UX/UI & information architecture · 2022
SFAI
- Connection
- UX/UI, navigation and content architecture for the institute’s website.
Organization
San Francisco Art Institute
Art school · Institutional legacy & archive
Connection with Alex
Alex studied in SFAI’s graduate studio-art programme in 2021–2022. He was selected for the MFA Fellowship in 2021, assisted Linda Connor’s Editing and Sequencing course in Fall 2021, taught a film-editing workshop in 2022, and received two awards that May. He also worked on the institute’s website with its marketing team.
Work & recognition
Projects, programmes and milestones. Each entry explains its relationship and attribution.
11 entries
In commonConnected work
In commonConnected work
Digital inkjet print · 2021
what do you remember from the future?
- Connection
- Exhibited in It’s About Time at the Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, in 2021.
In commonConnected work
In commonConnected work
Video art · 2022
Interwoven
- Connection
- Developed at SFAI, before its later grouping within the Perceiving Nationhood thesis context.
In commonStudy & fellowship
2021 · Study & fellowship · San Francisco Art Institute
MFA Fellowship selection
Alex was one of nine incoming MFA Fellowship recipients for Fall 2021. He undertook graduate study in studio arts at SFAI in 2021–2022.
- Alex Dahdah
- Graduate study · Studio arts
- 2021–2022
In commonTeaching
Fall 2021 · Teaching · San Francisco Art Institute
Editing and Sequencing
Graduate Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate photography class with Professor Linda Connor.
In commonAward
2022 · Award · San Francisco Art Institute
PhotoAlliance Award
Presented to Alex on May 13, 2022.
In commonAward
2022 · Award · San Francisco Art Institute
Virgil Williams Prize for Outstanding Leadership
Presented to Alex on May 13, 2022.
In commonDesign
2022 · Design · SFAI
Website design collaboration
UX/UI, navigation and content architecture developed with SFAI’s marketing team.
In commonWorkshop instruction
2022 · Workshop instruction · Alex Dahdah’s teaching record
4K Film Editing Workflow
A practical editing-workflow workshop taught by Alex, listed in his teaching record.
In commonMuseum exhibition
26 July 2025–5 July 2026 · Museum exhibition · San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
People Make This Place: SFAI Stories
SFMOMA’s exhibition brought together work by more than 50 SFAI alumni and former faculty, alongside archival material tracing the school’s influence on Bay Area art.
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About & links
6 cards · All
Bio
Biography
Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute was an art school known for experimentation and the exchange between practicing artists, students and teachers. It closed as a college in 2022. Its history and archives are now cared for by the separate SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive, established that year.
Bio
Purpose & approach
The legacy archive preserves the school’s experimental culture through artist records, exhibitions, oral histories and the history of its community.
Context
Institutional history · 2022
An independent archive carries the history forward
After the college closed in 2022, the separate SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive was established to preserve its records, student work and teaching history.
Links
Explore
SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive
Explore the school’s history and contact its legacy archive.
Links
Past exhibition
SFAI Stories at SFMOMA
The museum exhibition ran July 26, 2025–July 5, 2026.
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Sources & credits
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