IN-DEPTH
June 13 – August 5, 2011
Call for Applications:
Priority deadline April 1
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
[email protected] (415) 749-4534
http://www.sfai.edu
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
SFAI’s new summer undergraduate residency program offers a rare opportunity for graduate-quality experience in preparation for advanced study in the fine arts. Unique for its rigorous critique, individualized support, and engagement with internationally recognized artists, the residency is an eight-week intensive program specifically designed for undergraduate students or recent baccalaureate graduates to refine and complete a portfolio.
Students who pursue this residency must have significant studio experience and demonstrate a readiness for graduate-level work through their statement of intent, project proposal, and artwork. Throughout the residency, students will have access to individual studio space in the honors studios at SFAI’s historic 800 Chestnut Street campus, where they may work in a variety of mediums.
RESIDENCY INCLUDES:
➢ 3 units of advanced undergraduate college credit
➢ Individual studio space
➢ Professional and technical development through the Residency Seminar
➢ Access to SFAI facilities and technical support services, including painting, printmaking, and sculpture studios; darkrooms; digital imaging and film processing equipment; and editing suites.
➢ Visiting Artists Lecture Series
➢ Excursions to San Francisco museums, galleries, and alternative art spaces
➢ Public group exhibition at SFAI’s Diego Rivera Gallery
➢ Option of enrolling in additional undergraduate courses and tutorials
Visiting Artists for Summer 2011:
Tony Labat, SFAI MFA Program Director and Associate Professor of New Genres. Labat combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance and video, and has exhibited at prestigious galleries and museums around the world.
Carrot Workers Collective, a London-based group of current or ex-interns who regularly meet to think together around the conditions of free labor in contemporary societies.
Dean Smith, an artist whose drawings investigate the aesthetics of wonder, exploring dichotomies such as geometry/biology, micro/macro, and expansion/contraction. His drawings are in public collections including The British Museum and LACMA.
Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, an artist whose paintings and watercolors have been shown at venues including the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Gallery Fucares, Madrid. She received a 2009 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in Fine Arts.
Ian McDonald, faculty member in SFAI’s Sculpture/Ceramics Department. He has shown in both the United States and Europe, including Rena Bransten Gallery and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and Sophienholm Exhibition Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Barbara DeGenevieve, Chair of the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, video, and performance, she has been awarded two NEA Visual Artist Fellowships, the second of which was revoked by the National Council on the Arts because of the work’s sexual content.
HOW TO APPLY:
Applicants must submit the following materials:
• Residency Application Form
• A statement of intent / project proposal
• Ten examples of work
• A letter of support from a faculty member at their home institution
For more information, please visit www.sfai.edu
PROGRAM COST:
4,873 USD
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE
Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art. It boasts an illustrious list of faculty and alumni in all of its areas of focus. But most importantly, SFAI has consistently held fast to a core philosophy of fostering creativity and critical thinking in an open, experimental, and interdisciplinary environment. At SFAI, we focus on educating artists who will become the creative leaders of their generation.