If you are interested in exploring other ways of turning your art into a business or forming a business partnership with other artists, the City's Office of Small Business has a wealth of resources (many of them free) to assist small business owners.
We also want to make sure you are aware of other local funding resources available to individual artists.
San Francisco is home to several artist service providers that offer a variety of resources and assistance to help individual artists thrive.
- ArtSpan (fine art/studio artists)
- Theatre Bay Area
- Dancer's Group
AFFORDABILITY
The City and County of San Francisco offers a variety of services designed to provide relief to low income residents struggling to stay in the City. Please refer to our Quick Guide for more information.
LOCAL PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT FUNDING RESOURCE
We have compiled a list of Bay Area municipal and national funding sources to help you find support for your work. Other funding resources include:
Public/Private Funding
- Arts Loan Fund
- Center for Creative Cultural Innovation
- Creative Work Fund
- The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
- Market Street Prototyping Festival
- SF Beautiful
- Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure
- Sustainable Art Foundation
Local Artist Residencies (list not comprehensive)
- CounterPulse
- Djerassi
- Headlands Center for the Arts
- Kala Institute
- Montalvo Arts Center
- Oliver Ranch
- Recology Artist in Residence Program
- Root Division
- Craft Emergency Relief Fund
ARTIST PROTECTION
California Lawyers for the Arts
California Lawyers for the Arts empowers the creative community by providing education, representation and dispute resolution.
California Art Preservation Act
CAPA states that physical alteration or destruction of fine art is detrimental to the artist’ s reputation, and artists therefore have an interest in protecting their works of fine art.
Visual Artists Rights Act
VARA states the artist of a work of visual art has the right to claim authorship of that work. It prevents the use of his or her name as the author of any work of visual art which he or she did not create; prevents the modification of the work, and prevents any destruction of a work without reasonable allotments of time to contact the artist.
If you are interested in breaking into public art, the Art on Market Street Poster Series offers a great opportunity to get your feet wet. Calls for Artists for this popular program are issued annually.