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Where big art is born. A collaborative workspace and studios for Bay Area artists focused on metal and industrial arts located in San Francisco.

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@boxshopsf is an SF hidden gem, and I’m so in awe of the art that comes out! what were some pieces you’ve seen here?!

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💡DID YOU KNOW: 52% of artists featured on Big Art Loop are emerging artists.

For many artists in the early stages of their careers, opportunities to work at this scale and reach this kind of audience can be hard to come by.

A placement on the Loop can change that: providing a significant artist fee, a monumental platform, and the chance to share their work with thousands of people across San Francisco.

Big Art Loop is creating space for artists to take on ambitious work, build visibility, and reach audiences beyond the traditional gallery and institutional system.

Featured Image:
Whispers of Waste by @zulu.heru
📍 India Basin Waterfront Park
🤝 @bigartloop @building180 @sfrecpark
🛠️ @highesttowers @boxshopsf

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Tokens of zero | site-specific installation, Nevada

How close can one approach fire before one is transformed rather than burnt? These trees eliminated that distance entirely: they reached zero. In that absolute proximity, they underwent an absolute transformation, sliding toward and ultimately ending in death.

PS : a thanks beyond thanks to @boxshopsf for providing me that space and the people to make this happen!! Installation at burning man 2026, axis mundi

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Check out seven projects heading off to the playa from this season’s build at The Box Shop!

Inikadowa by @lynnluzano is a towering 12-foot bird born from memory and myth, feathered with hundreds of Parol lantern panels — the iconic star of Filipino holiday celebration, reimagined as a symbol of ancestral light and diasporic resilience.

Jen Reed’s @compost_playground is a commentary on food waste featuring an oversized climbable Apple Core Jungle Gym. This burn, the Apple Core gets a new, vibrant skin.

Bobby Johnson’s first art car, Iron Butterfly, features 30’ butterfly wings that provide shade during the day and illuminate at night.

@klajdi_tsano ’s Tokens of Zero depicts the burnt remnants of Sequoia trees and is inspired by nature, transformation, and fire.

Pheobe Leung’s @sunnysideup__o__ mirrors the horizon where sun meets sea, capturing the ephemeral beauty of sunrise and sunset and will feature shifting color patterns at night.

Mojca Pacnik’s HOPE ( @art.lotus.hope ) is a metal lotus flower rising from the desert dust and will be illuminated by night. It was completed at The Box Shop after coming all the way from Slovenia!

@danaalbany ’s newest piece is a female figure crafted out of salvaged materials.

Look out for them on playa - and help us congratulate these hard-working visionaries and their crews in the home stretch of delivering and installing their artworks at @burningman 2026!

#burningmanart #largescalesculpture #burningman2026 #industrialart

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Saturday night trippy visual arts at the Box Shop SF

#SF
#pixel9proxl
#fundraiser
#youmissedit
#2026Aug8ksh

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SATURDAY IN SF!
Meet us at @boxshopsf to support the final push for playa as we send @flaminglotusgirls and @hpzartcar home! So dang excited, let’s get weird 🔥💃

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🔥 FLG X HPZ 🧸 8/8 at the Box Shop. You’re welcome 🙌🏽

📷: @maxnkap, caroline mills, matt silvey, marcus ziegler, jason chin, @jdevenezia, @espressobuzz, george schaller, colinne hemrich, catherine lynch, jess hobbs, paul waschka 🎵: @luchmusic - doin’ it all for the culture

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Thank you thank you thank youuuuu! We funded our kickstarter campaign! 🥳 A community of believers and doers coming together to support a project has always been the secret ingredient to success. We celebrated (and rested) for a day and now we're in the thick of final build weeks.

If you're a metalworker or you're interested in learning how to be, come by @boxshopsf this week & next week! We're working round the clock and you're welcome to join us anytime Thursday-Sunday 9a-9p.

Also! We are eligible for late pledges since we successfully funded the original goal. So, you can order any item you've been eyeing during our campaign. Every donation goes directly to the cost of materials and fabrication.

The work is far from over... but it sure feels good to be right here, right now.

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I’m making a dragon shelf and entered a side quest in: metalworking (??!) 🐉 I made these custom metal flame brackets to hold up the shelf ledge that I’m attaching to my dragon. up until now I’ve used the standard L-shaped brackets you can get at any hardware store, but last year my friend @cstigler suggested I try making my own custom ones… so one year later here we are! (I do think one year is a fair amount of time to let a new hobby side quest like this incubate in one’s mind)

I had a lot of fun visiting Charlie’s metalworking studio, @boxshopsf , which is one of our city’s oldest and largest art fabrication studios - a true sf art institution! while we were working on my little 2” brackets it was really cool to see the colossal steel installations (like the “entwined” light trees that were once displayed in Golden Gate Park!) and ppl working on big stuff w sparks going everywhere. I have a lot more metal bracket ideas that Charlie kindly cut out for me too so maybe this is the beginning of a mini metal arc where I design custom brackets for my shelves…

tysm Charlie and the box shop for having me! next I will install my dragon shelf in its new home and I’ll share my paper installation trick 😎✂️

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Calling all party animals! Get ready for a night of feathers, fur, and fundraising. 🦁🦅✨ We’re hosting “MUTANT ZOO: FEATHERS & FUR” and it’s going to be wild.

Prepare for an unforgettable night with music by:
🎵 ALLIECAT
🎵 DAVANCHY
🎵 DJOHN
🎵 KATNIP
🎵 LOWDEKA
🎵 MELOTRONIX
🎵 NUGZ
🎵 PRISCILLA
🎵 SAGER
🎵 WOLFIE

Join us at The Box Shop for a night of incredible beats and community.

Every ticket sold supports our upcoming creative projects. Get your tickets now! 🎫

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What’s your toxic trait?

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