Posts Tagged ‘Burning Man’
Collective aims to build a cultural bridge between Burning Man and Chinese communities
Tina Liu founded Chinese Beyond Borders in 2013 to bring diversity to Burning Man which believes is underrepresented.
Read MoreOakland Museum’s Burning Man exhibit encourages interaction with art
No Spectators: Art of Burning Man provides the community with an engaging, interactive, and thought provoking look inside the world of Burning Man.
Read MoreDIY art space closes, as cannabis industry edges in on Oakland warehouses
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.
Read MoreKinetic Steam Works in Oakland brings antique machines to life
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.
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.
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