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Posts Tagged ‘Burning Man’

Collective aims to build a cultural bridge between Burning Man and Chinese communities

By Yuri Avila | December 13, 2019
Tina Liu

Tina Liu founded Chinese Beyond Borders in 2013 to bring diversity to Burning Man which believes is underrepresented.

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Oakland Museum’s Burning Man exhibit encourages interaction with art

By Isaiah Polite | October 15, 2019

No Spectators: Art of Burning Man provides the community with an engaging, interactive, and thought provoking look inside the world of Burning Man.

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DIY art space closes, as cannabis industry edges in on Oakland warehouses

By Jocelyn Tabancay | September 30, 2019
NIMBY artist Clody Cates outside of her studio days before packing everything up to move to Colfax, Ca. Photo by Jocelyn Tabancay

NIMBY, one of East Oakland’s scruffy DIY artist warehouse spaces, is closing on September 30 after not being able to compete with rent premiums cannabis businesses can afford.

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Kinetic Steam Works in Oakland brings antique machines to life

By Melissa Hellmann | November 26, 2013 | 4

Kinetic Steam Works is a West Oakland-based nonprofit that utilizes steam to power antique machinery, like a player piano and a printing press, and to create artwork.

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In West Oakland, artists build lifesize submarine merging nostalgia and futurism

By Casey Capachi | November 28, 2011 | 8
Nautilus submarine

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.

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