Spaces

We currently offer programming, exhibits, and more in the Excelsior and the Mission.

YAX Studios at La Fenix (1950 Mission) is a new space on the ground floor of one of Mission Housing Development Corporation’s new 100% affordable housing buildings.

YAX Studios at Kapuso (400 Geneva Avenue) is a new space on the ground floor of one of Mission Housing Development Corporation’s new 100% affordable housing buildings.

These two new spaces will significantly increase our ability to offer youth places to learn, gather, exhibit - and thrive. Not only will these new spaces better serve existing YAX youth, but they will also enable more youth to participate as young artists. By being in affordable housing units in areas that are rapidly gentrifying and changing, we will provide safe, relevant places for residents to send their children, serving them where they are.

YAX selected the La Fénix and Kapuso sites because they 1) offer prime locations in the neighborhoods in which we’ve operated [mostly in borrowed or shared spaces] for nearly two decades, 2) offer reduced occupancy costs, 3) enable us to reach more low income youth of color, their families, and their neighbors at 100% affordable housing buildings, and 4) provide new earned income from space rentals and fee-for-service activities.