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Guillen, Abel
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 1:09 PM
'Community Rejuvenation Project'; Hom, Stephanie
Roy Chan; Henderson, Maria A.; Chen Chiao Lun Jessica
RE: Mural at Madison Park

Hi Desi,
Audree has retired and Ms. Stephanie Hom is the new Interim Director of OPR. I have cced her here. I would also
suggest that you meet with the Chinatown Coalition to discuss Madison Square Park. I have included Jessica from my
office who can point you to this stake holder group. I will let OPR answer questions as to process.
Abel

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Oakland City Councilmember
Proudly Serving District 2
510-238-7002
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From: withoutmyego@gmail.com [mailto:withoutmyego@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Community Rejuvenation Project

Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 11:00 AM
To: Jones-Taylor, Audree V.; Guillen, Abel
Cc: Roy Chan
Subject: Mural at Madison Park

Dear Audree and Abel,

I have been calling OPR for the past week to determine the process for painting a mural on the red wall at
Madison Square Park (8th and Jackson) near Lake Merritt BART station. I have left several messages, spoken
to operators in the Recreation Programs department, and can not get a call back. Both the website and call
center have been unclear about who I need to speak to just to learn the process.
The project that I am proposing is a collaboration with the Oakland Chinatown Oral History Project (OCOHP).
I have cc'd their program director Roy Chan in this email. OCOHP has done extensive research and numerous
oral history interviews with the Tai Chi community that practices in the park in the early morning. I have funds
through the city of Oakland Cultural Funding Program to do a mural in Chinatown and have chosen to partner
with OCOHP to paint a mural on the red wall in the park to share the stories of the Tai Chi community that
practices there. We will develop a design based on the oral histories that OCOHP has gathered.
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Abel, we would love for D2 to support this project. I think it will be a close tie to the pieces that we are
designing for Laney College and bring new vibrance to the community.
Audree, we would also love for OPR to be on board. I have not been able to locate the OPR staff that supervises
this location and I am unclear about the process of creating a mural on OPR property. Can you direct me to the
correct staff to educate me on your processes? If you can personally encourage the team to help make this
project happen, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for you time. I look forward to hearing from you.
Desi Mundo
Founder and Director, Community Rejuvenation Project
www.crpbayarea.org
(510) 551-1096

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Chen Chiao Lun Jessica

Monday, February 08, 2016 3:08 PM
Guillen, Abel
Gerard, Jennie
RE: Time-Sensitive Questions re: Appeal Process

The meeting is conflicted with Ken Chambers and his group re: coal/army base. Do you want me to move it to other
day?
Jessica
Jessica Chen

Scheduler / Chinatown Liaison

Oakland District 2 Councilmember Abel Guilln
Office: 510-238-7002
Direct: 510-238-7022
Email: CLChen@OaklandNet.com

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From: Guillen, Abel
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 2:10 PM
To: Desi Mundo
Cc: Lailan Sandra Huen; Eric Arnold; Gerard, Jennie; Henderson, Maria A.; Chen Chiao Lun Jessica
Subject: RE: Time-Sensitive Questions re: Appeal Process

I would like to attend the meeting and will see if I can move another meeting at that time on my end. We will
get back to you to confirm.
Abel

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-------- Original message -------From: Desi Mundo <withoutmyego@gmail.com>

Date: 02/08/2016 1:44 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: "Guillen, Abel" <AGuillen@oaklandnet.com>
Cc: Lailan Sandra Huen <lailan.huen@gmail.com>, Eric Arnold <easportski@sbcglobal.net>, "Gerard, Jennie"
<JGerard@oaklandnet.com>, "Henderson, Maria A." <MAHenderson@oaklandnet.com>
Subject: Re: Time-Sensitive Questions re: Appeal Process
Abel, would you be willing to attend our meeting with Maria Poncel and Laney College on February 18 at 2
PM. We are meeting with Mrs. Phyllis Carter in the Administrative Tower, Room 215. This is the first meeting
to discuss the project with Laney.
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Please let me know if you can make it. Otherwise, we can schedule a time after that to discuss Bay
Development's contribution to the project.
Thanks again for your support.

Desi Mundo
Founder and Director, Community Rejuvenation Project
www.crpbayarea.org
(510) 551-1096
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Guillen, Abel <AGuillen@oaklandnet.com> wrote:
I would be happy to facilitate the dialogue between the community and Bay Development.

Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 5

-------- Original message -------From: Lailan Sandra Huen <lailan.huen@gmail.com>

Date: 02/08/2016 12:22 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: "Guillen, Abel" <AGuillen@oaklandnet.com>, Desi Mundo <withoutmyego@gmail.com>, Eric Arnold
<easportski@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Gerard, Jennie" <JGerard@oaklandnet.com>, "Henderson, Maria A." <MAHenderson@oaklandnet.com>
Subject: Re: Time-Sensitive Questions re: Appeal Process
We will see if Lynette can be there to welcome the Malonga community, but please let us know if another
representative from your office can be there as well.
I believe the problems are more at the Planning Department & Planning Commision which need serious
reforms, actually, though of course we need an Art Commission as well.
The problem is not finding a location, it is that the Bay Development never committed an amount to help
replace the mural, even though she is covering up $40,000 in public art funds invested into that wall, and it took
$80,000 so far to create the mural. She said she would "kickstart" fundraising, which could mean $5,000 or any
amount she chooses. The community is now asking her to replace all of it, which would probably be $80,000100,000.
It looks like we will be setting up a negotiation meeting with Maria Poncel in the next week (proposing this
Wednesday, let us know what your availability is that day, there is also the meeting with Laney on the 18th that
could be good to have you), and that would be great if you can help be the city mediator to witness and
document what the developer promises, the community would like her to sign a written MOU with the
agreements.
I'm looping in Desi & Eric from CRP into this email, so we can all coordinate, thanks.
Lailan Sandra Huen
Cell > 510.292.1562
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Guillen, Abel <AGuillen@oaklandnet.com> wrote:

I will be traveling on Thursday afternoon and not sure that I will be able to greet the community members. Please note
that I support a Citizens Art Commission to better deal with these issues as they will continue to come up. I have put
Bay Development in touch with Laney College, they are interested in helping host the murals somehow. I have also put
Bay Development in touch with OMCA to see if they might be able to figure out a way of salvaging the mural in some
fashion. I am available to meet with both Desi and the developer to see if we can find a resolution to the communitys
concerns.

Let s go Oakland!

Abel J. Guilln

Oakland City Councilmember

Proudly Serving District 2

510-238-7002
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From: Lailan Sandra Huen [mailto:lailan.huen@gmail.com]

Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 11:31 PM
To: Guillen, Abel

Subject: Re: Time-Sensitive Questions re: Appeal Process

Thanks, though it seems that Rachel may be part of the much larger problem we're uncovering in the planning
department, that they are fast tracking all of these developments without sufficient neighborhood mediation,
which isn't good for developers or residents, and forces community to take it to the streets, stalling overall
development.

Of course I would like to touch base about all this when we meet in a few weeks.

Speaking of marching, the Malonga community will be coming to City Hall Thursday around 12pm. Can you
be there to welcome them to the Council offices & listen to their concerns? I think it will be important for you
to show them that they have a Councilmember in the neighborhood who will actually listen

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Greetings everyone,
Please find our Alice Street Redesign proposal attached. Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns that you
have, at your earliest convenience. We are still waiting on the specifications of the walls of the theater building and the
forum to create a proposal for the implementation of a mural. Also, please note that this proposal is solely for the theater
building. The forum walls would focus on Laney history and culture and would involve a greater research component, as
well as additional architectural accommodations in the design. I will prepare a separate proposal for the Laney design.
Thank you.
Desi Mundo
Founder and Director, Community Rejuvenation Project
www.crpbayarea.org
(510) 551-1096
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Proposal
ThepurposeofthisprojectistobegintheprocesstocreateanewmuralontheLaneyCollege
theaterbasedontheresearchandimageryoftheCommunityRejuvenationProjectsThe
UniversalLanguagemuralon14thandAliceStreet,throughathoroughredesignprocess.

Background
CRPsinitialprocesswastointerviewmorethan50culturekeepers,localresidentsand
communityhistorianstodeterminethedesignofamuralspanningfourwallsandapproximate
10,000ft.ThemuralfocusedontheculturalresiliencyoftheChineseandAfroDiasporic
communitiesthatintersectedatthelocation.ThemuralwascompletedbyPanchoPescador
andDesiMundoinJune2015.Threemonthslater,CRPwasnotifiedthatanewcondominium
developmentwouldsoonblocktheviewoftheexistingwork.MariaPoncelofBayDevelopment
workedwithCouncilmemberAbelGuillensofficetoidentifyLaneyCollegeasapotential
locationtorecreatethemural.Sincethattime,CRP,BayDevelopmentandrepresentativesfrom
CouncilDistricts2and3havemettodeterminethattheLaneyTheaterwouldbethemost
appropriatelocationforthemural.

DesignProcess
CRPintendstomaintainalotoftheoriginalaestheticsoftheUniversalLanguagemural.
However,alloftheimageswillbereorganizedtofitthenewspace.Reorganizingtheimages
willalsocreatetheneedtoreplaceimagesandtheartistsintendtoincorporatenewimagery
intothepiece,requiringadditionalresearch.Inthisprocess,theartistswillrevisitthepeople
depictedintheoriginalpieceanddiscussnewwaystoportraythemandanyomissionsthat
mayhavetakenplaceintheoriginalproject.Eachlivingpersondepictswillneedtosigna
statementapprovingtheuseoftheirimage.CRPwillthencompileadraftproposalthatexplains
theproposeddesign,identifiesanactionplan,andaddressessafetyconcerns.Finally,the
proposalwillneedtobeapprovedbytheFacilitiesCommittee,LaneysPresident,andthe
PeraltaCollegeDistrict.

Budget
ImageResearch(15hrs)
$750
Meetingsw/CultureKeepers (10hrs)
$500
ImageCollagingProcess(30hrs)
$1,500
Presentations (3hrs)
$150
MuralExecutionStrategy(4hrs)
$200

SafetyPlanning(2hrs)
$100
ArtistAssistantRecruitment(10hrs)
$500
TOTALBUDGET
$3,500

Franz Fischer - Pescador

P.O. Box 19295
Oakland, CA 94619
510-712-1695 cell phone
pescador72@hotmail.com
Education
1995 Taller Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile Printmaking
1993 School of Fine Arts, Via del Mar, Chile Printmaking
1992 School of Fine Arts, Valparaiso, Chile
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Ultra Tumba, Nielsen Art Gallery, Albany, CA
2003 Resistencia Cultural, La Pea Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
1999 Pichanga, La Pea Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
1995 Una boca apagar todos los fuegos, Sala 1913, Santiago, Chile
Group Exhibitions
2012 - Cinco de Mayo, Laurel Works, Oakland, CA
- Art Movilous Mobile Art Exhibition
- Two Visions, Paradiso, Oakland, CA
2011 - Dia de Los Muertos, Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA
2011 - Rejuvenation Layover, Oakland, CA
2009 - Reconstructing the Empire Memory, La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
2008 - ETH6 Artist exhibition , Blankspace, Oakland, CA
- Human remains FLOAT Flotation center, Oakland, CA
- Dia de los Muertos, Hayward, CA
2007 - Art against Empire, Melting Point , San Francisco, CA
- Chilean Youth Diaspora, La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
2004 - Visual Poetry, Heritage Square, Emeryville, CA
2003 - Two 9/11s in a Lifetime A Project and Exhibit on the Politics of
Memory,
The New College, San Francisco, CA
2002 - Moments Notice, Galera de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
2001

- The Chilean Diaspora series, La Pea Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

- Coalition on Homelessness art auction, SomArtsGallery, San Francisco,CA

2000 - Latin-American Month III, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

- Prison Artshow, The Dry Hole, Balazo Mission Badland Gallery, San

Francisco, CA
- Circo de Mayo, Balazo Mission Badland Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Memory, Justice and Aesthetics in post Pinochet Chile, La Pea Cultural
Center, Berkeley, CA
1999

- SOFO South of Fourth Street, The Underground Gallery, San Rafael, CA

1998 - Victor Jara 25 years, La Pea Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

- Annual grafica, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1997 - Three Visions, One Show, La Pea Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
- Masks of Mirth and Memory, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
- The Magic Box, Epic Arts, Oakland, CA
1996

- Printmakers from Chile, Show n Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995

- Grabados T.A.V. Centro Cultural de Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile

- Estampas del Cono Sur Malaspina Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1993

- Colectiva, Escuela de Bellas Artes, Quinta Vergara, Via del Mar, Chile
- Expo Joven, Universidad Federico Santa Mara, Valparaso, Chile
- Plstica Joven, Biblioteca Severn, Valparaso, Chile
- Bajo fianza, Centro Cultural de Valparaso, Valparaso, Chile
- Yerba Buena 383, Valparaso, Chile

Special Projects
2013 Awarded the Creative Work Fund Grant to collaborate with 67 Sueos on three
murals in Oakland
2012 Commissioned by KONO and the City of Oakland to paint an electrical box.
2011 Commissioned to lead and paint mural monument with 67 Sueos in S.F., CA
2010 Commissioned to paint a large mural in Cologne, Germany
2009 Several commissions for murals in public schools of Oakland, CA.
2007 Co-author of Libro de la Sombra o Recortes de la Memoria Joint project
between writer, Jose Antonio Galloso (poetry), and Artist, Franz Fischer, (illustrations).
Published in Lima, Peru by Bizarro Editions in April of 2007.
2005 Living Walls Mural Project, San Francisco, CA

Desi Mundo
2721 60th Ave.
Oakland California, 94605
(510) 551-1096
WithoutMyEgo@Gmail.com
www.CRPBayArea.org
Education
B.A. Psychology / Management, Earlham College 1999
Current Classes
Unity High School, Arrow-Soul Arts Program Facilitator, 2008 - present
Community Day School, After-School Mural Class, 2013 - present
Organizational Leadership
Community Rejuvenation Project, Founder, February 2006 - present
Weekend Wake-Up Free All-Ages Events, Founder, 2004 - 2007
Higher Gliffs, Executive Director 1999 present
Alice Street Mural Project, Executive Producer, 2013 - present
Awards and Accolades
Rising Leaders Fellowship 2005, Youth Leadership Institute
Individual Artist Grants 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, City of Oakland Cultural Arts Funding Program
Best of the Bay 2006, East Bay Express, Best All Ages Hip-Hop Event Weekend Wake-Up
Fund for Artists Art Teachers Fellowship, East Bay Community Foundation, 2008
East Bay Fund for Artists, East Bay Community Foundation, 2010
Selected Murals 1994 - Present
Solidarity Forever, 20 x 600 w/ Peskador on ESC Local 20, 2014
Who Stole the Sun, 15 x 400 w/ Raven, Peskador, Abakus, Muse, and Students from Oakland Peace Camp,
2013
Madre Maiz, 20 x 200 w/ P.H.A.S.E.2, Mike 360, Pescador, Release, Raven & Miss Ammo, 7th and Market,
Oakland 2012
Peace and Dignity, 15 x 300 w/ P.H.A.S.E.2, Vulcan, Mike 360, Pescador, Elijah Pfotenhauer and Beats 737,
41st and International Spring 2011
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Martin Luther King Cultural Corridor, 5 murals between 22 and 28 Streets on MLK Way, Oakland
th
th
rd
Funktown Arts District, 7 murals in the square between 18 St., Park Blvd. 19 St. and 3 Ave., Oakland
Salmon Struggle, 12 x 120 w/ Morgan Simon, Abe, Arthur, Abakus, & Phen, Olympia, April 2009
th
Butterflies & Robots, 25 x 100, spray paint & latex primer mural w/ Mike 360, Daz, Omen II, & Bay 8 &
McDonald, Richmond, December 2008
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, 10 x 35 for Democracy video, Bronx, NY, March 2009
Wounded Knee Memorial, 10 x 36 natural pigment/ spray paint mural w/ Mike 360, Wounded Knee, July 2008
Freedom in a Cage, 20 x 100, spray paint mural w/ Mike 360, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, June 2008
The Beginning of Trails, 20 x 25 spray, latex & traditional paint w/ 360 & Remind, Lame Deer Reservation, July
2007
th
Ancient Meditations, 15 x 40 mural w/ Hyde, Daz, Bert & Devote, Foothill and 47 Ave., March 2007
War On Meth, 20 x 25 spray paint mural w/ Remind, Lame Deer Reservation, September 2006
12 Doorways of Perception, 12 x 1000 w/ 11 Artists, Chicago, Summer 1996
We Still Miss You Harold Washington, 18 x 100 with Zore, Raven, Rafa, & Beloved, Chicago, Summer 1994