Joyce Gordon Foundation — Attraction in Oakland

Long story short, DO NOT RENT FROM HERE. Rented this space for an event and have never been so disrespected and mistreated ever. There were a few miscommunications on both ends, which is normal and business. However, situations that could've easily been worked out was met with blatant disrespect by the owner. She walked away during talking, refused to make eye contact, and even threatened to shut down the event as we were setting up. Let's not forget she allowed her prior event to take their time with cleaning up and they didn't breakdown at all (we did), despite the fact we paid to start setup at 6pm and they didn't leave until nearly 7pm. She even was so rude at the end of the night to take tables and chairs away from attendees as they were sitting talking, participating in speed introductions. Just rude! She ended the event at 10pm exactly totally ignoring thevdact we didn't get the hour to setup because she allowed the other group to stay during our hour. The band had to wait on the sidewalk because she wouldn't let them in to setup! I came from Atlanta to host an event here and was met with nothing but...

A very historic event and emotionally charged personal individual struggles, against all barriers to write and publish various novels/books. The historians, teachers and writers proved without a shadow of a doubt their positive stories will spread life lessons beyond the walls of Joyce Gordon's Gallery! It was a Power to the People session, kinship and Love!...

The gallery is first class in representing artist established and upcoming. The in-house library offers a great deal on Art History covering the narrative of ethnicities not mentioned in so-called classic art. You can enjoy the spoken word series, writers and book signings. Everything that's Art comes through...