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FURTHER ADVENTURES IN DRAWING & PAINTING reconFIGUREation | KATIE HUMPHRIES
ART & TECHNOLOGY
12 sessions: Mondays, January 26–April 20 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL ABSTRACTION | ANA MONTENEGRO
+ Paint from the live model as you learn about structure, proportion, and mixing color in acrylics and oils.
12 sessions: Mondays, January 26–April 20 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PAINTING | SARAH STOLAR
+ Delve into abstraction as a concept and a process, while learning digital tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to visualize your abstractions and take them from the screen to the physical world.
12 sessions: Saturdays, January 31–April 18 10 am–1 pm | $480 + Turn inward and explore your own story, cultural identity, or family history through painting.
BUILD DRAWING & PAINTING SKILLS
DRAWING WITHOUT LINES | JAIMIE HEALY 12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
DRAWING FUNDAMENTALS | MICHELLE RAMIN 6 sessions: Wednesdays, March 4–April 8 7:30–10:30 pm | $250
+ Further your visual skills through careful observation in this drawing course using collage, mixed media, assemblage, and pencil.
FIGURE DRAWING | MICHAEL AZGOUR 5 sessions: Tuesdays, March 31–April 28 7:30–10:30 pm | $250
INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED PAINTING | GLENN HIRSCH
INTRODUCTION TO OIL PAINTING | ROBERT BURDEN
12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 23 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
INTERMEDIATE DRAWING | SARAH STOLAR 12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 23 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
Jamil Hellu, The Time for Miracles Is Now (Found Books), 2014 Digital pigment print, 30 x 24 inches
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+ Explore the content of your art through irony, humor, narrative, mood, and the use of traditional and nontraditional painting materials.
THE ABSTRACT IN LIFE | BRENT HALLARD 12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm | $480 + Consider how the abstract informs the everyday by using notes, memos, encounters, and Instagram posts as source material for experimental paintings.
IMAGE-MAKING SKILLS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINTMAKING, & FILM LEARNING TO SEE | VICTORIA MARA HEILWEIL 12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 23 7:30–10:30 pm | $480 + Study camera functions, design principles, and conceptual strategies to make compelling photographs. Robert Cortlandt, Untitled, 2012 Digital image, 11 x 16 inches
INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING: THE BITING IMAGE | JONATHAN PALMER 6 sessions: Saturdays, March 7–April 11 10 am–3 pm | $350 (includes a $25 lab fee) Brent Hallard, Drafting Board, 2014
FIVE-DAY INTENSIVES PALETTES FOR PAINTERS: JANUARY INTENSIVE | MEL PREST 5 sessions: Monday–Friday, January 12–16 9 am–5 pm | $530 + Expand your acrylic color palette through exercises that balance play with the production of thematic paintings.
THE STRUCTURED ACCIDENT: MARCH INTENSIVE | ALLISON MILLER 5 sessions: Monday–Friday, March 16–20 9 am–5 pm | $530 + Use risk-taking and chance to open up your painting practice, push yourself to experiment, and recalibrate your work.
+ Learn techniques of monoprinting, drypoint, hardground and soft-ground etching, sugar lift, aquatint, and Chine-collé.
BASIC EDITING TECHNIQUES | CHRISTINA KOLOZSVARY 6 sessions: Thursdays, March 26–April 30 7:30–10:30 pm | $250 + Learn to create basic film sequences in Premiere and Final Cut Pro using your own material or found footage.
DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING FOR NEW MEDIA | ROBERT CORTLANDT
TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGE-MAKING IN PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEXT AS CONCEPT: PHOTOGRAPHIC SEQUENCING AND NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION | CHRIS GRUNDER 12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 23 7:30–10:30 pm | $480 + Create a body of work that uses photographic sequencing to build narrative, mood, and emotion.
MINING THE ARCHIVE | CAITY FARES
12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
12 sessions: Saturdays, January 31–May 2 10 am–1 pm | $480
+ Develop, plan, shoot, and edit a short documentary while learning aspects of interviewing and how to build a compelling narrative.
+ Navigate everything from governmental to personal archives, as you retouch and reproduce images from the past, imbuing them with new meaning.
PORTRAITURE IN PHOTOGRAPHY | JAMIL HELLU
NEW GENRES
12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
MIND AND BODY IN SPACE | AMY M. HO
+ Examine the history and development of portrait photography from the 1800s to present, as you produce your own series.
FIVE-DAY INTENSIVE URBAN ATLAS: EVIDENCE OF CHANGE | AARON ROSENSTREICH 5 sessions: Monday–Friday, January 12–16 9 am–5 pm | $530 + Respond to the radical political, metaphorical, and physical changes underway in the Bay Area through photography in this intensive open to film or digital, color or black-and-white photographers.
12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm | $480 + Examine your physical and psychological relationships to architecture through readings, discussions, field trips, and lectures. Then develop installation projects related to space and experience, land art, or architecture.
NEW URBAN NATURALISTS | SASHA PETRENKO
Cathy Lu, Afterlife, 2014 Ceramic, 42 x 36 x 36 inches
12 sessions: Saturdays, January 31–April 18 7:30–10:30 pm | $480 + Explore and catalogue your immediate natural environment, and express it visually through a range of media, including drawing, dance, graphic design, performance, prose, or essays.
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CONSTRUCTING OBJECTS THROUGH SCULPTURE
Ages 17+ | All levels
BEGINNING CERAMICS FOR THE HANDS-ON ARTIST | ALYSSA BLOCK
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CONTACT publiceducation@sfai.edu
12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm | $480
OFFICE HOURS
MOLDMAKING & CASTING IN CERAMICS | CATHY LU
Monday–Friday, 9 am–5 pm
12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm | $480 Mel Prest, Installation view of MoonBrightChime Galleri Urbane, Dallas, 2014
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Public Education at SFAI spans the breadth of contemporary art, from traditional techniques in drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and sculpture, to radical experiences, off-kilter journeys, collaborative public projects, and educational experiments. Become part of SFAI’s diverse community of artists and scholars through noncredit evening and weekend courses. No matter your experience level, there's a unique course to expand your skills and interests. sfai.edu/publiceducation Ana Montenegro, Untitled, 2013 Digital image, 800 x 800 pixels
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