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Family Education and Resource Center
7200 Bancroft Ave.
Oakland, CAUnited States
37° 45' 59.2992" N, 122° 10' 39.7164" W
This mural represents the support and love that is at the heart of all communities and that the Family Education Resource Center helps people reestablish in order to restore balance and good mental health in all individuals. Hands and gestures reflect the comfort and assistance we all need at moments of distress. People of all ages need help and can help.
Painted on canvas by Eduardo Pineda and Joaquin Alejandro Newman, the mural was installed at the FERC facility in the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland in December 2009. The mural spans a hallway between waiting areas, meeting rooms, resource library, and classrooms. In the photographs, you see the completed mural on the floor before installation, the mural installed in FERC, the mural while we are painting it in Joaquin's Alameda studio, and a detail of the mural.
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About Eduardo Pineda
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http://www.storytellingwalls.com
About Me
Eduardo Pineda is a visual artist and educator interested in the role of art in people’s lives. In 2009 he was commissioned by the Alameda County Arts Commission to produce five large-scale photographs for the public art collection. Pineda has painted over 40 murals since joining the Community Mural Movement in 1978. In 2010 he painted a mural with Joaquin Alejandro Newman for the Museum of the African Diaspora in conjunction with the exhibition African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals, on view until August 28, 2010. The duo produced three murals in 2009 for the Fox Courts Apartments in Oakland’s burgeoning Uptown neighborhood, and the Family Resources and Education Center in East Oakland. In addition, Pineda was commissioned by the GAIA Vaccine Foundation to create a mural for a health clinic in Bamako Mali, West Africa. He is a Student Teacher Supervisor at Mills College School of Education. He was the Director of Education at the Museum of the African Diaspora (2006-2007) and served in several educational appointments at SFMOMA (1990-2006). He was a teaching artist for the VALUES Project (2003-2006) – an arts integration project of the California College of Arts, the Alameda County Office of Education and Harvard University Project Zero. Pineda earned a M.A. in interdisciplinary arts at San Francisco State University (1988) and a BFA in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute (1983). His artworks are in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts and the San Francisco Arts Commission and Alameda County Arts Commission public art collections.
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This mural represents the support and love that is at the heart of all communities and that the Family Education Resource Center helps people reestablish in order to restore balance and good mental health in all individuals. Hands and gestures reflect the comfort and assistance we all need at moments of distress. People of all ages need help and can help.
Painted on canvas by Eduardo Pineda and Joaquin Alejandro Newman, the mural was installed at the FERC facility in the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland in December 2009. The mural spans a hallway between waiting areas, meeting rooms, resource library, and classrooms. In the photographs, you see the completed mural on the floor before installation, the mural installed in FERC, the mural while we are painting it in Joaquin's Alameda studio, and a detail of the mural.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this work, everybody -- go and see this!
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