People Make This Place: SFAI Stories
Ansel Adams, Mario Ayala, Ruth Marion Baruch, John Bertolino, Elmer Bischoff, Dorr Bothwell, Joan Brown, Jerry Burchard, Jerome Caja, Miguel Calderón, Enrique Chagoya, Benjamen Chinn, Linda Connor, Imogen Cunningham, Jay DeFeo, Kota Ezawa, Violet Fields, Howard Fried, Jack Fulton, Sonia Gechtoff, Muriel Frances Green, Doug Hall, Patricia Harris, William R. Heick, Mike Henderson, Robert Aland Hollingsworth, Mildred Howard, Helen Howell, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Zig Jackson, Michael Jang, Jess, David S. Johnson, Pirkle Jones, Dorothea Lange, Candice Lin, Mike Mandel, James Oliver, Lisette Model, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Catherine Opie, Frederick W. Quandt, Jr., Homer Page, David Park, Paul Pfeiffer, Mimi Plumb, Deborah Remington, Rigo 23, Clay Spohn, Stephanie Syjuco, Leo Valledor, Carlos Villa, Henry Wessel, Edward Weston, Lindsey White, Minor White, Allen Willis, Charles Wong
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Mon-Tue 10am-5pm, Wed Closed, Thu 12pm-8pm, Fri-Sun 10am-5pm
Admission
Free Admission
Entry to this exhibition is included with general admission.
About
Exploring moments from the rich history of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) — before its closure, the West Coast's oldest fine art school — this exhibition spotlights works by more than 50 SFAI alumni and former faculty included in the museum's collection. The presentation underscores the school's crucial role in fostering creativity and experimentation, featuring works across media since the post–World War II era by artists like Ansel Adams, Joan Brown, Miguel Calderón, Imogen Cunningham, Mike Henderson, Candice Lin, and Carlos Villa, among others. The exhibition also includes a dynamic and quirky range of archival materials drawn from the SFMOMA Library and the SFAI Archive. These encompass ephemera from the founding of the school's photography department, posters for 1950s Beat-era galleries run by artist alumni, student newspapers, and flyers from the punk and new wave music scenes of the 1970s. Taking its title from a line in the final 2022 commencement speech by faculty member and alumnus Dewey Crumpler, People Make This Place is a collaborative effort across the museum in partnership with the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive.