San Francisco Art Institute
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The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is an accredited undergraduate and graduate school of contemporary art located in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California, United States. SFAI is a private, non-profit institution and is recognized by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] School of Interdisciplinary Studies
The School of Interdisciplinary Studies has four research and teaching centers: Public Practice, Media Culture, Art+Science, and Word, Text, and Image.
[edit] History
The San Francisco Art Association (SFAA) was founded in 1871 and it opened the San Francisco School of Design (later the California School of Design) in 1874. It was directed by landscape painter Virgil Macey Williams. In 1893 SFAA and CSD moved to the former mansion of Mark Hopkins and was renamed 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 school was renamed the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). The CSFA moved to its current location at 800 Chestnut Street. 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Notable Current & Former Faculty
- Current faculty member George Kuchar, filmmaker
- Current faculty member Debra Bloomfield, photographer and ex-wife of photographer Richard Misrach
- Current faculty member Linda Connor, large-format photographer
- Current faculty member Tony Labat
- Current faculty member Sharon Grace
- Current faculty member Henry Wessel, Jr., one of the New Topography photographers
- Faculty member Ansel Adams, landscape photographer, founded the photography department in 1945
- Faculty member Imogen Cunningham, portrait photographer
- Faculty member Angela Davis (joined 1976)
- Faculty member Dorothea Lange, influential documentary photographer, "Migrant Mother"
- Faculty member Frederick Meyer, founder of the California College of the Arts (1907)
- Faculty member Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of the Zoopraxiscope (1880)
- Faculty member Sidney Peterson, film director, initiated first film courses at SFAI (1947)
- Faculty member 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
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Lance Acord, film director (2003)
- Michael Arcega, sculptor
- Devendra Banhart, singer
- Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mt. Rushmore (1927)
- Joan Brown, painter
- Kathryn Bigelow, film director
- Enrique Chagoya, printmaker
- Nate Conrad
- Michael Cotten (1971)
- Ronald Davis, painter
- Richard Diebenkorn, American Abstract/Figurative Artist (1946/7)
- John Duff, sculptor
- Karen Finley, performance artist
- Robert Graham (sculptor)
- Don Ed Hardy, tattoo artist
- Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
- Mike Henderson, painter, biues musician
- Penelope Houston, musician, lead singer and songwriter of The Avengers
- David Ireland
- Eduardo Kingman, master Latin American painter
- Laura Kipnis, author, media critic, professor at Northwestern University
- Asya Komarova, photographer
- Henry Kiyama published The Four Immigrants Manga, the first graphic novel published in the U.S. (1931)
- Ronnie Landfield, painter
- Annie Leibovitz, photographer (1973)
- Brendan Lott, painter (2001)
- Mads Lynnerup
- Paul McCarthy (1968)
- Darrell McClure cartoonist
- Barry McGee (aka TWIST) painter/graffiti artist (1991)
- Frosty Myers, sculptor
- Errol Morris Documentary Filmmaker - attended in 1973 (see ID photo on [2])
- Manuel Neri, sculptor (1958)
- Win Ng, co-founder of Taylor & Ng (1971)
- Catherine Opie, photographer
- Peter Reginato, sculptor
- Jason Rhoades, sculptor
- Katherine Sherwood, Guggenheim Fellow (2005)
- Jeremy Arlo Simmons, painter (2003)
- Gary Stephan, painter
- Stephanie Syjuco, (1991)
- Carlos Villa, painter
- Leo Valledor, painter
- William Wiley, Guggenheim Fellow (2001)
- Jonathan Yegge, performance artist (expelled 2000)
- Emily Carr, painter
[edit] External links
| Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design |
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| United States:
• Art Academy of Cincinnati • Art Center College of Design • Art Institute of Boston • CCA • CalArts • CIA • CCSCAD • CCAD • Cooper Union • Corcoran College of Art and Design • Cornish College of the Arts • Cranbrook Academy of Art • KCAI • LCAD • Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts • MECA • MICA • MassArt • MCA • Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design • MCAD • Montserrat College of Art • Moore College of Art and Design • Oregon College of Art and Craft • Otis College of Art and Design • Pacific Northwest College of Art • Parsons • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts • Pratt Institute • RISD • RSAD • SFAI • SCAD • School of the Art Institute of Chicago • SMFA • SVA • UArts • Alberta College of Art and Design • Burren College of Art • Design Academy Eindhoven • Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design • NSCAD University • OCAD • Osaka University of Arts • VCA |
