Offramp Studios
Offramp Studios is a 27 unit Live/Work building in West Oakland. It's proximity to the West Oakland BART allows tenants to be in Down Town San Francisco in ten to fifteen minutes. The building has been live/work since 1985 and offers an atmosphere of creativity and community to its residents. Among the artists living and working in the building are F. Michael Wells, Richard Akers, Mike Paunovich, Helen Ann Licht, Rudi Cillibrasi and Æschetech. For information regarding available live/work space, visit: OfframpStudios.net.
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Marbled Color Clay DVD by Richard Akers
Learn how to work with color clays to create marbled effects in your pottery with Richard Akers’ latest DVD Marbled Color Clay. Akers demonstrates techniques to achieving various styles of marbling and vessel construction. Get tips and exert advice on how to transform your pottery with two or more types of clay. This 2 hour video is a condensed version of a workshop given at Rossmore in Walnut Creek, CA.
Buy the DVD for $15, plus $3 shipping.
From the back cover:
Richard’s Passion for creating things goes back to his childhood. As a boy, he grew up helping his family at their waterfront restaurant business. At the age of six, Richard had open heat surgery and suffered oxygen deprivation, necessitating that he relearn much of the language skills we all take for granted. Growing up with a learning disability, Richard found that he excelled in the three-dimensional realm working with his hands, putting things together and taking them apart.
Creation. Repetition. Destruction.
Today Dr. Richard Akers chairs the Contra Costa College Art Department in the San Francisco Bay Area, and lives with his wife Kate in a sun-light loft filled with art and pets. Richard is pictured with his current series of work: Cores from Ground Zero, created 2006 in reaction to the events of 9/11.
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