We hit our goal!
Posted November 18, 2025 at 5:09 pm by suki
In just nine days, the community has donated over $60,000 to ATA which means we’re able to stay current on our payment plan for our portion of the rent at 992 Valencia.
Community Coming Through: ATA Rent Emergency
Posted November 9, 2025 at 12:03 pm by suki
We are filled with gratitude to the 140 (it was 127 when I started writing this post) community members who stepped forward in the past 24 hours since we launched our emergency fundraiser. We’re nearly half way to our audacious goal of $60,000, which will allow us to stay current with our portion of 992 Valencia’s rent and make a back rent payment of $45,000 by December 31… if not earlier, thanks to all of you.
We thank 992 anchor tenants 3rd i, Right Window, and Other Cinema, and fellow travelers San Francisco Cinematheque, The Lab, and Shapeshifters Cinema for spending time in conversation with us about this struggle –a struggle, we must point out, that we all share as resources dwindle for the arts in the Bay. We urge you to support this eco-system, yes, ATA, but support all of us because our origin stories and inflection points are intertwined.
Please help us amplify this campaign here, here, and here.
Organize your people (we’re already working with an ATA alum to put on a show in the neighborhood, but you know ATA. We do love a banger.).
Reach out to us with your ideas about what ATA means to you, and how you want us to show up in the future.
ATA Rent Emergency: Donate Now!
Posted October 24, 2025 at 7:09 pm by suki
Artists Television Access has served artists for 40 years with a radical approach to access. Our storefront microcinema at 992 Valencia Street has served thousands of artists across all points of their careers, and served thousands of audiences seeking culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. Run entirely by artist volunteers, ATA fosters a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas.
And we can’t pay rent.
ATA’s landlord has been accepting partial rent since 2024, an act of compassion that has concluded. Worn too thin financially to continue in our current state, we have negotiated for rent forgiveness and a payment plan while doing the existential work of designing how ATA will sustainably serve community in the future.
Right now this means being a full partner to all the collectives who inhabit 992 Valencia Street: Other Cinema, Right Window, and 3rd i. Our ability to stay in place into 2026 is critical for these collectives and critical to us.
Today, we are asking for your support to help us to meet our obligations. We have a back rent payment of $45,000 due in December, and rent of $5,657.73 due in November and again in December. We are covering utilities with box office, facility rental fees, employee matching grants, and general operating support from San Francisco Grants for the Arts.
Donations in any amount matter! We thank you for your support.
¡viva ATA!