Hung Liu was born on February 17, 1948 in Changchun, China. Hung Liu is a Chinese painter who focuses on paintings based on historical Chinese photographs of p...
Duane Deterville was born on March 14, 1960. Duane is an artist, writer, and visual culture scholar primarily interested in African and African diasporic cultu...
Andrew Demcak was born on September 23, 1968 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Andrew Demcak is a critically acclaimed novelist and poet. He writes YA novels for LGB...
Samuel Getachew is the 2019 Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA and primarily has been recognized for his poetry (slam poetry and spoken word). His poetry has b...
Daniel Clowes is a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic novelist, and screenwriter. Recently in interviews Clowes has said that he has lived in Oakland for nearly ...
Natalia Anciso was born on March 25, 1985 in Weslaco, Texas. Natalia is a contemporary visual artist whose art draws from her experience as a child growing up ...
Pam Warren (a.k.a. Pam the Funkstress or Purple Pam) was born on November 11, 1966 in Shreveport, Louisiana and died on December 22, 2017. Warren was a DJ, mos...
Shu Yi Liu was born in China on January 1, 1941. Mr. Liu’s art is Chinese drawing and painting where he bridges Eastern and Western art traditions. He uses wat...
Steven Arnold was born on May 18, 1943 in Oakland, CA. He was a surrealist who worked in various mediums: film, photography, painting, illustration, theater, a...
