Channeling
Channel Arts was a community project founded on the principle of art-making acting as an equalizer and a bringer of awareness of the space around us. Channel Arts is named after the channel that connects Lake Merritt to the Bay in Oakland, CA. Channeling spent the summer of 2018 conducting free art workshops at Peralta Park, one block away from the Oakland Museum of CA and Lake Merritt BART Plaza. In September we hosted Channeling, a pop-up exhibition and festival of participatory projects allowing people from all backgrounds and ages to create and to celebrate the everyday places that we as a community share. With Channeling, we filled the Lake Merritt BART Plaza and our corner of OMCA’s Around the Block with fun, whimsy, life.
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Channeling was created and organized by Emma Spertus and Johnna Arnold, and supported by a grant from OMCA.
Participants in Channeling, Saturday, September 29th 2018 11am-5pm
Infrastructure Stack, Emma Spertus,
Imagination is Everything, Johnna Arnold
Re-sounding, Steven Garen
Sanctuary Print Shop, Sergio De La Torre + Chris Treggiari
Boundaries and Selves, Ymy Sfumato
BART Plaza Botanical Drawing, Anne Seeman
Oakland Plein Air, Paulette Nichols
Kico’s Dance Sesh, Kico Le Strange
Dancing with the Environment, Maggie Silverman
Experimental Blueprints, Emily Gui