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Keith "K-Dub" Williams, Arts Specialist K-Dub is an artist, art educator, muralist and community youth arts organizer. K-Dub holds a BA in Art, Cal-State Univ. Long Beach. In 2008, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Mocha Museum of Children’s Art Oakland. From 2000 to 2008 K-Dub was the Co-Director of the Oakland High School- Visual Art Academy. K-Dub has worked with students in northern and southern California to create community Murals in over 40 Schools, Parks, Neighborhoods and Art Centers. K-Dub has been presented with “Visual Art Teacher of the Year”- 2006/07 & 2003/04 by Art Is; “Artist of the Year” presented by City of Long Beach. He was also chosen as “Artist of the Year” by the Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, and was nominated for the Eureka Fellowship by the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco.

K-Dub’s personal work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Galleries and Museums including: Oakland Museum; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Cal State Long Beach University Museum; and Steel Life Gallery in Chicago, IL. K-Dub is Founder and Creative Director of Hood Games, an urban Skateboard Jam and Youth Arts Festival that blends skateboarding with live art, music, dance and fashion performances. K-Dub has also produced over 10 Hood Games skateboard themed Art exhibitions in museums, galleries, public art spaces and three Skateboard film festivals in Oakland, Napa and American Canyon, CA.

Currently, K-Dub is the Co Curator of the exhibition “How We Roll” at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, on show through January 2011. “How We Roll” showcases African American/Latino contributions in Skateboard history& culture. The exhibit features collections, photography, video and original artwork from pro skaters and invited artists.

keith@youthinarts.org

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