Our Programs
Minnesota Street Project Foundation’s programs support working artists, technicians, curators and cultural workers by providing space, tools, and infrastructure for the creation and presentation of new and developing work. If you wish to support our programs, you can make a donation.
Interested in collaborating or partnering with the Foundation? Please send a proposal to info@minnesotastreetproject.org.
Warehouse Residency
The Minnesota Street Project Foundation Warehouse Residency provides artists an extended opportunity to experiment and evolve a multidisciplinary practice. Through exceptional technical resources, adaptable space, and a robust support infrastructure, this residency fosters experimentation. Selected artists receive access to 20,000-square-feet of space and a screening gallery equipped with state-of-the-art projection technology at 1201 Minnesota Street, as well as potential access to communal facilities in the Artist Studios at 1240 Minnesota Street, including a darkroom, digital print lab, ceramics area, and wood shop. To foster discourse during their residency, artists are encouraged to engage the public through programs and a culminating event showcasing their work. You can learn more about related programs and events on our website here, and to receive updates or submit questions about this residency, visit here.
We launched a pilot for the Warehouse Residency with artist Leah Rosenberg on October 21, 2024.
Artist Studios Program
Originally established in 2016 as part of the Project, the Artist Studios Program provides long-term, sub-market, private studio spaces for artists in a region where affordable space is limited. Absorbed by the Foundation in January 2023, the Artist Studios Program offers unparalleled stability, privacy, and access to shared facilities unavailable elsewhere in the Bay Area, including an artist-run wood shop, a kiln, a digital print lab, and a dark room. To contribute directly, please visit the ‘DONATE’ page.
Exhibitions
In May 2023, Minnesota Street Project Foundation opened a new building located at 1201 Minnesota Street on the Minnesota Street Project’s contemporary arts campus. This raw 20,000-square-foot warehouse, which houses a newly built-out 3,000-square-foot video screening gallery featuring state-of-the-art equipment, is unlike any other in the Bay Area for the presentation of large-scale works of contemporary art. With support and by collaborating broadly to activate this space, the Foundation can address specific need in the Bay Area, strengthening arts enterprise and expanding public access to contemporary art.
San Francisco Art
Book Fair
San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is a free, annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material gathering independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. Launched in 2016, SFABF places the unique history and perspectives of the Bay Area in conversation with national and international publishing communities. One of the largest cultural events at Minnesota Street Project, welcoming 20,000 visitors annually, the fair features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples. Visitors can experience a range of talks, performances, book launches, special projects, exhibitions, and signings across the Minnesota Street Project campus.
Emergency Relief Grants
The Foundation’s Emergency Relief Grants offer Bay Area artists financial resources to cover unforeseen expenses that result directly from ecological emergencies. Recognizing the ways environmental disasters and emergencies can impact an artist’s ability to work, and considering specific needs such as temporary studio space and storage, Emergency Relief Grants help bolster artists with increased capacity and ability to respond effectively in environmental disasters and emergencies. Launched in 2023, funded in part through a grant from Minnesota Street Project Art Services, this program enabled the Foundation to support artists most impacted by record-breaking rainfall and resulting 100-year floods in the Bay Area.
With your support, we can mobilize to pool funds and respond to immediate needs.