Art Changes Student Exhibition: This is My Alameda Story
WHERE: Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Ave, Alameda
Gallery Hours: 5/4, 5/18, 5/25 from 1-3, or by appointment.
Alameda Education Foundation returned to the K Gallery on Saturday, May 4, 2024 with the opening of an exhibit of student visual art and student poetry based on the work of two Bay Area painters as well as the writing of a Bay Area poet. Alex D. da Silva’s Abstract painting Warriors examines Alameda’s history, Bill Jeng’s Lion Dance paintings gave him strength during the Covid lockdown and Shanti Lair-Croom’s celebrates her heritage in her poem Living Poetically. Because all three artists look inward, the theme of this year’s exhibit was This is My Alameda Story.
The focal point of the exhibit is the student art based on the work of our three Art Changes artists. Students combined realism and abstraction in saltwater watercolors. These dream-like paintings offer clues to what is important to each individual student. In addition, they constructed carnival masks that were poignant, vivid and fierce. And students wrote about themselves and the objects, animals and people in their lives.
Student artwork is contributed by students at Bay Farm, Earhart, Edison, Franklin, Love, Maya Lin, Otis, Paden and Ruby Bridges Elementary.
Come and visit the exhibit during gallery hours: 5/4, 5/18, 5/25 from 1-3, or by appointment.
