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The history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area includes major contributions to contemporary art, including Abstract Expressionism. The area is known for its cross-disciplinary artists like Bruce Conner , Bruce Nauman , and Peter Voulkos as well as a large number of non-profit alternative art spaces .
San Francisco Art Association; San Francisco Arts Commission; San Francisco Ballet; San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle; San Francisco Boys Chorus; San Francisco Film and Photo League; Sanchez Art Center; SFFILM; SFJAZZ Center; Society of Western Artists (1939–present) Southern Exposure (art space)
The Saint Joseph's Arts Society works in collaboration with other arts nonprofits, and serves in many capacities including as a gallery, museum, event space, and an artist-in-residence space. [3] [8] [9] It houses a branch of Carpenters Workshop Gallery. [10] In 2021, Saint Joseph's Arts Society hosted Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary ...
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens , YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, national, and international artists and the Bay Area 's diverse communities.
[5] The art center was originally located on the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts, in a refurbished 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2) former Greyhound Bus maintenance facility designed in 1951 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The Wattis Institute opened its new location at 360 Kansas Street in January 2013.
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Outside of academic institutions, Intersection for the Arts' literary series is the longest continual reading series in the state of California. The longevity of the series has attracted an increasing number of high-profile writers, but the series continues to regularly showcase the work of emerging, local writers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
ArtSpan is a San Francisco, California, nonprofit organization that produces the oldest and largest artist open studios event in the United States.Started in 1975, ArtSpan's San Francisco Open Studios (SFOS) takes place over four weekends in the fall each year with a different city district highlighted each weekend.