EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
San Francisco, CA

Founding Date:
1871

Enrollment:
400

Official Website:
http://www.sfai.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Devendra Banhart	Singer/Songwriter	30-May-1981		Modern-day wandering minstrel
Kathryn Bigelow	Film Director	27-Nov-1951		The Hurt Locker
Stewart Brand	Business	14-Dec-1938		Founder, Whole Earth Catalog
Dame Darcy	Cartoonist	11-Jun-1971		Meat Cake, Suckdog
Carol Doda	Performance Artist	29-Aug-1937	9-Nov-2015	Stripper at San Francisco's Condor Club
Karen Finley	Artist	7-Mar-1956		Yam-slathering performance artist
Jerry Garcia	Musician	1-Aug-1942	9-Aug-1995	Grateful Dead
Michael Glawogger	Film Director	3-Dec-1959	23-Apr-2014	Whore's Glory
Gale Harold	Actor	10-Jul-1969		Brian Kinney on Queer as Folk
Annie Leibovitz	Photographer	2-Oct-1949		Celebrity photographer
Laura Poitras	Film Director	2-Feb-1964		My Country, My Country
Roxanne Quimby	Business	1950		Co-Founder, Burt's Bees
Mary Lynn Rajskub	Actor	22-Jun-1971		Chloe O'Brian on 24
Victor Wong	Actor	31-Jul-1927	12-Sep-2001	Egg Shen

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kathy Acker	Author	18-Apr-1947	1-Dec-1997	Blood and Guts in High School
Ansel Adams	Photographer	20-Feb-1902	22-Apr-1984	Yosemite photographer
Angela Davis	Activist	26-Jan-1944		Black Panther, teacher, professor
Dorothea Lange	Photographer	26-May-1895	11-Oct-1965	Depression-era photographer
Lydia Lunch	Musician	2-Jun-1959		Punk and spoken word confrontationalist
Eadweard Muybridge	Photographer	9-Apr-1830	8-May-1904	Animal Locomotion

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David A. Coulter	Business	c. 1949		Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 2001-05

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