A troupe of students on summer break took a tour of the studios today where they saw towering sculptures, massive murals and a flying trapeze artist. They got to meet the artists and ask questions about the process of making art, the various tools used, and the notion of creating from reclaimed and salvage materials.
American Steel Studios is featured on this season’s West Oakland Works website, a resource for small businesses and groups in our ‘hood. You’ll find lots of great info and numerous resources on this site. It’s a great reminder to shop locally and support our neighbors – we’ve got some pretty cool ones!
American Steel Studios is launching its first Newsletter, “News and Stuff!” Subscribers can read all about the goings-on at American Steel Studios, and learn more about what our diverse population is up to both in the studio and out there in the world. Subscribe here!
American Steel Studios artists showing at this month’s Oakland Art Murmur include Kitty Gordon, Karen Cusolito, Momoko Sudo and the “Montclair Soap” guy, Kim Emmanuel. Several city blocks of art are on exhibit! Come on out!
411 26th Street, Oakland, CA
The not-yet-world-famous “Eat and Be Mary” event will be hosted in the Poplar Gallery on April 9th. One of our all-time personal favorite parties of the year, this event is a M-A-S-S-I-V-E clothing swap and pot luck with music and unrehearsed silliness oft referred to as the “talent show.”
Bring your *clean* unwanted clothes and leave with arm-loads of new threads for yourself! All surplus clothing is donated to charity.
Here is a time-lapse from the 2006 event:
http://www.rsneight.com/mary/eatdrinkmary06_notitles2.mov
Anyone interested in volunteering for set up / strike please email: info@americansteelstudios.com
But of course! Ardent Heavy Industries is moving into American Steel Studios on April first. Known for developing “engineering solutions for problems that don’t exist,” they are the masterminds behind “Dance, Dance Immolation,” “Syzygryd” and a number of other finely engineered interactive fire sculptures.
www.ardentheavyindustries.com
Flux Foundation is also setting up shop at American Steel Studios on April first. They are the creators of the 2010 Burning Man Temple and have even more lofty and ambitious visions for the coming year.
www.fluxfoundation.org/
Though our anniversary is technically on April Fool’s Day, a scheduling conflict (read on) requires us to observe this momentous occasion on Thursday, March 31. Please join us in celebrating the warehouse’s second anniversary! Please feel free to bring a dish, bring a friend, bring a musical instrument, bring a flaming jump rope! (gosh! that was fun!) Come by bay #2. We will fire up the BBQ and have side dishes of yummy goodness.
Stephen Bruce coordinated with The Richmond Arts Center to feature American Steel Studios as one of the satellite galleries for 2011 The Art of Living Black exhibit. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the only annual non-juried exhibition in the Bay Area to exclusively feature regional artists of African descent. Featuring over 75 local artists.
http://www.therac.org/html/07artofliving_exhibitions.html
Artist Talk with select TAOLB artists, 12 – 2 pm