Arts Change - www.artschange.org
ArtsChange organizes visual art exhibitions and education programs that engage diverse,
urban communities in addressing health and community issues. OCF funded Youth Food Work
uses culturally specific, local visual elements to inform, educate and activate youth to critically
analyze their food environment. Long Odds Finding an Apple in Richmond is a film made for
and by youth about the lack of healthy food in their community. This year’s work will include a
traveling bilingual puppet show, Carlitos and the Magic Garden. The show will anchor a
14-week puppetry program for 4th and 5th grade students at Verde School in North Richmond.
ArtsChange is in its third year of funding.

California College of the Arts - www. center.cca.edu/community/100families
OCF supports the California College of the Arts (CCA) 100 Families Oakland Project, an art and social
change project that has engaged four Oakland neighborhoods since 2005. The program includes
tours of the Oakland Museum and weekly art classes in painting, drawing ceramics/sculpture,
printmaking and mask-making at a community location. Families select the medium they’re
interested in and embark on a ten-week class in which they work with art instructors to create
new works. The OCF grant will support the work of families in West Oakland.

DANCE MONKS - www.dancemonks.com
DANCE MONKS is an experimental dance-art company committed to collaborating with artists
of diverse disciplines to make pieces that explore cross-cultural connections, as well as the
intimate relationship between people and nature. OCF supports GREEN, an environmental
community dance project that will integrate oral history excerpts from East Bay residents’
reflections on the land with movement videos, and use a multigenerational cast of local East Bay
residents as well as professional dancers. GREEN residencies and performances will be held
at Highland Elementary in Richmond and Green City Gallery in Berkeley. This is DANCE MONKS’
first year of funding.

EarthTeam Environmental Network - www.earthteam.net
An environmental network for teens, teachers and youth leaders, EarthTeam brings environmental
experiences that inspire dedication to a healthy environment into the classroom and the community.
EarthTeam’s projects range from replicable community service projects to restoration efforts that
appeal to teens and meet the needs of teachers. OCF supports an expansion of The Green News,
an online newsletter of youth perspectives on the environment and related social, economic and
health issues. During the 2006-07 school year, the art and writing of 66 students from Alaska to
Brooklyn was featured in The Green News. This is EarthTeam’s first year of funding.

HerPic Performances - www.HerPic.org
OCF supports choreographic works by HerPic Performances, a Berkeley-based dance/theatre
company led by Artistic Director, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, with a history of performing choreographic
work in the natural world. Among a series of spring 2008 dances in the parks, HerPic Performances
will collaborate with East Bay Regional Parks in performances of In Praise of Insects and Water,
Water Everywhere at Tilden Park in a program related to the Park’s watershed hikes. This is HerPic
Performances’ first year of funding.

Oakland International High School - 4521 Webster St., Oakland CA  94609
A new small Oakland public school, Oakland International High School is designed to meet the
academic and social needs of recently arrived immigrants. OCF supports a Multilingual Newspaper
and Mural, two projects of the Foundations class, a social studies class for 100 9th graders, all of
whom have immigrated within the last four years. The newspaper will be the first public forum for many
of the students, showcasing their literacy development, and reaching both English and non-English
speaking communities. An arts component to the curriculum, the mural will be a collaborative project,
unifying the school with visual expression representative of all the students.

Rock Paper Scissors Collective - www.rpscollective.com
Rock Paper Scissors Collective is an Oakland arts and craft collective and volunteer-run community
space, where people of all skill levels share sustainable practices and alternative models, and exhibit,
sell and learn about arts and crafts. OCF supports Green Street Style, a youth internship program
forstarting an art-based business in fashion and accessories. Using clothing that thrift stores and charities cannot use, interns will take classes in hands-on sewing and screen-printing, as well as
basic book-keeping and training in socially minded business practices. Classes will be held at Rock Paper Scissors and after school at Metwest High School. This is Rock Paper Scissors Collective’s
first year of funding.

Satellite Housing Inc. - www.satellitehousing.org
Satellite Housing is a non-profit affordable housing provider formed collaboratively in 1966 by
ecumenical and multi-racial community groups concerned about the housing needs of low-income
seniors in the East Bay. Now serving 1,400 residents in over 1,300 units, Satellite’s twentieth community, Helios Corner, on the corner of Sacramento and University in Berkeley, provides 80
units of affordable senior housing. OCF supports the installation of artist Juana Alicia's "Wisdom of
Elders/Huehuetlatoli" ceramic tile mural project, a beautification project depicting the natural elements
and community members from diverse cultures. This is Satellite Housing’s first year of funding.

Visual Arts/Language Arts – www.valaproject.org
VALA uses the arts to engage elementary and middle school children in personal experiences of art making and learning that are connected to the literacy curriculum in the classroom. OCF supports a poetry writing project for 3rd and 4th grade students in five schools in Richmond and San Pablo. Using culturally rich and varied art forms as jumping off points, students learn to write poems about other cultures and explore their own. A previous OCF grantee, this is VALA’s first year of funding for Elementary School Arts and Poetry Instruction.

Zach Pine Nature Sculpture - www.naturesculpture.com
OCF supports Art to Action on Codornices Creek with Children of the Ursula Sherman Village.
Environmental artist, Zach Pine, in partnership with environmental educator, Susan Schwartz, will
lead homeless children living at the Ursula Sherman Village in a series of hands-on art-making events
on the banks of nearby Codornices Creek. Children will learn basic facts about the creek and visit
areas that have undergone a range of restoration efforts. Exploring the ecosystem, they will make
temporary art installations along the creek using natural materials found on site. This is Zach Pine
Nature Sculpture’s first year of funding.



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