Black & White Projects

Black & White Projects is a San Francisco–based gallery and artist-centered project space that promotes creativity, community, and experimentation by exhibiting and supporting interdisciplinary artists pushing formal and contextual boundaries while fostering collaboration, professional development, and community engagement.

This month, we look deeper at the ethos behind Black & White Projects’ work.

What makes Black & White Projects feel different from a traditional gallery?

BWP feels like a return to something older — when artists were storytellers, organizers, and gathering points for their communities. The space isn’t built around objects, but around people. You might arrive for an exhibition and find yourself pulled into a conversation, a shared meal, or a moment of collective reflection. Art here doesn’t sit still; it circulates, connects, and creates meaning together.

How does BWP support artists in ways people might not expect?

Support begins with trust. Artists aren’t treated as content producers, but as thinkers and culture-shapers. That means making room for process, uncertainty, and growth — offering practical tools like proposals and planning alongside time and mutual care. It’s about restoring the artist as a central, fundamental voice.

What role does community play at Black & White Projects?

Community is our heartbeat. The communities we are in service to are multigenerational, interdisciplinary, and deeply human. People bring their full selves — doubts, humor, creativity, history, discomfort. We gather around artists the way we have across histories and cultures — through shared rituals and conversations. BWP is recentering anti-Imperialist methods and experiences where artists help orient us, ask better questions, and remind us how to be together in nuance.

For more information about Black & White Projects, visit blackandwhiteprojects.com or follow them on Instagram @blackandwhiteprojects_sf.