The South of Market district may be the most diverse neighborhood in a culturally diverse city. SOMA is a huge district, sprawling from the Embarcadero to Eleventh Street, between Market and Townsend. Once known as “South of the Slot,” in reference to the cable car line down the center of Market Street, this “wrong side of the tracks” San Francisco neighborhood is a still evolving.
Founded in 2008, SOMA Open Studios recently changed its name to South of Market Artists Coalition (SOMAC). A grass roots organization committed to expanding the arts community and consciousness in the South of Market neighborhood, SOMAC hopes to inspire, nurture, educate and empower artists and their audiences, while enhancing the social and cultural diversity of this unique neighborhood. Their mission is to foster community enrichment through the promotion of the arts and to educate the general public in what their artists have to offer. The artists of South of Market seek to create a dialogue between the the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern, contemporary and experimental art, while being accessible to the public.
Hilla Hueber, Carmel Sunset
Our February Art Exhibit includes work from some of these talented artists and a few are participating in our Live Art Program. These artists represent some of the 10 different studios that comprise SOMAC. Our exhibit is a preview to SOMAC artists Spring Open Studios on March 31 and April 1, 2012, providing the public an opportunity to see a multitude of artists in their work spaces. Art lovers are invited to meet the artists, see and talk about their work process, experience art at the source, and build their art collections.
Participating artists include; Jack Androvich, Ida Gamban, April Hankins, Hilla Hueber, Dennis Levy, Michel Misho, Tsungwei Moo, Richard L. Perri, Xavier Phelp, Karl Roeseler, Janet Seifert and Aladin Stadlin.
