Copyleft Cultivars

Copyleft Cultivars is an emerging nonprofit organization with a mission to protect, publish, and preserve vulnerable plants using copyleft, research, and education. Copyleft Cultivars creates open source tools which ensure community freedom and open collaboration for the preservation and development of vulnerable plants. We have two major projects in progress. In the Copyleft Cannabis Project we are creating the first truly open source public genetic database for hemp with integrated open source tools for collaboration and freedom-of-use protections, in the emerging legal cannabis space. Most recently we are launching a project to collaboratively address the unprecedented threats of climate-based extinction to over one million species within the coming decades, cultivating an open source preservation and protection system for climate-vulnerable plants as a public good.

Dream Farm Commons

Dream Farm Commons is a small, artist run exhibition and project space in Downtown Oakland.  We are committed to an ongoing engagement with the visual, the poetic, the neighborhood and the future. Our work aspires to social practice and site specific projects, deep visual narratives and crafted making, the performative, re-imagination of economic systems and justice, and thoughtful discourse. We are opening our doors to all forms of creative production–we see ourselves as building a small hive of activity rather than a white cube. We are building a fall program of monthly exhibition and artists  talks, discourse, meals.  We’re  currently seeking a few new collaborators to join in shared space, with potential for joining in responsibility, decision making and creative production.

Endeavors

Endeavors Black and Brown small business is in Oakland and serves the creative community with projects and events. Endeavors' goal is to work with Oakland artists by helping facilitate their projects by finding locations, providing coverage for the time, equipment, and supplies.

Studio 1.6

Studio 1.6 is an independent art school in Alameda that offers art classes with a rich academic curriculum for all ages and skill levels. Studio 1.6 nurtures talent in the visual arts and teaches drawing, painting, and sculpture for children that love to express themselves through the arts, adults who are looking for more methodical art instruction, or a youth preparing for various professions in the creative fields. We are currently launching a Young Artist Scholarship program, to support students who might not otherwise be able to afford extracurricular art education.