The Ames Gallery was established in Berkeley in 1970 in the back room of a popular crafts shop. In the spring of 1971, the gallery moved "temporarily" to its present residential setting at the base of the Berkeley hills. During its long history, the Gallery produced many innovative shows and, most notably, introduced outsider art to Californians.

The Gallery has two primary goals. One is to offer unique and highly desirable handmade and homemade American folk art, the relics of our heritage. The other goal is to exhibit the paintings, drawings, and sculpture of contemporary self-taught, naïve, visionary, and outsider artists, mostly from California.

Location: 2661 Cedar Street, Berkeley California 94708 Telephone 510-845-4949 Fax 510-845-6219

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Other upcoming events include: San Francisco Jazz Festival San Francisco continuing thru November 21