I'll let the photos mostly speak for themselves, the campus was wonderfully impressive.
This is Colleen. She is a school counselor, admissions advisor, and our tour guide for the day. As you can see, she is pret-ty coool.
Very Brightworks-y, creative projects all over the place. This entirely wooden pool table, for example. (Even the pool balls were wooden!)
Of course, fascinating artworks on nearly every vertical surface.
Even in the cafe, they hold occasional various galleries and installations that rotate out. You can reserve a site and hang your work where everyone will see it. (The school is only about 650 students, including the grad school, so literally everyone will see it.)
It was a very communal and calm, open-source space. You can see Alcatraz from the cafe window, and look out over the city from the ledges outside and see Coit tower on your way to/from class.
The photos don't do it justice, the view really was beautiful.
Next, we saw the computer lab, where students worked on movie editing, photoshopping, and other
computer modeling pieces. Other technical equipment was strewn about the room in several stations for their art and technology courses.
Everywhere, crazy, impractical, counterintuitive wonderfully creative projects at play, challenging everyday conventions of art, everywhere you look someone pushing boundaries.
(Sorry for the blurryness. Thankfully they also teach photography classes. In fact, according to Colleen, SFAI had the first fine arts photography department in the U.S.)
Their campus houses a spray booth for spray painting, and a small sewing loft.
Sophisticated working equipment in both the wood and metal shops.
The sculpture studios made it feel like an old, warm museum.
So much diversity in the art. This weird painted tapestry was drying on the wall
They had everything from simple but evocative paintings to pencil-drawn murals on parchment in a glass case.
I identify with this one.
All of the murals get painted over with white, so sometimes people will try to bring them back to life.
Breathtaking murals in the expansive art library.
Printmaking, etching, screenprinting, etc. nbd
As Colleen said, SFAI is not a school that hears the word "No" very often, so naturally they got a swanky little recording studio as well.
(This one is right side up, confusingly.)
Oh yeah. and also fluorescent scaffolding in one of the galleries. Just 'cause.
It was a good day.
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