Paint the Uptown with City Canvas!

City Canvas Sun, 16 May at 6:40am

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

Building Oakland neighborhoods through community art

City Canvas Wed, 7 Apr at 5:11pm

Murals by David Stern-Gottfried. Images courtesy of Stern-Gottfried. See more of his work: http://www.davesg.com.

Community building and neighborhood identity are two of my favorite things to think about, and I’m very lucky to be surrounded by many friend