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January 2019 Nature Journal Club Workshop
John Muir Laws: How to Draw a Forest
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Join the Nature Journal Club for a 1.5 hour workshop to help you learn some tips and tricks for drawing forests! This will be a continuation of the series on drawing trees (attendance in past workshops is not required). 

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Visitors to the Warming Hut at Crissy Field are seen in a file photo.
Alcatraz, Warming Hut, other park facilities remain open amid lapse in federal appropriations

Despite a lapse in federal appropriations (also called “government shutdown”) that began on Saturday, December 22, many park sites and visitor facilities in the Golden Gate National Parks remain open.

Lumumba Edwards
Future IDs at Alcatraz

Future IDs at Alcatraz was a yearlong exhibition on Alcatraz Island featuring ID-inspired artworks created by and with individuals with conviction histories as they conceive and develop a vision for a future self. Led by artist Gregory Sale, this project was presented by in partnership with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy as a part of the Art in the Parks program.

Kid jumping against blue sky
Get out! Use a park prescription in the New Year in our Golden Gate National Parks

Resolve to be outdoors more this year. Even doctors are actually handing out "park prescriptions."

New trail maintenance, construction, and stewardship interns for the 2018-19 season.
Winter warriors: Meet our new trail interns!

Please welcome our new trail maintenance, construction, and stewardship interns! They will be working hard to fight the cold and care for trails over the next 6-9 months.

Park educators celebrating another year of professional development
PYC Partner Organizations

By developing meaningful, lasting connections between staff across organizations, PYC is creating a unified community of practice in the GGNRA.

Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Refraction exhibit
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Refraction, New Industries Building

Using the imagery of flight to evoke the tension between freedom and confinement, this monumental installation—weighing more than five tons—is modeled after a bird’s wing.

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Yours Truly, Dining Hall
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Yours Truly, Dining Hall

Yours Truly serves as a springboard for visitors to engage in a global conversation about the responsibilities that we all bear as members of the international community. 

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Blossom, Hospital
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Blossom, Hospital

With intricately detailed encrustations of ceramic flowers, Ai transforms the utilitarian fixtures (sinks, toilets, and tubs) in several hospital ward cells and medical offices into fantastical, fragile porcelain bouquets.

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Stay Tuned, A Block
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Stay Tuned, A Block

Stay Tuned invites visitors into 12 individual cells in A Block, where they can sit and listen to spoken words, poetry, and music by people who have been imprisoned for the creative expression of their beliefs—as well as works created under conditions of incarceration.