You could call it art activism - students from Oakland School for the Arts armed themselves with chalk to fight back against loss of safety outside their own school.
Hundreds of Oakland School for the Arts students drew on the sidewalks outside their campus with chalk Tuesday to spread messages of joy and hope.Art, beauty, poetry, community - it all flowed onto the streets of Oakland outside the Fox Theater Tuesday as students took over the sidewalks to fight back against loss of safety outside their own school.
You could call it art activism - hundreds of students from Oakland School for the Arts armed themselves with chalk to express their feelings of being trapped inside their urban school in downtown Oakland. "Recently, the conditions have shifted as we've all seen. I now have a security guard accompany every PE class. What they witness on the streets daily is not something I want young people to see and be exposed to. If people know it's a school zone, crime is less likely to happen in the immediate area," Mike Oz, the executive director of Oakland School for Arts said.Student artist Sonia Suarez said, "I feel more safe instead of getting hassled.
The artist who spearheaded this effort was gratified. "Reclaiming the streets - that's exactly what it is. And identifying there's a school here," Michele Pred said.
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