Beaver Bauer’s Five Decades of Costumes Go on View at SF Main Library
“From Street to Stage with Beaver Bauer” opens Thursday at San Francisco’s Main Library. The free retrospective runs through April 11, 2027, in the Jewett Gallery on the lower level, according to the library.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
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“From Street to Stage with Beaver Bauer” opens Thursday at San Francisco’s Main Library. The free retrospective runs through April 11, 2027, in the Jewett Gallery on the lower level, according to the library.
Mission Local profiled Debra “Beaver” Bauer, 76, whose work began in the city’s experimental Angels of Light theater scene and extended to American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep and Teatro ZinZanni.
The exhibition brings together more than five decades of photographs, sketches, film and video, and costume elements. It also includes drawings of Muni riders from Bauer’s “Bus Queen’s Gazette.” Bauer told Mission Local she wanted the work in a public library rather than a space limited by admission fees or expectations of buying art.
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