Fall Update: Save the Dates!

Hello friends of the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive,

We’ve got a lot in the works this fall! We wanted to share some of what we’ve been up to with you, and let you know about a few upcoming events:

Downtown SF Walking tours start this coming Sunday!

Starting this coming Sunday afternoon, October 20, we will be hosting a series of free walking tours that wander various routes through downtown SF, illuminating hidden histories of art and artists in the city. Some tour stops will overlap from tour to tour, but each will also be a little different, drawing on the knowledge of a truly wonderful assortment of guest experts who will share about the artists, artworks, places, and historical moments that are particularly meaningful to them.

On Sunday, our first walk–featuring amazing guest experts Berit Potter and Jordan Stein–will focus on women, art, and downtown.

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Dates and themes:

• Sunday, October 20: Women/Art/Downtown: Stories of some extremely cool women making and curating art in the city.
• Sunday, October 27: Creation and Destruction Walking Tour: On the connection between art and artists and the forces that have by turns built and destroyed the city (earthquake, fire, city planning, racial injustice, money flowing in, money flowing out…)
• Sunday, November 3: Creation and Destruction Walking Tour (a second iteration).
• Sunday, November 24: Six Views of Union Square: new perspectives on a place you thought you knew.
• Friday, December 6 (THIS DATE TENTATIVE): The play Hooky With Us Tour: There are some things you can only see in downtown SF during the work week, including, for example, Diego Rivera’s Allegory of California fresco painted for the Pacific Stock Exchange building.

Cross your fingers for good weather and join us on a tour! RSVP HERE.
BIG THANKS to SF Parks Alliance for supporting these tours!!

Ongoing: Researchers and Projects

Researchers: Sharing the SFAI Archives with researchers from across the city and world continues to be both fun and meaningful.

​Recent research topics have included, among many others: Victor Arnautoff’s murals in the SFAI library; experimental musician Terry Riley; an SFAI alum’s grandfather’s time as a student in the 1940s (turns out that he took–and failed–a Clyfford Still class!); a chunk of piano dismembered as part of a final performance that took place at the famed 6 Gallery on Fillmore Street before its closure.

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Coming Soon: SFAI Diego Rivera Mural Photogrammetry Project

Our research and archival ephemera will soon be featured alongside a website devoted to photogrammetry of the mural Diego Rivera painted at SFAI in 1931. This extremely cool project was completed by Cultural Heritage Imaging in the school’s very final days of existence, and we are excited to see it go live. For more info, see Will Maynez’s Friends of Diego Newsletter.

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Coming Soon: Online Historical Course Catalog Collection

The as-full-as-possible run of SFAI College Catalogs, from very early days on, will soon be available online, thanks to assistance from the California State Library’s California Revealed program. More than just course listings, these are full of great photos, interviews with students and faculty, etc. We look forward to sharing them with you.