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Always happy to be helping out young artists in the bay area especially in my neighborhood. INFERNO gallery has held tours for local high school students as well as participated in class projects to help kids learn that Art is a career possibility. This year a latino student is going to interview gallery director/artists Barbosa Prince, use his work, and career path to show students in East Oakland that they could have a career in Art.


East Oakland is filled with talented kids that can use the support of local businesses. If you have a thriving business in East Oakland, think about offering up interviews and tours to help kids see that their neighborhood is filled with potential – it’s not all gangs and side shows. Also making an effort to connect with your neighborhood population is crucial to real community building. Here’s a shout out to the teachers at Aspire Golden State College Preparatory Academy who challenge their students and help them see the future.

YIKES! Vulcan Tenants Union has been using our name without permission to raise money for lawyers.

We are really sad that a small portion of the residents of the Vulcan Studios have taken it upon themselves to use our name to push an agenda to defame and slam the owners of the Vulcan as bad landlords. They also position themselves as the voice of the artists of the Vulcan – which is a complete exaggeration. The owners of the Vulcan are awesome and INFERNO and many other Vulcan artists do not support or encourage you to support the #SAVETHEVULCAN fundraising and legal action. Please do not give them money as, in our opinion it is going to hasten a negative effective effect on the ability for the Vulcan to remain a longstanding artists enclave. Please also note that a portion of the people involved in SAVETHEVULCAN are newbies who moved in recently and have decided this is a good approach. INFERNO and other Vulcan artists believe that building a positive relationship with the owners that would work towards another solution, where artists could stay or possibly buy the Vulcan would be a more positive approach. At the very least create some form of incentive that would place the owners in a position to want to keep the Vulcan or work with the artists here to find a path of survivability in the bay area’s tough housing market. There is always a better solution instead of creating a contentious situation that disrupts this long standing artists community.

Rest assured the recent hub bub called #SAVETHEVULCAN does not affect INFERNO Gallery or the artists studios located at the Vulcan. The Vulcan Tenants Union has sounded a false alarm. There is a drive to push the building into a designation as a rent controlled building, however the Vulcan management has not threatened or made any moves to remove the residents. Additionally it is true the building was up for sale and if sold the future is uncertain. Who can predict the future? The issue of rent control is a big issue in the bay area and beyond.

INFERNO art gallery has shown artist from all walks of life. The majority of our solo shows have been by women artists, we have had shows on politics, religion to sex. Our most recent show included transgender and gay comic book artists. It included artists from across the country and people came from as far away as Monterey California to attend the show. Our goal has always been to show work that is out of the realm of commercial galleries. Keep in mind in our space alone we have six working Visual artists, a martial arts dojo, and an art gallery. We are also connected to the longstanding artists in the Vulcan going back to 1988.