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MARTINSBURG — While creativity is in the spirit of 116 N. Queen St., the artistic flair is returning to Berkeley Art Works in a sense as the Berkeley Arts Council returns to in-person classes this month.

When Julie Rodrigues Widholm joined the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) as director in August 2020, she didn’t know that she’d have to wait nine months to reopen the museum’s doors.

Visitors will get a thrill seeing “Enduring Mark: Six Centuries of Drawing From the Gray Collection” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. 

“It’s Never Too Late” is a new series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms.

One day a couple years back, the woman who has long cleaned Russ Ellis’s house in Berkeley, Calif., showed up with a new helper. Mr. Ellis did not think to ask her name.

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At a San Francisco arts nonprofit called Root Division hangs a photo that Stephanie Syjuco took in 2017. It’s a portrait — or what appears to be a portrait — of a person covered in a semi-sheer checkered cloth. It’s titled “Total Transparency Filter (Portrait of N).”

Deep below Morrison Hall, quadraphonic artist Suzanne Ciani sat in a soundproof recording studio reciting strings of non sequiturs with varying intonations to train a deepfake program.

For 50 years, the Pacific Film Archive has screened everything from French New Wave favorites to activist documentaries.

When Yuriria Avila, who graduated from Berkeley Journalism in May 2021, saw Carmen Monoxide perform last year in Love for the Arts, a competition created by one of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winners, Avila couldn’t believe she hadn’t heard of the drag performer until then.