American Steel Studios presents Art + Industry, an interactive group exhibition and behind-the-scenes look at our community of artists and innovators.
Our schedule includes:
- An indoor/outdoor exhibition of artwork and performance from May 11–18 filling more than 10,000 square feet of exhibition space
- Open studios on May 11–12
- A day of interactive programs, demonstrations, facility and studio tours, performances, and artist talks on May 11
The exhibition:
American Steel Studios the beating heart of West Oakland's small business boom, is an incubator for artists, architects, fabricators, inventors, and business leaders.
American Steel's oversized facility allows us to present member events on a scale that only museums can rival, and our tenant exhibition will fill more than 10,000 square feet of inside and outside gallery space, featuring painting, textiles, photography, printmaking, ceramics, large and small sculpture, furniture and installation, as well as fire performance and art cars from more than 45 studios and businesses.
We're also happy to include Line 51 Brewery and Suite Treatments as tenants at American Steel, and they will be providing craft brewed beer and organic juices.
Not just open studios!
On Saturday and Sunday May 11-12, our studios will be open to the public. To help give visitors a behind-the-scenes look at our artists and businesses, we have assembled a day-long schedule of guided tours, demonstrations, performances and artist talks. As the sun goes down, we'll light up the fire effects for an evening of fire sculpture, fire performance and art cars.
The full, updated schedule of tours, talks, demos, and performances is at our website http://americansteelstudios.com/openstudios/schedule-of-events/
Participating artists and businesses
Edward Acosta | ceramic sculpture
Anarchitectural | construction and materials reuse
Anthony Averson | painting and sculpture
Doug Blanc | painting
David M Bowman Studio | patinaed brass metalwork
Stephen Bruce | patinated coppe
Jeff Bush | sculpture
Chester | flaming horse
Karen Cusolito | metal sculpture
Department of Spontaneous Combustion | fire art, mobile art and large scale sculptures
Nick Dong | sculpture and installation
Elizabeth Dougherty | mixed media
Fire Arts Collective | fire dancers, stilters, jugglers and performers
Matt Fisher | painter, sculptor and art writer
Flipside Furnishings | furniture and art from re-purposed materials
Robert Furnback | glass and ceramic sculpture
Ryon Gesink | sculpture
Dan Good | music composition, sculpture, sound sculpture
Kitty Gordon | stone carving, mixed-media sculpture
Groundation Foundation | “restoring habitat from the ground up, and the sky down”
Carolynn Haydu | painting, mixed media
Brian Krawitz | sculpture
Line 51 Brewing | special hand-crafted beer
Medium Reality | textiles
Kyle Milligan | plating and metal casting
Jann Nunn | mixed media sculpture
Reb Peters Press | letterpress and intaglio printing
Romuald Picard | sculpture
Sam Reese | sculpture
Henry Riekena | painter, Professor at SFAC
Bill Rogers | mixed media
Dan Seneres | sculpture, painting, illustration and graphic design
Sharp Teeth Press | letterpress
Sheet Metal Alchemist | sculpture
Fortune Sitole | mixed media painting
Kali Snowden | painting
Carl Stieger | painting
Suite Treatments | environment design and events
Alexandria Volk | costumer and visual artist
Anthem Ward | sculpture
Location of all events:
American Steel Studios
1960 Mandela Parkway
Oakland, CA
(Enter on 20th Street)
