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 Art in the neighborhood  The ‘Society of Six’ Find Inspiration in an Earlier Rockridge by Carl Schmitz In the 1910s and ’20s, before Rockridge developed fully as a residential and commercial district, a group of plein air painters, the Society of Six, took inspiration from the landscape of the area. For this article, Nancy Boas, author of t...

By Carl Schmitz

Art on the Avenue: The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation by Carl Schmitz On College Avenue, just on the north side of the Berkeley-Oakland border, is the office of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. Richard Diebenkorn (1922– 1993) was a painter and printmaker who was raised in the Bay Area and spent the majorit...

By Carl Schmitz

Art on the (Other) Avenue: Deco Art by Carl Schmitz Among a short string of businesses on the northwest side of Claremont Avenue just before it passes under the Grove- Shafter Freeway toward Temescal, Deco Art’s stylized green sign stands out. In a location where the Bay Printmakers Society...

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by Carl Schmitz Bosko’s Framing Gallery is starting its 70th year in business at the southeast corner of College and Armanino Court. Currently in the display windows at Bosko’s are a colorful variety of objets d’art: paintings by Lynne Bostick, Jason Scho...

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by Carl Schmitz On the southeast corner of College and Harwood Avenues, up a short flight of exterior stairs bordering Barclay’s pub, you will find the Thelma Harris Art Gallery, Rockridge’s destination for master works by African American artists. In 201...

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by Carl Schmitz After a hard-fought community campaign led by the RCPC, the Rockridge Branch of the Oakland Public Library opened on August 3, 1996, on the southeast corner of College Avenue and Manila. Rockridge’s first library was established 95 years a...

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by Carl Schmitz Next door to Rockridge’s CCA Galleries, a testing ground for new artists, is the studio of Adria Peterson, one of the neighborhood’s established artists. Since 1999, she has shared space at 5253 College Avenue with her husband, architect K...

By Carl Schmitz

by Carl Schmitz Just north of the California College of the Arts (CCA), on College Avenue near its intersection with Broadway, lies the office of art advisory firm Suzy R. Locke & Associates. While CCA’s focus is on helping students “make art that matters...

By Carl Schmitz

Art on the Avenue: CCA Sets a Pace by Carl Schmitz In response to recent concern for College Avenue’s future as a retail center and the related issue of neighborhood sustainability, the Art on the Avenue column will promote Rockridge’s contributions to culture and commerce by highlighting ...

...lorists,” pub- lished by the University of California Press (who also issued Boas’ biography of painter David Park), is available through the Oakland Public Library. In Rockridge since 1997 Have you reviewed your business insurance lately? Carl Schmitz, Art Research Librarian at the Rich- ard Diebenkorn Foundation, sees our local Six as being worthy of further study similar to New York’s better-known Irascible Eighteen, and can be reached at cschmitz@diebenkorn.org. Yes we do offer: Worke...

...iveway and the adjacent neighbor’s driveway and (b), for portions of the building to have a 3-foot side yard, where 4 feet is required. Case Planner: Ann Clevenger, at 510/238-6980 or aclevenger@ oaklandnet.com www.RockridgeKitchenTour.org Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. He first used EmbARK 10 years ago as an intern for the CSU WorldImages project, and can be reached at cschmitz@diebenkorn.org. “I saw it at the RCPC Kitchen Tour”

...arp, President of Cole Hardware rick@colehardware.com Cell: 415/846-2004 convenience of being able to walk to BART and do all of our shopping without getting into a car is great. And the one-half block commute to work is pretty good, too.” Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. He also serves as Director of Communications for the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Assocation, an international professional group, and can be reached at cschmitz@diebenkorn.org...

a community of artists in the neighborhood. I enjoy the diversity and have known a lot of the original Italian residents and I continue to try and engage my neighbors in city politics Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. He was in the last UC Santa Cruz class taught by Magic Humanist muralist Eduardo Carrillo, and can be reached at cschmitz@diebenkorn.org. Interior • Exterior Lead-Certified Pai...

...ly heirlooms into a more the gallery stages “White Linen Nights” as a showcase for works rarely available on the art market. The gallery is a full-service art operation that works with clients to acquire, curate, appraise, frame, conserve, Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, unofficial secretary general of the Flo Allen Fan Club and a Volunteer Archivist at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland in the historic Carnegie library downtown,...

...transportation around the Bay Area and close access to UC Berkeley and Cal Performances.” Links to web sites for Adria Peterson and her father, Domenico Mortellito: www.adriapeterson.com; adria@adriapeterson.com: www.domenicomortellito.com Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. A specialist on Albuquerque’s modern art scene of the ’50s as well as a connoisseur of Cole Coffee’s dark roasts, he can be reached at cschmitz@diebenkorn.org.

... Investment Counsel; McGuire Realty; Toast Kitchen + Bar; California Waste Solutions; Zipcar; East Bay Express; and the city of Oakland. For more information: rockridgeoutandabout.com Valet bike parking will be available at Rockridge BART. Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, spending the last decade working, shopping, dining, and run- ning to the train on College Avenue. He can be reached at cschmitz@diebenkorn.org. 3rd Floor Market Hall TM Ste. 3...

...lude Animation, Architecture, Interaction Design, Photography, and an array of innovation-based MBAs. CCA was the first art school on the Pacific coast to offer academic degrees, decades before its counterpart across the Bay, the San Fran- Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, spending the last decade working, shopping, dining, and running to the train on College Avenue. He can be reached at cschmitz@diebenkorn.org. Rockridge Rocks a List own their ...

...raming work keeps them busy, Lynne also makes ceramics, and John is a “photo-archeologist,” collecting original vintage negatives (available online at http://tinyurl.com/flickr-jbpics). Prints from his collection have been shown across the Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. He has had art by June Felter and Mikhail Karasik framed on College Avenue at a store that was the El Capitan antique shop in the early ’40s, and

...n impressive variety of area museums and other lemongrass from Yasai; order one of Ver Brugge’s famous poached whole salmon; and get a loaf of olive bread from La Farine. Support and enjoy our local community. There’s a new broker in town. Carl Schmitz is Art Research Librarian at the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. A card-carrying member of the Clyfford Still Museum and an expert on the pedestrian traffic light patterns at the intersection of College and Claremont, he can