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Dragon School A Mural Art Collective Chinatown Oakland, California
Dragon School is not just about Chinatown, nor even Asian art for that matter. It's a template for caring about where you live and doing something to make it more interesting and friendlier. It's about connecting all communities in your city together using art as the thread, and inviting each other to explore and participate making your city as a whole stronger. Dragon School is Synergy. [from dragon school 99 website]
"Big Bird" Mural 2017 "Bird Woman" Mural 1999 "Blue Woman" Mural 1999 "Two BART Ladies" Mural 1999 "Wings of Paradise" Mural 1999 Dragon Head Mural Frog Mural 1999 Mural 47 Rabbit Mural 1999 Several Murals
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"Bird Woman" Mural 1999, Artist: Emily Ding and the Dragon School, 8th and Webster Streets, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.[from wikipedia]

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Mural 47, Artists: Dragon School 99, Jack London Square, Oakland, California

Forty-seven is the fifteenth prime number, a safe prime, the thirteenth supersingular prime, and the sixth Lucas prime. Forty-seven is a highly cototient number. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n - 1.[from wikipedia]

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"Big Bird" Mural 2017, Artist: The_KAL, 8th Street and Webster Street, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

Big Bird is a Muppet character designed by Jim Henson and created by Kermit Love for the long-running children's television show Sesame Street.[from wikipedia]

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"Blue Woman" Mural 1999, Artist: 3nolam and The Dragon School, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

Of the color of the sky without clouds on a bright day, or a darker or lighter type of this.[from cambridge dictionary]

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Dragon Head Mural , Artists: Lopan4000, Robo_Disco, TheRealTheRuss, and the Dragon School, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.[from wikipedia]

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Several Murals, Artist: The Dragon School, 620 Franklin Street, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

Several murals were painted on the wall of a chain-linked industrial yard.

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Frog Mural 1999, Artist: Steven Anderson Art. and The Dragon School, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic.[from wikipedia]

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Rabbit Mural 1999, Artist: The Dragon School, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also contains the hares) of the order Lagomorpha (which also contains the pikas).[from wikipedia]

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"Two BART Ladies" Mural 1999, Artist: Dragon School, 8th and Webster Streets, Oakland Chinatown, Oakland, California

BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District which formed in 1957. The initial system opened in stages from 1972 to 1974. The system was extended most recently in 2020, when Milpitas and Berryessa/North San José stations opened as part of the Silicon Valley BART extension in partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA).[from wikipedia]

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"Wings of Paradise" Mural 1999, Artist: Vogue_TDK and The Dragon School, Oregon Chinatown, Oregon, California

In religion, paradise is a place of exceptional happiness and delight. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical or eschatological or both, often compared to the miseries of human civilization: in paradise there is only peace, prosperity, and happiness.[from wikipedia]


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