Alberta Mayo, SFAI's Manitoba Museum of Finds Art 1979

1979: Alberta Mayo, Administrative Assistant to President Steven Goldstine had also been in the same position for Henry Hopkins at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  Mayo was the founder, curator, and inventor of the “Manitoba Museum of Finds Art” at the Museum which she transferred to the School when she arrived to work for President Goldstine, indicative of the array of artists and the scope of conceptual art in the City in the late 1970s.

Photo by Pearl Jones

With permission, SFAA is re-posting the emails Jeff Gunderson Librarian/Archivist Anne Bremer Memorial Library has been sending out since March 2020. Please enjoy this magnificent archive.