Welcome 2022!

We welcome 2022 and invite you to engage with SFAI as our residents, fellows, alumni, staff and community partners share their works, voices, and reflections on the most pressing issues of our time.
SFAI is an independent arts organization forging critical inquiry and cultural exchange among artists, creative practitioners, and the broader community. We support and amplify dynamic artistic practices that engage complex social issues, inspire individual transformation, and inform collective action.

Join our team!

We are searching for an individual for our full-time Residency Director position. The Residency Director is responsible for attracting and managing artists of all disciplines in residence each year, administering the program, and facilitating a welcoming, comfortable, and productive residency and monthly cohort.

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Support SFAI via Patreon

Patrons such as you directly support SFAI and our socially engaged artists and help to create an accessible and supportive network. Get SFAI swag, discounts on alumni artworks, and behind-the-scenes content. Patreon memberships are available at any level between $1/month and $100/month.

Residency as Witness: SFAI 2014-2021 / 12.9-2.11

This exhibition reflects current work of regional and local alumni of the SFAI Thematic Residency from 2014-2021, including themes such as Food Justice, Immigration/Emigration, Water Rights, Equal Justice, Truth & Reconciliation, and Labor.

Our commitment to anti-racism.

At SFAI, we believe that Black Lives Matter. We stand in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and people of color, with all oppressed peoples, and with liberation movements here in the U.S. and across the world.

Read more on our About Page.

OPEN CALL/ 2023 Thematic Residency / Changing Climate 

The 2023 International Thematic Residency, Changing Climate, addresses the most critical issue of our time. For the Changing Climate Open Call, SFAI seeks to support artistic exploration, creative activism, and community art actions related to global warming that inspire individual transformation and inform collective action. Applications are due April 10, 2022.

TILT Podcast

Episode 9 / Creative Rituals / September 24

How do artists use rituals as deeply personal gestures to inform and enrich their creative practice, and to connect to larger communities, identities, and places? Our guests, Sara Daniele Rivera and Tintawi Kaigziabiher, share ways in which art can offer meaningful experiences of healing, both on the individual and collective planes.