Big Art Loop
Taylor Snowberger The Big Art Loop, a 34-mile trail encircling San Francisco that links more than 100 artworks, was launched by the Siljbrandij Foundation two years ago. The route includes the eastern…
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Implications of California College of the Arts Closure Becoming Clearer
S Anne Steinberg On January 13, 2026, California College of the Art’s students, faculty and staff woke up to an unexpected email. The message, from the college’s president, David Howse, announced that CCA…
Sabine Strauch Makes Wearable Art
Rebekah Moan Mission Bay resident Sabine Strauch didn’t intend to get into jewelry-making. The 27-year-old started oil painting as a teenager. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in…
Galleria Tile Inspired by Three Generations of the Visona Family
Jenna Duncan In the heart of San Francisco’s Design District, at 16th and Kansas streets, Galleria Tile offers a showroom that invites guests to encounter new ideas in flooring and tile. The…
Rebirth
Chaitanya Tondepu If you’re lucky, or work at it, the regularity of life is occasionally marked by transformative moments that create a bridge between dispirited endings and promising beginnings. Anna Hennessey’s immersive…
For The Love of Letters
Mark Steensland Graphic designer Rob Saunders founded the Letterform Archive ten years ago as a place to share his personal collection of graphic arts ephemera with the public and preserve the history…
The Mysterious Beauty of Tótem
Marisa Helms Tótem (2023), the latest film by Mexican writer-director Lila Avilés (The Chambermaid), is visually stunning and contemplative, inviting viewers into the quiet and disquieting world of a young child as…
At Dogpatch Studio the Future is Now
Danny Pham Nestled in a walkway outside Uber’s Mission Bay headquarters at Pierpoint Lane and Bridgeview Way is a tall, highly reflective serpentine structure that bounces sunlight from its geometric, shiny, stainless-steel…
Wood Worked in Dogpatch
Jessica Zimmer Dogpatch resident and woodworker, Jodie Prud’homme, carves benches, desks, display boxes, and other pieces of furniture and office items. She’s a fan of forms that allow her to share wood’s…
Hill Resident Lucho Ramirez Nurtures Latino Film Festival
Lisa Ryers In 2008 Lucho Ramirez founded Cine+Mas SF, showcasing 15 independent films from the Spanish-speaking world. Today, the festival screens about 70 features a year, including eight short programs. Most of…
Shipwrecked in San Francisco
Sirens and castaways, drag and modern dance, a shipwreck in a nightclub. We Build Houses Here, performed last May at Oasis, showcased each of these elements intermingling like tidal forces.…
Institute of Contemporary Art Works to Interpret Cultural Moments
Vivien Wang According to The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s (ICA SF) founding director, Ali Gass, the always-free, non-collecting museum was conceived amidst the depths of the pandemic and racial reckonings…
Art History on 18th Street
Peter Linenthal, Potrero Hill Archives Project Many Potrero Hill and Dogpatch apartment complexes are products of a 1990s building boom. Between 1988 and 2000, 3000 live-work lofts, intended to provide artists with housing and workspace, were…
Neighborhoods Dotted with Public Spaces, Art
Odin Thien-An Marin Top: Five 15-foot silver spheres created by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson are located on Chase Center’s east plaza. The spheres have mirrors facing inwards that create a tunnel effect when…
As the Pandemic Wanes, Live Theaters Create New Scenes
Diva Harsoor In Potrero Hill, where face masks are a rare sight, theater groups performing at Potrero Stage and elsewhere still speak of testing protocols, face coverings, and capacity restrictions. “There are…
Art Feature: June 2022
PV Staff “Dusk on 17th” (on right) is taken from a photograph of 17th Street captured September 2020. The leftmost restaurant depicted is Connecticut Yankee. © Andrew Chou-Belden
“Black Magic” at San Francisco Arts Commission
Max Blue In 2010, Ron Moultrie Saunders and William Rhodes co-founded the San Francisco-based 3.9 Art Collective to help make Black artists and arts professionals in San Francisco visible to one another…
