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February 27, 2023

Panorama of Wonder

Gianna Davy's debut picture book, "No One Owns the Colors" (The Collective Book Studio), follows an unnamed lead character on a spirited, nature-filled romp through a panoply of colors and sentient beings. 
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November 23, 2022

Buddhist Art Exhibit

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September 1, 2022

‘Hella Feminist’

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January 1, 2022

Imagination on Fire

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January 1, 2022

The Art of Curation

BAMPFA’s new Chief Curator Christina Yang Anchored for a mere 18 days in her position as the newly-appointed chief curator at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Christina Yang offers weighty resistance. During a lively, 50-minute phone...
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October 20, 2021

Comic Relief

Oakland’s ABO Comix Publishes Art By and For Queer Prisoners Originally Published Sep. 8, 2020 “Every time I go to the post office, it's almost like Christmas morning,” Casper Cendre tells me, describing a mountain of envelopes decorated with...
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February 5, 2021

Mural, Mural on the Wall: A self-guided tour of Oakland’s murals

The whole city of Oakland is a canvas. Over 1,000 murals can be found throughout the city, covering once-empty walls in explosions of color. Street art is inherently radical, and many of Oakland’s murals deal with themes...
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October 1, 2020

Photography as Social Activism: OMCA reveals digital archive of Dorothea Lange’s photos

American photographer Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” is widely seen as a defining portrait of the Great Depression; the woman it depicts, and her children, are etched into our collective image of that challenging time in American history....
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October 1, 2020

Comic Relief: Oakland’s ABO Comix publishes art by and for queer prisoners

“Every time I go to the post office, it’s almost like Christmas morning,” Casper Cendre tells me, describing a mountain of envelopes decorated with beautiful drawings sent to him from prisons all over the U.S.  Cendre is the...
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September 22, 2020

Joel Bernstein sees the light

Acclaimed rock ’n’ roll photographer and longtime Rockridge resident Joel Bernstein was still a teen when he asked Neil Young if he could play with Young’s new mother-of-pearl-inlaid Martin D-45 backstage. After a few minutes, when Young...
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August 1, 2020

Post This: The Oakland Museum of California’s online political poster collection is more relevant...

As Alabama State students, my parents were very active during the Civil Rights Movement. Not only did they march, boycott and attend the churches where King gave his famous speeches, they also bore witness as Stokely Carmichael,...
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