FIRST FRIDAY // The Hit List

Happy First Friday Oakland!  This month there are some really great shows to check out, mostly off the beaten track, which is lovely if you would like to get to see parts of the lesser known but vibrant First Friday scene.  

1 // CROWN NINE is hosting artist Bianca Kolonusz-Partee.  You can read all about her in our interview>>>.  We will be pouring dranks, have some fresh pulled pork and rice bowls by Bella, the Stop Shop and Roll Fashion Truck, music, and of course plenty of jewels.

2 // Oakland Surf Club is hosting Justin Hager, one of my favorite artists who will make you laugh your ass off [I featured Justin in my series Insta Love >>> ].  His work blends unlike pop culture references into one hilarious mash-up, like his now famous 'Beach Boyz in The Hood.'  A definite must see.  

3 // Lequivive Gallery hosts Ricky Watts and Sean Griffin for Chromatic Neurosis.  Ricky Watts just recently  finished Petaluma's largest mural on the Phoenix Theater, and is the mad responsible for the Oakland Fox prints and iPhone cases you may have seen around town.  

Have a safe and happy First Friday!  All my love to the Town xo

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Insta Love // Installment Three

As you may know, I love Instagram.  I love seeing the creative ways people approach their photography, and I tend to follow a lot of artists and creative types.  It's an inspiring little thing to do while I have some down time.  Here are my favorites this week:

1// @sarahswelljewelry  [Oakland, California based jewelry designer. Precious metal treasures made by hand-the real deal.]  I love Sarah.  Not only as a friend, but I totally admire her as a fellow jeweler and she has a killer Instagram feed.  I mean, come on, look at her signature Fishbone series, it makes my heart skip a beat every time.  We carry some of her work at Crown Nine, they really are little treasures.

2 // @avfkw  [Textiles. I love them. And food. And plants. Natural dyes too. Preferably made in the USA.] Kristine is the shop owner of A Verb For Keeping Warm, an amazing Oakland store for knitting, dying, spinning, quilting, and all things textile.  I love Kristine's feed because it's full of dye vats, shiburi, and the behind the scenes on how fabrics are made.  

3 // @justinhager [Get at me.]  Justin is an artist, I especially love his hybrid posts.  They are so perfectly wrong, a grafting of two unlike units of pop culture into one hilarious mash up portrait. It kills me every time.  Other favorites: Danzig with Wolves,  NWA Team,and Little Wayne'sWorld... and pretty much all of them.

4 // @waywardspark [Off-grid forest living, beekeeping, goat milking, barbecue baking, organic farming, woodworking, and raising two cute kids in rural Western Oregon.]  Pretty much sums up how my fantasy life is being led.

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