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Community. Diversity. Sustainability. Social justice. CCA’s foundation and inspiration. Our belief in a better world compels us to make art that matters.

CHAIR Rachel Berger, Associate Professor ASSISTANT CHAIR Sara Raffo, Associate Professor FACULTY Erik Adigard, Adjunct Professor Doug Akagi, Professor Emeritus David Hisaya Asari, Associate Professor Bob Aufuldish, Professor Katie Barcelona, Adjunct Professor Leslie Becker, Professor Tim Belonax, Adjunct Professor Rachel Berger, Assistant Professor John Caponi, Senior Lecturer Ivan Cash, Senior Lecturer Rod Cavazos, Adjunct Professor Faun Chapin, Senior Lecturer Dennis Crowe, Adjunct Professor Karen Fiss, Professor Mark Fox, Professor Karen Fiss, Professor Shiraz Gallab, Visiting Artist Chris Hamamoto, Associate Professor Tina Hardison, Lecturer Eric Heiman, Associate Professor Rob Hugel, Adjunct Professor Thomas Ingalls, Senior Adjunct Professor Supriya Kalidas, Senior Lecturer Megan Lynch, Adjunct Professor Brett MacFadden, Adjunct Professor George McCalman, Senior Lecturer Brian McMullen, Senior Lecturer Emily McVarish, Associate Professor Jeremy Mende, Associate Professor Karin Myint, Adjunct Professor Kaz Nakanishi, Adjunct Professor Iran Narges, Senior Lecturer Marc O’Brien, Adjunct Professor Meg Paradise, Senior Lecturer Celeste Prevost, Senior Lecturer Sara Raffo, Associate Professor Amber Reed, Senior Lecturer Christopher Riggs, Senior Lecturer Erik Schmitt, Senior Lecturer Mindy Seu, Lecturer Christoph Steger, Assistant Professor Jon Sueda, Associate Professor Scott Thorpe, Adjunct Professor James Tucker, Lecturer Kelly Walters, Visiting Artist Angie Wang, Senior Adjunct Professor

THE FIRST OF ITS KIND ON THE WEST COAST The San Francisco Center for the Book was co-founded by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch, who recognized a growing need in San Francisco, the Bay Area and on the West Coast for a facility specifically designed and equipped to support the appreciation, teaching and creation of book arts. The first center of its kind on the West Coast, San Francisco Center for the Arts was incorporated in March of 1996 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. THE GRAND OPENING The grand opening celebration on July 30, 1996, of the first location of San Francisco Center for the Book, on DeHaro Street between 16th and 17th Streets, along an old railroad line in the Potrero Hill District, attracted an overflow crowd of more than 400 people. That first season, consisted of 64 students and a dozen classes. NORTHWARD BOUND By 2002, with the renaissance of book arts picking up steam, San Francisco Center for the Book moved to the north end of the same building, to larger accomodations that included a view of an old railcar nextdoor, to house an ever growing collection of bookbinding and letterpress equipment, tools and type. To meet public demand, this move also provided space for more and larger workshops. ACROSS THE TRACKS In early 2013, the San Francisco Center for the Book moved to a 7,000 square foot space just around the corner and across what used to be railroad tracks, to the Rhode Island Street side of the same block, in what is now known as the Do.Re.Mi (DOgpatch-PotREro-Hill-MIssion) Design and Arts District, surrounded on all sides by galleries, art studios and other arts organizationsin a hub of art and design studios, galleries and technology firms. The move to the larger space space allowed San Francisco Center for the Book to expand to include an exhibition gallery sitting aside the print studio, a platemaking lab, a separate bindery, arts and crafts room, and administrative offices. THE PRESENT Currently, San Francisco Center for the Book offers over 400 workshops and and serves thousands of students of all ages each year. In addition to our workshops, San Francisco Center for the Book also presents exhibitions and events, hosts special visits and hands-on demonstrations, and much more. Explore this website to learn about all the things San Francisco Center for the Book has to offer and come for a visit. We are looking forward to seeing you here.

The Art Institute of California – San Francisco is a part of Education Management Corporation's system of creative-arts-focused vocational institutions, The Art Institutes. The San Francisco campus offers degree programs in the following subjects: Advertising, Audio Production, Baking & Pastry, Computer Animation, Culinary Arts, Culinary Management, Digital Film & Video Production, Fashion Design, Fashion Marketing, Fashion Marketing & Management, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design & Web Design, Interior Design, Media Arts & Animation, and Visual & Game Programming. EDMC, the parent organization of the Art Institute of California, was acquired by Goldman Sachs and Providence Equity Partners in June 2006.The Art Institute of California – San Francisco offers career-oriented education in the fields of design, culinary arts, media arts and fashion.HistoryIn 1997, The Art Institute of California – San Francisco opened its location on 1170 Market Street in the city of San Francisco, California. Originally the school centered on fashion-based education, but has now grown and expanded to other areas of study.CampusThe Art Institute of California – San Francisco is located in the Mid-Market area in San Francisco's Civic Center at 1170 Market Street. In early 2009, the school increased its size in a second building just across the Plaza in the 10UN Building at 1130 Market Street from the second floor to the entire building.This expansion coincided with the launch of The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco. The culinary program is housed in the new, expanded location, and includes kitchens, lecture halls and a full service student-run restaurant that opened in early 2010. The 10UN facility also includes an audio studio, launched in 2009. The 10UN facility brings an additional 42589sqft to The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, bringing the campus to nearly 80000sqft on the United Nations Plaza.

At Spark Arts, we value individuality and creativity. We want to empower the local artist by giving a community-minded and open environment to showcase art. We want to enable those who feel they aren't artistic to find their voice be it through dance, studio arts, or music. Our 800sqft space is available for rent for private lessons, rehearsals, and events. Email [email protected] for more info.

The Graduate Fine Arts Program at CCA is a two-year program of study in art history, theory, and studio practice that culminates in the MFA degree.

We believe in supporting each child’s imagination and creativity. Theater allows us to explore different characters in ourselves and experience the powerful nature of storytelling. Theater is a wonderful way to implement empathy in our coming generations. It is something that stays with you for the rest of your life. Theater offers children the opportunity to access their emotions and express them, because it is an outlet where opening up is celebrated. It is something that stays with you for the rest of your life. You never forget that time you walked out on stage and let yourself be seen.

The MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts is a two-year, 48-unit course of study. Our program regularly offers workshops in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction with the occasional cross-genre, playwriting, and screenwriting. Rather than require you to declare a specific genre, we instead leave open the option to take workshops in various genres. We are a diverse, supportive, and lively community of faculty and student writers situated in a beautiful collective work space that offers a capacious, light-filled studio and serene garden.

As artists, writers and performers in the heart of San Francisco, our work is influenced by technological innovation, cultural transformation, and urban redesign. Our curriculum gives students a chance to focus on their own practice in an interdisciplinary setting.

We are located in a beautiful corner storefront in a 19th century San Francisco Edwardian complete with high ceilings, warm heat, flexible track-lights, and a great sound system and music library. We have a large raised stage for models, surrounded by easels, tables, and drawing horses. We take great efforts to hire the best figure drawing models available. Each model must pass a rigorous audition and those that are chosen are truly exceptional at their job. Please visit our website if this sounds like the perfect studio for you. www.23rdstreetstudio.com

ART SPA is a Lifestyle for the New Renaissance & fellow urbanites like YOU ... because making things with your hands is good for your soul. Join our workshops & events, taste, sip, smell, create something beautiful & get a little rub down ...... then head home feeling all BRAND NEW. { everyday art for everyday people }

All nighters, living on coffee, building crazy projects, sleeping in the studio, going to art openings, school trips, yoga classes, making progress, making a mess, running to get free food, being inspired, learning to be artists. Visit our Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccastudentlife

Craft Labs is an art studio for making things, learning new skills, while meeting and learning from others. Classes are inexpensive, generally about 2 hours long and held in the evenings, and some weekends. Take a class, it is a great way to relax after work. The studio is in a former factory building, now full of professional artists, in the Mission/Potrero Hill neighborhood. Art materials and full instructions will be provided except where specified. Much of the art supplies come from SCRAP, a store that sells all kinds of materials discarded from industry. This shop helps keep useful items out of the landfill.

Scribble Scrabbles was created to fill a child's creativity bucket to the brim. Children are full of colorful, curious and imaginative ideas. Unfortunately, there aren't many places for these wonderings to be actualized. Through a process of scribbling, scrabbling, dribbling and drabbling we help bring these little untold stories to life by painting, drawing, sculpting and collage.

華藏寺弘揚 南無第三世多杰羌佛、 南無釋迦牟尼佛教法。 舊金山華藏寺被譽為全美國最正宗寺廟，佛像被評為全世界最莊嚴之佛，華藏寺弘揚 南無第三世多杰羌佛、 南無釋迦牟尼佛教法，有許多世界級高僧大德長老都來依止修學，現有聖德高僧駐寺，尤其擁有佛法神通展現的聖寶： 1.南無第三世多杰羌佛法音 2.聖樹降甘露 3.蓮池神通力 4.須彌佛舍利 5.法帳現無常 6.甘露聖法缽 7.佛像放毫光 8.拙火實證物 9.先知預言瓶 10.百法明門黑關擇決 Hua Zang Si in San Francisco is known as the most authentic Buddhist temple in the United States. The Buddhist statues at Hua Zang Si are recognized as the most dignified Buddhist statues in the world. Hua Zang Si propagates the teachings of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III Holiest Tathagata and Sakyamuni Buddha. Many world-renowned eminent monastics and virtuous Buddhist leaders come to Hua Zang Si to learn, rely upon, and practice such teachings. Currently, there are eminent monastics of holy virtues residing at Hua Zang Si. Moreover, the temple contains holy treasures which manifest supernatural power of the Buddha-dharma. These treasures are (1) dharma of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III; (2) a holy magnolia tree that rained nectar; (3) a lotus tub lifted by supernatural power; (4) Mt. Sumeru with sariras of Sakyamuni Buddha; (5) a dharma tent revealing a sign of impermanence; (6) a mani treasure discovered after being hidden; (7) a holy dharma bowl that received nectar; (8) a Buddha statue that emitted brilliant light; (9) dharma objects through which true tummo (inner-heat) realization was manifested (10) a golden vase for prophecy.

Cafe Du Nord is a bar and restaurant located in the Swedish American Hall, a music venue and event space located in the same historic building in San Francisco’s Upper Market neighborhood.HistoryCafe du Nord has been serving San Francisco continuously since 1907. Reopened after restoration in the summer of 2015, it is once again providing San Franciscans with good food, good drink and good times. Tucked into the back of the historic bar is the Viking Room, a restaurant serving fresh seafood, American bistro cuisine, cocktails and champagne. The space which was previously a music venue, now has live music nightly Tuesday - Saturday in The Viking Room at Cafe du NOrd.In 1906 the Swedish American Society engaged Swedish-born San Francisco architect August Nordin to develop plans for a new building for the group to call home. Laying of the cornerstone took place in an impressive ceremony amid gala festivities and dedication of the completed structure, designated The Swedish American Hall, occurred on December 22, 1907. Since that historic day, the Hall has been home to many businesses over the years, but there has been one strong voice behind the iconic building, The Swedish American Society.In addition to the newly renovated bar, Café du Nord and the Basque-inspired restaurant, Aatxe, the Swedish American Hall now houses three event spaces that take over the second and third floors of the building; Freja, Odin and Balder Halls that have held countless celebrations over its 107 year history. With old world charm and fresh blood flowing through it, Ne Timeas Restaurant Group and The Bon Vivants bring a fresh approach to events with full-service catering, catering partners and craft cocktail bar service for weddings, corporate events, conventions, meetings, parties, dinners, receptions, recitals and other special events.

Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Corbett Avenue in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. Beyond this point, the roadway continues as Portola Drive into the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. Portola Drive extends south to the intersection of St. Francis Boulevard and Sloat Boulevard, where it continues as Junipero Serra Boulevard.Market Street is the boundary of two street grids. Streets on its southeast side are parallel or perpendicular to Market Street, while those on the northwest are nine degrees off from the cardinal directions.Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses, and diesel buses. Today Muni's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street Subway carries Muni Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, the surviving cable car lines terminate to the side of the street at its intersections with California Street and Powell Street.

Zuni Café is a restaurant in San Francisco, California. Named after the Zuni tribe, it was established in 1979 by Billy West. In 1981 he hired Vince Calcagno as the manager, who became a business partner in 1987. West and Calcagno hired chef Judy Rodgers (formerly of Chez Panisse) in 1987. Billy West died on July 1, 1994; Calcagno and Rodgers went on to become co-owners. Zuni Cafe, with Rodgers at the helm, won the James Beard Foundation Award for 'Best Chef: Pacific' in 2000, 'Outstanding Restaurant' in 2003, and 'Outstanding Chef' in 2004. It is located on Market Street in San Francisco. Rodgers became head chef in 1987, and a co-owner two years later. Calcagno retired in 2006. Gilbert Pilgram joined Zuni Café as a co-owner in 2006. Rodgers died on December 2, 2013.

The Hartford Street Zen Center, temple name Issan-ji, is a Soto Zen practice-center located in the Castro district of San Francisco.HistoryIssan Dorsey (a former drug-addict and drag queen) brought the center from its early beginnings as The Gay Buddhist Club of 1980 to the modern-day Hartford Street Zen Center (HSZC), becoming Abbot there in 1989. In 1987 the group had opened the Maitri Hospice for those dying of AIDS, to which Dorsey himself succumbed in 1990. It was the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in the United States. For a time the center leased a building next door to house the sick, eventually offering nine hospice-beds for persons in extremis. The second Abbot was Kijun Steve Allen, who departed after a difficult tenure of one year. In 1991 famed Beat-era poet Zenshin Philip Whalen assumed the abbacy, until ill health obliged him to retire in 1996; he died in 2002. By 1997 the hospice had outgrown the Hartford Street location and was moved to a new, custom-designed facility at Church and Duboce Streets in San Francisco with space for fifteen residents. Meanwhile, practice continued at Issan-ji under the guidance of Rev. Ottmar Engel, who served as Practice-Leader until health-concerns necessitated his return to his native Germany in 2001. After an interregnum, during which the Board of Directors, assisted by Rev. John King, took care of things at Hartford Street, Rev. Myo Denis Lahey, who was completing a tenure as Prior (Tanto) at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, California, was invited to be Practice-Leader, and as of October 2013 was installed as HSZC's current Abbot.

Castro Camera foi uma loja de câmeras fotográficas no distrito do Castro, em San Francisco, Califórnia, EUA, de propriedade de Harvey Milk de 1972 até 1978. Durante os anos 1970, a loja tornou-se o centro da crescente comunidade gay na vizinhança, assim como o comitê central das várias campanhas de Milk para supervisor da cidade de San Francisco (equivalente a vereador) e para a Assembleia Legislativa da Califórnia.

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is a safety net hospital in San Francisco, California, and the only Level I Trauma Center for the 1.5 million residents of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. The hospital serves poor, elderly people, uninsured working families, and immigrants. About 80 percent of its patient population either receives publicly funded health insurance or is uninsured. SFGH also cares for the homeless, who make up about 8 percent of its patients. It is the largest acute inpatient and rehabilitation hospital for psychiatric patients in the City. Additionally, it is the only acute hospital in San Francisco that provides twenty-four-hour psychiatric emergency services in San Francisco.In addition to the approximately 3,500 San Francisco municipal employees, the University of California at San Francisco provides approximately 1,500 employees . The hospital, especially its Ward 86, was instrumental in treating and identifying early cases of AIDS. The original brick main building was replaced with a concrete one with construction started in 1971; four remaining 1915 five-story edifices are among the tallest brick buildings in the city. The hospital is located at 1001 Potrero Avenue between the Mission District and Potrero Hill; U.S. Route 101 rounds its east side at “Hospital Curve”.

San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917. The structure's dome is taller than that of the United States Capitol by 42 feet. The present building replaced an earlier City Hall that was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake, which was two blocks from the present one. It was bounded by Larkin Street, McAllister Street, and City Hall Avenue (a street, now built over, which ran from the corner of Grove and Larkin to the corner of McAllister and Leavenworth), largely where the current Public Library and U.N. Plaza stand today.The principal architect was Arthur Brown, Jr., of Bakewell & Brown, whose attention to the finishing details extended to the doorknobs and the typeface to be used in signage. Brown's blueprints of the building are preserved at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Brown also designed the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, Veterans Building, Temple Emanuel, Coit Tower and the Federal office building at 50 United Nations Plaza.

The SHN Orpheum Theatre is a performance venue located at 1192 Market at Hyde Street in the Civic Center district of San Francisco, California. The theatre first opened in 1926 as one of the many designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca for theater-circuit owner Alexander Pantages. The interior features a vaulted ceiling, while the facade was patterned after a 12th-century French cathedral. The Orpheum seats 2,203 guests. In 1998, there was a $20 million renovation completed to make the Orpheum more suitable for Broadway shows after a previous renovation in the 1970s. The Orpheum is a locally designated San Francisco landmark as determined by the San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board.The theater has hosted a number of Broadway shows, and from April 30 to May 4, 2007, hosted Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and was recently home to a two-year sit-down production of the musical Wicked from January 27, 2009, through September 2010. The Grateful Dead gave six performances here in 1976: July 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 18.Productions that were staged at the Orpheum prior to opening on Broadway have included Bring It On: The Musical (2011-2012), Evita (1979), Mama Mia! (2000-2001), and The Act (1977).

"Painted ladies" is a term in American architecture used for Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings painted in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details. The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by writers Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies - San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians.Since then the term has also been used to describe groups of colorful Victorian houses in other American cities, such as the Charles Village neighborhood in Baltimore, Lafayette Square in St. Louis, the greater San Francisco and New Orleans areas, Columbia-Tusculum in Cincinnati, the Old West End in Toledo, Ohio, and the city of Cape May, New Jersey.San Francisco's painted ladiesAbout 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors. As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, "...red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in fashion...if the upper stories are not of red or blue... they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and brown..." While many of the mansions of Nob Hill were destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, thousands of the mass-produced, more modest houses survived in the western and southern neighborhoods of the city.