http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Oakland-Magazine/May-2014/Community-Minded-Oakopolis/
The gift of art without the commerce.
Read the full article by Michael Singman-Aste. Photo by Pat Mazzera.
… An art gallery that is not for profit, but not a nonprofit; with time and skills donated by artists, yet it is not a collective. It has no business model to speak of, but draws its inspiration from The Big City, an installation piece created in the early 2000s by its director, Joell Jones, which included “a place where all people could gather and do creative work.” Nebulous and always evolving, it is Oakopolis Creativity Center in Oakland, aka Oakopolis Gallery. Assisted by Tenaya Gunter Brown, the gallery’s coordinator, and Jan Camp, head curator, Jones shows work by painters and photographers, mixed-media, and textile artists who demonstrate tenacity and authenticity. …