan Paich is a lifetime member per Artship Foundation by-laws. Martha Zlatar and H Reid Shaw have decided to stay as non-voting advisory members, attend meetings and help carry the continuity of Artship work and inner commitment.
Katie Wolf has been developing and implementing curricula for teaching the creative process in San Francisco for decades. After earning a BFA from the University of Santa Clara and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and she worked with Ruth Asawa and the Alvarado Arts Workshop for 5 years as an artist in residence in the San Francisco public schools. She designed the Visual Arts curriculum at Saint Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco, where she has taught for over 40 years. Subject areas include architecture, sculpture, drawing, painting, sacred symbols, and set design. Her teaching has inspired thousands of students to recognize and express their gift of creativity. Their work consistently receives local and national honors.
She also initiated and for the last 15 years has led the Art and Nature Retreat Site in northern California where she facilitates an informed connection with and understanding of nature among her students.
An ancient and personal symbol system imbues her large scale paintings, welded steel sculptures, stained glass pieces, painted fabric wall scrolls and wearable art with an energy that presents itself as a bridge allowing the sacred to be sensed in our daily living.
Her personal creative work ranges from intimate sacred spaces to environmental fabric designs for San Francisco’s vast and modern St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Olivia Lorgen-Jones was born in Port Angeles, Washington in 1976 and has been experiencing the pull of the mountains and the sea ever since. After a few years commercially fishing, she went back to school to become a nurse. Olivia currently works in the cardiac unit of Marin General Hospital.
Olivia is also accomplished weaver and master knitter. With her original and imaginative textiles, Olivia has participated in number of Artship exhibitions. As a child, Olivia also started playing the violin and continues fiddling when she can find fellow musicians.
In her words, she has "recently discovered the riches that Artship has to bring to the community and is happy to be able to contribute as a board member."
Kerry Yates was born in Oakland California in 1945. Kerry was involved with projects and initiatives that led to the foundation of Artship. Significantly, Kerry was a founding member, with Augusto Jose Ferriols and Slobodan Dan Paich, of Augustino Dance Theater, and served as its musical director/coordinator for 14 years. He also participated in the first installation of the Windows Project, which showcased approximately 5,000 artists over a period of more than 10 years (1991-2004).
Kerry has been teaching guitar and electric bass for 50 years. He has taught in various settings including, for the last 30 years, Subway Guitars in Berkeley. Kerry’s participation in musical groups started in high school and continues today. He has performed as a guitarist/bassist/percussionist in seven musical ensembles. The most recent, in which he continues to be involved, is called Porch.
Kerry’s vocation and profession are in the field of Early Childhood Education. He began by working with children and young adults on the Autism Spectrum, and has served as Assistant Director at Glenridge Cooperative Preschool since 1982.
After graduating from Woodside Priory High School in Portola Valley, California, he attended Saint Joseph’s College in Mountain View and Saint Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Kerry is the father of three children and the grandfather of three grandchildren.
Hitesh Gautam is a member of Artship Foundation (San Francisco), Associate Scholars Core Group. He is active in the Anthropology, Food Folklore and Food and Medicine studies section. In May 2020 he presented his paper Ayurvedic Medicine and Contemporary Foods: Reflections on Ancient Roots and Contemporary responses presented at the conference Food (in)compatibilities – Cultural (in)compatibilities at V.B. University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Anthropology-Cultural Studies Section, Timisoara, Romania. Currently he is researching in food and crops migration associated with historic transmission of ideas. Hitesh is an Executive Chef born in New Delhi, India 1987. He has worked across the globe exploring various cuisines and cooking skills majoring in Indian Ayurvedic cuisine. Hitesh Gautam was invited to be the Executive chef in 2019 at Amber India restaurant, San Francisco where he is practicing today. Bringing with him both the knowledge of international cuisines and researched ideas of integration and identity preservation in the current and future culinary practices that he gained in his fourteen years of experience. Hitesh is a culinary graduate from IHM Guwahati, a leading culinary studies institution in India. He started his career with one of the internationally renowned destination resort Ananda in the Himalayas where he learned and developed his interest in healing concepts of food and the benefits of Ayurved based balanced diets. He was heading one of the first of its kind progressive Indian cuisine restaurant called “The Pink Poppadum”, Bangalore, India. Hitesh Gautam becoming the first ever Indian Chef to represent the country in Istanbul, Turkey at the “La Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs” which is an international gastronomic society founded in Paris in 1950. Hitesh Gautam’s interests are the combination of comparative cultural research and daily culinary practice which also includes awareness of social and societal dynamics at the work place. Since arriving to San Francisco Hitesh Gautam has learned Spanish and is sharing his culinary and cultural knowledge with all the members of his staff.
Slobodan Dan Paich has multiple ongoing vocations: as comparative cultural studies scholar, he has delivered numerous papers at international conferences, as a presenter and as keynote speaker. His presentations are based on his courses, lectures, and research since 1969, addressing tangible and intangible heritage, comparative cultural studies, and the migration of techniques and ideas. The courses he initiated in 1969 at the university level broadened the scope of art history into the History of Art and Ideas. These courses included geographies larger than the European cultural sphere, and an interdisciplinary, across-time curriculum was developed to include ancient and indigenous people, viewed as differently cultured, ingenious, and refined, rather than primitive.
Mr. Paich was born in Yugoslavia after the Second World War. He lived in England from 1967 to 1985. In London, Mr. Paich taught the History of Art and Ideas, Design, and Art Studio from 1969 to 1985. From 1985 to 1992, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He served as a board member of the Society of Founders of the International Peace University in Berlin/Vienna from 1996 to 2002, and chaired the Committee on Arts and Culture. He succeeded Yehudi Menuhin in this role and passed it on to Ishmael Ivo at the end of his tenure. Currently, as well as being founder and Artistic and Executive Director of Artship Foundation since 1992, he is Visiting Professor in Anthropology-Cultural Studies Section, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania.
As theater director, Mr. Paich is a co-founder and the artistic director of the Artship Ensemble (previously Augustino Dance Theater), where he has choreographed and directed since 1988 in the USA. Before immigrating to England from his native Yugoslavia, Mr. Paich started a number of experimental theater groups based on movement, folkloric dance, and storytelling that propelled him to leave for London in 1967. Since immigrating to the United States in 1985, Mr. Paich has been involved in extending performing and visual arts into the community. At TanzFabrik in Berlin, he taught acting for dancers and performance for visual artists. Slobodan is a teacher of multidisciplinary arts and has worked in theater all his life. He is never too far from a rehearsal process. He has received many awards for art, performance, and community initiative wherever he has lived and worked.
As a visual artist since 1969, Mr. Paich has participated in one or two exhibitions a year and in the last ten years has been working with The Bonnafont Gallery in San Francisco. He has exhibited at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts in the sixties and Serpentine Gallery in the seventies; Paris’ Le Salon des Nations and the Venice’s Biennale in the eighties.
Directors Emeriti Non-Voting Lifetime Board Members
Directors emeriti are founding members of ARTSHIP Foundation who
continue to work with and support our programs and initiatives.
Capt. Ray Addicott (USN, Ret.), Director Emeritus. Capt. Addicott served on the Board for eight years and is the immediate past Chair of the board. He is president of Training Resources, Ltd., Inc., a firm that provides maritime job training programs in partnership with high schools in northern and southern California. A graduate of the University of Washington, Ray had a distinguished career as a U.S. Navy officer and faculty member at the California Maritime Academy. He was instrumental in helping the Foundation select and receive the TS Golden Bear to become the ARTSHIP.
Patricia Bath, M.D., Director Emerita. Dr. Bath served on the board for eight years, and is the inventor of the Cataract Laserphacoprobe, the medical instrument used to remove cataracts from the eye. Dr. Bath was the first Black female surgeon appointed to UCLA Medical School faculty in 1975, and is credited with the founding of the Student National Medical Association along with other Howard University students. She also was its first president.
Augusto Ferriols, Director Emeritus. Mr. Ferriols served on the board for ten years, holding the office of Secretary, and as co-director of the Augustino Dance Theater (now ARTSHIP Dance/Theater) through 2002. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Augusto founded DesignSpektrum, a graphic design and web development company, and works as an Art Director for Comcast Entertainment Group, Print & Online Design.
Hallie Williams, Director Emerita. A founding member of ARTSHIP Foundation and board member since 1992, Hallie has served as board treasurer for four years, and as board chair since 2001. Hallie's undergraduate degree in psychology is from the University of California at Berkeley. She did graduate work in social sciences and town planning at Cornell University and completed her master's degree in transformative leadership at Saint Mary's College, Moraga. In addition to her professional and personal work with at-risk youth and African-American faith-based organizations, Hallie participates in various ethnic dance expressions.
Prior Board Members
Over the years many dedicated people have served on the ARTSHIP Foundation Board of Directors. Here is a partial list of prior board member, most of whom continue to support our programs and initiatives.
- Claudia Albano, City of Fremont planning director, Berkeley, CA
- Mark Beaver
- Margaret Bertrand, International Marketing Executive, now residing in San Luis Obispo County, CA
- Jeannette DesBoines, Visual Artist
- Gordon Fulton, President, Concept Marine, Inc., Oakland, CA
- Daniel Harris, Visual Artist and Poet, Oakland, CA
- Bruce Lawrence, MD, Family Medicine Practice, Oakland, CA
- Mary O'Donnell, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Alameda, CA>
- Tom Sargent, Principal, Community Equity Builders, San Francisco, CA
- Marguerite Welch, Lecturer, St. Mary's College, & HR/Organization Development Consultant, Oakland, CA
Management & Governance
Incorporation
ARTSHIP Foundation was incorporated as a California not-for-profit charitable and public benefit organization in August 1992 in Oakland , California . The Foundation relocated its headquarters office to San Francisco , California in January 2004.
Internal Revenue Determination
ARTSHIP Foundation received a determination letter from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in 1995, reconfirmed in 1999, that ARTSHIP Foundation is qualified as a tax-exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The State of California Franchise Tax Board has made a similar determination. Contributions and donations to ARTSHIP Foundation are fully deductible, to the extent permitted by Federal and state laws. Federal I.D. Number: 94-3210894
Board of Directors
The Articles of Incorporation provide for a Board of Directors consisting of up to 5 members.