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City of Oakland Cultural Arts & Marketing Division
Oakland, CA
$200,000 |
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Fluid Dynamics by Fernanda D'Agostino and Valerie Otani, Oakport Street at Zhone Way, Oakland. Photo by Fernanda D'Agostino |
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Oakland, California's Cultural Arts & Marketing Division provides services to the arts community and provides strategic marketing support that positions Oakland as a desirable place to live, work, celebrate, and do business. The arts play a large part in communicating Oakland's livability.
To further these goals, the division plans the creation of the Uptown Arts District Park, a historic and re-emerging arts and entertainment district. Development of the park will transform an unused vacant lot into an outdoor cultural space for at least four years. The park will include rotating temporary exhibitions of public sculpture, newly commissioned public art projects, and an amphitheater for events by arts and community organizations. The park will complement the Fox Oakland Theater, the Oakland School for the Arts, and new restaurants and nightclubs, all within two blocks of the proposed park site. The division is partnering with Black Rock Arts Foundation to exhibit works of public art, many by Oakland artists. The park is expected to become the core of the downtown arts scene.
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