San Francisco Women Artists (SFWA) is one of California's oldest arts organizations. Created in 1887 as the Sketch Club, the organization was created...
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The Women's Building is a women-led non-profit arts and education community center located in San Francisco, California. The center advocates self-determination...
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The San Francisco Comfort Women memorial is a monument dedicated to comfort women before and during World War II. It is built in remembrance of the girls...
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City College of San Francisco (CCSF or City College) is a public community college in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded as a junior college...
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The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping...
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artists coop building. Japanese YWCA/Issei Women’s Building, 1830 Sutter Street. Because Japanese women were barred from using the main San Francisco...
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The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, (Chinese: 唐人街; pinyin: tángrénjiē; Jyutping: tong4 jan4 gaai1)...
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in San Francisco, California. One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is derived from Mission San Francisco de Asís...
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from San Francisco, California. It includes people who were born or raised in, lived in, or spent significant portions of their lives in San Francisco, or...
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The San Francisco Armory, also known as the San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal or simply The Armory, is a historic building in the Mission...
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Bayview–Hunters Point (sometimes spelled Bay View or Bayview) is the San Francisco, California, neighborhood combining the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods...
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The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) community in San Francisco is one of the largest and most prominent LGBT communities in the United...
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San Francisco Recology Artist in Residence Program, located at the San Francisco dump. The WEAD co-founders were featured in a discussion about women...
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San Francisco Bay Area Street Art are any visual images created in public places such as on walls or street walk ways. Street art is often developed in...
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as art events, lectures, artists salons, and member exhibitions. Based in San Francisco, it was founded in 1989 by artists including Flo Oy Wong, Betty...
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As of 2012, 21.4% of the population in San Francisco was of Chinese descent, and there were at least 150,000 Chinese American residents. The Chinese are...
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cross-disciplinary artists like Bruce Conner, Bruce Nauman, and Peter Voulkos as well as a large number of non-profit alternative art spaces. San Francisco Bay Area...
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San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. It was established in 1899 as...
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in San Francisco, California. It is a part of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). In 1853, Colonel Thomas J. Nevins, San Francisco's first...
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The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post...
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The San Francisco sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated...
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Folsom Street Fair (redirect from Folsom Street (San Francisco))
alternative sexuality street fair, held in September that concludes San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week". The Folsom Street Fair, sometimes referred to...
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Ruth Dicker (category Artists from Palo Alto, California)
of University Women's "Women Artist of the Year". In 1964, she won the Society of Women Artists' President's prize at the San Francisco Museum of Art...
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The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It is part...
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The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) is the City agency that champions the arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts community...
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Bohemian Club (redirect from San Francisco Bohemian Club)
were serving in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, the club has a membership of many local and global leaders, ranging from artists and musicians to businessmen...
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artist trio active since 1995 and known for their use of humor and camp to explore issues of culture and gender. Founded in San Francisco by artists Eliza...
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respect women". An article in San Francisco Magazine recounts the experience of the blogger "Dolly" with pickup artists. According to the article, Dolly...
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This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations,...
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San Francisco in the 1970s was a global hub of culture. It was known worldwide for hippies and radicals. The city was heavily affected by drugs, prostitution...
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