Islais Creek Studios

1598 Custer Ave

Multimedia Fine Artist, Decorative Painter, Photographer.

Pier 70, the Noonan Building

The Box Shop is a studio workspace for artists in San Francisco. With over 100 working artists, our mission is to support the creation of high quality art by providing shared access to tools, skills, and knowledge. Artists work out of 20' x 8' shipping containers and share access to a 5000-ft² shop and a 20,000-ft² yard. The warehouse metal shop includes MIG and TIG welders, a CNC Plasma cutter, Marvel band saw, large and small tube rollers, bench grinders, and a wide range of sheet metal shaping equipment: benders, rollers, English wheel, planishing hammers, brakes, and more. Two of the Box Shop's latest additions are a shared electronics studio with 3D printer and a machine shop with drill presses, a mill and lathe.

Fine Artist, Modernizing the traditional technique of gilding. Paintings, work on paper, murals for residential and commercial spaces.

1AM SF creates immersive art and graffiti team building workshops for corporate groups across the San Francisco Bay Area. Led by professional artists, our hands-on experiences include graffiti, street art, hip hop culture, and mobile mural studio sessions. We accommodate groups from 8 to 500+ guests, hosted at our Mission Bay and Downtown SF locations or brought directly to your office or offsite venue. Tried and trusted by hundreds of companies throughout the Bay Area.

Howard Hersh is a full time studio artist, producing paintings and wall sculpture in his spacious studio at a decommissioned naval shipyard. With Open Studios to the public twice yearly, or anytime by appointment. Active professionally for forty years, with over 70 solo exhibitions, work collected by 15 museums and institutions, and many corporate collections.

Nikki SF is a full-time artist based at Hunters Point Shipyard, home to the nation’s largest artist community. She creates large-scale paintings and private commissions that explore color, movement, and emotional depth. Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she also holds a Master’s in Paleolithic Art from Université Lumière in Lyon, France. Her work has been featured at the de Young Museum, Times Square, Saks Fifth Avenue, Art Basel Miami Beach Art Week, and Palm Springs Art Fair. Nikki serves on the Board of the Shipyard Trust for the Arts and the Bay Area Air District’s Community Steering Committee, supporting environmental justice and creative voices in Bayview–Hunters Point. She is available for private commissions.