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Participating Arts Service Groups Expo for the Artist San Francisco 2000
P.O. Box 1360 Nevada City, CA 95959-1360 phone: (503)-470-0862; fax: (530)-470-0256 email: info@artmarketing.com ArtistResource.org educates, connects, nurtures and promotes Bay area artists and writers by creating a supportive community online. We post calendars of shows, events and classes, readings, interactive forums, competitions, jobs, galleries, hundreds of art links, art supplies, advice and techniques. 968 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 phone: (415) 861-1842 email: artisteye@artistresource.org Artist's Television Access is a media arts center providing low-cost video editing facilities and exhibition space for media artists (film, video, sound, performance), as well as workshops in video and multimedia. We also have a weekly Public Access cable show called ATV. ATA is always looking for artists to show their work in our space. Screening and performance inquiries can be addressed to our Programming Committee (c/o Sarah or Fara). Call, email, send a tape or stop on by. Artists interested in showing work in our gallery or window, ask for Kate. Workshop inquiries can be addressed to Juliana. We are also looking for some good volunteers; ask for Ivan. 992 Valencia San Francisco, CA 94110 phone: (415) 824-3890 email: ata@atasite.org Artspan helps artists from around San Francisco open their studios to the public. Both emerging and established artists participate by allowing the public into their workspaces. This is a unique and fun way to meet artists, see where artwork is created, explore San Francisco and build an art collection. 934 Brannan San Francisco, CA 94103 phone: (415) 861-9838; fax: (415) 431-4575 email: artspan@dnai.com. Founded in 1992, ARTwork is dedicated to helping emerging artists gain the skills, confidence and exposure necessary to pursue an art career, enhancing the sales of established artists and selling and renting original art to individuals and businesses. ARTwork provides exposure and sales opportunities every day by curating rotating exhibits in a variety of business venues, promoting artists on our Web site and negotiating commercial art commissions, illustrations, murals and portraits. Currently over 600 pieces representing all media are on exhibit at 30 venues in the Bay Area. ARTwork also sponsors large member shows in traditional galleries. ARTwork has curated, installed and promoted over 3,000 exhibits and events. Our portfolio includes over 100 Bay Area artists -- a unique mix offering an excellent opportunity for networking and mentoring among members. 2861 California #5 San Francisco, CA 94115 phone: (415) 673-3080 email: info@artworksf.com. Located in the heart of the Mission, Balazo/ Mission Badlands Gallery is a volunteer-based organization that provides an accessible and alternative exhibition space for local and international artists. We encourage the exploration of a variety of media and provide an environment for creativity and community awareness. 2811 Mission @ 24th San Francisco phone: (415) 920-0896; Call for hours email: eltxutxo19@yahoo.com. Founded in the summer of 1999, Base Art, Inc., encourages artistic thinking in every permutation of an individual's life, be it professional, communal, relational or personal. Our Base Gallery focuses not on profit but artistic merit, providing a venue for national and international artists. We showcase artwork in an accessible environment amidst a rapidly changing neighborhood. Base Art offers affordable, accessible classes in life drawing and painting instruction for adults and kids. Classes are designed to encourage personal growth and exploration from beginner to advanced levels. Private classes are available. Base Art Supply provides only the best materials for the fairest price around. Discerning artists will appreciate hand-ground paints, top of the line brushes and quality tools for every artistic endeavor, all using the speed and simplicity of the Internet. Call for gallery and class hours. 720 York #102 San Francisco, CA 94110 phone: (415) 401-9025 email: info@baseart.com, bj@baseart.com, justin@baseart.com The Bay Area Model's Guild provides well-trained models for all kinds of art: painting, drawing, animation, photography, sculpture, film and video, body casting, you name it. We are an eclectic bunch, many of us are also involved in the visual and/or performing arts. Members of the Guild are experienced professionals who will arrive on time and ready for work. Perhaps we'll even inspire you. P.O. Box 460156 San Francisco, CA 94146-0156 Summer hours: Monday, 9am-noon; Wednesday, 6pm-9pm Regular hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 3pm-6pm; Wednesday, 6pm-9pm phone: (415) 970-0484 email: mischief@slip.net Since 1976 the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) has provided broadcast quality video services to independent producers, artists and nonprofit organizations. Today, BAVC offers a state-of-the-art video/multimedia/telecommunications access center. BAVC holds over 650 hands-on workshops yearly. Its research and development projects on video preservation, community closed captioning and other media-related needs make it a unique leader in the nonprofit arts world and new media industry. BAVC also addresses the unique workforce development and retraining needs of the Bay Area through its JobLink and ETP programs. 2727 Mariposa, 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 94110 phone: (415) 558-2181; fax: (415) 861-4316 email: luis@bavc.org California Lawyers for the Arts/ArtHouse is a nonprofit art service organization providing lawyer referrals, dispute resolution, educational programs and information about artist studios, live/work spaces and general facilities. Fort Mason Center San Francisco, CA 94123 phone: (415) 775-7200; fax: (415) 775-1143 email: cla@calawyersforthearts.org Cellspace (collectively explorative learning labs) provides a safe and supportive public environment for the exploration of art, education, performance and community building. Through cooperative relationships and multidisciplinary programs we encourage the celebration of intergenerational and cross-cultural collaboration. 2050 Bryant San Francisco, CA 94110 Open 10am-10pm daily phone: (415) 648-7562 email: info@cellspace.org Located in the heart of San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch, Center for Electronic Art (CEA) is internationally recognized for being on the cutting edge of digital media instruction. CEA offers quality technical and creative education in a project-oriented, collaborative learning environment, offering over 50 classes in Web design, desktop publishing and animation. Founded in 1987, we were also the first to teach 3D animation, interactive laserdisc and CD-ROM authoring and Web design. Our mission is to deliver personalized, interactive multimedia arts education, basing student learning on projects which serve the media needs of the global community. 250 Fourth St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Open 10am-9:30pm Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday phone: (415) 512-9300 email: Info@cea.edu The Office of Continuing Education at City College of San Francisco offers short-term workshops in art as well as topics like computers, writing, health and languages. Most of art classes are scheduled for Fort Mason in the Marina, but several other convenient locations are available as well. Fort Mason, Bldg. B San Francisco, CA 94123 Call for hours phone: (415) 561-1840; fax: (415) 561-1849 email: contined@ccsf.org If you ask around, you'll likely find someone who's participated in craigslist.org. We serve as a "virtual" community bulletin board that people use for everyday tasks like announcing an event, finding a space, selling your work, finding a job or expressing concerns in the community. Craigslist.org is a community of people helping each other via the Internet. Craigslist.org provides a simple, quick, effective site to help facilitate communication and connection with others in the community. People send postings in and are added to the appropriate lists with the lightest moderation. Depending on their personal preferences, people either subscribe to our mailing lists or just look at the site directly. Currently, craigslist.org has nearly 10,000 subscribers and receives over 10 million pageviews per month. 1381 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122 phone: (415) 566-6394; fax: (415) 504-6394 email: conrad@craigslist.org The Crucibleis a nonprofit/educational collaboration of Arts, Industry and Community. Through hands-on training in the fine and industrial arts, the Crucible promotes creative expression, reuse of materials and innovative design while serving as an accessible arts venue for our students and the general public. 1035 Murray Berkeley, CA 94710 Open Monday-Friday 12pm-6pm (7pm-10pm for classes); Saturday-Sunday, 10am-6pm phone: (510) 843-5511; fax: (510) 843-5510 email: info@thecrucible.org Crucible Steel Gallery is a multipurpose gallery located within Cellspace designed to give opportunity and exposure to emerging Bay Area artists through group exhibitions, collaborative explorations and workshops. In the spirit of artist encouragement, we host an open biannual call for art review. This is a chance for artists to present their work to the gallery committee and submit show proposals for future exhibitions. 2050 Bryant San Francisco, CA 94110 Open 10am-10pm daily phone: (415) 648-7562 email: info@cellspace.org 848 Community Space is an Interdisciplinary, Anti-Racist, ProFeminist, Queer, Affirmative, Improvisational, Polycultural, Educational, Sex-Positive, Soulful, Anti-State, Polytheistic, Decentralized and Community Specific artspace. 848 is a collectively operated gallery and theater available to artists and community organizers/experimenters. Our main space is an 1100 sq. ft. room (About 24 x 40) with 10 ft. ceilings, two adjoining bathrooms and a kitchen. A black marley dance floor covers the carpeted floor. 848 co-produces the event with you. 848 is also a live/work space; the home of two to three working artists and a rehearsal space for many more. 848 Divisadero San Francisco, CA 94115 Call for hours Available for performance and rehearsals seven days a week phone: (415) 922-2385 email: 848@848.com. The Film Arts Foundation (FAF) is a nonprofit membership organization providing services and support to independent film and video makers, including seminars and workshops, post-production facilities, exhibition and screening programs, fiscal sponsorship, resources and videotape libraries, grant programs and much more. 349 Ninth St., 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Open weekdays 9am-5pm, and Wednesdays 9am-6pm phone: (415) 552-8760; fax: (415) 552-0882 email: info@filmarts.org. Futureunknown.com provides a virtual space for emerging and experimental artists while encouraging new ideas and changing directions in art. 927 Haight San Francisco, CA 94117 phone: (415) 861-7780 email: girl@futureunknown.com GenArtSF serves emerging visual artists in their 20s and 30s, and works to encourage people of that same generation to collect art. Programs include monthly open peer critiques, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, panel discussions and artist registry. P.O. Box 460819 San Francisco, CA 94146-0819 phone: (415) 824-6521 email: genartsf@sirius.com Greg Angelo & Velocity Circus promote variety artists/acts/shows for the corporate and special engagement circuit as well as for occasional public engagements and tours. We also employ the services of multimedia artists (costumers, graphic artists, glass blowers, other fine artists and craftspeople) for costume/prop construction and production materials. 225 San Leandro Way San Francisco, CA 94127 phone: (415) 664-0095; fax: (415) 665-3676 email: velocitysf@gregangelo.com Iconoclast Productions offers the African American Multimedia Conference and the San Francisco Black History Month Independent Film & Video Festival, and produces, promotes, exhibits and trains artists in media arts in order to benefit the black community grassroots. 937 Stanyan St. #2 San Francisco, CA 94117 Open weekdays 10:30am-5pm phone: (415) 664-0943; fax: (415) 665-9370 Scalifornia@iconoclastproductions.org Since 1990, Image West Design has provided both training and professional representation for artists, designers and illustrators interested in approaching commercial markets. Working with creative directors and product development teams, the company contracts artwork for collections of paper products, bath and body lines, housewares, gifts, tabletops and fabrics for home furnishings. Through individual and small-group work, designers learn what the market demands in terms of technical, business and creative skills. P.O. Box 613 San Anselmo, CA 94979-0613 phone: (415) 482-9856; fax: (415) 482-9857 email: info@imagewestdesign.com Independent Arts & Media is a new nonprofit dedicated to supporting and developing noncommercial media and arts projects in San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond. During this initial startup period we offer a free investigative news service, free Web space (with no pop-ups or banners), free editorial and publishing support, and a nonprofit legal framework for independent artists and producers. The various projects are intended to spin off quickly into self-sustaining entities, remaining loosely affiliated in a larger network. Future projects include a resource-sharing network for creative artists and media professionals, a grants and arts patronage program, a nonprofit gallery/performance/educational venue, noncommercial music outlets and much more. We welcome partnerships, collaborative efforts and cross-promotions. PMB 821 601 Van Ness Ave. #E San Francisco, CA 94102-3200 email: editor@artsandmedia.net Institute for Unpopular Culture promotes artistic attempts to challenge and destabilize the status quo. We work through endowment marketing and mentoring to support artists taking risks. We provide alternative sources for funding in order to eliminate the need to compromise one's work to obtain government or traditional grant support. PMB 1523-1850 Union St. San Francisco, CA 94123 Open 11am-7pm Monday-Saturday phone: (415) 986-4382; fax: (415) 986-4354 email: ifuc@sirius.com Intersection for the Arts is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space and presents challenging new works in literature, theater, visual and interdisciplinary arts. Intersection provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect one another. At Intersection, experimentation and risk are still possible, debate and critical inquiry are embraced, community is essential, resources and experience are democratized and today's issues are thrashed about in the heat and immediacy of live art. 446 Valencia San Francisco, CA 94103 phone: (415) 626-2787; fax: (415) 626-1636 email: info@theintersection.org Kearny Street Workshop (KCW) promotes, preserves and presents art that enriches and empowers the Asian Pacific American communities. We provide a base for artists who seek a connection to their reads, history and community. We encourage the creation of new and innovative forms of expression and stress the importance of art as a bridge to cultural understanding. 166 South Park San Francisco, CA 94107 Open: Monday-Friday 12pm-6pm phone (415) 543-0520; fax: (415) 543-0520 email: nhksw@aol.com Marin Artist Misbeleue has a large well-lit studio fully equipped for our members, plus lock-up storage and racking. PO Box 2272 Sausalito, CA 94966 phone: (415) 332-5049; fax: (360) 838-1430 email: clive@art1234.com Media Alliance was founded in 1976 with the belief that in order to ensure the free and unfettered flow of information and ideas necessary to maintain a truly democratic society, media must be accessible, accountable, representative of society's diversity and free from overt or covert government control and corporate dominance. We offer professional development classes in desktop publishing, Web communications, press relations/advocacy and photojournalism. We are the West Coast mentor site of the Arts Online Program which trains underrepresented artistic voices on how to use the Web to get their art widely seen and distributed. The MA gallery shows art with a point of view in regular exhibitions. 814 Mission #205 San Francisco, CA 94103 phone: (415) 546-6334, class info (415) 546-6491; fax (415) 546-6218 email: info@media-alliance.org Monarch Group Real Estate Services was founded in 1998 to create a fresh approach to real estate. Our mission statement commits us to providing preeminent professional standards of service to our clients and the community, while always respecting the rights and dignity of all persons. As a small business located in the heart of the Castro, we have been particularly dedicated to supporting artists who are exploring the possibility of owning their own homes and studios. We have also shown our commitment by sponsoring quarterly art shows to promote local artists. 2354 Market Mezzanine Level San Francisco, CA 94114 phone: (415) 255-7500; fax: (415) 621-8400 email: bushong@monarch-re.com Nancy E. Quinn Associates is a San Francisco-based consulting firm that provides management and fundraising services to nonprofit organizations, with a special focus on small and mid-sized performing arts organizations. 50 Oak 5th floor San Francisco, CA 94102 phone: (415) 621-3186; fax: (415) 621-3110 email: quinnassociates@aol.com NextMonet.com is the premier online retailer of contemporary fine art. All work is curated to assure quality. We represent over 900 artists and 150 galleries worldwide. 444 Townsend San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: (415) 344-6900; fax: (415) 977-6905 email: scott@nextmonet.com The Nocturnes Night Photography website serves as a resource for information about night photography and its intersection with all things nocturnal -- music, literature, other night imagery, poetry, pop culture and science. Nocturne's Night Photography offers an online gallery space and community for night photographers worldwide. P.O. Box 29074 Presidio of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94129 phone: (415) 824-1653; fax: (415) 647-6102 email: basket@thenocturnes.com Oriental Whatever is a magazine of Asian-American issues and antics. 2250 24th St. #231 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: (415) 375-5222 email: orientalwhatever@hotmail.com For the past 23 years Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitors Center has been providing low-cost art and mural services to the Mission District and greater San Francisco. Art and mural education has been a large part of the center's history, with classes for kids and adults and mural tours of the Mission District given everyday. 2991 24th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Open weekdays 10am-5pm phone: (415) 285-2287; fax: (415) 950-0592 email: pem@precitaeyes.org RayKo South Photo Center has 14 professionally equipped rental darkrooms to print all formats of color and B&W silver processes, a film processing lab, extensive print finishing equipment, a well-equipped 500 sq. ft studio, a copy stand and the acclaimed exhibition space Gallerie Entrance. The facility is maintained by a technically sound and friendly staff. Black & White Monthly Passes and Friday night printing provide access to our facility at discount rates. 984 Folsom San Francisco, CA 94107 Open Tuesday-Thursday 10am-10pm, Friday-Sunday 10am-6pm phone: (415) 495-3737; fax: (415) 278-9947 email: raykosouth@sirus.com Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center provides classroom training, incubation, financing and ongoing support services to potential and existing small business owners. These services can be applied directly to artists ready to turn their passion into profit. 275 Fifth St. San Francisco, CA 94103 phone: (415) 541-8580; fax (415) 541-8589 email: constance@rencenter.org San Francisco Art Center at the Presidio (SFACP) is a project to create an art center at Crissy Field in the Presidio. P.O. Box 29453 San Francisco, CA 94129-0453 phone: (415) 558-8760; email: Sfacp@llmi.net The San Francisco Center for the Book offers a full spectrum of book arts education, exhibitions and resources. We explore book arts from the 15th to the 21st century. Individual book artists and organizational members can use our facilities for a modest fee. Visiting instructors inspire novice and professional book artists alike. 300 DeHaro St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Open weekdays 12pm-5pm phone: (415) 565-0545; fax: (415) 565-0556 email: kharr@sfcb.org San Francisco Women Artists (SFWA) is one of the oldest arts organizations in California, started as the "Sketch Club" in 1880. Today we continue to serve the community as well as creating a supportive environment for women artists. We offer a wide variety of exhibiting, sales and rental opportunities for our members via our Hayes Street gallery as well as lectures, critiques, discussions and demonstrations. Our membership includes 250 well-known and emerging Bay Area artists who exhibit independently juried new works on a monthly basis. 370 Hayes San Francisco, CA 94102 Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm, Thursday 11am-8pm, 2nd to 3rd Sundays 1pm-4:30pm phone: (415) 552-7392; fax: (415) 552-7392 SCRAP (Scroungers' Center for Reusable Art Parts) is a creative reuse center accepting materials from businesses & individuals suitable for arts and educational purposes while diverting these materials from landfill. We make these materials available at low costs to teachers, community organizations, artists and individuals. Make Art Not Landfill. Helping artists, schools and the general public creatively reuse 80 tons of trash per year! 801 Toland San Francisco, CA 94124 phone: (415) 647-1746 SF Black & White is a gallery featuring local photographers, group and individual shows, and community workshops for at-risk youths that teach photographic content and technique, with the finished pieces auditioned off for charity on our Web site. 868 Post San Francisco, CA 94109 Open Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm, sometimes Sunday phone: (415) 447-7901; fax: (415) 447-7907 email: contact@sfblackandwhite.com The San Francisco Mime Troupe has been doing socially relevant theater in the community for 40 years. Look for the 2000 show "Eating it" in the Bay Area Parks July 1 through Labor Day. 855 Treat Ave. San Francisco, CA 94110 phone: (415) 285-1717; fax: (415) 285-1290 email: sfmt@well.com As an artist-run organization, Southern Exposure reaches out to diverse audiences and serves as a forum and resource center providing extraordinary support to the Bay Area's arts and educational communities. Visual arts exhibitions along with educational programs, performances, panels, lectures and symposia exemplify the organization's vitality and commitment to artistic exploration, diversity and growth. Artwork is presented for its merit -- its ability to question, challenge and explore cultural assumptions -- regardless of its commercial viability. Southern Exposure has a rich tradition of strong and diverse programs, creating an open, sensitive and supportive environment for artist and audience alike. 401 Alabama San Francisco, CA 94110 Open Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm (415) 863-2141; fax: (415) 863-1821 email: soex@soex.org TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) is a nonprofit that organizes and teaches classes in production-based media literacy. We provide jobs to artists and train people in the TILT model of media literacy and teach in tech arts centers, after-school centers and other community facilities. 992 Valencia San Francisco, CA 94110 phone: (415) 410-8458; fax: call to send email: tilt@tiltmedia.org Visual Aid is a nonprofit dedicated to helping artists with life threatening illnesses continue their work by providing a core of direct services, including an art bank (art materials), a voucher program, an exhibition program and a workshop/lecture series. 731 Market Ste. 600 San Francisco, CA 94103 phone: (415) 777-8242; fax: (415) 777-8240 email: visualaid@visualaid.org The Werepad. A totally modular and psychedelic space. 3200 square feet of customized luminosity. An ocular of sensurround. The latest in San Francisco happenings. Home of the Massacre at Central Hi Film Company and The Cosmic Hex Archive. We specialize in film shoots, company parties, web launches, art openings, private screenings, lectures, CD releases and birthdays. We are also blessed by Saint Leroy. 2430 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: (415) 824-7334 email: werepad@werepad.com Women Environmental Artists Directory offers free listings, is open to all arts professionals concerned with any aspect of ecology, and provides information for artists, curators, writers, administrators, educators and cross-disciplinary people. The directory is circulated nationally, but also has international listings. 201 Buchanan San Francisco, CA 94102 phone: (415) 864-7139 email: slsteinman@aol.com Ylem: Artists Using Science and Technology is an international arts organization providing a forum for new ideas by means of its Web site, forums at the Exploratorium, newsletters and informal get-togethers. Exhibits, performances and other special events happen about once a year as well. Ylem is a nonprofit that has been providing these services to artists using electronic media and/or science and math ideas for 19 years. P.O. Box 749 Orinda, CA 94563 phone: (415) 647-8503 email: ylem@well.com 
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