Interview of Isaiah Phillips by Meda Okelo. Topics include: moving to EPA when young; local businesses; grammar school experiences at James Flood Elementary including 4th grade teacher Ms. Walker and his first white male teacher; culture shock and experiences at Menlo-Atherton High School; how it could have been better at M-A; community changes at the start of the drug epidemic; Sonya-Clark Herrara, Eugene Clark and others at EPA Mural, Music & Arts – his gateway to becoming an artist; working at Live in Peace and its role in establishing EPACenter Arts; Mary Hofsted and John & Marsha Goldman and the creation of its building; mistakes made in the early days of EPACenter; Youth Art & Music Festival around 2014; current involvement in a local basketball tournament; recent work in the arts including a fellowship from Stanford; and thoughts about the future of EPA.

Última modificación

• 12/10/2024

Creator

• Meda Okelo

Colaboradores

• Isaiah Phillips

Subject

• RISE
• Heather Sundance Starnes
• Ms. Walker
• Justin Phelps
• Sonya Clark-Herrara
• Eugene Clark
• Dr. Piper
• Devon Blake
• Adrian Denise Phillips
• Plugged In
• Maurice Berry
• Isaiah Phillips
• EPA Mural, Music & Arts Project
• Goldman Foundation
• Whiskey Gulch

Language

• English

Date created

• 11/8/2024

Related url

•  https://vimeo.com/1034806682

Resource type

• Oral History

Rights statement

• EPA Rights Statement