The organising effort at the Creative Growth Art Center coincides with the organisation’s 50th anniversary and follows the launch of a high-profile partnership with SFMoMA
The acquisitions mark a new partnership between the museum and Bay Area non-profits Creative Growth Art Center, Creativity Explored and Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development
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April 20, 2021 • Sean J Patrick Carney on the ground in Oakland
5733 San Leandro Street, Oakland, CA. Photo: Kirk Crippens and Torre McQueen. Courtesy of the Oakland Cannery Collective.
WITH FEWER THAN HALF A MILLION RESIDENTS, Oakland’s complex art ecosystem rivals those of cities twice its size. Muralists, art-school grads, experimental musicians, artist-activists, graffiti writers, and Burning Man sectarians live and work throughout Oakland’s deindustrialized shoreline corridor and flatlands. Its DIY cultures are eclectic and often political, owing to the city’s distinctive history of liberation movements, mutual-aid networks, and labor organizing.
Fifteen years ago, Oakland was, relative to tech-gentrified San Francisco, semi-affordable. Today, Oakland artists battle colossal