SFAA Newsletter December 2023 |
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Reflecting on this exceptional year fills us with gratitude for the incredible support we've received. To all our invaluable contributors and supporters, your unwavering commitment has been the cornerstone of our success. As we celebrate the season, we extend our warmest wishes for joy, peace, and prosperity. Here's to a wonderful holiday season and a promising year ahead! With heartfelt thanks, Your SFAA team |
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Image: Mural workshop at the SF Art Institute as a summer course in 1976, courtesy of Consuelo Méndez |
Please join us for our next Spotlight talk featuring Consuelo Mendez (BFA '73) on Monday, February 5, 2024, 10:00 AM PST! Consuelo Méndez (born 1952 in Caracas, based in Graz, Austria ) studied in California, where she obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. She was part of the group in Caracas , based in Graz, Austria ) studied in California, where she obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. She was part of the group Mujeres Muralistas of San Francisco, CA, until 1976. She was an artist associate professor and researcher at Instituto Armando Reverón since 1991 and is now a retired professor from UNEARTES. Her work has received awards at the Michelena Salon (1983, 1981), Municipal Visual Arts Prize of Caracas (1984), and the TAGA Biennial of Graphic Miniatures (2004, 1990, 1982), among others. She has participated in exhibitions in countries such as South Korea, Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, Colombia, USA, Cuba, Mexico, and Poland. Her artistic production is ongoing, spanning painting, drawing and graphic arts, showing a special interest in the production of book-objects and works on paper.
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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ANNUAL REPORT & ALUMNI NEWS |
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Image credit: Vita Hewitt |
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The fiscal year 2022/23 has marked a significant chapter in the history of the San Francisco Art Institute and its alumni. SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) was created to ensure the preservation of our beloved institution's heritage. In this annual report, we will explain the efforts and achievements of SFAA in the pursuit of this objective.
Read the full report here! |
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Karen Finley, at Art Basel Miami Beach, Credit: Marian Carrasquero for The New York Times |
| KAREN FINLEY (MFA 1981)
Conservatives Called Her Artwork ‘Obscene.’ She’s Back for More written By Julia Halperin for The New York Times |
Karen Finley, at Art Basel Miami Beach, where she is reprising her work “Go Figure,” inviting fairgoers to draw nude models. It comes on the 25th anniversary of the famous lawsuit that reshaped public arts funding.
Read full NYT Article here! |
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Woshaa’axre Yaang’aro (Looking Back) (detail), 2023, Mercedes Dorame. Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist. © 2023 Mercedes Dorame |
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Los Angeles-based artist Mercedes Dorame’s work explores how we position ourselves in relation to the land we inhabit. For this new commission, Dorame was drawn to the view from the Getty Center across the Pacific Ocean to Pimugna, or Pimu (Catalina Island), long inhabited by the Tongva people. To conjure a return gaze from Pimugna, her installation includes painted views of the coastline and suspended sculptures of abalone—an endangered mollusk and important cultural resource for coastal California Native peoples.
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Stephen Goldstine, prolific Bay Area arts administrator, dies at 86 written by Tony Bravo for SF Chronicle |
While Goldstine was SFAI president from 1977-86, its longest serving president, he was key in the creation of the New Genres department. Photographer and media artist Doug Hall, who was a faculty member in the program, recalled there was a desire among the students to expand the school into areas like performance art and video “but the sculpture department wasn't really set up for that kind of work.” “But Stephen found the financial resources to get the New Genres department going,” Hall went on, “in spite of resistance from the more conservative elements within the school.” Read full article here! |
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Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis |
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