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OPENING IN JANUARY 2027

Art + Water
Pier 29
1256 The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94133

Email: info@artpluswater.org

Residency Opening January 2027!

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Facets of a Healthy Art Scene — Renny Pritikin

A large pool of artists, a critical mass, a tipping point.

Teaching opportunities which help support the pool of artists.

Lively art schools that feed quality new artists into the pool of artists each year.

Studio space that’s affordable as well as live/work laws that allow artists to occupy.

Alternative spaces that give exhibition and residency opportunities for new art and artists.

Art dealers who support new artists, and generate support systems for them with sales, museum placements, and publicity.

Adventurous collectors who buy locally and buy new work.

Sophisticated writers to document, discuss, and promote new ideas.

Print and online publications for those writers to write for.

Newspaper reviewers who are open and talented.

Fellowships and grants available for artists and writers.

Museums that are accessible to new artists through committed curators who visit local studios and promote local artists with their out-of-town colleagues.

Interested audiences who attend all of the above and read about it.

Access to specialized materials or businesses (such as high-tech materials in the SF Bay Area, or the film industry in LA).

A community ethos in which new ideas are being generated about art, about society, about the role of art.

Hangouts, parties, salons, lecture series, restaurants, and bars where a sense of community is manifested.

Articulate artist leaders, heroes, iconoclasts, villains, and good and bad role models.

Artist-in-residence opportunities.

Progressive politicians who see art as a community resource rather than a potential target for derision.

Opportunities for artists to get involved in political campaigns and protests.

Opportunities for public art commissions (city or private).

Events that bring people together (scheduled multi-gallery opening nights, for example).

Art + Water is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, under the fiscal sponsorship of Hawkins Project. EIN 82-2406138.

All gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

We honor the Ohlone Ramaytush people, the original stewards of San
Francisco’s waterfront.

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