About the Project

Every year in October, the Gardens at Lake Merritt in Oakland host an art exhibition called The Autumn Lights Festival. This festival hosts about a hundred local artists who create light art displays for ticket holders to admirer at night. Oakland High School students in the Visual Arts Academy will create an art piece for this event. Our two hundred students will each have a part in a collective light box display that will run for three nights at this wonderful community event. The light box display will hold graphic design art and photographs created, painted, and decorated by the students. The light boxes will be put on semi-permanent display in Uptown Oakland in a participating store front. This is a great opportunity for our students to gain hands on experience of what it takes to be professional artists creating large scale works of art for a public exhibition. Students will express their creativity and gain valuable project management skills.