Hear Me Out: Deirdre Weinberg Residency Showcase

Tenderloin Resident Portrait Recipient Audio Profiles

Hear Me Out, a Residency Showcase featuring the work of street artist and long time artist in residence at the Tenderloin Museum Deirdre Weinberg, surveys the artist’s prolific portraiture in the TL and spotlights the social encounters and subsequent dialogues borne from the artist’s intimate, in-situ portrait practice. As artist in residence, Weinberg continued making portraits throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021, hosting multiple sessions at the Tenderloin Museum where she would paint Tenderloin locals and gift the mini-portraits to her subjects. In the 20-30 minutes it took to make a painting, conversation flowed naturally, and while the small talk was sometimes pedestrian, sometimes profound, Weinberg came to understand her portrait work as giving time and space to Tenderloin folks who struggle day to day with hardships. This page is home to select audio profiles (edited for clarity and brevity and posted along with a photo of the subject and their gifted portrait) of Tenderloin residents who sat for a portrait with Weinberg; these residents’ stories are often raw and intense, testaments to the fortitude and courage required to survive in a world full of struggle. Tenderloin Museum will continue adding audio profiles to this page throughout the exhibition of Hear Me Out until the show closes on September 30, 2021.