When Griff Williams started Gallery 16 in 1993 in San Francisco, a city known for having the most non-profit art organizations per capita, he knew that he had to create a space that would stand out.
“I really wanted to connect myself with the arts community in San Francisco, which has always been really vibrant,” Williams says. “We came upon the idea of kind of creating a new sort of model for art support — one that really didn’t require me to become a non-profit art space, which I thought was a model that was kind of on the way out.”