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      Bruce Conner, SFAI Roll Books, Grade Inflation, Attendance Records & Wasted Time...
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      • 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...
      Celebrating PRIDE!!! BERNICE BING!!!
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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...
      Celebrating PRIDE!!! Hayward King!
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      • Jun 15, 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,...
      Carlos Villa Day!!! June 8th
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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,...
      Art & Swimming & San Francisco Bay
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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 28, 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...
      Zig Jackson SFAI Guggenheim Fellow 2021
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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,...
      Flo Allen, SFAI 150th Exhibition, Come Visit!
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      • 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...
      William T. Wiley, (1937-2021) SFAI BFA 1960; MFA 1962; Artist Extraordinaire
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      • 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)...
      1972 SFAI April 20th, Howie Becker, SFAI Alum
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      • 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...
      SFAI & Granville Redmond, Douglas Tilden, Theophilus d'Estrella, Charlie Chaplin
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      • Apr 16, 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...
      1975 SFAI Poppy Poster, Alice Erskine, Whatever...
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      • 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...
      1955 Beat Art, Dr. Wennesland, Ernest the Monkey, Norway
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      • Apr 2, 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....
      1871 San Francisco Art Institute Sesquicentennial
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      • 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...
      1970 Linda Lomahaftewa, SFAI & IAIA, Other Sources
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      • 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...
      SFAI Painting Faculty, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, 1970s
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      • Mar 11, 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...
      SFAI History: Dorr Bothwell, Tattoos, Samoa
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      • Mar 6, 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...
      Angela Davis, SFAI, Student Journalism, "The Toot"
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      • Feb 27, 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...
      Ferlinghetti, MacAgy Award 2012
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      • Feb 24, 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...
      Happy Chinese New Year!!! Charles Wong, Aperture Magazine
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      • Feb 19, 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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