Opening Party & Community Exhibition
Join us on Thursday, May 29 from 7 - 9 pm at Ciel Creative Space for a FREE night of gorgeous art, cool music, and loving community. Enjoy a fun evening with light bites, drinks, art-making, and music with friends and fellow art lovers.
We’re celebrating East Bay artists! The centerpiece of the party will be our Community Exhibition, featuring a dazzling mix of artwork by participating East Bay Open Studios artists.) Come mingle with talented creatives from your community, preview their beautiful creations, and make a plan to see more of their work at East Bay Open Studios May 31 - June 1 and June 7 - 8. (And get a head start on adding to your collection at this special preview!)
Enjoy curated drinks by Golden Rule Spirits and Oakland United Beerworks, delicious bites by California Rose Catering, and artful tunes by live vinyl DJ Dylan Ransley. You can even try your hand at print-making with Taller Graficante! This event is generously hosted by Ciel Creative Space, a stunning new artistic sanctuary in the East Bay where creative minds explore, collaborate, and co-exist.
Summer 2025 East Bay Open Studios at Ciel Creative Space
The very name “Ciel” for an industrial complex inevitably invokes the lines “reach high” and “the sky’s the limit”… and as the company proudly displays, it has taken its own advice, becoming one of the Bay Area’s Top 50 BIPOC-owned businesses. All the more interesting that its front door is nearly hidden among the façade of its monumental facility, almost humorously found by tracing an arc of temporary marks in the parking lot.
This modesty completely disguises the environment created inside the site, a stunning and strategic blend of Ciel’s three design touchstones: sanctuary, creativity, and productivity.
Read more about our generous hosts and their history here.
