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- **Posted:** 2025-11-13T16:36:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Golden Gate Xpress (@GGXnews) — https://gondola.cc/GGXnews

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Electronic music filled the Paint Bay of the Creative Arts Building on Wednesday night as people got their hands dirty painting cardboard canvases. 

Burnt out from her corporate tech job, the club’s founder, Jules Costa, yearned for a creative space free of rigidity and judgment — enter Bad Art Club.  She came up with the idea for Bad Art Club while she and a friend were drawing “shitty portraits of each other” in The Panhandle. 

“I hosted the first event and 50 people came,” Costa said. “They were all ages, all backgrounds, creatives who were really tired of being so rigid in their medium, people who think they are truly bad at art. People brought their parents and their kids. After that event, it became pretty clear to me that I’m on the pulse here.” 

Costa founded the pattern-breaking club in September 2024, meeting at various studios and galleries in San Francisco to create bad art through a variety of mediums. On Wednesday, San Francisco State University’s Liberal and Creative Arts Live and Bad Art Club hosted an Art Haus event, complete with a DJ and unorthodox tools such as bubble wrap, balloons and stress balls to create abstract paintings. 

An estimated 15 people attended the Art Haus event to paint freely with materials brought by Costa, most of which were recycled, donated or reused. Before officially starting the session, Costa pointed out the intentional lack of conventional paintbrushes to encourage creativity and nonconformist artistic expression.

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✍️: Maya Latz (myuhhdigitalfootprint)
📸: Julian Olson (julian_olson_)

#sfsu #sfstate #badartclub

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