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Steven Goldstine, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams

Stephen Goldstine’s Self-portrait with Edward Weston taken at Weston’s Wildcat Hill home on the Monterey Peninsula.  As a 13 year old, Goldstine had crossed paths with Ansel Adams on SF’s Baker Beach where they began to discuss the technical aspects of photography equipment which led Ansel to encourage young Stephen to attend classes with Minor White at the School.  This started Goldstine’s life-long relationship with SFAI, eventually becoming its President in 1978. Stephen presented Ansel an Honorary Doctorate at SFAI’s 1979 wind-blown Commencement as pictured above

Steven Goldstine with Edward Weston

Steven Goldstine with Ansel Adams


With permission, SFAA is re-posting the emails Jeff Gunderson Librarian/Archivist Anne Bremer Memorial Library has been sending out since March 2020. Please enjoy this magnificent archive.



1988 Student Happening in Union Square

LGBTQ students organized the “SFAI Gay and Lesbian Group” with 35 members in 1988.  One of their actions, as described in a San Francisco Sentinel article was a HAPPENING on World Aids Day, Dec. 1, 1988 when the group set up a “camp…in Union Square…outfitted in pajamas…in twin beds inviting the public to discuss the importance” of practicing safe sex, handing out information aimed at the general public—while at the same time gathering donations for Project Open Hand.  Cliff Hengst,who is portrayed in this poster along with Miki Goralsky, recalled, “We had a bed set up, with sheets and pillows and everything, and we asked strangers to join us in bed to talk about safe sex. So crazy.”


With permission, SFAA is re-posting the emails Jeff Gunderson Librarian/Archivist Anne Bremer Memorial Library has been sending out since March 2020. Please enjoy this magnificent archive.



2002 "Restoring Diego Rivera's SFAI Mural" by Ben Wood

Ben Wood, Restoration: Restoring Diego Rivera’s San Francisco Art Institute Mural, 2002, (still)

In 2002 Ben Wood (BFA, 2003)  projected this stereoscopic video installation opposite Rivera’s The Making of  a Fresco Showing the Building of a City.  Wood’s video homage to Rivera features faculty and staff including George Kuchar, Richard Berger, Fred Martin, Jeremy Morgan, Carlos Villa, Tony Labat, John Davis, a librarian, Pete Stanwood, Alex Casco, Dan Tiffany, Laetitia Sonami, Charles Boone, Meredith Tromble, Ann Chamberlain, Bill Berkson, Larry Thomas, Jack Fulton. Craig Baldwin, Ruth Beames, and Jesse Drew along with a rotating student as the central figure –replacing Rivera’s heroic blue-collar laborer, illustrative of the “importance of maintaining a focus to educate and work together.”

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With permission, SFAA is re-posting the emails Jeff Gunderson Librarian/Archivist Anne Bremer Memorial Library has been sending out since March 2020. Please enjoy this magnificent archive.



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