Use this website as an Art Tour Directory to determine
each artist’s location and create a plan to tour each site.
On Saturday & Sunday, March 1 & 2, visit artists in
Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, San Jose, San Leandro,
and
San Rafael
On Saturday & Sunday, March 8 & 9, visit artists in
Lafayette, Martinez, Pinole, Richmond, San Pablo,
and Vallejo
Several juried Satellite Exhibits will be open at various
locations including The Craft and Cultural Gallery, Joyce
Gordon Gallery, Women’s Cancer Resource Center, San
Francisco African American Art and Cultural Center - Hall
of Culture, and San Pablo Art Gallery.
For more information
see Satellite Exhibits.
TAOLB is a great opportunity to start or enhance your art
collection from these talented artists. You may use this
website to contact the artists the duration of the Exhibition
and Self-Guided Art Tours and at any time of year.
For more general information about The Art of Living Black
please call 510.620.6772 or visit www.therac.org
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** A scholarship fund has been established in memory of
Jan Hart-Schuyers. The Jan Hart-Schuyers Scholarship Fund
provides financial assistance to adults and children who
participate in Richmond Art Center Education Program. For
more information, please call 510.620.6772.
annual non-juried Group Exhibition and Self-Guided Art
Tour in the Bay Area to exclusively feature local artists
of African descent.
TAOLB 2008 features over 70 emerging and established
artists who participate in the non-juried Group Exhibition
at the Richmond Art Center from February 5 - March 14.
Additional work is featured by the 2007 Jan Hart-Schuyers
Artistic Achievement Award recipients: JaeMe Bereal,
Marion Coleman and Howard Mackey.
The Art of Living Black Art Tour is an opportunity for the
public to participate in a FREE, self-guided tour of various
locations throughout the Bay Area where Black artists will
display and sell their work. Meet emerging and established
artists, see a full collection of their work, and purchase
artwork directly from the artists. Select from a variety
of items including paintings, textiles, photography,
sculpture, prints, ceramics, stone carving, jewelry, and
mixed media.
On Saturday, February 9, 3 - 5pm, attend the reception
for the artists at the Richmond Art Center. At this event,
three artists, will be given the Jan Hart-Schuyers Artistic
Achievement Award. This award is presented in memory
of Jan Hart-Schuyers, artist, art activist, and co-founder
of The Art of Living Black, who passed away in 1998 **.
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