by Frances Phillips | Oct 9, 2021
Led by installation artist Taro Hattori, in collaboration with ARTogether, Pedaling Point seeks to spark conversations between refugees and non-refugees, helping them to bridge gaps of understanding and isolation through dialogue, singing, and shared narratives. In...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 23, 2016
Oakland Sharing the Vision, the Oakland Police Department, and other agencies collaborated with performance and installation artist Suzanne Lacy, other artists, and Oakland youth to illuminate youth perspectives on Oakland’s community policing initiative. Developed...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 28, 2014
A collaboration between Lisa Gray-Garcia, co-founder of Poor Magazine, and Community Defense Inc., “Poverty Heroes” drew together homeless and very poor participants with writers who led creative workshops in homeless shelters, group homes, and welfare...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 28, 2014
Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell, and the Temescal Merchants Association collaborated to create The Temescal Amity Works, a community art project located in a storefront off Telegraph Avenue in Oakland and on the web. Over a year’s time, the artists maintained a...
by Frances Phillips | May 29, 2013
Artists Jon Rubin, Harrell Fletcher, and Larry Sultan collaborated with Dublin Fine Arts Foundation to examine “mall culture” through an artists’ residency in an empty store space at Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton, California. Their residency culminated with the...
