Jeff Gunderson's Archive

Jul 12, 2021

Bruce Conner, SFAI Roll Books, Grade Inflation, Attendance Records & Wasted Time...

Bruce Conner’s SFAI “Life Drawing” class roll book, Fall 1967 Bruce Conner was a fellow traveler at SFAI from when he first arrived in...

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Jun 17, 2021

Celebrating PRIDE!!! BERNICE BING!!!

1958 photo by Jerry Burchard of Bernice Bing; 1961 Batman Gallery Announcement; Bing’sLas Meninas(1960) Crocker Art Museum, and...

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Jun 14, 2021

Celebrating PRIDE!!! Hayward King!

Hayward Ellis King with Jay Defeo as the live components of an elaborate still life set-up in what appears to be Studio 13. Hayward King,...

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Jun 8, 2021

Carlos Villa Day!!! June 8th

Carlos in SFAI's Studio 15 as a student, by Jerry Burchard 1972 Poster for DeYoung Museum exhibit Rhythms & Reverberations: Sekio, Jabo,...

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May 29, 2021

Art & Swimming & San Francisco Bay

Joan Brown’s bathing suits. Photo courtesy of J. John Priola and Zack Sumner Schomp. 1974 Photo by Joanne Leonard, SFAI Faculty member. A...

1975 SFAI Commencement, Cissie Swig, Fred Martin, Streaker, and Dog

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May 27, 2021

1975 SFAI Commencement, Cissie Swig, Fred Martin, Streaker, and Dog

Photo by Pamela Gerard SFAI’s 1975 Commencement featured diplomas handed out to students, clothed or unclothed, human or canine, by Board...

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May 17, 2021

Zig Jackson SFAI Guggenheim Fellow 2021

….and Pirkle Jones with his TA, Zig Rising Buffalo Jackson, 1994. Congratulations to Zig Jackson/Rising Buffalo (MFA in Photography,...

May 7, 2021

Flo Allen, SFAI 150th Exhibition, Come Visit!

Flo Allen, “Honey I AM the Art Institute” is one of the many wonderful features in the current exhibition, SFAI 150: A Spirit of...

Apr 27, 2021

William T. Wiley, (1937-2021) SFAI BFA 1960; MFA 1962; Artist Extraordinaire

William T. Wiley’s SFAEYE, Ancestors Blood lithograph he made for his alma mater William T. Wiley, (1937-2021) (BFA 1960, MFA, 1962)...

Apr 21, 2021

1972 SFAI April 20th, Howie Becker, SFAI Alum

1972 photo of student Howie Becker by Steve Gach and Poster by Lex Calip, 2017, “Just Ask Howie” This is too good an SFAI Historical...

Apr 15, 2021

SFAI & Granville Redmond, Douglas Tilden, Theophilus d'Estrella, Charlie Chaplin

Granville Redmond with Charlie Chaplin. Douglas Tilden, The Football Players In the late 19th century, three...

Apr 8, 2021

1975 SFAI Poppy Poster, Alice Erskine, Whatever...

From the SFAI Library and Archives, in honor of spring and the aesthetics of 1970s poster design: This poppy poster was sent folded in...

Apr 1, 2021

1955 Beat Art, Dr. Wennesland, Ernest the Monkey, Norway

Dr. Reidar Wennesland and his monkey, Ernest, who became the first and only monkey to direct the school for one month in May 1955. Dr....

Mar 25, 2021

1871 San Francisco Art Institute Sesquicentennial

From the SFAI Library and Archives: 150 years ago this week! SFAI turned 150 on Sunday, but what exactly does that mean? These are the...

Mar 16, 2021

1970 Linda Lomahaftewa, SFAI & IAIA, Other Sources

Linda Lomahaftewa with her grandfather Viets Lomahaftewa at her SFAI graduation in 1970. Photo courtesy Linda Lomahaftewa. In the Fall of...

Mar 10, 2021

SFAI Painting Faculty, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, 1970s

Mary Lovelace O’Neal (in chair) with students at SFAI in painting studio, c. 1972; SFAI archive. Photographer unknown. Hired to teach...

Mar 5, 2021

SFAI History: Dorr Bothwell, Tattoos, Samoa

Dorr Bothwell: Self-Portrait with Tattoos, Samoa, 1928; watercolor and ink on paper; with permission of the Estate of Dorr Bothwell and...

Feb 26, 2021

Angela Davis, SFAI, Student Journalism, "The Toot"

“Art and Politics: An Interview with Angela Davis,” by Dan Augustine, from The Toot, January 16, 1981. In 1976 Ray Mondini hired activist...

Feb 23, 2021

Ferlinghetti, MacAgy Award 2012

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, reads from A Coney Island of the Mind at SFAI’s 2012 Commencement Ferlinghetti, attended SFAI’s Friday afternoon...

Feb 18, 2021

Happy Chinese New Year!!! Charles Wong, Aperture Magazine

Charles Wong, San Francisco Chinese New Year, 1952 Charles Wong (1922- ) studied at the School in the late 1930s returning on the G.I....

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