SUMMER 2018
Make Art Here All Levels | Ages 17+
UNPARALLELED ARTISTIC COMMUNITY / LEGENDARY STUDIO ENVIRONMENT / ARTIST-DRIVEN EXPERIENCES DRAWING 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 courses offer flexibility for you to pursue your aspirations. No matter your experience level, there’s a unique class to suit your skills and interests.
Introduction to Figure Drawing Ignacio Rojas 8 sessions Gain a heightened understanding of the relationships between the body’s various parts through focused observation and practice with the live model.
Drawing Dynamic Still Life Jacob Kincheloe
Experimental Drawing: Beyond Traditional Tools
6 sessions
Francis Calimlim
Drawing on still life’s history as a vehicle for symbolism, allegory, and social and political critique, we will investigate its potential as a vital contemporary genre, drawing scenes from a range of rich tableaux of plant, animal, and manufactured materials.
8 sessions
Wednesdays, Jun 6–Jul 18 6:30–9:30pm | $295
Not Your Standard Plein Air Drawing Class Eric Martin
Challenge your perception of what drawing is and can be by utilizing interdisciplinary methods and non-traditional approaches to create conceptually-driven drawings.
Thursdays, Jun 7–Jul 26 7–10pm | $385
PRINTMAKING Introduction to Silkscreen Printmaking
6 sessions
Savanna Snow 8 sessions
The Inner Eye: Explorations on Identity + Artistic Expression
Spend six Saturday mornings drawing en plein air in a variety of unexpected locations around the Bay Area including the Sutro Baths ruin, Presidio Batteries, or Mountain View Cemetery. Class will conclude with an informal exhibition at SFAI.
10 sessions
Saturdays, Jun 16–Jul 28 10am–1pm | $385
Thursdays, Jun 7–Jul 26 7–10pm | $385
Alice Gould
Explore art that brings the personal into public view, with projects designed to create new confidence with materials, larger formats, individual mark-making, and the use of signature.
Tuesdays, Jun 5–Aug 7 7–10pm | $480
Large-Scale Drawing Katherine Boxall 6 sessions
Learn the basics of silkscreen printmaking as you create your own fine art prints, graphic posters, or promotional items.
Saturdays, Jun 9–Jul 28 10am–2pm | $480
Weekend Intensive: Print, Pattern + Textiles Kaitlin Trataris 4 sessions
Explore scale and its impact on your imagery as you create your own monumental work.
Learn to print on textiles using silkscreen printing methods while transforming your imagery into sculptural forms.
Wednesdays, Jul 11–Aug 15 6:30–9:30pm | $295
Saturday–Sunday, Aug 4–5 + 11–12 11am–3pm | $295
PAINTING* Introduction to Painting Kathy Sirico 10 sessions Cultivate an understanding of acrylic painting materials and techniques in this fundamental course as we work from still life, live models, landscape, and personal imagery.
Thursdays, Jun 7–Aug 16 7–10pm | $480
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SFAI.EDU/PUBLICEDUCATION Tom Colcord Quiet As A Mouse 2017 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 72 inches
The Magic of Painting
Personal Mythology in Painting: Weekend Painting Workshop
10 sessions
3 sessions
Master the tricks of trade in this technically focused painting course as you learn about glazing, lighting, edging, and more while completing three painting projects nothing short of magical.
Discover, shape, and express your personal mythology as you complete three projects in this themed painting course.
Ingrid V. Wells
Wednesdays, Jun 6–Aug 15 6:30–9:30pm | $480
Painting in Time Tom Colcord 6 sessions
Soraya Sharghi
Friday—Sunday, Aug 3–5 10am–4pm | $295
The Exploded Figure Felicita Norris 10 sessions
Contemplate the 4th dimension in this painting course focused on how to convey duration, immediacy, and the element of time in your work as you complete a series of short exercises and an individual final painting.
Working primarily from the live model, you will record the human form using intense cropping to make thoughtful compositional selections while creating narratives based on portions of the body.
Tuesdays, Jul 3–Aug 7 6:30–9:30pm | $295
Thursdays, Jun 14–Aug 16 6:30–9:30pm | $480
*ALL PAINTING COURSES HELD IN SFAI’S NEW FORT MASON CAMPUS.
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The Secret Liquid State of All Things: Abstraction in Clay
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Matt Goldberg 8 sessions
Kathy Sirico Portal II (detail) 2017 Mixed media 29.5 x 20 inches
Explore artistic responses to the ceramic process in this class focused on working demonstrations, lectures of canonical and contemporary ceramic artists, collaborative exercises, and medium experimentation.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Saturdays, Jun 9–Jul 28 10am–1pm | $385
Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Documenting Your Work
More, More, More: Mold-Making + Slip-Casting in Ceramics
Alex Arzt
4 sessions Learn how to accurately and professionally photograph your work in a variety of settings for use in online portfolios, applications, and personal archives.
Tuesdays, Jun 5–26 6:30–9:30pm | $195
Photography Intensive: IdeaGeneration + Image-Making
Cathy Lu
10 sessions
The Book, The Web + The Wall: Exhibition Strategies Ward Long
10 sessions
ART + TECHNOLOGY Online Zines
Learn how to make plaster molds and cast them in clay in this course focused on the multiple and how to make more of your sculptural practice.
Tuesdays, Jun 5–Aug 7 7–10pm | $480
Tree to Object: Simplified Woodworking for Sculpture
Diana Li
Learn and experiment with HTML, CSS, and a bit of Javascript code to make a collective online zine with the class and one of your own in this art and tech course that will explore the basics of web design and online compilations of videos, pics, gifs, and more.
Marshall Elliott
Reinvigorate your current photographic approach with exposure to new assignments, artists, ideas, and approaches; each designed to get you making and thinking about photography differently.
Want your pictures to look great whether they’re on the wall, in a book, or on your phone? In this class we’ll survey contemporary presentation practices, discuss how the sensory experience of an artwork guides our thinking about that work, and give you the practical and critical tools to present your work at its best.
Tuesdays, Jul 17–Aug 7 6:30–9:30pm | $195
Wednesdays, Jun 6–Aug 15 6:30–9:30pm | $480
Thursdays, June 7–July 26 6:30–9:30pm | $385
Wednesdays, Jul 18–Aug 15 6:30–9:30pm | $245
Daniel Melo 4 sessions
8 sessions
5 sessions Develop the skills to work with wood as a contemporary sculptural medium, focusing on the use of accessible hand tools and a range of wood types.
Alex Arzt, Touch-me-not/sensitive plant/shame plant/prayer plant/humble plant/Mimosa pudica, 2015 Film still; 1:50 minutes
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INTERDISCIPLINARY Memory Narratives: Transdisciplinary Critique Seminar Izidora Leber 5 sessions Refine your aesthetic vision and visual literacy in this critique seminar open to all mediums of artistic practice, as we focus on the key role memory plays in the development of our work.
Tuesdays, Jun 5–Jul 3 6:30–9:30pm | $245
The Vault: Open-Genre Writing Studio Genine Lentine
Up to 6 sessions Cultivate your writing through generative exercises, feedback, readings, and guided discussions in this course focused on sustaining a resilient writing practice and tapping into your receptive creative process.
Saturdays, Jun 16, 23, 30, Jul 14, 21, 28 | 10am–1pm $60/session or $295 for all 6
NEW GENRES The Mind + Body in Space Amy M. Ho 6 sessions Examine the charged physiological and psychological relationships between architecture and installation art in this course as you complete readings, participate in discussions, and create your own spatially-charged work.
Wednesdays, Jun 6–Jul 18 6:30–9:30pm | $295
Sculptural Installation Carrie Hott 6 sessions Using scale model building techniques you will make a sculptural installation to fully immerse your viewer in an art experience while learning about the history of installation to inspire and ground your work.
Tuesdays, Jun 19–Jul 24 6:30–9:30pm | $295
FILM Camp Video-Making Kate Rhoades 4 sessions In this short video intensive you will plan, shoot, edit, and do postproduction on the wildest videos your imagination allows, while also learning the ropes of melodrama and consumer grade special effects.
Tuesdays, Jun 19–Jul 10 6:30–9:30pm | $195
Midnight Theatre: Producing a Live Variety Show Kenneth Thomas 3 sessions Learn the ins and outs of producing a multi-camera production in this interactive workshop that culminates in a live internet webcast.
Friday–Sunday, Aug 3–5 11am–3pm | $195
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REGISTER NOW FOR SUMMER 2018 SFAI.EDU/PUBLICEDUCATION CONTACT Office Hours: Monday–Friday | 9am–5pm 415.749.4554 publiceducation@sfai.edu
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COVER: Katherine Rhoades Karen’s Junk Cuts (still) 2016 Digital video 1080p; 14:56