Each year the San Francisco Art Institute partners with major corporations, foundations, businesses, and individuals to support significant fundraising events, and to present a wide-range of public programs including exhibitions, lectures, and community education courses. The Institute offers an affluent target audience, innovative programs and events, and a dedicated staff committed to developing unique collaborations and attractive sponsorship opportunities that are mutually beneficial. The Art Institute's annual spring Gala draws over 500 of the Bay Area's most important fine art supporters. Each year thousands attend the Art Institute's exhibitions, lectures, and symposia. The generosity of our donors helps the San Francisco Art Institute maintain a diverse, highly-qualified student body.
Endowed scholarships ensure the perpetuity of both the gift and donor recognition.
For more than 125 years, the San Francisco Art Institute has built a reputation as the premier art college in the nation. The school has been at the center of many of this country's most notable art movements and claims many of our nation's most important artists as faculty and alumni. More than 650 students study in the school's prestigious degree programs. Thousands more participate in public programs in the contemporary visual arts that including exhibitions, lectures, special symposia and community education classes for adults and high school students. The Art Institute's I Magazine is distributed to 6,000 people nationally.