The Dome Show

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Founded in 1976 by sculptor Peter Voulkos, pioneering live-work community The Dome that has provided creative soil for generations of Bay Area artists. Once a dome-shaped food processing factory, Voulkos and his collaborators transformed the industrial architecture into a radical, communal site where boundaries between art, life, and labor dissolved. Voulkos and his early collaborators, including Clay Jensen, Bella Feldman, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Tom Holland, Marilyn Levine, JoAnn Gillerman, and Ann Adair Voulkos, built not only studios but shared infrastructure: kilns, casting spaces, performance areas, and—most importantly—a communal culture sustained by experimentation. Today, that culture is sustained by artists including Jennifer Brazelton, Takming Chuang, Juan Santiago, and Leah Virsik. At a moment when many arts instutions face uncertainty, the exhibition highlights the resilience of artist-led communities and underscores their essential role as the cultural backbone of the Bay Area.