San Francisco Youth Theatre is dedicated to creating cutting-edge theater for children and youth ages 4-24 throughout the Bay Area. SFYT core values include personal expression through the arts, creativity, inclusiveness and changing the world, one play at a time SF Youth Theatre offers classes and performance ensembles, produces adult-performed productions for young audiences, school residencies and a repertoire of original productions that speak to the unique sensibilities of youth.

We host workshops, museum visits, and hands-on art projects. Students have access to art objects and materials and the tools for thinking critically about their meanings. Through observation, inquiry, and interpretation, students build across subject areas, meeting state standards in visual arts, language arts, and social sciences. Trips range from a one-time guided tour of an area of the collection to a three-part program including class prep, guided tour, and art project.

SCRAP is a creative reuse warehouse and workshop space dedicated to diverting materials from landfills into the hands of teachers, artists, nonprofits and others who can creatively reuse them. SCRAP's depot holds treasures galore: fabric, paint, paper, toys, frames, plastic, wood, and glass, all at low or no cost. SCRAP also hosts workshops, field trips, materials giveaways for teachers, volunteer events, exhibitions, and outreach activities.

senseofplace LAB creates photo-based art projects using science, history, and literature to investigate "sense of place." Our educational component develops workshops and events in collaboration with schools, institutions and groups. For instance, a recent project marked where an underground creek is in downtown San Francisco. Director Laurie Halsey Brown has 20 years of art education experience and has worked with all ages. Recently, she was Program Director for Art With Elders.

Our mission is to bring art—in many exciting forms—to San Francisco’s youth in vivid, experiential ways. Educating through participation is what firmly distinguishes the San Francisco Arts Education Project. We pursue such hands-on participation by bringing career artists directly to kids in every corner of our city, helping them ignite personal confidence and growth.

International performance/sculptural artist Sha Sha Higby is known for her evocative performances using the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture that she meticulously creates and moves within. She has performed internationally at Festival Internazional delle Marionette; Festival of Sydney, Australia; Singapore Festival of the Arts; Hong Kong Fringe Festival; Tokyo National College Of Art; the Portland Art Museum; Portland State University; California State Summer School for the arts, and more.

The Arts Education Program at ShadowLight Productions focuses on creating a collaborative effort involving students in the production process of Shadow Theatre, including script writing, puppetry, mask movement, dance, music, lighting, and visual design. The program offers one-day, one-week, or multi-week student workshops as well as professional development workshops with hands-on training in shadow theatre techniques for school teachers, theater groups, and artists.

Shakespeare On Tour performs at schools, libraries, and community centers all over California. The troupe arrives with set, costumes, and props to stage a show at your location! At the end of the show (just under an hour long), performers take questions from the audience. In advance of the performance, 15 one-hour lesson plans (indexed to state standards) are sent to educators. Optional PLAYSHOP may be added for a one-hour, hands-on experience that will deepen student appreciation of the show.

At 1AM Gallery, we exhibit and educate people on the history and craft of street and urban art. We teach drawing, spray painting, mural, and stencil classes. We also offer private group classes.

826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen when trained tutors work one-on-one with students and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.