Nook Gallery

Nook family, community, loved ones, supporters, . We have some sad news, it’s the end of a Nook Gallery Era the end of this beautiful chapter together in our nook. These past 5 years have been nothing but amazing! Working with over 80 + black, queer, trans, womxn, non binary, artists of color, expanding the ways in which we see, interact, taste, experience, sit with contemporary art. All while being in the non-institutional space of the home kitchen the dream work! . As w...e take the month to wrap up, we ask you, how would you like to honor, celebrate, memorialize Nook Gallery? In both in person and virtual ways. We are accepting ideas & WE LOVE YOU SO DEEPLY. MORE MORE SOON! Nook Gallery & Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo #letstalkaboutartinthekitchen #nookloveforever See more

'Here to Lounge' is EXTENDED!!!!

Here to Lounge was welcomed into the nook with a packed kitchen all night long, lots of seating and touching, meeting new and old friends and doing just what the show asks us to do, come together around art! . Thanks to everyone that came by!! & biggest thank you to @shanfinnegan for curating this incredible group of artists whose work lives so perfectly together and in the home! The show is up until February 22, so dm or email is to set up an appointment!

First newsletter of the new year~~ if you didn't get in your inbox, read it here!

We are so excited to announce our first show of 2020, Here To Lounge, Opening Reception, curated by Shannon Finnegan, featuring nine works by other artists. Hope to see you at our opening on Friday, January 24th, 6-9pm

We have been getting such beautiful Nook Yearbook submissions from our loved one!! Here are 2 special ones, from past artists/ curators @caromagis & @shanfinnegan. . We will be creating a printed and online yearbook and we welcome all drawn, photographed, written, sculpted, memories, stories, experiences! What was it like to walk into the Nook Gallery for the first time? How would you describe the Nook Galleries influence on the Bay Area? What are you going to miss the most? ...How long have you ever sat in the Nook for? What does the Nook future look like to you? . Submission info: -Fill out the form in our bio OR DM US YOUR SUBMISSION!!! -you can submit up to 5 files -Full color & B+W submissions accepted -We welcome all drawn, photographed, written, sculpted, memories, stories, experiences! -Submissions are due ASAP See more

You are invited to participate in the Nook Gallery 2015-forever community yearbook, that will honor and commemorate all the memories we have had together in the Nook, over the past 5 years! We will be creating a printed and online yearbook and we welcome all drawn, photographed, written, sculpted, memories, stories, experiences! What was it like to walk into the Nook Gallery for the first time? How would you describe the Nook Galleries influence on the Bay Area? What are you ...going to miss the most? How long have you ever sat in the Nook for? What does the Nook future look like to you? On the last day of July, our community is welcome to come wish the Nook Gallery goodbye and pick up a copy of the yearbook (contact free pick up). And for our family beyond the Bay, the yearbook will also live online! Submission info: -Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DpzTEDGTQhFR2mAD6 -Max submission size: 8.5 x 11, you can submit up to 5 files -Full color & B+W submissions accepted -We welcome all drawn, photographed, written, sculpted, memories, stories, experiences! -Submissions are due by July 26, 2020, 7pm PST Since it’s birth in Fall 2015, Nook Gallery has given 81+ Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, Womxn, POC artists - an inclusive, accessible and intimate site for visual art, lectures, workshops, critical dialogues, film screenings, meals and performances. The seating nook transformed into gallery in our kitchen, gives the artist(s) a clear and unique space to work with, and present work within. Thinking about the importance of gathering around a table, what does it mean to come together for a meal or to cook together, for art, for critical discussion, for storytelling? Bringing community together is what we strive to do as artists, culture makers, curators, writers and performers in the world. The Nook Gallery offers a possibility for supporting and nurturing this gathering, telling and being together. Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is the Lead Curator and Director of Programming. For more info, feel free to email us, [email protected]