Join Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC), FOR-SITE, Haines Gallery, SF Camerawork, and the San Francisco Children’s Art Center to celebrate the Winter art season with an evening Art Walk on Friday, January 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Art Walk takes place during FOG Design+Art 2024 in the Gateway and Festival Pavilions (Piers 2 and 3) and during San Francisco Art Week.

Description Of Events & Reservation Link

The Art Walk opens at 5:00 p.m. and features pop-up artist and curator talks across campus; a new exhibition in Gallery 308, Landmark Building A; an opening reception and an art workshop in Landmark Building C; and a public art commission at Landmark Building B, the Gateway Pavilion at Pier 2, and the Festival Pavilion at Pier 3. Check in at the lobby inside Landmark Building C to obtain maps and drink tickets. Register at EventBrite.

Explore the following events:

• Check in starts at 5:00 p.m., inside Landmark Building C
• Fort Mason Art presents Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames Since 1970 in Gallery 308, Landmark Building A, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Guest curator Tanya Zimbardo appears in conversation with Director of Arts Programming Frank Smigiel at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
  
• Fort Mason Art presents Shiny Things for My Quartermaster: Seven Swallowtail Flags, a new public art commission by Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith. The suite of artist flags, installed above the main entrances to Landmark Building B, the Gateway Pavilion at Pier 2, and the Festival Pavilion at Pier 3 are on view through Spring 2024. More information about the commission is on display in the Building B Lobby.
  
• The Haines Gallery presents Adia Millett: Reflections On Black, with an opening reception, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and a live performance by Rewards Program (Phillip Laurent, Miles Lassi, and Zekarias Thompson). (Landmark Building C, first floor)
• SF Camerawork presents Charles Lee: Sweat & Dirt, on view from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with SF Camerawork Executive Director Aay Preston-Myint in conversation with artist Charles Lee at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (an exhibition walk-through with Charles Lee and curator Meghan Smith also occurs 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.) (Landmark Building A, next to Radhaus Alpine Beerhall & Restaurant)
• San Francisco Children’s Art Center hosts a Family Art-Making Workshop for all ages, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Landmark Building C, first floor).
• FOR-SITE’s The Guardhouse Program features talks with artist Tanja Geis, curator Lisa Ellsworth, and urbanist Johanna Hoffman (6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.). The Guardhouse installation, “Mud Will Remember Us,” is on view daily through Sunday, January 21, 2024, visible at all times through the windows. (The Guardhouse is across from Equator Coffees Cafe.)

During the Winter 2024 Art Walk, FMCAC resident establishments Radhaus, Greens Restaurant, and The Interval at Long Now offer dining and drinking options in Landmark Building A.

Goody Cafe in Landmark Building C offers special treats and free popcorn (organic, popped fresh), 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Hot and cold drinks are also available for purchase. Artwork by Loren Hsieh is on view as well.

Other campus art installations on view are: a collection of historic posters commemorating decades of Indigenous arts and cultural events held at FMCAC, presented by FMCAC resident American Indian Cultural District, on view in the lobby of Landmark Building D; and original paintings from the International Decorative Painters Salon 2023 in the lobby of Landmark Building C.

Free Admission