100 Families Oakland: West Oakland

West Oakland workshops are held Wednesdays, January 11 - March 15, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the M. Robinson Baker YMCA, 3265 Market St., Oakland.

Artists interested in applying for Artist Workshop Facilitator positions and families interested in participating, please contact Amana Harris, executive director of Art Esteem, at amana@ahc-oakland.org.

In the first year, the project will bring together 100 families: 25 from the East Oakland, West Oakland, Chinatown, and Fruitvale neighborhoods to take art classes and create paintings, drawings, and sculptures centered around themes and issues of importance to each family.

For more information, see 100 Families Oakland

Make the Dream Real,
8th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Grants
10 am–12 pm

HOSTS
Rev. Ron Swisher, Dr. Matthew Fox and Jim Garrison

INDIGENOUS PURIFICATION PRAYER
Anank Nunink Nunkai

SACRED DRUMMING
Kokomon Clottey, Author, Mindful Drumming

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rabbi Michael Learner
Tikkun

SPECIAL GUEST
Fania Davis
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

ARTISTIC PRESENTATIONS
Local Artists and Youth Performers

SPECIAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AWARD
Presentations to four Community Members who are doing exemplary service work in the Oakland Community.

For more information read Make the Dream Real

Applications due for the VALUES Project: Summer 2006 Teaching Institute

The VALUES Project focuses on visual arts integration in K–12 classrooms. Teacher teams apply now to join us for this professional development collaboration between the Alameda County Office of Education, the Center for Art and Public Life, Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and public schools in Alameda county.

Balancing Work and Graduate School
Professionals discuss tools to help you succeed as a working artist.
2–4:30 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

Community Student Fellow Workshop Series Presents

Jody Medich is a graphic designer that has worked for Chiat-Day, Young and Rubicam, Yahoo, Novo, and as a freelancer. Currently Jody is also enrolled in a graduate fine art program for drawing and painting. She will discuss balancing work life with education pursuits and will give some pointers to artists that are beginning their careers.

Balancing Work and Graduate School
Professionals discuss tools to help you succeed as a working artist.
2–4:30 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

Community Student Fellow Workshop Series Presents

Jody Medich is a graphic designer that has worked for Chiat-Day, Young and Rubicam, Yahoo, Novo, and as a freelancer. Currently Jody is also enrolled in a graduate fine art program for drawing and painting. She will discuss balancing work life with education pursuits and will give some pointers to artists that are beginning their careers.

Digging Deeper: Art Education Reference and Resource Materials
A part of Art IS Education! 2006

CCA Center for Art and Public Life presents
Inquiries in Teaching and Learning

A series of exhibits and events in cooperation with

Art IS Education! 2006
High-quality learning for the whole child in every school, every day
A showcase of youth learning in the arts
sponsored by Alameda County Office of Education

All events are free and open to the public.
Information: 510.594.3763

True Stories: Art Teachers Tell All, a panel discussion
A part of Art IS Education! 2006
5:30–7 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

A group of art teachers will discuss the challenges and rewards of their work, providing inspiration and guidance to anyone considering a career in teaching. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

CCA Center for Art and Public Life presents
Inquiries in Teaching and Learning

A series of exhibits and events in cooperation with

Art IS Education! 2006
High-quality learning for the whole child in every school, every day
A showcase of youth learning in the arts
sponsored by Alameda County Office of Education

All events are free and open to the public.
Information: 510.594.3763

Screening of SPARK-ED: Public Media and Art Education
A part of Art IS Education! 2006
7:30–9 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

KQED's art education director presents selections from SPARK, the public television series featuring Bay Area artists, followed by a discussion of arts media-based curriculum development using SPARK teaching resources available online.

CCA Center for Art and Public Life presents
Inquiries in Teaching and Learning

A series of exhibits and events in cooperation with

Art IS Education! 2006
High-quality learning for the whole child in every school, every day
A showcase of youth learning in the arts
sponsored by Alameda County Office of Education

All events are free and open to the public.
Information: 510.594.3763

VALUE-ing Studio Thinking: Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in and through the Arts
Lois Hetland, Ed.D., and Kim Sheridan, Ed.M.
7–8:30 pm
The Oakland Museum of California
Little Theater
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, California

This presentation describes, through video, photo essay, and narrative, the findings of the VALUES Project and what it suggests about improving education for all students in Alameda County. By using pedagogical frameworks to support and guide planning, assessment, and professional collaboration, VALUES teachers acquired information and developed skills, awareness, and motivations that help them leverage the power of the arts – both in arts courses and other subjects – to capture and sustain student engagement and to develop critical and creative thinking dispositions that can be taught and assessed in systematic and rigorous ways.

RSVP to Wanda Irishat wandai@acoe.org

For more information read The VALUES Project.

Teachers in Alameda County interested in professional development based on these practices please read Teaching Institute Summer 2006.

Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership: How to Plug In
A part of Art IS Education! 2006
11:15 am–12:30 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership: How to Plug In

Art education leaders and activists will talk about how to get involved in a countywide strategic initiative to situate arts learning squarely in the center of school reform efforts.
CCA Center for Art and Public Life presents
Inquiries in Teaching and Learning

A series of exhibits and events in cooperation with

Art IS Education! 2006
High-quality learning for the whole child in every school, every day
A showcase of youth learning in the arts
sponsored by Alameda County Office of Education

All events are free and open to the public.
Information: 510.594.3763

The School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin, El Salvador
Art in Community and the Collective Act of Creation and Remembrance
7:30 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus

We will address the creation of the School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin, Morazán, El Salvador. Perquin is an area affected by the hardship of the Salvadorian civil war and economic catastrophe of the post-war period. Claudia Bernardi will discuss the history of human rights violations perpetrated in the area during the war (1980-1992) and focus on the art school open to children, youth, adults and elderly who commit themselves to creativity and art as an act of communal remembrance.

The School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin, was created in 2005 by Claudia Bernardi and Valeria Galliso, with the support of the Potrero Nuevo Fund and the San Carlos Foundation.

Read more Walls of Hope / Walls of Sorrow, the School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin

Pre-College: Community Arts
Priority application deadline
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

CCA Pre-College Summer 2006
Community Arts

Studio classes for high school students who have completed grades 10, 11 or 12. Scholarships are available.

July 3 - 28
Mondays - Fridays
9a.m.-4p.m.

The Bay Area has a vibrant tradition of arts activism, from San Francisco's Beat Generation and Berkeley's Free Speech Movement to the rise of Asian, African American, Latino, and Native American movements for social justice.

In this studio, students have the opportunity to engage in social and political issues by working on collaborative projects with artists/activists involved in some of the oldest and most respected Bay Area community and cultural organizations. Participants are introduced to the art forms and practices used in these communities and spend time in the studio developing their own socially and politically meaningful work. - Instructor Celia Rodriguez

Visit the CCA Pre-College webpage for more information and an online brochure.

4th Annual Service Learning & the Arts Conference, Miami Florida
presented by Florida Learn and Serve

Philosophy Behind the Conference

The arts, which are rooted in social commitment and community engagement, play an integral part of the larger community. In addition to providing aesthetic beauty and truth, the arts can be utilized as an important tool from alternative recreation for youth to economic and cultural development. To provide positive and sustainable community development requires citizen action. The connection to the arts can empower people to take the action needed to create change.

When arts education is infused with service learning, a result is an effective pedagogy that draws upon similar core beliefs.

• Students learn when they are involved and see a personal and social value to what they are learning.
• Students are engaged when they take ownership of their actions.
• Students learn through active, in-depth investigation and exploration of artistic media or real community need.

Most importantly, students learn through opportunities to address and reflect on authentic problems. This service-learning conference is a tool designed to help those who help our students embrace the notion of meaningful, artistic, and service-related experiences.

Sponsored by
Florida Learn & Serve
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
California College of the Arts Center for Arts and Public Life

Regular registration deadline: March 17, 2006
Onsite Registration deadline: March 18-April 1st, 2006
Read more about Florida Learn and Serve conference registration.

Finding Shelter
Surviving the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Hurricane Katrina

A project created by Woody LaBounty and Amanda Herman

Finding Shelter is generously supported by: San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, California College of the Arts Center for Art and Public Life Student Grants Program

For more information please visit the Western Neighborhoods Project: www.outsidelands.org

Crossroads for Art, Learning and Community
CCA Community Arts Lecture Series
12–3 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

CCA Community Arts Lecture Series presents a panel discussion on local and national efforts to integrate art, learning and community.

Presentations/Q&A by Mat Schwarzman, co-author of Beginner's Guide to Community Based Arts and Unity Lewis, CCA Alum.

Beginner's Guide to Community Based Art is a new comics-illustrated travelogue that visits communities across the country revitalizing themselves through art. Graphic journalist Keith Knight shows how art can effect social change through ten powerful stories, including Rhodessa Jones' life-transforming theater work with women prisoners at San Bruno County Jail. The guidebook is the culmination of more than ten years research into arts-based community activism.

Books can be purchased through the Center for Art and Public Life. Purchases can be made from our office located at 5275 Broadway, Oakland (near College Avenue). If you would like a copy mailed to you, send a check for $20 plus shipping and handling, payable to California College of the Arts, to Center for Art and Public Life, Attn: Building the Code, California College of the Arts, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618.

Books may also be purchased through publisher New Village Press. New Village Press is a new non-profit publisher specializing in community building.

Creativity Is a Muscle, with Rhodessa Jones
A celebration of the new book Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts
7–8:30 pm
Center for African and African American Culture
762 Fulton Street (at Webster), San Francisco

Cultural Odyssey, the Center for Art in Public Life, and New Village Press present a multimedia event to premiere a new book for artists, youth leaders, and teachers: Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts.

Meet authors Mat Schwarzman, a theater artist and educator from New Orleans, and Keith Knight, a Bay Area cartoonist, rapper, and media-literacy teacher.

The evening celebration will feature a rare chance to flex your creative muscles in a community-based arts exercise led by local performance artist Rhodessa Jones.

Beginner's Guide to Community Based Art is a new comics-illustrated travelogue that visits communities across the country revitalizing themselves through art.

Graphic journalist Keith Knight shows how art can effect social change through 10 powerful stories, including Rhodessa Jones' life-transforming theater work with women prisoners at San Bruno County Jail.

The guidebook is the culmination of more than 10 years of research into arts-based community activism.

Books can be purchased through the Center for Art and Public Life. Purchases can be made from our office located at 5275 Broadway, Oakland (near College Avenue). If you would like a copy mailed to you, send a check for $20 plus shipping and handling (payable to California College of the Arts) to Center for Art and Public Life, Attn: Building the Code, California College of the Arts, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618.

Books may also be purchased through publisher New Village Press. New Village Press is a new nonprofit publisher specializing in community building.

Emerging Teachers: Making Learning Visible, exhibition
A part of Art IS Education! 2006
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway
Reception: May 5, 3:30-6 p.m.

An exhibition of work in progress from the Center's Art Education Teaching Practices course

CCA students who serve as art teachers and young artists from Far West School will be present at the reception. To see the exhibition, please call for an appointment: 510.594.3757.

CCA Center for Art and Public Life presents
Inquiries in Teaching and Learning

A series of exhibits and events in cooperation with

Art IS Education! 2006
High-quality learning for the whole child in every school, every day!

A showcase of youth learning in the arts sponsored by Alameda County Office of Education

Info: 510.594.3763

100 Families Oakland: Art & Social Change
West Oakland exhibition
African American Museum & Library at Oakland
659 14th Street, Oakland
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5:30 p.m.
Opening celebration: April 27, 6 p.m.

Art Esteem, the M. Robinson Baker YMCA, and the Oakland Museum of California are pleased to present an exhibition of artwork by participating families of the West Oakland neighborhood.

This exhibition features work created by individuals and families during a 10-week workshop series at the M. Robinson Baker YMCA.

See 100 Families Oakland: Art & Social Change for more information about the project. See African American Museum & Library at Oakland for more information about the library.

Organized by the Professional Services Division of the Oakland Museum of California with 100 Families Artists.

Break Through Now! Exhibition
A part of Art IS Education! 2006

Find inspiration, discovery, synergy and breakthrough in CCA student collaborations with youth and community. An exhibition of works from the Community Student Fellows Program, a work-study program employing students to work in public schools and nonprofits.

CCA Center for Art and Public Life presents
Inquiries in Teaching and Learning

A series of exhibits and events in cooperation with

Art IS Education! 2006
High-quality learning for the whole child in every school, every day
A showcase of youth learning in the arts
sponsored by Alameda County Office of Education

Information: 510.594.3763

We Are Here: an Archive in Progress
A CrossConnections Project
Oliver Art Center, Oakland campus

Bay Area Iranians and Iranian Americans are invited to participate in an archive in progress.

Bring in your stories, memories, memorabilia, and keepsakes, and we will record, document, and photograph them for our archive.

We Are Here is a collective art project led by visiting artist Taraneh Hemami, with visiting scholar Persis Karim

For more information, visit We Are Here.

Homes
ZeroOne San Jose
South Hall, 435 South Market Street, San Jose
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, noon–10 p.m.; Sunday, noon–5 p.m.
Tickets: $10 (discounts available with festival pass)
Info: www.01sj.org

Taraneh Hemami and Mohsen Emami-Nouri present the exhibition Homes at ZeroOne: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. The exhibition is part of CrossConnections at the Center for Art and Public Life.
 
Homes enters the private world of Iranian families living in the Bay Area, through physical and virtual spaces that re-create the interior of their homes, narrating stories of their everyday lives through portraits of space, objects, and people.
 

Center for Art and Public Life Open House
11 am–3 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

Please join us to find out more about the Center's programs, including the following:

• Community Arts BFA
• SMART (Subject Matter Art) Teaching Concentration
• Youth Mentorship classes
• Alternative Spring Break
• 100 Families Oakland: Art & Social Change
• The Values Project
• Teaching Institute for K–12 public school teachers
• Visiting artists and scholars
• The Center Student Cohort
• Artists for Community residential program and the International and Multicultural Learning Hall
• CSF work-study jobs
• Center Student Grants

Enjoy refreshments, view displays of projects and programs, and meet our staff.

Artwork by the Center's next visiting artist and scholar, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, PhD, will be on display.

CCA students, learn how you can make art that makes a difference.

The Center Student Cohort
Supporting historically underrepresented groups: Latina/o, Native, Asian Pacific and Black. Meet, Eat and Greet
11 am–12 pm

The Center for Art and Public Life Student Cohort is a student group that supports historically underrepresented groups, Latina/o, Native, Asian Pacific and Black and their experience here at CCA.

Join us for lunch!

For more information contact:
Julian Martinez
510.594.3766
julianmartinez@cca.edu

The Center Student Cohort
Supporting historically underrepresented groups. Learn about scholarships, tutoring and more
10 am–12 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

The Center for Art and Public Life Student Cohort is a student group that supports historically underrepresented groups, Latina/o, Native, Asian Pacific and Black and their experience here at CCA.

Join us to meet each other, hear more about the group, learn about scholarships and tutoring available for members and to schedule future meetings.

For more information contact:
Julian Martinez
510.594.3766
julianmartinez@cca.edu

Grant writing and proposal workshop
2–4:30 pm
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway

The CCA Center for Art and Public Life will hold their annual grant-writing workshop for Community Student Fellows, Center Student Grant hopefuls and anyone interested in learning more about the process of grant writing. We will be joined by professionals in the field discussing the various types of grants and describing important components to each.

Internationally known artist Patter Hellstrom who splits her time between New York and San Francisco will discuss artist proposals and how they effect the grant process, as well as giving helpful tips for the emerging artists.

For more information contact Dia Penning dpenning@cca.edu.

Crafting a Vision for Art, Equity, and Civic Engagement
Community arts symposium
San Francisco and Oakland campuses

"Crafting a Vision for Art, Equity, and Civic Engagement: Convening the Community Arts Field in Higher Education" will bring together artists, students, scholars, and community activists to experience and exchange best practices in the field of community arts.

The symposium is organized by the CCA Center for Art and Public Life, the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, and Massachusetts College of Art.

Keynote speakers and guest artists for the symposium include:

• Claudine Brown, program officer for the Nathan Cummings Foundation
• Dr. Amalia Mesa-Baines, artist and MacArthur Fellow
• Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, founder Caribbean Cultural Center N.Y. and El Museo del Barrio.

Featured events will include installations, performances, visual and literary presentations. Participants will be asked to address such questions as:

• What are best practices for incorporating art and civic engagement?
• Does the democratization of art practices address diversity? How is higher education addressing the issues of changing demographics?
• What are methods for achieving diversity in art colleges through community participation?
• How does one develop reciprocal approaches to curricular and community building through the arts?

Registration online and by mail is now open. The cost of the symposium is $50–$200.

Event schedules and artists' statements are also available.

For more information contact:
Deidre Visser
Conference Coordinator
dbvisser@yahoo.com

Center Student Grants
Applications due for spring 2007 projects

Center Student Grants fund projects designed collaboratively by CCA students and their community partners. Through a highly selective application process, students' proposals are awarded grants up to $3,000. Juniors, seniors, and graduate-level CCA students are eligible to apply.

Contact Dia Penning at dpenning@cca.edu to apply.

See Center Student Grants for more information.

Community Student Fellows
Applications due for spring 2007 work-study positions

Community Student Fellow (CSF) positions offer CCA students on-the-job experience working and teaching in community, health and art non-profit organizations and in public schools. CSFs receive orientation and training through workshops at the Center.

Sophomore through graduate level CCA students with federal or institutional work-study and who are in good standing with the college are eligble to apply.

Check the CCA Career Services online job board for current positions.

Contact Dia Penning at dpenning@cca.edu to apply.

See Community Student Fellows for more information.