Sadie Barnette's father ran San Francisco's first Black-owned gay bar. She re-created it in SFMOMA — complete with cocktails.
, which was opened by her father, Rodney Barnette, at 1884 Market St., in a building that now houses a medical clinic. In addition to running New Eagle Creek from 1990 to 1993, Barnette was a section leader in the Black Panther party and a close associate of Angela Davis.
Sadie Barnette and her father Rodney Barnette at the The Lab on Saturday, May 11, 2019, in San Francisco.“I always knew that I wanted to pay some type of homage to my father's bar,” said Barnette, whose previous work has incorporated the FBI’s file on her father’s political activism. “I felt that in order to do that properly, I couldn't make an art exhibition that existed on the walls and in frames that told the story of the bar.
Since the exhibit’s opening, it has hosted programming ranging from panel discussions to Warriors watch parties and DJ nights that pay homage to the bar’s original slogan: “A friendly place, with a funky bass, for every race."
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