Alberta Mayo, SFAI's Manitoba Museum of Finds Art 1979

1979: Alberta Mayo, Administrative Assistant to President Steven Goldstine had also been in the same position for Henry Hopkins at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  Mayo was the founder, curator, and inventor of the “Manitoba Museum of Finds Art” at the Museum which she transferred to the School when she arrived to work for President Goldstine, indicative of the array of artists and the scope of conceptual art in the City in the late 1970s.

Photo by Pearl Jones

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Students debate Cadets from West Point c. 1956

As a result of Director Ernest Mundt’s efforts to significantly expand the humanities curriculum, the CSFA successfully received accreditation from the Western College Association and began to offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. With this turn towards the humanities comes an expanded faculty and additional extracurriculars, including, in 1956 and 1958, a set of CSFA-hosted debates against cadets from West Point on the topics of “Our Intent in Western European Security: Is it the Preservation of Peace or Democracy?” and “Our Foreign Policy in the Middle East.” Both debates were won by the CSFA Students.

CSFA/West Point Debate

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Fred Martin, SFAI Director

1965 Director Gurdon Woods leaves SFAI to establish the Fine Arts Department of the newly founded University of California, Santa Cruz. Director of Exhibitions Fred Martin takes his place.

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