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Reference Code: CaSfAI-Symposia
Title: San Francisco Art Institute Symposia Collection
Dates of Creation: 1916-2018
Creator:
San Francisco Art Institute
Extent: Approximately 10 linear feet of material located in multiple archival collections, including both paper-based archival documents
and audio-visual recordings on VHS cassette tape, hi-8 video tape, audio cassette tape, wire recording and digital video.
Repository:
Anne Bremer Memorial Library and Archives, San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
415.749.4562
Abstract: This Collection includes audio recordings, video recordings, transcripts and other documentation of symposia and roundtable
discussions that have taken place at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1916 through 2018.
Language: All audio and video recordings are in English.
This collection was processed and the print version of the finding aid was written in 2021 by SFAI staff Becky Alexander, and SFAI interns Alice Kinsey and Carolyn Conter.
The collection is arranged into 12 series, by symposium or set of related symposia. These are:
- Series I: A Symposium on Modern Art (1916)
- Series II: The Western Roundtable on Modern Art (1949)
- Series III: The Current Moment in Art (1966)
- Series IV: Center for Critical Inquiry (1977)
- Series V: Two Photography Symposia (1982, 1990)
- Series VI: Art, Psyche, Spirit (1984-1996)
- Series VII: Art Writing Conference/Art Criticism Conference/Summer Symposia Series (1986-2013)
- Series VIII:Symposia Organized by Carlos Villa (1989-2010)
- Series IX: Culture Under Fire: Censorship vs. Activism: Setting the Agenda for the ‘90s (1990)
- Series X: Symposia on Art and Emerging Technology in the Early 1990's (1991-1992)
- Series XI: Diego Rivera Mural Conservation (1992)
- Series XII: A Day with The Rose (1995)
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use:
Much of the material in this collection is under copyright protection. Contact the San Francisco Art Institute Library for
questions or requests regarding use of these materials.
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is a private fine arts college which dates back to 1874 when the San Francisco Art
Association, an organization founded in 1871 to promote and exhibit local artists, first began offering art classes to the
public. The school was known as the California School of Design from 1874 through 1916, and the California School of Fine
Arts from 1916 through 1961, when it became the San Francisco Art Institute.
This collection includes audio recordings, video recordings, transcripts and other documentation of symposia and roundtable
discussions that have taken place at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1916 through 2018.