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Over the last weekend in February, dozens of volunteers came out to join Oakland based artist Greg Kloehn at NIMBY to build mini homes for the homeless. A continuation of an ongoing project that’s seen Greg create dozens of mini-homes over the last several years for homeless folks in the Bay Area, the build workshop utilized reclaimed materials from the streets of Oakland, scrap from other artist’s projects, and even materials obtained from a Super Bowl After Party. At the end of the weekend,…

On February 1st, NIMBY was happy to welcome back the students from the East Bay Innovation Academy. The students came down with Ken Griswa, who’s been teaching them a unit on kinetic art. After a tour of the warehouse, the kids played some RallyBowl with Gaige Quallmann and Clody Cates before heading back to school. The following week Gaige and Clody Cates joined the students in the classroom to help them with their ongoing projects.

Check out the gallery below to watch them in action.

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Volunteers from NIMBY met up with the Block by Block Organizing Network, District 7, group (BBBOND7) on Monday January 18th for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Volunteers from BBBOND7 cleaned up the neighborhood and planted flowers. The artists from NIMBY worked with the children to paint and place 5 flower planters to bring some color to G Street. Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan stopped by and got in on the action, painting with the kids and lending a hand.

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You can catch one of NIMBY’s newest tenants painter and metal worker Tiffany Barr at the Imagine Bus Project’s event “Freedom: Art Indulgence” on Tuesday, November 17th, from 7PM to 10PM at the SOMA Arts Cultural Center in San Francisco. She’ll be debuting her latest piece “Great Escape”, a translucent, illuminated acrylic and resin painting on glass.

The Imagine Bus Project works with incarcerated youth to encourage self-expression through art and to inspire personal development when they…

Projectors can be expensive. Fortunately, slide projectors are not. The idea has probably occurred to many of us that one of these could be melded with modern electronics. It’s possible it’s been d…

There is a group, St. Pete Makers, working to bring a makerspace to the downtown St. Petersburg area. They are still forming an organization and looking hard for a space near the downtown area. If you are in the southern end of Pinellas county, check them out.