1982 SFAI Color by Numbers Calendar
Ever aware of how to position SFAI at the cerebral vanguard of advertising novelty, publicity for 1982 included a “color by [random]...
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- Aug 25, 2020
1979 Punk Rock, Michael Jang, Search & Destroy, V. Vale
SFAI was fertile ground for Punk Rock in the 1970s with numerous student bands and performances as evidenced by this page from V. Vale’s...
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- Aug 24, 2020
1962-1965 Kenneth Rexroth SFAI Faculty
Kenneth Rexroth, poet, essayist, and immense influence on Bay Area poetry and literature, taught art history at SFAI from 1962 to 1965. ...
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- Aug 22, 2020
1958 Sports on Campus, Wally Hedrick
With the school receiving accreditation for the first time in the 1950s and the introduction of more non-studio courses and...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1947 Photo Student, George Wallace, Olympian, Inventor
Portrait of George Wallace taken by Don Whyte, 1948. George Wallace studied in the first photo classes with Ansel Adams, Minor White,...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1972 Ed Guerrero, SFAI World Studies Department
Ed Guerrero received his MFA in Film from SFAI in 1972. He also taught in what was then known as the World Studies Department from 1969...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1948 "World Fame," Stanley Hayter, Harlan Jackson, Clay Spohn, Ansel Adams, Minor White
“World Fame”--Director Douglas MacAgy could work the Press! The surrealist thread that continued alongside Abstract Expressionism,...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1980-1990s, Kathy Acker, Howard Fried, Rex Ray, Ray Mondini
Kathy Acker, poet, writer, biker, all things punk creative, first appeared at SFAI when Howard Fried hired her to teach in the...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1983-1986 Expo-See; Mark Van Proyen, Wally Hedrick & More!
Expo-See, Nov.-Dec. 1984 no. 13, with Wally Hedrick cover Expo-See magazine was published by artist, faculty member, and one-time...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1959 "The Tower" a student newspaper, & Giant Frog
The student newspaper from the late 1950s, The Tower, was riddled with current events, news, opinion, and art work. And consequently, a...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1930 SFAI Newsletter, Matisse quote, the Library
The first issue of the San Francisco Art Association Bulletin, April 1930, featured a stunning photograph of the new Library with its...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1998 The Organizers Of This Publication, Corrina Peipon, Bob Linder, Julia Leonard, Will Rogan
In 1998 a group of students and fellow travelers that included Bob Linder, Corrina Peipon, Chris Cobb and Will Rogan, started an...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1969 Mike Henderson, Bob Nelson, "The Front," Vietnam, Carlos Villa Rodger Jacobsen
Poster (29” x 19”) announcing the “World Premiere” of two films, Bleu Shut by film department chair, Robert Nelson and Last Supper by...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1947 Ellen Bransten, Ansel Adams, SFAI Photo Department, Hardboiled Realism
The cover of the September 1947 SFAA Newsletter included a full reproduction of a terrific photo by Ellen Bransten who was having an...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1963 Cissie Swig, Bruce Conner, Adaline Kent, Robert Howard
By the early 1960s the SFAI News had changed to a square 9”x9” format with this snazzy font. This square format mimicked the college...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1971 1981 SFAI Tattoo, Jamie Summers, ArtForum
In the May 1981 issue of Artforum, Marcia Tucker wrote one of the first articles about contemporary tattooing in a fine arts magazine...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1949 "The Unknown" Clay Spohn and Funk ArtInboxx
Clay Spohn’s “Museum of Little Known and Unknown Objects” installed in Studio 13 was one of the “distractions” for a party held at the...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1952 Cartier Bresson, Matisse, Library Misfeasance
A copy of one of the crucial books needed in a fine arts library—Cartier Bresson’s 1952, The Decisive Moment. Received when it was...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1926-2003 Footprints on Floorboards, SFAI
[original floor boards from the Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI Archives] The flooring in most of the studios in the Arthur Brown building at...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1989 Earthquake, SFAI, Magiciens de La Terre
The October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake shook the City and SFAI---water spilled out of the pond and the big globe lights in the...
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