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.

Haight Street Art Center is pleased to receive this gift of materials that helps us document the San Francisco counterculture and its art.