Artists' Television Access, Art gallery and movie theater in Mission District, San Francisco, United States.
Artists' Television Access is a nonprofit gallery and screening venue in the Mission District, showing work by emerging, independent and experimental artists in a theatre and a gallery space. It also runs a weekly public-access cable TV show and a webzine, and hosts the Other Cinema series on Saturday nights, programmed by artist-in-residence Craig Baldwin.
The center opened in 1984 as a nonprofit space dedicated to independent artists and filmmakers seeking a place to show their work. It grew from this founding mission to become a key venue for experimental media art in San Francisco.
The venue takes its name from public-access television traditions and serves as a working space where local artists exhibit and screen their projects. Visitors experience firsthand how community members use the space to share experimental and independent work with others.
Artists' Television Access sits on Valencia Street in the Mission District, with the Right Window display facing the sidewalk and lit by natural light by day and city light at night. The Other Cinema series runs seasonally on Saturday nights, hosted by Craig Baldwin. Check the current programme before visiting, since screenings and gallery shows change.
The Right Window, a large street-facing display at street level, is curated by a rotating collective of local artists and curators. It is open to pedestrians and passing traffic around the clock, lit by daylight during the day and by the city at night.
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