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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 Kasey Smith.For the past two years, Kasey Smith has been working on a social practice painting project involving translating Louis Comfort Tiffany glass patterns onto escargot snail shells. Snails were introduced to California the same year Tiffany was born. As part of this project, Kasey has created a series of studio events where she invited people in for tea, and to talk about the di …

As part of our weekend Artist in Residence Programs here at FLAX Oakland, please join us in welcoming artist Heather Robinson. Heather is a San Francisco-based mixed media painter. She's been painting in her tiny studio in Mission Bernal since 2007. Her painting is an exploration of surface through geometric patterns, vivid color, and texture. Heather describes herself as having "a magpie-like attraction to bright, decorated objects, but an orderly mind, and a strong schooling (from my arch …

Saturday & Sunday, June 16th - 17th 12pm - 4pm Oakland Store Please join us this weekend and welcome our  Weekend Artist in Residence, Natalie Schrik! Natalie has been a photographer for over 20 years. She holds a Bachelor's in Journalism/ Photojournalism from SFSU. Her photographs have been published commercially and for corporate branding for Virgin Airlines, San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the SFPL, and numerous startups, small businesses, and global non-profi …