Happy Valentine's Day! From SFAI Hearts & Arts
Henry Wessel, Happy Valentine’s Day, 1976 Legendary SFAI Photo Faculty member, Hank Wessel donated a variant of his Happy Valentine’s Day...
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- Feb 4, 2021
1988 "Celebrate Black History Month" SFAI Student Poster
Celebrate Black History Month, 1988 poster promoting SFAI Student sponsored Black History Month lectures, film & video screenings,...
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- Jan 29, 2021
SFAI from Above, 1975
Photo by Bob Campbell This is one of the very few aerial photographs of SFAI, from the mid-1970s as dated by Ed Pickett’s inflatable...
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- Jan 29, 2021
SFAI Courtyard and Fountain
Perhaps the center of the SFAI universe is the courtyard and fountain, beneath the 99-foot tower…..an entrance, gathering place, an...
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- Jan 15, 2021
1893 SFAI & UC, Edward Searles and the Widow Hopkins
In 1893 The Mark Hopkins mansion on the top of Nob Hill became the home to the School and the SF Art Association when Edward Searles...
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- Jan 8, 2021
1975 Photographers Baseball Cards, Mike, Ansel, Minor, Beaumont, Imogen, Duke, Linda, Larry...
This is a set of the SFAI-affiliated photographers (alumni/faculty/both) that were photographed in 1975 by alumnus Mike Mandel for his...
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- Dec 30, 2020
1976 Babeth, Mondini, Schwarznegger, Buddhist Film Festival, "Search & Destroy," Kuchar, Greene
Babeth Mondini-VanLoo, photo by fellow student Stanley Greene for the cover of the SFAI student paper, December, 1976. As an SFAI...
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- Dec 23, 2020
1959 Happy Holidays, SFAI, Studio 13 Jass Band, Bubbles Baliantz, & Pabst Blue Ribbon
It may not have been the School’s Design Department behind the dynamic graphics and stunning layout for this front page of the December...
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- Dec 17, 2020
John Upton (1932-2020) SFAI photographer, author
Minor White photo of John Upton, 1956; and Upton Jan. 2020 at Orange Coast College with a copy of Victoria and Ken Ball's The Golden...
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- Dec 10, 2020
1978 Eddie Muller, George Kuchar, Czar of Noir
Eddie Muller, did “a stint in George Kuchar’s notorious narrative filmmaking class” at SFAI in the late 1970s. Muller starred in Kuchar’s...
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- Dec 8, 2020
Faculty Extraordinaire: Ray Mondini
Ray Mondini taught in the various iterations of the Humanities, Letters and Science, and Liberal Studies Departments from 1968 through...
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- Dec 1, 2020
1992 SFAI Day Without Art
The SFAI course listings for the Spring 1993 semester made sure to include on its cover an announcement for the December 1, 1992 “Day...
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- Nov 21, 2020
Albert Bender: SF Philanthropist Extraordinaire & SFAI's Library
SFAI’s Anne Bremer Memorial Library dedicatory wood relief, gold leaf tablet, The Soil by Jacques Schnier, 1935 Albert Bender (1866-1941)...
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- Nov 21, 2020
SFAI Ghost, Wally Hedrick, Stephen Goldstine, Harry Mulford
Education has always been a collaborative effort at SFAI as noted in this 1978 request from SFAI President Stephen Goldstine to...
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- Nov 21, 2020
c. 1982 Voting in the Diego Rivera Gallery
In the early 1980s the Diego Rivera Gallery was used as a San Francisco polling place for Russian Hill neighbors. Looks like the...
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- Sep 25, 2020
2001 Jerry Burchard, Art Rogers, SFAI Cafe, Photographers
This 2001 group portrait of the “Tribute Dinner for Jerry Burchard” was taken by Art Rogers who taught at SFAI from 1969 to 1974....
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- Sep 14, 2020
1948/1949, etc. Edward Weston, Mark Rothko
Photographer Edward Weston started teaching at the school in 1948 as noted on his “Personnel Data” sheet where he lists his education as...
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- Sep 14, 2020
2016 SFAI Archives, Elisabeth Kohnke, Lindsey White
Terrific writing has resulted from the in-depth research by visitors to the SFAI Archives. Some of the most fascinating results have come...
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- Sep 4, 2020
1963 Bruce Conner, Adaline Kent, Nealie Sullivan, Jerry Burchard
In 1963 Bruce Conner received the Nealie Sullivan Award which had been established by artist and alumnae, Adaline Kent as a tribute to...
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- Aug 29, 2020
1930s/'40s Ansel Adams, SFAI
It is likely that Ansel Adams first became acquainted with the school at some point in the 1920s after he became friends with the art...
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