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In our Artist Employee Spotlight series, we are highlighting the diverse and exceptional talent here at FLAX art & design.Meet Taylor Smith, an Oakland-based artist and jewelry designer with a meticulous appreciation for sweating the details. Her pieces are often crafted through intricate pattern and dot work, where she uses thoughtful precision to highlight meaningful themes. Through several mediums including metalwork, painting, drawing, and mixed media, Taylor is enamored with bringing d …

April Gavin practices a variety of mixed-media textile techniques including, but certainly not limited to, thread-sketching, painting, block printing on fabric and paper. These techniques create a plethora of work from one of a kind garments and accessories to hand-bound books and collage. April teaches regularly at summer camps, local businesses, and private tutoring throughout the Bay Area. For this residency, April will be creating one of kind handmade books on the sales floor at Flax i …

Joining the ranks of Strathmore's warm tan and cool grey toned papers is a brand new color: steel blue. The origins of this new toned blue is the perfect example of what happens when creative customers give great feedback. Strathmore's popular Vision Pads come with a customizable cover made of a heavyweight, (300gsm) steel blue mixed media paper. This cover paper was so popular that artists were asking for more, and the blue toned mixed media paper was born. These toned papers are design …

We welcome artist Emily Habansky to our FLAX Oakland store this weekend as part of our FLAX Artist in Residency program. We first met Emily when we moved our flagship store to 1501 Martin Luther King Jr Way in Oakland. An Oakland resident, she quickly became one of our regulars, and we quickly became huge fans of her work.Emily is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing. After RISD, Emily started painting multimedia work. She is an abst …

As part of our weekend Artist in Residence Programs here at FLAX Oakland, please join us in welcoming artist Laura McHugh.    Laura is a mixed-media artist who currently lives in Half Moon Bay CA. Originally from Ohio, via Canadian parents. She works primarily in cold wax medium on cradled wood panels. Laura will be turning a portion of our FLAX sales floor into her personal studio for the weekend of August 4-5, Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4pm at the FLAX Oakland store. We e …