AA&M’s focus is to provide Queer, Trans, and BIPOC artists the tools and skills necessary to elevate their platforms and achieve their goals as artists. We do this by working with both artists and arts organizations to create relationships that advance both their missions.

We offer programs in four core areas:
Artistic development – we offer exercises and toolkits to demystify arts infrastructure and support artists in developing clear goals and visions for their practice and a pathway to get there.

Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Strategy and Training – We encourage the educational growth of primarily white led arts institutions and and offer training to develop a deeper understanding for organizations to develop equitable strategies and generative institutional cultures that support QTBIPOC artists.

Grant writing training – we assists artists in understanding the arts funding landscape and provide a framework for how they can write successful grants. We also provide the resources to find more funding sources for their work.

Organizational development – We support artists development to create structures beyond their practice to promote even more financial stability and artistic independence.

Black Futures Fellowship – a new program developed to support the needs of Queer Black emerging artists at critical junctures of their career. Provide fellows with ongoing professional development, support, and networking that promotes learning and growth, a sense of leadership, career vision, equity orientation, and business skills. Highlight pathways to leadership for queer Black artists in the Bay Area, particularly those who feel the current landscape has negatively affected their leadership prospects. Promote and normalize a culture of racial, gender, ability, and sexual diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts, within arts organizations, and in the community.

Additionally, AA&M curates, presents, and exposes artists to national networks and connections to national arts organizations.