Posts Tagged ‘artists’
Five years after Ghost Ship: How local organizations are fighting artist displacement
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Oakland’s industrial zone bustled with canneries, metal works and warehouses. As the global economy changed, industries moved out and artists moved in. The low-rent buildings, with their vaulted interiors, were suitable for live-work studios. Over the years, landlords looked the other way as tenants nested in spaces that were…
Read MoreGraffiti artist paints history and his perspective on Oakland walls
Maliwop*, a longtime Oakland graffiti-writer, didn’t listen when his grandmother told him not to make graffiti. Now he is almost a decade into his illegal art career.
Read MoreMuralist Dave Young Kim uses art to tap into his Korean roots
Oakland is known for its lively art scene. From murals, to sculptures, to street tagging, art is ubiquitous in this East Bay city. One artist is using his art to tap into his native Korean roots. Dave Young Kim channels into his work a dilemma often faced by children of immigrant families–how to make sense…
Read MoreArtists struggling with cannabis-industry landlords share work, solidarity at FESTAC
Oakland artists gathered at the Festival for Arts and Culture over Labor Day weekend to show the city that despite many economic forces working against them—including corporate cannabis—they are still here.
Read MoreRock Paper Scissors Collective seek out alternative venue after leaving old space
Since leaving their space on Telegraph Avenue in 2015, Oakland arts organization Rock Paper Scissors Collective has been working nomadically while searching for a new space to rent.
Read MoreDespite loss of thrash metal scene in Bay Area, musicians find reasons to keep playing
In the early 1980s, the Bay Area was at the center of thrash metal music, one of the many subgenres of heavy metal. During that decade, heavy metal became incredibly popular around the world; kids were growing their hair long, flashing the devil horn sign with their hands, and playing air guitar.
Read MoreBenioff Children’s Hospital hosts benefit concert, Chris Martin headlines
Some 1,600 people filled the Fox Theatre for this year’s Notes & Words concert. The concert, in its seventh year, benefited the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland and featured local talent like the Oakland School for the Arts choir, as well as high-profile authors and musicians, such as actor BJ Novak and Coldplay’s front man Chris Martin.
Read MoreAt age 91, Army veteran Gene Goodin has a new gig as an oil painter
At the Oakland Cottage Industry Show at the Park Boulevard Presbyterian Church two weeks ago, more than 30 artisans gathered to show their home-made products. Among them was 91-year-old Gene Goodin, who sat quietly in front of his artwork wearing a hat that read “World War II, 1941-1945, Veteran.” To his right was an oil…
Read MoreFifth Avenue a “bohemian jewel” on the Oakland waterfront
For decades, the last block of Fifth Avenue has attracted artisans and craftsmen who find creative space amid the industry and decay on the Oakland waterfront.
Read MoreArtists, Oaklanders celebrate creativity at Art in Nature festival
The 3rd annual Art in Nature festival featured more than 200 artists at Redwood Regional Park in the hills east of Oakland this Sunday.
Read MoreIn West Oakland, artists build lifesize submarine merging nostalgia and futurism
Deep in West Oakland, a collective of artists called Five Ton Crane (5TC) is hard at work tuning up their submarine Nautilus. Although it doesn’t go underwater, there seems to be little else this lifesize submarine can’t do—it even defends its perimeters with a water spear gun and bumps tunes from its built-in iPad technology.
Read MoreCreative Growth provides an outlet for extraordinary artists
The Creative Growth Art Center, located north of downtown Oakland, has been serving artists with developmental, physical and mental disabilities for over 35 years. Located right next door to the studio is the exhibition space — the first of its kind dedicated to people with disabilities.
Read MoreHow will Jerry Brown’s time in Oakland influence him as governor?
In January, Jerry Brown will return to Sacramento as California’s governor. How did his eight years in Oakland influence his thinking about housing, arts, education and leadership, and can the criticism, praise and ambivalence he drew from Oakland residents shed light on what’s store for California?
Read MoreArtist Liz Maxwell invokes nature, math, flight
by SAMSON REINY A few times a year, Liz Maxwell drives from her home in Rockridge up to Calistoga, in the Napa Valley. For the past 40 years, she has walked the scenic little town for inspiration. She’ll bring a point-and-shoot camera and snap everything around her. “It might be a cracked road, moss growing…
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