SFAA Newsletter December 2020
We are an independent non-profit organization run by San Francisco Art Institute alumni. We build upon SFAI's 150-year alumni legacy with a commitment to SFAI's core values of critical thinking, exploration, and expression.
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Vintage postcard © Zan
"Fairy Rings" and "Cathedral Groups" form a rejuvenating ring around declining old trees.
Alumni play a role in our cultural Ecosystem. The Art World is like a forest – artists, teachers, critics, galleries, museums, collectors and donors-all support each other. And SFAI is the 150 year old Redwood tree of this cultural ecosystem. Alumni can help save and sustain this GIANT.
Please give what you can to Alumni for Future Alumni. no amount is too small or too LARGE! Gifts to this fund are tax deductible.
As you reflect on your time at SFAI remember the struggle of being an art student. Students are the future of the art world. We hope to bring our community together through generosity.
Students are the seeds that renew our legacy.
100% participation from Alumni at any level will show the world SFAI has our support.
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The Anne Bremer Memorial Library circa 1939, photograph by Ansel Adams.
SFAI needs your help to support programs, activities, faculty, staff, and operating costs in our 150th year. We are especially excited that SFAI Board of Trustees is pledging a $150,000 one-to-one match of all alumni giving to this campaign between now and December 31, 2020. Read more about our 150th Anniversary campaign and programming here.
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Exhibition presented in partnership with SFAI and SFAA
Image from a past event with videos projected on the SFAI tower, “Let Your Voice Be Heard".
Image courtesy of SFAI
We are seeking submissions of video works by SFAI alumni for SF Artists Alumni’s inaugural exhibition project in partnership with San Francisco Art Institute. Three Turns will take place over three nights, January 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, featuring the work of one film from the San Francisco Art Institute’s Archive and a series of selected alumni responses.
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Trayvon - charcoal on paper, with mirrored tint on frame, 2014-2017 © Shaun Leonardo
Artist Shaun Leonardo addresses how the mediated images of systemic oppression and violence against Black and Brown young men and boys in the United States have shaped our fear, empathy, and perception. “I wish to literally create space in these images, so that we can sit with them differently, even in the hurt. Removing or isolating details in order to point to the absence of lives lost and to critical information that would otherwise go overlooked. Ultimately, I want to turn people’s looking into bearing witness.”
Arts Funders Forum 2020 Annual Summit
Join Shaun Leonardo Tuesday, December 8, 3pm EST
Shaun will discuss his work and what the future holds.
IN SESSION by MASS MoCA and the BCRC
Join Shaun Leonardo Thursday, December 10, 6pm EST
IN SESSION streamed by MASS MoCA and the BCRC
a panel discussion on anti-racist work in museums
Photo: Courtesy of Recess
Leaders and Thinkers in all areas should consider how returning to "normalcy" as we once held, is a return to inequity. - Shaun Leonardo
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White Shadow, 1972, Jay DeFeo
I’ve always got to get down there and show what is underneath everything. - Jay DeFeo
Visit: Gagosian, 657 Howard Street, San Francisco
September 10 - December 11, 2020
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Two Bathers, 1958. © from SFMOMA
At the age of thirty-eight, David Park (1911–1960) abandoned a carload of his abstract expressionist canvases at the city dump and started painting “pictures” — a radical decision that led to the development of Bay Area Figurative Art. SFAI ( then California School of Fine Art) Faculty from 1943….
*Please check SFMOMA's website for the reopen time.
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Windstorm Variation 4, 2020. Elliot Ross
Click here for VIRTUAL VERSION OF EXHIBITION
Ross creates images laden with emotion. - Aperture
Visit: 49 Geary St, Suite 405, San Francisco
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Paint-splatter on the printmaking loft floor, David Park’s studio from the 1940s through 1952.
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SFAI’s Anne Bremer Memorial Library dedicatory wood relief, gold leaf tablet,
The Soil by Jacques Schnier, 1935
Bender was the philanthropic underpinning for Bay Area art and artists from the 1920s until his death in 1941. Particularly SFAI! --funding scholarships, commissioning artwork for the School, providing annual donations, and underwriting SFAI’s Anne Bremer Memorial Library.
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Editors: Annie Reiniger-Holleb & Joyce Burstein
Coeditors: Xiaopeng Liu & Marian Wallace
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