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The Whole City School of Art & Living
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Education existed before institutions, and it will outlive them.

In the wake of recent academic closures, the Missing Link Open School, A whole city school of art and living, opens in the fall.

We inherit a distinctly Californian tradition of experimental education: Bauhaus ideas carried west and reshaped through the craft schools, studios, communes, and self-organized communities of Northern California. At Pond Farm and beyond, art, craft, inquiry, and everyday life could exist without strict institutional boundaries. We carry that lineage forward: an open school whose knowledge lives in people, practices, and relationships rather than a fixed institution.

Missing Link Open School treats downtown San Francisco as an autonomous, decentralized school. Mobilizing displaced faculty, alumni, and artists across site-specific cultural spaces, for unmediated study in art, design, and technology. Our mission is to deepen cultural literacy, bridge siloed communities, and safeguard transformative learning as an egalitarian public commons. by @missinglinkclub

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Triad of Aerodynamic Simulation |

Where does aerospace engineering meet fine art?

Our upcoming talk with acclaimed artist and designer Peter Gutkin and art historian Ted Barrow at Modernism Gallery delves into Apollo-era NASA Ames design, providing an exclusive look into its functional design and structural aesthetics.

During the 1960s preparations for the lunar missions, engineers at NASA Ames Research Center pioneered the field of aerothermodynamics and the blunt-body concept. Because early spacecraft had to survive extreme friction during atmospheric reentry, their structural aesthetics were strictly dictated by functional physics. Ames utilized extensive wind tunnel and ballistic range testing to prove that blunt, geometric shapes were the most effective way to deflect heat and maintain aerodynamic stability.

Gutkin, whose work is held in the NASA Ames Research Center collection, utilizes these minimal, highly specific spaceflight geometries in his practice.

Join us this fall as we examine how the strict engineering requirements of early space exploration inform sculptural geometry. by @missinglinkclub

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@brianrashidglobal Love Letters to San Francisco tells the stories of the people who keep The City’s spirit alive.

Thank you for coming to our recent event at the @cwclub

From the @sfexaminer

“In the modern media marketplace, outrage is cheap to create and profitable to distribute. The playbook is simple: Put out fear, bad news or the latest threat, and shout it from the rooftop.

San Francisco has been a punching bag for a lot of this style of “news,” but there are many creators, artists, and storytellers who are taking a different approach to rewrite the narrative.

I was reminded of that recently at an event at Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California.

Adam Swig, founder of Value Culture, brought together a panel called San Francisco: Lost, Found or Reimagined in July at the public-affairs forum. The room itself felt like a living cross-section of the city — sixth-generation San Franciscans, whose family trees predate the cable cars, alongside younger creators using TikTok and other modern tools to document neighborhood culture.

What united them was not age or medium, but a commitment to telling stories about San Francisco that are rooted in possibility rather than exploitation.

@nelliekingsolomon , an artist whose family roots in San Francisco stretch back six generations to the Gold Rush, offered a metaphor that reframed how I think about The City.
She called San Francisco a “rhizome” — a root system that grows horizontally beneath the soil. Even when the surface appears dry, dormant, or stripped bare, the roots are still quietly spreading, connecting, and gathering strength underground until new life suddenly breaks through.

That image stayed with me, because the younger storytellers in the room who began making videos about local “dumpling grandmas” and neighborhood shops while picking up trash on Baker Beach are not ignoring reality. They are simply refusing to flatten The City into its worst headlines. They’re using modern tools to highlight older institutions, smaller stories and overlooked people, proving that storytelling can be an act of stewardship.”

Continue reading the article at valueculture.org/news taken in Commonwealth Club World Affairs by @missinglinkclub

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Thank you @cwclub for hosting our thought provoking panel “Is San Francisco Culture Lost, Found, or Reimagined?” on July 16th, 2026.

Featuring panelists @violetwitchel , @alberto_cuadros , @nelliekingsolomon, @andrewtourssf , & moderated by @iamswig .

Yes, San Francisco culture can feel lost, but can be found when you reimagine your everyday life and more discussions and get to togethers like this need to be had.

Thank you to our @ivalueculture partners @society_of_art_livingarchives & @missinglinkclub. Thank you @svanefoundation for your support.

Thank you @chachachasf , @hagafen_cellars & @yerdrink for catering the reception. Special thanks to @robertcmelton

#commonwealthclubworldaffaris
#sanfranciscoculture
#valueculture
#speakerseries
#commonwealthclub

📷: Rick Swig Photography taken in Commonwealth Club World Affairs by @missinglinkclub

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Has San Francisco lost its culture or is it being reinvented in real time?

From the Beat Generation and Summer of Love to tech, social media, and AI, every generation has claimed a different version of San Francisco, and worried that the city they love is disappearing.

Join artists, influencers, curators, and community leaders for a lively conversation on what San Francisco culture means today, what we’ve lost, what we’ve preserved, and who gets to shape the city’s future.

🗓 Thursday, July 16, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM (Doors 5:30 PM followed by the Panel at 6pm & a Reception at 7pm)
📍 The Commonwealth Club
110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco
@cwclub

Featuring:

• Violet Witchel (@violetwitchel )
• Alberto Cuadros (@society_of_art_livingarchives )
• Andrew De Los Santos (@andrewtourssf )
• Nellie King Solomon (@nelliekingsolomon )

Moderated by Adam Swig of Value Culture (@ivalueculture ) & Yerdrink (@yerdrink ).

Stay after for a reception with bites from @chachachasf and beverages from @yerdrink and wine from local vintners.

Special thanks to promotional partners @ivalueculture , @society_of_art_livingarchives & @missinglinkclub

Is San Francisco culture lost, found, or reimagined?
Join the conversation.

🎟 Tickets at commonwealthclub.org @cwclub

#SanFrancisco #SFCulture #commonwealthclub #commonwealthclubworldaffairs
#speakerseries taken in Commonwealth Club World Affairs by @missinglinkclub

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Culture Forward NOW 🏁

Here’s a little guide to what’s happening this week in Downtown San Francisco.

🗓️ Our public calendar is packed. Subscribe and sync it to your own calendar app to get those live updates!

Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Tenderloin Museum | June 4 & 5 @tenderloinmuseum

Missing Link Club: CULTURE SLOP: SEASON 01 RELEASE PARTY | Friday June 5 @ 25 Maiden Lane @missinglinkclub @cultureslop

City Arts & Lectures: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Jelani Cobb | June 9 @Cityartssf

City Arts & Lectures: Laverne Cox in Conversation with Cheryl Dunye | June 11 @cityartssf

Arts.Co.Lab: World Cup Arts Market Series | June 11-13 @ Ferry Terminal Plaza @arts.co.lab

🔗 Full calendar in bio

#CultureForward #SanFranciscoArts #DowntownSF #SFEvents #BayAreaArts taken in San Francisco, California by @missinglinkclub

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Missing Link Club: San Francisco’s Missing Conversation | Supported by a generous Culture Forward grant from the Svane Family Foundation.

Developed in collaboration with the team behind SFAQ and Ever Gold [Projects], the magazine’s editorial content extends into live programming.

Missing Link Club (MLC) introduces free experimental programming in Downtown San Francisco from June through September. The series includes workshops, talks, screenings, exhibitions, and parties, alongside the launch of Culture Slop, a new print publication integrated directly into the program.

MLC is grounded in a simple observation: cultural literacy develops through shared lived experience. Missing Link Club establishes a shared third space for collective understanding across disciplines. It brings artists, technologists, and cultural practitioners into alignment through direct engagement, fostering dialogue and trust. by @missinglinkclub

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