The Dome Center for Art, Music and Dance in Oakland has operated as a live/work artistic community since 1976, founded when sculptor Peter Voulkos partnered with ceramicist Marilyn Levine to transform a dome-shaped former food-processing building into a creative space. The Dome has supported multiple generations of Bay Area visual and performing artists. A major museum exhibition, “The Dome Show,” is presented at San Francisco’s di Rosa Center through Sept. 12, featuring works by Voulkos, Levine, and many other artists, including pieces selected from di Rosa’s permanent collection. di Rosa executive director and chief curator Kate Eilertsen visited The Dome and was inspired to create the exhibition, citing shared values of experimentation, collaboration, and support for offbeat ideas.
"Oakland's The Dome Center for Art, Music and Dance has been the perfect example of the latter live/work environment since 1976, when sculptor Peter Voulkos bought a dome-shaped former food-processing building, partnered with ceramicist Marilyn Levine, and turned it into a space that has nurtured four generations of Bay Area artists, both visual and performing."
"Yet until now there has never been a major museum exhibition dedicated to The Dome and its artists. On view at San Francisco's di Rosa Center through Sept. 12, "The Dome Show" remedies that omission. It features work from Voulkos, Levine, Bella Feldman, Tom Holland, Clay Jensen, JoAnn Gillerman, Donald Farnsworth, JP Long, Takming Chuang, Juan Santiago, Leah Virsik and others, some of it selected from di Rosa's permanent collection."
""We were blown away," Eilertsen said in a phone interview. "I fell in love. That visit inspired the exhibition. Peter Voulkos was an amazing influence on so many mediums.""
""The Dome's spirit of experimentation and collaboration mirrors the ethos of the di Rosa collection itself," Eilertsen said. "Our organizations have a shared belief in supporting and championing artists, embracing the offbeat, and creating space for new ideas and ways of thinking, which we're excited to explore in this show."
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