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Advocate Level Sponsors
SLATE Art offers the talents and 30+ years of combined experience of Principals Shelley Barry and Danielle Fox in one full-service art agency. Their mission of is to create opportunities for people to live, work, and engage with art that delights and stimulates the mind and senses, inspires creativity and innovation, and expresses our clients’ individual taste and values.
Cultural Partners
Open Oakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland. As part of the Code for America Brigade network, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.
Oakland First Fridays is an immersive art and community experience on the first Friday of each month from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Telegraph Avenue from West Grand to 27th Street. Oakland’s KONO district springs to life with for this event, with galleries, artist collectives, street artists, local culinary artisans, performers, musicians, dancers, DJ’s, and poets gathering for Oakland First Friday events.
The New East Bay Open Studios is a free annual art event that brings the art-loving public together with artists in the East Bay. It spans 4 weekends in June* and begins with a festive Opening Celebration/Preview Exhibition at Oakland’s historic Scottish Rite Center followed by three inspiring weekends of artist open studios and exhibitions.
Studio 23 acts as a studio and workshop during the day for artists and owners, Jessica and Wesley E. Warren. Once a month the Studio is open to the public and will feature work by local bay area artists.
Foundation Support
Oakland CARES Fund for Artists and Arts Nonprofits, made possible by the City of Oakland Economic & Workforce Development Department, Cultural Affairs Division and administered by Center for Cultural Innovation.
Oakland Art Murmur is supported by a grant from the Alameda County Arts Commission ARTSFUND.