The media loves stories about Bay Area residents who move away, which neatly play into troubling narratives: That San Francisco is too progressive (or insert your adjective of choice) for its own good, that New York or Los Angeles is the only real city, or that cities and California are broken and that places with more conservative governments have solutions.
To these tropes the Museum of Craft and Design, in the Dogpatch, offers a refreshing counter. “Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life” features contributions from 23 local artists who have decided to stay local, not for starry-eyed reasons but in spite of and working with problems they acknowledge. Together, their pieces create a collage of what the Bay Area arts ecosystem looks like right now.
Adia Millett works in quilted fabric and feathers. Nasim Moghadam wires together shards of beer and wine bottles. Alex Hernandez creates garish stockings.
Jacqueline Francis and Ariel Zaccheo curate.