1966 Bruce Conner's class: "Wasted Time"
Course description in the 1966-67 College Catalog Having been told by SFAI Director Fred Martin that he could teach anything he wanted,...
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1925 Yun Gee and SFAI
Yun Gee, Self-portrait                             Yun Gee, Head of Woman with Necklace, 1926 Yun Gee,...
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Alumni: Hisako Shimizo and Matsusaburo Hibi
1942 Hibi family awaits evacuation in Hayward, California on 8 May 1942, photo by Dorothea Lange. Painting by George Matsusaburo Hibi...
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Christo lectures
Christo lectures (shown here on the right with sfai president, Arnold Herstand and faculty member, Richard Fiscus) and recruits student...
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Alberta Mayo, SFAI's Manitoba Museum of Finds Art 1979
1979: Alberta Mayo, Administrative Assistant to President Steven Goldstine had also been in the same position for Henry Hopkins at the...
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Students debate Cadets from West Point c. 1956
As a result of Director Ernest Mundt’s efforts to significantly expand the humanities curriculum, the CSFA successfully received...
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Fred Martin, SFAI Director
1965 Director Gurdon Woods leaves SFAI to establish the Fine Arts Department of the newly founded University of California, Santa Cruz....
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Studio 14 Berkson & Rauschenberg, 2000
Bill Berkson and Robert Rauschenberg talk about art with students in Studio 14. Berkson taught poetry, art history, and art writing as...
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1926 College Catalog and PARTY - 9-5AM!?
All activities of the School and the San Francisco Art Association move to Russian Hill in the Fall of 1926 celebrated with the first of...
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David Hockney at SFAI
David Hockney lectures at SFAI, November 1978. [photo by Matt Heckert] With permission, SFAA is re-posting the emails Jeff Gunderson...
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From the SFAI History Timeline 1970
Richard Berger, joined the faculty in 1970 and teaches until 2014. Berger wrote that the Art Institute “has a natural singularity that...
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Parking on Campus 1980
Artist, Joe Reese, and the Gallery Staff, including Gallery Director Helen Fried, navigate a pick-up truck up the School’s ramp, then...
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1954 School Plans
Anticipating a drop in enrollment with fewer students arriving on the GI Bill, plans to develop the 800 Chestnut Street property with the...
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Courtyard Commencement 1957 Sung-Woo Chun
Sung-Woo Chun, the first Korean student to attend the School receives his BFA degree at Commencement in the courtyard. Chun studied with...
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Sports at SFAI
By 1971 fencing is added to the School’s Athletic Program to complement basketball and trampoline. Photographs by Stephen Gach of sports...
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Matisse in the Courtyard
Henri Matisse certainly wanted to visit the School when he arrived in San Francisco in 1930. This photo shows him with faculty member,...
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The School appears on Russian Hill, 1926
The California School of Fine Arts (now known at the San Francisco Art Institute) moved to its current location at 800 Chestnut Street in...
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SFAI Post 1906 Earthquake
A couple images of the School's studios after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire---- The earthquake also shook the psyche of San Francisco....
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