Glitter & Trash: Glam Rock Roots & Revolutions

Opens March 27, 2025

Opening party on March 28th from 6-10 pm featuring DJ Little Hiss Muffet, and costume party with prizes. Co-hosted with Amoeba Music.

The Haight Street Art Center is pleased to present Glitter & Trash: Glam Rock Roots & Revolutions, running from March 27 through May 25, 2025. Curated by Peter Groff of Bucknell University, with the majority of the 100-plus pieces in the exhibition lent by author Andrew Krivine, the exhibition explores the aesthetics of Glam Rock, a musical movement that had its heyday in the early- to mid-1970s. In addition to showing the genre’s roots, the exhibition also touches on the musical revolutions it spurred—Punk, Goth, and New Romanticism.

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Strikethrough: Protest Posters from Letterform Archive

On Exhibit, Print Studio Gallery

In 2022, when Letterform Archive presented an exhibition called Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest, the Supreme Court had just struck down Roe v. Wade, issuing an opinion that seemed to promise more social engineering to come.

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New Screen Printing Classes for 2025!

We have hands-on classes that take you through the basics of creating screens and printing a final product, as well as more advanced classes. Sign up today!

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Your Food, My Work, Our Land

An ongoing collaboration with artist Oscar Lopez in support of California farmworkers

We are pleased to announce Haight Street Art Center's collaboration with artist Oscar Lopez on a project to engage youth in an investigation of food justice issues in California that ultimately culminated in a collaborative mural-making project.

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SEE RED WOMEN's Q&A and Print-Making Workshop with Founding Members

Join us on March 1st for an event honoring See Red Women's Workshop, an all-female screen-printing collective active in the UK from 1974-1990. All three of the members of See Red Women's Workshop—Pru Stevenson, Suzy Mackie, and Anne Robinson—will be joining us for a panel discussion and poster-making workshop. Alongside the members of See Red, two local artists—Alexandra Fischer and Melanie Cervantes—will join to talk about their experiences as artists. The panel will be moderated by Grendl Löfkvist, Director of Type West at Letterform Archive

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