Marian Parmenter was the director of the SFMOMA Artists' Gallery from 1986 to 2007. Parmenter moved to the Bay Area in 1961 where she ran a Berkeley gallery and artist co-op for roughly seven years before moving on to founding the SFMOMA Artists' Gallery. The initial goal of the gallery was to provide Bay Area artists a serious location with an exhibition program that they could rent, sell and promote their work. The gallery became part of the SFMOMA when Henry Hopkins suggested that it might be beneficial to be absorbed into the museum. From there the focus mainly centered on Northern California artists compared to the gallery's original statewide exhibitions. Parmenter retired from the director position in 2007. In this interview Parmenter discusses her move to the Bay Area, early gallery experience, Sally Lilienthal, rental gallery, working with SFMOMA, art market in 1980s, corporations and art, working with the museum board, gallery's importance for artists, relationships with directors and curators of SFMOMA, tensions between gallery and the trustees and the potential disconnect between artists and the museum.