At 23rd and Telegraph, inside a storefront/gallery/craft space called Rock Paper Scissors, neatly hung canvas paintings and framed ink drawings lined the walls. Cards below each piece identified the artist: all are prisoners at San Quentin.
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October 14, 2009 – 11:35 am
Twenty four of the most talented graffiti artists from California, Chicago, Hawaii and New York battled in West Oakland last Saturday.
Green Day’s rock opera hits home
October 12, 2009 – 12:56 pm
Midway through the rock opera “American Idiot,” the main character Johnny, his rebel girlfriend Whatsername, and an ensemble of urban youth belt out their message of isolation in the city: “My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me, my shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating, sometimes I wish someone out there will find [...]
Oakland Artists Pass Down Screen Printed Posters to a New Generation
July 13, 2009 – 9:33 pm
By STEVE SALDIVAR
A number of Oakland artists are trying to pass down the tradition of screen printed posters to a younger generation – including its political history. Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza and Favianna Rodriguez
take on the challenge.
Beauteous bike art
March 27, 2009 – 1:27 pm
My friend Chris McNally is an illustrator who lives in San Francisco and loves riding, racing, fixing and collecting bikes. (It’s almost bordering on obsession.) Lately, he has been making these screen prints of vintage bicycles and bicycle parts. They are big, around 15″ x 20″, and really beautiful. You can check out more prints [...]
Finger-picking guitar down at Lake Merritt
March 17, 2009 – 1:05 pm
I went down to Lake Merritt last weekend with my friend Jack Woodruff to shoot this audio-profile video of him working his recession-time gig as a street musician. He has played acoustic guitar for 12 years. Recently he had shoulder surgery and since he’s having a hard time finding a job in the service industry, [...]
Time Travel in Emeryville: The Factory Party
March 9, 2009 – 5:48 pm
by Carlos Davalos / Oakland North
Photos by Howard Hsu / Oakland North
A congregation of look-alike Andy Warhols is not something that happens often. But on Friday March 6, in an Emeryville warehouse that reproduced the 1960s’ dark, industrial-driven art scene fathered by Warhol, the Third Annual Amoeba Art Show took place.
The [...]
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” churns art with recycling
December 3, 2008 – 2:00 pm
The Telegraph Avenue collective, part of this Friday’s Art Murmur, keeps re-inventing itself: gallery, school, champion of re-use. Click here for the story.
Korean Americans find roots in traditional drumming
November 22, 2008 – 1:25 am
by KRISTINE WONG
The first time Amie Kim heard traditional Korean drumming, the beats went straight to her heart. At 20 years old, the Korean adoptee — raised in the Minneapolis suburbs since the age of 2 — had never been exposed to Korean culture before.
As she watched and listened to the Korean drum troupe perform [...]
At “GO!,” and for Peralta, artists make happy mess
November 13, 2008 – 5:28 pm
Let eight artists loose on a very tight deadline (eight minutes!) for a very good cause–and OK, there’s some mess to clean up afterward. Click here for the story.
City’s oddest supplies shop facing hard times too
October 23, 2008 – 10:21 am
There’s only one store in Oakland that might carry embalming fluid, doll parts, and toilet paper rolls–and economic hard times have landed here, too. Click here for the story and audio slides.
Friends of newly-reopened art center fret over its future
October 13, 2008 – 6:31 pm
After a $10 million renovation, North Oakland’s reopened Studio One is still waiting for the community to come back at full strength. Click here for the story and a historic timeline of the century-old building.
A celebration of Latino art, health and community
September 16, 2008 – 3:01 pm
By MAGGIE FAZELI FARD
SEPT. 6 — A short stretch of 58th street in North Oakland was alive with the sights, sounds and smells of Latin America this morning as local artisans lined the sun-bleached curb with their small works and residents took time out to talk, eat, laugh and dance in the street.
But this was no [...]