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We Are the One: San Francisco Punk, 1970s –1980s featured in KQED
Our exhibit "We Are the One: San Francisco Punk, 1970s –1980s" which includes S.F. punk club posters and flyers, punk films, local punk music, and 150 striking photographs of such bands such as Crime, the Avengers, the Ramones, and many more, is featured in KQED. Read the full article here!
"Women of Rock Art" featured in KQED
Our exhibit “Women of Rock Art: 1965 - 2023,” devoted exclusively to rock and music posters designed by women, with a survey of more than 200 posters, handbills, and flyers by some 50 artists, is featured in KQED. Read the full article here!
HAIGHT STREET ART CENTER APPOINTS CLARENCE B. JONES TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Civil Rights activist and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advisor, Clarence B. Jones, joins Board. The Haight Street Art Center today appointed legendary attorney, author, and Civil Rights icon Clarence B. Jones to its Board of Directors. Jones joins Board Chairman Roger McNamee, as well as directors Ann...
Farmworker Awareness Poster Art Pop-up with artist Oscar Lopez, Saturday December 2nd
We are excited to partner again with Foodwise for a farmworker awareness poster art pop-up at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on Saturday, December 2, between 9 am-1 pm.
Join us for a live screen-printing demo and take home a free poster designed by artist Oscar Lopez.
We hope to see you there!
Farmworker Awareness Poster Art Pop-up with artist Oscar Lopez
Haight Street Art Center is excited to partner with artist Oscar Lopez and Foodwise for a farmworker awareness poster art pop-up at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market for their Summer Bash Celebration on July 16th. Join us for a live screen-printing demo and see Project Artivism’s screen-printing bicycle in action and take home a free farmworker awareness poster...
HAIGHT STREET ART CENTER TO DEDICATE COMPLETELY RESTORED SIGNIFICANT REUBEN KADISH MURAL
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA) After an extensive restoration to a damaged civic treasure, the Haight Street Art Center will officially dedicate the return-to-pristine form of renowned American sculptor and muralist Reuben Kadish’s 1937 A Dissertation on Alchemy during a presentation and reception on April 27 from 5:30-7:30 pm at the...
Enough Is Enough: End Gun Violence
View this exhibition in our Garden Gallery in the Community Garden at Laguna and Haight Streets, during daylight hours.
The Garden Gallery is open to the public.
Farmworker Awareness Poster Art Pop-up with artist Oscar Lopez
Haight Street Art Center is excited to partner with artist Oscar Lopez and Foodwise for a farmworker awareness poster art pop-up at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on Saturday, November 19 between 9 am-1 pm. Join us for a live screen-printing demo and see Project Artivism’s screen-printing bicycle in action and take home a free farmworker awareness poster designed...
The Best Art Gallery, Best of the Bay 2022
We are so grateful to receive "The Best Art Gallery 2022" from the 48Hills/Bay Guardian Readers Poll! Thank you to all who voted and made this one of our best years yet! And thank you to all our artists and collaborators.
Please check out all the other winners!
In the Streets: The Art of Protest and our Reproductive Rights
The Haight Street Art Center is proud to host a display of poster art that reflects the current moment of art and street protest around our continued struggles for reproductive rights. As the fight continues to secure people's freedom to decide about their own bodies, we continue to find the power of personal and political expression through activism.
Join us for a series of exhibitions celebrating Pride 2022!
The Haight Street Art Center is proud to present Radical Solidarity, a series of exhibitions featuring 3 generations of SF native, female artists; Mari Tepper, Tanya Wischerath, Abby Amdur, along with artists; Shyama Kuver, Julio Salgado, Sophia Zarders, and Steph Kudisch. Radical Solidarity is a series of openings and programs that celebrate Pride 2022 June-July.
Farmworker Awareness Poster Art Pop-up with artist Oscar Lopez
Join us on Saturday, May 28th down at the Ferry Building!
We're excited to partner again with Foodwise (formerly CUESA) for a farmworker awareness poster art pop-up at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on Saturday, May 28th, between 9 am-1 pm.
Join us for a live screen-printing demo and poster giveaway in conjunction with the exhibition Turning the Table: Awareness for Farmworker Equity. See Project Artivism’s bicycle-powered screen printer in action and take home a free farmworker awareness poster designed by artist Oscar Lopez.
Poster art has historically brought attention to important social and political movements. With the help of artist’s messages and images these posters spark interest and move people to take action in support of cultural change.
The Matrix and the Handbills of the Haight: Recent Acquisitions
The Matrix and the Handbills of the Haight: Recent Acquisitions
Opening on Saturday, May 21
Haight Street Art Center recently received an exciting donation of a collection of handbills and postcards documenting the psychedelic era in San Francisco, the greater Bay Area, and Denver. One cache of handbills documents the Matrix, the Marina district folk club cofounded by the Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin in 1965. Although the Matrix sponsored and was commemorated by posters, handbills were its principal means of advertising concerts, and six of those will be on display on the Art Center’s first floor through August1st, along with a selection of handbills showing how the psychedelic art of the Haight-Ashbury spread to the East Bay, North Bay, and South Bay, and across America.
The Residents: A Public Book Signing and Exhibition!
Melodic Virtue and Haight Street Art Center, along with partner Amoeba Music, are delighted to announce an exclusive book signing for The Residents: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol.1 with Homer Flynn, creative director of Poor? NO! Graphics, and Aaron Tanner.
Fans can purchase copies of the book, have it signed by Flynn and Tanner, and tour an exhibition curated by Flynn of rare Residents posters from their half-century history. In keeping with the Center’s mission to honor the city’s rich history of poster art, the event will be commemorated by a new poster, designed by noted Bay Area artist Zoltron, which will be available for sale.
Killer Acid Pop-Up Show
Haight Street Art Center invites you to join us this Saturday, April 30th from 12-6pm with artist Rob Corradetti for a Killer Acid Pop-Up Show. Posters and wearable delights will be for sale.
Killer Acid is the work of artist Rob Corradetti. Located in Santa Cruz, CA, the brand specializes in screen prints, T-shirts, and a myriad of mysterious, humorous, and highly-detailed psychedelic ephemera.
4/20 Poster Pop-Up show!
4/20 Poster Pop-Up show!
On view through April
Canablis: Celebrating Cannabis and Head Shop Culture in San Francisco.
The Head shops of the 60’s and 70’s were stores that specialized in all things cannabis. From bongs, pipes and papers, to posters, records, incense and the like; head shops acted as emporiums for communities of counter culturalists. Whether as concert ticket sales venues, distribution locales for underground literature, or meeting places for activist groups like the Diggers, San Francisco head shops played an important and influencing role in the culture of the time–where free love, drugs, and psychedelic music reigned supreme.
Farmworker Awareness Poster Art Pop-Up!
Join us on Saturday, April 9th down at the Ferry Building!
We're excited to partner with Foodwise (formerly CUESA) for a farmworker awareness poster art pop-up at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on Saturday, April 9, between 9 am-1 pm.
Join us for a live screen-printing demo and poster giveaway in conjunction with the exhibition Turning the Table: Awareness for Farmworker Equity. See Project Artivism’s bicycle-powered screen printer in action and take home a free farmworker awareness poster designed by artist Brenda Barrios.
Psychedelic Renaissance: Posters from the Family Dog & Bill Graham Presents, 1965-1967
Psychedelic Renaissance presents an overview and survey of the first birth of the San Francisco Poster Renaissance as it developed into a distinctive American art form.
Turning the Table: Awareness for Farm Worker Equity
Currently on view