Check out oaklandartbeat’s photo spread on our Femme Cartel opening!

This is the last batch of preview images from the Femme Cartel show – I’ll try to get some photos of folks hanging their art tomorrow night. Remember, the opening is just two days away. Tie a ribbon on your finger, put a note on your fridge – tattoo it on your thigh if you [...]

Still more coming next week, but we’re taking a little art blog break for the weekend…these will have to tide you over for a couple days.

There’s so much variety in this show. More beautiful images…

Emily from Femme Cartel has been sending me images for the Cartel show just a couple at a time (what a tease!), but today I have a stack to post. I love this show. I think you will too. So, don’t miss it!

We’re getting new images from the Femme Cartel, and we’ll be posting them every few days as they come in…don’t miss the opening party!

After all the excitement of our awesome two year anniversary party and the opening of our December show “We are the People in Your Neighborhood” (which if you haven’t seen yet, you ought to), we’re getting ready for next months show, produced by our friends at Femme Cartel. We’re planning a big block-long event for [...]

I’m so excited to see the art on the walls for our opening and anniversary party this evening. The walls have become a huge collage of small pieces – many of the artists are showing literally dozens of small things, which makes the experience of looking at the art just that much more engaging – [...]

In December, Actual Cafe is celebrating two years of operation in Oakland’s Golden Gate district. On Friday December 9th from 5-10pm, we’ll commemorate the occasion with the opening of a retrospective art show, entitled “We Are The People In Your Neighborhood”, and featuring our favorite artists who have shown at the cafe in the past [...]

Come join us for our first ever Live Drawing party! Watch awesome artists create one-of-a-kind works of art! Buy them while the ink is still wet! We’ll have a group of local artists, selected for their talent and ability to draw with an audience. Observers are encouraged to talk to artists about their work while [...]