1871 SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION (SFAA) is founded, open to artists for monthly dues of $1. 1947 SIDNEY PETERSON teaches the first film course at the school. 1952 Faculty member MINOR WHITE becomes the first editor of Aperture magazine, with faculty member DOROTHEA LANGE’s work featured on the first cover. 1976 Activist, philosopher, and writer ANGELA DAVIS joins the faculty to teach aesthetics. 1966 Sculptor and conceptual artist BRUCE NAUMAN begins teaching at SFAI. 1968 Alumni RUTH-MARION BARUCH and PIRKLE JONES document the early days of the Black Panther Party in Northern California; the photographs are exhib- ited at the de Young Museum. 1968 Student PAUL McCARTHY begins work on a series of performances called Instructions. 1885 A group of women artists—in response to the men-only Spring Shows sponsored annually by SFAA—hold the FIRST WOMEN-ONLY EXHIBITION. 1931 Alumnus HENRY KIYAMA publishes The Four Immigrants Manga, the first graphic novel published in the US. 1956 William T. Wiley, Robert Hudson, and William Allen arrive. Along with other students—Manuel Neri, Bill Brown, Arlo Acton, Joan Brown, Alvin Light, Bill Geis, and Carlos Villa— they become the core of the BAY AREA FUNK art movement. 1931 Mexican muralist DIEGO RIVERA paints The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City in the school’s gallery. 1926 The school moves to its current campus at 800 CHESTNUT STREET in a new building designed by Bakewell and Brown, architects of City Hall and Coit Tower. 1945 ANSEL ADAMS founds the FIRST FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT. Faculty include Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Minor White, Edward Weston, and Lisette Model. 1945 DOUGLAS G. MACAGY becomes director. He hires Clyfford Still, Hassel Smith, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn, and invites New York artists Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt to teach summer sessions, making the school a hub for ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM. 1938 Alumna LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE’s photos help define a new American style of fashion photography. She works for Harper’s Bazaar from 1938–1958. 1927 Alumnus Gutzon Borglum begins work on his very large-scale public sculpture, Mount Rushmore. 1961 The school is renamed SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE (SFAI), expanding the definition of art to include perfor- mance, conceptual art, graphic arts, and social documentary. 1969 JAY DEFEO’s painting The Rose is installed at SFAI where it remains until the Whitney Museum of American Art acquires it in 1995. During the 26 years that it was on campus, students were known to leave roses on the work in homage to DeFeo. 1969 SFAI expands with a new addition by PAFFARD KEATINGE-CLAY. 1970 ANNIE LEIBOVITZ begins photographing for Rolling Stone magazine while still a student. She becomes the magazine’s official photographer in 1973. 1966 Abstract painter SAM TCHAKALIAN joins the faculty and is a major force in the Painting department for the next 35 years. Among many others, he mentored alumna KATHRYN BIGELOW (Academy Award–winning director of The Hurt Locker), who credits him with her early success as a painter in New York. 1880 The first public showing of a moving picture occurs at SFAA with EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE’s presentation of his Zoopraxiscope. 1949 DIrector DOUGLAS G. MACAGY organizes THE WESTERN ROUNDTABLE ON MODERN ART, with MARCEL DUCHAMP, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, and GREGORY BATESON, among others. The objective of the roundtable is to “EXPOSE HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS” and to FRAME NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT ART. 1925 Alumnus REA IRVIN, the first art editor of The New Yorker, designs the maga- zine’s now-iconic typeface and creates the character Eustace Tilley, who graces the cover of the first issue. 1955 ALLEN GINSBERG gives the first public reading of HOWL at an art space founded by alumni, Six Gallery, during alumnus and faculty member Fred Martin’s exhibition Crate Sculptures. 1977 Alumnus DON ED HARDY opens Tattoo City in San Francisco’s Mission District, pioneering the style of fine-line black and grey tattoos. 1977 Alumna MOLLIE KATZEN illustrates and publishes the vegetarian Moosewood Cookbook. The cookbook becomes one of the top 10 bestselling cookbooks of all time. 1942 The War Relocation Authority hires faculty member DOROTHEA LANGE to document the internment of Japanese Americans. The photographs are confiscated and do not appear until 2006 when Impounded is published by W.W. Norton. San Francisco Art Institute is at the forefront of contempo- rary practice in the visual arts. Encompassing some of the most significant art movements of the last century, the Institute has historically embodied a spirit of experimentation, risk-taking, creativity, and inno- vation. With an ever-expanding roster of esteemed faculty and alumni, robust Exhibitions and Public Programs, and a mission dedicated to the intrinsic value of art and its vital role in shaping and enriching society and the individual, SFAI is poised for another century of creative excellence. 9