BAMPFA News
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's hands on her typewriter, 1981. Photo: James Cha.
Announcing the 2020 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Fellowship Recipients
BAMPFA is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Fellowship, presented each year to three outstanding UC Berkeley students graduating from the Departments of Art Practice, Comparative Literature, and Ethnic Studies.
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Edie Fake: Affordable Housing for Trans Elders, 2019; courtesy of the artist and Western Exhibitions, Chicago. Photo: JKA Photography.
BAMPFA from Home
To help slow the spread of COVID-19, all of BAMPFA’s programs are paused and our building is temporarily closed. We miss our visitors and look forward to welcoming you back as soon as it’s safe to reopen our doors.
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Former BAMPFA Director Kevin Consey (1952–2020)
BAMPFA Announces Passing of Former Director Kevin Consey
Read MoreKevin Consey, the former director of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 1999 to 2008 who spearheaded multiple building projects over a distinguished thirty-two-year career of museum leadership, passed away on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at his home in K
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Off the Shelves: Digitizing Filmmaker Recordings from Cassette Tape
By Jason Sanders, BAMPFA Research Associate
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Agnès Varda and Didier Rouget: Varda by Agnès
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Alexander Calder: The Hawk for Peace, 1968; painted steel; 156 x 132 1/2 in.; BAMPFA, gift of Alexander Calder in memory of Kenneth Aurand Hayes. Photo: Benjamin Blackwell.
Major Grant Awarded to Conserve and Relocate Alexander Calder Stabile
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) was recently awarded a prestigious Save America's Treasures grant in the amount of $109,576 to conserve and relocate a signature work
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Lawrence Rinder Steps Down as BAMPFA’s Director and Chief Curator
Lawrence Rinder, the director and chief curator of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), announced today that he will le
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