Winter Open Studios

Join us in celebrating our 5 year anniversary! 2008 has been busy and exciting year and we like to celebrate with good food, music and great art! Our Taller has spent the year traveling, teaching art workshops, supporting grassroots organizing and movement building and participating in various collaborations, exhibitions, and artist residencies. Come check ...

Printed - an exhibition about hand printed art

An exhibition of hand printed art curated by Two Rabbits Studio.

Berkeley Has A Censorship Issue!

Four posters from a national series of exhibitions called Art of Democracy have been censored in Berkeley at the city-run Addison Street Windows Gallery. The curator invented guidelines, which she attributed to the Berkeley City Arts Commission. Among the fifty venues across the country that hosted the Art of Democracy exhibitions, the Addison Street Win...

Exonome: Exhibition of Ibero-american artists in California

For the first time in Northern California, the Ibero-american consulates present a joint exhibition of 40 foreign artists that reside in the Bay Area, whose artwork fuse their roots and origins with a revelation of new spaces of identity in the United States. The "Exonome: Exhibition of Ibero-american artists in California" will be presented at the of...

WHY YOUTH SHUT DOWN THE ICE BUILDING FOR ONE DAY

On Halloween hundreds of youth marched to the Homaland Security Building to protes the recent ICE Raids targeting undocumented immigrants. This is a Press Release written by Sagnicthe Salazar addressing why the youth felt they had to do this action. WHY YOUTH SHUT DOWN THE ICE BUILDING FOR ONE DAY On October 31s, 2008 a week before the elections with a...

Tumis works on No on 8 Website

Tumis worked with the Paths to Change Institute on colorofequality.org, a website for the No on 8 campaign, targeting people of color. I am glad to have something like this out there, it sucked to hear the Robo-Calls this weekend aimed at Latino voters. I hope things go well at the polls tomorrow, it's just so scary what we could have to deal with the next...

Dia de Los Muertos 2008

This year I decided to make an ofrenda to all the people who have been killed in the recent wars. It is important to me that people realize that women and children are being killed but that the soldiers of war are also dying all for the benifit of a few war profiteers. It saddens me that as the economy worsens, military recruiting strengthens.

Trick or Treat...

This is a poster I designed for a cool band, Los Nadies from the Bay Area. I was psyched about their music, and thought it would be nice to make poster for their Halloween show. I used an image from Leopoldo Mendez from Mexico's Taller de Grafico Popular, vampire bat perched over the line of people. I think the image is very relevant with todays economi...

Berkeley Has a Censorship Issue!

A few months ago my friend, Doug Minkler, asked me if I would be interested in exhibiting him and another artist in Berkeley's Addison Street Windows. I was excited about having an opportunity to show my work in Berkeley since I had lived there and had never exhibited anywhere other that at UC. What followed ended up being my first experience with censors...

Prints by Melanie and Jesus