With “Art of Peace,” an exceedingly powerful exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Pati Navalta Poblete is fulfilling her mission to get guns off the streets and into galleries. “Every one gives me the chills,” said Poblete, describing the 10 evocative artworks made from dismantled firearms at the show’s opening reception on July…
Art of Peace at the YBCA on view ~8/25. free open to the public. 10 artists transformed SF gun buyback program unwanted guns into art. Art of Peace is a collaborative exhibition that brings together three organizations—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Robby Poblete Foundation, and United Playaz—and features art and artists raising awareness…
Art of Peace is a collaborative exhibition that brings together three organizations—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Robby Poblete Foundation, and United Playaz—and features art and artists raising awareness about the continued escalation of death due to gun violence in our country. Robby Poblete Foundation and United Playaz are working to remove as many…
ART LOOKS Pati Navalta Poblete grew up in Vallejo. But after her 23-year-old son Robby Poblete was shot there in 2014, she had such severe PTSD she couldn’t go bring herself to go back there. She had moved to Fairfield about a year before he was killed, and when driving home, she would go well…
Guns kill, art heals — it’s that simple. Or not, given complex, often vitriolic discussions about gun control and violence caused by illegal weapons that Vallejo-based Pati Navalte Poblete aims to turn into compassionate, hearts-and-heads-together art and dialogue. The Robby Poblete Foundation, founded after Poblete’s 23-year-old son was fatally shot during an attempted robbery in…
During a time when senseless gun violence continues to plague our country, artists are transforming weapons into instruments of hope and symbols of peace. In this sponsored episode of the Datebook podcast, King Kaufman speaks with four key individuals behind the upcoming Art of Peace exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). Pati…
Episode Info During a time when senseless gun violence continues to plague our country, artists are transforming weapons into instruments of hope and symbols of peace. In this sponsored episode of the Datebook podcast, King Kaufman speaks with four key individuals behind the upcoming Art of Peace exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts…