While evaluating SFTGG member Blandina Farley's walking tour for SFTGG Certification, we (Jason and I) ran into Aaron Peskin yesterday, Friday March 27th. Aaron is the Treasurer of the North Beach Neighbor's Association and Blandina is on the Board.
By Tony Bravo, Arts & Culture Columnist March 27, 2026
Artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and her husband, artist and UC Berkeley robotics professor Ken Goldberg, have been partners and artistic collaborators for nearly three decades. That collaboration informs their shared exhibition at di Rosa SF, “Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time and Technology,” which feels like a culmination of their individual and collective work, exploring gender, the environment and the dynamics of power.
Shlain’s “Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring,” which is on view for the first time in the city after being installed at Washington, D.C.’s National Mall and New York’s Madison Square Park, is a sculpture that maps 50,000 years of women’s history onto a salvaged cedar tree ring. It highlights 32 key milestones that challenge patriarchal narratives. Among them are goddess worship dating to 50,000 B.C., 1960s feminism, the #MeToo movement and the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Also featured is a new version of Goldberg’s “Bloom,” a video installation using live seismic data from the San Andreas Fault that turns readouts into colorful, flowerlike images. Goldberg aims to transform potentially catastrophic environmental information into a meditation on life, growth and fragility.
What if a tree could tell 50,000 years of women’s history? See it in San Francisco
Greg