Art
Beloved Rockridge bookstore Diesel turns 25 this week. It celebrates its past and looks to the future.
The Oakland Museum and SFMOMA unveil “Fertile Ground,” exploring creative communities in California art.
Young artists, including rapper Alexis Johnson, create a music video warning fellow youth about the health dangers of fast food.
Bay Area artists created a pop-up art installation honoring the Ethiopian and Eritrean new year.
Oakland libraries offer free afterschool programs aimed at kids without ready access to art classes.
Award-winning CCA students merge classic printmaking techniques with modern themes and technologies.
Hiero Day was developed in 2012 and celebrates underground music, grassroots organizations and local businesses.
The Crucible in West Oakland will commemorate 15 years of teaching community welding and other fire arts with an open house on April 12 exhibiting the works of teachers, artists and students who use the space for creating public art.
The artist wears black latex gloves and dips a needle into ink. She then draws blue waves around a colorless outline of the Buddha, carefully wiping excess ink off of her living canvas. The mechanical hum of the mechanized needle doesn’t interfere with the interaction between tattoo artist, Melissa Taylor of Oakland’s Sacred Tattoo, and her client, the recipient of a large back piece. “Tattoos can be symbolic, they can be a tribute or a memorial, ” Taylor said. “It…