CIVIC DESIGN STUDIO
RECENT AWARDS
Ancora Place Wins 2025 Gold Nugget Award!
The Ancora Place team of Satellite Affordable Housing, Pyatok Architects, Phillip Win Architecture, and Civic Design Studio has received honors from the distinguished national Gold Nugget Awards. The award was given for “Best Affordable Housing Community.” Civic designed and co-created permanent outdoor and indoor artwork with local artists. We strategically used the artwork to create connections between the residents and next-door EastSide Cultural Center. We worked alongside our team of artists to produce at 10,000 sq ft mural and permanent relief sculpture designs .
SF International Design Awards 2023
The Brooklyn Basin project is unique and one of its kind by bridging multiple sectors to create various forms of art. We worked with Oakland teachers, students and master artists to execute this project, which consisted of a display of 160+ pieces of large scale public artwork, including: kinetic wind installations, concrete floor designs, wall to wall sound panels, and a 2 story lobby mural
Bay Area Leeds 2023
Champion of Change - Career Pathways Award
Bay Area LEEDS (Linking Education and Economic Development Strategies) is dedicated to developing and supporting sustained collaboration among business, labor, government, K‐12, and post‐secondary education and training institutions to strengthen the regional economy.
Bay Area LEEDS provides a platform for employers and educators to collaborate to ensure that graduates have the right experiences and skill sets to support local industry’s talent pipeline needs into the future.
Oakland Unified School District 2024
Internship Host of the Year
Civic was honored by OUSD as it’s Linked Learning host of the year. We worked with over 60 promising young artists through their ECCCO summer internship program, on projects that beautified and uplifted neighborhoods and communities in need.
Other Recognitions
Cultural Ambassadorship - Oakland to San Denis, Paris 2022
US Congressional Recognition - Chinatown Improvement 2019
Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce - Building the Future Award 2019
East Bay Express - Best Reimagined Neighborhood 2011
Smithsonian Institute - Digital American History Archives - Starbright World 2002
PRESS
A new art exhibit at the Oakland Main Library profiles the stories of immigrant students
“Past Present Futures” will be unveiled at the Main Library’s open house on Saturday afternoon.
Oaklandside: At Castlemont’s FabLab, young Oakland artists make big paintings for public spaces
It’s a unique summer internship through Civic Design Studio, which partners with Oakland schools to showcase local students’ talent across the city.
Oaklandside: Youth Creative Expo to showcase art by Oakland students
Saturday’s community block party in Old Oakland will also feature student performances and artwork for sale.
LA Times: Shocked by Oakland’s decline, a resident seeks to revive one block at a time
Neighborhood Beautification Efforts in Collaboration with Local Artists and Fremont High School Students
Videos
Watch recent coverage of our work on building creative pathways, and arts, education and ecology