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… More »

Art is Moving is a collaboration between artists Lisa Rasmussen and Lauren Odell Usher who are creating a movement through art making, blogging, community outreach and conversations about ART! What would it be like to make art accessible to everyone and at every street corner?… More »

This mini-exhibit features Jeepney Projects Worldwide, a partnering of benefit art projects and regional conservation groups working to inspire, support, and restore lost habitat of critically endangered birds. San Francisco artist and birding enthusiast, David Tomb, is at the forefront of this endeavor… More »

One of Hilla’s favorite quotes is: “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper. Born and raised in Germany, Hilla lived in Munich most of her life before moving to San Francisco in 1997. She took up studying drawing and painting to stay grounded, find focus, and an outlet for her creativity. These days most of her free hours are spent painting in the studio at 1890 Bryant Street Studios. Hilla’s work is inspired by her immediate surroundings, by the beauty she observes in her local environment or the places she visits. She works in a variety of mediums, oil, acrylics, pen and ink; using mainly oil for her abstract landscapes… More »

Tsungwei, Moo is an artist from Taiwan, where she was an artist in residence at the Da-Dao Art Museum in 2000. Her range of artworks include printmaking, painting, photography and ceramics. Mostly inspired by the beauty of nature and wildlife, Tsungwei prefers painting and drawing outdoors in beautiful locations paying close attention to how the sun light changes and reflects on the landscape and translates that to her canvas.   The subjects of her artwork focus on the natural environments of her current city of San Francisco, along with Taiwan, Yosemite, and other areas in California. ” My art is not just something looks good for decoration function. I want it to show its spirit inside. It can be the… More »

“Even though I work mainly from my imagination, my designs are inspired by a massive quantity of research into period costumes and patterns from around the 1880′s second bustle period and Victorian architecture. I find enough information until I feel comfortable designing and creating my own content and twisting historical costumes into my own aesthetic, hence Vaulker’s [one of Yoch’s main characters] bustle coat,” … More »