Public Education Fall 2016
Unparalleled Artistic Community / Legendary Studio Environment / Artist-Driven Adventures
NEW OPPORTUNITIES MATERIAL MEMORY: CREATING A RECORD THROUGH AN ARCHIVE Carrie Hott This course will lead students through the process of forming an archive of collected and created records about themselves, an artist, a place, or a fictionalized entity.
Become part of SFAI’s diverse community of artists and scholars through noncredit evening and weekend classes. No matter your experience level, there's a unique class to expand your skills and interests.
12 Sessions, Wednesdays, September 14–November 30 7:30–10:30pm | FREE This course accompanies SFAI’s Fall 2016 exhibition, Jill Magid: The Proposal. The Proposal presents a climactic moment within Magid's multimedia artwork, The Barragán Archives, which poses piercing, radical, and pragmatic questions about the legacy of Mexican architect and Pritzker Prize-winner Luis Barragán (1902–1988).
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Cathy Lu, After life, 2014 Ceramic on wood, 45 x 42 x 50 inches
Jill Magid, Still from work-in-progress film, 2016 Commissioned by Field of Vision as part of a larger project in collaboration with the artist; Image courtesy of the artist and LABOR
PHOTOGRAPHY
DRAWING
FILMMAKING
ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE SEMINAR
INTRODUCTION TO LIFE DRAWING
NEW VIDEO COLLECTIVE
Michelle Ramin Through focused observation, gain a heightened understanding of the relationships between the body’s parts and features to further inform, investigate, and grow individual studio practices.
James Tantum In this hands-on class form an art video collective while learning shooting, audio production, and editing; concluding with screening and follow-up video releases.
9 Sessions, Wednesdays, September 14–November 16 7:30–10:30pm | $400
2 Day Intensive: Saturday, October 15 | 10am–5pm Sunday, October 16 | 10am–8pm | $250
Marcela Pardo Ariza Develop individual photographic projects based on personal interests and conceptual concerns. Define your own aesthetic in an atmosphere of cooperative learning, divided between discussion and critique. 12 Sessions, Tuesdays, September 13–November 29 7:30–10:30pm | $530
VOICE & VISION THE ORDINARY, THE MUNDANE, AND THE BANAL IN PHOTOGRAPHY Victoria Heilweil What can we discover, or rediscover, in the everyday that is inspiring, poetic, and majestic? This class will examine contemporary strategies for elevating the ordinary and mundane using the photographic image. 4 Sessions, Wednesdays, October 12–November 2 7:30–10:30pm | $180
NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY Brian Dean Work with photography to reveal the mysterious world of the night. Explore techniques such as long exposures, external light sources, astral photography, light drawings, flash photography, and night portraiture. 6 Sessions, Thursdays, October 13–November 17 7:30–10:30pm | $275
Pamela Lanza Explore the relationship of the word to visual art—learn to incorporate text into your work—and discover the importance of visual poetics in the creative process.
PRINTMAKING DRAWING AND PAINTING TO PRINT
12 Sessions, Wednesdays, September 14–November 30 7:30–10:30pm | $530
Irene Carvajal Explore traditional printmaking techniques as well as contemporary, experimental processes, including dry point, water based mono print, oil based mono print, digital print, and collagraph.
INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING
12 Sessions, Saturdays, September 17–December 3 10am–1pm | $530
Tana Quincy Focus on realism through short experimental exercises that build a technical understanding of a variety of materials and techniques for making drawings from observation. 12 Sessions, Wednesdays, September 14–November 30 7:30–10:30pm | $530
PAINTING PORTRAITURE WITH OILS Robert Burden Gain technical skills in oil painting within the context of portraiture—complete a self-portrait, a hybridization project, and a live model painting. 12 Sessions, Tuesdays, September 13–November 29 7:30–10:30pm | $530
INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED PAINTING Glenn Hirsch Activate the content of your work through the lens of irony, humor, narrative, and mood. Individual instruction, technical assignments, and the use of unusual materials will guide you through various styles to become more independent by painting in a series. 12 Sessions, Wednesdays, September 14–November 30 7:30–10:30pm | $530
WET ON WET: SHORT FORM FIGURATIVE PAINTING Johnny Bicos Working from live models, start and finish a single painting each class to further develop technical prowess in time-sensitive, intuitive, improvisational, and playful ways. In this class, emphasis will be placed on complicating and expanding paint handling technique. 12 Sessions, Thursdays, September 15–December 8 7:30–10:30pm | $530
PAINTING AND THE DOMESTIC NARRATIVE Felicita Norris Explore ideas surrounding the domestic, “home,” and family using psychology and emotion as impetuses to create and resolve a final mini-series of paintings around those themes. 12 Sessions, Saturdays, September 17–December 3 10am–1pm | $530
ITERATIVE PROCESSES IN ABSTRACT DRAWING AND PAINTING Mel Prest Utilize repetitive, conceptual, and binary thinking through a series of assignments and experiments to develop abstract drawings and paintings. 6 Sessions, Saturdays, October 1–November 12 10am–3pm | $440
ART + TECHNOLOGY
SCULPTURE
NEW GENRES
GRAPHIC DESIGN: WHERE TO START TO NEVER STOP
MAKING MULTIPLES: MOLD-MAKING AND SLIP-CASTING IN CERAMICS
BOOKS AS STRUCTURE FOR SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE & SITE
Cathy Lu Make multiples out of ceramics and design your own prototypes for mass production as you learn basic mold-making techniques.
Joanne Easton Explore various bookbinding techniques, tools, and materials to create works that utilize the construction, archetype, and identity of books to make sculptures, installations, and site-specific works.
Ana Montenegro Learn to use digital image software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash to create practical and personal projects that broaden your perception of visual culture. 12 Sessions, Saturdays, September 17–December 3 11am–2pm | $530
6 Sessions, Tuesdays, September 27–November 1 7:30–10:30pm | $275
12 Sessions, Thursdays, September 15–December 8 7:30–10:30pm | $530
SITE Amy M. Ho Responding to architecture, space, readings, and the works of a variety of contemporary artists, you will create site-specific installations in relationship to your surrounding environment. 8 Sessions, Tuesdays, September 27–November 15 7:30–10:30pm | $350
Image credits (Top to bottom) Michelle Ramin, An Uphill Climb, detail, 2014, Watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches; Felicita Norris, Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, 2014, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 84 x 56 x 1.5 inches; Mel Prest, Fresh Cut Eyes, detail, 2015, Acrylic, metallic acrylic on panel, 48 x48 x 2 inches, Courtesy of Art Bot Photography; Joanne Easton, Pseudonyms,2015, Handmade book, newsprint, ink and fans, 16 x 30 x 12 inches.
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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA
PERMIT NO. 6344
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Cover: Marcela Pardo Ariza American Paranoia, detail, 2015 Inkjet Print, 21 x 28 inches
REGISTER NOW FOR FALL 2016 Ages 17+ | All Levels View full course descriptions and instructor bios, and register: sfai.edu/publiceducation