Amy Berk

Education

Amy Berk is an artist and art educator who taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2006-2022, serving as Chair for the Contemporary Practice program from 2011 to 2013. She continues to direct the award-winning City Studio program which engages underserved youth in their own neighborhoods through sequenced art classes that are both rigorous and joyous. She has shown her work nationally and internationally. Berk received an MFA from SFAI and a BA in Studio Art and English from Wesleyan University.  She heads up Education at 500 Capp Street.