Home Is Where The Art Is:
A Permanent Home for the Community Arts Program
You can play an essential role in building and sustaining a home for our community of neighborhood artists.
Artist Sylvester "Slick" Guard works on his latest creation at the CAP studio.
The struggle of the artist – to create, to challenge, to affirm one’s identity – is, in many ways, a struggle shared by many of us. And for artists experiencing poverty, experiencing homelessness, the struggle becomes even more profound; it becomes a struggle to validate one’s very existence – what it means to be human.
Here is where a safe space to dream, to create, to express becomes more than an art studio with colored pens, paints, brushes, canvases, clay. This space becomes a community where stories are shared and ideas blossom, transformed into drawings, paintings, sculptures. This space is Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program.
Founded in 1969, Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program (CAP), the City's only free fine arts studio for low-income and unhoused artists, is an award-winning creative community and unique social enterprise. Artists refine their creative talents through skills-building workshops, reach broader audiences and exposure through exhibitions and thematic art shows, and keep 100% of the proceeds from their art sales, promoting the arts – and artists - as economic assets for the greater community. The CAP offers an outlet for creative self-expression and cultural connectivity that would otherwise be unattainable by offering neighborhood artist resources and materials to create, exhibit, and sell their artwork.
We now have the opportunity to purchase the building where our CAP studio and gallery resides. Your generosity will help establish a permanent home for CAP and our community of neighborhood artists. It’s support from people like you that helps ensure that our City values everyone as community assets, where together we can transform pain into possibilities, and where miracles happen every day.
Here is where a safe space to dream, to create, to express becomes more than an art studio with colored pens, paints, brushes, canvases, clay. This space becomes a community where stories are shared and ideas blossom, transformed into drawings, paintings, sculptures. This space is Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program.
Founded in 1969, Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program (CAP), the City's only free fine arts studio for low-income and unhoused artists, is an award-winning creative community and unique social enterprise. Artists refine their creative talents through skills-building workshops, reach broader audiences and exposure through exhibitions and thematic art shows, and keep 100% of the proceeds from their art sales, promoting the arts – and artists - as economic assets for the greater community. The CAP offers an outlet for creative self-expression and cultural connectivity that would otherwise be unattainable by offering neighborhood artist resources and materials to create, exhibit, and sell their artwork.
We now have the opportunity to purchase the building where our CAP studio and gallery resides. Your generosity will help establish a permanent home for CAP and our community of neighborhood artists. It’s support from people like you that helps ensure that our City values everyone as community assets, where together we can transform pain into possibilities, and where miracles happen every day.
In the City’s working-class neighborhoods, in communities struggling with poverty, with homelessness, with displacement and entrapment – artists know full well the intersect between light and shadow. How that intersect is played out on the streets of San Francisco. Artists remind us of the power of the paintbrush, of pen and ink, of charcoal, light and shadow – to reimagine the canvass of our community.
These valiant visionaries, undaunted dreamers all, relentlessly guarding every day the beauty that surrounds us, colorfully celebrating the beauty that lives within each of us. Keepers of our humanity. Guardians of our imagination. Fighting every day for the soul of the City.
Your commitment to the mission and guiding principles of Hospitality House is greatly appreciated, especially during a time of crisis when engagement, empowerment, and justice are needed more than ever. Thank you for supporting Hospitality House’s founding mission of rebuilding lives, celebrating creativity, and strengthening community.
These valiant visionaries, undaunted dreamers all, relentlessly guarding every day the beauty that surrounds us, colorfully celebrating the beauty that lives within each of us. Keepers of our humanity. Guardians of our imagination. Fighting every day for the soul of the City.
Your commitment to the mission and guiding principles of Hospitality House is greatly appreciated, especially during a time of crisis when engagement, empowerment, and justice are needed more than ever. Thank you for supporting Hospitality House’s founding mission of rebuilding lives, celebrating creativity, and strengthening community.
