Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered non-profit organization that is committed to supporting visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate, and further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and forum for Bay Area and national artists and youth in our Mission District space and off-site, in the public realm.

The mission of SOMArts is to promote and nurture art on the community level, and to foster an appreciation of and respect for all cultures. Founded in 1979, SOMArts embraces the entire spectrum of arts practice and cultural identity, and it is beloved in San Francisco as a truly multicultural, community-built space where cutting-edge events and counterculture commingle with traditional art forms.

MYT provides youth ages 4-24 with high-quality theater arts experiences that integrate drama, dance, music, and stagecraft. Open to all young performers without audition or regard to financial limitations, MYT produces full-scale original musical productions each year for elementary, middle, and high school/college performance ensembles.

The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) offers over 50 artistic classes for adults and children/youth. Classes include visual arts, dance, music, drama, literary arts, media arts, multidisciplinary arts, and special workshops. MCCLA also hosts the Multicultural Arts Summer (MAS) youth program during the summer for young people ages 7 to 13. The MCCLA has a gallery with year-round exhibitions, multicultural events, and is home to Mission Graficia, a studio for screen printing, etching, and relief printmaking.

Moving Beyond Productions (MBP) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation dedicated to empowering youth through cross-cultural arts learning. We are committed to empowering low-income and underserved young people through dance training, leadership opportunities, and performance experience. Students learn to discover their unique style through creative movement and studying multiple styles of dance.

MoAD provides one-hour facilitated tours for both children and adults at all developmental and cognitive levels. The MoAD Youth Media Program (MYMP) is an interdisciplinary youth development and job readiness program offering a rich mentoring environment and hands-on experiences to youth in grades 10 through 12. The program helps students develop leadership and communication skills and learn multimedia production skills, which they use to produce museum and website content.

MOCHA is committed to providing quality hands-on art experiences for children and their families. We strengthen our community by nurturing young people’s creativity, curiosity and educational success through hands-on arts programming in our museum, school and community sites. We emphasize outreach to economically at-risk communities. A pioneer in arts education, MOCHA provides training and tools for educators, parents and youth development professionals.

For over 30 years, Music in Schools Today (MUST) has provided a safety net for Bay Area music programs. MUST supports existing music programs and provides a program for at-risk children pre-K-12, as well as professional development to teachers and teaching artists. MUST programs offer the joy of music making, improving student achievement and putting them on track to succeed in school and in life. MUST artists teach choir to dance, guitar to piano, percussion to puppetry to over 28,000 students annually.

New Conservatory Theatre Center offers classes, camps and performance opportunities, which allow youth to flourish in a fun, creative and supportive atmosphere where each student is provided an opportunity to shine. Emphasis is placed on skill-building through theatre games and exercises, with culminating performances punctuating the end of each session.

ODC School is dedicated to inclusion and to promoting the artistic lifecycle of a dancer through creative and technical training that develops artistic capacity, enthusiasm, and engagement. The school offers classes for all ages and all levels, from absolute beginners to professionals. Classes are taught by an outstanding professional faculty representing more than 20 dance disciplines.