Member Evening Hours

RSVP today for our next Member Evening Hours on June 21! Celebrate the longest day of the year with an after-hours visit to the museum, featuring special access to all of our galleries and immersive installations for Art of Noise, as well as light refreshments and free parking.

As part of our Pride Month activities, the event will also include a presentation on the significant role played by LGBTQ+ artists in the Bay Area art scene, featuring archivists, authors, and librarians Jeff Gunderson, Jim Van Buskirk, and David Senior. In addition, we will have an “open house” in the Koret Education Center with rare materials from the collections of the SFMOMA Library, the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive, and the SFPL Hormel LGBTQIA Center Archives, celebrating the legacies of queer artists, their communities, and their work. View a full listing of programs and exhibitions.

Don’t miss this special opportunity to get an up-close visit with your favorite works at the museum!

Program Schedule

6:30–7:30 p.m. | Presentation | Artistic, Colorful, and Unconventional: A Visual Tour of San Francisco’s Queer Art Scene
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater

7:30–8:30 p.m. | Open House | Collecting Queer Histories: SFMOMA Library, SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive, and SFPL Hormel LGBTQIA Center Archives
Floor 2, Koret Education Center

About the Speakers

David Senior is the director of library at SFMOMA. Previously, he was the senior bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York. Senior has written and lectured widely on the history of artists’ publications and modes of archiving avant-garde art and design activities of the 20th century.

Jim Van Buskirk’s first library job was as a CETA jobs program worker in the San Francisco Art Institute’s Anne Bremer Memorial Library. He was the founding program manager of the San Francisco Public Library’s James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center and co-authored Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now semi-retired, he works as a book group facilitator, writer, editor, public speaker, exhibition curator, and collections manager. Visit jimvanbuskirk.com.

Jeff Gunderson is an archivist with the San Francisco Art Institute Legacy Foundation + Archive. He has written on the history of California art and photography. His most recent publication is “Adaline Kent: Communities & Comraderies, 1920s–1950s,” an essay for the retrospective exhibition catalogue, Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity (Rizzoli, 2023). He is currently working on a collection of essays about open water swimming.