SFAI’s Spring 2010 Visiting Artists and Scholars

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

http://www.sfai.edu/vas

http://www.sfai.edu/spheres

http://www.sfai.edu/current

http://www.sfai.edu/admissions

The graduate lecture series—Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action—provides SFAI students and faculty, together with the wider Bay Area public, an opportunity to engage with the thoughts and productions of an array of international participants from a variety of fields. A goal of the series is to provoke its various audiences—through exposure to new and challenging ideas—to begin to imagine unfamiliar forms of perceiving and creating.

The Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies, the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellowships, and the Pilara Foundation Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellowships are envisioned to provide SFAI’s students with direct access to artists and thinkers whose contributions to contemporary global art practice and theory represent the highest level of achievement and the promise of continued excellence. With a view to deepening each artist’s impact, the fellowships are structured as sustained on-campus residencies that provide SFAI’s students extensive interaction with the fellows—facilitating discussions of process, aesthetics, cultural influences, and career paths.

Spring 2010 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series

Douglas Fogle
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 — 7:30pm

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow
Monday, February 22, 2010 — 7:30pm

Michael Arcega, Ursula Biemann, Claire Fontaine, Carlos Motta, Société Réaliste, and Hou Hanru
Panel discussion—Geography of Transterritories
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 — 7:30pm

Wafaa Bilal
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 — 7:30pm

My Barbarian
Monday, March 22, 2010 — 7:30pm

Sharon Lockhart
Pilara Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow
Friday, April 2, 2010 — 7:30pm

Julie Heffernan
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow
Monday, April 5, 2010 — 7:30pm

Lisa Sigal
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 — 7:30pm

Walead Beshty
Pilara Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 — 7:30pm

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Ann Chamberlain
Distinguished Fellow in Interdisciplinary Studies
Monday, May 3, 2010 — 7:30pm

For more information, including participant bios, on the Spring 2010 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, please go to

http://www.sfai.edu/vas

For detailed information on the upcoming exhibition—Geography of Transterritories—in SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries, please go to

http://www.sfai.edu/current

Spring 2010 Graduate Lecture Series—Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action

Louise Lawler
“Taking Place”
Friday, January 22, 2010 — 5:00pm

Mika Tajima
“A Place for Transacting Abstractions”
Friday, February 5, 2010 — 5:00pm

Trajal Harrell
“Maybe to Spectacle: Showpony and Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church“
Friday, February 26, 2010 — 5:00pm

Renée Green
“Ongoing Becomings: The Whole Is Simpler Than the Parts”
Friday, March 5, 2010 — 6:00pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco

Howie Chen
“More Anytime Minutes: Post-Fordist Work Dilemmas”
Friday, March 26, 2010 — 5:00pm

George E. Lewis
“Mobilitas Animi: Improvising with Creative Machines”
Friday, April 2, 2010 — 5:00pm

John Akomfrah
“The Burden of Mnemosyne”
Friday, April 23, 2010 — 5:00pm

Michael Corris
“Unintended Consequences: Conceptual Art and Its Legacy”
Friday, April 30, 2010 — 5:00pm

For more information, including participant bios, on the graduate lecture series—Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action—please go to

http://www.sfai.edu/spheres

SFAI’s exhibitions and public programs—a component of which is the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series—are supported in part by the Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund. The Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellowships are funded by the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation, and the Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellowships are funded by the Pilara Foundation. The Distinguished Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies is provided by the Ann Chamberlain estate. Geography of Transterritories is made possible through the support of swissnex San Francisco, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in San Francisco.

Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action is organized through SFAI’s Division of Graduate Studies in cooperation with SFAI’s Centers for Interdisciplinary Study. Renée Green’s lecture is copresented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Applications for MA, MFA, and Post-Baccalaureate programs at SFAI for Fall 2010 are now being accepted through March 15, 2010 on a space-available basis. Applications for the Low-residency MFA program are now being accepted for Summer 2010 through March 15, 2010 on a space-available basis. For more information, please call 800 345 SFAI / 415 749 4500, e-mail [email protected], or go to

http://www.sfai.edu/admissions

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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 more information on visiting artists and scholars or other exhibitions and public programs at SFAI, please call 415 749 4563.

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

http://www.sfai.edu/admissions