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Jerry Lawson - Google Doodle + game
Sketchbook pg 4
Video: Oakland Creates Interview
Ethnic Studies in Every School 2- Purple
Chapter 510-Sense of Belonging
My Dad the Bounty Hunter-Trailer
Latinx Owned Bookstores

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Fam, it's that time! The 6th "Social Justice Child

Fam, it's that time! The 6th "Social Justice Children's Book Holiday Fair" is upon us. I'm excited to table w/ NorCal kids book makers to share their latest and greatest books w/ families, librarians, book sellers, teachers, organizers, and more. While some cringe at the title I’ve met folks there who are actively searching for the type of books/energy these creators bring. There will be live programming on that day and lots of Board books, picture books, middle grade, YA, comics, and more featuring Bipoc, Queer, and social justice minded bk creators. Check out the link in my bio and rsvp. If you’re not on fb there’s an eventbrite link as well. Shout out to @teance_fine_teas in Berkeley California for hosting us again this year! And Shout out to this years organizing team! @laura.atkins.artist @forall.paratodos @storytimewithmrlimata @j9macbeth @innosantonagara and myself. #socialjusticechildrensbookholidayfair #berkeleyca #kidsbooks #holidayfair #independentbooksellers #selfpublishedauthors

🔊🔊🔊Wanna help spread the word? Share this and rsvp via eventbrite or Facebook. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Mark your calendars for Dec 4th! I’m juiced to b

Mark your calendars for Dec 4th! I’m juiced to be tabling for the first time at this years “Oakland Creates” show featuring artists, comics and zine makers, and more! I’ll have bks, prints, stickers, and more. Follow @oaklandcreates for more info

Posted @withrepost • @oaklandcreates Remember. Oakland Creates 2022 is Sunday December 4. Save the date. Share this info with your artist friends, librarian friends, nerdy diy & punk friends. Come make a Zine, make some art. Support local creatives. #diversebooks #indiepublishing #art #oakland #oaklandcreates2022 #zines #zinesters #arteducators #literacymatters #blackartist #communintyengagement #diy #punks #indiecomics #womenofcolorcreatives #sfbayareaartist #zinefests

Hey yall, I’m happy to be a part of a new crew c

Hey yall, I’m happy to be a part of a new crew called @storytimefriendsseries

w/ @storytimewithmrlimata @angeladalton_author , @michaelgenhart , @meera.sriram Sriram, and @alex__giardino , a community-centered project that brings the joy of picture books to children’s hospitals. @storytimefriendsseries features a video-recorded read-aloud series, related art activities, and book give-aways. For its inaugural year, the project has partnered with UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and more than forty authors and illustrators. The series host Mr. Peter Limata kicks everything off on November 4 with a video read-aloud of Dr. Rachel Remen’s The Birthday of the World, which will be aired at the hospital for the children. My book "Alejandria Fights Back" will be featured later in the series along with 40 author/illustrators across the Bay Area!!

Hey, if you're in the South Bay, Central Californi

Hey, if you're in the South Bay, Central California, or the Bay Area please come to the 2022 San Jose Made Holiday Fair. This will be my third year either attending and/or vending at the event and I invite you to come shop, meet artists, eat, hang out, and play. There will be over 400 vendors selling clothing, art, household items, toys, pottery, sculpture, books, and more. They even had a photo booth and free gifts for the first 500 attendees each day. I'll be there at booth G20 selling kids books, art prints, stickers, and more.

@sjmade is a crew of artists and entrepreneurs who support small businesses and local artists through yearly fairs, markets, pop ups, and storefront events in the San Jose and Santa Clara area. Please follow them @sjmade for more info!

Photos by Sj Made and me #holidayfair #holidaymarket #sanjosemade

This is my painting of the PKC founders and core l

This is my painting of the PKC founders and core leadership w/the real cooks in the flesh at Life is Living. This Sunday my bro @brettcookstudio exhibit w/Liz Lerman opens at @YBCA . Come thru!!!!!!

Posted @withrepost • @peopleskitchencollective This year at Life is Living we were larger than life!!! 😮 and it’s now on view opening Sunday see @ybca for details!

SO humbled that artist @robert_tres chose PKC as “Gardeners of Belonging” for @brettcookstudio ‘s project.

Featured in Rob’s painting are Co-founders Jocelyn Jackson, Saqib Keval, and Sita K. Bhaumik, crew co-founder Hai Vo and admin Natasha Huey.

Thank you everyone including @ybca @lifeislivingfest @bissell_evan & @erinyoshi ✨ 🌱 ✊

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Gardeners of Belonging celebrates people who cultivate growth, flourishing, and belonging: like gardeners, they know that this work is both about tending plants and about tending the soil. The seven participating artists each selected a “gardener” from their life and created a portrait while sharing a dialogue about belonging. The art works were created for the 14th @lifeislivingfest in West Oakland and then moved to @ybca as part of the exhibition Brett Cook and Liz Lerman: Reflection and Action.

Featuring: Gardeners x Artists:
-Roberto Bedoya & Brett Cook
-Sister Peace & Erin Yoshi
-Miss Major & Evan Bissell
-People’s Kitchen Collective & Robert Trujillo
-Joan Osato & Nick James
-Jean Melesaine & Vanessa “Agana” Espinoza
-Amalia Mesa-Bains & Johanna Poethig
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@Robert_tres
@peopleskitchencollective
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@iamnickjames
@jkosato
@erinyoshi
@missmajor1
@dj_agana
@bayarealife
@johannapoethigsilver

[Image ID: 1-3 by @laraaburamadan 1. Sita, Hai, Natasha & Jocelyn pose in front of the group portrait 2. Response wall with text “How is our future guided by the ways our ancestors practiced belonging?” 3. An attendee writes a response to the prompt 4. Video of a gallery at YBCA lined wall to wall with large scale portraits by Brett Cook 5. Birds-eye view is the gallery at YBCA]
#artofrobertliutrujillo

This is a new art print for my READ series! I real

This is a new art print for my READ series! I really dig how this turned out and hope you will too. The helmet is a reminder to dream, soar, and fly. This is the first in a new series of 4. There will be 8 in total. Link in bio. #readingnook #helpthebabiesread #publicschool #publiclibrary #artofrobertliutrujillo #scifi #fantasybooks

Fam, I'm honored to tell you that I have been chos

Fam, I'm honored to tell you that I have been chosen as one of 7 artists to paint and design large 8' x 8' pieces honoring other creative, active, and giving folks. My choice? The People's Kitchen Collective! But why? What? Peep......

Gardeners of Belonging celebrates people who cultivate growth, flourishing, and belonging: like gardeners, they know that this work is both about tending plants and about tending the soil. The seven participating artists each selected a “gardener” from their life and created a portrait while sharing a dialogue about belonging. The art works were created for the 14th @lifeislivingfest in West Oakland and then moved to @ybca as part of the exhibition Brett Cook and Liz Lerman: Reflection and Action.

Featuring: Gardeners x Artists:
-Roberto Bedoya & Brett Cook
-Sister Peace & Erin Yoshi
-Miss Major & Evan Bissell
-People’s Kitchen Collective & Robert Trujillo
-Joan Osato & Nick James
-Jean Melesaine & Vanessa “Agana” Espinoza
-Amalia Mesa-Bains & Johanna Poethig

October 8 Life is Living
10AM-6PM
Lil Bobby Hutton Park
1651 Adeline St., Oakland CA

October 30th Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2PM-4PM
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA

I just crossed the 1400 sales mark on Etsy y’all

I just crossed the 1400 sales mark on Etsy y’all! and to show my appreciation I'm sharing a discount code for 20% off everything using "GREATESTSALE" as a thank u. You've got until Monday night to use it. Shop link in bio.

Swipe left to see the first 3 brick and mortar stores to carry my new “Art of Rob” bk. 130 pgs of art for the young artist! Know a store that would dig my bk? Dm me or tag them in the comments.

Shout out to the @mcb_bookstore @marcus.books & @pegasusbooks for carrying “Art of Rob”. Go shop at these Bay Area stores. #artofrobertliutrujillo #etsy #artbooks #workingartist #literacy
First foto from the incredible @seattleurbanbookexpo 📸 by @thejoyliu

Next up! Posted @withrepost • @lifeislivingfest

Next up! Posted @withrepost • @lifeislivingfest For 14 years, the LIL Kids Zone has been creating a safe and nurturing space for young children and their families at the Life Is Living Festival. Produced and hosted by @ms.emilybutterfly, the Kids Zone welcomes the Jr. Art And Science Center, The Attitudinal Healing Collective, Social Justice Story Tent, Face Painting, Games, Snacks, and more.

Join us as we welcome the Social Justice Story Tent featuring YGB, Mr. Limata, Ms. Emily Butterfly, Sunflower Lioness, Jill Guerra and The Love Curriculum, and more from 10AM-4PM.

🌈SCHEDULE🦋

10:30AM Kendo Martial Arts
11:00AM YGB
11:30AM Jill Guerra
12:00PM Alphabet Rockers
12:30PM Robert Trujillo
1:00PM Iwalani
1:30PM West Oakland Library
2:00PM Emily Butterfly
2:30PM Mr. Limata
3:00PM Iwalani

15TH ANNUAL LIFE IS LIVING FESTIVAL
Saturday | October 8 | 10AM-6PM
Lil Bobby Hutton Park (1651 Adeline, West Oakland) FREE
TICKETS: @youthspeaks bio link or lifeisliving.org
Attendees who register for tickets will receive a FREE commemorative gift at the festival.

#LIL22 #LifeIsLiving #KeepingOaklandOakland #KidsZone #EmilyButterfly #SocialJusticeStoryTent #MrLimara #SunflowerLioness #JillGuerra #TheLoveCurriculum

Fam! I made it. I’m on the “Rightnowish” pod

Fam! I made it. I’m on the “Rightnowish” podcast! Link in my bio. Listen to the show and subscribe to hear all the incredible guests that host/journalist Pendarvis Harshaw, producer Marisol Medina Cadena, and editor Jessica Placzeck have had on.

Posted @withregram • @ogpenn 🗣🎙BOOKS FOR THE BABIES!!!

This week we talk to children’s book author and illustrator @robert_tres.

He makes books about Black and Brown babies, for Black and Brown babies.

And given recent (and historic) book bans and discrimination when it comes to telling stories of different races, religions, cultures and nationalities in this country, his work is important… #Rightnowish.

#KidsLit.
#ChildrensBooks.
#ReadersMakeLeaders.
#RepresentationMatters.
#BooksForTheBabies.
#Literacy.
#Education.
#BookBan.
#Culture.
#LURN.
#Oakland.
#Berkeley.
#SF.
#BayArea.

Produced by @spaghettivaquera.
Edited by smracho and Jen Chien.
Photo by Joy Liu-Trujillo.
Published by @kqed/ @kqedarts.
Available on all #Podcast platforms
#artofrobertliutrujillo

Juiced to be at this years SF Zine Fest! Posted @

👋🏾 Hey, if you missed the Kickstarter campai

👋🏾 Hey, if you missed the Kickstarter campaign for “Art of Rob” my first art book w/130 pages of artwork (sketches, ptgs, type art, tutorials, and more) you can now cop one from my shop for yourself or a young person in your life. Link in bio!

Thank you to all who backed or shared the project. If you’re a backer I most likely sent you your book. If not plz dm me and I will get you your copy.

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#artofrobertliutrujillo #artistsketchbook #artbooks

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