Events
Exhibit: Buster Crabbe Saves the City!
In ProgressAll day,Who's Buster Crabbe you ask? Buster Crabbe was born in Oakland in 1908. After winning Olympic gold as a swimmer, he became a Hollywood star. Playing the roles of Buck Rogers, Tarzan, and Flash Gordon earned him the nickname "King…
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Readers Are Leaders: Portraits by Adéniké Amin
Adéniké Amin’s Readers Are Leaders is a visual anthem to the power and legacy of Oakland’s Black community leaders. Born and raised in Oakland, Amin returns to her photographic practice after…
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Exhibit: Shrine of Broken Hearts
In ProgressAll day,Has your heart ever been broken? Sadly, so has ours.
Once a year, in February, we collect the objects of your broken hearts and put them on display at the Main Library. What an opportunity for you to purge yourself of these painful…
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Meet and greet the creative woman whose multifaceted oeuvre is presented in Conjure and Creativity: Women and Divinity in Visual Art by Nedra T. Williams.
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We have discovered a large hidden cache of posters promoting reading going back to the 1980's at Rockridge Branch Library. They are cute, beautiful, funny and strange. We are putting up as many as fit in our gallery for you to enjoy!
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