After a competitive process, Tiana Williams, a USC graduate student in Cinema and Media Studies who specializes in archives, oral histories, and documentary filmmaking, was selected as the Inaugural Sam Francis Media Fellow. ...
In October 2020, 18th Street Art Center and the Sam Francis Foundation were thrilled to announce Call to Dream: The Sam Francis Fellowship. an ongoing artist residency exchange between Los Angeles and three other cities foundational to the artist Sam Francis’s development: Tokyo, Mexico City,...
Edward Goldman, who many may recall as the host of “Art Talk” on KCRW, has featured an engaging review of the newly published, Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. Goldman elicits a transcending journey saying that,” Going through the multiple reproductions and photos, gave...
18th Street Arts Center and Sam Francis Foundation are pleased to announce Call to Dream: The Sam Francis Fellowship, an ongoing artist residency exchange between Los Angeles and three other cities foundational to the artist Sam Francis’s development: Tokyo, Mexico City, and Paris. As an...
With SFF support, Hyperallergic has commissioned a series of articles by both emerging and established writers and journalists who have discovered new untold stories about artists and art movements in Los Angeles....
At the end of 2019 we donated funds to support the print studio at Art Division, dedicated to training and supporting underserved youth who are committed to studying the visual arts....
MISA SHIN GALLERY is pleased to announce "Drawings", a group exhibition of drawing works by five of the gallery's artists, from Friday, September 25 through Saturday, November 7....
Written by art critic and curator Richard Speer, with a foreword by Debra Burchett-Lere, executive director and president of the Sam Francis Foundation, this is the first full-length monograph to explore an important but sometimes overlooked milieu in Post-World War II art—a dialogue between Eastern...
Sam Francis was passionately dedicated to the protection of the environment. He supported innovative technology, conservation and preservation. The SFF is proud to continue his commitment and support of organizations that are working for this planet’s well being. Made Out of What is highlighting incredible artists and...
California Community Foundation (CCF) together with the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Shepard and Amanda Fairey Foundation, have launched the Relief Fund for L.A. County Visual Artists, a collaborative effort to support the...