Art
To celebrate the company’s upcoming 100-year anniversary, designers from Oakland-based household products manufacturer Clorox have turned dozens of its iconic bleach bottles into artistic works. On Wednesday afternoon, the company kicked off an exhibition of these works at Oakland City Center to present the public with an alternative usage of what otherwise would be thrown away.
From August 12 to September 8, Actual Café, located at San Pablo Avenue and Alcatraz Avenue in North Oakland, is hosting a bicycle art show inside its shop, featuring works from a number of local artists.
The Layover bar in Oakland is featuring the artworks from Community Rejuvenation Project till the end of August.
Artists from sessionspace painted a new mural on a Gateway Supermarket wall in the Golden Gate.
In October, The Oakland Museum of California will be displaying photos taken by Richard Misrach of the 1991 Oakland hills fire.
For a couple more weeks, Studio Quercus, an art gallery in Oakland’s burgeoning art scene, will display Polynesian-style art inspired by Pacific Islands culture.
Parents at the Peralta Elementary School in North Oakland are raising money to keep a $100,000 art program, run by two artists-in residence, alive after the program lost half its funding for next school year.
About a hundred people came to view photographs, drawings, sculptures, paintings, video, and audio that document everyday life at the North Oakland auto shop, Enthusiast Automative.
The top youth slam poets from around the country performed in a competition in Oakland this past weekend.