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Founded in 1871, the 'San Francisco Art Institute' ('SFAI') is one of the U.S.’s older and more prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art. The school is located in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California, United States. SFAI is a private, non-profit institution and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
SFAI offers BA, MA, BFA, and MFA degrees and Post-Baccalaureate certificates. SFAI's current Dean of Academic Affairs is curator Okwui Enwezor.
The School of Studio Practice consists of the traditional departments of Painting, Sculpture, Film, Photography, Design+Technology, Printmaking, and New Genres.
Founded in 2006, SFAI's School of Interdisciplinary Studies offers BA and MA degrees in History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, and Exhibition and Museum Studies (MA only). It also houses four research and teaching centers: Public Practice, Media Culture, Art+Science, and Word, Text, and Image.
The San Francisco Art Association (SFAA) was founded in 1871 and it opened the San Francisco School of Design in February 1874 under the direction of landscape painter Virgil Macey Williams. In 1893 the name was changed to California School of Design and the association affiliated with the University of California and inherited the mansion of Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill. Its museum functions continued under the title of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.
The fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed both the mansion and the school. A year later, the school was rebuilt on the site of the old mansion and renamed the San Francisco Institute of Art. In 1916 the SFAA merged with the San Francisco Society of Artists and assumed directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, then located in the Palace of Fine Arts, a relic of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The school was also renamed the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). In 1926 the school was moved to its present location at 800 Chestnut Street in San Francisco. In 1961 the school was finally renamed to its modern name, the San Francisco Art Institute.
In 1969, a new addition to the building by Paffard Keatinge Clay added 22,500 sq. feet of studio space, a large theater/lecture hall, outdoor amphitheater, galleries, and cafe.[1]
Founded by Ansel Adams in 1945, the Photography Department was the first program of its kind dedicated to exploring photography as a fine art medium.
In 1966, the SFAI organized an exhibition of rock and roll posters. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, SFAI was one of the centers of the San Francisco punk rock and new wave music scene. Among the many artist musicians who studied at SFAI are Jerry Garcia, guitarist in Grateful Dead; Dave Getz, drummer for Big Brother and the Holding Company and Country Joe and the Fish; Prairie Prince and Michael Cotten of the Tubes; Debora Iyall and Frank Zinkavage of Romeo Void; Freddy (aka Fritz) of the Mutants; Penelope Houston of the Avengers, Nathan Burazer and Jonathan Holland of Tussle; Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker of Troll; and Devendra Banhardt.
★ Linda Connor, large-format photographer
★ Trisha Donnelly
★ Okwui Enwezor
★ Sharon Grace
★ Renee Green
★ Hou Hanru
★ Lynn Hershman Leeson
★ Reagan Louie
★ George Kuchar, filmmaker
★ Tony Labat, performance artist
★ Jane McGonigal, game theorist
★ Henry Wessel, Jr., one of the New Topography photographers
★ Kathy Acker
★ Ansel Adams, landscape photographer, founded the photography department in 1945
★ Imogen Cunningham, portrait photographer
★ Angela Davis (joined 1976)
★ Drew Daniel, member of Matmos
★ Dorothea Lange, influential documentary photographer, "Migrant Mother"
★ Lydia Lunch
★ Frederick Meyer, founder of the California College of the Arts (1907)
★ Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of the Zoopraxiscope (1880)
★ Charlemagne Palestine
★ Sidney Peterson, film director, initiated first film courses at SFAI (1947)
★ M.C. Schmidt, member of Matmos
★ Clyfford Still, Abstract expressionist, Color field painter (1946)
★ Dean Roy Ascott (1975-78) pioneer [1] of art involving cybernetics and telematics, and founder of the Planetary Collegium
★ Lance Acord, cinematographer (2003)
★ Devendra Banhart, singer
★ Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mt. Rushmore (1927)
★ Joan Brown, painter
★ Kathryn Bigelow, film director
★ Emily Carr, painter
★ Enrique Chagoya, printmaker
★ Nate Conrad
★ Michael Cotten (1971)
★ Ronald Davis, painter
★ Richard Diebenkorn, American abstract and figurative artist (1946/7)
★ John Duff, sculptor
★ Karen Finley, performance artist
★ Jerry Garcia, member of the Grateful Dead
★ Robert Graham (sculptor)
★ Percy Gray, painter
★ Don Ed Hardy, tattoo artist
★ Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
★ Mike Henderson, painter, blues musician
★ Penelope Houston, musician, lead singer and songwriter of The Avengers
★ David Ireland
★ Molly Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook
★ Eduardo Kingman, master Latin American painter
★ Laura Kipnis, author, media critic, professor at Northwestern University
★ Henry Kiyama published ''The Four Immigrants Manga'', the first graphic novel published in the U.S. (1931)
★ Asya Komarova, photographer
★ Ronnie Landfield, painter
★ Annie Leibovitz, photographer (1973)
★ Brendan Lott, painter (2001)
★ Arthur Frank Mathews, painter
★ Paul McCarthy (1968)
★ Darrell McClure cartoonist
★ Barry McGee (aka TWIST) painter/graffiti artist (1991)
★ Frosty Myers, sculptor
★ Errol Morris Documentary Filmmaker - attended in 1973
★ Manuel Neri, sculptor (1958)
★ Win Ng, co-founder of Taylor & Ng (1971)
★ Catherine Opie, photographer
★ Mark Pauline, founder and director of Survival Research Labs
★ Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker
★ Peter Reginato, sculptor
★ Jason Rhoades, sculptor
★ Katherine Sherwood, Guggenheim Fellow (2005)
★ Jeremy Arlo Simmons, painter (2003)
★ Gary Stephan, painter
★ James Swinnerton, cartoonist
★ Stephanie Syjuco, (1991)
★ Carlos Villa, painter
★ Leo Valledor, painter
★ William Wiley, Guggenheim Fellow (2001)
★ Dickie Two Hands Vosseller, Tchakalian hack, Punk Painter, Has Marty's Wallet (2001)
[2]
1. History of SFAI- San Francisco Art Institute
2. Official alumni list
★ San Francisco Art Institute official website
Founded in 1871, the 'San Francisco Art Institute' ('SFAI') is one of the U.S.’s older and more prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art. The school is located in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California, United States. SFAI is a private, non-profit institution and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
The San Francisco Art Institute, with a view of Telegraph Hill
Academic programs
SFAI offers BA, MA, BFA, and MFA degrees and Post-Baccalaureate certificates. SFAI's current Dean of Academic Affairs is curator Okwui Enwezor.
School of Studio Practice
The School of Studio Practice consists of the traditional departments of Painting, Sculpture, Film, Photography, Design+Technology, Printmaking, and New Genres.
School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Founded in 2006, SFAI's School of Interdisciplinary Studies offers BA and MA degrees in History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, and Exhibition and Museum Studies (MA only). It also houses four research and teaching centers: Public Practice, Media Culture, Art+Science, and Word, Text, and Image.
History
The San Francisco Art Association (SFAA) was founded in 1871 and it opened the San Francisco School of Design in February 1874 under the direction of landscape painter Virgil Macey Williams. In 1893 the name was changed to California School of Design and the association affiliated with the University of California and inherited the mansion of Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill. Its museum functions continued under the title of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.
The fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed both the mansion and the school. A year later, the school was rebuilt on the site of the old mansion and renamed the San Francisco Institute of Art. In 1916 the SFAA merged with the San Francisco Society of Artists and assumed directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, then located in the Palace of Fine Arts, a relic of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The school was also renamed the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). In 1926 the school was moved to its present location at 800 Chestnut Street in San Francisco. In 1961 the school was finally renamed to its modern name, the San Francisco Art Institute.
In 1969, a new addition to the building by Paffard Keatinge Clay added 22,500 sq. feet of studio space, a large theater/lecture hall, outdoor amphitheater, galleries, and cafe.[1]
Photography
Founded by Ansel Adams in 1945, the Photography Department was the first program of its kind dedicated to exploring photography as a fine art medium.
Music
In 1966, the SFAI organized an exhibition of rock and roll posters. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, SFAI was one of the centers of the San Francisco punk rock and new wave music scene. Among the many artist musicians who studied at SFAI are Jerry Garcia, guitarist in Grateful Dead; Dave Getz, drummer for Big Brother and the Holding Company and Country Joe and the Fish; Prairie Prince and Michael Cotten of the Tubes; Debora Iyall and Frank Zinkavage of Romeo Void; Freddy (aka Fritz) of the Mutants; Penelope Houston of the Avengers, Nathan Burazer and Jonathan Holland of Tussle; Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker of Troll; and Devendra Banhardt.
Notable current faculty
★ Linda Connor, large-format photographer
★ Trisha Donnelly
★ Okwui Enwezor
★ Sharon Grace
★ Renee Green
★ Hou Hanru
★ Lynn Hershman Leeson
★ Reagan Louie
★ George Kuchar, filmmaker
★ Tony Labat, performance artist
★ Jane McGonigal, game theorist
★ Henry Wessel, Jr., one of the New Topography photographers
Notable former faculty
★ Kathy Acker
★ Ansel Adams, landscape photographer, founded the photography department in 1945
★ Imogen Cunningham, portrait photographer
★ Angela Davis (joined 1976)
★ Drew Daniel, member of Matmos
★ Dorothea Lange, influential documentary photographer, "Migrant Mother"
★ Lydia Lunch
★ Frederick Meyer, founder of the California College of the Arts (1907)
★ Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of the Zoopraxiscope (1880)
★ Charlemagne Palestine
★ Sidney Peterson, film director, initiated first film courses at SFAI (1947)
★ M.C. Schmidt, member of Matmos
★ Clyfford Still, Abstract expressionist, Color field painter (1946)
★ Dean Roy Ascott (1975-78) pioneer [1] of art involving cybernetics and telematics, and founder of the Planetary Collegium
Notable Alumni and Former Students
★ Lance Acord, cinematographer (2003)
★ Devendra Banhart, singer
★ Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mt. Rushmore (1927)
★ Joan Brown, painter
★ Kathryn Bigelow, film director
★ Emily Carr, painter
★ Enrique Chagoya, printmaker
★ Nate Conrad
★ Michael Cotten (1971)
★ Ronald Davis, painter
★ Richard Diebenkorn, American abstract and figurative artist (1946/7)
★ John Duff, sculptor
★ Karen Finley, performance artist
★ Jerry Garcia, member of the Grateful Dead
★ Robert Graham (sculptor)
★ Percy Gray, painter
★ Don Ed Hardy, tattoo artist
★ Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
★ Mike Henderson, painter, blues musician
★ Penelope Houston, musician, lead singer and songwriter of The Avengers
★ David Ireland
★ Molly Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook
★ Eduardo Kingman, master Latin American painter
★ Laura Kipnis, author, media critic, professor at Northwestern University
★ Henry Kiyama published ''The Four Immigrants Manga'', the first graphic novel published in the U.S. (1931)
★ Asya Komarova, photographer
★ Ronnie Landfield, painter
★ Annie Leibovitz, photographer (1973)
★ Brendan Lott, painter (2001)
★ Arthur Frank Mathews, painter
★ Paul McCarthy (1968)
★ Darrell McClure cartoonist
★ Barry McGee (aka TWIST) painter/graffiti artist (1991)
★ Frosty Myers, sculptor
★ Errol Morris Documentary Filmmaker - attended in 1973
★ Manuel Neri, sculptor (1958)
★ Win Ng, co-founder of Taylor & Ng (1971)
★ Catherine Opie, photographer
★ Mark Pauline, founder and director of Survival Research Labs
★ Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker
★ Peter Reginato, sculptor
★ Jason Rhoades, sculptor
★ Katherine Sherwood, Guggenheim Fellow (2005)
★ Jeremy Arlo Simmons, painter (2003)
★ Gary Stephan, painter
★ James Swinnerton, cartoonist
★ Stephanie Syjuco, (1991)
★ Carlos Villa, painter
★ Leo Valledor, painter
★ William Wiley, Guggenheim Fellow (2001)
★ Dickie Two Hands Vosseller, Tchakalian hack, Punk Painter, Has Marty's Wallet (2001)
[2]
References
1. History of SFAI- San Francisco Art Institute
2. Official alumni list
External links
★ San Francisco Art Institute official website
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