When Archana Horsting was a 22-year-old artist studying printmaking at Paris’ Atelier 17 in the early 1970s, she remembers being “energized by the incredibly international group of artists from all over the world working together, this creative global hub.” Inspired by the Parisian workshop model, as well as by her childhood watching the likes of Robert Arneson and Roy De Forest teach sculpture and ceramics alongside her mother, Ruth Horsting, on the UC Davis art faculty, Horsting returned to the Bay Area determined, with fellow artist Yuzo Nakano, to design an art workshop created by and for artists, where they could work around the clock on good equipment. Fast forward to today, and Berkeley’s treasured nonprofit arts center Kala Art Institute has for 41 years successfully embodied Horsting’s vision of a thriving, internationally recognized community arts space, ever since she and Nakano first “launched Kala in an old Japantown basement in 1974, with one etching press and a hot plate,” says Horsting. On Thursday, Oct.
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