Current Exhibit:

I LEARNED KARATE FROM THE STREETS

by the Tenderloin Water Athletic Team (T.W.A.T.)

Curated by Moth Belly Gallery and the Tenderloin Water Athletic Team, “I Learned Karate From The Streets” brings together fourteen artists from San Francisco's Tenderloin and surrounding neighborhoods. Opening reception Friday, October 9th, 5–9pm. On view Wednesday–Sunday, 5–9pm.

List of the fourteen artists featured in I Learned Karate From The Streets

Meet the T.W.A.T.

The Tenderloin Water Athletic Team began in 2002 as the Renegade Swim Team, founded by artist and university professor Christopher Jernberg, who took his art students on night swims in the cold waters of the Bay to push them past the limits of their own perceptions. By 2011 the team had grown into a group of professional artists living and working in the Tenderloin, renamed the Tenderloin Competitive Swim Team under the motto “first ones in, last ones out.” In 2022 it became the Tenderloin Water Athletic Team: artists and locals from the Tenderloin and nearby neighborhoods who share a very casual approach to swimming, and to life.

Featuring: Pretzelegant, Jessie L. Yadlowsky, Glenda Graves, Nicolas Edwards, Adi James Rudzinski, Chris Farris, Misia Farris, Christopher Jernberg, Hugh Leeman, Daryll Peirce, Party Pablo, Mark Nobriga, Akira Beard and D Young V.