Once per year, San Francisco Art Institute’s studios for its graduate students, housed in a large, industrial warehouse space in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood are open to the public, and are invited to view a wide range of installations and displays of multidisciplinary works in progress. The assortment of artwork includes many forms of and approaches to painting, photography, printmaking, […]
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Scheduled in conjunction with Headlands’ three Artists in Residence seasons, Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts take place on three Sundays each year and are a great way to explore the center, meet the artists in the Affiliate, Artist in Residence, Graduate Fellowship, and Tournesol Award programs and see the works in progress […]
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Founded by Max Presneill and Colton Stenke in 2009, ARTRA Curatorial, a volunteer-led organization for “the implementation of new modes of exhibition focusing on artist-led platforms, interactions and community-building,” held one of its national MAS Attack social networking exhibition events here in San Francisco February 8. Artists residing in its home city, Los Angeles visited San […]
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Since 1990, over 100 professional artists and twenty artist students have participated in Recology’s Artist in Residence Program at its Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center in San Francisco. A unique program with few similar residences in America, Recology intensive, part-time program provides access and engagement for artists with discarded materials at the waste and recycling center, a […]
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California Academy of Science’s weekly Thursday night, adults-only event NightLife, complete with music, creatures and cocktails held a special “Gallery Crawl” theme last week that included several of San Francisco’s galleries, museums and artists taking part. In the African Hall, local galleries Roll Up Gallery, Modern Eden Gallery, and CAS Creative & Exhibits Studio displayed […]
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There was an overwhelming sentiment that the inaugural FOG Design + Art fair this past weekend, “a celebration of the last 100 years of art and design,” from its Preview Gala on Thursday, January 15 to its opening hours Friday, Saturday and Sunday was one of the most elegantly presented art fairs in San Francisco: from the wealth of […]
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Today, there are just a few hours left to check out the first annual West Coast Craft fair taking place until 6pm in Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. Created by Paulina Nassar and Nick Sarno, owners of San Francisco’s Press: Works on Paper store in the city’s Mission district, the fair exemplifies the best among […]
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Passport, San Francisco’s annual DIY art collecting event benefiting the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries brought out a stellar group of artists to the Divisadero Corridor Sunday, October 13. Each year since 2009, Passport has organized a new lineup of celebrated Bay Area artists and invited the public to create a limited-edition artist’s book by collecting original, […]
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On September 7, the lower Potrero Hill neighborhood experienced a rush of contemporary art audiences partaking in the debut Poterero Art Walk event. Their enthusiasm to see the inaugural art shows and bright new spaces of several recently-transplanted art galleries and art venues was evident. Catharine Clark Gallery, Brian Gross Fine Art, Jack Fischer Gallery, […]
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Last Saturday, Divisadero Street between Grove and Hayes, perhaps most well known for its nearby towering Victorian homes and Alamo Square Historic District, celebrated contemporary art, artists and the community around it. ABSOLUT Vodka’s Open Canvas project chose nineteen artists, including both local and national artists and one a local sweepstakes winner, to creatively (and temporarily) […]
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