{"id":14286,"date":"2013-06-19T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T22:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=14286"},"modified":"2013-06-19T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T22:01:27","slug":"shopping-stories-arts-and-crafts-in-berkeleys-labyrinthine-sawtooth-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/shopping-stories-arts-and-crafts-in-berkeleys-labyrinthine-sawtooth-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Stories: Arts and Crafts in Berkeley’s Labyrinthine Sawtooth Building"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Painter<\/a>
Salma Arastu in her Berkeley studio, surrounded by hundreds of paintings, prints and sculptures she has made over the years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

I caught the last minute of the last day of the annual San Francisco East Bay Open Studios on June 9. I didn’t go there intending to shop. My plan was to stop by painter Salma Arastu’s studio in the funky Sawtooth Building on Eighth Street in Berkeley. Salma is an Indian woman who converted from\u00a0 Hinduism to Islam — and I wanted to talk about interviewing her for my book.<\/p>\n

As I left Salma’s studio, however, I realized\u00a0 that the Sawtooth Building was rabbit warren of<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
I spotted this painting tucked away in the back of Salma’s studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

tunnel-like halls and spaces packed with painters, textile artists, jewelry makers and sculptors. My trusty point and shoot in hand, I ducked in and out of several studios.<\/p>\n

More than 400 artists and craftspeople participated in the East Bay Open Studios this year. Sponsored by Pro Arts, the annual event takes place in Berkeley, Oakland and other locations in the East Bay.<\/p>\n

Next year I won’t wait till the last minute to stop by.<\/p>\n

More East Bay craftspeople at “Sue Johnson Lamps and Shades — Works of Art in Berkeley,”<\/a> “Amazing Clay” <\/a>and “Ceramics Envy.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"salma<\/a>
Salma Arastu uses the human figure in her work these days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Narrow<\/a>
Narrow hallways connect dozens of artists’ studios in Berkeley’s Sawtooth Building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Potter<\/a>
Potter Bob Pool<\/a> got some work done during his Sawtooth Building open studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Doughtut-shaped<\/a>
Curtis H. Arima makes sculptures mimicking the shapes of plastic retail packaging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pottery<\/a>
One of many plates by Bob Pool hanging on the walls of his Berkeley studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Curtis<\/a>
Sculptor and jewelry artist Curtis H. Arima <\/a>with a work in progress. The piece needs more sticks, he says.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
Salma Arastu painted the entrance to her studio in the historic Sawtooth Building<\/a> at 2547 Eighth Street, Berkeley. The building gets its name from its twenty rows of angled skylights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I caught the last minute of the last day of the annual San Francisco East Bay Open Studios on June 9. I didn’t go there intending to shop. My plan was to stop by painter Salma Arastu’s studio in the funky Sawtooth Building on Eighth Street in Berkeley to talk about my book. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1001,1002,1003,34,1004,716,1005,814],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-berkeley-ca-arts-and-crafts","tag-bob-pool-potter","tag-curtis-h-arima","tag-dont-miss","tag-open-studios","tag-salma-arastu","tag-sawtooth-building-berkeley","tag-shopping-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}