Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture Art Walk Winter 2025
Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture
Jan 24th @ 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.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; three new exhibitions in The Guardhouse and Landmark Buildings A and C; two opening receptions; 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 (find details in the listings below the schedule):
- Fort Mason Art
Kota Ezawa:
Here and There – Now and Then
Gallery 308, Building A
Artist and curator talks: 6:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. - Fort Mason Art
Oscar Lopez:
Your Food, My Work, Our Land
Public Art Corridor outdoors between Buildings B and C - SF Camerawork
Lenn Keller, Darcy Padilla, Elizabeth Sunflower:
A Strange Vibration
Building A
Curator talks: 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. - Arion Press
Building B, First Floor
Type foundry and press room tours:
6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. - FOR-SITE
Guardhouse across from Equator Coffees Café
Bryan Keith Thomas — Birthright: Revolutionary Aspects Of Freedom
Artist talks: 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. - San Francisco Children’s Art Center
Building C, First Floor
Roll up your sleeves and paint in an all-ages studio painting session - Museo Italo Americano
Building C, First Floor
Elio & Stefano Ciol: Into The Light - Haines Gallery
Building C, First Floor
Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift
Artist talk: 7:30 p.m. - American Indian Cultural District
Building D Lobby, First Floor
Commissioned murals by Jewelina Acosta and Brittany Burrows - Goody Café
Building C, First Floor
Rodrigo Valle Hernandez, Yolanda Robles, Juan Larrieta Ceron: Life At The Market
For food offerings, see the paragraph below.
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 Crust Luv artisan pizzas for sale.
Free Admission
- American Indian Cultural District, with support from Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC), presents mural commissions by artists Brittany Burrows and Jewelina Acosta.
- Arion Press presents the Fables of Aesop gallery, showcasing the prints and bookmaking ephemera from their newest publication, on view from 6:00 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.
- FOR-SITE presents Bryan Keith Thomas At The Guardhouse — Birthright: Revolutionary Aspects Of Freedom, as part of The Guardhouse Program. 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 an important touch-point for FOR-SITE’s next major exhibition project opening June 2025 at the Fort Point National Historic Site. Join FOR-SITE for the opening reception from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and artist talks at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The exhibition is on view January 24 to April 20, 2025.
- Fort Mason Art, in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA), presents San Francisco Bay Area artist Kota Ezawa’s new exhibition for Fort Mason Art’s annual Gallery 308 program. Kota Ezawa’s Here and There – Now and Then 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. The exhibition is on view January 11 to March 9, 2025.
- Fort Mason Art presents Oscar Lopez: Your Food, My Work, Our Land.
- Goody Café presents a photography show, Life At The Market, from artists Rodrigo Valle Hernandez, Yolanda Robles, and Juan Larrieta Ceron.
- 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. The exhibition is on view January 22 to March 15, 2025.
- Museo Italo Americano presents Into The Light, an exhibition celebrating the talents of two of Italy’s most significant photographers, Elio and Stefano Ciol.
- San Francisco Children’s Art Center opens the studio for an open-ended painting session for artists of all ages. Roll up your sleeves and get creative, painting either a small-scale work to take home or contributing to a larger-scale collaborative mural.
- SF Camerawork presents A Strange Vibration, an exhibition that brings to light work by Lenn Keller, Darcy Padilla, and Elizabeth Sunflower, three photojournalists documenting Bay Area womens’ lives at the margins from the 1970s through the 1990s, with curator talks at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The exhibition is on view January 22 to April 22, 2025.
All Fort Mason Art programs are generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund.