The School of Interdisciplinary Studies has four research and teaching centers: Public Practice, Media Culture, Art+Science, and Word, Text, and Image.
History
The San Francisco Art Association (SFAA) was founded in 1871 and it opened the San Francisco School of Design (later the California School of Design) in 1874. It was directed by landscape painter Virgil Macey Williams. In 1893 SFAA and CSD moved to the former mansion of Mark Hopkins and was renamed the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.
The fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed both the mansion and the school. A year later, the school was rebuilt on the site of the old mansion and renamed the San Francisco Institute of Art. In 1916, the school was renamed the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). The CSFA moved to its current location at 800 Chestnut Street. In 1961 the school was finally renamed to its modern name, the San Francisco Art Institute.
In 1969, a new addition to the building by Paffard Keatinge Clay added 22,500 sq. feet of studio space, a large theater/lecture hall, outdoor amphitheater, galleries, and cafe.
Photography
Founded by Ansel Adams in 1945, the Photography Department was the first program of its kind dedicated to exploring photography as a fine art medium.
Music
In 1966, the SFAI organized an exhibition of rock and roll posters. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, SFAI was one of the centers of the San Francisco punk rock and new wave music scene.
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