Workshops
Monoprint Stencil Poster Workshop – September 15, 2024 1-4:30 PM
Join us in making monoprint posters with stencils! Monoprinting is a painterly process to create unique prints. In this workshop, we will combine painting with handcut stencils to create bold messages displaying a tension between softly blended color and graphic impact. This technique can be used to create artistic imagery, activist posters, or imagery that could be combined with collage, painting, or mixed media. Each workshop participant will leave will a series of posters. All materials will be provided. (see more and register)
Studio Time
We currently make our studio in West Oakland available on Tuesdays from 10 am to 2 pm. We have work tables, access to internet, access to art supplies, and an etching and letterpress available to those interested in printmaking. Come to share in creative time, plan projects, receive support, and participate in a compassionate community. There is no fee, though contributions for those who are able help us keep the studio running. Please contact us if you would like to join in.
Artists in our Community
As we continue building this site, we intend to add a gallery section that showcases the artists in the Braided Bridge Community.
Witnessing Wood Street
The Witnessing Wood Street posters are an important advocacy project in development.
From a Housed Person Witnessing the Wood St. Community
to Housed People Who Have Not (yet)
We have driven up the cost of housing
We have said “The poor cannot have housing near me!”
We have overconsumed and dumped our garbage here
We have denied garbage collection to the people we have unhoused
We have denied safety and stability to the people we have unhoused
We have dehumanized the unhoused, and looked here, and only saw garbage
A resilient and loving community lived here
They were family to each other
They gave each other healing
They kept each other alive
They were home for each other
They did everything they could to stay together
Their homes here were destroyed
Their fragile stability was destroyed
Their lives were scattered
What they wanted was to work with the whole community
to make something better
to make a new and beautiful way of life
that everyone, the whole community, could value
They had beautiful ideas
But many drove past and only saw garbage
And they were afraid and so they never stopped to listen
We must accept our own responsibility
in order to live better in our community
Everyone is needed, everyone belongs
There must not be an income litmus test
For who may live among us, for who may belong
Work together Be together
The value of one’s offering is not hinged on income
Together we have enough to care for everyone
Together we have enough to care for each other
We have enough home to go around
The only real law is love
