The San Francisco Arts Commission has engaged the Arts Management Consulting Firm, AMS Planning & Research (AMS) to help develop its next strategic plan, which will guide the work of the Arts Commission over the next five years. 

As a member of San Francisco's arts community, your input is crucial to this process. The Arts Commission hosted a series of community open houses and are administering a public survey to gather feedback on how the SFAC has been working, what it can do better, and what the agency's updated five-year strategic plan should prioritize.

We invite you to take our Arts Community Public Survey. Visit: bit.ly/artsurveysfac



This survey should take you about 10 minutes to complete and will remain open until 11:59 pm on Monday, March 31st. If you have any technical difficulties, please reach out to Lauren Frankel at lfrankel@ams-online.com

Take the Survey

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Past Arts Community Open Houses

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
San Francisco Arts Commission 
401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 125 (1st floor conference room)
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. 

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
San Francisco Arts Commission 
401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 125 (1st floor conference room)
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Virtual Open House 
Friday, March 7, 2025

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

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Past Strategic Plan

In 2013, the Arts Commission with support from Museum Management Consultants, Inc. and MIG, Inc., embarked on a comprehensive strategic planning process with the goal of better articulating our vision for the next five years. During the course of this process we listened to almost 100 constituents, refreshed our mission statement, confirmed our values and identified areas in need of improvement so that we could better serve San Francisco

Here you’ll find a project schedule that shows all the activities we conducted along with key project deliverables, including:

This 2014-2019 Strategic Plan was made possible in part by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

What's Coming Up

Public Meeting

Executive Committee Meeting

December 19
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1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Hybrid: City Hall | Rm 408 and Online
Public Meeting

Community Investments Committee Meeting

December 18
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1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Hybrid: City Hall | Rm 408 and Online
Public Meeting

Visual Arts Committee Meeting

April 16
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2:00 PM to 4:15 PM

Hybrid: City Hall | Rm 416 and Online
Public Meeting

Civic Design Review Committee Meeting

April 21
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2:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Hybrid: City Hall | Rm 416 and Online