Mission

EarthLab SF creates multidisciplinary art that advances environmental justice, cultural equity, and LGBTQ+ visibility through film, performance, visual art, and community engagement. For more than 24 years, Co-Directors Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have challenged binary ideas of gender, sexuality, race, and the human relationship to nature while promoting scientifically informed environmental practices and inclusive cultural dialogue. Rooted in San Francisco’s vibrant artistic community, EarthLab SF amplifies the voices and creativity of LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Disabled, and women artists, fostering cross-cultural collaboration and civic participation. Our work builds community across differences, inspires collective action, and demonstrates how art can cultivate empathy, resilience, and a more just, sustainable, and multicultural future for San Francisco and beyond.

Much of our work takes place across unceded, ancestral homelands of the Muwekma and Ramaytush Ohlone, Miwok, and Mutsun and Awaswas-speaking peoples on Uypi Tribal land. They are the past, present, and future stewards of this place commonly known as the San Francisco Bay Area. We recognize that colonization is an ongoing cultural, political, and ecological process, and we honor those peoples for whom this land has been a home for thousands of years. Their stewardship has allowed the land to flourish in ways that benefited colonizers past and present. Now, as we enjoy, experience, and fight for the protection of this land, we must affirm the sovereign rights of indigenous communities and the traditional and contemporary evolutions of their culture.