SFAI Public Education // Fall 2018

FALL 2018

PUBLIC EDUCATION Make Art Here All Levels | Ages 17+

UNPARALLELED ARTISTIC COMMUNITY / LEGENDARY STUDIO ENVIRONMENT / ARTIST-DRIVEN EXPERIENCES SFAI’s Public Education program offers areas of study that span the breadth of contemporary art— including traditional techniques in drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and sculpture, as well as radical experiences, off-kilter journeys, collaborative public projects, and educational experiments.

Join SFAI’s diverse community of artists and scholars. Our noncredit evening and weekend class offerings present flexibility for you to pursue your aspirations.

No matter your experience level, there’s a unique class to suit your skills and interests.

PRINTMAKING

NEW GENRES Outdoor Installation: Site Responsive Practice Annie Albagli 7 sessions Create site responsive work in this course focused on process and one’s relation to site from new vantage points.

Printmaking with Botanicals: Wednesdays, Oct 17–Dec 5 Layered Compositions 6:30–9:30pm | $345 Rebecca Rippon 6 sessions Chance Drawing + Sculpture: Use plants directly in the process The Cracks and the Dice of building an image in multiple Joanne Easton printmaking disciplines including screenprinting, etching, and monotypes in this course emphasizing experimentation.

6 sessions

Saturdays, Sep 22–Nov 3 10am–1pm | $295

Tuesdays, Sep 11–Oct 9 7:30–10:30pm | $295

Artists’ Books: Voices and Visions Ariel Hansen Strong

Exploring Installation Art Amy M. Ho

6 sessions Explore the artist’s book as a vehicle for voice and creative vision while learning a variety of printmaking and bookbinding techniques.

Discuss, explore, and create your own installation art as you learn of how artists address their surrounding environment through design and creation.

Saturdays, Sep 8–Oct 20 10am–1pm | $315

Thursday, Sep 13–Nov 15 6:30–9:30pm | $480

Through drawing and sculpture, explore methods of chance, randomness, and indeterminacy as a means of discovery.

10 sessions

INTERDISCIPLINARY Color + Context: Natural Dyes from the Local Landscape Rebecca Foster 8 sessions This class will explore the natural landscape as material as you create natural dyes, inks, and watercolors from locally-sourced plants and vegetables to use in your practice.

Thursdays, Sep 20–Nov 8 6:30–9:30pm | $385

Critical Symbology: Interdisciplinary Critique Seminar Eric Carson 6 sessions Investigate the ways symbols and imagery are used personally, commercially, and politically to convey meaning as you create buddhist style mandalas, mock scientific diagrams, logo mutilations, and other beautiful paradoxes to put image saturated culture to work for us.

Tuesdays, Sep 18–Oct 23 6:30–9:30pm | $295

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Ingrid Wells Yumtastic!

2014 Oil on canvas 35 x 50 inches

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PAINTING* Introduction to Oil Painting Robert Xavier Burden

Portrait Painting Ingrid V. Wells

12 sessions

12 sessions

Oil painting fundamentals, such as drawing, brushwork, color theory, and the technical manipulation of paint will further your skills along with demonstrations and exercises designed to encourage new ideas in a positive atmosphere as you complete three paintings during the course.

Develop a series of three portraits using your own source material in this class tailored to the specific needs of participating students through an individual tutorial approach.

Thursdays, Sep 13–Dec 6 7:30–10:30pm | $530

Abstraction Concentration Alice Gould 8 sessions Spend a semester exploring abstract painting using oil paint on canvas or panels as we experiment with brush choices and palette knives, color investigations, painting mediums, and more.

Wednesdays, Sep 19–Nov 7 7:30–10:30pm | $480

Wednesdays, Sep 12–Dec 5 7:30–10:30pm | $530

Advanced Painting Critique Felicita Norris 8 sessions This advanced painting course is designed to help you develop an individual aesthetic based on conceptual prompts that will be used to enhance critical and conceptual thinking and to help you be able to defend your ideas in a critique setting.

Saturdays, Sep 8–Nov 3 10am–1pm | $385

*ALL PAINTING COURSES HELD IN SFAI’S NEW FORT MASON CAMPUS.

SCULPTURE Welding 101 Tim Kopra

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12 sessions

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Develop your basic metal skills to create a personal project with mild steel while gaining in-depth safety training and confidence in the metal shop.

Julie Doherty Summer’s Harvest 2017 Digital photograph Dimensions variable

Wednesdays, Sep 12–Nov 28 7:30–10:30pm | $530

Everyday Ceramics Alyssa Block

PHOTOGRAPHY

6 sessions

Photoshop Basics Elisabeth Ajtay

Expand your skills in designing, engineering and hand-building ceramic sculptures as we use cardboard maquettes, paper patterns, slumping, handbuilding, and glazing to realize a body of work that references familiar objects.

6 sessions Learn how to manage image files, as well as how to remove, correct, and manipulate images in this class focused on gaining a deeper understanding of Photoshop.

Tuesdays, Sep 11–Oct 16 6:30–9:30pm | $295

Creative Lighting Techniques Alex Peterson 6 sessions Learn how to properly set up and operate a variety of strobes, lighting modifiers, continuous lighting, mixed lighting sources, and natural light for use in portraits, still life, and product photography.

Saturdays, Sep 15–Oct 20 10am–1pm | $295

Wednesdays, Oct 3–Nov 7 6:30–9:30pm | $295

Personal Projects Victoria Heilweil

Advanced Photography Tutorial Chris Grunder

Suspended Sculpture Vanesa Gingold

Receive individualized feedback to move your personal photographic project forward and into the world in this course focused on developing strategies for maximum progress.

12 sessions Receive focused feedback on your personal photography projects in this course with an intensive tutorial structure aimed at substantive individual progress.

Inspired by Calder’s mobiles and contemporary design and installation, you will work with mixed media to create hanging sculptures and installations through playful experimentation.

Wednesdays, Sep 12–Oct 10 6:30–9:30pm | $245

Thursdays, Sep 13–Dec 6 7:30–10:30pm | $530

Wednesdays, Oct 3–31 7:30–10:30pm | $195

5 sessions

4 sessions

DRAWING Introduction to Figure Drawing Ignacio Rojas 6 sessions Gain a heightened understanding of the relationships between the body’s various parts and features through focused observation in order to further inform, investigate, and grow individual studio practices.

(Left to right)

Saturdays, Sep 29–Nov 3 10am–1pm | $295

Jacob Kincheloe Untitled 2016 Graphite on paper

Contemplative Drawing Sarah Ammons

Eric Carson 8bit Mandala 2017 Digital file Dimensions variable

12 sessions Sync your hands with your eyes and practice contemplative drawing in this course focused on working from life, pattern, figure, and concept.

Wednesdays, Sep 12–Nov 28 6:30–9:30pm | $530

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FILM

Drawing Through Photographs Jacob Kincheloe

Creative Mixed-Media Still Life Carey Lin

8 sessions

6 sessions

Use photographic sources to create drawings as you explore both the technical and conceptual side of working from photos, including the strategies of various artists who follow the same practice.

Using colored pencil, collage, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic, learn still life basics and create mixed-media pieces based on colorful, dynamic compositions.

Wednesdays, Sep 12–Oct 31 6:30–9:30pm | $385

Tuesdays, Oct 16–Nov 20 6:30–9:30pm | $295

Video as an Expression of Self in the Environment Minoosh Zomorodinia 6 sessions Investigate the relationship between “Self” and the environment in this video installation course focused on personal identity.

Tuesdays, Sep 18–Oct 23 6:30–9:30pm | $295

Chestnut Street Campus 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133 Fort Mason Campus Pier 2, 2 Marina Blvd San Francisco, CA 94123

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COVER: Felicita Norris Not White Enough 2014 Acrylic and oil on canvas 64 x 96 inches