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The San Francisco Art Institute roots go back to 1871 with the formation of the San Francisco Art Association—a small but influential group of artists, writers, and community leaders, most notably, led by Virgil Macey Williams and first president Juan B. Wandesforde, with B.P. Avery, Edward Bosqui, Thomas Hill, and S.W. Shaw, who came together to promote regional art and artists, and to ...
San Francisco. Since the 1870s, SFAI has been at the vanguard of Bay Area art movements – including 1960s Bay Area abstraction, 1970s conceptual art and 1990s new-media art.
Find out where San Francisco Art Institute is located and see it in a map, by satellite and at street view.
- 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, 94133-2299, California
- +1 (415) 749 1951
- (415) 771-7020
- +1 (415) 771 7020
This is a hidden spot in the city that should not be missed if you are an art lover, especially a Diego Rivera fan. He did a huge mural covering one wall of the art institute in the early 1930s about the development of San Francisco--it is a real treasure. A plus is it is free to see.
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The history of the San Francisco Art Institute encompasses some of the most important art movements of the last century: fine-art photography, the Beat movement, Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Figuration, Funk art, avant-garde film, Conceptualism, and video and performance art.
The home of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archive, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to preserving and promoting the incredible 150-year legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute.
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