SF Artists Alumni, Prámanta (2026)

17/06/2026

Happening TODAY → SFAI Memory Collection: Walter + McBean Galleries
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Join us in a couple hours for a conversation exploring the legacy of the Emanuel Walter and Athol McBean Galleries at the San Francisco Art Institute — two exhibition spaces that shaped generations of artists and helped define the Bay Area's contemporary art landscape.

Featuring: Katie Hood Morgan and Philip Linhares
Our speakers bring decades of direct experience with SFAI's curatorial history and the broader West Coast art world.

In addition to her independent curatorial work, Katie Hood Morgan is currently Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the CUNY Hunter College Art Galleries in New York City. Over the course of a decade at SFAI she served in various curatorial roles including Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs, organizing major exhibitions and public programs with artists including Carlos Villa, Patti Smith, Jill Magid, Alicia McCarthy, and Postcommodity. She is based in Sunnyside, Queens, and New York's Hudson Valley. Katie is a founding board member of the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive.

Philip Linhares served as Director of Exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute before going on to lead the Mills College Art Gallery and serve as Chief Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California for 22 years. Over a 43-year curatorial career, he organized more than 300 exhibitions spanning contemporary art, outsider art, and California culture.
Together they'll reflect on the galleries' history, the exhibitions and artists they championed, and what it means to preserve and build on that legacy.

🗓 Today, June 17
🕗 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 6 PM UTC
🎟️ Free with RSVP (donations appreciated)⁠
🖥️ Live on Zoom | Auto-captioning enabled⁠
🔗 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfai-memory-collection-walter-mcbean-galleries-tickets-1989184662874

As part of the SFAI Memory Collection, this conversation will be recorded and preserved as an oral history, contributing to an evolving archive of voices and experiences that document the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute.

Image Credit: ENERGY, installation view at the Walter + McBean Galleries, SF CA, 2013. Photo credit: Walter + McBean Galleries, SFAI.

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Presented by SF Artists Alumni in collaboration with the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive |
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Have a story, image, or video about the Walter + McBean Galleries at SFAI? We invite you to submit your memory to the archive.⁠
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🔗 Memory Collection submission Link in bio⁠

+McBean Linhares

06/06/2026

SFAI Memory Collection: Walter + McBean Galleries
📅 Wed June 17 | 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 6 PM UTC
📍 Online (Free with RSVP)

Join us for a conversation exploring the legacy of the Emanuel Walter and Athol McBean Galleries at the San Francisco Art Institute — two exhibition spaces that shaped generations of artists and helped define the Bay Area's contemporary art landscape.

Featuring: Katie Hood Morgan and Philip Linhares
Our speakers bring decades of direct experience with SFAI's curatorial history and the broader West Coast art world.

In addition to her independent curatorial work, Katie Hood Morgan is currently Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the CUNY Hunter College Art Galleries in New York City. Over the course of a decade at SFAI she served in various curatorial roles including Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs, organizing major exhibitions and public programs with artists including Carlos Villa, Patti Smith, Jill Magid, Alicia McCarthy, and Postcommodity. She is based in Sunnyside, Queens, and New York's Hudson Valley. Katie is a founding board member of the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive.

Philip Linhares served as Director of Exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute before going on to lead the Mills College Art Gallery and serve as Chief Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California for 22 years. Over a 43-year curatorial career, he organized more than 300 exhibitions spanning contemporary art, outsider art, and California culture.
Together they'll reflect on the galleries' history, the exhibitions and artists they championed, and what it means to preserve and build on that legacy.

🎟️ Free with RSVP (donations appreciated)
🖥️ Live on Zoom | Auto-captioning enabled
🔗 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfai-memory-collection-walter-mcbean-galleries-tickets-1989184662874

As part of the SFAI Memory Collection, this conversation will be recorded and preserved as an oral history, contributing to an evolving archive of voices and experiences that document the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute.

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Presented by SF Artists Alumni in collaboration with the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive |
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Have a story, image, or video about the Walter + McBean Galleries at SFAI? We invite you to submit your memory to the archive.⁠
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🔗 Memory Collection submission Link in bio⁠

+McBean Linhares

03/06/2026

Happening TODAY → SFAA Spotlight | Zeina Barakeh
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Join us in a few hours for an SFAA Spotlight with Zeina Barakeh (MFA 2008), in conversation with Niki Korth (MFA 2012).

⁠Zeina Barakeh is a visual artist and a global security scholar. Her artwork explores emerging military technologies, human enhancement, and the blurred boundaries between humans and machines in kinetic and cyber warfare. Public artworks include PsyClone Calafia, commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission; Standard of Capital for the Salesforce Tower Top, San Francisco; and ZAZ Corner Jumbotron, Times Square, NY. Her work has been featured at Mucem, Marseille; the Schneider Museum of Art, OR; the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ; the Peabody Essex Museum, MA; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Yinchuan MOCA, China; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ; Hamzianpour & Kia Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent awards include the 2024 SF Bay Area Artadia Award, the Spirit of the Depths Award, and the 2025 Leonard–ASU Seed Grant. Barakeh is Associate Professor in Animation at Arizona State University and holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA in Global Security with a Cybersecurity Concentration from ASU.

🔗 https://zeinabarakeh.com/
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The program includes:⁠
• A live conversation⁠
• Selected works from across their practice⁠
• Audience Q&A⁠
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🗓 Today, June 3
🕗 10-11 AM PT / 1-2 PM PT / 5-6 PM UTC
🎟️ Free with RSVP (suggested donation supports SFAA programs)⁠
🖥️ Live on Zoom⁠
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🔗 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfaa-spotlight-zeina-barakeh-tickets-1984139946993
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Presented by SF Artists Alumni as part of our ongoing Spotlight series.⁠
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Image Credit: ⁠Zeina Barakeh, CozyCalafia APT47, 2025, animation still, 6:06 minutes.

🗣️ SFAA Spotlight is a monthly online talk series featuring a San Francisco Art Institute alum. Talks are recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Through these conversations, artists explore themes of community, connection, and artistic practice.

❤️ A special thank you to our donors who make this program possible.

27/05/2026

🌌The Night Sky - OPEN CALL

Join the SFAI alumni community in an online exhibition exploring, honoring, and reflecting on the night sky in its broadest interpretation. Open to all mediums, this exhibition is an experiment in bringing our creative community together through the sharing of work in a collaborative space.

Work will be shown on the SFAA Instagram gallery, then posted on the SFAA website — and perhaps a physical show in the future.

Create an artwork in response to the prompt "THE NIGHT SKY" — or draw from your existing portfolio that can be shared on a digital platform.
Instagram aspect ratios should be considered. Time-based work should be kept under 3 minutes.

🌕 May 1 - Submissions Open
🌖 June 15 - Instagram Show Starts
🌗 August 10 - Submissions Close
🌘 September 25 - Instagram Show Closes
🌑 October 12 - SFAA Website Show Opens
•⇢ TBD - Physical Show or Slide Show curated Linda Connor and Deborah Fort (possible)

🔗 Submit here: https://airtable.com/appiQPqDhCqwTETvW/pagS51h9EDGeBlDH2/form

24/05/2026

OPEN CALL: Note to Self | SFAA x Tryst Art Fair 2026
📍Del Amo Crossing, Torrance, CA | August 7–9, 2026

We are inviting SFAI alumni, former faculty, and staff worldwide to submit original artwork on standard 3×3 inch post-it notes for our group exhibition at TRYST 2026, an international art fair for artist-run spaces, collectives, and independent organizations, taking place August 7–9 in Torrance, CA. The theme, "Note to Self," invites intimate, personal expression — the post-it format a nod to the fleeting notes we leave ourselves, small reminders of what matters.

Guidelines:
* Standard 3×3 inch post-it notes only (no lined, no oversized) — any color welcome
* Any medium welcome: drawing, painting, collage, print, mixed media
* Up to 6 post-its per artist
* Write your name, department and years at SFAI on the back of each post-it
* Works will be sold for $25 each. All sales support SFAA programming and help keep our community thriving. Unsold works become part of the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive.

There are 2 steps for submissions:

📬 Mail submissions to:
Toban Nichols
722 Aldama Terrace
Los Angeles, CA 90042

AND

🌐 Complete the submission form with your information and (optional) upload images and text for exhibition catalog and documentation:
🔗 Submission link: https://airtable.com/appiQPqDhCqwTETvW/pagMfU5x4KgliiBSR/form

📅 Submission deadline: July 15, 2026

**International artists are encouraged to mail early**

❓Questions? Email Toban at [email protected]

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Image 2 is a submission from Eleni Exarchou (BFA 1986) to show just one example of what is possible. Below is Eleni’s text for the exhibition catalog:

“I need to remember” is composed of six Post-it papers layered with ink,acrylic,and embroidery,transforming fragile notes into lasting marks of memory. The work reflects the desire to hold onto moments of beauty and tenderness alongside the practical things we fear forgetting. Through stitching and repeated gestures,the piece turns everyday reminders into an intimate archive of care,thought,and emotional persistence.

-it

23/05/2026

SFAA Spotlight | Zeina Barakeh
📅 June 3 | 10-11 AM PT / 1-2 PM PT / 5-6 PM UTC
📍 Online | Free with RSVP

Join us for an SFAA Spotlight with Zeina Barakeh (MFA 2008), in conversation with Niki Korth (MFA 2012).

Zeina Barakeh is a visual artist and a global security scholar. Her artwork explores emerging military technologies, human enhancement, and the blurred boundaries between humans and machines in kinetic and cyber warfare. Public artworks include PsyClone Calafia, commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission; Standard of Capital for the Salesforce Tower Top, San Francisco; and ZAZ Corner Jumbotron, Times Square, NY. Her work has been featured at Mucem, Marseille; the Schneider Museum of Art, OR; the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ; the Peabody Essex Museum, MA; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Yinchuan MOCA, China; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ; Hamzianpour & Kia Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent awards include the 2024 SF Bay Area Artadia Award, the Spirit of the Depths Award, and the 2025 Leonard–ASU Seed Grant. Barakeh is Associate Professor in Animation at Arizona State University and holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA in Global Security with a Cybersecurity Concentration from ASU.

🔗 https://zeinabarakeh.com/

The program includes:
• A live conversation
• Selected works from across their practice
• Audience Q&A

🎟️ Free with RSVP (suggested donation supports SFAA programs)
🖥️ Live on Zoom

🔗 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfaa-spotlight-zeina-barakeh-tickets-1984139946993

Image credit: Zeina Barakeh, CYBOTAGE, 2025; projected animation installation, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco.

🗣️ SFAA Spotlight is a monthly online talk series featuring a San Francisco Art Institute alum. Talks are recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Through these conversations, artists explore themes of community, connection, and artistic practice.

❤️ A special thank you to our donors who make this program possible.

20/05/2026

Happening TODAY → SFAI Memory Collection: Printmaking Department
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Join us in a few hours for the next SFAI Memory Collection: a special conversation focused on the Printmaking Department, featuring a live online conversation with printmaker, artist, and longtime SFAI faculty member Art Hazelwood and two his former students, Yoni Asega and Whitney Humphreys.

About This Session: Printmaking Department
This session gathers Art Hazelwood and alumni from SFAI's Printmaking Department to reflect on their time at the school — the work they made, the community they built, and what SFAI meant to them and to the broader world of printmaking.

About Art Hazelwood:
Art Hazelwood is a Bay Area artist, impresario, and instigator whose practice spans printmaking, artist books, political posters, and painting. A dedicated SFAI faculty member, Art's work lives at the intersection of art and social activism. His prints are held in major collections including the Library of Congress and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and he has organized over 20 exhibitions championing fellow artists throughout his career.
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🗓 Today, May 20, 2026
🕗 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET / 9 PM UTC
🎟️ Free with RSVP (donations appreciated)⁠
🖥️ Live on Zoom | Auto-captioning enabled⁠
🔗 RSVP link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfai-memory-collection-printmaking-department-tickets-1984436032593

As part of the SFAI Memory Collection, this conversation will be recorded and preserved as an oral history, contributing to an evolving archive of voices and experiences that document the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute.

Image Credit: Whitney Humphreys

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Presented by SF Artists Alumni in collaboration with the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive |
⁠
Have a story, image, or video about the Printmaking Department at SFAI? We invite you to submit your memory to the archive.⁠
⁠
🔗 Memory Collection submission link: https://www.sfartistsalumni.org/sfai-memory-collection-submissions

09/05/2026

SFAI Memory Collection: Printmaking Department
📅 May 20, 2026 | 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET / 9 PM UTC
📍 Online (Free with RSVP)

The SFAI Memory Collection presents a live online conversation with printmaker, artist, and longtime SFAI faculty member Art Hazelwood and two his former students, Yoni Asega and Whitney Humphreys.

About This Session: Printmaking Department
This session gathers Art Hazelwood and alumni from SFAI's Printmaking Department to reflect on their time at the school — the work they made, the community they built, and what SFAI meant to them and to the broader world of printmaking.

About Art Hazelwood:
Art Hazelwood is a Bay Area artist, impresario, and instigator whose practice spans printmaking, artist books, political posters, and painting. A dedicated SFAI faculty member, Art's work lives at the intersection of art and social activism. His prints are held in major collections including the Library of Congress and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and he has organized over 20 exhibitions championing fellow artists throughout his career.

🎟️ Free with RSVP (donations appreciated)
🖥️ Live on Zoom | Auto-captioning enabled
🔗 RSVP link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfai-memory-collection-printmaking-department-tickets-1984436032593

As part of the SFAI Memory Collection, this conversation will be recorded and preserved as an oral history, contributing to an evolving archive of voices and experiences that document the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute.

Image Credit: Whitney Humphreys

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Presented by SF Artists Alumni in collaboration with the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive |
⁠
Have a story, image, or video about the Printmaking Department at SFAI? We invite you to submit your memory to the archive.⁠
⁠
🔗 Memory Collection submission link: https://www.sfartistsalumni.org/sfai-memory-collection-submissions

06/05/2026

Happening TODAY → SFAA Spotlight | Charles Boone
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Join us in a few hours for an SFAA Spotlight with longtime SFAI faculty member Charles Boone, in conversation with his former student Dicky Bahto (BFA 2004).

Charles Boone is a San Francisco–based composer whose works have been performed internationally by major orchestras and festivals, including the San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Berlin Festival, New Music America, and Music Today/Tokyo. He is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants, major commissions, and served as a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin for two years. Boone has also been a significant leader in experimental and contemporary arts organizations and was an Associate Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1996–2009.

In this conversation, Boone will reflect on his artistic practice, interdisciplinary work, and years teaching at SFAI, with insights into the evolving landscape of contemporary music and performance.
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🗓 Today, May 6, 2026
🕗 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM UTC
🎟️ Free with RSVP (suggested donation supports SFAA programs)⁠
🖥️ Live on Zoom⁠
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🔗 RSVP link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfaa-spotlight-charles-boone-tickets-1983125215905⁠

Presented by SF Artists Alumni as part of our ongoing Spotlight series.⁠
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Image Credit: ⁠Photograph from a 1965 concert organized by Charles Boone prior to his tenure at the San Francisco Art Institute, featuring a performance of “Water Music” by John Cage in the Diego Rivera Gallery.

🗣️ About SFAA Spotlight Talks⁠
SFAA Spotlight is a free monthly online talk series featuring San Francisco Art Institute alumni. Each conversation explores themes of community, connection, and creative practice. Talks are recorded and available on our YouTube channel.⁠ Presented by SF Artists Alumni.

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