Artist Resource
228 Duncan Street #102, SF, CA 94131
www.artistresource.org/
Our Mission: To connect, educate, nurture and promote Bay Area artists and writers by creating a supportive community. We post calendars of shows, events, classes, readings, and competitions; interactive forums; jobs and classifieds; galleries and portfolios. Listings are free. We receive 35,000 visitors each month.

ArtMecca.com
300 Brannan St. #201, SF, CA 94107
(800) 414-4230; www.artmecca.com/
ArtMecca.com is one of the largest Web sites dedicated to helping artists promote and sell their work to a global audience. ArtMecca is a leader in matching artists to potential buyers, through online sales and corporate art projects.

Art Network
PO Box 1360, Nevada City, CA 95959
(530) 470-0862; www.artmarketing.com/
Teaching fine artists how to set up business and sell their art and empowering artists! "Art Marketing 101" is the top book of its type with five star reviews on Amazon.com.

ARTs Ed
200 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94162
(510) 836-3223; www.artsedeastbay.org/
ARTS Ed, an initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation, bridges and schools and communities to create comprehensive and sustainable arts education for the children of the East bay. As an intermediary organization, we strengthen the field of arts education in the East Bay by developing resources and providing grants to organizations and schools. Through our Arts Education Network (AEN), Web site, listserv and online resource guide we provide news, funding and job information and quarterly meetings for arts educators, giving them the means to solve the challenges of bringing the arts to children.

ArtSF
PMB 760 Market Street #315, SF, CA 94102
(415) 430-2160 ext. 9412; (415) 447-8530; keepartinSF@yahoo.com
ArtSF is a broad coalition of artists and performers working to purchase and convert a warehouse in San Francisco, which will become an arts community resource center for artists, musicians, dancers and performance troupes, photographers. It will also offer space for shows, performances, and community dinners. We need all kinds of donors and volunteers

Artspan
934 Brannan, SF, CA 94103
(415) 861-9838; www.artspan.org/
Artspan is a non-profit organization dedicated to building connections within San Francisco's visual arts community and with the general public. Each year, Artspan provides opportunities for tens of thousands of people -- San Franciscans, visitors and visual artists alike -- to interact and exchange ideas. Artspan's biggest event of the year is Open Studios in October. Artspan also offers an annual juried exhibition, plus business skills workshops and education programs for inner city youth.

ARTwork Sales, Rentals & Exhibits
2861 California #5, SF, CA 94115
(415) 673-3080; www.artworksf.com/
Established in 1992, ARTwork is dedicated to helping emerging artists gain the skills, confidence and exposure necessary to pursue an art career; and to enhancing the sales of established artists by selling and renting original art to individuals and businesses. Currently ARTwork exhibits over 600 works at 30 locations and negotiates commercial art commissions, illustrations, murals and portraits. Art work has carried it, installed and promoted over 3000 exhibits and events in a variety of business venues, caf?s and galleries. All exhibits are installed, promoted and insured by ARTwork.

Balazo/Mission Badlands Gallery
2811 Mission St. @ 24th St.
(415) 920-0896; www.sfstation.com/galleries/balazo.htm/
We are an all-volunteer organization dedicated to promoting the cultural nuances within our community without discriminating as a result of the origin, religious belief, age or gender, but giving preference to young and emerging artists.

Black Rock Arts Foundation
3450 Third St., Ste. 3A, SF, CA 94124
(415) 641-0949; www.blackrockarts.org/
The mission of the Black Rock Arts Foundation is to promote community-based interactive artworks. To accomplish this the Foundation will furnish artists with financial aid, with emphasis on artists whose careers exist beyond the institutional mainstream; develop communal networks to supply them with materials, volunteers and finances; identify and support public venues for interactive art; educate a larger public in the spiritual and social relevance of interactive art; and assist artists in documenting and representing their work in public media and other institutions. The Black Rock Arts Foundation will be soliciting donations for, and giving grants to, artists who create durable interactive art that relates to the Burning Man 2002 theme and will be exhibited at Burning Man in 2002. The first funding cycle will begin January 2002; applications will be available September, 2001.

Borderzone Arts
97 Miguel St., SF, CA 94131
(415) 273-5510; www.borderzonearts.org/
Borderzone Arts, a community-based international arts organization, works with artists and arts organizations to promote and facilitate artistic exchange among indigenous, non-indigenous and under-represented artists across international and cultural boundaries. We organize exhibitions and performing arts projects that involve cutting-edge artists, and also link artistic and academic interests through educational symposia, and by our collective expertise in art practices, art history, ethnography, education and law.

CELLspace (Collectively Explorative Learning Labs)
2050 Bryant St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 648-7562; www.cellspace.org/
CELLspace provides a safe and supportive public environment for the expiration of art, education, performance and community building. Though cooperative relationships and multidisciplinary programs, we encourage a celebration of intergenerational and cross-cultural collaborations.

City Art Cooperative Gallery
828 Valencia (between 19th & 20th Streets), SF, CA 94110
(415) 970-9900; www.cityartgallery.org/
City Art is an artist-owned, artist-operated gallery. Since 1998 our retail exhibition space on lively Valencia Street has offered the work of local artists to San Francisco residents and visitors. Artists interested in showing their work at City Art should call the gallery to arrange for an interview.

Community ACE (Arts & Cultural Enhancement)
2991 Shattuck Ave, Ste. 200, Berkeley, CA 94705
(510) 849-1194; www.communityace.org/
Community ACE is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation dedicated to helping individual artists, cultural groups and grassroots organizations find support for community-based arts and culture.

Continuing Education at City College of San Francisco
Fort Mason Center, Building B, SF, CA 94123
(415) 561-1840; www.ccsf.org/continuing_education/
The Office of Continuing Education at City College of San Francisco offers short-term classes, workshops, and lectures that respond to diverse community needs. The program includes classes in art, computers, and languages, just to name a few, and are held at various locations around the city for your convenience. Come learn and have fun.

Cool Neon
4022 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA 94704
(510) 547-5878; www.coolneon.com/
Cool Neon provides artists with a complete product line of electroluminescent wire and the expert technical support needed to work with this amazing medium. We shine brightest at Burning Man with our creation the Playafish, along with many of our customer's mind-blowing creations. We hold several soldering workshops for artists to brainstorm and to work on their playa projects.

Craigslist.org
PMB #244, 915 Cole Street, SF, CA 94117
(415) 566-6394; www.craigslist.org/
Craiglist.org was started in the SF Bay area by Craig Newmark in 1995. The site includes a community bulletin board with classifieds. The organization uses a common-sense, down-to-earth approach and works to make the Net more personal an authentic. It advocates social responsibility and promote small, local nonprofit organizations. Craigslist programs include: nonprofit venture forums, nonprofit spotlight, teachers wish list, and free job postings for nonprofits.

Crucible Steel Gallery
2050 Bryant St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 648-7562; www.cellspace.org/
The Crucible Steel Gallery, a multipurpose gallery located within the nonprofit art space known as Cell, is 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." This is a chance for artists to personally present their work to the gallery committee and submit show proposals for future exhibitions.

California Lawyers for the Arts/Arthouse
Fort Mason Center, Building C, Room 255, SF, CA 94123
(415) 775-7200; www.calawyersforthearts.org/; www.arthouseca.org/
California Lawyers for the Arts/Arthouse is in nonprofit arts service organization providing lawyer referrals, dispute resolution, educational programs and information about art studios, live/work spaces and cultural facilities. Our house is administering the $1.5 million Emergency Rent Subsidy Program for nonprofit arts organizations.

The Crucible
1036 Ashby Ave., Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 843-5510; www.thecrucible.org/
The Crucible is a nonprofit industrial arts educational facility offering courses for beginners and prose in metalworking, foundry, glassworking, moldmaking, stonecarving, welding, jewelry and more. Workshop and class proposals for fall 2001 are due Monday, July 23.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 436-9333; www.eff.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization concerned with the civil liberties, technical and social issues raised by the application of new computing and telecommunications technologies. Over the past decade, EFF has participated in precedent-setting litigation protecting online civil liberties, worked to ensure that any legislation passed or rules promulgated protect individuals' rights, and led the forefront of public debate over the equitable use and responsible growth of technology relating to privacy, First and Fourth Amendments, and intellectual property issues.

Film Arts Foundation
346 9th St., 2nd Floor, SF, CA 94103
(415) 552-8760; www.filmarts.org/
With nearly 3400 members, Film Arts Foundation supports the creation, exhibition, and distribution of independent film and video in the Bay Area and beyond. Services include seminars and workshops, equipment and post-production facility rentals, a monthly magazine, a grant program, fiscal sponsorship, an annual film festival, resources and videotape libraries, online databases of fund and festival opportunities, group legal and production insurance plans, and more.

The Foundation Center
312 Sutter Street, #606, SF, CA 94108
(415) 391-4413; fdncenter.org/sanfrancisco/
The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse established in 1956. The Center's mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.

Greenmuseum.org
518 Tamalpais Dr., Corte Madera, CA 94925
(4150 945-9322; www.greenmuseum.org/
Greenmuseum.org is an online museum of environmental art (to be launched in December 2001) that provides a forum for information, discussion and promotion of this global art movement. Greenmuseum.org offers images, interviews, essays, directions for visiting artworks and related points of interest, plus collaborative resources for artists, environmental nonprofits, community groups and more. We welcome public participation, and encourage people to share information on events and ideas about creatively addressing environmental problems in our communities.

Image West Design
P.O. Box 613, San Anselmo, CA 94979-0613
(415) 482-9856; www.imagewestdesign.com/
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.

Independent Arts & Media
PMB 821, 601 Van Ness Ave. #E, SF, CA 94102
www.artsandmedia.net/
Independent Arts & Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and develops noncommercial arts and media in San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond. The goal is to build collaborative public networks that directly connect artists, musicians, journalists and media producers with the diverse communities they serve. We offer free and low-cost services, including Web space with no pop-up or banner ads; comprehensive editorial consulting; and fiscal and event sponsorship.

The Institute for Unpopular Culture
PMB 1523, 1850 Union St, SF, CA 94123
(415) 986-4382; www.ifuc.org/
The Institute for Unpopular Culture serves organizations and individuals in the arts community through event planning and general fund raising. The Institute attempts to alleviate the artist's need to cater to public taste and opinion in order to survive. The Institute is dedicated to restoring art to its inherently personal nature and thereby preserving diversity of opinion and richness of experience.

Integrated Arts
933 Parker St., Ste. 45, Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 841-1446; www.integratedarts.org/
Integrated Arts is meeting an otherwise unmet need for art programs in which people of all ages, with and without disabilities, can come together and create. We are creating the space for people to enjoy interdependence as they work together on projects from organization-building to art-making. Their collaboration challenges standard ideas about art and pushes them to explore alternative art-making methods and innovative ways to create art and exhibit culture. IArts also provides news about mainstream arts access, in an effort to bridge the information gaps that can prevent full participation. Artists with disabilities are encouraged to join our ever widening network of agencies, artists and organizations called the Arts Access Network.

Kearny Street Workshop
934 Brannan St., SF, CA 94103
(415) 503-0520; www.kearnystreet.org/
Kearny Street Workshop is a 29-year-old, multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American (APA) arts organization serving the Bay Area. Our mission is to promote and present artwork that enriches and empowers APA communities. Our programs include exhibitions, performances, readings, publications, writing classes, artist salons, and an annual young artists festival called APAture. We are now accepting submissions for APAture in all artistic disciplines from APA artists between the ages of 18 and 35, living and working in the Bay Area. Visit our Web site for a printable application form, or visit our table for a hardcopy.

Media Alliance
814 Mission St. #205, SF, CA 94103
(415) 546-6334; www.media-alliance.org/
Media Alliance provides training in technology, media arts and investigative reporting, with an eye to social justice advocacy through independent media. Services available to artists include extensive media and computer training opportunities at low cost or in exchange for volunteer time; economical job listing services; affordable health insurance; and am inexpensive press outlet guide for do-it-yourself publicity.

The Nocturnes Night Photography Web Site
PO Box 29074, The Presidio, SF, CA 94129
(415) 824-1653; www.thenocturnes.com/
The Nocturnes Night Photography Web Site serves as a resource for night photography and its intersection with all things nocturnal -- music, literature, other night imagery, poetry, pop culture and science. We offer workshops, monthly full moon gatherings, semi-annual alumni events, an online gallery space, art exhibitions and competitions for emerging artists, plus an online forum for night photographers with our "Night Talk" message board.

The Odeon Bar
3223 Mission St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 695-2884; www.odeonbar.com/
Come to bar, get drunk and leave your jacket. In the pocket of your jacket is your art synopsis. We will get in touch with you ...

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