Our Initiatives
Minnesota Street Project Foundation’s programs and initiatives 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 the Foundation's programs and initiatives, you can make a donation.
Interested in collaborating or partnering with the Foundation? Please send a proposal to info@minnesotastreetproject.org.
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 Minnesota Street Project’s contemporary art campus. Find out more at sfartbookfair.com!
1201 Minnesota Street
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 with art, the Foundation can address a specific need in the Bay Area, strengthening arts enterprise and expanding public access to contemporary art.
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. By supporting, you can contribute to a robust support infrastructure that we are building and sustaining for working artists.
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 continue to pool funds in anticipation of future needs.