SFAC Galleries

Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Civic Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries makes contemporary art accessible to broad audiences through curated exhibitions that both reflect our regional diversity and position Bay Area visual art production within an international contemporary art landscape. By commissioning new works, collaborating with arts and community organizations and supporting artist’s projects, the SFAC Galleries programs provide new and challenging opportunities for contemporary art to engage with a civic dialogue. The SFAC Galleries was founded in 1970 and is the exhibitions program of the San Francisco Arts Commission, the arts agency of the City and County of San Francisco. The Arts Commission Galleries works with an active board of advisors.

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SFPUC Millbrae Operations Center Improvements: Technical Workshop from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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Grant Review Panel 3 AIE Artists Funding Area 3 - Project Support Day 2 from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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FY 26 Grant Review Panel 3 AIE Artists Funding Area 3 - Project Support Day 1 from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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San Francisco Arts Commission 2025 End of Year Recap from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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Final edit-India Basin from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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Kija Lucas and Banu Subramaniam from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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20251010 - AIE Follow Up Q&A Webinar - ASL Video Only from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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20251010 - AIE Follow Up Q&A Webinar - recording from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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SFAC FY26 Required Documents Webinar ASL Interpretation from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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202509~1 from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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20250929 - Zoom ASL Recording from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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202509~4 from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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Artist Talk with Conni McKenzie from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

Saturday, August 9, 2025 Eco Center at Heron's Head Park

In 2024, Conni McKenzie was one of two artists selected to participate in the San Francisco Arts Commission's yearlong Artist-in-Residence program at Recreation and Park Department's India Basin Waterfront Park project site in the Bayview-Hunter's Point neighborhood. Her culminating exhibition, Roots, Tides, Leaves explored Black presence, joy, and curiosity in nature. Drawing from the artist’s own outdoor practice, the exhibition highlighted the radical act of exploration in a Black body—especially for Black women, whose access to such spaces has historically been shaped by the intersecting forces of racism and sexism. Through photographs of landscapes, self-portraits, and community members engaging with nature, the exhibition looked at how the outdoors become a space for healing, introspection, and reconnection.

Conni McKenzie is a San Francisco–based multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance theater, video production, and photography. Her work explores themes of nature, memory, and community through immersive, site-specific experiences. In 2021, she debuted her first concept film, Set Me Free, which was featured in the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and screened at international festivals across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In 2023, she directed Flow, an immersive performance and exhibition examining the convergence of nature, movement, and digital art. Most recently, she completed Borrowed (2024-2025), a two-phase, site-responsive project presented in Joshua Tree and the Bay Area, which investigated the links between environmental crisis and cultural displacement. Conni has been a resident artist with New Performance Traditions (2023), PUSH Dance Company (2024), BoxoPROJECTS (2024), and the International Association of Blacks in Dance (2025). She is also part of the inaugural Artist-in-Residence cohort at 900 Innes in partnership with SFAC Galleries and San Francisco Recreation & Parks. connimckenzie.weebly.com 

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Fiscal Sponsor Webinar Recording from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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Fiscal Sponsor Webinar Recording Complete Password is y5&vA+vX from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

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GMT20250912-181539_Recording_1920x1200 Passcode is y5&vA+vX from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.