SFAA Newsletter October 2020
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Cover of Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling
Saint Lucy Books, 2020
SFAI alumnus Mark Alice Durant has a new book coming out this fall: Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling. Here he speaks about his art and writing, as well as his time at SFAI and the powerful influence it had on his own practice.
“It wasn’t criticism, theory, photo history, memoir, or monograph; it was all of those things simultaneously. It occurred to me that maybe I could fill a gap and publish books that combined words and photographs in unexpected or unconventional ways.”
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Image © J. John Priola
“They were radical, they were revolutionaries at their time. They showed ideas that hadn’t been seen before. These depictions were represented at a monumental size. People were able to see themselves represented in these works.” Marcela Guerrero, Assistant Curator
Every student at SFAI has passed the wall where the famous Diego Rivera mural stands. However, not all of them know the history of the mural, and its place in the history of American art. “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City has extended the end date of its exhibition to January 31, 2021. So, if you happen to be on the east coast before February of next year, you will have a chance to see the importance that curator and show organizer, Barbara Haskell, gives to the Mexican Muralists.
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Open Dome with Star Trails, Caravansary, Turkey, 2004, Silver gelatin print, ©Linda Connor
“Marking the 10th anniversary of Datz Museum of Art, the exhibition of Linda Connor's photography will tell us, those weary of our endless consumption of instantaneous images, a story about the original light remembered by humankind. This will be the first story, about primordial landscapes touched by the light of the beginning. As it is impossible for a single exhibition to show the massive quantity of the artist's works and the broadness of her world, there is a second exhibition scheduled at Datz Museum of Art to tell the stories yet untold.” Sangyon Joo, Director at Datz Museum, and curator of the Linda Connor exhibition, "Reflections", in South Korea
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From Jeff Gunderson’s SFAI Archive
In January 2019, poet, singer, writer, songwriter, Patti Smith’s fascination with Diego Rivera led to her performance at the School posting that “The historic SFAI is a jewel, a work-centric atmosphere of communal process and artistic evolution.”
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80% of our Public Education programs are taught by SFAI alumni. Our contemporary art courses mirror the radical and engaging curriculum that we learned while studying at SFAI.
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1871 postcard collection of Annie Reiniger-Holleb
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1906 postcard collection of Annie Reiniger-Holleb
The Committee to Re-Imagine SFAI, a fully autonomous committee empowered by the board of trustees, is fully focused on re-imagining what it takes to prepare emerging artists in the year 2021 and beyond.
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Is your voter registration up to date?
Do you know your polling place?
Do you know your states deadlines?
Deadlines to vote by mail/absentee vote?
Use this handy guide USAgov link attached here
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SFAA welcomes you to a community of Alumni for Alumni. Our mission is to foster and strengthen our connections with all SFAI Alumni globally. With admiration for our alma mater we maintain our legacy alive through all forms of artistic expressions—reaching out with you in mind.
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Editor: Annie Reiniger-Holleb
Coeditors: Joyce Burstein & Marian Wallace
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