San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries

‼️This the final week to visit A Public Voice/ Una Voz Pública: From the Archive of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, on view in San Francisco City Hall, open Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 6:00PM ☀️

🪴Be sure to catch this poignant, timely show of archival prints and activist posters carefully selected from the MCCLA’s almost 50 years of history before it closes on Friday!

🌆If you’re visiting the exhibition on its final day, join us Friday at 5:30PM across the street in the War Memorial Veterans Building for Constitutional Conversations, a town hall discussion series moderated by Ralph Re*****on, Director of Cultural Affairs, and Paul Henderson, Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability. The first session of this new series will focus on Freedom of Expression.

More information on A Public Voice/ Una Voz Pública & Constitutional Conversations available at the link in our bio.

San Francisco City Hall
Ground Floor and North Light Court

Free and open to the public 💫

☄️🪨🪑✨OPENING TODAY FROM 6-8PM‼️Please join us for the opening reception of When Unearthed Sights Collide, a two-person show with work by Shirin Khalatbari and Sun Park, curated by independent curator Shirin Makaremi.

🌱When Unearthed Sights Collide is the inaugural exhibition for SFAC Galleries’ new mentorship-fellowship program, where two emerging artists work closely with a selected curator for eight months on professional development and the commissioning of new work for an exhibition in the SFAC Main Gallery.

🥗Catering by Reem’s 💫

✨Free and open to the public

‼️🚨TODAY 🚨‼️
Join us at 5:30pm for an artist talk by William Rhodes, whose work is included in our current exhibition Annex on Limitation, curated by Jane Sheehan.

Rhodes received a BA in Furniture Building and Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. His work has been collected by institutions including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has served as both instructor and more recently as Intergenerational Program Director at Bayview Services. Rhodes also dedicates part of his time to art education, collaborating with schools and Senior Centers in San Francisco, South Africa, Italy and Egypt. He is the co-founder of the 3.9 Art Collective. 

SFAC Main Gallery
401 Van Ness Ave. #126
Free and open to the public.

🎈Opening August 22 | Annex on Limitation, a two-person exhibition with work by Alison Ho and William Rhodes, curated by Jane Sheehan

Annex on Limitation presents the work of two artists who have altered components of their authored identities. Their work exacts a defiant effort to live with limitation on their own terms. This is adaptation, restoration, and the building upon existing material. Here, chaos and control converse as one 🔑

Join us for the opening reception, Thursday Aug. 22, 5-7pm at SFAC Main Gallery, featuring brief remarks from Ho and Sheehan at 5:30, and join Rhodes on Aug. 28, 5pm for an artist talk.

The exhibition runs Aug. 22 - Sept. 7
Free and open to the public✨

🚨🌾Last week to catch our current exhibition, Praxis of Local Knowledge! 🌾🚨

Visit us Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm.
Free and open to the public

And join us on the final day of the exhibition, Saturday, Aug. 17 from 2-4pm for Tatreez 101: Celebrating the Art of Palestinian Embroidery🇵🇸💫, a workshop with Amanne Sharif of Min Amanne Designs.

The workshop is open to the public with RSVP. Space is limited. Please email [email protected] to join the waitlist.

Exhibition Image by Aaron Wojack.

Please join us next Saturday for Panaet, a community ritual performance by artist Kimberley Acebo Arteche, Joshua Icban, and Transcriptions01!

Saturday, August 3rd 2:00-4:00pm
SFAC Main Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue, #126

Free and open to the public. Link in bio

**NEW DATE**

ARTIST TALK & PERFORMANCE

Go West: African American Lives and Westward Migration

Monday, August 12 | 8pm (doors at 7:30)

Location: Southeast Community Center, 1550 Evans Ave., SF.

Join artist for an artist talk followed by a special performance featuring her new video work Go West!
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ARTIST TALK & PERFORMANCE

Go West: African American Lives and Westward Migration

Monday, July 29 | 8:00 pm (doors at 7:30)

Location: Southeast Community Center, 1550 Evans Ave., SF.

Join artist for an artist talk followed by a special performance featuring her new video work Go West!
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Join us at the SF Art Book Fair . For the satellite exhibition to A Public Voice/Una Voz Pública: From the archive of Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts presented by the and

Opening Thursday, July 18 from 6 - 10 pm

At Minnesota Street Project
Project Space - 2nd floor
1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA 94107

This Saturday!

Join artist Miguel Arzabe and family for a paper weaving workshop!

Saturday, July 13 | 2:00-4:00pm

RSVP required. Link in bio

This Wednesday, June 24!

Join artists .arzabe and for a conversation about their practice and process.

Moderated by the wonderful

6:30pm (doors at 6:00pm)

🚨Miguel Arzabe will be giving away three prints at this event. Attend to Win!🚨

Join us for a fresco making workshop with Praxis of Local Knowledge exhibiting artist

June 29 at 2:00 at SFAC Main gallery.
•RSVP required• (link in bio)
Free and open to the public

The deadline is today!

Get your applications in by 5 p.m. today to apply to be an Artist in Residence with SFAC Galleries and . We are seeking two San Francisco-based artists to research and engage with the India Basin Waterfront Park Project (900 Innes Avenue) and India Basin Shoreline Park (Hunters Point Blvd & Hawes Street, 950 Galvez Avenue) and communities in the Bayview-Hunters Point (BVHP) neighborhood of San Francisco and then use that research to develop new work(s). This opportunity is open to artists of all disciplines.

Visit bit.ly/sfacrfq for more information.

Join Praxis of Local Knowledge exhibiting artists Miguel Arzabe and Daniela Rivera for a conversation about their work and process. Moderated by Matthew Villarreal Miranda.

Wednesday June 26, 2024
6:30pm (doors open at 6:00pm)
At SFAC Main Gallery

Free and open to the public

Deadline extended!

The SFAC Galleries and SF Recreation and Parks: 2024 India Basin Artist in Residence RFQ deadline has been EXTENDED to June 14th!

The San Francisco Arts Commission invites artists to submit qualifications for the 2024 India Basin Artist in Residency.

The RFQ aims to identify two San Francisco-based artists to research and engage with the India Basin Waterfront Park Project (900 Innes Avenue) and India Basin Shoreline Park (Hunters Point Blvd & Hawes Street, 950 Galvez Avenue) and communities in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood and then use that research to develop new work(s).

The total honorarium for each artist is $40,000. The production budget for each artist is $15,000.

Deadline to submit qualifications: June 14, 2024 by 5:00 p.m. PST
Visit bit.ly/sfacrfq for more information or the link in our bio

Praxis of Local Knowledge open this Thursday May 16th from 6 - 8 p.m. at the SFAC Main gallery.

Come to see and experience the amazing artwork by .arzabe

Looking forward to seeing you and your friends and the gallery.


Image credit: Dada in the Desert, 2024 (still) Miguel Arzabe (courtesy of the artist and Johansson Projects)