The Crucible : Fall Community Open House 2008

Scroll down to check out pictures from our 2008 Fall Community Open House

A special thank you to all our exhibitors, performers, volunteers, faculty, students and staff for making this a successful and fun open house. And of course thank you to all our fabulous attendees!

Exhibitor List:
Oakland Fire Department City Slicker Farms DeFremery Park Mandela Foods Cooperative West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project East Bay College Fund Prescott Circus Clowns	Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Youth Radio Trapeze Arts West Oakland Discovery Museum de Young Museum Popo's BumpityThump	Youth Movement Records CUE/Velocity Circus What Now America Propville Directory Studio One Oakland School for the Arts

Student Art Show - Best in Show Winners
FIRST PLACE Cloud Platter by Phyllis Williams	SECOND PLACE Desert Wind by Leda Contis-Papassotiriou	THIRD PLACE Wall-E by Crystal Carrillo

Panel from our Wheelchair Ramp Project	Panel from our Wheelchair Ramp Project
Exhibitor - Oakland Fire Department Station 3	Exhibitor - City Slicker Farms
Exhibitor - Youth Movement Records	Exhibitor - What Now America, face painting and creating smiles.
Felix, one of our youth instructors, demonstrating wood carving.	A TIG Welding demo by one of our faculty, Warren.
Stone carving Demo by one of our students.	Denise, one of our Jewelry faculty, shows off a fiery melted silver pour.
These two enthusiastic spectators model their protective eye wear.	Brian, one of our welding instructors, demos oxyacetylene welding. photo by Mark Rozhin
Rodney, our new enameling instructor demos the proccess of Cloisonné.	Tara, one of our youth instructors demonstrates glass flameworking.
Prescott Circus Clowns entertained us with stilting, juggling and other extraordinary acts.	Our Kiln Glass department displayed a beautiful array of work.
Spectators gather to watch a fiery bronze pour demo.	Nick, our foundry instructor, as he pours the bronze.
BumpityThump, a West Oakland Youth Drumming group, put on a rhythmic show	A close-up of a Glory Hole demonstration. photo by Mark Rozhin
Attendees of all ages enjoyed Ken's Harmonograph in our Machine Shop.	Youngsters captivated by the harmongraph.
Norman, one of our neon instructors, shows off his neon skills. photo by Mark Rozhin	Billy, our mold making instructor shows off his skills to a group of curious spectators.

Student Art Show	Student Art Show
This young art aficionado enjoys the rocket car exhibit.	6 Layer Pendant by Phyllis Williams Made in Glass Cold Working
Green Venetian Necklace by Elaine Richards Made in Continuing Techniques in Glass Beads	Untitled Mixed Media piece by Julio Hernandez Made in Youth Super Sculpture
Midcentry Mania by Jon Wieland Made in Stained Glass Sculpture	Cloud Platter by Phyllis Williams Made in Glass Fusing and Slumping
Wall-E by Crystal Carrillo Made in Youth Welding	Stand by Dan Caven Made in Introduction to Neon & Continuing Techniques in Neon
Geronimo's Cadillac by Ray Shiflett Made in Introduction to Neon	Desert Wind by Leda Contis-Papassotiriou Made in Glass Fusing and Slumping
Untitled by Meredith Holmes Made in Youth Fused Glass & Mosaic Madness	Mouse Droid by Mason Holmes Made in Youth Radical Robots

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