Grantee Database
Community Rejuvenation Project
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$18,250.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Community Rejuvenation Project will partner with Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) to design and produce a large-scale community mural in the Casa Sueños Building in Oakland’s Fruitvale District: CURYJ’s new hub for the Youth Power Zone and permanent supportive housing for system-impacted youth and families. The project, titled From Bars to Blossoms: Dreaming Beyond Incarceration, will be co-created with youth leaders from CURYJ’s Dream Beyond Bars, Homies 4 Justice, and Life Coaching programs. Through intergenerational storytelling workshops and community design sessions, youth, elders, and families will shape a mural that reflects cultural resilience, justice, and collective healing. CAC funds will support artist compensation, youth fellowships, supplies, and community engagement activities, ensuring the mural reflects the lived experiences, visions, and values of Fruitvale’s historically under-resourced communities.
Organization Summary
As a pavement to policy organization, CRP develops and implements best practices around public art policy through strategy-based, on-the-ground experience in urban communities. Over the past twelve years, the collective has painted more than 300 murals throughout the Bay Area. CRP has developed an innovative and effective model for community engagement by incorporating multimedia and documentary filmmaking into its approach. In addition, CRP has advocated strongly for increased investment in public art and more sensible public art policy. CRP has also been a founding member of several community-based coalitions working on ongoing equitable development, anti-displacement, and cultural resiliency campaigns, as well as increased transparency and accountability from public officials. CRP has also been a part of important discussions, both in the municipal and public sectors, around creative placemaking, cultural equity, and new directions in public art, on both a local and national level.
Organization
Community Rejuvenation Project
Address
2721 60TH AVE
OAKLAND
94605-1534
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 269-7840
Congressional District
California Assembly district 18
State Assembly District
District 18
State Senate District
District 9
