SFAA Newsletter June 2024 |
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Poster design by Art Hazelwood |
A celebration of filmmaking featuring San Francisco Art Institute STARS past & present including George & Mike Kuchar, Peter Pau, Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag, Allen Willis plus more! 3 days of films, screened at 3 Bay-Area cinemas, Filmmakers (famous and infamous!) all from SFAI.
Named after the fabled Studio 8 at SFAI's 800 Chestnut Campus, this will be the inaugural Studio 8 Film Festival presenting works by SFAI alumni and former faculty!
This year's poster was designed by the legendary SFAI faculty Art Hazelwood. A limited edition of 100 prints will be for sale ($50) at the venues before the screenings. All proceeds will benefit the SFAI Legacy Foundation & Archive! |
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Image credit: Nykelle DeVivo |
Please join us for our next Spotlight talk featuring Nykelle DeVivo (BFA 2019) on Monday, July 1 2024, 10AM PT! Nykelle DeVivo is a southern California visual artist working primarily with lens-based mediums to explore the crossroads between the physical world and that of our ancestors. Employing the languages of Afrofuturism, queer/trans expression, and alter work, Nykelle uses their art as an extension of their spiritual practice.
They studied theory & photography at the San Francisco Art Institute before going on to have their works acquired by permanent museum collections across the country, becoming an inaugural Google Image Equity Fellow, and exhibiting their images in numerous exhibitions. Nykelle is currently pursuing their MFA in visual art from the University of California San Diego where they expect to graduate in 2025. For more info visit here!
You can view all of our previous Spotlight lectures on our website and our Youtube channel! |
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ALUMNI EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS |
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Image: Holly Wong, Lost Language II, 2018. Courtesy the artist. |
| The Museum’s first major open call exhibition invited Jewish-identifying artists in California to submit artworks in response to a central question: How are artists looking to the many aspects of Jewish culture, identity, and community to foster, reimagine, hold, or discover connection? SFAI alumni artists whose work will be exhibited in the California Jewish Open are Richard H. Alpert (MFA 1970), Alexis Arnold (MFA 2010), Robin L. Bernstein (MFA 1989), Leon Borensztein (MFA 1980), Ken Kalman (MFA 1998), Bernie Lubell (Faculty) and Holly Wong (MFA 1995). More info here |
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Image: John Roloff. Courtesy the artist. |
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Dog's Breakfast is thrilled to announce John Roloff: Sentient Terrains/LA as the inaugural project. Sentient Terrains/LA presents two interrelated themes of Roloff's work: a selection of new and recent Meta-Site: Vascular Facies Flags with attendant imagery/objects, and a poetic/geologic investigation into the Transverse Ranges that stretch from the Channel Islands to the Mojave Desert forming the northern reaches of the Los Angeles area. Organized by Laura Boles Faw and Cathy Fairbanks. More info here |
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Image: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. |
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Book Cover Image credit: Tom Marioni |
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Please join Anglim/Trimble Gallery for the release of artist Tom Marioni’s book “Social Art” this Saturday, June 8, at 2pm, in their second-floor gallery at Minnesota Street Project. Tom will be signing books and giving a talk about the book, which covers subjects from art etiquette to UFOs! More info here |
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Book Cover Image credit: Lindsey White, Colpa Press |
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What? Is? Art? is a collection of photographs made on the pandemic-empty campus of the San Francisco Art Institute, where Lindsey White taught for over a decade as an Adjunct, Assistant, and finally Associate Professor and Photography Department Chair. The final class of SFAI art students graduated in the summer of 2022 and the institution promptly closed. SFAI was one of the last exclusively fine arts schools in the United States, and its closure reflects not only the transitional moment such schools face, but also their fight for survival.
More info on book here
KQED article written by Max Blue: Lindsey White’s ‘Fantastico!’ Is an Elegy for SFAI — and an Indictment of Academia |
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Image credit: Root Division
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The Executive Director position at Root Division offers an exciting opportunity for dynamic, strategic, innovative leadership to guide impactful programs for artists and youth. Visit our community board for more opportunities!! More info here. |
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Image credit: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon in the 1960s. via the estate of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon |
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, an audacious graphic designer, landscape architect and artist who first made a splash in the 1960s with the supersize, geometric architectural painting movement known as supergraphics, died on Tuesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 95. (written by Penelope Green) Read NYT article here
Read KQED article here |
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Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis, Maria Theresa Barbist |
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