2025 – 2026 International Artist Residency Applications now open!
500 Capp Street is pleased to announce the yearly open call for an Artist Residency. The 2025-2026 Artist Residency at 500 Capp Street will be an open call to international and U.S. based artists with generous multi-year support from the Sanger Family Foundation. International artists are extremely encouraged to apply. Click here to apply!
August 23 Saturday: Tour Fort Point and a workshop with Weston Teruya
Take a bus at Capp to join the tour of Fort Point with Anna Lisa Escobedo and then come back for an exclusive workshop with artist Weston Teruya. Read More
Collaborating With The Muses Part Two – Programming
This summer 500 Capp Street leads a series of free programs in conjunction with Mildred Howard’s Collaborating With The Muses Part Two. This series brings together artists, local voices and culture-bearers to engage ancestral memory, civic monuments, and collective truth-telling. Read More
Mildred Howard: Collaborating With the Muses Part Two
2025 Guggenheim Fellow Mildred Howard returns to 500 Capp Street this Juneteenth for Collaborating With the Muses: Part Two, presenting a never-before-seen suite of new works titled Untold Histories/Hidden Truths. Read More
The Fall Invitational
500 Capp Street, Et al., and Slash are excited to announce our first joint fundraising event, The Fall Invitational. Join us as we come together in collaboration to celebrate the Bay Area arts community and raise funds to sustain our future programming. Read More
Art Talk: Ant Farm in conversation with Steve Seid and Jeff Kelley
Before the talk, experience a live printing performance by Ant Farm’s Curtis Schreier. The discussion will explore the radical legacy of the collective and its continued impact on art, media, and architecture. Read More
Ant Farm: Still Burning
This Summer, 500 Capp Street celebrates the 50th anniversary Media Burn, the infamous performance and video work by radical art and architecture collective Ant Farm. Read More
500 Capp Street announces new collective leadership structure
500 Capp Street announces the adoption of a forward-looking vision for collective leadership at The David Ireland House, representing a more inclusive and contemporary pathway for institutional management in the art world. For the first time, a collective of five people will be sharing oversight of the organization as co-leaders. Read More
500 Capp Street receives prestigious grants
Programming at 500 Capp Street is supported by Teiger Foundation, Grants for the Arts, California Humanities, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Sanger Family Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, The Mary Crocker Trust, The San Francisco Arts Commission’s Shaping Legacy Project, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Franknthaler Climate Initiative.
500 Capp Street is W.A.G.E. certified
David Ireland
1930 – 2009
American artist David Ireland is admired internationally for a diverse body of work concerned with the beauty inherent in everyday things and the making of art as a part of daily life.
The David Ireland House
David Ireland’s residence at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco’s Mission District is widely considered the centerpiece of his prolific career.