MFA Graduate Exhibition
MFA Film and Video Screenings
MA Collaborative Projects
MA Symposium
MFA Graduate Exhibition
May 14–21, 11 am–6 pm daily
Vernissage reception:
Friday, May 13, 2011, 6–8 pm
The Winery SF
200 California Ave., Building 180 North, Treasure Island
San Francisco, CA 94130
Free and open to the public
The San Francisco Art Institute is proud to announce the 2011 MFA Graduate Exhibition, opening May 13 at The Winery SF on Treasure Island.As SFAI celebrates its 140th Anniversary, the exhibition continues the school’s tradition of innovation, showcasing 72 graduating MFA students working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media, performance, and more.
The MFA Graduate Exhibition will introduce the Bay Area community to these thought-provoking new talents and provide visitors with an overview of exciting directions in art today. The work on display is the result of an intense period of collaboration, investigation, and artistic development, and represents a range of interests and approaches. SFAI students are engaged with both art history and contemporary global society, yet possess strong individual points of view, and have created work at turns personal, political, playful, subversive, challenging, and beautiful.
The public is also invited to purchase tickets to the Preview Party on May 12, with proceeds benefitting SFAI’s scholarship fund. Ticket information at 415.749.4512 or [email protected].
Film and Video Screenings
– MFA Film Department Screening
Friday, May 13, 2011, 1–4pm
Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA
151 3rd Street, SF, CA 94103
– MFA Video Screening
Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 6–9 pm
Kadist San Francisco
2401 Folsom Street, SF, CA 94110
As we enter the 21st century, it is our mandate to create strategies for global and technological collaborations, which are essential tools for innovative and expanded cinematic expression. The MFA Film Department Screening at SFMOMAfeatures work by graduating Film students, as well as first-year students who have worked together to create films that explore themes of loss and disintegration. The MFA Video Screening at Kadist San Francisco, curated by Tony Labat, presents experimental videos by graduating students from various departments.
MA Collaborative Projects
TRANSIT/STASIS: Negotiating Movement in the City is a consideration of art and urban movement in San Francisco, featuring an exhibition, publication, and public programs. The exhibition, which was on view in SFAI’s Diego Rivera Gallery in April and continues at SOMArts through May 15, documents five artist projects implemented throughout the spring of 2011, each of which evidences shifting conditions of artistic and spatial production as seen through the frame of transit. For more information about the projects, and to download the publication, visit www.transit-stasis.com.
For City Studio Press: Artists as Journalists, students created www.citystudio.org, a website supporting SFAI’s City Studio program, which provides high quality arts education to underserved youth in their own neighborhoods. The students also developed a new City Studio course offering, “City Studio Press: Artists as Journalists,” which will begin in the Fall 2011 cycle. For more information, visit www.citystudio.org.
MA Symposium
May 9 &10, 10:30 am–4:30 pm
San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
The MA Symposium provides an occasion for graduate students working within SFAI’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies—Exhibition and Museum Studies, History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, and the Dual Degree MA/MFA program—to make presentations based on the findings that inform their theses.
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.
From March 2011 through June 2012, SFAI will honor its distinguished history and contributions to the world of art with a 140th Anniversary celebration featuringlectures, screenings, parties, and exhibitions.The celebration also offers alumni and friends worldwide an opportunity to reconnect with the institution as part of its planning for the next 140 years.
For more information about SFAI, please visit www.sfai.edu or call 415.771.7020.