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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Children & Youth, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Based in San Francisco?s Mission District, Artnation develops and produces creative works, nurtures professional growth among artists, provides free arts workshops, and champions new modalities and arts processes. Our intent is to intensify people?s lives by arts into everyday awareness. Since December 2003, Artnation has been creating a participatory space for the arts by placing communities directly in the creative process. All of our community arts workshops and productions are provided on a free or donation basis. To eliminate barriers to arts practices for working artists, Artnation facilitates artistic development, creative work opportunities, and access to resources. Through collaborations and exchanges, we sustain the creative output of emerging and under-recognized artists regionally and worldwide. We support all artistic mediums and disciplines, from indigenous art forms to new media. As an arts-producing organization, Artnation advances the development and production of high-quality, non-commercial works that illuminate human truths, resonate with peoples? day-to-day experiences, and reveal the interiority of people?s lives.
Programs: Artnation?s public productions include a free, monthly theater reading series, ongoing since April 2006. Participants comprise of a mixed group of actors, playwrights, students, and arts enthusiasts. Using a process-driven workshop format, professionals and community members dramatize cold readings of plays?ranging from works-in-progress by local playwrights to experimental and contemporary masterpieces. The workshops contribute to the professional development of theater artists and provide a surface for community arts participation. Our filmmakers program enables independent artists to create and edit films, as well as find worldwide audiences for emerging, non-commercial film works. We will be launching a creative writing intensive for aspiring writers in early 2008.
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