Elaine Chu Archives - Community Rejuvenation Project

AscenDance: Coming Into View

July 1, 2020

360 Mural, AscenDance Mural, CRP Blog & Updates, Greenlining Mural, Public Art Policy

In the last couple of weeks, the AscenDance mural has turned a corner. What once was a bare and unremarkable wall now pulses with color, vibrancy, and life. Gridlines have become outlines; outlines have metamorphosed into distinct figures, Details and backgrounds have emerged. The entire wall has taken on form, shape, and substance. Its new character is being slowly revealed, day by day, brush stroke by brush stroke. There is no going back — only forward.

Meet the Muralists: Marina Perez-Wong and Elaine Chu

June 25, 2020

crproject

360 Mural, AscenDance Mural, CRP Blog & Updates, Featured Artist, Greenlining Mural

If you’ve been in and around downtown Oakland recently, you may have noticed the new mural going up on the exterior wall of The Greenlining Institute’s building. If you’ve stopped and taken a peek, you may have seen muralists at work on scaffolds and a swingstage, filling in details, painting portraits, and making the wall come to life. Marina Perez-Wong and Elaine Chu, aka the Twin Walls Mural Company, have been putting in hours and hours of hard work in…

Downtown Oakland Becomes Ground Zero For Street Art in Wake of George Floyd Protests

June 17, 2020

crproject

360 Mural, AscenDance Mural, CRP Blog & Updates, Greenlining Mural

The “AscenDance” mural has finally kicked into gear. After several weeks of build-up, the project — located on the side of The Greenlining Institute’s headquarters, at 360 14th St. in downtown Oakland — has moved from gridding to sketching to outlining to images being colored and starting to come alive. The past two weeks have represented a giant step forward for the eight-story mural, which is beginning to take on a character as the faces of its subjects are given…