The San Francisco Arts Commission's Artist in Residence (AIR) program builds partnerships with city departments in order to provide unique residency opportunities that result in strengthening the value of artists participating in and responding to the advancement of civic dialogue. Since it's inception in 2015, the SFAC's AIR program has placed local artists in SF City Hall, SF Planning, SF COVID Command Center, SF Public Library, and SF Recreation and Park Department.
AIR opportunities are open to artists residing in the Bay Area.
Current artists in residence
REC AIR 2024
Afatasi The Artist (India Basin Waterfront Parks)
Conni McKenzie (India Basin Waterfront Parks)
Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen (India Basin Waterfront Parks)
Past Recipients
Christopher Burch (2023 SF Public Library)
Celeste Chan (2023 SF Public Library)
Tossie Long (2023 SF Public Library)
Preethi Ramaprasad (2023 SF Public Library)
Read the Press Release here
James Q. Chan (2022 SF Public Library)
tanea lunsford lynx (2022 SF Public Library)
Gazelle Samizay (2022 SF Public Library)
Xandra Ibarra (2022 SF Public Library)
Read the Press Release here
Mansur Nurullah (2020 SF Planning)
Read the Press Release here
Bo (Luengsuraswat) Rittapa (2020 SF COVID Command Center)
Mabel Jiménez (2020 SF COVID Command Center)
Ajuan Mance (2020 SF COVID Command Center)
S. Renee Jones (2020 SF COVID Command Center)
Read the Exhibition Press Release here
Jenny Odell (2018 SF Planning)
Read the Press Release here
Jeremy Fish (2015 SF City Hall)