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Caroline Stern and wildlife photog Elaine Miller Bond.

Caroline Stern, a Rockridge artist, had mistakenly come to meet the mayor at 10 a.m., but back she came at 1:30, “trying to advocate for art. We're the richest neighborhood,” she told me, “but we have no murals.”

By Anna Marks

Artist Caroline Stern calls this painting “New Beginnings.” Opening Celebration & Exhibition May 12th, from 6-9pm Uptown Station, 1955 Broadway View the work of more than 100 participating East Bay Open Studios artists — mix and mingle while you enjoy food and ...

Dear Diary Art Show Series — by Caroline Stern R East Bay Mini Maker Faire Celebrates 10 Years of Creativity — by Chris Miller Celebrate a decade of joy at the 10th annual East Bay Mini Maker Faire on the campus of Park Day School in Temescal, on Sunday, Oc­ tober 27. The day-long fair...

FOR ALL AGES: Collage & Doodle Workshop with Caroline Stern and Elaine Bond. Sat 9/8, 11am -1 pm. FOR CHILDREN

Also, the committee hired Caroline Stern of Deco Art on Claremont Avenue who painted a cheerful mural featuring Frog Park. You can find this mural ot. Se® plans for other park improvements: www. frogpark.org.

...rtificial Intelli­ gence in a hands- on workshop; meet the man who won the Paper Airplane World Record; enjoy a pre­ sentation on simple Young Maker learns how to print a silk- screen t-shirt. For more information about these events, visit Carolinestern. com. n Photo on file

By Caroline Stern

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by hosting gatherings and art shows for people to meet their community.” Deco Art Deco Art, 5495-C Claremont Avenue, is open for art exhibitions and classes. Proprietor Caroline Stern has a portfolio of work online at http:// www.decoart.gallery, and can be contacted at carolinestern@sbcglobal.net or 510/593-4574. from page 4 adults and children at Deco Art, with a new series of classes planned for the spring. Looking t...

By Kristen Belt

...ty sites). It will soon begin its General Plan Amend- ment planning process, which will focus on land use, circulation (mobil- ity), housing, environmental justice, conservation, open space, noise, and safety. Rockridge resident and artist Caroline Stern recently restored the mural she had previously painted at the Frog Park bathroom facility in 2017. The enhancement was paid for with proceeds from the Rockridge Community Planning Council’s Kitchen Tour fundraiser. Stern would like to than...

By Anna Marks

May 20th and 21st, at 552 47th Street. Studio One Arts Center will be featuring several participating artists, including two from the Temescal community, Gail Robinson and Caroline Stern. Robinson teaches workshops in public schools, art camps, and senior centers. She works with collage and mixed media, using materials from found objects, maga- zines, and vintage photos. Stern, who describes her work as “messy, like life,”...

...y option, and I became FROG Chair for a time. In 2011, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Big Build and worked with the City of Oakland and Caltrans to build a small bathroom at Big Frog (the area near Hardy Street). A local artist, Caroline Stern, later painted a frog-themed mural on the sidewall. The unique story of Frog Park was highlighted in Landscape Architecture Magazine in February 2014. from previous page

By Don Kinkead

...nt is the wonderful teachers and the excel­ & Community Calendar Judith Doner Berne �����������Eyes on Rockridge Susan Montauk ������������������Business Manager lent academic and elective classes — and the auction supports all that,” said Caroline Stern, a parent at Claremont Middle School and the auction chair. “It’s RCPC Board of Directors, 2018-19 Leonora Sea ����������������������Chair

...chers, parents and students. They have a blueprint plan to close more than 24 of our public schools across Oakland. Our public schools belong to everyone. Please join us as we work to Save Our Schools. Come to school board meetings. SOS. — Caroline Stern For example, they voted to close one of our District 1 schools, Kaiser Elementary, a few weeks ago — a high performing school with 70 per­ cent children of color, and a wait list serving youth from across Oakland

...We will not be silent.” Flynn questions where we will end up if our culture discards history and the treasures of vintage culture and memory. Perhaps he will be looking at the Phoenix manhole covers as portals to another time and place. by Caroline Stern Photographer Kevin Flynn likes strolling the streets of Rockridge where he and his wife, Marilyn, have lived since 1996. He says, “Rockridge is a vibrant neighborhood

— A mural was painted on the west asa xi ee uy gs ie i bathroom wall by local artist Caroline Stern aqme eae ot nr ae a (funded by a Keep Oakland Beautiful grant).

By Leonora Sea

Be sure to check out the special events happening in the park this Earth Day ip addition to the cleanup. Funded by a grant from Keep Oakland Beautiful, local artist, muralist, and teacher Caroline Stern will be painting a nature mural on one outer wall] of the bathroom at Hardy Circle. You can see her drawing for the work in last month’s issue of the Rockridge News and on the next page. At 9:30 a.m., there will be a celebration at “Big Fr...

Below: proposed mural (front left) to be painted by Caroline Stern, and its location-to-be at right.

ark your calendar for Earth Day at Frog Park, April 22,9 a.m. - noon. The Frog Park committee will have family-friendly clean-up activities, and artist Caroline Stern of Deco Art, will start the mural painting.

Also, Frog Park received a $700 Keep Oakland Beautiful small grant to create a mural on the park bathroom’s exterior. We'll work with local artist Caroline Stern of Deco Art (on Claremont Avenue near the park) on this project in the new year as well.

By Carl Schmitz

...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 originally made its home in the mid-’50s, a neighborhood artmaking tradition carries on. Caroline Stern, owner of Deco Art, is a graduate of CCAC (California College of Arts and Crafts, now California College of the Arts, or CCA) and has used the business for the last 20 years as a base for work in fine art, murals, faux finish, furniture fi...

...r city can serve our children but only if our communities, including the Rockridge community, can expand support for schools that lie outside community “boundaries.” We are told to be silent. Is this really our neighborhood? Our Oakland? — Caroline Stern Editor: I have lived here for 25 years. I moved here to attend CCA back in 1990. I have a business on Claremont Avenue, I lived in Danspace for 10 years and I cur- rently live near the DMV. My kindergartner just started Kaiser Elementary S...

reration center classes: free, or as little as $5, minimal associated costs, state-of-the-art centers and hundreds of classes for all ages. We’re not San Francisco but we could learn a bit from them. — Caroline Stern Artist and painter Photo: Don Kinkead These simple changes should allow much more traffic to cross Hudson more safely. The department promised to check it out. To date, I have had no response, but hopefully they will take some action and w...

By Theresa Nelson

Since 1989: My Own Montessori Since 1994: DecoArt Faux Finishes by Caroline Stern Since 1998: High Strung Since 2000–2003: À Côté (2001) Abby Photo (2001) California Municipal Statistics (2001) CHIC Clothing (2003) Child’s Play (2001) Christopher’s Burgers (2002) Conga Lounge (2003) Cool Tops Cuts for Kids (2002) FIT Cl...

...iture; Maura Singer, Prayer Fountains; Joanne Yeaton, Paintings, Handmade Books; Nora Barrows-Friedman, Photographs, Note Cards; Greg McKay, Paintings; Tudy Wehrman, Ceramics and Jewelry; Lydia Gans, Photography and World Craft Collection; Caroline Stern, Murals, Faux Finishes.

vo may not know her Bac k To School Volunteer Fair name or recognize her, but you might have seen Vem for Oakland hosts its recent examples of her work Ninth Annual Back to School Volunteer Rockridge artist Caroline Fair on Saturday, September 9, 10 a.m.to12 Stern redesigned and painted p.m., at Lakeview Elementary School, 746 the “Welcome to Rockridge” Grand Avenue (across from the farmers’ sign posted at College and market). | Broadway and decorated the Y...

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