You are invited to a book celebration for Renny Pritikin’s memoir, At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists. Pritikin is a San Francisco Bay Area based curator, art writer and poet who was curator and director of The Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis from 2004 to 2012. Pritkin also has been chief curator at New Langton Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Jewish Museum of Art. Over his 40-plus years in the art world Pritikin worked with, befriended and sometimes almost got arrested with some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most innovative and celebrated artists and writers. 

He’s the author of five books of poetry and a memoir, At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists and will give a reading from his memoir on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024 from 4:30–6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum.

This event is organized by the Manetti Shrem Museum and co-sponsored by the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program.