1AM

I’ve done two company offsites here, and they were both great. They’ve done an amazing job keeping the vibe real while catering to companies. Vanessa was great to work with to set up our latest event, and Strider was an awesome instructor. I’m looking forward to attending more events there!

Great set up here! Michael is the best! Needed some assistance with a project and he was totally on top of it; he presented us with lots of great information, references, and some (free!) gifts. Beautiful gallery and amazing gifts here! They have workshops, shows, and lessons all of which are on my 2016 bucket list. Fun atmosphere and staff is incredibly fun and involved with the culture of street art and graffiti. Very up close and personal experience!
Shoutout to Michael– Dude thanks so much for everything! See you soon!

Nice little gallery and lots of options for team activities! Came here with my work team to learn about the history of graffiti and create our own large canvas for the office! The people who work here are SUPER skilled and knowledgable! I had no idea they did most of the graffiti around the city, legally! Would love to return here for future team outings!

All street artists go check it
nice owners
they give workshops

I took my team here for a team building workshop and it was a really awesome experience! We learned that each of us had a new talent, and got to explore and learn together about graffiti art. The instruction is top notch and we felt at home and comfortable trying out new things and being creative right away. The slide show part was amazing! Our instructor, Ethan, is SO passionate about his craft. His energy translates directly to how he teaches and talks about the history of graffiti art, both in San Francisco and throughout the world. Ethan made us feel at home and comfortable going outside our comfort zone the whole time. It was definitely one of the most unique team building activities SF has to offer.

As an event planner, I can attest that the folks at this gallery is very chill and accommodating. Can’t tell you how nice it is to work with a venue that doesn’t make a mountain out of a mole hill. Every request was met and my very hard to please crowd had a great time live painting. A+.

A great local business with deep roots in SF culture and the street art community.
I attended a graffiti workshop with colleagues for an offsite event that lasted for a few hours. First you begin with practicing your «tag», which is a graffiti writers signature, on a small whiteboard and then you do a collage of tags which you’ll be able to take home. They have all sorts of cool street art markers with a wide assortment of colors and types of markers.
Then they give you a 20 minute deep dive of the history and evolution of graffiti and street art in general. I found this extremely intriguing and our instructor’s were very knowledgable because they grew up in the scene and were actually doing street art as young adults and eventually turned it into a career. After that you walk a bit to see the local legal graffiti where they teach you how to read, interpret, and understand the style of the graffiti and the era which it represents.
After that, you actually use spray paints to paint a piece on the side of the shop where you tell the instructors what graffiti you want to paint and they’ll lead the team to create a unique and awesome piece.
Super fun and highly recommend!

I planned a team building workshop at 1AM for a group from my office to celebrate the hard work they’ve done to launching a product and 1AM’s Silver Graffiti package was just the ticket. It was a really great way to get out of the office and do something very different, unleash our creative sides, be inspired, and do something we’ve never done before! The whole team was fantastic. Maya was great to work with and very flexible with my gazillions of questions and changes and all the guys were super knowledgeable, fun, and had a ton of energy. Thank you 1AM for a great experience. My team loved it.

I just held a team building activity at 1AM and it was FANTASTIC! It was a corporate offsite and provided a unique opportunity for my team to learn about something new to everyone and that also connected back to a feeling of community and history. The graffiti event was a way to learn, have fun, and get physically engaged in expressing ourselves. The team at 1AM is ridiculous. Every person I came in contact with was incredibly friendly and went out of their way to make things easy and ensure that we had a fantastic event. Planning was easy and I was able to handle everything by email/​online. The onsite team was super attentive, passionate, and engaged. They helped us manage through a few hiccups (on our side not theirs) and Cameron was ridiculously knowledgeable and inspired everyone.
Overall, they delivered beyond my expectations for fun, level of expertise/​passion, flexibility, and ease of execution. Thanks 1AM!

1am came to my work for a team building workshop. They were energized, passionate, and so knowledgeable as they gave us an overview of graffiti art.
After that they showed us some techniques and then let us loose to create our own masterpiece. Of course, ours looked horrible and then they completely fixed it up.
This was a really unique opportunity to get to experience a form of art I’m not familiar with. Highly engaging an interactive all the while supporting creative individuals. I would definitely recommend coming here!

My Sales Team went here and it was more than I expected. We got to let out our inner bad ass. The area isn’t great and when we were outside it smelled like urine but the building they are in is very clean and open. Learning the history of graffiti was interesting. Our artist Joker was great. Hearing his story about how he started and the evolution of graffiti was great. We got to create our own tag which I really enjoyed. The gallery is very nice they have a lot of nice portraits in there.. Overall I would definitely go back and recommend!
Suggestions: I felt everything was rushed or on a strict time clock. We had to cut the graffiti slide show short. I wish we had more time to explore the hundreds of different styles of graffiti writing. After our free time of graffiti it was onto our mural which we only have 13 minutes to complete. It should go a little longer to really get, grasp, and take in everything.

Took the stencil intro class with Strider and am over the moon about how much I learned! So inspired to keep creating and if you want to learn more about Streetart make sure you stop in, this place is full of people who support the movement of #ArtEverywhere

I planned a team building activity for my company, One Medical Group, yesterday at 1AM. The staff at 1AM was great from the start clear through the finish! My team learned a lot about the history of graffiti and then we had a blast practicing tagging, which ultimately culminated in a great canvas that we got to take back to the office with us. It was an incredibly fun and bonding day. I definitely recommend you check them out!

Awesome Shop, Phenomenal Shows & Worthwhile classes. Employees, Staff, Artists and Instructors working together with both fine artists, street artists, beginners and those advanced. The only real version of its kind in the city!

Hired the 1am team to paint our logo graffiti style in our warehouse. Transaction was very smooth the artist (Antoine) nailed it exacly as we were envisioning. Would highly recommend.

If you’re looking for an interesting, off-​the-​beaten path idea for a work teambuilding activity, come here. Or if you just like to look at awesome art, come here. Or if you like to do awesome art, come here.
I came for the former — I organized a teambuilding activity where we learned about the history of graffiti and then learned a little bit about the history of graffiti just within a few blocks on Howard Street.
Then… the fun began. Tagging stuff is insanely fun. Even when you have terrible spray can control. But eventually, you get the gist and then you find yourself going nuts on the practice garbage bag wall they have you practice on and your coworkers have to pry the spray paint cans from your deathgrip.
With your newfound spray paint control skills you do a little paint-​by-​numbers on some canvases and then the talented folks at 1AM work their magic and you go home with some spray-​painted canvas beauties.
My team could not stop talking about how fun this activity was!

1AM and Maya are so wonderful for Team Building events!
Maya worked with me through the signing of the contract and everything was extremely clear. She followed up with all of my questions (no matter how annoying) and was very helpful in recommending catering companies that were nearby and easy to deal with.
Once we got to 1AM, we received a very thorough slideshow of the history of tagging and street art. We then got to practice tagging, got a canvas to take home with all of our tags on it, then were able to have fun on the wall outside the building! We were all able to take pictures with our artwork outside.
Our company has a bit of an old world culture to it and it was nice to have our team change it up with some new school history and fun! At the end of the day, Maya sent us a framed picture of us and our artwork outside. It was a great surprise and is currenlty hanging up at my desk.
Thanks Maya and team, we will definitely recommend you to different departments at our company and with our friends!

Solid 3.5÷5 stars.
We came here for our team building event. Overall, it was a neat experience. Something different. I am not sure if this is something a group of my friends would enjoy, but def appropriate for team building!
First, we walked in and received a lesson on graffiti.
Second, we learned how to «tag» our name on a whiteboard.
Third, we tagged our names on a communal white board to take home.
Fourth, we walked out and looked at actual graffiti in the neighborhood. Note, this neighborhood is very appropriate for 1AM. It is very «hood.»
Fifth, we tagged the actual wall of 1AM. Apparently, they do this often and paint over the previous group so the new group can tag on an actual building. This was pretty neat :). Be wary – there are a lot of interesting folks in this neighborhood.
Sixth, after the practice round on their building wall, we tagged on a huge canvas to take back to the office. (Of course with the help of the talented staff!) The huge canvas is now proudly displayed in our dept.

I worked with Maya on planning my work Team Building Offsite and i CANNOT be any happier!
She was easy to work with, let me come in prior to the offsite to see the venue, and walked me through how they would accommodate my large group. She was incredibly inviting and warm. I thought the space would not be large enough to accommodate my group but they were so creative in how they managed the number of attendees.
The day of the event, the staff was SPECTACULAR! They took scientists (who typically shy away from creative events) and turned them into artists. I watched the instructors encourage and put my team at ease. They were so positive and passionate and made sure everyone received some sort of encouragement and praise.
During the event, my team members expressed how much fun graffiti was and how they would have never thought of doing anything like this. As they were in the midst of practicing the staff explained graffiti history and the subculture of this artistic talent and we were so impressed.
I HIGHLY recommend 1AM for your offsite needs. They have art shows which I HIGHLY recommend as well. It is an awesome place with an awesome team!
I cannot thank them enough for an impressive and fun fun fun day!

I used 1am to host my company event this past week. They were amazing! Maya and her team were so helpful to all of us. The people teaching us were friendly and allowed a truly hands on experience none of us had before.
I saw members of the team talking that had not spoken before, it was great! I would and have already, recommended them to other groups!
I would do this again in a heart beat.

I came here for the first time for my team’s offsite and it was amazing! We started with some tagging practice with thick sharpies and markers and ended up making a poster with all of our names on it. We also had a staff member give us some history on graffiti art and it was fun and informational. We got to go outside and see some actual graffiti art done by known graffiti artists and I now have a higher respect for it.
2 hours of hands on, listening, and mural art tagging experience– totally a fan. :)