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Poets & Writers, Inc.
580 Washington St. #308, SF, CA 94941
(415) 986-9577; www.pw.org/
The mission of Poets & Writers, Inc., is to foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote communication throughout the US literary community and to help create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public. Our main program in California is the Readings/Workshops Program (R/W), which provides matching funds to help connect writers and audiences by supporting public literary events in diverse rural and urban settings. Bookstores, cafˇs, reading series, libraries, colleges and universities, poetry festivals and other community-based groups can apply for money to help them pay writers for readings, performances or writing workshops.
POND/Big & Lil Marsh Productions
214 Valencia, SF, CA 94103
(415) 437-9151; www.mucketymuck.org/
POND is the art space and administrative headquarters for Big & Lil Marsh Productions, an eduactional nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a forum through which experimential artists may share ideas and foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the larger community. Our goal is to offer an accessible place for individual and community groups to develop and execute ideas in a non-competeitive atmosphere.
Public Glass
1750 Armstrong Ave., SF, CA 94124
(415) 671-4916; www.publicglass.org/
Public Glass is the center for hot glass arts in the Bay Area. We provide classes, instruction, demonstrations and facility rental in the hot glass arts of blowing, kilncasting and lampworking.
RE/Search Publications
20 Romolo, Ste. B, SF, CA 94133
(415) 362-1465; www.researchpubs.com/
RE/Search Publications, under the guidance of V. Vale, provides slick, large format books and some multimedia with uncompromising, high-quality "underground" content. An outgrowth of Vale's late-'70s punk rock 'zine Search & Destroy, RE/Search operates under the "Do It Yourself/ Anyone Can Do It" punk credo as a reaction to corporate-controlled book distribution. Some RE/Search titles include "Modern Primitives," "Incredibly Strange Music," "Pranks," "Freaks" and "the Industrial Culture Handbook."
Retail Dance Festival
2492 Karen Dr. #29, Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 985-6576; www.retaildance.com/
The Retail Dance Festival offers a chance to dance artists to collaborate with Bay area retailers to create new works in the storefront windows or showrooms of retail space during national dance week each year in April. The festival provides publicity, and helps artists to find a retail space and negotiate a fee for their work.
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
275 Fifth St., SF, CA 94103
(415) 541-8580; www.rencenter.org/
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.
RE/Search Publications
20 Romolo, Ste. B, SF, CA 94133
(415) 362-1465; www.researchpubs.com/
RE/Search Publications, under the guidance of V. Vale, provides slick, large format books and some multimedia with uncompromising, high-quality "underground" content. An outgrowth of Vale's late-'70s punk rock 'zine Search & Destroy, RE/Search operates under the "Do It Yourself/ Anyone Can Do It" punk credo as a reaction to corporate-controlled book distribution. Some RE/Search titles include "Modern Primitives," "Incredibly Strange Music," "Pranks," "Freaks" and "the Industrial Culture Handbook."
San Francisco Center for the Book
300 DeHaro St., SF, CA 94103
(415) 565-0545; www.sfcb.org/
San Francisco Center for the Book provides the book arts community with a home and a source for renewal and collaboration. Through public programs, exhibitions and classes, and studio/workshop/tools resources, the Center encourages exploration all arts of the visible word. The term "book arts" refers to fine printing, book structures and lettering. Each of these categories can range from historical to innovative, technically perfect to artistically lose, archival to the ephemeral, designed for unique or multiple editions.
The San Francisco Art Center Project
PO Box 29453, SF, CA 94129
www.sanfranciscoartcenter.org/
The San Francisco Art Center Project, a Tides Center project, is working to help create an international art center at Pier 70 by including working artists.
The San Francisco Media Archive
275 Capp St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 558-8117; www.sfm.org/
The San Francisco Media Archive is a nonprofit dedicated to acquiring and archiving film and related media materials for historians, researchers, image makers and the general public. The archive is composed of thousands of films, video tapes, film strips and other materials, many accessible via our online database. We also have a resource library of reference books and internships in digital archiving and imaging, plus film archiving, history and preservation.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe
855 Treat Avenue, SF, CA 94110
(415) 285-1717; www.sfmt.org/
The San Francisco Mime Troupe does not do pantomime. We mean "mime" in the ancient sense: to mimic. We are theatrical satirists, seeking to make you laugh at the absurdities of contemporary life and at the same time see their causes. We've done shows about most of the burning issues of our time, generally shows that the debunk the official story. The Mime Troupe offers a summer workshop in physical theater and play creation for 20 participants from around the world. Our studio space is occasionally available for rentals. We also provide internships and volunteer opportunities in theater production and administration.
Sanitary Fill Artist in Residence Program
501 Tunnel Ave., SF, CA 94134
(415) 330-1414; pfresina@sfsu.edu
The Artist in Residence Program at Sanitary Fill is an innovative program that inspires and educates people about recycling and resource conservation by providing local artists with unlimited access to waste materials, a work space and other resources at San Francisco's Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center. During the full-time, three month residency, the artist has 24-hour access to a studio equipped with welding equipment, power tools, a crane, glass kiln and more. Artists are paid a monthly honorarium and we hold a reception for them at the end of the residency. Only local artists are residing in the Bay Area may apply. Applications are due on August 31, 2001 for 2002 residencies.
Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts (SCRAP)
801 Toland (entrance on Newcomb); SF, CA 94124
(415) 647-1746; scrap@storyvault.org
SCRAP is a creative and reuse center accepting materials from businesses and individuals suitable for arts and educational purposes, while diverting these materials from landfill. We make these materials available at low cost to teachers, community organizations, artists and individuals. Make Art Not Landfill, helping artists, schools and the general public creatively a reuse 100 tons of trash per year!
San Francisco Women Artists
370 Hayes St., SF, CA 94102
(415) 562-SFWA; www.sfwomenartists.com/
San Francisco Women Artists, located in the Hayes Valley of San Francisco, continues to serve the community as well as create a supportive environment for women artists. Our membership, however, includes male artists as well. We offer a wide variety of exhibiting opportunities for members, in addition to lectures, critiques, discussions, demonstrations and receptions.
Shaping San Francisco/CounterPULSE
1095 Market St. # 210, SF, CA 94103
(415) 626-2060; www.shapingsf.org/
Shaping San Francisco is the interactive multimedia excavation of the lost history of San Francisco. We present a digital archive of SF history by CD-ROM, public kiosk at several locations (SF Main Library, City Lights bookstore, Modern Times bookstore) and on the Internet. CounterPULSE, the new name of the nonprofit that sponsors Shaping San Francisco, is a merger between 848 Community Space and the Bay Area Center for Art and Technology. CounterPULSE focuses on innovative, interdisciplinary cultural experimentation both live and recorded, on the stage and in the streets, on the airwaves, on paper, and on the Net. CounterPULSE takes direct aim at the process of social alienation and cultural commodification.
The Small Business Development Center
455 Market St., 6th Floor, SF, CA 94105
(415) 908-7501; www.sfsbdc.org/
The small Business Development Center offers free consulting services and workshops to help individual artists start and grow their small businesses.
SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan, SF, CA 94103
(415) 863-1414; www.somarts.org/
SomArts' mission is to celebrate the multicultural texture of San Francisco by presenting art reflective of the City's different communities. SomArts is a 30,000 square foot city-owned cultural center with two exhibition spaces, a 250 seat flexible theater, rehearsal spaces, printmaking, pottery and design studios and administrative offices. Since 1979 SomArts has been providing low-cost rental space to communities and arts groups that do not have access to major funding.
SoundSafe, Inc.
Media contact: Sarah Stabile/Hi-Impact Communications
(415) 371-1596; www.soundsafe.org/
The former tenants of Downtown Rehearsal Studio formed SoundSafe, a nonprofit organization established to create new artist rehearsal space in San Francisco. Our mission is to develop a center for live music, dance, rehearsal and art in San Francisco; to contribute to its support; and to further music education and appreciation.
Taking the Leap
1506 62nd St., Emeryville, CA 94608
(510) 653-1655; www.takingtheleap.com/
Our mission is to help artists build flourishing careers, teaching them to successfully negotiate the labyrinth of the art world, while maintaining the integrity of their art.
Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools (TILT)
992 Valencia St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 440-TILT; www.tiltmedia.org/
TILT offers collaborative, hands-on experience in movie-making processes, underscored by a media literacy curriculum, for youth and other community groups throughout the Bay Area. Media artists and educators are recruited and trained to teach and develop TILT programs roughly three times per year; this will increase as programming expands.
Visual Aid
731 market St., Ste. 600, SF, CA 94103
(415) 777-8242; www.visualaid.org/
Visual Aid is a nonprofit arts organization that provides direct services for professional artists living with life-threatening illness who reside in the nine county Bay Area. Our services include: vouchers for art supplies, a free materials arts supply bank, career enhancing workshops and lectures, an archive, a career resource library, exhibition opportunities, and an educational outreach program in which are artists give lectures and technical demonstrations in local public high-school. Applications are accepted three times per year (April 15th, August 18th and January 15th).
Women Environment Artists Directory
201 Buchanan, SF, CA 94102
(415) 864-7139; wead.dreamfish-creative.com/
We provide FREE listings in a directory of women artists whose work focuses on any aspect of environmental concern, including materials use and health issues. Circulates nationally (internationally a little). Artists produced and financed. We sponsor exhibitions and special events and have webspace available.
Ylem: Artists Using Science and Technology
P.O. Box 749, Orinda, CA 94563
(415) 647-8503; www.ylem.org/
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.
