Recent Press
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An Arts and Tech Community Finds a New Home in San Francisco
The San Francisco-based arts and technology organization, Gray Area, is coming out on top. A major player in the West Coast digital creativity scene, for the past seven years, the non-profit initiative has been supporting a cutting-edge pool of talent that runs parallel (and often perpendicular) to the powerhouse Bay ...
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Gray Area Festival Delivers Its Message with Shigeto and Teebs
San Francisco's Gray Area Art & Technology foundation had a huge weekend. In celebrating the proverbial finish line for the renovation of its new facility in the Grand Theater on Mission street, the foundation, which champions "...the gray area between the arts, technology, and design,"closed out a three-day conference ...
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The Guerrilla Movement To Deploy Sensors All Over Your City
“You want to see our sensor?” Pierre Forcioli-Conti gestures at a high window that leads to the roof. “You’ll have to climb over Matt’s desk and go out the window.” No problem. I wriggle through the window and climb out on top of the the refurbished 1940s movie ...
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Arts And Tech Non-Profit Gray Area Is A Symbol For A Changing City
All great art institutions were once startups too. I was wandering around the U.S.’s largest art museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the other week (on one of those #museumhack walks) when I learned that the institution’s very first acquisition in 1870 was a lowly ...
Our mission is to apply art and technology to create positive social impact through education, civic engagement, and public programs.
Foundation Impact
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Education
We teach digital tools to adults and teenagers
- 5+ Years
- 60+ Classes
- 600+ Students
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Civic Engagement
We partner with our community to produce impactful projects
- 10+ Large-scale Initiatives
- 150+ Projects Created
- 1500+ People Co-created
- 20% Projects Funded
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Public Programs
We host inspiring events that promote meaningful work
- 320+ Events Since 2009
- 100k+ Attendees
- $1mm Funded to Artists
- 80% of Events are Free