Two female-presenting people stand next to one another, smiling, in front of framed artworks.
Oakland Art Murmur invites visual artists to #EastBayOpenStudios for Summer 2026! Participants gain access to artist workshops, name placement on marketing materials, a profile on the event website, and invites to mixers!
Register by this Friday, Mar. 13: www.eastbayopenstudios.com/registration...
A male-presenting person of color wears bright yellow glasses frames, a silver necklace chain with pendants, and a coral t-shirt. He stands in an open, sun-lit room and smiles with his eyes half-closed.
Nadir Wright is a visual artist based in Oakland, California, whose acrylic and mixed media work explores color, whimsy, emotion, and alternate realities.
Nadir will be exhibiting artwork at The Grand Gallery.
www.instagram.com/nadirwright_...
#EmergingArtist #EastBayOpenStudios
Miss the first weekend of the twice-annual #EastBayOpenStudios? Not to worry—Winter EBOS returns next weekend on Dec. 13 + 14!! 🎨
#EastBayOpenStudios
@oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
East Bay Open Studios, Dec 6-7 & 13-14 from 11am-5pm. 2441 Magnolia, Oakland CA 94607
Come visit me at my studio today and tomorrow for #EastBayOpenStudios! I’ll be there from 11am-5pm both days.
If you can’t be there this weekend, it’ll be open next weekend too!
My partner, @mikealtman.bsky.social, made some #fusedglass ornaments to sell during #EastBayOpenStudios.
Visit my studio Dec 6-7 & 13-14. We’ll be there 11am-5pm each day. More info at the link below.
www.eastbayopenstudios.com/artist-direc...
An overstuffed loveseat, with its back to a sunned bay window, faces a coffee table, a dining chair, and hardwood floors basking in morning sunlight. Artist: Mittie Quentara
Winter #EastBayOpenStudios presents a perfect time to shop for the holiday season. Added bonus: You support local artists with your wallets! Check out the Gift Guide, and we’ll see you the first two weekends in December 🎁
Artist: Mittie Quentara
www.eastbayopenstudios.com/gift-guide
An expansive green billiard table holds a striped number 10 ball in the upper right corner and a female-presenting hand at the lower center of the frame. Her left index finger curls around the cue stick, her side palm and fingers setting the stage for a ball sinking in a left corner pocket.
Pick me up this painting for m’birthday at #EastBayOpenStudios, Winter edition, this December!
“She wears silver” (2025)
Jillian Shea
#OaklandArtMurmur Executive Director Ronice Stratton and Board President Celia Peters at the #EastBayOpenStudios Mixer 🎨 So excited to meet the visual artists for Winter #EBOS. Over 200 artists signed up to present!
Save the first two weekends in December for the Winter edition of #EastBayOpenStudios! Plan your route:
www.eastbayopenstudios.com
Today is the last day for Spring #EastBayOpenStudios! Pull out the Artist Directory map and see who’s in your neighborhood —or better yet, walk a block you’ve only driven through. I learned at #ArtTogether about another art event this month!
Another #OaklandArtMurmur board member joined me Saturday in visiting several #EastBayOpenStudios, one which has been in operation for forty years! Participating artists love visitors. Drop in today!
Scene from yesterday at #EastBayOpenStudios at the Grand Gallery. What a diverse and talented group of artists:
East Bay Open Studios continues this weekend!
#eastbayopenstudios #artmurmur #berkeley #Oakland #art
A hand-dyed silk garment reminiscent of traditional kimonos is set on a fabric background with three pleats at its center and a loose open collar. The yellow tag reads: Giselle Shepatin.
#1146 Antique Japanese Risa Silk Kimono Over-Dyed Clouds and Flowers by Giselle Shepatin
giselleshepatin.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 #oaklandartmurmur
Oakland Art Murmur kicked off #EastBayOpenStudios last week with a packed house full of artists and art lovers.
Over 175 artists are participating at 75 locations across the East Bay!
Plan your studio visits for next weekend, June 7–8, using the Artist Directory Map: www.eastbayopenstudios.com.
An abstract oil painting offers yellow and white shapes, or loose clouds, flying among lined panels. Some barriers to movement restrict free-floating shapes. In the end, a mesh of both.
"Some Journey" by Gina Papen
www.accigallery.com/gina-papen.h...
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
"The Realm" 48x12 inch each, Sumi-ink, mineral /Nihonga pigments, gold on Mashi paper "During my summer visit to Japan last year in 2023, I found inspiration to create this painting while exploring a promenade by chance. On a brief trip with my elderly mother, we stayed at a mountainous hot spring ryokan near the promenade. The entrance appeared neglected, causing uncertainty about whether to proceed. However, a simplified map revealed an observation deck on a small hill not too far away. Considering my mother's weak legs, I decided to leave her at the ryokan and embark on a short solo stroll. "As I walked, moments arose when the path was concealed by overgrown bushes, prompting contemplation of turning back. Nonetheless, I pressed on, stumbling upon a small, dilapidated pavilion. According to the map, the observation deck lay further ahead—densely wooded and eerily enticing. I followed the path as if lured by something. Suddenly, the surroundings darkened, and upon turning around, the road that seemed distant before vanished amid dense vegetation. A chill ran down my spine in that space. Realizing I should not proceed, I decided to turn back, eventually returning to the familiar path, and reaching the inn where my mother awaited. "Had I continued that path, I might have truly lost my way. I pondered if this mirrored the phenomenon of "kamikakushi” or being spirited away, a disappearance without a trace, as if hidden by kami or gods, renewing my awe for nature. "Drawing inspiration from this peculiar experience, I created the artwork upon my return to the United States after several prototypes. Hoping to capture the unique energy and aura of that moment, I applied Japanese painting techniques, using ink and paint in abstract patterns. I incorporated impressions and imagination of the landscape, applying meticulous layers of materials like gofun (white pigment from oyster shells), iwaenogu (mineral and earth pigments), and pure gold powder."
"The Realm" by Fumiyo Yoshikawa
fumiyo-yoshikawa.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
A subdued, mid-summer blue acts as a backdrop to an assemblage of geometric shapes in an oblong style reminiscent of mid-century modern. Lavender, deep teals, off-whites and slate gray colors animate the shapes as if moving—whether by air or sea.
A contemporary figurative piece by Fernando Reyes:
www.instagram.com/freyesart
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
A potted arrangement of wild blooms fans up and out from a terracotta vessel, which is split into two frames as a diptych. (Mixed media on linen. Diptych, 32x20. Each 20x16)
"Lady Banks I and II"—a Diptych by Elizabeth Wayman
www.elizabethwayman.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
A portable canvas perches on a hillside of Mt. Diablo. Set in front of a golden landscape of grass and live oak trees, the canvas reflects the warm earth tones. The tray on which the canvas rests holds paintbrushes, a viewing-framing tool, and a mixing palette.
Action shot from a plein air session on Mt. Diablo by Elisha Couchman:
www.instagram.com/elisha.artist
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
A brass sculpture shaped as a jack russell terrier stands at attention, tail our, on a wooden plaque.
Metal sculpture by Doug Heine
www.art13.gallery
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
Swimmers leap from, fall toward, a pool occupied by sharks. They wear red swimsuits and navigate maps of the globe while in flight. One swimmer seems entangled by place names that have dislodged from the map backdrop. They disappear between the seams. (Mixed media on board)
"Flight or Flight" by Dobee Snowber
www.dobeesnowber.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
"Fusing glass is an act of mystery and magic. I find it exciting that I don’t know exactly what the glass will do when it is melted. Even with practice and experience, the results can be unpredictable. Placement in the kiln and minerals outgassed from other colors can affect the alchemy. Some glass colors cause reactions in other types of glass. These and other factors make opening my kiln thrilling. By combining iridescent, transparent, translucent, opaque and dichroic glass, I achieve unique results. Most fused pieces require 5 to 15 firings at temperatures around 1425 F, and must be cooled slowly overnight in the closed kiln to temper and strengthen the glass." In the pair of jellyfish earrings pictured here, fused glass comprises the bell, or head, in iridescent blues and purples. A bronze hook threads a pearl just above the bell, and just below, pearls strung into crystal beads of teal, lavender, and white that dangle as tentacles.
A pair of jellyfish earrings that include fused glass crafted by Fuff Tabachnikoff:
www.fuff.world
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
Two frames, one shape: floating triangles with a torn-paper outlines set on ivory backgrounds. The outer frame consists of cool tones in light blue, dark blue, light olive, dark olive, and lavender. Laid on top is another frame with warm tones of teal, field green, heather blue, mauve, and purple.
"The Lessons of Loss" by Fernanda Martinez:
www.fernandamartinezart.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
A woman dentist wearing a hijab holds a dental pic over a child patient who sits, smiling, in a patient chair. The bright light from the overhead light shines upon them. In the foreground, a tray table with a set of tools. In the background, a tooth diagram on a gray background, with script in white lettering underneath.
An illustration by Fateme Mokhles from the book, "Pioneer Women" by Elham Nazari and Golchehreh Sohrab:
fatememokhles.weebly.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
Two wolves entangled in a brawl bare teeth at close range against an orange background.
Painting by Elke Ullmer-Strempke:
elkeullmer1.weebly.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
A rose-gold fabric gathers under a studio light and a sculpture of a shell. The shell appears as an asymmetrical clam, with intricate fissures indicating an ancient carbon date. Turquoise blue proliferates from the clam shell's base and turns to ivory with gray veins from saturated black veins amidst the blue. The shell lays face down.
Sculpture by Elizabeth Barelli:
www.elizabethbarelli.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
A skull rests at center, facing right, with a metallic gold-on-red canvas background and a crowded foreground of critters: a monkey, butterfly, two moths, a white baby bunny, a cricket, a bird getting consumed by a white serpent, and the eye of a larger serpentine creature whose eye hids underneath the skull.
Painting by Elizabeth Zanzinger:
www.ezanzinger.com
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
"Today at the studio we added Red to the color pallet." A line of various red paint globules have been lined up, above black lettering naming them, on an opaque glass tabletop. Two palette knives show a cross-hatching of yellow, orange, and red hues. In the near distance, white, yellow, and a deep row of earthen tones offer more paint blobs for the large palette below and beyond a third palette knife.
Action shot from the studio of Dorothy Vollendorf:
www.instagram.com/dottiepineap...
#eastbayopenstudios #spring2025 @oaklandartmurmur.bsky.social
