COLUMN: San Francisco Art Institute's impact on me wasn’t limited to a singular events. Like an incubator, it was constantly affecting me. Now, I’m heartbroken that the place that opened so many doors for so many people has closed its own for good.
My heart is heavy with the news that the San Francisco Art Institute has announced its permanent closure. Following the up and down tension of a possible merger with the USF for much of the calendar year, a statement from SFAI released Friday revealed the deal was off.
It would be impossible to briefly convey the immensity of SFAI’s legacy. Eadweard Muybridge screened the first known motion picture there. Ansel Adams founded one of the first fine art photography departments there. Ed Hardy, Annie Leibovitz and Kehinde Wiley studied there. Imogen Cunningham, Angela Davis and Richard Diebenkorn taught there.
I majored in art history only after I had studied darkroom photography, drawing, painting, film and performance art, and realized that my interests were too broad to fit comfortably into a studio practice. I met my first serious girlfriend, who was also, briefly, my first wife, a relationship that taught me a lot about love and about myself.
But even then, the place was already in the throes of financial catastrophe. Each year I watched as, between attrition in my own class and shrinking sizes of incoming classes, enrollment diminished. Still, until this week, I couldn’t bring myself to visualize a future in which the community vanished altogether.
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