# @project_backboard on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CxdWY7PrB4f
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21513869-project-backboard-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-21T15:27:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Project Backboard (@project_backboard) — https://gondola.cc/project_backboard

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🎨 adiamillett 

Adia Millet
𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 2023
📍 Lowell Park, Oakland, CA

Thank you zendaya kizzithompson and family for bringing this artwork by Adia Millett to life on the newly renovated basketball courts at Lowell Park in Oakland!

“This piece is inspired by the idea of communal levitation, lifting each other up, like a child lifts a kite, paper airplane, or a basketball. Traces of those objects, and an ancestral mask lay across the courts surface. The colors and shapes were chosen to evoke expansion, joy and strength!”

- Adia Millett

A special thank you to alogives for partnering with Project Backboard and Zendaya on the #takingflightoakland event, supporting westoaklandmiddleschool and hosting an early morning community yoga session on the basketball courts.

Another special thank you to guitarcentermusicfoundation for providing West Oakland Middle School with instruments and supplies for their music classes and curtains for their auditorium.

Thank you thehoopbus for hosting an incredible day of basketball experiences in the park and at the school. 

Thank you to all the partners who helped celebrate both the new basketball courts at Lowell Park and mural at westoaklandmiddleschool including alogives guitarcenter thehoopbus 100blackmenofthebayarea oaklandish rockthebike footcandles brightblackcandle chance_athletics 5starbasketball basalt360 and many others!

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#zendaya #lowellpark #oakland #alo #art #community #fivestarbasketball #fivestargives

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art, alo, fivestarbasketball, zendaya, lowellpark, oakland, takingflightoakland, community, fivestargives

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