The Best Arts in Bay Area

The Haute Enchilada

The Haute Enchilada Cafe boasts an eclectic menu of sustainable seafood and local organic produce, premium wine list, craft beers on tap, full bar an art gallery with over 70 artists’ original work.  Open daily from 11am for brunch, lunch... more

The Holton Studio Gallery

Emphasis on contemporary Northern California plein air and landscape painting. more

The Image Flow

At The Image Flow, we offer something for everyone. Whether you need some focused training with your camera or you're ready to pursue a portfolio passion project, from shooting, to software, we offer courses in everything you need to begin creating y... more

The JanRae Community Art Gallery at the Women's Cancer Resource Center

The JanRae Community Art Gallery started showing the work of local artists in 1997. The gallery was named after Jan Hart-Schuyers and Rae Louise Hayward, the co-founders of The Art of Living Black (TAOLB). more

The Jazz Heritage Center

The Jazz Heritage Center (JHC) is the only permanent cultural and educational complex dedicated to the long history of Jazz in San Francisco and the Fillmore District. Located within the Fillmore Heritage Center in the heart of the historic Fillmore,... more

The Jones Institute

The Jones Institute is an alternative art space to experience new works, ephemera, and more in Hayes Valley. more

The Lab

The LAB is an interdisciplinary artists' organization that supports the development and presentation of new visual, performing, media and literary art. We assist artists in the creation of new work and we present new work of the highest quality by em... more

The Laugh Box

Have you ever been to an amusement park, a carnival, or a mall? Remembering stepping into an itty bitty booth and taking silly photos with your friends and putting them in your locker, your wallet, or your Trapper Keeper? Introducing The Laugh Box. I... more

The Laundry

Named after the historic purpose of its location, The Laundry supports local community art projects, experiential art, creativity, and more in the Mission district. more

The Lewis Gallery

This gallery is committed to exhibiting exceptional paintings by artists whose work has been shown internationally, but never before in this country. They feature contemporary European painters including Michael Dvortcsak, Mario Madiai, Gloria Muoz,... more

The LightRoom Gallery

The LightRoom, as a photolab, has been helping photographers and other artists get the best prints of their images since 1975. In the mid-1990s, we were the first photolab in the San Francisco Bay Area to feature fine art quality inkjet (giclé... more

The Living Room Gallery

The Living Room Collective is Berkeley's newest gallery; showcasing local artists, photographers, musicians and filmmakers. We are Derek Schmidt, Jen Dranttel, Kate Dunphy, Kevin Seaman and Veronica Triplett- artists, designers, musicians, activis... more

The Loin

The Loom

The Loom is a 5.5-acre creative hub in Oakland, looping creative spaces, regenerative living, and unrestrained expression. more

The Luggage Store Gallery

Our mission is to build community by organizing multidisciplinary arts programming accessible to and reflective of the Bay Area’s residents. Our programs are designed to broaden social and aesthetic networks, and to encourage the flow... more

The Main Gallery

The Main Gallery was established in Redwood City's historic John Offerman House in the year 2000 to enrich the artistic experience of the community. Two decades later, we are delighted to be considered a local institution, as we move on to a new chap... more

The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts

The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts is a popular multicultural, multidisciplinary performing-arts complex sponsored by the city of Oakland, formerly known as the Alice Arts Center. A beautifully restored turn-of-the-century building, it's one... more

The Marvegos Fine Art School - Los Gatos

At Marvegos Fine Art School we are doing more than raising artists, we are raising young adults who will have the confidence to think and act for themselves. more

The McLoughlin Gallery

The McLoughlin Gallery is contemporary art gallery serving as a site for exhibitions and public programs working with established international and local mid-career and emerging contemporary artists. We represent and promote artists working in a wide... more

The Midway

The Midway is a new, multifaceted creative complex, located in San Francisco's burgeoning Dogpatch neighborhood. Equal parts creative laboratory and performance space, The Midway is a sprawling 40,000 square-foot venue for the public to engage with a... more

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The Mighty Mighty Studio

Mighty Mighty studio is an art space where people can cultivate individual and collective transformation through the practice of art. more

The MilkBar in Richmond

A home for experimental dance, music, theater and film. Over the last few years The MilkBar has evolved into the site of dialogue between artist and artist, artist and audience, audience and the new, while remaining focused on its primary role as stu... more

The Museum of Performance & Design (MPD)

The Museum of Performance & Design (MPD), formerly the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, is the first museum in the country dedicated exclusively to the performing arts and theatrical design. The Museum's mission is to educate p... more

The New Wharf Theatre

The Bruce Ariss Wharf Theater (formerly The Wharf Theater) has been in operation continuously since 1976. It is located upstairs in a wooden building near the tip of Monterey’s Fisherman’s Wharf. Productions include dramas, musicals,... more

The Noodle Gallery

The Nova Studio

The Peanut Gallery

The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco

The mission of the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco is to encourage and develop local playwrights and promote script writing, audience development, and related arts.   PCSF offers successful programs to help local playwrights develop new wor... more

The Potters' Studio

The Potters' Studio is a one-of-a-kind ceramics center offering pottery classes; extensive open studio time; memberships, including 24/7 access; regular high-quality weekly firings; a gallery; and much more. If you're a beginning potter, it's a gr... more

The Producer's Loft Studio

The Producer's Loft Studio is a video sound stage and photography studio located in the heart of San Francisco’s culture-rich Mission District. This "pin-drop quiet" studio features a five-star camera-ready chef’s kitchen, white cyclorama... more

The Rabbit Hole Theater

We are happy to announce that we are welcoming Imagineers in the Bay Area back into our theatre! The theater is a space where children are exposed to creative arts through pretend play. The atmosphere in the studio is designed with notes of magic and... more

The Reclaimed Room

An exhibition space for environmental arts, crafts, and media.  A project of Building Resources. The Reclaimed Room is a new initiative of the acclaimed nonprofit Building REsources that has made a name for itself as San Francisco’s only... more

The Rotunda Gallery

The Rotunda Gallery is at 555 County Government Center, Redwood City. The building is open from 9am - 5pm, Mondays through Fridays, but the artwork is visible through its glass walls 24 hours a day, seven days a week. more

The Scribbles Institute

Our Mission is to help adults and kids learn basic drawing skills and ways to utilize those skills for education, work, and enjoyment. The Scribbles Institute drawing studio is located in the historic Old Sash Mill complex near downtown Santa... more

The Secret Alley

We aim to promote the sustainability of artists and arts-driven businesses by providing them with affordable immersive studio environments that inspire imagination, foster collaboration, and strengthen our bonds with audiences. more

The Sewing Workshop

The Sewing Workshop has been serving San Francisco's arts community for over 20 years. TSW offers classes ranging in subject from beginning sewing to jewelry construction to corsetry to home decoration to dyeing techniques. Please, take a moment to p... more

The Shipyard

The Shipyard is a collaborative build space for large-scale mechanical, kinetic and electronic artwork. With 27 shipping containers arrayed around the perimenter of a 11,000 sq ft outdoor lot, the Shipyard provides a flexible space to create ambitiou... more

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