sponsored the Oakland Literature Expo portion of the City of Oakland’sArt & Soul Festival from 2001 through 2004. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored
Negra y Blanca won the 2012 OaklandPen Award for Literature. Deena Metzger was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1936 to Arnold and Bella Posy. She first attended
1904 and 1908, includes the: Fourth and Fifth Annual Exhibitions of the OaklandArt Fund sponsored by the Starr King Fraternity; Palette, Lyre andPen Club
easily identified by its thin pen strokes, and the light shading that outlined her usually militant female caricatures. Lewis' art usually represented common