REAL TIME & SPACE

Open Studios – Nov. 2nd!!!

October 23, 2024

Real Time and Space is throwing open its doors for OPEN STUDIOS!

Come on down to 125 10th St on November 2nd from 12 – 4pm for a sneak peek at what artists are making here. There will also be snacks and high quality hanging out. Free and open to the public! Fun for the whole family!

REAL TALKS: Joshua Moreno and Gericault De La Rose

July 27, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Joshua Moreno and RTS member Gericault De La Rose Wednesday, August 28 from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Joshua Moreno’s work examines the overlapping relationship between the natural and human-made environment and highlight patterns and systems of efficiency that exist within them. Through installation, drawing, and film, he re-evaluates the everyday spaces and objects that surround us, with added attention to elemental phenomena.

He was born and raised in Watsonville, California. In 2011, he graduated from the University of California San Diego with a BFA in art practice, and in 2022 he graduated from Stanford University with an MFA in studio art. Since 2012, he has been working in art education, teaching courses in art history, filmmaking, and art. Presently, he is teaching drawing courses at Stanford University.

Gericault De La Rose is a queer trans Filipinx, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. While developing her art practice, she worked as a Co-curator of Philippine Objects at the Field Museum of Natural History where she organized a series of monthly events called Pamanang Pinoy using the objects within the collection as conduits for community discussion. After graduating with a BFA with an emphasis in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she formed an artist collective, Export Quality, together with other Queer Filipinx alumni.

De La Rose has also showcased her work in group shows in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Johnson City, New York, and Toronto. De La Rose attended the ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin and the HATCH artist residency for the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. In 2022, she received the San Francisco Foundation’s Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and received her MFA from UC Berkeley in 2023. Most recently, she had her first solo exhibition at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago and was an Artist in Residence for the Arrozidency at Minnesota Street Project. 

REAL TALKS: Jose Iniguez & Kico Le Strange

May 08, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Jose Iniguez and RTS member Kico Le Strange Wednesday, May 29th from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Jose Luis Iniguez Lopez is a Central Valley artist based in Oakland, California, whose artistic journey is marked by the insightful exploration of identity and belonging. Graduating in 2014 with a Master of Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in ceramics from California State University Bakersfield. His artist repertoire extends beyond traditional ceramics, embracing an interdisciplinary approach that melds various mediums to narrate themes of queerness, mysticism, displacement, and pop culture. Jose’s work transcends conventional boundaries, incorporating tactile procedures and recycled sentiments to retell stories that resonate deeply with both himself and his community. His exploration of disoriented heritage through forced adaptation reflects a poignant introspection into the complexities of identity and belonging.

Jose’s experience as an artist is punctuated by notable achievements and residencies that have further enriched his practice. From receiving the merit award from 2012 to 2014 from CCA to participating in residencies like the Red Brick Cooperative Studio in San Francisco and the Sedona Summer Colony in Sedona, Arizona. These residencies have served as incubators for creativity, allowing Jose to delve deeper into his artistic process and engage in meaningful dialogues with fellow artists. They have provided him with invaluable opportunities to experiment with new techniques and collaborate across disciplines, ultimately shaping the trajectory of his artistic career.

In addition to his residencies, Jose has exhibited his work in venerated art institutions such as SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco LGBT community Center, UC Berkeley, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Mexican Consulate of San Francisco, among others. These exhibitions not only showcase his artistic prowess but also highlight his commitment to engaging with diverse audiences and communities.

 As Jose continues to push his boundaries of artistic expression, he hopes to transcend limits and foster connections with a fusion of mediums and themes that not only challenge societal norms but also invite viewers to contemplate the intricacies of the human experience.  

Kico Le Strange is a dancer, performer, visual artist, fashion designer, art educator and studio manager. Le strange lives and works in Oakland Ca. Kico was born and raised in South Tejas.

Kico attended Texas A&M University-Kingsville and received his BFA in 2012. Le Strange attended California College of the Arts & Crafts and obtained his MFA in 2015.

Isn’t Life a Blast

April 09, 2024

Celebrating Real Time Residency

We are excited to announce our residency archive show curated by the fabulous Amy Owen. The show is happening at Gallery 16.

The artists presented here often engage complex ideas with inventive approaches to materiality and place while simultaneously imbuing their work with a sense of humor, absurdity, and curiosity. The exhibition’s tongue-in-cheek title (drawn from the work of past resident Jessalyn Aaland) captures this inherent duality by embracing the freewheeling yet critical character of RTS’ ethos that has made it such an essential undercurrent of the Bay Area art community since its inception. 

In this way, the show’s assembly of artworks is reflective of various modes of working that feel deeply connected to the region in a historical sense but also link it to a more expansive contemporary conversation, nationally and internationally. From painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and sound to performance, social practice, language, publishing, archives, and more, the artists’ myriad ways of working demonstrate the breadth and reach of this seminal program and the import of the region beyond its borders. 

Real Time and Space was founded by Emma Spertus and Mark Taylor in 2011. Former and current studio directors include Amy Ho, Nancy Bach, Lana Willams, Kico Le Strange, and J. Pansa.

Isn’t Life a Blast is made possible with support from the Ruth Arts Foundation. The exhibition is curated by Amy Owen.

Real Talks: Eva Claycomb & Chani Bockwinkel

April 03, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Eva Claycomb and RTS member Chani Bockwinkel Thursday, April 24th from 6-8pm PST at RTS. Location: 125 10th St. Oakland.

Eva Claycomb is a multimedia artist living and working in Marfa, Texas. Her work is characterized by a distinct visual language and instinctual compositional style: a spaciousness, a playfulness, and a weirding of language and symbols. Across print, plastic, pulp, and digital formats, she seeks to use her tools to process her environment and inscribe her place in time. Hers is a bewilderment made visual, an ongoing query into the ethos and aesthetics of living in the end of the anthropocene.

Chani Bockwinkel is a dancer and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. She makes interdisciplinary-collaborative-queer feminist imagery for the stage, gallery, and internet.

Real Talks: Elena Yu & Emma Spertus

March 07, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Elena Yu and RTS member Emma Spertus Thursday, March 21st from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Elena Yu is an interdisciplinary artist and arts organizer from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice weaves together many mediums and intentions including textiles, performance, drawing, sculpture, archival research and community practice. Elena is currently a UCSB Arts Equity Commons Campus Artist-in-Residence, where she is working in partnership with the UCSB Art Department, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive (CEMA), and UCSB Library’s Ethnic and Gender Studies (EGS) collection. During her residency at UCSB and RTS, Elena is working on archival research, a series of workshops, and objects for an intervention in the UCSB library that aims to engage students with histories of radical student organizing towards racial justice and the formation of Ethnic Studies programs at UCSB. For her Real Talk, Elena will be speaking about this project and sharing in-progress works. 

In both her artist and organizing practices, Elena’s emphasis is on developing public programs and exhibitions that consider and care for all aspects of a community ecosystem, bringing together local residents, artists, partnering organizations and sites around contemporary art and issues. She has worked in arts programming at Arts Connection the Arts Council of San Bernardino (2022-2023), High Desert Test Sites (2016-2022), Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MAK Center. In 2022, she co-founded The Firehouse (@thefirehousejt) and Sun Spot (@sun___spot), two artist-run spaces in Joshua Tree, CA. Elena is currently the Ruffin Gallery and Visiting Artist Coordinator at University of Virginia’s Department of Art in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Emma Spertus creates sculptures and architectural interventions, which bring attention to two- and three-dimensional space in humorous or unexpected ways. Her work focuses on questions around the vacancy, materiality, resource use, language, and display. Emma lives and works in the Bay Area. She is founding director of Real Time & Space. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York, and BA from Macalester College in St. Paul. This July, Emma will be in residence at the Winslow House Project, Vallejo, CA. www.emmaspertus.com

Real Talks: Dena Al-Adeeb

February 13, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Dena Al-Adeeb & Kathy Zarur Wednesday, February 21st from 6-8pm PST in person and via Zoom.

125 10th St. Oakland Ca

Zoom Meeting Link

Meeting ID: 838 0562 0710
Passcode: 435956

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keJn4hASUQ

Dena Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi born feminist scholar-activist, artist-cultural worker, educator, and mother. Her transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of U.S. imperial war geographies, militarism, and extractive capitalist economies in West Asia with an emphasis on visual, material, and petro-culture of the Arab/Muslim worlds. Dena’s creative practice explores gendered histories and lived experiences of war, refugee narratives and collective memory, affect and embodied survival practices through a decolonial framework. Her artwork takes on varied practices including live art, video art, installation, digital art, photography, text, and activism. She creates performative, relational works, dedicated to participatory art, socially engaged projects, collaborative engagement and the cultivation of solidarity. Her work appears in a diversity of publications and shown internationally in spaces ranging from national museums to abandoned buildings. She is a recipient of numerus awards including a Mellon Artist and Practitioner fellowship at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration as well as the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has undertaken many academic research positions throughout her career including her role as Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, San Francisco State University, and Expression College for Digital Arts. Dena holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Culture and Representation, from New York University, M.A. in Sociology-Anthropology from the American University in Cairo, and a B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University. Dena curates DIWAN: SWANA Futurisms and is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and HEKLER Collective. After completing her residency at Real Time & Space, she will be a resident artist with CULTURE HUB; Dresher Ensemble; and ARAB.AMP.

https://linktr.ee/denaaladeeb

Kathy Zarur is an educator and culture worker in San Francisco. Through courses, exhibitions, and conferences, she seeks to highlight artists and histories that have historically been sidelined. Preferring metaphor over representation, her approach to exhibition making centers around place to explore topics including belonging, identity, and the landscape. Previously at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates, she was an assistant curator and producer of live art. More recently as an independent curator, she has created exhibitions for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Arts Commission, Minnesota Street Project, and SOMArts. She has organized conferences with San Francisco State University at the de Young and Asian Art Museum. Her writings and editorial work appear in Art in America, Broadsheet, and a Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts publication with Sternberg Press. She is Associate Professor of Art History at Skyline College, Fellow of Modern and Contemporary South West Asian and North African art at Smarthistory.org, and a board member of Arab.AMP. Kathy has a PhD in Art History and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan.

www.kathyzarur.com

REAL TIME RESIDENCY OPEN CALL

February 01, 2024

RTS is excited to announce our 2024-2025 Residency Open Call.There are 2 residency tracks. Track 1: 3 local artists will be awarded a 3-month period residency with a $2000 stipend. Track 2: 3 out of town (non Bay Area person) artists will be awarded a 1 month residency, a $1000 stipend, and a $2000 travel and housing stipend. Note you can only apply to one, not both tracks.The residency studio at RTS is 170 sq. ft and includes access to a communal wood shop. RTS is centrally located near BART and downtown Oakland.
Requirements for the residency:
Work on-site at the studio for a minimum of 15 hrs a week
Give 1-2 artist talks during the residency period
Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 10) for the RTS Residency archive
Note: No hazardous or toxic materials may be used in the studio space.

Deadline for applications is April 12, 2024. 

All applicants will be notified by May 1 , 2024.

Program begins June 1, 2024.

If you have any questions please email BOTH realtimeandresidency@gmail.com & realtimeandevents@gmail.com

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/287030/rts-real-residency-open-call-2024-2025

RTS and PACBI

January 22, 2024

Real Time and Space stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against Israeli occupation and genocide.

Therefore RTS is committing to the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel or PACBI.

We emphatically invite all art organizations regardless of size to take every action possible to stop the killing of Palestinian people and the destruction of Palestinian culture.

PACBI was launched in Ramallah in 2004 and is part of the wider Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement. PACBI guidelines are simple: they ask institutions to refuse support from the state of Israel and reject projects that normalize the occupation of Palestine and dispossession of Palestinians.

You can read more about PACBI at bdsmovement.net/PACBI

You can also learn more from our friends at Writers Against the War on Gaza

If you need help getting your organization in alignment with PACBI don’t hesitate to reach out to us at
PACBIencouragers@gmail.com

Real Talks: Jin Zhu & Dena Al-Adeeb

November 07, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Jin Zhu & Dena Al-Adeeb Wednesday, December 6th from 6-8pm PST.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89323155669?pwd=dWpueDdRYTdrcWNZeUVKUGJxaFl1Zz09

Meeting ID: 893 2315 5669

Passcode: 958009

Dial by your location

• +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

• +1 669 444 9171 US

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keiQuDbZoM

Jin Zhu is an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist who works with video and text to examine local housing and environmental justice issues. Her practice often involves interviews with impacted communities, public document queries, collaboration with activists and collectives, attending meetings with regulatory agencies, direct action documentation, and visits to sites of contamination, displacement or colonization. Her toolkit consists of cameras, conversation and, increasingly, code. She has presented or exhibited work at SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Southern Exposure, SF Arts Commission Galleries, and the Cantor Arts Center, among others. She holds an MFA from UC Berkeley. Currently, she is particularly interested in conversing about archives, storytelling games and diving birds.

Dena Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi born feminist scholar-activist, artist-cultural worker, community organizer and mother. Her transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of U.S. imperial war geographies, militarism, and petroculture in West Asia with an emphasis on contemporary transnational art, visual and material culture of the Arab/Muslim worlds. Her creative practice investigates the relationship between the politics, poetics and aesthetics of embodied fugitive survival practices, intergenerational narratives, and memory. Her artwork takes on varied practices including performance, video art, installation, digital art, photography, text, and activism. She creates performative, relational works, dedicated to participatory art, socially and politically engaged projects and collaborative engagement. Her work appears in a diversity of publications and shown globally in spaces ranging from national museums to abandoned buildings. She is a recipient of the 2021 Mellon Artist and Practitioner fellowship at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and 2020-2018 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has undertaken many academic research positions throughout her career including her role as a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, San Francisco State University, and Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. She holds a PhD from New York University, MA from The American University in Cairo and BA from San Francisco State University.

Real Talks: Cristine Blanco & Jin Zhu

August 28, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Cristine Blanco and Jin Zhu Wednesday, September 13th from 6-8 pm PST.

Real Talks will be held via zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84396703416?pwd=VHhBaWdLVVcrazg4UXBPTEFuYjJBZz09

Meeting ID: 843 9670 3416 Passcode: 783307Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbZqkQvWIj

Cristine Blanco is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture and installation. Her works take environmental injustices, the precarity of resources, and lineage as her starting point. Her labor intensive practice combines material and weight to explore both tension and care. Blanco holds an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Mills College. She is a recipient of California Arts Council Individual Fellowship and a Murphy Cadogan Award. She has exhibited works at Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul, Korea, Berkeley Art Center, Kala Art Institute, SF Arts Commission’s Main Gallery, /slash library and SOMArts Cultural Center. Blanco attended residencies at Balay Kreative, ARROZidency and Kala’s Print Public.

Jin Zhu is an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist who works with video and text to examine local housing and environmental justice issues. Her practice often involves interviews with impacted communities, public document queries, collaboration with activists and collectives, attending meetings with regulatory agencies, direct action documentation, and visits to sites of contamination, displacement or colonization. Her toolkit consists of cameras, conversation and, increasingly, code. She has presented or exhibited work at SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Southern Exposure, SF Arts Commission Galleries, and the Cantor Arts Center, among others. She holds an MFA from UC Berkeley. Currently, she is particularly interested in conversing about archives, storytelling games and diving birds.

Real Talks: Angel Anjos & Torreya Cummings

April 10, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Angel Anjos and Torreya Cummings Wednesday, May 10th from 7-9pm PST.

Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again. We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

Angel Albie Anjos is a first-generation Brazilian-American, multidisciplinary Queer and Trans Artist based in Oakland, CA, and working in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Anjos recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s in Art Practice and a minor in Art History, primarily focusing on Painting and Ceramics.

Their art practice is introspective and reflective of the emotional and physical experience of queerness/transness but specifically articulates its profound and historical resilience. By examining lived, intimate moments captured through photography, they aim to empower those misunderstood for their intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Angel teleports the viewer into a visual world that accepts and fosters authentic freedom. They explore multicultural identity, queer visual representation in society and history, and “The Queer Body” through a multidisciplinary lens, primarily using figurative painting, ceramic sculpture, and photography. Each piece contemplates the combination of the queer body with symbolic metaphors illustrated through nature, texture, and an emphasis on highly saturated color to develop a dramatized and exaggerated exposition of queerness and transness in its highest form.

Torreya Cummings works in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, installation, performance and video, using drag aesthetics, poor substitutions, reflections, hardware store materials, theater tricks, and the language of interpretive sites. Projects usually begin with a site or event, and then incorporate historical, scientific or experiential research. Their current focus is queer landscape. Cummings is a Bay Area Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and an artist in residence at Recology beginning fall 2023.

Residency Open Call

February 19, 2023

RTS is excited to announce our 2023-2024 residency program open call.

There are 2 residency tracks.

Track 1: 3 local artists will be awarded a 3-month period residency with a $2000 stipend.

Track 2: 3 out of town (non-Bay Area person) artists will be awarded a 1-month residency, a $1000 stipend, and a $2000 travel and housing stipend.

Note you can only apply to one track, not both tracks.

The residency studio at RTS is 170 sq. ft and includes access to a communal wood shop. RTS is centrally located near BART and downtown Oakland.

Requirements for the residency:

• Work on-site at the studio for a minimum of 15 hrs a week
• Give 2 artist talks during the residency period
• Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 10) for the RTS Residency archive

Note: No hazardous or toxic materials may be used in the studio space.

Application Fee: $10. Please Paypal application fee to @ realtimeandspace@gmail.com. If we DO NOT receive your application fee via PayPal your application will not be reviewed. 

Application link: https://forms.gle/7wujoMf57qWddvw4A

Deadline for applications is March 31, 2023. 

12 finalists will be selected–6 finalists for track 1; 6 finalists for track 2. The finalists will be notified via email. Finalist, please keep your calendar clear for the below dates. We will notify finalists Monday, April 10th with which 15 min slot you will have.

Finalist Interviews: 

                   Saturday, April 15, 1:00-2:30 pm

                   Monday, April 17, 6:00-7:30 pm

Each Interview will be 15 minutes.

All applicants will be notified by May 1, 2023.

Program begins June 1, 2023.

If you have any questions please email BOTH realtimeandresidency@gmail.com & realtimeandevents@gmail.com

Real Talks: Ahn Lee & Angel Anjos

January 04, 2023

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Ahn Lee and Angel Anjos Wednesday, January 25th from 7-9pm PST.

Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again. We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

Ahn Lee is a nonbinary (they/she), queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary practice of ceramics, research and performance relies on a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and research on the Cantonese diaspora. As a person of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Ahn explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research historiography, critical race and gender theory.

Ahn received their MFA in May 2022 from UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department, where they were the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Awardee. Ahn previously studied in UCLA’s Gender Studies Department as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow before leaving the program to pursue art full time. Their work has been shown at SOMArts, Root Division, The SF International Asian American Film Festival (CAAMFEST), TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, and as an Emerging Artist with Disabilities Grant recipient and a Creative Capital Artist Training Grant recipient at The Kennedy Center. In 2022, Ahn received the Simone V. Leigh Zenobia Award for the Watershed Ceramics Residency. Ahn is currently a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a resident at Real Time and Space, Oakland.

Angel Albie Anjos is a first-generation Brazilian-American, multidisciplinary Queer and Trans Artist based in Oakland, CA, and working in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Anjos recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s in Art Practice and a minor in Art History, primarily focusing on Painting and Ceramics.

My art practice is introspective and reflective of the emotional and physical experience of queerness/transness but specifically articulates its profound and historical resilience. By examining lived, intimate moments captured through photography, I aim to empower those misunderstood for their intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. I teleport the viewer into a visual world that accepts and fosters authentic freedom. I explore multicultural identity, queer visual representation in society and history, and “The Queer Body” through a multidisciplinary lens, primarily using figurative painting, ceramic sculpture, and photography. Each piece contemplates the combination of the queer body with symbolic metaphors illustrated through nature, texture, and an emphasis on highly saturated color to develop a dramatized and exaggerated exposition of queerness and transness in its highest form.

Studio Available Feb 1

Happy New Year!!! We have a studio available Feb 1 at RTS. If you want to be our newest member please apply. Deadline for application is Sunday, Jan 15th.We are made up of 16 studios and have 15 members. Our facility has a wood shop and a common space. The studio space is on the second floor, is 166 sq. ft. and rent is $340. Pictures to come soon!!!! Application link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYvznwxwre_cfWRqrQHYlmMyI0LdWKX_oWspchovztL_hbfA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Auction/Raffle Fundraiser

November 09, 2022

We are excited to host an auction & raffle fundraiser event Saturday, December 3 from 12-5 pm. The event will be in person(125 10th St Oakland, Ca). We will also be raffling amazing prizes. Raffle Tickets are $5.

Refreshments will be outside.

Safety precautions: everyone who enters the building must wear a mask, keep distance between each other, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

All proceeds will fund our 2023-2024 residency program. Our program awards 4 local bay area artists. Each artist receives a space for a 3-month period, a stipend, access to facilities, and more. Please help keep this amazing program alive. Thank you.

Real Talks: Leena Joshi & Ahn Lee

October 24, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Leena Joshi and Ahn Lee Wednesday, November 9th from 6-8pm PST.

Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again!!!! We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work can be found in SFMoMA’s Open Space, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They work as the Digital Media Arts Instructor at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.

Ahn Lee is a nonbinary (they/she), queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary practice of ceramics, research and performance relies on a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and research on the Cantonese diaspora. As a person of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Ahn explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research historiography, critical race and gender theory.Ahn received their MFA in May 2022 from UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department, where they were the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Awardee. Ahn previously studied in UCLA’s Gender Studies Department as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow before leaving the program to pursue art full time. Their work has been shown at SOMArts, Root Division, The SF International Asian American Film Festival (CAAMFEST), TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, and as an Emerging Artist with Disabilities Grant recipient and a Creative Capital Artist Training Grant recipient at The Kennedy Center. In 2022, Ahn received the Simone V. Leigh Zenobia Award for the Watershed Ceramics Residency. Ahn is currently a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a resident at Real Time and Space, Oakland.

Real Talks: Chris Hamamoto & Leena Joshi

August 02, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Chris Hamamoto and Leena Joshi Thursday, August 18th from 6-8pm PST.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81760779031

Meeting ID: 817 6077 9031

Chris Hamamoto is a designer, artist, and educator based in the Bay Area and teaching at California College of the Arts. In addition to teaching, he pursues an independent practice focused on how automation and algorithms affect communication and aesthetics – a topic he explores through graphic design, and software design and development. He has shown work, published, and lectured internationally at institutions such as Printed Matter, the Walker Art Center, Hongik University, Rutgers MGSA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work can be found in SFMoMA’s Open Space, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They work as the Digital Media Arts Instructor at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.

Real Talks: Connie Zheng & Chris Hamamoto

April 30, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Connie Zheng and Chris Hamamoto Thursday, May 19th from 6-8pm PST.

Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 868 3621 3582
Passcode: 966721

2022-23 Artists in Residence

April 05, 2022

We are very excited to announce our residents for 2022-23!  Thank you so much to everyone who applied!  Congrats to Albie Anjos, Leena Joshi, Chris Hamamoto, Ahn Lee