In Saturday’s SF Chronicle, C.W. Nevius, an opinion writer, released an article titled “Graffiti supplies at retail” which included 1AM.  He only focused on a small part of what we do.  So, we wanted to give Nevius and his readers the opportunity to learn more about who we are by sharing our mission statement and making them aware of all the services and products we offer that was strategically missing from his article.

1AM, short for First Amendment, is a company that stands for the freedom of speech.  We strive to showcase, teach, and inspire the public on street and urban art through our exhibitions, murals and classes.  In our art gallery, we exhibit world-renowned and local artists that specialize in graffiti, urban, and vinyl toy art.  Outside our gallery walls, our mural production team has been striving to beautify the city of San Francisco with large-scale murals that have positive messages like “Make Moves” and “Knowledge is Golden”.  Also, we provide a safe and creative environment for individuals and groups to learn more about the culture and art form.  We offer classes and team-building workshops and have hosted corporate off-sites with companies like Facebook, Genentech, Yahoo! and more.  We have also worked with local youth organizations, YMCA, Galileo High School, and First Graduates to name a few, to empower and educate our kids.  Most recently, we launched 1AM Mobile App, a free photography app that puts the entire street art world at your fingertips.   The app allows you to capture and share images and locations of your street art discoveries and follow other members and their findings worldwide.  Lastly, 1AM has a retail store that sells original clothing by our creative staff, street art books and art supplies, which is the main topic of Nevius’ article.  Similar to art supply stores like Blick, Utrecht, Arch and Flax as well as hardware stores like Ace and Home Depot (who carry a lower cost option), we indeed do sell spray paint and markers.

1AM was established  in 2008 and is located at Howard and 6th Street in SOMA.