Arc strives to support the making of quality art in all media, provide a nurturing environment for artists to create their work, encourage and provide resources for the professional development of visual artists, build a community of artists to stimulate authentic dialog and encourage exploration of art, heighten awareness and understanding of the visual arts, and promote public awareness and appreciation of the visual arts in the city of San Francisco.
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ARTISTS at Arc Studios:
Soad A. Kader - #101
Ben Needham - #102
Rachel Sager - #103
Stephen C. Wagner - #201
Mike Kimball - #202
Hilary Williams - #202
William Salit - #203
Saundra McPherson - #204
June Eng - #204
Tanya Wilkinson - #205
Kirk Brooks - #205
April Hankins - #206
Priscilla Otani - #207

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San Francisco’s SOMA offers a vibrant & diverse art experience:
 
Artists that mainly inhabit and work in the San Francisco’s artistic Mission district are breaking out of their comfort zone and moving into the diverse South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. With art institutions such as SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Jewish Contemporary Museum, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, and the Cartoon Art Museum establishing a stronghold of art in SOMA, more artists and art galleries are venturing into this unique San Francisco neighborhood to live, work, and exhibit their art.
 
The South of Market district may be the most diverse neighborhood in a culturally diverse city. You can find practically anything you want in SOMA. South of Market 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, often contradictory collection of urban spaces and experiences. The neighborhood is a patchwork of warehouses, swanky nightspots, art spaces, residential hotels, loft condominiums, furniture showrooms and the tenacious Internet companies that survived the tech market collapse.
 
Arc Studios & Gallery inhabits the former location of New Langton Arts Foundation which closed it’s doors in 2009, and the partners of Arc - Mike Yochum, Priscilla Otani, Stephen C. Wagner, and Matthew Frederick - are pleased to carry on the tradition of the space as an arts venue contributing to the vitality of the SOMA neighborhood. Arc’s ten artist studios offer much needed space for local professional artists to create and produce their artwork, as well as to exhibit their work. Arc is conveniently located at 1246 Folsom Street between 8th & 9th streets, just three blocks from the Civic Center BART Station on Market Street.

-  "Art galleries come in all shapes and sizes and this one is right there in the middle as far as size is concerned, but is huge in its scope and vision. The dynamic local art expressed is truly an exceptional cross section of the SF art scene. Also the vibe at the gallery events . . . expressed a chic yet subdued feel." - Doug A. on "Yelp"