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 has catalyzed the poetic imagination” a place that “is simultaneously indelible and diffuse about its being, the sense that dreaming happens here and that it has left its traces in the same way that a parade of shadows can animate a place by making all of its past a presence and an immediacy. That presence was never the intention of any of the many contributors to its being, yet they all dreamed here.”

Richard Berger, sculptor, teacher, muscician                Berger’s motorcycle jacket

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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 around the twist where the old and new buildings meet at the bottom of the library stairs, and finally to the pathway in front of what is now the security office and the Paul Sack Gallery, and finally toward the Emmanuel Walter Gallery for Reese’s Adaline Kent exhibition in 1980.

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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 construction of an eleven story apartment building seemed a resolve for fiscal woes.

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