Building bonds with all neighborhood stakeholders, residents and locally owned businesses to create a better community where everyone works together to thrive.
Photo credit Pochino Press*Unity High School students and Teacher Daniel Zarazua purchasing tee shirts after selling baked goods at Oakland Creates 2015
Screen-Printing Demo Lead by Rick Kitagawa at Uptown Body and Fender Oakland Creates 2016
Oakland Creates 2017
Oakland Creates 2018-2019
Music, Literature and Art
Daniel Zarazua Educator, DJ & Photographer Pochino Press
Prints by Jeffrey Boozer
Author Queer & Trans Artists of Color
One of the main mission goals of Oakland Creates is creating opportunities for artists to showcase their talents. A critical way in which to do that is to hire and pay BIPOC artists for their work as well as rent or do business with spaces that are woman or POC owned and operated.