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The Box Shop is a collaborative workspace and studios for Bay Area artists focused on metal and industrial arts. We are located in the Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco, CA.

We provide high-quality tools and equipment to encourage skill sharing, collaborative learning, and project development. Serving over 500 individuals a year, artists create a range of small to significant sized works of art in metal, glass, wood, bike-making, technology, mixed-media, and more. We serve all levels of makers, from the professional artist building large-scale public artworks to hobbyists.

Our mission is to support the creation of high-quality art by providing shared access to tools, skills, and knowledge.

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The Mural Project

Learn about our exciting new work, The Mural Project. Since March of 2020, we’ve engaged, commissioned, and installed over 70 works of art from local artists at The Box Shop.

The warehouse metal and industrial

arts shop…

includes MIG and TIG welders, a CNC Plasma cutter, a 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 a 3D printer and a machine shop with drill presses, a mill, a lathe, and associated tooling.

Artist Studios at The Box Shop

Artists work out of 20' x 8' shipping containers and share access to an 8000-ft² metal and industrial arts shop and a 20,000-ft² yard