Steps Coffee Community Art Show at SFMOMA
UCSFʻs Art for Recovery is featured in the latest in a series of rotating art installations at Steps Coffee located on Floor 2 of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This community gathering place is open to all, with no ticket required, and is accessed by the Howard Street entrance.
Showcasing Art that Celebrates Creativity and Healing Amid Cancer
October 29, 2025 | UCSF.edu
They aren’t professional artists, and to have their work featured by a major metropolitan museum seemed unfathomable.
They’d been diagnosed with a gamut of cancers including brain cancer, breast cancer, multiple myeloma, colon, ovarian cancer. Some were diagnosed many years ago, others as recently as last year.
Each sought refuge, self-expression through UCSF’s Art for Recovery.
And now the art of 30 patients is being showcased at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), one of the largest modern and contemporary museums in the U.S. From paintings to collages to textiles, the art will be on view until spring 2026. It’s believed to be the first time a major museum has featured the artwork of patients at a medical center.
“We work with such incredible people,” said Art for Recovery Director Amy Van Cleve, who was deeply instrumental in bringing about the special installation. Read the full article
ABC7 News covers the recent opening of the UCSF Art for Recovery program's patient art exhibition.
SF MOMA / Art for Recovery Preview
