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San Francisco Artwork Institute Turns into Free Experimental Studio Program
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San Francisco Artwork Institute Turns into Free Experimental Studio Program

Last updated: June 6, 2025 8:21 pm
Editorial Board Published June 6, 2025
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Two years in the past, the once-lofty San Francisco Artwork Institute (SFAI) filed for chapter amid mounting money owed, a failed merger with the College of San Francisco, and the choice to shut its doorways after matriculating the ultimate class of 2022. The state of affairs was so dire that the faculty’s administration even thought-about promoting its crown jewel, Diego Rivera’s iconic mural “The Making of a Fresco, Showing the Building of a City” (1931), earlier than finally suspending instructional operations.

The campus’s future remained unsure for a couple of yr till philanthropist and enterprise girl Laurene Powell Jobs acquired the house and the Rivera mural by way of her nonprofit for $30 million in early 2024, looking for to revitalize the college and keep it as a beacon for San Francisco’s artist group. Whereas SFAI — which boasted high-profile college and alumni together with Mark Rothko, Man Ray, Catherine Opie, Stephanie Syjuco, Dorothea Lange, Annie Leibovitz, Kota Ezawa, and Nao Bustamante — was no extra, one thing new was within the works.

Yesterday, June 5, Powell Jobs’s nonprofit BMA Institute introduced the forthcoming creation of the California Academy of Studio Arts (CASA), which can take over the historic SFAI campus.

A rendering of a non-public studio supplied for a CASA artist throughout the constructing designed by Paffard Keatinge-Clay

As its personal nonprofit, CASA is designed to be a free, non-accredited yearlong experimental studio program dedicated to as much as 30 rising artists per annual cohort. Moreover, CASA will interact with town by way of exhibitions, workshops, and artist talks.

The brand new enterprise can even restore entry to Rivera’s mural, which has been off-limits to the general public since 2023.

“CASA builds on the legacy and the bold spirit of Black Mountain College, supporting artists through connection, experimentation, and care,” Powell Jobs stated in an announcement shared with Hyperallergic. “We’re making a dynamic experimental program that can be knowledgeable by the artists themselves.

Chestnut Street Entrance

A rendering of the revamped CASA entrance at 800 Chestnut Road

CASA has launched a collection of listening boards hosted by artist Abbye Churchill, who serves because the nonprofit’s director, and Serpentine Galleries’s Inventive Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, to tell the event of CASA’s programming in a manner that finest serves right this moment’s up to date artists.

Jensen Architects and Laplace are set to start the campus’s renovations and restoration this coming fall alongside and Web page & Turnbull, which was recruited for historic preservation. The brand new building will carve out non-public studios, collaborative mixed-media workshop areas, and communal eating and assembly areas with respect to SFAI’s preliminary design and environment.

A gap date for CASA’s inauguration has not but been introduced.

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