Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

Fort Mason Center occupies former U.S. Army waterfront spaces and now hosts galleries, theaters, festivals, and public events along San Francisco's northern waterfront. Its industrial piers, event photography, and views of the Bay and Alcatraz are regularly used in social-media posts and have been edited into memes and visual montages about San Francisco's cultural life. The center is a documented nonprofit arts complex that produces recurring public programming and markets.