FORT MASON CENTER
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Mission Statement
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) engages audiences with art experiences resonant across our site and within the Bay Area’s arts ecology. We look to art works that create campus-wide opportunities for inquiry, wonder, and visual pleasure. With an eye to our physical location at the Golden Gate, FMCAC looks to art that expands horizons and inspires new views. We invite audiences to approach art as a necessary and public resource enriching the experience of our historic campus, our place within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and our home in San Francisco. We present artists from near and far who think deeply about art as an encounter, a journey, and a personal exchange. We use art in what was the U.S. Army’s San Francisco Port of Embarkation as a launching site for memory, present-tense assembly, and future imagination.
About This Cause
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) is a nonprofit operating within a Historic Landmark District along the northern waterfront of the San Francisco Bay. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, FMCAC hosts an ever-evolving rotation of artistic programming for over 1.2 million annual visitors that includes theater and dance performances, art installations, as well as educational and cultural classes. As part of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture’s commitment to supporting San Francisco’s artistic community, FMCAC provides approximately $2.5 million in annual grants to local arts organizations. These grants allow groups to produce diverse and innovative works at the historic campus. In addition to the thousands of events that occur each year on campus, FMCAC hosts nearly two dozen nonprofit and arts organizations as permanent residents. These residents receive annual support from FMCAC, allowing them to focus on producing original artistic programming. Current residents include the Pulitzer Prize winning Magic Theatre, BATS Improv, the SFMOMA Artists Gallery and the internationally acclaimed Greens Restaurant. A pioneer in the reuse of military bases, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture has been honored by the California Preservation Foundation for its efforts preserving the historic U.S. Army San Francisco Port of Embarkation.