Lead artist, Dave SG and the students of Westlake Middle School have been working hard painting the 20 mural canvases, which will grace the sides of 5 traffic signal boxes in the Uptown/Lake Merritt neighborhood. Dave's final designs depict iconic images of Oakland's landscape with overlays of students from Westlake Middle School - an inspiration from the students' desire to literally
Murals by David Stern-Gottfried. Images courtesy of Stern-Gottfried. See more of his work: http://www.davesg.com.
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