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About Us

Dream Farm Commons is a small, artist run exhibition and project space located in a store front at 15th and Webster in Downtown Oakland. We make exhibitions, along with pop ups, dinners, workshops, performances, social practice projects, and mini residencies. The space was founded by three visual artists, Ann Schnake, Stacey Goodman and Robert Gomez Hernandez in May 2018.   Ann has stayed as a holder of the space while the group of working artists has expanded and contracted like an accordion-- Shout out to Jeremy Kirshbaum, Shilpi Komar, Jes Young, Carissa Clark, Daniella Nevel, Kico Le Strange ,Guillermo Galindo, Selby Sohn, Tosha Stimage,  Cassy Thornton, Kathy King, Connie Zhang,  Joseph Tanke, Kim Anno, Alicia Escott, Simone Bailey, Glenna Cole Allee, Olivia Cueva  and the hundreds of other artists who have made this space live! 

 

And what does this mean, Dream Farm Commons? The Dream part of our name came from our idea of an artist’s role in dreaming into or foreshadowing new worlds and possibility; the Farm comes from our desire to stay grounded and productive; the Commons signifies our desire for this space to be larger than our individual practices and to be a site for gathering, big thoughts and shared space. 

 

Being an artist run space means holding the realities of an art practice first and foremost, and being willing to morph and change for what is needed, including flexing from gallery into studio, performance, meal or workshop space and continual reinventions! For a long time we made monthly exhibitions; now we are thinking about sustainability and the long arc of conversation.

 

We are currently in an active August through December flurry of exhibitions: at other periods of time, DFC is functioning as an artist’s studio  with slowly unfolding works. we are feeling into a rhythm of when the commons is live,  with more movement, collective and individual works by other artists, and more formal programing and when it is artists work space.​

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As one of those through threads for this year, during quiet and busy times, we are holding exploration of subjectivity and world making as a focus, and hosting  a feminist philosophy and art theory group,. Reach out if you are interested in these topics or have ideas of other small gatherings. .  

 

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