Cultural Events

On July 17, 2015, Chandran Gallery, Juxtapoz, UNIV ,and T.F.R. Gallery teamed up for the second annual Surf Craft benefit auction and one night only exhibition to benefit Waves for Water. Global nonprofit, Waves for Water works with local communities, leaders, and partners to find long-term solutions and facilitate access to clean water in impoverished areas. This year […]

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Strike Away, a widely-encompassing show of nearly 450 painted, sculpted, cut, fired, and sewn artworks made from matchbooks by 225 artists from around the world now on view at Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids is the first show artists Courtney Cerruti and Alicia Dornadic have teamed up to organize together. With a nondiscriminatory, open call for artwork that included an emphasized reach across the photo-sharing platform Instagram […]

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California College of the Arts’ Graduate Program in Fine Arts 2015 MFA Thesis Show on view from May 14 through the 23rd in the Nave of its San Francisco campus was an exciting culmination of fifty candidates’ journeys to achieve a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from one of California’s most prestigious schools of higher education […]

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95 artists from San Francisco Art Institute’s Master of Fine Arts graduate program presented innovative thesis work in Edge Effect, the 2015 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition at Herbst Pavilion in Fort Mason Center — incidentally, the reported proposed future home of SFAI’s MFA candidates studios. The final manifestation of an intense, 2-year period of professional and artistic development […]

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The Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster series has included a wealth of well-known local artists including Rigo 94, Margaret Kilgallen, Kara Maria, Jason Jagel, Kamau Amu Patton, and Elisheva Biernoff. This spring, Robert Minervini is among three artists in 2015 who will create and present six posters along Market Street between 8th and the […]

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San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries’ Passport event, where participants create their own art book by collecting stamps in a customized limited edition “passport” journal from local artists stationed in small businesses along a designated route in a San Francisco neighborhood, took place this year in the Latino Cultural District of 24th street from York to Capp […]

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Christie’s auction house in partnership with Passerelle will be hosting a pop-up exhibition the week of September 10 through the 18 in the city of Los Altos: a small community of fewer than 30,000 people, but has as of late become a contemporary creative hub. Offered a short-term rental by Passerelle of two exhibition spaces […]

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  Artbeats is an art and performance spectacle at the historic Pier 70 building in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood on September 26th – 28th, 2014. Ever experience a rigormortis-like state at an art fair? Artbeats has arrived to resuscitate and reinvigorate your art-going experience. Inspired by a grassroots ethos and born of a bi-coastal collaboration, Artbeats is […]

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Nearly 80 graduating MFA students of San Francisco Art Institute, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art, transformed the historic Old San Francisco Mint into a dynamic group exhibition, complete with multidisciplinary art installations in its bank vaults, ballrooms, corridors, facades, front lawn, and courtyards.  For just a few days this year from […]

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The fourth annual Art Market was held in San Francisco from May 15 to 18, settling in a to a new location from their regular South of Market, Concourse Exhibition Center to Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. This is now the Bay Area’s only contemporary and modern fine art fair, neither San Francisco Fine Art Fair nor ArtPadSF were held this year. Surrounded by beautiful bay views, the Fort Mason […]

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