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Beyond Bicycles is opening this Friday! The street will be filled with amazing machines! It is going to rule.
Beyond Bicycles is opening this Friday! The street will be filled with amazing machines! It is going to rule.
The Hero Within Us: A Night for Heroes
Join us for “The Hero Within Us”
A joint event at Rock Paper Scissors Collective, 21 Grand and Creative Growth Art Center in honor of Art IS Education, a countywide celebration of youth arts learning.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
2278 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612
“The Hero Within Us: A Night for Heroes” 6-9 pm, March 5th
- Find your inner super hero at RPSC by investigating what special abilities you bring your community.
- Compose poetry signs to take on the Illuminated Art Walk.
- Add to a wall of hero actions in our community.
- Make yourself a hero cape after taking action on behalf of the arts.
21 Grand
416 – 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612-2409
The Hero Within Us: Subtitle TBA” 7-10 pm
- View the Super Heroes exhibit by Art Esteem artists.
- Meet the youth artists and hear what inspired their work.
- Experience student performances and video screenings by youth groups including Opera Piccola’s Art Gate Players, OakTechRep, and other youth groups.
Creative Growth Art Center
355 – 24th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
The Hero Within Us: Postcards to Heroes” 6-9 pm
- View postcard art that Creative Growth artists have made for their personal heroes.
- Join the action and make a postcard to your own personal hero!
- Listen to the band Woom perform on their ingenious instruments made out of everyday and recycled objects.
- Play along with the band!
Illuminated Art Walk
Every hour a guide riding a bicycle projecting art images will lead an illuminated art walk from venue to venue. The route will go from Rock Paper Scissors Collective to Creative Growth Art Center to 21 Grand and back to Rock Paper Scissors Collective. Gallery goers are encouraged to bring their poetry signs and capes from Rock Paper Scissors Collective on the walk. The Illuminated Art Walk is a project of The Illuminated Corridor.
Join us for “The Hero Within Us” A joint event at Rock Paper Scissors Collective, 21 Grand and Creative Growth Art Center in honor of Art IS Education, a countywide celebration of youth arts learning.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
2278 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612
“The Hero Within Us: A Night for Heroes” 6-9 pm, March 5th
- Find your inner super hero at RPSC by investigating what special abilities you bring your community.
- Compose poetry signs to take on the Illuminated Art Walk.
- Add to a wall of hero actions in our community.
- Make yourself a hero cape after taking action on behalf of the arts.
21 Grand
416 – 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612-2409
The Hero Within Us: Subtitle TBA” 7-10 pm
- View the Super Heroes exhibit by Art Esteem artists.
- Meet the youth artists and hear what inspired their work.
- Experience student performances and video screenings by youth groups including Opera Piccola’s Art Gate Players, OakTechRep, and other youth groups.
Creative Growth Art Center
355 – 24th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
The Hero Within Us: Postcards to Heroes” 6-9 pm
- View postcard art that Creative Growth artists have made for their personal heroes.
- Join the action and make a postcard to your own personal hero!
- Listen to the band Woom perform on their ingenious instruments made out of everyday and recycled objects.
- Play along with the band!
Illuminated Art Walk
Every hour a guide riding a bicycle projecting art images will lead an illuminated art walk from venue to venue. The route will go from Rock Paper Scissors Collective to Creative Growth Art Center to 21 Grand and back to Rock Paper Scissors Collective. Gallery goers are encouraged to bring their poetry signs and capes from Rock Paper Scissors Collective on the walk. The Illuminated Art Walk is a project of The Illuminated Corridor.
CALL FOR OAKLAND ARTIST
:: CALL FOR OAKLAND ARTISTS ::
Rock Paper Scissors Collective( in Oakland) is looking for Artist residing in Oakland who are interested in working at an East Oakland High School for 3 months, for the upcoming school year. They would be developing and presenting workshops for groups of students and have their own studio space-acting as an community oriented artist’s residency.
This artist could be interested in social justice/environmental topics or other topics relative and engaging for high schoolers.
Please send a resume, work samples, and a short project description of possible projects to work with the high school at large and/or in smaller class sized groups.
Please Contact: Community@rpscollective.com for any questions or submissions
DEADLINE: Jan 15th 2010
:: CALL FOR OAKLAND ARTISTS ::
Rock Paper Scissors Collective( in Oakland) is looking for Artist residing in Oakland who are interested in working at an East Oakland High School for 3 months, for the upcoming school year. They would be developing and presenting workshops for groups of students and have their own studio space-acting as an community oriented artist’s residency.
This artist could be interested in social justice/environmental topics or other topics relative and engaging for high schoolers.
Please send a resume, work samples, and a short project description of possible projects to work with the high school at large and/or in smaller class sized groups.
Please Contact: Community@rpscollective.com for any questions or submissions
DEADLINE: Jan 15th 2010
Social Structures
A social structure is something that is constructed to enhance the relationship between people through design. Designers of these structures feel that they are solving social problems through their projects, which affects communities and individuals on a personal level. Projects are related to addressing some basic needs such as shelter, communication, food security, safety, and intimacy.
As part of our Community Collaborations program local designer-builder Matt Wolpe will be worked with City Slickers Farms on a collaborative design project to teach community members build their own chicken tractors. The chicken tractor is an element in City Slickers’ vision to help residents of West Oakland to be more self sufficient and food secure. This project is an example of designers trying to engage underserved communities and provide innovative solutions to problems.
More information about the class can be found here – http://chickentractorproject.wordpress.com/
Check out the story the Oakland Tribune wrote – Residents get ready to raise chickens in West Oakland
A social structure is something that is constructed to enhance the relationship between people through design. Designers of these structures feel that they are solving social problems through their projects, which affects communities and individuals on a personal level. Projects are related to addressing some basic needs such as shelter, communication, food security, safety, and intimacy.
As part of our Community Collaborations program local designer-builder Matt Wolpe will be worked with City Slickers Farms on a collaborative design project to teach community members build their own chicken tractors. The chicken tractor is an element in City Slickers’ vision to help residents of West Oakland to be more self sufficient and food secure. This project is an example of designers trying to engage underserved communities and provide innovative solutions to problems.
More information about the class can be found here – http://chickentractorproject.wordpress.com/
Check out the story the Oakland Tribune wrote – Residents get ready to raise chickens in West Oakland
RPS Still in Search of Youth Interns!
Rock Paper Scissors Collective (RPS) in downtown Oakland is launching two fantastic youth programs for young people ages 14-21!
1. Community Collaborations Intern: We are in the process of looking for a few dedicated interns to spend the year documenting our community education programming, learning a variety of art skills, and have the opportunity to be mentored by a professional artist and exhibit work in our June 2010 gallery exhibition. This meets Wed afternoons at RPS.
2. Street Style, our youth fashion and entrepreneurial class: We are looking for students interested in learning how to make and market their own clothing! This will meet Tuesdays at RPS 4:30-6:30. No prior experience needed! Applications can be found here: http://acearts.blogspot.com/
For more information about either program, email: community@rpscollective.com
Or visit us: 2278 Telegraph Ave. at 23rd St.,
Oakland, CA 94612;
Wed-Sun 12-7pm.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective (RPS) in downtown Oakland is launching two fantastic youth programs for young people ages 14-21!
1. Community Collaborations Intern: We are in the process of looking for a few dedicated interns to spend the year documenting our community education programming, learning a variety of art skills, and have the opportunity to be mentored by a professional artist and exhibit work in our June 2010 gallery exhibition. This meets Wed afternoons at RPS.
2. Street Style, our youth fashion and entrepreneurial class: We are looking for students interested in learning how to make and market their own clothing! This will meet Tuesdays at RPS 4:30-6:30. No prior experience needed! Applications can be found here: http://acearts.blogspot.com/
For more information about either program, email: community@rpscollective.com
Or visit us: 2278 Telegraph Ave. at 23rd St.,
Oakland, CA 94612;
Wed-Sun 12-7pm.
Call for Artwork: May 2010
Beyond Bicycles
The Gossamer Albatross crossed the English Channel in 1979. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross
This is a call for work – Artists, Thinkers, Creators – We seek your human-powered machines, bicycle-based inventions, and interactive kinetic sculpture. In May of 2010, Rock Paper Scissors Collective is hosting BEYOND BICYCLES a celebration of the art, science, and politics of harnessing human power. Our inspiration is the bicycle, a simple machine that has transformed our experience of moving through the world. We see the bicycle as possibility, the tip of the big ol’ iceberg of human potential energy.
BEYOND BICYCLES will be an exhibition documenting the many ingenious uses of human power past and present. The Gallery space at Rock Paper Scissors Collective is limited so large works will only be displayed during opening night. Our month long exhibition will consist of a collection large color photographs of works, accompanied by a printed zine. There will also be a web zine which will be more extensive than the printed version.
We invite you to send us your work – past, present and future. What do you do with your potential and what do you believe is possible? Please send us digital images (no more than 10M at a time), specifications and descriptions. If you have video, please send us a link. We will accept proposals if your work is as yet unrealized. Include your contact information and let us know whether or not your work will be available for the May 7th opening. If your work is chosen, please be prepared to write a one to three page piece (how-to, history, etc.) about it for the exhibition zine.
The submission deadline is March 15th.
Send entries to:
gallery _at_ rpscollective _dot_ com.
By post:
2278 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland CA 94612
Pass the word on! Download and print out some flyers – the more the better! Here’s the black and white version for your photocopier. Or if you want to run some off on the fancy work printer, here’s the color version.
Beyond Bicycles
The Gossamer Albatross crossed the English Channel in 1979. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross
This is a call for work – Artists, Thinkers, Creators – We seek your human-powered machines, bicycle-based inventions, and interactive kinetic sculpture. In May of 2010, Rock Paper Scissors Collective is hosting BEYOND BICYCLES a celebration of the art, science, and politics of harnessing human power. Our inspiration is the bicycle, a simple machine that has transformed our experience of moving through the world. We see the bicycle as possibility, the tip of the big ol’ iceberg of human potential energy.
BEYOND BICYCLES will be an exhibition documenting the many ingenious uses of human power past and present. The Gallery space at Rock Paper Scissors Collective is limited so large works will only be displayed during opening night. Our month long exhibition will consist of a collection large color photographs of works, accompanied by a printed zine. There will also be a web zine which will be more extensive than the printed version.
We invite you to send us your work – past, present and future. What do you do with your potential and what do you believe is possible? Please send us digital images (no more than 10M at a time), specifications and descriptions. If you have video, please send us a link. We will accept proposals if your work is as yet unrealized. Include your contact information and let us know whether or not your work will be available for the May 7th opening. If your work is chosen, please be prepared to write a one to three page piece (how-to, history, etc.) about it for the exhibition zine.
The submission deadline is March 15th.
Send entries to:
gallery _at_ rpscollective _dot_ com.
By post:
2278 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland CA 94612
Pass the word on! Download and print out some flyers – the more the better! Here’s the black and white version for your photocopier. Or if you want to run some off on the fancy work printer, here’s the color version.
Donate to the Build/Design Class at City Slickers
RPSC is seeking building material donations for our free Build-Design Class at City Slickers Farm as part of our Community Collaborations Program.
If you have any of the following laying around in your garage, we would love ot use it:
- 2×4’s
-chicken wire
-caster wheels
-roofing material
-plywood
The 8-week class is guiding low-income West Oakland Backyard Gardeners in a collaborative design process to create portable chicken tractors for their backyard gardens. The class will also enable students to teach others in their community this valuable skill and reproduce tractors to sell to other gardeners. If you’d like to volunteer your carpentry or other skills, pleae email community [at] rpscollective {dot} com ! The class will meet Sunday afternoons in West Oakland.
RPSC is seeking building material donations for our free Build-Design Class at City Slickers Farm as part of our Community Collaborations Program.
If you have any of the following laying around in your garage, we would love ot use it:
- 2×4’s
-chicken wire
-caster wheels
-roofing material
-plywood
The 8-week class is guiding low-income West Oakland Backyard Gardeners in a collaborative design process to create portable chicken tractors for their backyard gardens. The class will also enable students to teach others in their community this valuable skill and reproduce tractors to sell to other gardeners. If you’d like to volunteer your carpentry or other skills, pleae email community [at] rpscollective {dot} com ! The class will meet Sunday afternoons in West Oakland.
Second Coming
Rock Paper Scissors Collective invites you to their December gallery exhibition, Second Coming, opening Friday December 5th from 6pm – 9pm.
In the most wasteful and consumer-driven time of the year, Second Coming features the ingenious reincarnations of discarded items into truly unique and inspired artwork.
Featured artists include:
Bill Baldewicz
Kate Dewitt
Amy Dotts
Chelsea Fadda
James Ferrell
Micah Gibson
Sarah Larson
Louisa LeMauviel
D. Morrison Lyman
Scott MacLeod
Taylor Neaman
Kara Nelson
Scott Rogers
Cherie Saulter & Teresa Geary
Ann Smith
Patianne Stevenson
Samantha Strand
Brehan Todd
DJ Whelan
Lea McKenny Willcox
Also featured are the 100% recycled gifts handmade at St. Vincent De Paul through RPSC’s Community Collaborations Project. For the last 6 weeks, local artist Chelsea Fadda has been teaching recycled arts classes fostering creative expression and entrepreneurship at St. Vincent De Paul’s found arts studio with low-income and homeless adults. Their handiwork will be displayed for sale as part of the show and will be available for you to take home opening night as the perfect holiday gift. All materials are from St. Vincent De Paul’s thrift store waste stream and 100% of profits go to the individuals in the class.
This project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program and the generous support of the San Francisco Foundation.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective invites you to their December gallery exhibition, Second Coming, opening Friday December 5th from 6pm – 9pm.
In the most wasteful and consumer-driven time of the year, Second Coming features the ingenious reincarnations of discarded items into truly unique and inspired artwork.
Featured artists include:
Bill Baldewicz
Kate Dewitt
Amy Dotts
Chelsea Fadda
James Ferrell
Micah Gibson
Sarah Larson
Louisa LeMauviel
D. Morrison Lyman
Scott MacLeod
Taylor Neaman
Kara Nelson
Scott Rogers
Cherie Saulter & Teresa Geary
Ann Smith
Patianne Stevenson
Samantha Strand
Brehan Todd
DJ Whelan
Lea McKenny Willcox
Also featured are the 100% recycled gifts handmade at St. Vincent De Paul through RPSC’s Community Collaborations Project. For the last 6 weeks, local artist Chelsea Fadda has been teaching recycled arts classes fostering creative expression and entrepreneurship at St. Vincent De Paul’s found arts studio with low-income and homeless adults. Their handiwork will be displayed for sale as part of the show and will be available for you to take home opening night as the perfect holiday gift. All materials are from St. Vincent De Paul’s thrift store waste stream and 100% of profits go to the individuals in the class.
This project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program and the generous support of the San Francisco Foundation.
Food Justice
Rock Paper Scissors Collective presents “Food Justice” Opening Reception at Art Murmur, Friday November 7th, 2008 6-9 pm
on display from November 7th – November 28th, 2008
Rock Paper Scissors Collective has collaborated with local community organizations, artists, and individuals passionate about food justice to take part in a month long exhibition examining the theme as it pertains to the Oakland community. The gallery will feature the photography of City Slickers’ Backyard Gardeners. These West Oakland residents used Holga cameras to capture the people and concerns of their neighborhood – an under served urban neighborhood where food justice is a key issue. The participants, both frustrated and inspired by their surroundings, took pictures of their neighborhood as part of a workshop led by Artist/Teacher CB Smith-Dahl. Their work reflects both the challenges and the spirit of change prevalent in West Oakland.
Also shown in the gallery include chronicles of the Secret Cafe, provided by DIY-cafe creator and cook Christine Manoux. Forage Oakland presents maps of food-foraging locations in the East Bay. In addition, RPS exhibits works by the Hayward Nutritional Learning Community Project, East Bay Asian Youth Center, and People’s Grocery.
In conjunction with Art Murmur’s gallery openings, Rock Paper Scissors operates a street fair each month on 23rd Street. In addition to the usual local craft/artist vendors, OBUGS youth interns will present a cooking demonstration, Oakland Food Connection will offer information about nutrition education and youth development, and People’s Grocery will let you know how you can help build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community.
The food-related events do not stop on First Friday. Keep an eye on the RPS web calendar for food themed classes, such as vegan cooking, Sauerkraut Making, chef talks and more which will be introduced throughout the month.
“This programming is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded through the City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program and the San Francisco Foundation.”
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
2278 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
510-238-9171
www.rpscollective.com
Rock Paper Scissors Collective presents “Food Justice” Opening Reception at Art Murmur, Friday November 7th, 2008 6-9 pm
on display from November 7th – November 28th, 2008
Rock Paper Scissors Collective has collaborated with local community organizations, artists, and individuals passionate about food justice to take part in a month long exhibition examining the theme as it pertains to the Oakland community. The gallery will feature the photography of City Slickers’ Backyard Gardeners. These West Oakland residents used Holga cameras to capture the people and concerns of their neighborhood – an under served urban neighborhood where food justice is a key issue. The participants, both frustrated and inspired by their surroundings, took pictures of their neighborhood as part of a workshop led by Artist/Teacher CB Smith-Dahl. Their work reflects both the challenges and the spirit of change prevalent in West Oakland.
Also shown in the gallery include chronicles of the Secret Cafe, provided by DIY-cafe creator and cook Christine Manoux. Forage Oakland presents maps of food-foraging locations in the East Bay. In addition, RPS exhibits works by the Hayward Nutritional Learning Community Project, East Bay Asian Youth Center, and People’s Grocery.
In conjunction with Art Murmur’s gallery openings, Rock Paper Scissors operates a street fair each month on 23rd Street. In addition to the usual local craft/artist vendors, OBUGS youth interns will present a cooking demonstration, Oakland Food Connection will offer information about nutrition education and youth development, and People’s Grocery will let you know how you can help build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community.
The food-related events do not stop on First Friday. Keep an eye on the RPS web calendar for food themed classes, such as vegan cooking, Sauerkraut Making, chef talks and more which will be introduced throughout the month.
“This programming is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded through the City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program and the San Francisco Foundation.”
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
2278 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
510-238-9171
www.rpscollective.com
ArtEzen: Youth Sprouting Change
ArtEzen: Youth Sprouting Change is a multi-media art exhibit featuring
the artwork created by participants in Rock Paper Scissors eco-fashion
youth program, as well as work produced from local Oakland public charter
high schools. The exhibit will run May 2nd to May 23rd at RPSC. The
opening reception will feature a youth-led green fashion show, as well as
capeoira and dance performances from MetWest High School students during
the First Friday Community Street Fair on 23rd St. from 6pm-8pm. The youth
performances will be in collaboration with the UC Berkeley student group,
Resource Green’s, sustainability event, Art, Earth, and Each Other.
What is an ArtEzen? An ArtEzen is an artisan or artist and global citizen
who use their art to help make the world greener and more just! The term
was coined by Angelina Vergara’s art class at Eastbay Conservation Corps
Charter School. Vergara’s class will display a Romare Bearden-inspired
community needs assessment mural, sell their greenbiz worm compost, and
showcase their eco-reuse fashions.
Joining the Eastbay Conservation Corps are students from Jamie Treacy’s
class at Unity High School and RPSC’s eco-fashion program with youth from
Lighthouse Charter Community School, Broadway School of the Arts, Berkeley
High, and MetWest High School. Unity High School will display various
works of 2D art, while RPSC’s youth participants will display their
handmade, recycled and reconstructed fashions made from scrap fabric, as
well as clothing destined for the dumpster generously donated by St.
Vincent De Paul.
ArtEzen: Youth Sprouting Change is a multi-media art exhibit featuring
the artwork created by participants in Rock Paper Scissors eco-fashion
youth program, as well as work produced from local Oakland public charter
high schools. The exhibit will run May 2nd to May 23rd at RPSC. The
opening reception will feature a youth-led green fashion show, as well as
capeoira and dance performances from MetWest High School students during
the First Friday Community Street Fair on 23rd St. from 6pm-8pm. The youth
performances will be in collaboration with the UC Berkeley student group,
Resource Green’s, sustainability event, Art, Earth, and Each Other.
What is an ArtEzen? An ArtEzen is an artisan or artist and global citizen
who use their art to help make the world greener and more just! The term
was coined by Angelina Vergara’s art class at Eastbay Conservation Corps
Charter School. Vergara’s class will display a Romare Bearden-inspired
community needs assessment mural, sell their greenbiz worm compost, and
showcase their eco-reuse fashions.
Joining the Eastbay Conservation Corps are students from Jamie Treacy’s
class at Unity High School and RPSC’s eco-fashion program with youth from
Lighthouse Charter Community School, Broadway School of the Arts, Berkeley
High, and MetWest High School. Unity High School will display various
works of 2D art, while RPSC’s youth participants will display their
handmade, recycled and reconstructed fashions made from scrap fabric, as
well as clothing destined for the dumpster generously donated by St.
Vincent De Paul.