San Francisco Arts Commission

31 Jul 2025

Some Summer Grants for SF & Bay Area Artists

I realize it ain’t currently grant writin’ season, but there are still plenty of hungry artists out there, so we thought y’all should know about funding opportunities available in August! If you’re not an artist yourself, go ahead and send this to a local artist you know! The Art Bae

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15 May 2025

San Francisco’s Artists Struggle on, Despite a City Failing in Support

What Happens When a City Stops Holding Space for Its Artists? Many artists and arts organizations across the Bay are still reeling from the sudden cessation of NEA grants mid-project last week. But the story of artists struggling to stay afloat isn’t new to multidisciplinary artist, producer, filmmaker, and dancer

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13 Oct 2022

The Map of All 98 SF Monuments & What We Should Do With Them

San Francisco has 98 “monuments & memorials” across our fair city.  You know, the statues, plaques, and mounds of bronze and stone on street corners, parks, and even parking lots?  Many of these “monuments” were given to the city as gifts from wealthy white men and placed somewhere over 100

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22 Feb 2021

SF Arts Commission Seeks People to Fill Advisory Committee on Monuments and Memorials

The San Francisco Arts Commission is seeking qualified candidates to participate in the Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee, a body that will host public hearings and establish criteria and guidelines to determine the future of historic monuments in the city’s art collection. The creation of the committee of 11 to

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18 Jan 2018

SF General Hospital Has New Sirron Murals

The Pediatric Emergency Department at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital got some new murals by an SF muralist and local favorite Sirron Norris.  Norri’s style is unmistakable, just ask anyone who lives in the mission or NOPA sabout ‘those murals with the blue bears or bunnies.” As described by the

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07 Sep 2017

New Affordable Housing Resources for SF Artists

If you are like us, you’re tired of losing San Francisco artists and creatives to eviction and displacement because of skyrocketing housing costs.  The good news is there is some recent money and support being set aside for affordable housing specifically for artists and nonprofit workers in SF.  18% of

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