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TEXTILES IN 3D
Rock Paper Scissors Collective announces a call to artists for our April Sculptural Fiber show!
We are looking for three-dimensional textile sculptures with an emphasis on craftsmanship and technique, such as knitting, embroidery, weaving, applique, sewing, etc. Conceptual and functional pieces will be considered.
Please send no more than three 300dpi JPEGs in a zip file no larger than 10mb per email to gallery@rpscollective.com. Include your contact information, as well as the medium and dimensions of the works, and the price if for sale. There is no entry fee. SUBMISSIONS DUE MARCH 21st!
Notification of acceptance by March 23rd. Pieces should be ready-to-hang or include clear instructions on how it is to be displayed (on the floor, on a shelf), and delivered to RPS in person on the weekend of March 26th or by mail by March 29th.
Work will be shown in the RPSC Gallery April 2nd-24th.
There will be a 40% commission charged for sales. Please take this into account when deciding on the selling price. You will receive payment two weeks after the show has closed. Unsold work must be collected by May 16th, 2010.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective announces a call to artists for our April Sculptural Fiber show!
We are looking for three-dimensional textile sculptures with an emphasis on craftsmanship and technique, such as knitting, embroidery, weaving, applique, sewing, etc. Conceptual and functional pieces will be considered.
Please send no more than three 300dpi JPEGs in a zip file no larger than 10mb per email to gallery@rpscollective.com. Include your contact information, as well as the medium and dimensions of the works, and the price if for sale. There is no entry fee. SUBMISSIONS DUE MARCH 21st!
Notification of acceptance by March 23rd. Pieces should be ready-to-hang or include clear instructions on how it is to be displayed (on the floor, on a shelf), and delivered to RPS in person on the weekend of March 26th or by mail by March 29th.
Work will be shown in the RPSC Gallery April 2nd-24th.
There will be a 40% commission charged for sales. Please take this into account when deciding on the selling price. You will receive payment two weeks after the show has closed. Unsold work must be collected by May 16th, 2010.
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.
Fun-A-Day
2nd Annual Fun-A-Day In the Bay
Artclash Collective West
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Feb. 5th, 2010
6pm-9pm
www.artclash.comrpscollective.com
Friday, February 5th: Rock Paper Scissors hosts the Artclash Collective’s second annual Fun-A-Day in the Bay. Organized by a group of Philly ex-pats, Fun-A-Day in the Bay builds on Artclash’s annual tradition (6 years strong) of organizing Fun-A-Day shows in Philadelphia.
Fun-A-Day is a simple concept that produces beautiful results. Participants choose a project and produce one piece of artwork every day for the entire month of January. The 31 resulting pieces create a narrative outlining each artist’s journey through the first month of the year. Projects vary from lighthearted to serious, high-brow to low-brow. This year’s list of mediums includes photos, drawings, paintings, dances, songs, textiles and more!
The desire to create is a fundamental expression of humanity that we are often alienated from or fearful of. Fun-A-Day seeks to remove the barriers to creativity by offering opportunities and invitations for participation. We believe everyone is an artist and everything you make is art; we seek to create a welcoming forum for people to share what they do, to strengthen existing communities of artists, and to kick-start new ones.
The Fun-A-Day show will be held at Rock Paper Scissors, 2278 Telegraph Ave in Oakland. RPS is “is a volunteer-run organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to strengthen local communities and encourage sustainable practices and alternative models”. Visit rpscollective.com for more information about the gallery. The Fun-A-Day show will be up in the gallery for the entire month of February. The show is free and all-ages and will feature performances on opening night. Come out and see what your friends (and future friends) have been up to during the first month of 2010!
Participating Artist Sites
Julie Langlois - http://danceaday.wordpress.com/
Tim Lillis – http://www.flickr.com/photos/narwhalbot/sets/72157623394693338/
Emily Meghan Morrow Howe – http://myevolvingprojects.blogspot.com/2010/01/16-x-48.html
2nd Annual Fun-A-Day In the Bay
Artclash Collective West
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Feb. 5th, 2010
6pm-9pm
www.artclash.comrpscollective.com
Friday, February 5th: Rock Paper Scissors hosts the Artclash Collective’s second annual Fun-A-Day in the Bay. Organized by a group of Philly ex-pats, Fun-A-Day in the Bay builds on Artclash’s annual tradition (6 years strong) of organizing Fun-A-Day shows in Philadelphia.
Fun-A-Day is a simple concept that produces beautiful results. Participants choose a project and produce one piece of artwork every day for the entire month of January. The 31 resulting pieces create a narrative outlining each artist’s journey through the first month of the year. Projects vary from lighthearted to serious, high-brow to low-brow. This year’s list of mediums includes photos, drawings, paintings, dances, songs, textiles and more!
The desire to create is a fundamental expression of humanity that we are often alienated from or fearful of. Fun-A-Day seeks to remove the barriers to creativity by offering opportunities and invitations for participation. We believe everyone is an artist and everything you make is art; we seek to create a welcoming forum for people to share what they do, to strengthen existing communities of artists, and to kick-start new ones.
The Fun-A-Day show will be held at Rock Paper Scissors, 2278 Telegraph Ave in Oakland. RPS is “is a volunteer-run organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to strengthen local communities and encourage sustainable practices and alternative models”. Visit rpscollective.com for more information about the gallery. The Fun-A-Day show will be up in the gallery for the entire month of February. The show is free and all-ages and will feature performances on opening night. Come out and see what your friends (and future friends) have been up to during the first month of 2010!
Tim Lillis – http://www.flickr.com/photos/narwhalbot/sets/72157623394693338/
Emily Meghan Morrow Howe – http://myevolvingprojects.blogspot.com/2010/01/16-x-48.html
Sixth Annual Fun-A-Day!!!
The Artclash Collective will be showing your work in February at RPSCollective! Create your own project and produce one piece of artwork each day for the entire month of January. Then submit your 31 pieces by early February to be included in the show. Check out photos from past shows for inspiration!
The Artclash Collective will be showing your work in February at RPSCollective! Create your own project and produce one piece of artwork each day for the entire month of January. Then submit your 31 pieces by early February to be included in the show. Check out photos from past shows for inspiration!
HOME
Home. This conjures up different things for each of us. These twelve featured artists have hand printed a variety of works on their interpretation of this theme. They range from items that were in their home to houses to home plate (think baseball) to more conceptual ideas of where or what home can be.
Our featured artists for this twelfth and final month of 2009 are Amy Jean White, Brian Schuck, Brice Ben Hobbs, Clare Szydlowski, Fonda Murray, Greta Aalborg-Volper, Kacie Erin Smith, Kathe Welch, Laura K Alger, Laurel Prieto, Patricia Miye Wakida, and Trish Foschi.
Opening night:
Friday, Dec 4th from 5-9pm
The show will be up December 4 – 25
Rock Paper Scissors Gallery
2278 Telegraph Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94612
Home. This conjures up different things for each of us. These twelve featured artists have hand printed a variety of works on their interpretation of this theme. They range from items that were in their home to houses to home plate (think baseball) to more conceptual ideas of where or what home can be.
Our featured artists for this twelfth and final month of 2009 are Amy Jean White, Brian Schuck, Brice Ben Hobbs, Clare Szydlowski, Fonda Murray, Greta Aalborg-Volper, Kacie Erin Smith, Kathe Welch, Laura K Alger, Laurel Prieto, Patricia Miye Wakida, and Trish Foschi.
Opening night:
Friday, Dec 4th from 5-9pm
The show will be up December 4 – 25
Rock Paper Scissors Gallery
2278 Telegraph Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94612
RPS Zine Library is coming to the Berkeley Art Museum!
Friday November 13, 2009, 7 to 9pm
Come check out the opening! Ari Marcopoulos and Paul Schiek will be there and there will be a book signing for SHOOT, the tome tracing the point and shoot revolution edited by Ken Miller.
Don’t worry if you can’t make it – it’ll be around till the 22nd.
Friday November 13, 2009, 7 to 9pm
Come check out the opening! Ari Marcopoulos and Paul Schiek will be there and there will be a book signing for SHOOT, the tome tracing the point and shoot revolution edited by Ken Miller.
Don’t worry if you can’t make it – it’ll be around till the 22nd.
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
Next Stop for Challenges of Champions
The Challenges of Champions Exhibit which showed at RPSC in February of this year has been a moving reminder of our experiences as a community in dealing with homicides in Oakland (and in some cases beyond Oakland). The exhibit has toured public buildings, parks, and galleries in Oakland and San Francisco and received good reception and some press. I want to thank you for your interest and personal work towards peaceful solutions to Oakland’s Violence.
The next stop for the exhibit is San Antonio Park on October 24th from 4-6:30. We will also have performances from POCAT as well as spoken word from Poor Mazganize Poetry Class other performances and an alloted time for casual discussions about our next steps towards resolving armed and violent conflicts in Oakland.
The Challenges of Champions Exhibit which showed at RPSC in February of this year has been a moving reminder of our experiences as a community in dealing with homicides in Oakland (and in some cases beyond Oakland). The exhibit has toured public buildings, parks, and galleries in Oakland and San Francisco and received good reception and some press. I want to thank you for your interest and personal work towards peaceful solutions to Oakland’s Violence.
HUMAN FACE
Join us October 2nd at 7pm for the opening reception for an exhibition of paintings from three men – Kevin Cooper, James Anderson and Eddie Vargas. Two of them are condemned – on death row; the third has a life sentence – the other death penalty.
Prisoners are people that society is willing to throw away and ignore. But they are fathers, they are mothers, they are sons and daughters. They are artists. Some are guilty of heinous crimes, some are innocent, and all were too poor to have an attorney fairly represent them. But they are all human beings and have a story to tell.
These three men use art to express themselves. We hope you will, see their work, hear their stories, and take away an understanding of their humanity from viewing it.
Opening night:
Friday Oct 2nd from 5-9pm
The show will be up October 1st – 31st
Rock Paper Scissors Gallery
2278 Telegraph Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94612
Additional Events:
JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH - 7 TO 9 PM – a memorial movie to Oscar Grant, with members of his family and Jack Bryson
STAN TOOKIE WILLIAMS LEGACY NETWORK: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH – 4 TO 6 PM – with Barbara Becnel and Stan Tookie Williams’ books for children.
LIVE FROM DEATH ROW: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23RD – 7 TO 9 PM – with Kevin Cooper, an innocent man on San Quentin’s death row calling (at 7:30 sharp). Q&A with Kevin Cooper and members of the Kevin Cooper Defense Committee.
Presented by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the only national membership-driven, grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment in the United States.
website: www.nodeathpenalty.org email: California@nodeathpenalty.org
Also by Art for a Democratic Society, an Oakland based art and activism group specializing in participatory grassroots interventionist art.
website: www.a4ds.org email: a4ds@earthlink.net
Join us October 2nd at 7pm for the opening reception for an exhibition of paintings from three men – Kevin Cooper, James Anderson and Eddie Vargas. Two of them are condemned – on death row; the third has a life sentence – the other death penalty.
Prisoners are people that society is willing to throw away and ignore. But they are fathers, they are mothers, they are sons and daughters. They are artists. Some are guilty of heinous crimes, some are innocent, and all were too poor to have an attorney fairly represent them. But they are all human beings and have a story to tell.
These three men use art to express themselves. We hope you will, see their work, hear their stories, and take away an understanding of their humanity from viewing it.
Opening night:
Friday Oct 2nd from 5-9pm
The show will be up October 1st – 31st
Rock Paper Scissors Gallery
2278 Telegraph Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94612
Additional Events:
JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH - 7 TO 9 PM – a memorial movie to Oscar Grant, with members of his family and Jack Bryson
STAN TOOKIE WILLIAMS LEGACY NETWORK: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH – 4 TO 6 PM – with Barbara Becnel and Stan Tookie Williams’ books for children.
LIVE FROM DEATH ROW: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23RD – 7 TO 9 PM – with Kevin Cooper, an innocent man on San Quentin’s death row calling (at 7:30 sharp). Q&A with Kevin Cooper and members of the Kevin Cooper Defense Committee.
Presented by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the only national membership-driven, grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment in the United States.
website: www.nodeathpenalty.org email: California@nodeathpenalty.org
Also by Art for a Democratic Society, an Oakland based art and activism group specializing in participatory grassroots interventionist art.
website: www.a4ds.org email: a4ds@earthlink.net
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.