In this episode of "Speaking of art school "I am speaking with producer Heather Spore and director Brian Vincent about their new film, Make Me Famous".

Judy Gittelsohn is an alumness from the San Francisco Art Institute, ca 1978.
She founded punk bands Pink Section and The Inflatable Boy Clams.
She currently has her own gallery, Studio Judy G in Watsonville, California where she shows her own work and the work of others.

Mike Henderson is a graduate of the San Fancisco Art Institute, MFA, 1970.
He went on to become a professor at UC Davis.
He is also a blues guitar player who plays in San Francisco.
He is represented at the Haines Gallery in San Francisco.

Dave Getz graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1964 majoring in painting.
He is most well know for being the drummer for Big Brother and the holding Company and their work with Janis Joplin.

Lawrence White graduated from SFAI in 1975, MFA film. He then went to work for Rolling Stone magazine from 1978-83. He stayed in that professional lane for decades and got a NY Press Association award for coverage of his neighborhood in Lower Manhattan during and after the terrorist attacks of 911. He won an AFI award for independent film and has had work shown in festivals internationally.

Jeanne Hansen graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982.Through her photographic lens she documented the alternative art, music and political scene in San Francisco in the Reagan era and the punk rock hay day of the 1980s.

Drummer and graphic artist, Prairie Prince, founding member of the Tubes talks about his growing up in Arizona, moving to San Francisco to go to the San Francisco Art Institute. We recount some of his experiences and instructors at SFAI and how he formed the Tubes with friend, art/music collaborator and fellow SFAI student, Michael Cotten. Our lively conversation focusses on his development as an artist both musical and visual.

Tony Labat was born in Havana Cuba and came to the United States at the age of fifteen in 1966. He received both a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited internationally over the last thirty years. Labat has received numerous awards and grants and his work is in many private and public collections. Labat has developed a body of work in performance, video, sculpture, and installation. His work has dealt with and continues his investigations with the body, popular culture, identity, urban relations, politics, and the media.

Los Angeles native Wayne Levin has been photographing his adopted home of Hawaii for nearly four decades and is known internationally for his striking underwater photographs of swimmers and marine life.

Jeremy Morgan was born in 1956 in Cambridge, England. He is an Associate Professor of Painting at SFAI where he has taught since 1989 in both the Undergraduate and Graduate programs.

Darryl Sapien (MFA 1976)

“The interview is about getting into the San Francisco Art Institute, how SFAI was a drug rehab for me, getting through being a college student with minimal reading and writing skills, experiences with a few of my professors like Carlos Villa, and Angela Davis in the late '80s, and working through a pandemic. ” Ruth Chase