1970s SFAI Cafe, Mary Jane Special, Natural Sandwiches, Casandra Mitchell, Sara Ayres
With the completion of the 1969 Paffard Clay building, the student eatery moved into its current location---a “Gourmet Cafeteria” that...
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- Jul 9, 2020
1983 Bruce Conner, Sharon Chickanzeff, Tecate, Tequila
The SFAI Library, under the direction of Sharon Chickanzeff in the early 1980s did two fundraisers that screened Bruce Conner films from...
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- Jul 9, 2020
1963 David Johnson & The March on Washington
African-American photographer David Johnson studied with Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Minor White, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham...
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1994 Zig Jackson, Pirkle Jones, Library of Congress
Zig Jackson, Rising Buffalo, MFA Photo, 1994; Native American of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara descent, was a TA for Pirkle Jones as you...
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1924 Adaline Kent, Summer Student Life
Adaline Kent’s Picnic, 96 years ago, 1924, with her fellow students in Marin, from Theo Trace’s scrapbook of Student Life that includes...
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1956-1959 Henri Marie-Rose, Faculty, Sculptor
Henri Marie-Rose (center) taught sculpture from 1956 through 1959 on a revamped faculty that included Richard Diebenkorn, Ernie Kim,...
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1937 Una McCann, SFAI Lost Frescoes, Bay Bridge, Diego Rivera, Studio 26
StudentFrescoes by individual artists and as group projects were painted around the School in the 1930s, including one of farm life by...
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1954 Allen Willis, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Phil Green, Dave Myers
Allen Willis was known as the dean of African American documentary filmmakers in the SF Bay Area—and very much attached to the rich...
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Pride!!! Kehinde Wiley, Barack Obama, Iona Brown
KEHINDE WILEY (BFA ‘99) Celebrating June PIRIDE An earlier SFAI Historical Dispatch featured Kehinde Wiley’s 2019 Rumors of War sculpture...
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PRIDE!!! Minor White on Russian Hill, 1946-1953
Celebrating June PIRIDE “Look at things to see what else they are.” -Minor White In 1946, at Ansel Adams’ invitation, Minor White moved...
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PRIDE!!! Kaisik Wong, "Other Sources," Cherel Ito, Steven Arnold
Celebrating June PRIDE [SFAI photo student Cherel Ito’s B & W photos of Kaisik Wong; color photos of Kaisik Wong’s SFAI Rooftop...
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PRIDE! Steven Arnold, The Cockettes, Dali, Wiese, Gerdes, Hearne, Jepson
Celebrating June PRIDE [Steven Arnold, self-portrait, ‘83; flyer for Messages, Messages; filming Messages,.. photo by Dennis Hearne;...
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PRIDE! 1953 Jack Spicer, Poet & Revolutionary Teacher, 6 Gallery
Celebrating June PRIDE Kevin Killian and Lewis Ellingham write in their biography, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the SF Renaissance,...
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PRIDE! Jess, Robert Duncan, Funk Art, the Manhattan Project
Celebrating June PRIDE Jess ,who had worked as a chemist on the Manhattan Project during WW2, came to San Francisco from Cal Tech where...
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1990 Celebrating JUNE PRIDE AND ART ACTIVISM
Celebrating June PRIDE & Activism Culture Under Fire: Censorship vs. Arts Activism: Setting the Agenda for the ‘90s In June, 1990 SFAI...
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Celebrating PRIDE: Catherine Opie: BFA 1985 & Honorary Doctorate 2020
Celebrating June PRIDE [photo of Catherine Opie as a student in Pirkle Jones’s View Camera Class; screen shot from Opie’s 2020 SFAI...
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1981 Dean George Manupelli, Father Guido Sarducci, Gardiner Hempel, Steven Goldstine
[Dean George Manupelli and staff in the Quad; Manupelli’s poster honoring Sacco & Vanzetti for the 18th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival,...
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PRIDE! Grace McCann Morley
Celebrating June PRIDE Grace McCann Morley was the first director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA). She had a HUGE...
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PRIDE! Jessica Tanzer, The Box, Act-Up, Bad Cop No Donut
Celebrating June PRIDE © Jessica Tanzer, 1990 The Box taken in SFAI's Studio 16—one of the definitive images celebrating LGBTQ love at a...
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Mark Rothko lecturing in Studio 18
Mark Rothko lecturing in Studio 18, and Rothko smoking during a break. Photos by Bill Heick. Everything ramped up with the arrival of...
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