Sometimes, numbers don’t really tell the tale. For instance, the FBI reports that in 2014, there were 8,124 gun murders in this country. And hearing that, you might feel that it gives you some grasp on the impact of gun violence. Eight thousand, one hundred and twenty-four, you say. That’s a lot of people —…
An art project seeking to engage residents throughout the community in critical thinking and analysis of gun violence is now open for public viewership at Las Positas College in Livermore. Organized by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in collaboration with The Robby Poblete Foundation, the “Art of Peace” exhibition presents six local artists and…
This is all that’s left of the 188 weapons turned in as part of the recent gun buyback program hosted by the United Playaz, a Filipino-led anti-violence group based in San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department collected, disassembled these weapons, and are showing all these for the public to see. “We want to make…
We are now accepting concept proposals for artists living or working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using materials from the June 30 San Francisco Gun Buyback, artists will create art for the Art of Peace San Francisco exhibit, which will be used to raise awareness about the impacts of gun violence in our communities.…
The San Francisco Police Department brought the remains of dozens of dismantled guns to a pair of local non-profits Thursday with the idea to take pieces associated with violence to creating works of art dedicated to peace. view article
The “Art for Peace” initiative that was born in Solano County and has spread to other parts of the Bay Area is now in San Francisco. The Robby Poblete Foundation and United Playaz, in partnership with the San Francisco Police Department, were scheduled Thursday to officially launch the project in which guns voluntarily sold back…
Media Contact Rudy Corpuz, United Playaz, rudy@unitedplayaz.org Pati Navalta Poblete, Robby Poblete Foundation pati@robbypobletefoundation.org SAN FRANCISCO – JULY 17, 2018 – Two Bay Area nonprofits, United Playaz and The Robby Poblete Foundation, in partnership with the San Francisco Police Department, are uniting to bring a groundbreaking new project called “The Art of Peace” to San…
Sculptor and designer Brian Enright, of West Oakland, California, has always used his art to give new life to objects and artifacts. Through his work using metal, wood and other raw materials that are often at the end of their life cycles, Mr. Enright changes our perceptions of these everyday items. That’s why he seized…
Coming days after yet another mass shooting in the US—this time at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, where ten people were killed—an exhibition featuring art formed from dismantled firearms opened in Oakland, California on Tuesday (22 May). The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, together with the Robby Poblete Foundation, organised the show and commissioned local artists to transform hundreds…
No words can heal the heart of a parent who has lost a child to gun violence. But for Pati Navalta Poblete, whose 23-year-old son Robby was fatally shot in Vallejo in 2014, writing helped. “I started out writing letters to Robby every day,” she says, “from two weeks after he was killed to one year…