Chairwoman of San Francisco Art School Facing Budget Issues Resigns
The leader of the board at the 150-year-old San Francisco Art Institute said she is confident the college has a plan to address its financial problems, but critics have suggested otherwise.
In stepping back, the board chairwoman, Pam Rorke Levy, expressed optimism that debt restructuring and new leadership would mean that “S.F.A.I. has the runway to rebuild.”Credit.Eric Risberg/Associated Press
By Zachary Small
Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021
Pam Rorke Levy has resigned from her position as chairwoman of the San Francisco Art Institute, a 150-year-old college that has struggled over the last year to emerge from a multimillion-dollar debt and declining enrollment despite its history of training artists including the likes of Kehinde Wiley, Catherine Opie and Annie Leibovitz.
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In addition to sales of important Americana, furniture, folk, and outsider art at New York’s two major auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s a number of events are taking place that we urge you to turn your eyes toward: Celebrating its sixty-seventh year as the leading art, antiques, and design fair in the country, the Winter Show will be presented digitally in this edition. The show benefits the East Side House Settlement, and is now open for a VIP preview. Events open to the public on Friday, January 22. In addition to showcasing important works of art on offer from sixty-plus dealers, the Winter Show’s web portal will serve as a hub for a variety of events taking place, including several to be presented by
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Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
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Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
January 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education released $21.2 billion Thursday as part of the coronavirus relief legislation Congress and President Trump approved in December to help colleges and universities nationally. Of that amount, more than $2.83 billion will go to public and private California colleges and universities.
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Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m here with the week’s essential culture news and vampiric biographies.
What the Williams archive may reveal
There has been a surge of interest in the life and career of Los Angeles architect
Paul R. Williams, who died in 1980 at the age of 85. Not only did he build thousands of structures around Los Angeles, indelibly shaping the city’s landscape, he also served on the city’s planning commission (in his 20s!), and was the first Black architect to be admitted to the
“As a non-collecting institution … several potential paths to financial stability could include endowing the mural in place … or major donor/s joining current contributors to create a well-funded endowment,” Levy wrote. “Regarding the Rivera, our first choice would be to endow the mural in place, attracting patrons or a partner organization who would create a substantial fund that would enable us to preserve, protect and present the mural to the public.”
Overlooking the city’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf, SFAI is unique in the US: a private institution of higher learning focused on pure art at the expense of more commercial degrees. You don’t matriculate at the San Francisco Art Institute to learn animation with the hope of getting a job at Pixar; you go there to be radical and make radical art.