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 date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Chris Bratton is a famous drummer involved in the hardcore punk scene for many years. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Founded 1776 Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Russian Hill is an affluent, largely residential neighborhood of San Francisco, California, in the United States. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... AICAD logo. ...

The San Francisco Art Institute, with a view of Telegraph Hill

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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. A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. ... In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is a terminal graduate degree in an area of visual, plastic, literary or performing arts typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor level. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

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. For building painting, see painter and decorator. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Photography [fәtɑgrәfi:],[foʊtɑgrәfi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. ... Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ...

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. Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced San Diego Santa Barbara Santa Cruz UC Office of the President in Oakland The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 – March 29, 1878) was one of four principal investors who formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861. ... Nob Hill refers to a small district in sunny San Francisco, California adjacent to the intersection of California and Powell streets (and the respective cable car lines). ...

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. San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: Ruins in vicinity of Post and Grant Avenue. ... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004). ... // The Palace of Fine Arts: 2004 For the opera house in Mexico City, see Palacio de Bellas Artes The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. ... Categories: Stub | Worlds Fairs | California history | San Francisco history ...

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. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ...

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

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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

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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
• Jennifer Elder, children's author and illustrator
• 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)

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References

External links

• San Francisco Art Institute official website