Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts

08/02/2026

You're invited: Welcome Back Coffee for the 2026–2027 school year!

The Ruth Asawa School of the Arts PTSA warmly invites new and returning families to join us on Monday, August 17 from 8:40–10:00 AM in the Quad & Cafeteria at 555 Portola Dr.

Come have your questions answered by art department ambassadors and administration, connect with fellow parents from your student's art department, browse school merchandise, and join the PTSA.

Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEzsQIRi7VmZ-zhsMgLUm3HimYpMXLaQ6WTV1AsXEl487tcA/viewform

Visit these websites for more information about the PTSA & Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.
RUTH ASAWA School of the Arts Parent Teacher Association: https://ruthasawasotaptsa.org/
Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts | SFUSD: https://www.sfusd.edu/school/ruth-asawa-san-francisco-school-arts

We look forward to welcoming you back!

07/08/2026

Visit “Introductions” now through August 1, presented by the new Ruth Asawa Lanier Inc. gallery. The exhibit showcases the multidisciplinary work of students and faculty of Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, the famed San Francisco public art school.

The show, the first of a yearly series, is at Minnesota Street Project during regular hours.

Ruth Asawa Ruth Asawa School of the Arts SFUSD Arts Department Ruth Asawa SOTA PTSA

06/15/2026

INTRODUCTIONS

Ruth Asawa School of the Arts at Ruth Asawa Lanier Inc.

Opening Event: Saturday, June 27, 4:00-6:00 pm with remarks at 4:30 pm

Location: Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA 94107

Introductions brings together work from students and faculty across the arts department at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, featuring artists, designers, makers, and creative thinkers from Visual Arts, Architecture & Design, and Costume & Fashion Design.

As its title suggests, this exhibition is an invitation to encounter a new generation of creative voices. Presented at the Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. Gallery, Introductions offers a first look at the ideas, questions, and practices emerging from one of San Francisco's most vibrant arts high schools and a California Distinguished School.

The works on view span disciplines, materials, and approaches. Paintings sit alongside architectural concepts, garments alongside theatrical designs, revealing the diverse ways students engage with storytelling, identity, craft, experimentation, and innovation. Together, these works reflect a culture of inquiry where technical skill and creative risk-taking are equally valued.

What unites the exhibition is not a single theme or medium, but a shared commitment to exploration. Each piece represents a moment in an evolving artistic journey—a record of observation, imagination, problem-solving, and personal expression. At the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, all grade levels are challenged to develop their own visual language while contributing to a larger creative dialogue.

Introductions is an introduction to possibility. It marks a point of connection between the classroom, the studio, and the broader cultural landscape. As these emerging artists and designers step into a public exhibition space, they invite viewers to engage with work that is thoughtful, ambitious, and deeply reflective of the world they inhabit. This exhibition celebrates not only what these students have made, but who they are becoming.

Artwork: Kinetic, Sophie Lewis. 2026. Oil on Canvas.
Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. is open Tuesday-Saturday 11am - 4pm

Join us for an exhibition opening that features the work of students and instructors from Ruth Asawa School of the Arts

06/05/2026

Bidding ends Saturday 5PM PST!!! Last chance….

06/03/2026

Congratulations Ruth Asawa School of the Arts class of 2026! We can’t wait to see what your future holds!

Now you can join alumni & friends of Ruth Asawa School of the Arts

View the program online:

https://publuu.com/flip-book/524168/2481241

05/26/2026

THE THEATER DEPARTMENT PROUDLY SHARES
Original short plays by the Junior class. This project will feature a combination of professional actors and SOTA students in a staged readings of student written short plays. This year's showcase will feature works by Alexie Delbeek, Anthony Morales, Camden Carlstedt, Francisco Sandoval, William Chivvis

Wednesday May 27, 2026 @ 6pm ONLY!

Ruth Asawa School of the Arts
STUDIO THEATER
555 Portola Drive
San Francisco, CA. 94131

Adults $15 / Students $10

Link in bio to purchased tickets at RASOTA Box Office.

05/21/2026

Bid on works by Katherine Bernhardt, Alice Neel, R. Crumb, Scott Kahn, and Marcel Dzama in support of Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Link in bio or asawaafterdark.com

The PTSA is deeply grateful to the artists and David Zwirner Gallery for supporting public arts education in San Francisco.

Katherine Bernhardt
Untitled, 2025
Acrylic on paper
29 7/8 × 22 1/4 inches (75.9 × 56.5 cm)

Alice Neel
Light, 1983
Lithograph on paper
38 × 27 inches (96.5 × 68.6 cm)

R. Crumb
The Nightmare (sepia), 1970
Offset lithograph on paper
21 × 24 1/8 inches (53.3 × 61.3 cm)

Marcel Dzama
Under for opening eyelids of the moon, 2021
Fourteen-color lithograph on Rives BFK paper
28 1/2 × 21 3/8 inches (72.4 × 54.3 cm)

Scott Kahn
Point House, Moon, 2020
Archival inkjet print on paper
22 × 23 7/8 inches (55.9 × 60.6 cm)

05/21/2026

https://ruthasawasotaptsa.org/zwirner

The PTSA is immensely grateful to the contemporary and legacy artists of the internationally renowned David Zwirner Gallery who have contributed major works of art to benefit Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, to honor Ruth Asawa’s passionate advocacy for arts education in San Francisco’s public schools.

Ruth Asawa worked for decades to bring public arts education to school children in San Francisco. Inspired by her arts education at Black Mountain College, she served on the San Francisco Arts Commission, established the Alvarado School Art Workshop, and finally in 1982 achieved her dream of establishing a multi-disciplinary public arts high school in San Francisco.

David Zwirner is a leading contemporary art gallery with locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. Representing more than seventy artists and estates, the gallery is known for presenting innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a wide range of media and genres. Active in both the primary and secondary markets, David Zwirner has played a key role in shaping the careers of many of today’s most influential artists and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists.

The Estate of Ruth Asawa has been represented by David Zwirner since 2017.