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DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Our growing collection of digital images and audio-visual recordings are available on the Internet Archive. These collections include:

Student newspapers and other student publications, 1945-2022
School Newsletters and Bulletins, 1900-1960
College Catalogs, 1901-2011
Audio and video recordings of lectures held at SFAI, 1971-2014

THE SFAI MEMORY COLLECTION

Created in collaboration with our sister organization San Francisco Artists Alumni (SFAA), the Memory Collection is a growing online archive of stories, images, and moving-image works contributed by SFAI artists, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members, reflecting their experiences at the San Francisco Art Institute.  

You are invited to explore/contribute to the Memory Collection.

From the Memory Collection: the SFAI courtyard with John Collier (center with tie) talking to students following the successful collective effort to dismiss Arnold Herstand as president. in 1976. Photograph by Howard Petrick.



ONLINE EXHIBITION

Created by the SFAI archivists in collaboration with a team of alumni through BAMPFA’s MATRIX program in honor of SFAI’s 150th anniversary, Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories/MATRIX/277 is a wander down some of the many rabbit holes of SFAI’s rich history.

Image from the banner logo (c. 1976) of the SFA EYE student newspaper featured in Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories: MATRIX/277.