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
Come check it out! Dig this? Check out Brett Cook
You ever visited the Mission District and marveled at the murals? Me too, in fact I grew up on them while walking to my mom’s job at SF General Hospital. And one of the most brilliant pieces was painted on the “Women’s Building” painted by one of my mentors and biggest mural teachers (SFSU and life) Juana Alicia. In case you didn’t know, Juana and the whole crew along with HeyDay Books is making a book about the Maestra Piece which will include writing by activist Angela Davis. Please share this widely. They should be at 10K by the weekend if everyone throws down.
LINK to support the campaign
LINK to more info about the mural
LINK to info about Heyday Books
Episode 1: Olajuwon Ajayi from The UR4Africa Project on Vimeo.
True Story Nollywood: Short Doc from Chichi Mambo on Vimeo.
These are some projects my homie Shola Ajayi (Ur4africa Projects) is working on as well as the Public Art Project w/ Naija including her and the homie Ms Mensen.
Check out the La Pena sites: Fbook, twitter, home
And the Trust Your struggle Sites: Fbook, twitter, tumblr
Support is building…I’ll post more things as they come in. If you have some positive words you wanna say about La Pena Cultural Center, please give them or TYS a hollr.
And here is the link to join the 2nd Skin team….love and light!
Also, listen to OG muralist Ray Patlan give his blessing for the new mural on kpfa.
Some photos I took while assessing the damage at the OG La Pena Mural, Join us as we preserve the “Song of Unity” and rock a new mural.
