On Friday, January 24, 2025, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., join Fort Mason Art, Arion Press, FOR-SITE, Goody Café, Haines Gallery, SF Camerawork, and the San Francisco Children’s Art Center for pop-up artist and curator talks, tours, two opening receptions, and a painting session at the free Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC) Art Walk.

Description Of Events & Reservation Link

The Art Walk opens at 6:00 p.m. and features pop-up artist and curator talks across campus; two new exhibitions in Landmark Buildings A and C; an opening reception; an exhibition and tours in Building B; an art workshop in Building C; an outdoor painting commission in the public art corridor between Buildings B and C; and a public mural commission in Building D. Check in at Building C to obtain drink tickets. Register at EventBrite.

Free Admission

Explore the following events:

• Check in starts at 6:00 p.m., in front of Building C. Register in advance for a free drink ticket.
  
• Arion Press presents the Fables of Aesop gallery, showcasing the prints and bookmaking ephemera from their newest publication, on view from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tours of the type foundry and press room with the opportunity to pull a keepsake print are held at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (Building B, First Floor)
• FMCAC in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA), present San Francisco Bay Area artist Kota Ezawa’s Here and There – Now and Then for Fort Mason Art’s annual Gallery 308 program. The exhibition is a deep dive into San Francisco’s collective memory, transforming recent Bay Area history into immersive art. Featuring two major video works and a captivating installation with photographic evidence of a legendary but lost art environment, the show highlights Ezawa’s ability to blend historical events with contemporary art practices. Curator and artist talks occur at 6:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. (Gallery 308, Building A)
• Haines Gallery presents Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift. This highly anticipated show debuts a poetic, visceral, and personal body of work that expands Riepenhoff’s collaboration with both the cyanotype and the environment. Marking an important breakthrough in her practice, the works in State Shift see the introduction of new pigments and gestures into Riepenhoff’s process and were created at national sites highly compromised by human intervention. Join Haines for the opening reception from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with an artist talk at 7:30 p.m. (Building C, First Floor)
• FOR-SITE’s The Guardhouse Program presents Bryan Keith Thomas At The Guardhouse, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with artist talks at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The artist creates a temporary art installation celebrating the Black experience through its historic symbols inside the former military guard station at the main entrance to FMCAC. Thomas’s installation serves as way-finding for FOR-SITE’s next major exhibition project opening June 2025 at the Fort Point National Historic Site. (The Guardhouse is across from Equator Coffees Café.)
• San Francisco Children’s Art Center hosts a studio painting session for all ages, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Get creative, painting either a small-scale work to take home or contributing to a larger-scale collaborative mural. (Building C, First Floor). 
• The Museo Italo Americano‘s “Elio & Stefano Ciol: Into The Light,” photography exhibition is open during the Art Walk Winter 2025 hours. (Building C, First Floor). 
• Fort Mason Art presents Oscar Lopez: Your Food, My Work, Our Land. (Public Art Corridor outdoors between Buildings B and C)
• The American Indian Cultural District (AICD) presents We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky murals by Jewelina Acosta and Brittany Burrows. (Building D Lobby, First Floor)

During the Winter 2025 Art Walk, FMCAC resident establishments Radhaus, Greens Restaurant, and The Interval at Long Now offer dining and drinking options in Landmark Building A. Goody Café in Building C offers free popcorn (organic, popped fresh) and $15 Crust Luv artisan pizzas for sale, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

A collection of historic posters commemorating decades of Indigenous arts and cultural events held at FMCAC, presented by FMCAC resident AICD, is on view in the lobby of Building D.

Free Admission