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4731 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland CA 94609

From 2004-2007 I worked as an elementary school library media teacher. This position is what  inspired me to try my hand at authoring and illustrating children’s books - hence the creation of my first children’s book,Over in the Valley, which is a visually rich interpretation of the classic song “Over in the Meadow.”  I adapted the counting song and its animal characters to shine light on the San Joaquin Valley’s native species and their habitats. I am currently working on my second book about our local farmer’s markets.

An Art Show by Kristen Gentilucci ~ OPENING January 6th. 6-10PM
Show goes until Feb.2nd @ 4731 Telegraph Ave. #510-923-1567 "I have to say, I am on a weird kick in my world of art these days. My dad even said, “You used to be a painter, a graphic artist...what happened? What happened...nothing is stagnant. I like the word tangent.

A storybook Art Show by Super Ugly
OPENING:  December 2nd 6-10PM
Show goes til January 4th
The exhibit consists of the original art and Super Ugly will be selling and signing copies of the book Opening Night too.
@ 4731 Telegraph Ave. #510-923-1567

TOIC is having a Fleece Zip Hoodie Sale! Get yours before they are gone @ ONLY $35. We have a limited supply of incredibly comfortable, soft, and cozy hoodies. They are slate grey with the TOIC logo on the back. BEWARE ~ once you try it on, you won't want to take it off.

AND PINTS FOR ALL

BUY 3 Pints and get the 4th PINT FREE! We're taking orders now!

STOCK UP AND PRE-ORDER FOR THE HOLIDAYS! Visit our store or give us a call and we can be sure your favorite flavors make it to the Holiday dessert table!

Artist Reception: November 4th 6-10 PM
Exhibiton Dates: November 3rd to December 3rd
Location:  TOIC in Oakland

::Maybe This Time::
is a collection of paintings and block prints that I've created over the years, especially this past one. The title is referring to the trial and error of the things that we do in art, in learning and in life. I would say I am self-taught for having not gone to school but truthfully I have had mentors all along the way teaching by example, encouraging progress and inspiring in every direction, pushing me to try new mediums and techniques and study other artists as well.

As a child, my mom always made art supplies available to me. There was no set time to do art, it was all the time. I remember the smell of the Tupperware full of crayons that would barely close, the feel of children's scissors on construction paper and the click of a Crayola marker cap. My dad would make origami cranes and frogs out of the paper place mats at restaurants when we waited to be served. As an adult, that art flow never stopped and I continue to encourage my own two children to use their creativity as their voice. The masterpieces they've created on the Magnadoodle and quickly erased have taught me a lesson, the magic we can draw is temporary and doesn't do justice to what the minds eye sees, but we try anyway.

Artists Reception TONIGHT 6-10 @ TOIC TEMESCAL 4731 Telegraph Ave. Oakland

"It's A Jungle Out There"  I seem to be most content with a paintbrush in my hand. I went to school at the Laguna College of Art and Design before moving to San Francisco and then on to Berkeley, which I now call home.
I like to draw or paint just about anything, from day dreams to a piece of fruit that looks too pretty to eat. I can’t seem to stick to one medium. Sometimes I like the ease of watercolor, or the texture of oil. Sometimes I like to get my fingers thick with clay.
I find inspiration in the way light bounces off of skyscrapers and am equally enthralled by the views of clouds from airplane windows. My work celebrates the wonder in everyday things often taken for granted.

COME TO TEMESCAL TONIGHT for this great community fundraiser!
We'll be scooping on the sidewalk ~ See you there!

Exhibition Dates: September 1st - 30th
Artist Reception: September 2nd 6-10PM

Love dot dot dot as a body of work investigates love between two animals of differing species. This love or potential love flies in the face of tradition and creates an environment of tension. This environment of tension and how the players within it act and react is where my interest lies. I have set the stage at the moment in which love has burst forward and taken hold of one or both of the players. They sit or crouch or perch in sheer wonder and anticipation; what will love bring them?
Love dot dot dot stands as a Furred or Feathered interpretation of the classic literary model of love overcoming rational boundaries despite drastic odds. In my interpretation though love is not hindered or forbidden by politics or geography as is typically demonstrated, it is instead forbidden by the taboo of inter-species love. How will the families consider the feelings of the love struck? More importantly how will the uptight world view an inter-species love flaunted before it's eyes?

COME SEE THE SHOW AND SUPPORT LOCAL ARTIST!

SPEAKING OF ART ~ TOIC IS ALSO @

FIRST FRIDAY ~ SEPTEMBER ART MURMUR

477 25TH ST. BETWEEN TELEGRAPH & BROADWAY

DON'T MISS THE ACTION 6 - 10 PM!

So much fun music, art, food, drink, fashion, oh yeah!

AND SATURDAY & SUNDAY LICK US UP @ TOBY's Feedbarn

in Point Reyes Station. Saturday 3rd, 1-5 & Sunday 4th, 12-4

It's worth the drive. Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Exhibition Dates: August 1st - 31st ~ Artists Reception: Friday August 5th 6-9 PM.

4731 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Ca. ~ OPEN DAILY 12 - 10 PM

Artist Kara Nelson uses her own trash to make paintings. She combines paper, fabric, and plastic with other materials such as paint, and color pencil to create vibrant, patterned landscapes that are reminiscent of the temperate forests of the pacific northwest. By using recognizable trash such as payroll envelopes, she draws attention to the everyday items that most of us use, and dispose of. By using trash to paint her colorful, and inviting landscapes, she gives the materials themselves a longer life. Her painting process has become her way of recycling.

"URBAN GLYPHS"

Paintings by Jill McLennan

Artists' Reception: Friday, July 1st 7 - 10pm

Exhibition: June 30 - July 28, 2011

Location: 4731 Telegraph Ave. Oakland CA

FIELD AND CITY
Silkscreen prints by Lisa Feather Knee

Exhibition: May 28th to June 28th
ARTISTS RECEPTION:  Friday June 3rd 6-10 PM

Location: TOIC TEMESCAL 4731 Telegraph @ 48th., Oakland CA

COME HAVE FUN WITH US!
THIS SATURDAY MURMURAMA

477 25th St. 7 to 10PM ~ Don't miss the Oakland FUN!

Oakland Art Murmur is pleased to announce the first annual Murmurama, a multi-venue celebration including art exhibitions, artist talks, live music, food, wine tasting, special performances and more. Murmurama will take place on the Saturday evening of the San Francisco art fair weekend. Art fair attendees from afar are invited to take part in the thriving and nationally recognized Oakland art scene generated by the artists and galleries behind Oakland Art Murmur. Bay Area locals are encouraged to enjoy some of the region’s most refreshing art and numerous gallery activities on a night other than ever-popular First Fridays.

APRIL 27TH THRU MAY 27TH: 4731 TELEGRAPH AVE @ 48TH. OAKLAND CA.
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, MAY 6TH 6-10PM

One of my favorite memories from my childhood is of my mother teaching me how to draw a circle, once I could draw a circle she taught me how to use different circles to draw ninja turtles. Ever since, I have been looking for inspiration in many forms, from shapes and designs in wood grain, to comic books, to stains on the sidewalk. I like to make very vibrant works of art, I try to use a wide assortment of colors even if they aren't particularly attractive.

Exhibition Dates: March 26 - April 26
Artist Reception: Friday April 1, 6 - 10 PM

"Catching Tales: One for One Hundred" is a self-assigned photo project I began on February 1st in which I take and make public one abstract, frequently Rorschach-ish photo a day for one hundred days.

"In general, however, I feel deep anxiety around these subjects and can get emotionally overwhelmed thinking about and trying to reconcile the lack of ownership and responsibility reflected in Waste and Destruction.  The nearer I get and the closer I look, though, the less anxious I feel. Seeing these from a new perspective becomes an exciting adventure, and if I can focus on what is right in front of me instead of the “Big Picture, as it's not overwhelming; it's calming, like a whole other world exists of which most people, myself, included are largely unaware and ignorant."

Scott Finsthwait is a school teacher by day and photographer morning, noon, and night.

For more information contact Scott Finsthwait

IF YOU LOVE OAKLAND THEN YOU WILL LOVE JOEY'S PHOTOGRAPHY

Inspired by Every Day Visions and printed on recycled Brown Bags. It's definitely unique. You may just want to buy one!

Exhibiton Dates:  February 24th - March 24th
Location:  TOIC in Oakland
Mon - Thurs. 1-10pn
Fri - Sun 12-10pm

A Collection of Photographs by Joseph Mintz

Every Day Visions is an ongoing series that pulls from the different roles that I find myself in throughout the week.  I am a student and a teacher, a musician and an artist, a partner and a friend.  As I move through these roles in my day-to-day life, different projects emerge.  Although the images range in style and content, I believe there is a common thread that brings them all together to convey something about how I experience the world.

For this installment of Every Day Visions, I am entirely using brown bag material.  This kind of paper is one that most of us have had contact with and touched with our hands; it is an everyday material.  The color and texture of brown paper bags has always been beautiful to me, and it’s the kind of beauty that can often go un-noticed due to its everyday-ness.  The concept of the ordinary and overlooked beauty fits in perfectly with the kind of images that I strive to make with a camera.  The tone of the paper bag infuses some warmth into a black & white photo, and the non-traditional paper offers the viewer a look at the content from a slightly different perspective.  I hope you enjoy the images!

-JM
http://www.josephmintzphoto.com

A Collection of Photographs by Joseph Mintz

Exhibiton Dates:  February 24th - March 24th
Artist Reception: Sat., February 26, 6 to 9pm
Location:  TOIC in Oakland

Every Day Visions is an ongoing series that pulls from the different roles that I find myself in throughout the week.  I am a student and a teacher, a musician and an artist, a partner and a friend.  As I move through these roles in my day-to-day life, different projects emerge.  Although the images range in style and content, I believe there is a common thread that brings them all together to convey something about how I experience the world.

For this installment of Every Day Visions, I am entirely using brown bag material.  This kind of paper is one that most of us have had contact with and touched with our hands; it is an everyday material.  The color and texture of brown paper bags has always been beautiful to me, and it’s the kind of beauty that can often go un-noticed due to its everyday-ness.  The concept of the ordinary and overlooked beauty fits in perfectly with the kind of images that I strive to make with a camera.  The tone of the paper bag infuses some warmth into a black & white photo, and the non-traditional paper offers the viewer a look at the content from a slightly different perspective.  I hope you enjoy the images!

-JM
http://www.josephmintzphoto.com

A Collection of Photographs by Ginger Fierstein

Reverie: a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.

I often float into the clouds. Find me where time is still, in harsh headlights I watch the stars leave their mark in the sky. These are the late hours of reverie.

"I've been working around this idea of the photos being a fleeting moment, a hazy memory, or even people and places from dreams you can only remember seconds from. Lately, I have noticed a few trends in my work; a more graphics-based approach to subjects, a focus on light and light sources as the subject, and a deep interest on seeing that wich the human eye cannot."

If you haven't seen this amazing and striking exhibit of photos, you still have a few days to check it out.

On exhibit @ TOIC Temescal through February 22nd.

4731 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Ca.

first friday OAKLAND art murmur
february 4, 6-10
the 25th street collective @ 477 25th street

for song: savannah jo lack
a 'sound scape' performance piece with 10 knitters making blanket squares to donate to the 25th st collective and to Oakland Elizabeth House!

for sipping + smiling:wine: 2 mile wines
ice cream: tara's organic ice cream
java: mike's cole coffee
sweet things: sherry's red cake gallery
jams: dafna's innajams
choco: tina and doug's bohemian alchemy and lulu’s chocolate

+ good sustainable goods:

home goods: hiroko kurihara designs
fashion: dustin's platinum dirt
more fashion: nan's b.spoke tailor
desiree's desiree
tede’s originals
briget’s ghettogoldilocks
change: domenica's global action through fashion
organic bags: skylier's skylierwear
and for soul and body: by nieves

Sew LOCAL www.25thstreetcollective.com

The 25th Street Collective is a local business incubator for sustainable startups of slow food and slow fashion artisans. Our focus is on growing community while growing our work.

This gallery storefront, vintage warehouse space, a joint project of hiroko kurihara designs , non-profit global action through fashion and 2 mile wines, currently houses platinum dirt and b.spoke tailor and desiree salas designs

Let us know if you are interested in growing your art-based business with the 25th st collective in in the UPtown Oakland Arts District! REALLY soon, community members will enjoy workshops in sewing, wine-tasting, responsible fabric sourcing, sustainable business planning, etc!

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