SFAI’s 2010 Graduation Events and Honors

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
800 345 SFAI / 415 749 4500

http://www.sfai.edu/admissions

The 2010 MA Collaborative Project Presentation—A Fresh Look: Observations on Artistic and Social Practices in Urban Farming—marks an opportunity for the collaborative of graduate students who work within SFAI’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Exhibition and Museum Studies, History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, and SFAI’s Dual Degree MA/MFA program) to present their yearlong project on various aspects of art and urban farming, including an “underground market” and a publication and website launch.

http://www.sfai.edu/freshlook

2010 MA Thesis Symposium

The 2010 MA Thesis Symposium provides a day-long occasion for graduate students working within SFAI’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies to make
presentations based on the findings that inform their theses.

http://www.sfai.edu/masymposium2010

2010 Vernissage / MFA Graduate Exhibition

The largest show of its kind at a single venue in the Bay Area, SFAI’s 2010 Vernissage / MFA Graduate Exhibition features work by upwards of 100 artists who work within SFAI’s School of Studio Practice (Design and Technology, Film, New Genres, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture/Ceramics, and SFAI’s Dual Degree MA/MFA program). The work on display is an overview of some of the most critically challenging and theoretically informed directions in contemporary global art today.

http://www.sfai.edu/vernissage

2010 MFA Screening of Time-Based Media

A broad selection of film, video, and sound art by graduating MFA students, the 2010 MFA Screening of Time-Based Media presents an opportunity for all graduating MFA students to screen work produced in time-based media. Exhibiting varied sensibilities, yet a shared commitment to exploration and to expanding the expressive potential of time-based media, these films, videos, and sound pieces offer a context for rethinking the ways in which meaning is found and how we come to perceive.

http://www.sfai.edu/timebased

2010 MFA Film and Video Screening

The premiere of a wide-ranging selection of film and video art by SFAI’s graduating MFA students, the 2010 MFA Film and Video Screening—Transitions—presents a class of emerging artists whose artistic lexicon has been informed by the ubiquity of the moving image. Each of the works encourages viewers to reflect not only upon experiments in audiovisual form—experimentation for which the SFAI Film department is internationally recognized—but also upon the communicative impulses that impel and guide such experiments.

http://www.sfai.edu/transitions

2010 BFA and Post-Baccalaureate Spring Show

An opportunity for graduating BFA and Post-Baccalaureate students to display their work, the 2010 BFA and Post-Baccalaureate Spring Show is an exhibition that takes place throughout SFAI’s historic 800 Chestnut Street campus. It includes film and video screenings, performances, paintings, photos, prints, sculptures, sound art, and more.

http://www.sfai.edu/springshow2010

2010 Commencement, Honorary Doctorates, and Douglas MacAgy Award

Along with degrees bestowed on SFAI’s undergraduate and graduate classes of 2010, SFAI has conferred—in recognition of their outstanding contributions to global contemporary art, culture, and thought—honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts on artists Huang Yong Ping and Nalini Malani as well as the Douglas MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award on Bay Area arts advocate Ruth Braunstein at SFAI’s 132nd Commencement.

http://www.sfai.edu/awards2010

Get a head start on future graduation cycles at SFAI’s Summer Institute 2010.

This summer’s highlights include a focus on Public Practices, which embrace the many and varied strategies for placing contemporary art in the public realm:

• Art in Public Places—an interdisciplinary studies course, including two weeks of travel to Mexico City, led by artist and architect Pedro Reyes, in which students will conceptualize, research, design, and implement a site-specific artwork for the Consulate General of the United States in Tijuana, Mexico

• Mural Painting as Public Representation—a painting/urban studies course led by mural artist Susan Kelk Cervantes that examines mural painting as a unique form of contemporary public art capable of redefining public spaces relative to their various histories

• Public Art Now—an art history course led by art historian Terri Cohn that examines artists’ evolving ideologies about, and approaches to, creating art in public places since the 1970s

• Sustainable Sculpture Studio—a sculpture/design and technology course led by artist Kate Ruddle that examines the politics and processes of sustainability through a materials-based case study (recycled denim)

• People and Places—the inaugural symposium on public practices in honor of former SFAI faculty member and artist Ann Chamberlain, including conversations with artists Andrea Bowers, Harrell Fletcher, Jessica Hobbs, Pedro Reyes, Susan Schwartzenberg, and other speakers to be announced

For more information on Summer Institute 2010, including course schedules and how to apply, please go to http://www.sfai.edu/summerinstitute

Applications for the Low-residency MFA program for Summer 2010 are now being accepted on a space-available basis. Applications for BA, BFA, MA, MFA, and Post-Baccalaureate programs for Fall 2010 are also now being accepted on a space-available basis.

For more information, including important dates, on undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and graduate admissions at SFAI, please call 800 345 SFAI / 415 749 4500, e-mail [email protected], or go to

http://www.sfai.edu/admissions

The course Sustainable Sculpture Studio is offered in conjunction with Fashioning the Future, a collaboration between SFAI and Levi Strauss & Co. on sustainable art and design. The symposium People and Places is supported by a generous bequest by artist and SFAI faculty member Ann Chamberlain made through the Harker Fund at The San Francisco Foundation.

San Francisco Art Institute

Founded in 1871, SFAI is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art in the US. Focusing on the interdependence of thinking, making, and learning, SFAI’s academic and public programs are dedicated to excellence and diversity.

SFAI’s School of Studio Practice concentrates on developing the artist’s vision through studio experiments and is based on the belief that artists are an essential part of society. It offers a BFA, an MFA, and a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in Design and Technology, Film, New Genres, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture/Ceramics.

SFAI’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies is motivated by the premise that critical thinking and writing, informed by an in-depth understanding of theory and practice, are essential for engaging contemporary global society. It offers degree programs in Exhibition and Museum Studies (MA only), History and Theory of Contemporary Art (BA and MA), and Urban Studies (BA and MA).

SFAI’s Dual Degree MA/MFA program is ideally designed for students who seek a deep and balanced immersion in both theoretical discourse and art practice. A three-year commitment, the degree consists in an MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art and an MFA in any area of study within the School of Studio Practice (see above).

For information, including important dates, on undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and graduate admissions at SFAI, please call 800 345 SFAI / 415 749 4500, e-mail [email protected], or go to http://www.sfai.edu/admissions