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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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In March of 2015, NIMBY was pleased to be the staging ground for the original dance video project “Dust”. Executive Producer Jen Faust, director Dorian Kingi, and a diverse group of dancers, musicians, and crew transformed themselves with NIMBY as a backdrop into a post-apocalyptic dance fever dream. “Dust” is the first of a trilogy entitled ‘Tryptich: Dust, Blood and Water’ and will represent the cycle of life and death, rooted in abstract Norse mythology and the creative/scientific brain of…

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.

Special thanks to…

When the forklift goes wonky and suddenly won’t start, you get a feeling that’s somewhere between “uh-oh” and “@!$&*$@!*”. They’re sort of handy in this business. So when,our intrepid, orange Toyota needed some fixin’ and some lovin’, we put out the call.

Ron Baker, NIMBY’s resident go-to guy for all things engines and repairs, jumped in and gave the Toyota a full once-over. It’s running better than it has in quite awhile. What did he do? I have NO IDEA… engines ain’t my area, but we’re so…

Wow! That was awesome!

Thanks to everyone who came out to Winter Shenanigans this past weekend! Did you get a chance to play RallyBowl? That game is bonkers and so much fun! From the Ring of Fire to the Sand Trap to the Trampoline, there was a great variety of creative, unique lanes. Gaige Qualmann and Clody Cates, creators of RallyBowl, says they have plans for about nine other lanes and to keep your eye out for more RallyBowl news in 2016.

If you couldn’t make it out, don’t fret! Some of the…

Veteran NIMBY tenant Matt Wirth will be exhibiting his modified Volvo station wagon race car at the San Francisco Auto Show November 21st thru the 29th at the Moscone Center, located at 747 Howard St. in San Francisco. The Volvo racer, originally built for the 24 Hour Lemons Race series, will be featured in the Gasoline Alley Race Car Exhibit, alongside other Lemons racers and vehicles from the history of racing. You can find out more info on the Auto Show HERE and purchase your tickets in…

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…