*Studio 23 Gallery & Resistance Press 510: Opening Receptions
Saturday Feb 15th 7-10pm eventbriteRSVP / FB-RSVP

*The Fireside Lounge: Opening Reception
Friday February 14th 6-9pm eventbriteRSVP / FB-RSVP

*AlamedaBrewing.co.: Closing Reception
Friday March 14th 6-9pm eventbriteRSVP / FB-RSVP

https://www.aotad.org / ArtPush.org

There is a strong art and music community in Alameda. However, rising costs of living are affecting the very artists that make the bay area such a vibrant place to live. Many artists are forced to leave, creating a noticeable absence of connection and culture.

Supporting the local arts and artists is a positive way to build community.  A world without art, music, poets, dancers & performers would be a very lonely & cold world.  Supporting local art in your community encourages inspiring conversations that make a community thrive. 

Babies grow up with iPads in their hands before they can form words.  Families out at dinner stare at their phones instead of engaging in conversation with each other.

“Americans now spend more time alone, have fewer close friendships and feel more socially detached from their communities than they did 20 years ago.” -Brian X. Chen

How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’

The New York Times

Making real eye contact, laughing, discussing our passions, our differences, and continuing to connect and understand each other is essential to our wellbeing. As technology advances it is so important that community continues to bring us that much needed human connection through the creative arts.

Immersive or Interactive Art Exhibit SF Bay Area, California:
Request for Proposal.

ArtPush.org (aka Studio 23) is working on a plan for a multi-room, multi-artists, interactive, immersive art exhibit space in Alameda, CA. We are in the early stages of creating a budget and plan. We would like to gauge interest and explore feasibility. 

If you aren’t familiar with Studio 23 and ArtPush, we are a Alameda based artists-run nonprofit who has been putting on regular events in Alameda since 2013 (and long before in other parts of the country). We have a lot of experience in this area and we feel very confident that it can be successful.

The loose theme is currently “Step into another dimension”. There will be rooms with all black light, rooms with immersive video, giant LED sculptures, walls filled with video screens, giant sculptures, etc. 

We want to get a space up and running, sell tickets, and share the proceeds among the exhibiting artists.

We are looking for exciting and dynamic artists (teams or individuals) who would like to create a room, an experience, a installation, whatever you think would be good in a giant art funhouse from another dimension. 

We are working on raising money and applying for grants. We do not have an endowment so cost will be a factor when deciding what exhibits to install. We have a lot of plans for fundraising, but a proof of concept will go a long way.

Exhibits must be complete before installation! Artists will have a window of one week max to move and assemble an exhibit in the assigned space. We will have a team of volunteers and staff that will assist with installing exhibits. That reminds me: ?subject=Volunteers">we need volunteers to assist artists installing exhibits.

We believe we can create something amazing and magical. Something real and unreal at the same time. A new dimension where one can step inside and experience a different reality, if only for a couple hours.

If you are still reading at this point you probably are into it, fill out this short form and tell us about it.

You can also email us if you have questions before you submit.

Here is some inspiration and some of the things we envision: