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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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