SFAI’s Fall 2009 Visiting Artists and Scholars

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
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San Francisco, CA 94133
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http://www.sfai.edu/vas

http://www.sfai.edu/spheres

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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.

Fall 2009 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series

Lorna Simpson
Pilara Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow
Friday, September 11, 2009 — 7:30pm

Sterling Ruby and Robert Hobbs
In dialogue
Monday, September 14, 2009 — 7:30pm

Lisa Yuskavage
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 — 7:30pm

domizil and ICST
Performances
Saturday, September 26, 2009 — 8:00pm
Sunday, September 27, 2009 — 6:30pm

Kan Xuan, Jewyo Rhii, Britta Erickson, and Hou Hanru
In dialogue
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 — 7:30pm

Fred Tomaselli
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow
Monday, October 5, 2009 — 7:30pm

Xu Tan
Monday, October 12, 2009 — 7:30pm

Allan Sekula
Pilara Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow
Monday, October 19, 2009 — 7:30pm

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Jens Hoffmann, Hou Hanru, and Dominic Willsdon
Panel discussion: Global Art in the Downturn
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 — 7:30pm

Laurel Nakadate
Film screening and discussion of Stay the Same Never Change (2009)
Monday, November 2, 2009 — 7:30pm

Darby English
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 — 7:30pm

Alexander Ross
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow
Monday, November 9, 2009 — 7:30pm

Hamra Abbas, Ringo Bunoan, Chen Hui-chiao, and Minouk Lim
Panel discussion on the SFAI exhibition Everyday Miracles (Extended)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 — 7:30pm

Marlene McCarty
2009 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow
Monday, November 16, 2009 — 7:30pm

For detailed information, including participant bios, on the Fall 2009 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, please go to http://www.sfai.edu/vas

For detailed information on the upcoming exhibition—Everyday Miracles (Extended)—in SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries, please go to http://www.sfai.edu/current

Fall 2009 Graduate Lecture Series—Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action

Raúl Cárdenas Osuna
“White Noise”
Friday, October 9, 2009 — 5:00pm

Charles Gaines
“Reflections on Metonymy”
Friday, October 16, 2009 — 5:00pm

Silvia Kolbowski
“After Hiroshima Mon Amour”
Friday, October 23, 2009 — 5:00pm

Lisa Le Feuvre
“Failure: Error, Perfection, Dissatisfaction, and Experiment”
Friday, October 30, 2009 — 5:00pm

Marysia Lewandowska
“From Enthusiasts to Creative Commons: Generosity and the Future of Public Domain”
Friday, November 6, 2009 — 5:00pm

Charles Atlas
“Video In and As Performance”
Friday, November 13, 2009 — 5:00pm

Yvonne Rainer
“One Day When I Was Growing Up in the 60s … “
Friday, November 20, 2009 — 5:00pm

Yvonne Rainer
Film screenings of Journeys from Berlin/1971 (Nov. 21) and Privilege (Nov. 22)
Saturday and Sunday, November 21 and 22, 2009 — 7:30pm

Edgar Arceneaux
“The Watts House Project and Systems Theory: Neighborhood Redevelopment as Collaborative Artwork”
Friday, December 4, 2009 — 5:00pm

For detailed 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 performances by domizil and ICST are presented by SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs in conjunction with Swissnex San Francisco. The exhibition Everyday Miracles (Extended) is presented in collaboration with REDCAT, where it is made possible with the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Arts Council Korea, the George and MaryLou Boone Fund for Artistic Advancement, and the Taipei Cultural Center in New York City. The Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship was established in 1998 by the generosity of Richard Diebenkorn’s family; the $25,000 fellowship makes it possible for the contemporary artist to whom it is awarded both to teach at SFAI and to pursue studio work.

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. The screenings of Yvonne Rainer’s films Journeys from Berlin/1971 and Privilege are presented in conjunction with San Francisco Cinematheque.
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