Art+Books+Coffee
Art stuff happening in and around San Francisco. Note that this list may be out of date… get up-to-date info by visiting the links.
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50 events
- Sat Aug 1 '26 – Sun Aug 23 '26museumCollection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS@ BAMPFA
- Sat Aug 1 '26 – Wed Aug 26 '26museumTeaching Gallery / The Politics of the Poster@ BAMPFA
- Sat Aug 1 '26 – Fri Aug 28 '26museumSome Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata@ BAMPFA
- Sat Aug 1 '26 – Sun Nov 29 '26museumMaren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing@ BAMPFA
- Sat Aug 1 '26 – Sun Jan 31 '27museumTreasures of the Pharaohs@ de Young
- Wed Aug 5 '26 – Sun Jul 11 '27showArt Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las frutas del labor@ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Wed Aug 5 '26 – Sun Jul 11 '27museumSome Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection@ BAMPFA
- Thu Aug 6 '26 – Sat Aug 29 '26residencyResident Artist Shows: golden lionheart collier@ Audium
- Wed Aug 12 '26 – Sun Nov 15 '26showCampus Collaborations / Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces@ BAMPFA
- Thu Aug 20 '26 – Sat Sep 26 '26showYari Ostovany@ Wessling Contemporary
- Sat Aug 22 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate a Giant Peach Sailing Across the Sea (Youth Session)@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Aug 22 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate a Giant Peach Sailing Across the Sea (Adult Session)@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Aug 22 '26showJacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc@ SFMOMA, Roberts Family Gallery
- Sun Aug 23 '26 – Sun Oct 4 '26workshopColor Theory (Adult Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sun Aug 23 '26 – Sun Oct 4 '26workshopColor Theory (Grades 6–10 Session)@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Mon Aug 24 '26art fairSFZF Zine Picnic@ Yerba Buena Gardens
- Wed Aug 26 '26art fairSFZF Zine Picnic@ Yerba Buena Gardens
- Thu Aug 27 '26workshopSip and Sketch | Painting a Western Landscape@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Aug 29 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate a Mouse Taking a Bow (Adult Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Aug 29 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate a Mouse Taking a Bow (Youth Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Aug 29 '26showAmbrose Trataris: Daisy-Chain<><><>Star-Connection@ Gray Area
- Sun Aug 30 '26poetrySFZF Thinking Captions Zine Reading@ Silver Sprocket
- Mon Aug 31 '26otherSFZF Kick-off Party@ Mission: Comics & Art
- Tue Sep 1 '26workshopClasses and Art Instruction@ Art + Water
- Tue Sep 1 '26otherSFZF After Party@ Silver Sprocket
- Tue Sep 1 '26openingArt + Water Opening@ Art + Water
- Tue Sep 1 '26showFORCED PERSPECTIVE: The World of Boots Riley@ Art + Water
- Tue Sep 1 '26poetrySFZF Thinking Captions Zine Reading@ Silver Sprocket
- Wed Sep 2 '26receptionSFZF Kick-off Party@ Mission: Comics & Art
- Wed Sep 9 '26 – Sun Dec 13 '26showCampus Collaborations / Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War@ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Sat Sep 12 '26workshopVirtual Studio Series | Animate a Duck Trio (Youth Session)@ Virtual
- Sat Sep 12 '26workshopVirtual Studio Series | Animate a Duck Trio (Adult Session)@ Virtual
- Sat Sep 12 '26 – Sat Oct 31 '26showDavid Choong Lee Solo Show@ Heron Arts
- Thu Sep 17 '26workshopSip and Sketch | Underwater Scene@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Sep 19 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate a Duck Trio (Adult Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Sep 19 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate a Duck Trio (Youth Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Sep 26 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate an Eccentric Inventor (Adult Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Sep 26 '26workshopIn-Person Studio Series | Animate an Eccentric Inventor (Youth Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Thu Oct 1 '26showDía de Los Muertos Annual Exhibition@ SOMArts
- Thu Oct 1 '26 – Sat Nov 7 '26showChromatic Deviations: New West Coast Colorism@ Wessling Contemporary
- Sat Oct 3 '26 – Sun Feb 7 '27museumRM x SFMOMA@ SFMOMA
- Sat Oct 3 '26 – Sun Feb 7 '27showRM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me@ SFMOMA
- Thu Oct 8 '26experimentalEraserhead Xiu Xiu@ Gray Area
- Sun Oct 11 '26 – Sun Nov 15 '26workshopVisual and Written Storytelling (Grades 6–10 Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sun Oct 11 '26 – Sun Nov 15 '26workshopVisual and Written Storytelling (Adult Session)@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Nov 7 '26residencyFree Crucible Tours@ The Crucible
- Tue Dec 1 '26art fairHoliday Market 2026@ 1890 Bryant Street Studios
- Fri Dec 11 '26art fairSunset Night Market: Dong Zhi/Holiday Market@ Irving Street
- Fri Jan 1 '27residencyArt Residencies@ Art + Water
- Fri Jan 1 '27residencyArt + Water Residencies@ Art + Water