"She did have some friends at Root Division, however, and she applied for one of the community organization's subsidized art studios. "It made it affordable. It made me able to make art," Lu told 48hills. "I got to teach through them, like sewing workshops. And the community is great. A lot of my best friends now are from Root Division.""
""It was kind of a coming-out of this really amazing artist that we all love and know her to be," Broxton said. "This year at Flourish [another Root Division fundraiser], we made the move to honor artists, and we wanted to keep that momentum going. The whole idea is to make sure that everyone recognizes and realizes we center them, and it's not just their artwork.""
Cathy Lu graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 2010 and struggled financially while working retail. She secured a subsidized studio at Root Division through friends, which made studio access affordable and enabled artmaking and teaching workshops. Strong community ties formed at Root Division and close friendships developed. Lu later taught at Tufts University for two years and moved back to the Bay Area to become an assistant professor in UC Berkeley's ceramics department. Lu is being honored at Root Division's Thu/23 benefit art auction. About 160 artists contributed work and more than two dozen galleries partnered for the event. Root Division operates twenty subsidized artist studios, provides free arts education to 900 low-income San Francisco youth annually, and presents free exhibitions.
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