Header image: The Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, with Rivera’s 1931 mural The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City. Photo: Beth LaBerge / KQED.
SFAI LF+A in the News
SFMOMA: “People Make This Place: SFAI Stories”
“For over 150 years, the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) served as a vibrant creative hub for artists. After the school’s 2022 closure, former longtime SFAI librarians Becky Alexander and Jeff Gunderson worked to create the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive to preserve written and printed records, photographs, and moving images documenting its storied past. Some of these materials are coming to SFMOMA this summer for People Make This Place: SFAI Stories, an exhibition featuring collection works in a variety of media from the 1940s through the 2010s by former students and faculty.”
KQED: “In a San Francisco Bell Tower, SFAI’s Archive Prepares for a Big Move”
Archivist Jeff Gunderson among the boxes containing a fraction of the San Francisco Art Institute’s 152-year-old history on Feb. 1, 2023. (Beth LaBerge)
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Press Releases
February 15, 2023
“SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archive Launches to Preserve and Protect Historic Archives and Cultural Legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute”
Press Contact: Nina Sazevich, nina@sazevichpr.com
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