Press Release

KQED ARTS

March 27,2019

If Theresa Fortune’s story were a Hollywood film, the trailer would start with a scene of her laying on the floor, in her house. As dramatic music swelled, the camera’s focus would go from Theresa’s face, distraught and in the foreground, to a knife not too far in the distance.

Suddenly, the music would drop out, and the trailer would cut to her birthday party earlier this month.

Held a day before her birthday on March 2, Theresa's party wasn't your usual birthday celebration. Instead of having drinks at a bar or cutting it up on the dance floor, Rese, as friends call her, hosted an artist talk at a gallery on 15th and Webster in downtown Oakland.

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