1972 Mollie Katzen (BFA Painting), Moosewood Cookbook
Mollie Katzen (BFA ‘72), studied painting at SFAI with Jack Jefferson, Bruce McGaw, and David Hannah. Katzen may very well have been...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1973 Eleanor Coppola, Maps, Color Photography, Carlos Villa, Lynn Hershman
In 1973, Eleanor Coppola, an artist with a conceptual bent, worked on a project that “designated a number of windows in all parts of San...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1970 SFAI, Architectural Forum, Paffard Clay
The January/February, 1970 issue of Architectural Forum highlighted the recently completed addition to SFAI, designed by Paffard Clay....
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- Aug 20, 2020
1920s/1930s Helen Wills, SFAI, Wimbledon, Diego Rivera
Helen Wills took classes at the School in the 1920s after she studied at Berkeley. Wills was the inspiration for Diego Rivera’s central...
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- Aug 20, 2020
1906 SF Fire & SFAI
In April, 1906, the San Francisco earthquake triggered a set of fires which destroyed much of the city, including the San Francisco Art...
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- Jul 26, 2020
SFAI Athletics, Cross County, Mills College, CCAC, Stephen Goldstine Trophy
Although SFAI has never been a Division I athletic powerhouse, there have been NCAA champions, Olympians, and Wimbledon winners among its...
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- Jul 25, 2020
2000 Summer MFA Initiated, Pegan Brooke
The first Summer MFA Program began in 2000 under the able direction of painter extraordinaire, Pegan Brooke. It included a stellar group...
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- Jul 25, 2020
1975 Richard Shaw, Artists' Books
The SFAI’s Anne Bremer Memorial Library prides itself on a very nice eclectic collection of Artists’ Books from the 1960s on. A nearly...
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- Jul 23, 2020
Summer 1978 Paul Kos, Sultan/Mandel, Angela Davis, George Lakoff, Ferlinghetti, Lamantia, M. Kuchar
SFAI’s Summer Session, 1978 was pretty solid and publicized with a fold-out set of SF postcard images with info on the verso. Paul Kos...
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- Jul 22, 2020
1949 Pirkle Jones, Ruth-Marion Baruch & Ansel Adams
Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch met during the Fall 1946 photo classes taught by Ansel Adams and Minor White. Pirkle was a GI who...
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- Jul 20, 2020
1927 Ray Boynton, Dedication Mural Painting for Arthur Brown Building
Ray Boynton’s 1927 California School of Fine Arts dedication encaustic mural painting by the courtyard commemorated the first 56 years of...
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- Jul 18, 2020
1965 Charles Boone, John Cage's Water Music, Diego Rivera Gallery
Charles Boone, “composer, musicologist,” and beloved SFAI faculty member 1990s through 2000s, performed John Cage’s Water Music, November...
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- Jul 17, 2020
2019 Jenny Odell MFA 2010
2010 MFA, Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy was selected by Barack Obama for his 2019 “books of the...
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- Jul 15, 2020
1925 Rea Irvin, SFAI, The New Yorker, Eustace Tilley
Alumnus Rea Irvin, the first art editor for The New Yorker, designed the magazine’s layout and the now-iconic typeface, did hundreds of...
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- Jul 15, 2020
1968, Hairy Who, SFAI, Phil Linhares, Gladys Nilsson, Clay Street
SFAI, with Phil Linhares as Gallery Director, did 2 exhibitions with Chicago’s Hairy Who group of artists that included Jim Nutt, Gladys...
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- Jul 13, 2020
1966 Cherel Ito, Jerry Burchard, Maya Deren, Zig Zag
(images from Cherel Winett’s 1967 untitled artists’ book, [aka: the mouse and ziz zag papers]) Cherel Winett Ito arrived at SFAI in 1966...
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- Jul 13, 2020
1957 Ernie Kim, Ceramics Faculty
Korean-American faculty member, Ernie Kim was a pre-dental student prior to his service as a paratrooper during WW2, where he was wounded...
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- Jul 11, 2020
1950 Ad Reinhardt Summer Faculty SFAI
Ad Reinhardt, was a 1950 summer faculty member teaching alongside David Park, Minor White, Antonio Sotomayor, Clyfford Still, Hassel...
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- Jul 11, 2020
1977 Arnold Schwarzenegger at SFAI
Plenty of movies, television shows, and commercials have been filmed on campus, including a 1977 episode of The Streets of San Francisco,...
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- Jul 9, 2020
1995 Jay DeFeo, The Rose, SFAI's MacMillan Conference Room, the Whitney
A gathering in SFAI’s MacMillan Conference Room during the stabilizing conservation of Jay De Feo’s The Rose which had been housed in...
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