GRAY AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 grayarea.org

---

Organizations Filed Purposes: Gray Area Foundation for the Arts applies art and technology to create positive social impact through education, incubation and public programs. It tests and scales projects with high impact potential and teaches digital tools to support artists and technologists. Gray Area operates the Grand Theater to support Cultural Events Year-Round.

PUBLIC EVENTS:We hosted one hundred thirty-one (131) total events in 2019. Ninety-two (92) of these events were in partnership with local community nonprofits at a discounted rate through our community rentals program totaling an in-kind contribution of $237,899.53. Three of our events were self-produced, multi-day festivals: Algorithmic Art Assembly, a multi-day conference and music festival showcasing a diverse range of artists using algorithms for art reaching six-hundred (600) people; Gray Area Festival, a conference, exhibition, and performance festival surveying culture through the lens of interdisciplinary practice over nine (9) days of programming reaching over two-thousand three-hundred (2300) people; and Recombinant Festival, an audio/visual performance and expanded cinema festival with seven (7) days of programming reaching over two-thousand (2000) people. We also produced the Unseen and GRAY/V performance series dedicated to emerging local audio/visual artists. We did not produce a dedicated fundraising event in 2019.

EDUCATION:Gray Area's Creative Code Education program services include: Immersives, Workshops, and Apprenticeship opportunities. Gray Area develops STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) curriculum for artistic development by teaching interdisciplinary skills through the creation of artwork.We prioritize enrollment for a diversity of backgrounds within our Education and Cultural Incubator programs. Our biannual creative code immersive enrolled 48% of students who identify as female, 2% who identify as non-binary, and 42% of students who are BIPOC. We support this inclusive enrollment through diversity targeted scholarships, teaching assistantships, and youth apprenticeships.Education: ImmersiveWe served twenty-three (30) Creative Code Immersive students with two (2) Immersive sessions which last for twelve (12) weeks, and hosted two (2) showcases which shared their work with six-hundred (600) members of the general public.Education: WorkshopsWe served over three-hundred (300) students in sixteen (16) interdisciplinary education workshops that ran throughout the year.

IncubationGray Area's Incubator services include Residency, Research Lab, and Sponsorship opportunities. Gray Area collaborates with artists and creative practitioners who critically investigate new ideas, create and adapt technologies through their work, and engage with pressing social and civic issues.Incubation: ResidencyWe had ten (10) individual residents in round one (1), and seven (7) individual members in round two (2) of our Incubator Residency, which last for seventy-two (72) weeks each and produced two (2) showcases that each reached three-hundred (300) members of the general public. Our second individual Residency was reduced due to an expanded Research Lab in the last half of 2019. We had nine (9) shared studio members in term one (1), and ten (10) shared studio members in term two (2) of our private studio spaces.Incubation: Research labsIn 2019 we executed the research and development phases of our Experiential Space Research Lab in partnership with the Knight Foundation to explore the ways in which recent trends in immersive environments can be used as recurring revenue streams for artists. In 2019, Gray Area supported the research, professional development, and production of experiential, environmental installations through twelve (12) artists admitted to the Experiential Space Research Lab from an open call themed Reworlding: The Art of Living Systems, which invited artists to use art to help understand the implications of co-existing on a living planet. The curriculum was developed in partnership with Gaian Systems. The artists went through a six-month concept and development program which resulted in an exhibition design called The End of You, which focused on how to expand a personal sense of identity to encompass other people, species, and ultimately a whole planet through experiential art.Incubation: Fiscal SponsorshipsWe continued to manage three (3) fiscally sponsored projects: Art Hack Day, a hackathon project for media artists; Living Room Light Exchange, a discussion and presentation series for emerging artists; and the Zach Watson Memorial Fund, a scholarship program.

---

---

Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (public 990 form dataset) from: https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202003189349309515_public.xml