Broker's Building Art Gallery Board (BBAGB)

Performing Arts & Cinema

About

Broker's Building Art Gallery Board in downtown San Diego's Columbia district operates as a Black-owned, LGBTQ+-owned nonprofit arts organization from a historic building on C Street, running curated exhibitions and artist development programs. The gallery's curatorial focus on outsider art and grassroots expression deliberately bypasses institutional gatekeeping, positioning BBAGB as a raw counterpoint to the academic programming at ICA San Diego in Balboa Park. The building itself carries artistic lineage — outsider artists Richard Allen Morris and Tom Driscoll maintained studios in the space, and Shepard Fairey, founder of the OBEY brand, also worked within its walls. Monthly rotating exhibitions, open-call group shows, and mentorship pairings connect emerging artists with exhibition experience and collector access, a community-development model closer in spirit to the cooperative studios at Spanish Village Art Center than to a commercial gallery. As a registered 501(c)(3), BBAGB pursues City of San Diego Arts Commission grants and property-rehabilitation funding to secure permanent gallery and studio space dedicated to artists historically excluded from the commercial gallery circuit.

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