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CRP, #SupportMalonga Coalition Announce Mediation Agreement With Bay Development

April 13, 2016

Campaigns (Current), CRP Blog & Updates, Public Art Policy

In Fall 2015, the Community Rejuvenation Project (CRP) completed the Alice St. Mural, after two years of work. The mural reflected a new model for community engagement—dozens of interviews with cultural practitioners and neighborhood residents were completed—and represented a successful application of the city of Oakland’s underutilized anti-blight mural fund. Yet just a few months after a dynamic, rousing block party activated what had been a nondescript parking lot, word came that the lot was planned for development. The proposed…

CRP Announces Alice St. Mural Project Block Party June 6

June 2, 2015

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CRP Blog & Updates, Events

Nearly two years in the making, the Community Rejuvenation Project (CRP)’s Alice St. Mural recently completed Phase II of its production. The massive wall prominently features figures of cultural importance in the history of the Alice Arts Center/Malonga Center for the Arts, as well as Filipino dancers and onetime Oakland Chinatown resident and kung-fu icon Bruce Lee (representing the Hotel Oakland’s Chinese-language constituency).This fourth and final wall finishes the transformation of a blighted parking lot littered with graffiti tags and…

Oakland Tribune Reports: City Council Has Only Spent a Fraction of Abatement Mural Allotment

April 30, 2015

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CRP Blog & Updates, Op-Eds, Press Clippings, Public Art Policy

As CRP previously reported , Councilmember Desley Brooks (D6) is on record as telling KPFA’s Davey D, “Neighborhoods in West Oakland and East Oakland need to have public art.” Yet in an Oakland Tribune article published on Sunday, April 26, it was revealed that Brooks and her fellow Councilmembers have dragged their feet in allocating funds set aside in 2013 for abatement murals. As reporter Mike Blasky noted, “Of the $400,000 the council approved, only $14,100 has been formally allocated,…

Alice St Mural Project Phase II Underway

April 14, 2015

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CRP Blog & Updates, Multimedia

Following an eight-month delay, Oakland-based muralist organization the Community Rejuvenation Project (CRP) has begun work on Phase II of the Alice St. Mural Project. On April 3rd 2015, a contract was finally signed with property owner Mark Borsuk, allowing the project to proceed as planned. Councilmember Lynette Gibson-McElhaney’s office, who assisted with contract negotiations, was invaluable during this protracted process. “We couldn’t have moved forward without [D3 staff],” Executive Director Desi Mundo said. Though the delay altered the project’s original…

The Community Rejuvenation Project Announces the Alice Street Mural Project – Phase I

July 7, 2014

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CRP Blog & Updates

For Immediate Release: July 8, 2014 (Oakland, CA) — The Community Rejuvenation Project, an Oakland-based non-profit organization specializing in community murals, proudly announces Phase I of the Alice Street Mural Project, which runs from July 2 -Aug 3rd, 2014. This mural project will encompass painting three large walls surrounding the parking lot at 1401 Alice Street (opposite the Malonga Casquelord Center and facing the historic Hotel Oakland.) The walls cover an approximate surface area of 2500 ft., and have…

Lynnette Gibson – McElhaney

CRP, #SupportMalonga Coalition Announce Mediation Agreement With Bay Development

CRP Announces Alice St. Mural Project Block Party June 6

Oakland Tribune Reports: City Council Has Only Spent a Fraction of Abatement Mural Allotment

Alice St Mural Project Phase II Underway

The Community Rejuvenation Project Announces the Alice Street Mural Project – Phase I