Oakland Warehouse Party: Fire Performances & Art Cars | American Steel

Submitted by the Event Organizer

American Steel Studios presents Art + Industry, an interactive group exhibition and behind-the-scenes look at this unique community of artists and innovators.

May 11, 2013 will be a day filled with interactive programs, demos, facility and studio tours and artist talks. As the sun goes down, they’ll light up the fire effects for an evening of fire sculpture, fire performance and art cars.

Scheduled Demos, Talks and Performances | May 11, 2013

• Noon: Nick Dong – demo/workshop
• 1 pm: Doug Blanc – artist talk
• 2 pm: Carl Stieger – painting demo
• 4 pm: Rachel Hospodar – textile demo
• 4:30 pm: Reb Peters Press – printing demo
• 5 pm: Matt Fisher – artist talk
• 6 pm: Carl Stieger – painting demo
• 6:30 pm: Henry Riekena – artist talk
• 8 pm: Music at Oaktown Hall
• 8:15 pm: Fire Arts Collective – poi and fire staff spinning

American Steel tenants, Line 51 Brewery and Suite Treatments will be providing free organic juices and craft brewed beer by donation.

On May 12, 2013, Open Studios and Exhibition continues from noon to 5 pm for another chance to meet the artists, visit their studios and see the exhibition.

“American Steel‘s oversized facility allows us to present member events on a scale that only museums can rival, and our tenant exhibition will fill more than 10,000 square feet of inside and outside gallery space, featuring painting, textiles, photography, printmaking, ceramics, large and small sculpture, furniture and installation, as well as fire performance and art cars from more than 45 studios and businesses.”

Participating artists and businesses include:
Edward Acosta | ceramic sculpture
Anarchitectural | construction and materials reuse
Anthony Averson | painting and sculpture
Doug Blanc | painting
David M Bowman Studio | patinaed brass metalwork
Stephen Bruce | patinated coppe
Jeff Bush | sculpture
Chester | flaming horse
Karen Cusolito | metal sculpture
Department of Spontaneous Combustion | fire art, mobile art and large scale sculptures
Nick Dong | sculpture and installation
Elizabeth Dougherty | mixed media
Fire Arts Collective | fire dancers, stilters, jugglers and performers
Matt Fisher | painter, sculptor and art writer
Flipside Furnishings | furniture and art from re-purposed materials
Robert Furnback | glass and ceramic sculpture
Ryon Gesink | sculpture
Dan Good | music composition, sculpture, sound sculpture
Kitty Gordon | stone carving, mixed-media sculpture
Groundation Foundation | “restoring habitat from the ground up, and the sky down”
Carolynn Haydu | painting, mixed media
Brian Krawitz | sculpture
Line 51 Brewing | special hand-crafted beer
Medium Reality | textiles
Kyle Milligan | plating and metal casting
Jann Nunn | mixed media sculpture
Reb Peters Press | letterpress and intaglio printing
Romuald Picard | sculpture
Sam Reese | sculpture
Henry Riekena | painter, Professor at SFAC
Bill Rogers | mixed media
Dan Seneres | sculpture, painting, illustration and graphic design
Sharp Teeth Press | letterpress
Sheet Metal Alchemist | sculpture
Fortune Sitole | mixed media painting
Kali Snowden | painting
Carl Stieger | painting
Suite Treatments | environment design and events
Alexandria Volk | costumer and visual artist
Anthem Ward | sculpture

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