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“Unpacking Impact” Unit at Street Academy: 28th Annual ArtEsteem Exhibition Series
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Cultural, Political, & Environmental Art with Greenleaf TK-8 & West Oakland Middle School: 28th Annual ArtEsteem Exhibition Series
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“Global Textiles” Unit with Hoover Elementary: 28th Annual ArtEsteem Exhibition Series
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“Rooted In Oakland, Rooted In Self” Unit with the Legacy Project: 28th Annual ArtEsteem Exhibition Series
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2025 Cycle of Gratitude Fundraiser - December 6th
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2024 Cycle of Gratitude Fundraiser - December 7th
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Capital Campaign Phase I Open House - June 22nd, 2024
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Graffiti as Artistic Expression: One on One with Teaching Artist Cristina
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A Rising Tide Benefit Screening - March 24th, 2024
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Cycle of Gratitude Fundraiser - December 9th, 2023
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Arts Integration at OUSD's Summer HAcK Program
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Screen Printing at Oakland Unified School District's "The Center"
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Environmental Exploration in the Summertime with Oakland Legacy Project
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ArtEsteem Students Imagine Their Artistic Future with California College of the Arts
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Connecting California and Alabama: Exploring Gee’s Bend Quilting at West Oakland Middle School
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A Community Woven in Love: Exploring Gee’s Bend Quilting at West Oakland Middle School
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The "WOMS Living" Collection: Creation Process & Exhibition Debut
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West Oakland Middle School Students Tour & Screen Print at The Center for ArtEsteem Gallery
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Black History Month ArtMobile Event at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
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Oakland Legacy Project Higher Education and Financial Literacy Panel
Hoover Elementary students are planting seeds of change at City Slicker Farms!
Hoover Elementary students are planting seeds of change at City Slicker Farms!
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Cycle of Gratitude Fundraiser (11/12)
PRESS RELEASE: Sustaining Roots and Developing a Legacy
PRESS RELEASE: Sustaining Roots and Developing a Legacy
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Building the Center for ArtEsteem: Pre-Groundbreaking Ceremony (10/5)
Highlighting the Story of the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project: AHC's Feature in Oaklandside
Highlighting the Story of the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project: AHC's Feature in Oaklandside
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Building the Center for ArtEsteem: Open House & Block Festival (3/26)
Building the Center for ArtEsteem: Open House & Block Festival (3/26)
Location Update: AHC Has Found A New Home!
Location Update: AHC Has Found A New Home!
Workforce Highlight: Domonic at Community Foods Market
Workforce Highlight: Domonic at Community Foods Market
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Back To School: Art Kits

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Medium – June 26, 2024 | The Center for ArtEsteem opens a new space, returns home

Oaklandside – June 14, 2024 | Photos: These dazzling West Oakland murals ask, ‘If you were a superhero, how would you fix your community?’

Oaklandside – May 20, 2024 | Schools can look and feel like prisons. This project wants to change that, one mural at a time

KQED – February 15, 2018 | Young Oakland Superheroes Fight for Their Mural

KQED – April 27, 2017 | Student Project to Beautify Oakland Underpass Hampered by Caltrans

East Bay Times – August 15, 2016 | Attitudinal Healing Connection in West Oakland reachers 20-year milestone

East Bay Express – July 19, 2016 | Best of the East Bay 2016: Arts & Culture Writers’ Picks

Oakland North – October 13, 2015 | Mural movement continues at lunch initiative’s office

Oakland North – January 14, 2013 | In West Oakland, the “Tree of Life” traveling mural project urges neighborhood healing

Oakland North – July 13, 2012 | Through Oakland mural project, a superhero is born