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He is a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow who has graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in philosophy. His research interests include philosophy of cognitive science, affect, and anarchism. His other interests include hiking and tending to his budding garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1604530200522-6JGIW6ABL26LROMSKMUI/image-asset.png Who We Are - Grant Kerber Oakland Summer School Grant Kerber is writer, community organizer, and designer. He is one of the myriad voices behind Oakland Summer School, a community education project. He runs Jet-Tone Press, where he co-edited and published Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love: Poets on Punk (2019), and also co-edits and designs the periodic film journal The Movement Image. Grant lives in Oakland with his cat, Roy Batty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1592951235314-PQV758E0IW1FU2FRKM5J/Agatha_Urbaniak_UK+copy.jpg Who We Are - Marshall Trammell Music Research Strateges Artist in Residence, Pro Arts Marshall Trammell is an experimental archivist, percussionist, conductor, composer, and self-styled Music Research Strategist. His aesthetics and activism are centered in social change interventions and generate new local and global ecologies that embrace improvisation as a collective, movement-building tool in the creation of post-capitalist imaginaries. Trammell’s ongoing Music Research Strategies project uses political aesthetic theory, data creation, mapping, and collective music-and-artmaking in order to step out of the domain of traditional cultural institutions, relocating the act of co-production back in the community. Music Research Strategies is a performing-political education platform for embodied social justice vernacular, organizational strategy, and alternative infrastructure development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602460584680-MISOYS4PEM7YAPLFCHOE/41340187_10217343522285787_8812653771856281600_n.jpg Who We Are - Marissa Friedman 2020 Project Resident, The Community Self-Defense Archive by MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES Born and raised in the Bay Area, Marissa received her B.A. in History with Honors from University of Puget Sound, her M.A. in History (emphasis in Public History) from University of California, Riverside, and her MLIS from San Jose State University. Her background includes a diverse range of experiences in archives, oral history, public and special libraries, and museums. She is particularly interested in community archives and the intersections between digital collections and archival activism. Marissa works as a Digital Project Archivist at University of California, Berkeley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602461577159-NP9DO1OZ4KH2T0GVFO0G/Screenshot-185906_2.png Who We Are - Damon Lamont Hooker Resident Artist, Pro Arts Damon Lamont Hooker is the Director of HOOKER BOY FILMZ ™️, an underground legendary, established in Oakland in 2004. He studied Script Writing/Directing at Laney College. WATCH ALL EPISODE'S OF EVOL THE SERIES HERE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235626017-RXNM1P2CXAWW6F59L7XO/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Akili Simba Director, Gift Shop @ Pro Arts Akili Simba is a mixed media artist based in Oakland, CA. His interdisciplinary practice embodies resource recovery. Abandoned and recycled materials, sourced throughout the Bay Area, are used as an act of environmental conservation. Inspiration is rooted in traditional African culture and folklore. The works reflect on value and self worth to promote pride and unification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593040457535-BFLR3EYS27J1QLYY1EM5/47060044_2056885514552888_5795645422026358784_o.jpg Who We Are - Michael Daddona Jean Turner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593038421082-CV35MW2ZXO23UJ62AXAX/68256414_2925375920869948_5977760560886841344_o.jpg Who We Are - Mollie Underwood Mollie Underwood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602048136868-R45GA2O9W1SM6N8VT7K9/julia.jpg Who We Are - Julia Choucair Vizoso 2020 Artist in Residence, COMMON Knowledge Platform Julia is a writer, editor, translator, and political scientist. She is interested in building social alternatives for artistic and scholarly production premised on less alienated forms of creativity. She is from Beirut and lives in the mountains of Madrid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1604530325024-WN1G4040HXNPZRLAR7B9/melissa+mack.jpeg Who We Are - Melissa Mack Oakland Summer School Melissa Mack (she/they) is a poet, writer, organizer, and, in their day job, researcher. They have been participating in autonomously organized free community education for at least 10 years, mostly recently for the Oakland Summer School (2017-present). They are the author of The Next Crystal Text (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017), Includes All Strangers (Hooke Press, 2013), and their work appears in print and virtual journals, anthologies, and ephemera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602048033053-I6LD3CYG8OLI4Y8U2Z7Q/dena_al_adeeb_photo.jpgmediaclass-full-width.c3083fedae46a95f1139ff9d5833b1b6b8e20a69-300x289.jpg Who We Are - Dena Al-Adeeb 2020 Artist in Residence, COMMON Knowledge Platform Dena’s artwork takes on varied practices including video, installation, photography, sound, writing, participatory performance, and socially engaged projects. Her conceptual creative practices shed light on personal as well as collective narratives and experiences of displacement, memory and trauma. Concerned with dis/embodied experiences and the ways these resonate across fragmented encounters of time and space, her art practice foregrounds my personal and scholarly background. She is currently a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235654770-8AMMWBVVFVL0N9Q4AK4T/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Danielle Luz Belanger Project Kalahati Danielle Luz Belanger is a community organizer and creative who utilizes film, writing, dialogue, and action to center political possibility in everyday life. Focusing on the radical potential of memory and dreams, her explorations range from reconstructing inherited narratives to envisioning futures through an internationalist lens. Her newest release, Rememory (Project Kalahati), is a chapbook of photographs and prose examining the vital space of the ‘between’ within a Filipino diasporic context. danielle has served as International Solidarity Officer of GABRIELA Oakland since 2019. She currently works as an Associate Archivist at the Freedom Archives and is a 2020 recipient of the Spectrum Scholarship (American Library Association). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602809192408-Q1T7T02H2NHQFVORSSDL/OFJS_logo_bw.jpg Who We Are - OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY (OFJS) OFJS helps cultivate contemporary music future seeds to become tomorrow’s master improvisers. We provide a safe space to test new ideas & concepts in sonic experimentations. Established in 2012 , OFJS has produced over 450+ concerts, from Master Improvisers World Wide to providing a space for new student works from Mills College Contemporary Music Program for Improvisation & Electronics Music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602461654300-XSTLNFYU6O0K6S2XPP98/s200_tanya.hollis.jpg Who We Are - Tanya Hollis 2020 Project Resident, The Community Self-Defense Archive by MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES Currently, Tanya Hollis is serving in her twentieth year in California archives. She has worked as a librarian and archivist at the California Historical Society, the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. In all of these positions, she has been engaged in every aspect of archival processing, from appraisal, accessioning and processing to preservation and digitization, and has been a successful leader at each institution through the transition from paper-based archival description to open online access. Tanya is a Special Collections and Archives Coordinator and independent visual artist living in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601694057661-FX16PQTIQTB1DF8D86E1/Screen+Shot+2020-10-02+at+8.00.09+PM.png Who We Are - QUICC Queers United in Community Care is a queer-led mutual aid and street medic collective, based in Oakland. We work together to provide first aid, food, and supplies to communities in the Bay Area. We stand in solidarity with movements working to liberate and center oppressed lives and voices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1604530119240-OGV2GSXSK4B80EX7WXEQ/Chika-Okoya-headshot-1024x683.jpg Who We Are - Chica Okoye Oakland Summer School Chika Okoye is an independent scholar who focuses on histories of Black liberation struggle. She co-founded and for two years co-curated the Black Life series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), a monthly live event that showcased the work of Black artists and intellectuals. Chika currently works as Program Director of Buddhist Peace Fellowship, a nonprofit that seeks to enhance the spiritual grounding and power of activists and movements working for progressive change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599178435412-50MI3UDACAYR7DIFCQYJ/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Jae Daaboul Development, Pro Arts Jae Daaboul is a freelance writer and editor. Born in South Korea and raised in Berkeley, he has lived in the Bay Area for most of his life, working at small, communally owned restaurants and bars around Berkeley, SF and Oakland for his livelihood. Jae’s expertise is in writing and language arts, particularly that literature which tells the stories of historically marginalized and obscured U.S. communities. His love of Oakland is rooted in the unique artistic identity, its social openness, and willingness to always become more inclusive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601865144979-0Y433M0V5HOSYHOC44XQ/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Sam Lefebvre 2020 Writer & Editor in Residence, Pro Arts Print Publication Project Sam Lefebvre is a freelance writer and musician in Oakland whose journalism and criticism have appeared in publications including the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wire, Pitchfork, the Believer, the Fader, ARTnews, Hyperallergic and SFMOMA's Open Space. He has worked as an editor, reporter and columnist at KQED Arts, the East Bay Express, SF Weekly and Impose Magazine. His accountability reporting has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and in 2020 he won a Rabkin Prize for Arts Writers. As a writer in residence at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, Sam Lefebvre is creating a print publication to critically examine the forms of cultural expression, socialization and solidarities to arise from these turbulent conditions in and around downtown Oakland over the course of 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235443383-MDOGH07XSH3JGTB3M14Y/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Praba Pilar Laura Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599007829333-EQ8FQ0UVIGL602KL3IKC/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Arlin Golden Movie Friends project @ Pro Arts Founder & Director, Drunken Film Festival (DFF) Oakland Arlin Golden is an all-around film person in Oakland, CA. He received his BA in Film Studies in 2010, is a documentary distributor and filmmaker, and runs Drunken Film Fest Oakland. He rarely dreams, but the most frequent ones are the ones where it's finals and he hasn't been to class all semester. He hopes one day that the world recognizes the many values of the siesta system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593038655904-GZHVCTMDHNRXVCX5JZZD/Screen+Shot+2020-06-24+at+3.41.40+PM.png Who We Are - Christian Johnson Gloria Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602049628763-R1ZRA3257XCZKTFEYEWP/NEW.111113.Borsook-239x300.jpg Who We Are - Paulina Borsook Artist in Residence, Pro Arts Paulina Borsook has shared her fiction, essays, humor pieces, and journalism through Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Architectural Record, San Francisco, Salon, Suck, and Feed, and is the author of the acutely insightful Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech (PublicAffairs, 2000). Borsook has been variously described as “The grande dame of digital culture” (UK Independent), “a bohemian intellectual displaced into the world of Silicon Valley high tech” (Worth Magazine), and as someone who has made “a fine career out of challenging, rebutting, baiting and vexing the conspicuously libertarian technology community (Salon Magazine). For the last few years, Borsook has been developing My Life As A Ghost, a multi-disciplinary art project on traumatic brain injury. As part of this project, she was Researcher in Residence at Stanford Art Institute in 2013, where she researched ‘the psychoneurological consequences of traumatic brain injuries, drawing from her own experiences and interviews with other individuals living with TBI.’ In 2011 she was awarded first place in the SF Chronicle’s Chronicles of the Bay. Borsook has orchestrated street theater and townhalls; produced and performed in works-in-progress events; helped run a concert series; has an undergraduate degree in psycholinguistics with a minor in philosophy from UC Berkeley; and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1606952127582-XP36JRGZ6AZB9IUR6VPC/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Zeph Fishlyn Artist in Residence, Pro Arts A Burial Ground project Zeph Fishlyn (pronouns they/them) is a white Canadian-American queer artist who uses social practice, drawing, object-making, and installation to nurture alternative narratives by questioning, dreaming, distorting, celebrating and demanding. Their most recent work explores absurdity, embodiment, intimacy and playfulness as foundations for resilience, creative subterfuge, and action in the face of overwhelming circumstances. Zeph is a serial collaborator with groups inventing creative responses to our urgent times—including the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Heart of the City Collective, the PDX Trans Housing Coalition, Greenpeace, and the Center for Artistic Activism. Zeph has been awarded residencies or fellowships with the Reimagining Value Action Lab, Banff Centre for the Arts, Emerging Arts Professionals, Ponderosa Stolzenhagen, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Queer Cultural Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593043067026-JZJGNRFK3LZIJ9WQR0T2/june+3980.jpg Who We Are - Ryanaustin Dennis Janice Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602048438118-SN3494EGTD3BC2QY7QVX/KateSpacek_fullsize-768x981.jpg Who We Are - Kate Spacek 2019_2020 Artist in Residence, COMMON Knowledge Platform Kate Spacek is fueled by People and Possibility. She designs and facilitates co-creative experiences that foster belonging, agency, and ownership. Diverse groups of humans make something together, tangible or otherwise – and open to one another in the process. The secret sauce always includes art, movement, and/or play, and transforms “non-artists” to connected creators. Kate’s former life includes two decades of business operations and strategy with proficiencies in personal development and group facilitation. This rare blend adds structure and sustainability to her arts-based programs and actions. She has co-produced interactive art-centric events for Red Bull, General Electric, City of Oakland, Google.org, Autodesk, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and others. As Director of American Arts Incubator at ZERO1, Kate bridged program artists, overseas partners, participants, and the U.S. State Department to explore social challenges via 65 community-driven creative projects in 13 countries. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and various television, radio, and print media outlets around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602048568534-71M5D7FV3C104XINP7XW/benj-photo-240x300.jpeg Who We Are - Benj Gerdes 2020 Artist in Residence, COMMON Knowledge Platform Benj Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organizer working in video, film, and related public formats, individually as well as collaboratively. He is interested in intersections of radical politics, knowledge production, and popular imagination. His work focuses on the affective and social consequences of economic and state regimes, investigating methods for art and cultural projects to contribute to social change. His projects emerge via multiple articulations from long-term research processes conducted in dialogue with activists, trade unionists, architects, urbanists, geographers, and archival researchers. Exhibitions and screenings include the Centre Pompidou, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), New Museum (U.S.), Rotterdam International Film Festival, and the Tate Modern. Publications include October, Public, The Journal of Aesthetics + Protest, Incite! and Rethinking Marxism. He currently leads a professor group and seminar on logistics and infrastructure at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and is based in Sweden and New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1615398805298-8QNQXTZR6AQ30QNH1S59/Screen+Shot+2021-03-10+at+9.53.04+AM.png Who We Are - Maymanah Farhat Chief Curator/Visual Art, Pro Arts Maymanah Farhat is a curator and writer working between New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has organized exhibitions in museums, university galleries, and nonprofit art spaces since 2006, notably at the San Francisco Center for the Book, the Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Arab American National Museum, Art Dubai, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar, and Beirut Exhibition Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601951558797-GIAQAIU8M8K12HQ3BD6K/marc+herbst.jpg Who We Are - Marc Herbst 2020 Artist in Residence, COMMON Knowledge Platform Marc is a co-founder of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, an interdisciplinary journal and weirdo collective founded in Los Angeles in 2001. (www.joaap.org) He recently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies in London with a study titled, A cultural policy for the multitude in the time of climate change; with an understanding that the multitude has no policy. Marc’s collective and individual efforts are also interdisciplinary (between engagements with the formal art world, DIY networks and relatively autonomous political projects) and he works between publishing, social practice and illustration. As a publisher/editor, he works with Aesthetics & Protest and also is recently collaborating with Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, Pluto Press and Canary Press. With the Aesthetics & Protest editorial collective, he is currently editing an issue working with anti-fascist and avant garde art collectives on situated practice outside of but in awareness of the mediating practices of political and cultural structures. He also helped publish recent books on precarious labor with the UK-based Precarious Workers Brigade, and (related to his PhD) a book on housing rights activism and transversal urban organizing by Ada Colau and Adria Alemany. As a writer, he is working on texts for Blade of Grass, Field Journal and also Dispatches Journal on his very mundane not-art-but-creative/salaried work with refugees in Leipzig, and NGBK/ADOCS where he is co-authoring with Michelle Teran a book based on situated, cosmopolitical and eco-social learning through the coming 99 years of climate based in the Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593040879180-MAT4GYFH52Y09LDHUV1I/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Scott Ortega-Nanos Todd Peterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235954616-BY1J6PP7SA8NXE6F5M7U/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Natalia Ivanova Diana Liu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601921428794-C1GGR7SG8RS44HYZ3A2U/0AAF920C-B3F5-4A92-AA63-8275F206B2EC+%281%29.jpg Who We Are - SAAM NIAMI Writer & Editor, Pro Arts Saam is a creator with a skilled history in writing, editing, podcasting, reporting, researching, creative consulting, and platform building. He is currently an arts writer for Office Magazine in New York City. He also serves as an editor for the Pro Arts COMMONS Press in Oakland, CA. He is an alumnus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he received Honors in English Literature for his poetry thesis about Persian literature and post-colonialism. Saam served an Undergraduate Fellow at the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Graduate School. He has founded, organized, and written for a multitude of publications, including the community publishing house Project Kalahati based in Oakland, California. He was a reporter for GroundUp News in Cape Town, South Africa where he covered human rights, education, global warming, and politics. His interests include art, post-colonialism, Middle Eastern art and culture, political theory, media theory, social theory, corruption, fashion, history, and Orientalist theory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602049014397-3OA50J6ZAI18D7YBPI2Y/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - SADJI Artist in Residence, Pro Arts Sadji has been an unhoused artist member of our Pro Arts team sine early 2019. He is a dancer and creator with business knowledge and gallery management skills. You can find him dancing his new moves at Pro Arts or at Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235526845-D2DJ3RA3B4G33QGDQJQY/image-asset.jpeg Who We Are - Michael Grayson 2020 Artist in Residence, COMMON Knowledge Platform Studiomike is one of West Oakland’s most popular producers. He has worked with artists such as 4 Tay, Steady Mobbin, D-Lo, HD of BF and more. Producer, vocalist, engineer, SoundTrack Designer and most of all an advocate for the hungry and underprivileged artists. He started his own record record Label SCENT LLC, to ensure no one gets played in the music world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1620184083668-IL285WPDZ13FBTOKHIMI/IMG_8774.jpg Who We Are https://www.proartscommons.org/support daily 0.75 2021-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599008559378-EEY1MGFNNDBV5XHBJLGE/Pro+Arts+Newsletter+August+2020+front.jpg Support Pro Arts COMMONS https://www.proartscommons.org/about-0 daily 0.75 2021-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599026634534-JGRBPW7J97IEHAX9S0YL/Floor%2Bplan+copy.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1598999131971-89PHG4EN5QQVLV0UGK9H/E3A6E2B6-F1A2-4783-A2CF-4DAC76E81B2E-BFACD624-61EE-4C9D-BA24-80031D9520E4.JPG About https://www.proartscommons.org/about daily 0.75 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1630313940831-Q0HOV5K3IO5XN5K8UZLR/Pro+Arts+Incubation+Photo.jpg Programs - GIVE TO Pro ARTs COMMEMoration FUND! All donations to Pro Arts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Our EIN # is 94-2259269. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599095434389-M1EHVXYWLKE30Y5E6A8N/proartsspace2.jpg Programs https://www.proartscommons.org/new-page daily 0.75 2020-10-09 https://www.proartscommons.org/sample-morals-clauses daily 0.75 2020-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599710241680-PJPIW1NDM4TWW422I0YP/image-asset.jpeg Sample Morals Clauses MANIFESTO, CARDBOARD & CONCRETE UNHOUSED ARTIST COLLECTIVE, 2020 https://www.proartscommons.org/1024-hybrid-series daily 0.75 2020-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1603570458836-1PT7H0JQWF3R9D0ZQMCC/ratskin_10-24-final-LT.jpg 10/24 Hybrid Series https://www.proartscommons.org/exhibitions daily 0.75 2021-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1620183242719-LPFNLZU5F0AE3T5YD23T/image-asset.png Exhibitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1620184142863-DG71BDVE9N6F06FLEXYD/865233dc-301c-46a4-a52e-7be2bb6d02fb_rwc_88x0x1021x576x1021.jpg Exhibitions https://www.proartscommons.org/incubator-1 daily 0.75 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601865221734-Q95LLVMID09NJQHR7PQP/858ef6a4-b74f-48da-93ae-58581a095e41.JPG Incubator (Copy) - MOBILE ART CARE UNITS THE MOBILE ART CARE UNITS will travel to communities in Oakland, creating new sites for the production and exchange of artistic knowledge. This form of creative placemaking and public making will be archived audio-visually, creating as a result a library of peoples’ art and culture, and building tools for creative resistance and resilience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602562425176-EVT9TPGTP333E5ZXUOQB/58543705_1263184057162955_6852130329424035840_n.jpg Incubator (Copy) - Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Oakland Freedom Jazz Society is your home for Improvised, Avant Garde, Experimental, New & Creative Music https://www.facebook.com/oakfreejazzsocy/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602208112402-Q5PMTZWO7T3N6ZPFWZVA/rs+logouiXgXXk_400x400.jpg Incubator (Copy) - RATSKIN Records Documenting Dynamic Existence Through Sound and Objects since 2005. ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601469300807-UK9O7D0K7W0PYUB1MHPV/image-asset.jpeg Incubator (Copy) - COMMONS Planters RESIDENT PROJECT The goal of this project is not simply to beautify a space, but rather to draw in the eye, then the body, and finally the imagination. Everything about the piece is common, would-be refuse reconfigured. May it be a signpost to welcome others into the Commons, not just as consumers but as participants. May it inspires better builders and growers to reconfigure their own environments, to plant foods and natural medicines, to disrupt disconnection and dependency. May the idea of reclaiming and transforming the urban landscape in our own unsanctioned vision spread like crassula and tradescantia. Cut us back if you like, we will return tenfold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1615401774756-QR9RQ73WHN2DASDI4O0R/angels.jpg Incubator (Copy) - Angels Refuge The Angels Refugee is collaborating with Pro Arts Gallery and COMMONS on new ways to fight and end human trafficking in California. The organization is founded by Mouangjoi Tracy Saelee. Tracy is an immigrant from Thailand. She is iu mien. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1603314455701-M8E0T21JVD50BMAQHMKH/Ek3vnD4UYAA9i-v.jpg Incubator (Copy) - Terrain: Art & Crisis, Print Publication Standalone print publication incubated by Pro Arts Gallery & Commons critically examines cultural expression, mutual aid and unrest in downtown Oakland in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600231794179-JZP21ZQJ9WSKXXH2G05E/IMG_2338.JPG Incubator (Copy) - KINDNESS GROCERY COOPERATIVE RESIDENT PROJECT The Kindness Grocery Cooperative is a hybrid cooperative grocery store that exists as a balanced alternative to profit driven businesses. Our cooperative emerges in the midst of a pandemic where food security, wellness, and stability are at risk. Our goal in building together is to provide the opportunity to experience and embody collective abundance. By supplying local food products, offering health services, and building with community, we create the chance to thrive in the midst of unpredictable environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602537225027-FOUA22WXW784YTQE7DIJ/Dancing+at+the+Military.png Incubator (Copy) - MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES musicresearchstrategies.info Marshall Trammell is the experimental percussionist and critical ethnographer known as Music Research Strategies (MRS). The identity of this arts engagement platform began as a critical ethnographic framework bridging obsessions with strategic, or compositional, improvising strategies, organizational improvisation and psychology, and street-level, social justice, international organizing. MRS navigates the global economy as a touring musician performing-research and -political education nationally and internationally through a battery of modular, social science-based systems producing works for fellowships, residencies, festivals, and investigations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1606764659457-8MS8RVAFWWH90B4NQY2U/IMG_4199.jpg Incubator (Copy) - The UnderCOMMONS Residency RESIDENT PROJECT The UnderCOMMONS Residency invites BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists in collaboration and co-creation of artistic knowledge that embodies conviviality, community resilience, and institutional and economic reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1592860414313-LVYQ1VW2SVUAKTZ9ZQRT/IMG_0392+2.JPG Incubator (Copy) Performing Pro Arts COMMONS in Oakland, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1610406128891-TKADX90LAMPY2487PEGA/IMG_0142crop.jpg Incubator (Copy) - Everyday Disaster Research (Zeph Fishlyn) How can participatory art strategies support our collective resilience in the face of escalating and overlapping crises? What is the role of play, ambiguity, and open-ended questions in addressing social, political and environmental urgencies? Everyday Disaster Research explores the imaginaries of disaster as they manifest in pop culture, individual survival strategies, grassroots organizing, and the complex infrastructures of professional emergency management. Through this platform, artist Zeph Fishlyn offers creative experiments in disaster response, from the Emergency Dance Party Network, to Tenant Self-Defense workshops, to Evacuation Routes, a series of live, remote guided walks. Zeph is also developing an Artists’ Emergency Response Cycle, a framework for how artists can leverage their specialized strengths to help reimagine the world in terrible times. (The Artists’ Emergency Response Cycle is part of this small book.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601247390765-MJTRP7M2ELDBN0SQGZJJ/occupy+ip+vector.jpg Incubator (Copy) - OccupyIP OccupyIP makes art out of intellectual property (IP), utilizing law, Art, and economic supply chains as new media for political action. OccupyIP empowers IP producers — artists, writers, scholars, inventors, anyone producing creative works — to activate the terms upon which their art enters the market in harmony with their radical politics. What happens when we turn a part of the law that has become sacrosanct across the world — the economic rights of IP producers — against its intended purpose? What if IP producers reclaim the legal and economic scaffolding surrounding their individual creative works to protect social actions, be in solidarity with workers in supply chains, or highlight the absurdity of maximalist intangible property? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602208636586-ET1ABJC64ENRXDJDN96O/PACP+LOGO.jpg Incubator (Copy) - PRO ARTS COMMONS PRESS Pro Arts COMMONS Press supports critical discourse in the arts and culture via the production and open exchange of artistic knowledge. Our publications, zines, posters, pamphlets, and artist books embody a commitment to radical social change with the intention of creating equality for all. Pro Arts COMMONS Press organizes printing and publishing workshops, prints FREE posters for all movements for social justice, collaborates on international projects, and shares material and immaterial resources and labor with our Affinity Groups in Oakland and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601861418852-CKEW5D24UO1RPEAM242Z/anku+reduced+image.png Incubator (Copy) - Community Self-Defense Archives & Social Impact Assessment (SIA) The Community Self-Defense Archive is a grassroots, digital community archive experimenting in Intellectual Property Law. The project is managed by Music Research Strategies with the support of The Archives Support Team (AST). The Community Self-Defense Archive partners with Mukurtu CMS, Reclaim Hosting, Documenting the Now, and CopWatch. Archives Support Team (AST) is comprised of volunteer archivists, Tanya Hollis and Marisa Friedman. The Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is stakeholders’ development and program evaluation tool, designed and implemented by Music Research Strategies with the intent to document the progress of Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS process and institutional practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601870562998-4V4D64TABD8X7S0PUTD7/MakerSpaceLogoWcolor.jpg Incubator (Copy) - slow tech MAKER SPACE Through the newly established slow tech MAKER SPACE, we share sustainable practices. This Pro Arts’ module focus is on disruptive technologies, sustainability, the commons, skill sharing, d.i.y. culture, cooperation, and co-production. Director of the slow tech MAKER SPACE is multi-disciplinary artist, technologist, and maker Praba Pilar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601247812831-RDIUIW429KM4SN0G7SR7/ckp+logo.jpg Incubator (Copy) - COMMON Knowledge Platform CKP is a residency for an open knowledge production and exchange in the form of peer-to-peer artist collaborations, commissioned projects in research and print, and collective action through the medium of art and law that embody community self-defense ethos and philosophy. The COMMON Knowledge Platform Residency puts artists and cultural organizers at the center of artistic and cultural knowledge production, and as the main instigators of civic and community empowerment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1612597265549-UBM24YC8ZY6P1QBEFJP1/Untitled-6-Recovered.jpg Incubator (Copy) - Pro Arts Recording & Production Studio With our new artist-controlled recording booth! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601161833885-IK0KCW6GZKU6HQWSFC3N/IMG_2285.jpg Incubator (Copy) https://www.proartscommons.org/uncommon daily 0.75 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1630295652254-KY3VM1BH1395AN01IGT8/FYE2020graphics-07+copy.png Uncommon - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.proartscommons.org/residents-1 daily 0.75 2021-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593040879180-MAT4GYFH52Y09LDHUV1I/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) Todd Peterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593043067026-JZJGNRFK3LZIJ9WQR0T2/june+3980.jpg Residents (Copy) Janice Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1604530200522-6JGIW6ABL26LROMSKMUI/image-asset.png Residents (Copy) GRANT KERBER OAKLAND SUMMER SCHOOL Grant Kerber is writer, community organizer, and designer. He is one of the myriad voices behind Oakland Summer School, a community education project. He runs Jet-Tone Press, where he co-edited and published Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love: Poets on Punk (2019), and also co-edits and designs the periodic film journal The Movement Image. Grant lives in Oakland with his cat, Roy Batty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235526845-D2DJ3RA3B4G33QGDQJQY/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) MICHAEL GRAYSON ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, 2020 COMMON Knowledge Platform StudioMike is one of West Oakland’s most popular producers. He has worked with artists such as 4 Tay, Steady Mobbin, D-Lo, HD of BF and more. Producer, vocalist, engineer, SoundTrack Designer and most of all an advocate for the hungry and underprivileged artists. He started his own record record Label SCENT LLC, to ensure no one gets played in the music world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235443383-MDOGH07XSH3JGTB3M14Y/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) Laura Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1615398805298-8QNQXTZR6AQ30QNH1S59/Screen+Shot+2021-03-10+at+9.53.04+AM.png Residents (Copy) MAYMANAH FARHAT CHIEF CURATOR / VISUAL Maymanah Farhat is a curator and writer working between New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has organized exhibitions in museums, university galleries, and nonprofit art spaces since 2006, notably at the San Francisco Center for the Book, the Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Arab American National Museum, Art Dubai, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar, and Beirut Exhibition Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1606952127582-XP36JRGZ6AZB9IUR6VPC/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) ZEPH FISHLYN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE A Burial Ground Zeph Fishlyn (pronouns they/them) is a white Canadian-American queer artist who uses social practice, drawing, object-making, and installation to nurture alternative narratives by questioning, dreaming, distorting, celebrating and demanding. Their most recent work explores absurdity, embodiment, intimacy and playfulness as foundations for resilience, creative subterfuge, and action in the face of overwhelming circumstances. Zeph is a serial collaborator with groups inventing creative responses to our urgent times—including the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Heart of the City Collective, the PDX Trans Housing Coalition, Greenpeace, and the Center for Artistic Activism. Zeph has been awarded residencies or fellowships with the Reimagining Value Action Lab, Banff Centre for the Arts, Emerging Arts Professionals, Ponderosa Stolzenhagen, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Queer Cultural Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1592951235314-PQV758E0IW1FU2FRKM5J/Agatha_Urbaniak_UK+copy.jpg Residents (Copy) MARSHALL TRAMMELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Marshall Trammell is an experimental archivist, percussionist, conductor, composer, and self-styled Music Research Strategist. His aesthetics and activism are centered in social change interventions and generate new local and global ecologies that embrace improvisation as a collective, movement-building tool in the creation of post-capitalist imaginaries. Trammell’s ongoing Music Research Strategies project uses political aesthetic theory, data creation, mapping, and collective music-and-artmaking in order to step out of the domain of traditional cultural institutions, relocating the act of co-production back in the community. Music Research Strategies is a performing-political education platform for embodied social justice vernacular, organizational strategy, and alternative infrastructure development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601951558797-GIAQAIU8M8K12HQ3BD6K/marc+herbst.jpg Residents (Copy) MARC HERBST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, 2020 COMMON Knowledge Platform Marc is a co-founder of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, an interdisciplinary journal and weirdo collective founded in Los Angeles in 2001. (www.joaap.org) He recently completed a Ph.D. at Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies in London with a study titled, A cultural policy for the multitude in the time of climate change; with an understanding that the multitude has no policy. Marc’s collective and individual efforts are also interdisciplinary (between engagements with the formal art world, DIY networks, and relatively autonomous political projects) and he works between publishing, social practice and illustration. As a publisher/editor, he works with Aesthetics & Protest and also is recently collaborating with Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, Pluto Press and Canary Press. With the Aesthetics & Protest editorial collective, he is currently editing an issue working with anti-fascist and avant-garde art collectives on situated practice outside of but in awareness of the mediating practices of political and cultural structures. He also helped publish recent books on precarious labor with the UK-based Precarious Workers Brigade, and (related to his Ph.D.) a book on housing rights activism and transversal urban organizing by Ada Colau and Adria Alemany. As a writer, he is working on texts for Blade of Grass, Field Journal and also Dispatches Journal on his very mundane not-art-but-creative/salaried work with refugees in Leipzig, and NGBK/ADOCS where he is co-authoring with Michelle Teran a book based on situated, cosmopolitical and eco-social learning through the coming 99 years of climate-based in the Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602049014397-3OA50J6ZAI18D7YBPI2Y/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) SADJI ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Sadji has been an unhoused artist member of our Pro Arts team sine early 2019. He is a dancer and creator with business knowledge and gallery management skills. You can find him dancing his new moves at Pro Arts or at Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601865144979-0Y433M0V5HOSYHOC44XQ/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) SAM LEFEBVRE WRITER / EDITOR / ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, 2020 Pro Arts Print Publication Project Sam Lefebvre is a freelance writer and musician in Oakland whose journalism and criticism have appeared in publications including the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wire, Pitchfork, the Believer, the Fader, ARTnews, Hyperallergic and SFMOMA's Open Space. He has worked as an editor, reporter and columnist at KQED Arts, the East Bay Express, SF Weekly and Impose Magazine. His accountability reporting has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and in 2020 he won a Rabkin Prize for Arts Writers. As a writer in residence at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, Sam Lefebvre is creating a print publication to critically examine the forms of cultural expression, socialization and solidarities to arise from these turbulent conditions in and around downtown Oakland over the course of 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1604530119240-OGV2GSXSK4B80EX7WXEQ/Chika-Okoya-headshot-1024x683.jpg Residents (Copy) CHICA OKOYE OAKLAND SUMMER SCHOOL Chika Okoye is an independent scholar who focuses on the histories of the Black liberation struggle. She co-founded and for two years co-curated the Black Life series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), a monthly live event that showcased the work of Black artists and intellectuals. Chika currently works as Program Director of Buddhist Peace Fellowship, a nonprofit that seeks to enhance the spiritual grounding and power of activists and movements working for progressive change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593040457535-BFLR3EYS27J1QLYY1EM5/47060044_2056885514552888_5795645422026358784_o.jpg Residents (Copy) Jean Turner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602048033053-I6LD3CYG8OLI4Y8U2Z7Q/dena_al_adeeb_photo.jpgmediaclass-full-width.c3083fedae46a95f1139ff9d5833b1b6b8e20a69-300x289.jpg Residents (Copy) DENA AL-ADEEB ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, 2020 COMMON Knowledge Platform Dena’s artwork takes on varied practices including video, installation, photography, sound, writing, participatory performance, and socially engaged projects. Her conceptual creative practices shed light on personal as well as collective narratives and experiences of displacement, memory and trauma. Concerned with dis/embodied experiences and the ways these resonate across fragmented encounters of time and space, her art practice foregrounds my personal and scholarly background. She is currently a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602048438118-SN3494EGTD3BC2QY7QVX/KateSpacek_fullsize-768x981.jpg Residents (Copy) KATE SPACEK ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, 2019-2020 COMMON Knowledge Platform Kate Spacek is fueled by People and Possibility. She designs and facilitates co-creative experiences that foster belonging, agency, and ownership. Diverse groups of humans make something together, tangible or otherwise – and open to one another in the process. The secret sauce always includes art, movement, and/or play, and transforms “non-artists” to connected creators. Kate’s former life includes two decades of business operations and strategy with proficiencies in personal development and group facilitation. This rare blend adds structure and sustainability to her arts-based programs and actions. She has co-produced interactive art-centric events for Red Bull, General Electric, City of Oakland, Google.org, Autodesk, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and others. As Director of American Arts Incubator at ZERO1, Kate bridged program artists, overseas partners, participants, and the U.S. State Department to explore social challenges via 65 community-driven creative projects in 13 countries. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and various television, radio, and print media outlets around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602048136868-R45GA2O9W1SM6N8VT7K9/julia.jpg Residents (Copy) JULIA CHOUCAIR VIZOSO ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, 2020 COMMON Knowledge Platform Julia is a writer, editor, translator, and political scientist. She is interested in building social alternatives for artistic and scholarly production premised on less alienated forms of creativity. She is from Beirut and lives in the mountains of Madrid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235954616-BY1J6PP7SA8NXE6F5M7U/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) Diana Liu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1600235654770-8AMMWBVVFVL0N9Q4AK4T/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) DANIELLE LUZ BELANGER ORGANIZER Project Kalahati Danielle Luz Belanger is a community organizer and creative who utilizes film, writing, dialogue, and action to center political possibilities in everyday life. Focusing on the radical potential of memory and dreams, her explorations range from reconstructing inherited narratives to envisioning futures through an internationalist lens. Her newest release, Rememory (Project Kalahati), is a chapbook of photographs and prose examining the vital space of the ‘between’ within a Filipino diasporic context. danielle has served as International Solidarity Officer of GABRIELA Oakland since 2019. She currently works as an Associate Archivist at the Freedom Archives and is a 2020 recipient of the Spectrum Scholarship (American Library Association). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602461577159-NP9DO1OZ4KH2T0GVFO0G/Screenshot-185906_2.png Residents (Copy) DAMON LAMONT HOOKER ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, 2020 Damon Lamont Hooker of HOOKER BOY FILMZ ™️, is an underground film director. He established in Oakland in 2004 after studying Script Writing/Directing at Laney College. Watch Episodes | EVOL THE SERIES | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599178435412-50MI3UDACAYR7DIFCQYJ/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) JAE DAABOUL DEVELOPMENT Jae Daaboul is a freelance writer and editor. Born in South Korea and raised in Berkeley, he has lived in the Bay Area for most of his life, working at small, communally owned restaurants and bars around Berkeley, SF and Oakland for his livelihood. Jae’s expertise is in writing and language arts, particularly that literature which tells the stories of historically marginalized and obscured U.S. communities. His love of Oakland is rooted in the unique artistic identity, its social openness, and willingness to always become more inclusive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1601921428794-C1GGR7SG8RS44HYZ3A2U/0AAF920C-B3F5-4A92-AA63-8275F206B2EC+%281%29.jpg Residents (Copy) SAAM NIAMI WRITER / EDITOR Saam is a creator with a skilled history in writing, editing, podcasting, reporting, researching, creative consulting, and platform building. He is currently an arts writer for Office Magazine in New York City. He also serves as an editor for the Pro Arts COMMONS Press in Oakland, CA. He is an alumnus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he received Honors in English Literature for his poetry thesis about Persian literature and post-colonialism. Saam served an Undergraduate Fellow at the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Graduate School. He has founded, organized, and written for a multitude of publications, including the community publishing house Project Kalahati based in Oakland, California. He was a reporter for GroundUp News in Cape Town, South Africa where he covered human rights, education, global warming, and politics. His interests include art, post-colonialism, Middle Eastern art and culture, political theory, media theory, social theory, corruption, fashion, history, and Orientalist theory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1604530325024-WN1G4040HXNPZRLAR7B9/melissa+mack.jpeg Residents (Copy) MELISSA MACK OAKLAND SUMMER SCHOOL Melissa Mack (she/they) is a poet, writer, organizer, and, in their day job, researcher. They have been participating in autonomously organized free community education for at least 10 years, mostly recently for the Oakland Summer School (2017-present). They are the author of The Next Crystal Text (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017), Includes All Strangers (Hooke Press, 2013), and their work appears in print and virtual journals, anthologies, and ephemera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1593038655904-GZHVCTMDHNRXVCX5JZZD/Screen+Shot+2020-06-24+at+3.41.40+PM.png Residents (Copy) Gloria Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602049628763-R1ZRA3257XCZKTFEYEWP/NEW.111113.Borsook-239x300.jpg Residents (Copy) PAULINA BORSOOK ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Paulina Borsook has shared her fiction, essays, humor pieces, and journalism through Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Architectural Record, San Francisco, Salon, Suck, and Feed, and is the author of the acutely insightful Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech (PublicAffairs, 2000). Borsook has been variously described as “The grande dame of digital culture” (UK Independent), “a bohemian intellectual displaced into the world of Silicon Valley high tech” (Worth Magazine), and as someone who has made “a fine career out of challenging, rebutting, baiting and vexing the conspicuously libertarian technology community (Salon Magazine). For the last few years, Borsook has been developing My Life As A Ghost, a multi-disciplinary art project on traumatic brain injury. As part of this project, she was Researcher in Residence at Stanford Art Institute in 2013, where she researched ‘the psychoneurological consequences of traumatic brain injuries, drawing from her own experiences and interviews with other individuals living with TBI.’ In 2011 she was awarded first place in the SF Chronicle’s Chronicles of the Bay. Borsook has orchestrated street theater and townhalls; produced and performed in works-in-progress events; helped run a concert series; has an undergraduate degree in psycholinguistics with a minor in philosophy from UC Berkeley; and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602461654300-XSTLNFYU6O0K6S2XPP98/s200_tanya.hollis.jpg Residents (Copy) TANYA HOLLIS PROJECT RESIDENT, 2020 The Community Self-Defense Archive by MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES Currently, Tanya Hollis is serving in her twentieth year in California archives. She has worked as a librarian and archivist at the California Historical Society, the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. In all of these positions, she has been engaged in every aspect of archival processing, from appraisal, accessioning and processing to preservation and digitization, and has been a successful leader at each institution through the transition from paper-based archival description to open online access. Tanya is a Special Collections and Archives Coordinator and independent visual artist living in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1602809192408-Q1T7T02H2NHQFVORSSDL/OFJS_logo_bw.jpg Residents (Copy) OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY MUSIC EDUCATION OFJS helps cultivate contemporary music future seeds to become tomorrow’s master improvisers. We provide a safe space to test new ideas & concepts in sonic experimentations. 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Abandoned and recycled materials, sourced throughout the Bay Area, are used as an act of environmental conservation. Inspiration is rooted in traditional African culture and folklore. The works reflect on value and self-worth to promote pride and unification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d43903f3d7e2d000153d950/1599007829333-EQ8FQ0UVIGL602KL3IKC/image-asset.jpeg Residents (Copy) ARLIN GOLDEN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Movie Friends Arlin Golden is an all-around film person in Oakland, CA. He received his BA in Film Studies in 2010, is a documentary distributor and filmmaker, and is the founder and director of Drunken Film Fest Oakland. He rarely dreams, but the most frequent ones are the ones where it's finals and he hasn't been to class all semester. 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