1947 1966 SIDNEY PETERSON Sculptor and conceptual artist teaches the first film BRUCE NAUMAN begins teaching at SFAI. course at the school. 1970 ANNIE LEIBOVITZ begins 1976 photographing for Rolling 1956 Activist, philosopher, William T. Wiley, Robert Hudson, Stone magazine while still and writer ANGELA DAVIS and William Allen arrive. Along a student. She becomes joins the faculty to with other students— Manuel Neri, the magazine’s official teach aesthetics. Bill Brown, Arlo Acton, , photographer in 1973. 1938 Alvin Light, Bill Geis, and Carlos Villa— Alumna LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE’s photos they become the core of the help define a new American style of BAY AREA movement.

1871 fashion photography. She works for ART 1931 Harper’s Bazaar from 1938–1958. Alumnus HENRY KIYAMA publishes ASSOCIATION (SFAA) The Four Immigrants Manga, the first graphic novel published in the US. 1968 is founded, open to Alumni RUTH-MARION BARUCH and artists for monthly 1952 PIRKLE JONES document the early days 1945 Faculty member MINOR WHITE of the Black Panther Party in Northern dues of $1. ANSEL ADAMS founds becomes the first editor of Aperture ; the photographs are exhib- magazine, with faculty member ited at the de Young Museum. 1926 the FIRST FINE ART DOROTHEA LANGE’s work featured 1885 The school moves to PHOTOGRAPHY on the first cover. 1977 A group of women artists—in its current campus at DEPARTMENT. Faculty Alumna MOLLIE KATZEN illustrates and response to the men-only 800 CHESTNUT STREET publishes the vegetarian Moosewood include Dorothea Lange, 1969 Cookbook. The cookbook becomes Spring Shows sponsored in a new building designed Imogen Cunningham, Minor SFAI expands with a new addition by one of the top 10 bestselling cookbooks annually by SFAA — hold PAFFARD KEATINGE-CLAY. by Bakewell and Brown, White, Edward Weston, of all time. the FIRST WOMEN-ONLY architects of City Hall and EXHIBITION. and Lisette Model. Coit Tower.

1961 San Francisco Art Institute 1927 1968 The school is renamed Student PAUL McCARTHY is at the forefront of contempo- Alumnus Gutzon Borglum SAN FRANCISCO begins work on a series rary practice in the visual arts. begins work on his very of performances called Encompassing some of the most large-scale public , ART INSTITUTE (SFAI), Instructions. significant art movements of Mount Rushmore. expanding the definition the last century, the Institute 1945 of art to include perfor- 1969 DOUGLAS G. MACAGY becomes has historically embodied 1925 mance, conceptual art, JAY DeFEO’s Alumnus REA IRVIN, the first art editor director. He hires Clyfford Still, a spirit of experimentation, of The New Yorker, designs the maga- Hassel Smith, , , graphic arts, and social The Rose is installed at risk-taking, creativity, and inno- zine’s now-iconic typeface and creates and , and invites documentary. SFAI where it remains until New York artists Mark Rothko and Ad vation. With an ever-expanding the character Eustace Tilley, who graces the Whitney Museum of the cover of the first issue. Reinhardt to teach summer sessions, American Art acquires roster of esteemed faculty and making the school a hub for 1955 it in 1995. During the alumni, robust Exhibitions and ABSTRACT . gives the first 1931 public reading of at an art space 26 years that it was on Public Programs, and a mission Mexican muralist founded by alumni, Six Gallery, during campus, students were dedicated to the intrinsic alumnus and faculty member Fred known to leave roses on DIEGO RIVERA paints Martin’s exhibition Crate . value of art and its vital role The Making of a Fresco the work in homage 1977 to DeFeo. Alumnus in shaping and enriching Showing the Building of a City in the school’s gallery. 1949 opens Tattoo City in society and the individual, 1942 DIrector DOUGLAS G. MACAGY San Francisco’s Mission The War Relocation Authority hires organizes THE WESTERN ROUNDTABLE 1966 SFAI is poised for another District, pioneering the 1880 faculty member DOROTHEA LANGE ON MODERN ART, with MARCEL Abstract painter SAM TCHAKALIAN century of creative excellence. The first public showing of to document the internment of DUCHAMP, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, joins the faculty and is a major force in style of fine-line black a moving picture occurs at Japanese Americans. The photographs and GREGORY BATESON, among the Painting department for the next 35 and grey tattoos. are confiscated and do not appear until SFAA with EADWEARD others. The objective of the roundtable years. Among many others, he mentored 2006 when Impounded is published is to “EXPOSE HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS” alumna KATHRYN BIGELOW (Academy MUYBRIDGE’s presentation by W.W. Norton. and to FRAME NEW QUESTIONS Award–winning director of The Hurt of his Zoopraxiscope. ABOUT ART. Locker), who credits him with her early success as a painter in New York. 9 1978 1998 SFAI is at the center of the Punk DEVENDRA BANHART 2006 music scene, with students FREDDY Alumnus MANUEL NERI receives the (A.K.A. FRITZ) of the Mutants, enrolls at SFAI and International Sculpture Center’s 2011 PENELOPE HOUSTON of the starts writing songs in Lifetime Achievement Award. SFAI celebrates Avengers, and DEBORA IYALL and BILL BERKSON’s FRANK ZINCAVAGE of Romeo Void. 140 years of cultural 2014 poetry class. The Walter and McBean Galleries innovation. exhibition Francis Cape: Utopian Benches continues SFAI’s legacy of creating space for dialogue and 1982 exchange by offering shared seating on SFAI makes a video 17 poplar benches replicated from those in use by utopian communities. featuring Saturday Night Live satirical 2000 character FATHER PETER PAU, film 2010 2012 GUIDO SARDUCCI alumnus, receives an Alumna KATHRYN Alumna ANNIE LEIBOVITZ’s exhibition (played by Don Novello). Academy Award for BIGELOW wins the Pilgrimage opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Cinematography Academy Award for Best for Crouching Tiger, Director for her film Hidden Dragon. The Hurt Locker.

1990 The performance work of alumna 2010 KAREN FINLEY sparks national debate SFAI faculty member and Cuban (and a Supreme Court trial) when a 2003 2007 ex-patriot TONY LABAT returns to grant recommended by the National A retrospective exhibition, Havana for a one-person exhibition MacArthur “genius” Awards in the Endowment for the Arts is vetoed by HENRY WESSEL: Photographs, at the Wifredo Lam Center. IT IS visual arts are granted to alumnae the NEA Chairman. at SFMOMA honors the longtime THE FIRST TIME HIS WORK IS TOBA KHEDOORI and LIZA LOU. faculty member. SHOWN IN CUBA.

1990 An anonymous artist in the 2003 2007 early 1980s alters the Diego City Studio, SFAI’s 2013 Rivera mural at SFAI by adding Everything Matters, a The Walter and McBean retrospective of the work year-round program for 2010 a hammer and sickle to a medal- underserved youth, The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Galleries debuts the lion on a central figure. Legend of faculty member Film Archive presents Radical Light: receives an NEA award. exhibition ENERGY has it that the artist sought to PAUL KOS, opens at the Alternative Film and Video in the San THAT IS ALL AROUND, underscore Rivera’s Communist Berkeley Art Museum. Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, which politics. In 1990, the alteration/ documents the history of SFAI’s Film featuring SFAI alumni defacement was discovered, and New Genres programs and features BARRY McGEE, RUBY and conservators were brought dozens of alumni and faculty, including NERI, and ALICIA Bruce Connor, Stan Brakhage, Robert in—they removed what turned 2009 Nelson, James Broughton, Sidney McCARTHY, along with out to be toothpaste. 2003 Alumna JENNIFER M. KROOT releases Peterson, Anne McGuire, George Mission School artists Alumnus LANCE ACORD is the the documentary, It Came From Kuchar, Kuchar, Jay Rosenblatt, and CHRIS JOHANSON and cinematographer for Sophia Coppola’s about the life and work of longtime film Craig Baldwin. MARGARET KILGALLEN. 1981 LOST IN TRANSLATION. professor GEORGE KUCHAR and his Alumna BETSY SUSSLER founds 1992 twin brother Mike. The exhibition travels to Bomb magazine in New York. THE CLARION NYU in 2014. ALLEY MURAL PROJECT 2012 (CAMP) is established Alumnus KEHINDE WILEY’s solo by a volunteer collective exhibition The World Stage: Israel opens of six Mission residents, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. including alumni AARON 2002 2010 SFAI faculty member CARLOS VILLA NOBLE and RIGO23. Students Mitch Temple, 2014 launches Rehistoricizing Abstract The MFA Exhibition Clarion Alley becomes Dennis McNulty, Expressionism in the San Francisco a key site for the and Nathan Suter form Bay Area, 1950s–1960s, a project that Principal opens to the development of the ROOT DIVISION— brings visibility to artists of color and public, showcasing the aesthetic known as the a community art collective women artists who had been excluded future of creative practice. from this history. Mission School. dedicated to art education. 11