In-school and community workshops and collaborative projects, internships, apprenticeships, and partnerships with K-12, industry, and higher education partners to offer exposure, upskilling, training, and connections to tech, arts, entertainment, and other creative industries.
Internships and Apprenticeships
Oakland Comic Con Summer Internship in Design, Screen Printing and Entrepreneurship
In partnership with Lot78 Studios, Rudsdale Continuation School and the Oakland Unified School District ECCCO Program OTEC offers a 6-week internship in design, screen printing, and entrepreneurship. High school youth learn marketable skills and develop proposals for real design projects. For Summer 2024, the design interns will create a proposal for the logo and screen-printed merchandise samples for the next Oakland Comic Con.
Summer 2024 Screen Printing Apprenticeship with Sunset Printshop
An 8-week Apprenticeship for three East Bay youth to learn the ins and outs of art and commercial printing, printshop management and care, retail and community hosting in a public artmaking and community gathering space.
Community Workshops
Free Cosplay Garment Construction Community Workshop Series at PLACE
Coming October 2024!
In-School Collaborations
Black Joy Superheroes with the Oakland Technical High School Fashion Academy
11th and 12th-grade student artists from the Oakland Technical High School Fashion Academy, OTFA, developed AfroComicCon cosplay-inspired characters, complete with five fashion illustration looks and a completed garment. Each character is inspired by students’ reflections about their own lives, and their designs are influenced by each character’s story and superpowers. Student work was shown at the Oakland Black Joy Festival in February 2024.
