Capp Street Project

In 1983, Capp Street Project was created by Ann Hatch{{cite journal |last1=Scher |first1=Robin |title=United States Artists Announces Ann Hatch as New Trustee |journal=ARTnews |date=April 7, 2016 |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/united-states-artists-announces-ann-hatch-as-new-trustee-6134/ |access-date=27 January 2022}} who acquired a David Ireland designed house at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco.{{Cite web|url=http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/aboutcsp.html|title=About CSP|website=Capp Street Project Archive|access-date=2016-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095256/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/aboutcsp.html|archive-date=2017-09-21|url-status=dead}} Although Hatch's original intention was to preserve the house as a work of art, the project ultimately took another direction.{{Cn|date=October 2023}} The artist-in-residency program was created and became central to Capp Street Project.

The Capp Street Project programming was initially located at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco. The house at 65 Capp Street had previously belonged to David Ireland who had purchased it in 1979 and then transformed it into an acclaimed work of minimalist architecture. In 1981 Ann Hatch acquired the house which would serve as the first home base for the non-profit artist residency which she founded in 1983.{{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Kenneth |title=Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland dies |journal=SFGate |date=May 21, 2009 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-conceptual-artist-David-Ireland-dies-3297603.php |access-date=27 January 2022}}

The 500 Capp Street house was purchased in 2008 by Carlie Wilmans, in order to preserve both the house and Ireland's work.{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/508061/san-francisco-art-scene-rallies-in-support-of-curator-laid-off-from-500-capp-street/|title=San Francisco Art Scene Rallies In Support of Curator Laid Off from 500 Capp Street|date=2019-07-03|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-26}} Wilmans is on the board of the Capp Street Foundation.

In 1989 the Capp Street Project program, still under Ann Hatch, moved to a new location that was formerly a body-shop, the AVT auto garage at 270 14th Street, San Francisco.{{cite web |title=Francesc Torres: Destiny, Entropy, and Junk |url=https://vault.cca.edu/items/ea4ddbd6-221e-4c5a-ada3-2e5acf1b07af/1/ |website=Vault |publisher=California College of the Arts |access-date=27 January 2022}} From 1989 to 1993 the program used the combined name Capp Street Project/AVT.{{cite news |title=Capp Street Project/AVT (San Francisco, Calif.) |url=https://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=5585536&v1=1&HC=3&SEQ=20220127133740&PID=68lZT9wZXMkEh-DxZV67t1yiSV0Ip |access-date=27 January 2022 |publisher=Library of Congress}}{{cite journal |last1=Berkson |first1=Bill |title=Francesc Torres Capp Street Project/AVT |journal=Artforum |date=November 1990 |page=134 |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199009/francesc-torres-60011 |access-date=27 January 2022}}

In 1998, Capp Street Project became part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, which is in turn part of the California College of the Arts and the house at 65 Capp Street returned to the public sector.{{Cite web|title = Capp Street Project Archive|url = http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/index.html|website = libraries.cca.edu|access-date = 2017-11-17|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095128/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/index.html|archive-date = 2017-09-21|url-status = dead}} The house at 500 Capp opened to the public in 2016. Since its inception, Capp Street Project has given more than 100 local, national, and international artists the opportunity to create new work through its residency and public exhibition programs.

In 2016, the duplex next door to 65 Capp Street was purchased by Carlie Wilmans and she had made plans to also donate it to the Capp Street Project in order to create artist housing.{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/499602/arts-entrepreneur-evicting-longtime-residents/|title=Arts Entrepreneur Is Evicting Longtime Residents to Create Artist Housing in San Francisco|date=2019-05-14|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-26}}{{Cite web|url=https://missionlocal.org/2019/07/david-ireland-house-benefactor-carlie-wilmans-to-halt-eviction-of-mission-immigrant-family-following-backlash/|title=David Ireland House benefactor Carlie Wilmans to halt eviction of Mission immigrant family following backlash|date=2019-07-16|website=Mission Local|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-26}} In 2019, Wilmans attempted to evict six families, but due to public backlash the plans were stopped. As a result, the Capp Street Project foundation started to distanced itself from the founder that same year.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.sfgate.com/inthemission/2019/04/29/david-ireland-house-foundation-distances-itself-founders-attempts-to-evict-family/|title=David Ireland House foundation distances itself from founder's attempts to evict family|last=|first=|date=2019-04-29|website=Local: In The Mission, SF Chronicle|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430231455/https://blog.sfgate.com/inthemission/2019/04/29/david-ireland-house-foundation-distances-itself-founders-attempts-to-evict-family/ |archive-date=2019-04-30 |access-date=2020-02-26}}

In 2019, the head curator of 500 Capp Street, Bob Linder was laid off in an effort to restructure the programming and lessen exhibitions by visiting artists.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/500-capp-street-bob-linder-layoff-12883/|title=500 Capp Street Lays Off Curator, Artist Cancels Exhibition|last=Battaglia|first=Andy|date=2019-06-28|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-26}}

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This is a list in alphabetical order by last name of artists who have participated in the Capp Street artist residency.

• Maryanne Amacher (1985);{{Cite web|title = Maryanne Amacher|url = http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/maryanne-amacher|website = Foundation for Contemporary Arts|access-date = 2016-02-05}}
• The Art Guys (1995), a collaborative art group from Texas;{{Cite web|url = http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/prop_r95f001.pdf|title = The Art Guys At Capp Street Project|date = 1995|access-date = 2016-02-04|website = CCA Libraries|publisher = |last = |first = |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170921094908/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/prop_r95f001.pdf|archive-date = 2017-09-21|url-status = dead}}
• Jim Campbell (with Marie Navarre) (1995) Unforeseeable Memories;{{Cite web|title = Jim Campbell & Marie Navarre|url = http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/jim_campbell_marie_navarre.html|website = Capp Street Project Archive, CCA Libraries|access-date = 2016-02-05|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170921094952/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/jim_campbell_marie_navarre.html|archive-date = 2017-09-21|url-status = dead}}
• Bruce Charlesworth (1984) the first artist-in-residency at Capp Street Project;
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1989), as part of the Border Art Workshop (BAW);{{Cite web|title = Border Art Workshop - Capp Street Project Archive|url = http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/border_art_workshop.html|website = libraries.cca.edu|access-date = 2016-02-05|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095226/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/border_art_workshop.html|archive-date = 2017-09-21|url-status = dead}}
• Ann Hamilton (1989), In Privation and Excesses, Hamilton used 700,000 pennies, among other materials, to create a poetic exploration of systems and mediums of exchange. The installation was featured on the cover of Artforum, a career-making event for the artist.;{{Cite web|url=http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/anc_r89a001.pdf|title=Ann Hamilton, Capp Street Project|last=|first=|date=|website=CCA Libraries|publisher=|access-date=2015-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095054/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/anc_r89a001.pdf|archive-date=2017-09-21|url-status=dead}}
• Mona Hatoum (1996);{{Cite web|title = Mona Hatoum by Janine Antoni|url = http://bombmagazine.org/article/2130/mona-hatoum|website = BOMB Magazine|access-date = 2016-02-05}}
• Paul Kos (1986);
• Tony Labat (1987);{{Cite web|title = Capp Street Artists|url = http://www.wattis.org/view?id=114|website = CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts|access-date = 2016-02-05}}
• Hung Liu;
• Liza Lou (1996)
• Mary Lucier;
• John Maeda (2000);
• Tom Marioni (1990);
• Celia Álvarez Muñoz (1994);{{Cite web|url=http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/celia_alvarez_munoz.html|title=Celia Alvarez Munoz - Capp Street Project Archive|website=libraries.cca.edu|access-date=2016-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095002/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/celia_alvarez_munoz.html|archive-date=2017-09-21|url-status=dead}}
• Glen Seator (1997)
• James Turrell (1984);
• Bill Viola (1989) Viola's installation Sanctuary combined video, earth, and redwood trees to create an urban refuge. A renowned video artist, Viola was also awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 1989;{{Citation needed|date = February 2016}}
• Kara Walker (1999);
• Mel Ziegler (with Kate Ericson) (1991).{{Cite web|url=http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/kate_ericson_mel_ziegler.html|title=Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler - Capp Street Project Archive|website=Libraries CCA|access-date=2016-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921045859/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/kate_ericson_mel_ziegler.html|archive-date=2017-09-21|url-status=dead}}

Terence Van Elslander, James Cathcart, Frank fantauzzi, 1995, Paper: 5 tons of scrap paper were bought stored and then sold back to the scrap paper market.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095128/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/index.html Capp Street Project Archive]
• [http://www.wattis.org/capp CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts]

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