Artists' Television Access

Author: suki

  • 15 Days :: 15K

    15 Days :: 15K

    You made it happen for ATA in November 2025, and we made every single of your dollars holler for eight months:

    • Rent? Made it. We’re current.
    • Back rent? Made a huge repayment of $60K in June.
    • What’s left? $15K by August 1. This will leave ATA with a manageable last payment of $5,801.59 by October 1 that unlocks our landlord’s rent forgiveness of $27,810.00.

    Now’s the time to throw down in any amount to help us come correct with the landlord. Please donate today and ensure that

    • ATA’s programs continue to pop with new partnerships, new audiences, and beloved community. In our San Francisco Grants for the Arts application we just dropped in June we counted 123 programs since July 2025, 344 artists earning from our box office, and a wildlly conservative, yet fair estimate of 9,302 of you good people reached through the screening room and storefront galleries of 992 Valencia. Thanks to you ATA’s mission to be the place for the cultivation and promotion of culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art rings true.
    • ATA’s radical collective, with no paid staff and operating with a stalwart principle of consensus, continues to connect with the expertise to turn 992 Valencia into a permanent cultural asset held by the people. We’re on it! Want to be part of it? Holler.

    Curious why we’re coming back at you? We get it! Short answer: nothing is easy.

    Long answer: ATA absorbed responsibility for rent and operating expenses during pandemic losses of artist studio sharing income and a forced, protracted closure to accommodate a still-uncompleted seismic retrofit project. Accompanied by significant downturns in institutional support starting in 2023, a reduction in programming, and escalating operating costs, ATA continued to program for the community at its peril. While the San Francisco arts eco-system continues to build back and new, ATA, like many arts organizations we love and respect, trails the growth and prosperity of other sectors. Despite the challenge, and at the request of community, ATA is committed to being itself, sustainably.

    This is the moment! Please give!

    image from Susan Wolf’s December 2025 Almost-Public / Semi-Exposed installation. photo by AP/SE co-curator and ATA Boardmember Ariel Zaccheo

  • OC: AVANT TO LIVE; NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS

    SEASON-ENDING SPECTACULAR!! A Double-Header of local Experimental Works, including 3 Live Performances! Here’s an hour-plus primo block of hand-processed, compilation, and live-action premieres…AND a complementary hour module of new Animation! In the Baldwin-curated half: Renwick, Quillian, Scobie, Boyce, Street, Vanderlip, Buchanan, Couey, McClain, Talamantes, Thompson, and Martin…ALSO: An equally impressive roster of animators, making up almost half of this season’s NEW: Pixilators Jeremy Rourke and Anna Firth in fact co-curated this expansive overview…and each with their own new work: Jeremy’s Three Tones in this Room and Anna‘s Send That. As to their Selections, most from local art schools:  Law‘s live performance Spoon Echoes Shell, Montiny‘s Apple of my Eye, Wilson‘s Drip, Chu-Jacoby‘s We’ll Be Okay, Castanon-Hill‘s Grito, Shu‘s Smoky Tasty. PLUS Tommy Becker’s live performance De-Escalation Tactics, the special revival of Sally Cruickshank‘s Quasi at the Quackadero, and free pencils! $15 

  • OC: ISM2; THE DE-EVOLUTION BAND!

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    RARE SPUD NUGGETS FROM THE VAULTS OF DEVO +

    As we all know, DEVO is the smartest band in the universe, born out of the 1970 Kent State anti-war turmoil. Considering themselves artists and filmmakers as much as a musical “band”, DEVO took their subversive art all the way to unlikely pop stardom, and piled their measly  PR budgets into their films and videos. It is a super lucky coincidence that the laboratory elements of their early music-films and videos are now under the fastidious care of our dear collaborator who happens to live across the Bay, Peter Conheim!  Archivist/historian Conheim has been excavating nuggets from the vast vaults of the legendary group for 10 years, and this program will feature sparkling new restorations of some of their seminal titles (Whip It, The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize, Duty Now For the Future, etc.), and take us through a journey of never-or-seldom seen archival spud wazz. See the hapless record industry reckon with the provocateurs in their midst, flummoxed journalists, insane live footage from the earliest days in Akron dive bars, Max ‘Kansas City, and much more! Special Surprize Guest TBA, and Gilbert‘s beer on tap!
    **Note Two Showtimes** 7PM, 9PM   $16