Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQFU) is a self -
described free art school and «learning experiment where artists work together to manifest creative, productive, resistant, useless, and demanding interactions between art and the world.
The former Academy of
Arts and Sciences CEO Sean McManus,
described Wise as «a boutique program that people usually have to pay for, so to be part of a
free charter
school appeals to a lot of people in the area.»
As
described by the OMCA website, the communities highlighted are: The circle of artists who worked with and were influenced by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in San Francisco in the 1930s; the legendary painters and photographers associated with the California
School of Fine
Arts (now San Francisco
Art Institute) in the 1940s and 1950s, including Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, and Imogen Cunningham; the
free - spirited faculty and students at UC Davis in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, and Bruce Nauman; and the streetwise, uncompromisingly idealistic artists at the center of a vibrant new Mission scene that took root in the 1990s through the present, including Barry McGee and Chris Johanson.