wednesday september 12 - friday september 21

Don't forget to RSVP for "We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition" curated by David Kasprzak and Dane Jensen, with work by Anthony Discenza, Dina Danish, Bill Durgin, Patricia Esquivias, Harrell Fletcher, Llewellyn Fletcher, Mik Gaspay, Josh Greene, Todd Hido, David Huffman, Hannah Ireland, Lawrence LaBianca, Katie Lewis, Travis Joseph Meinolf, Linn Myers, Scott Oliver, Patricia Olynyk, Conrad Ruiz, Gabrielle Teschner, Hank Willis Thomas, and Imin Yeh!! ((PLUS DELICIOUS SNACKS))

Ana Teresa Fernandez (MFA faculty) has just launched a website called www.proyectorosa.com, a project based in Bogota in support of a woman who is in danger of being killed for her political activism

Bruna Massadas, Katelyn Eichwald and Adair Stephens (all MFA alums) have started a blog called the face painters, a weekly posting of thoughts directly or obliquely related to painting, including exhibition reviews, poetry, interviews, photographs, quotes, links, and original writing.

An interview and studio visit with Rebeca Bollinger (MFA faculty) is featured on In the Make, by Klea McKenna (MFA alum) and Nikki Grattan.

Check out this elaborate feature on SFMOMA's website about recent Futurefarmers projects with participation from Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine and Stijn Schiffelers (all friends of the MFA program)

Take a look at Jim Norrena's adorable photos from the Grad BBQ (except that weird one of Chrissie - what's wrong with her teeth!?)

WED 12 // Opening // CCA Faculty Exhibition // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Oliver Art Center (OAK)

THU 13 // Queer/Straight Alliance Fall Mixer // noon // Writers' Studio (195 De Haro, SF) THU 13 // OPENING // "When Attitudes Becomes Form Become Attitudes" with work by Natasha Wheat and Zarouhie Abdalian (both MFA alums) // 7 - 9PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)

FRI 14 // ADD/DROP DEADLINE

SAT 15, SUN 16 // Chimera Flea Market // noon - 3PM // A2 Cafe Patio (SF)   RSVP as a seller

MON 17 // Voter Registration: bring your CA ID or SSN# // 11AM - 1PM, 2:30PM - 4:30PM // near A2 Cafe (SF + OAK)

MON 17 // Constitution Day Talk // "Arts, the First Amendment, and the U.S. Supreme Court: An Introduction" by Maxwell Leung // 4PM // Timken Hall (SF)

WED 19 // Painting/Drawing Lecture Series // Andrew Masullo // 6PM // Timken Hall (SF)

WED 19 // Design and Craft Lecture Series // Maria Elena Buszek // 7PM // Nahl Hall (OAK)

WED 19 // Wattis Small Talks // Renny Pritikin (CURP faculty) // 7PM // Wattis (SF)

THU 20 // Graduate Lecture Series // Matthew E. May // 7PM // Timken Hall (SF)

WED 12 // OPENING // "Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik's World of Ballet and Theatre" // 6 - 8PM // Mills College Art Museum (5000 MacArthur Blvd, OAK)

WED 12 // ON VIEW // "BAILA con Duende" with work by Anna Martine Whitehead, Bernard Hoyes (both MFA alum), others // Watts Towers Arts Center (1727 E. 107th St, LA)

WED 12 // ON VIEW // "Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven" (MFA faculty) // Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd)

WED 12 // Opening // "(re)collection" with work by Taro Hattori (MFA advisor), Kelli Yon (BFA faculty) and Sean McFarland (MFA alum) // 7 - 9pm // Intersection for the Arts (925 Mission, SF)

WED 12 - DEC 8 // ZERO1 BIENNIAL // "FREE TEXT: The Open Source Reading Room" by  Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) // ZERO1 Garage (439 South First St, San Jose)

THU 13 // Opening // "Uncharted" with work by  Amber Stuck (MFA alum) // 5 - 7:30PM // Caine Schulte Contemporary Art (251 Post St Ste 210, SF)

THU 13 // Opening // "Tempus" solo work by Natalie Tyler (MFA alum) // 4:30 - 6:30pm // Azarian McCullough Art Gallery (St. Thomas Aquinas College, 125 Route 340, Sparkill, NY)

FRI 14 // Opening // "Temporary Structures" curated by Glen Helfand (MFA faculty) with work by Jonathan Runcio (MFA alum) // 6 - 8PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut, SF)

FRI 14 // ZERO1 BIENNIAL // "Sensoree Ger" by Kristin Neidlinger (MFA Design alum) // 6PM - 12AM // SoFA District (South 1st St btwn San Carlos and Reed, San Jose) 

FRI 14 // Opening // "Through a Glass, Darkly" solo show by Serena Cole (MFA alum) // 6 - 8pm at Soo Visual Arts Center (2638 Lyndale Ave. S Minneapolis)

SAT 15 // Panel Discussion // Kala Fellowship Artists, including Michele Carlson (MFA/MA faculty/alum) // 2PM // Kala Gallery (1060 Heinz Ave, Berkeley)

SAT 15 // Opening // Imin Yeh (MFA alum), Sara Thacher (MFA alum), and Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) // ZERO1 Biennial

SAT 15 // Opening // "WOMEN我們" with work by Man Yee Lam (MFA '13), curated by Abby Chen (VCS alum) // 1 - 4PM // Chinese Cultural Foundation (750 Kearny St, SF)

WED 19 // EVENT // "24th Street Listening Project" by Lynn Marie Kirby (MFA faculty) and Alexis Petty // 7 - 9PM // Brava Theater (2781 24th St, SF) 9/19)  MORE INFO

WED 19 // Opening // "PULL" solo show by Jake Ziemann (MFA alum) // 8 - 10PM // Tartine Bakery (600 Guerrero, SF)

FRI 21 // Opening // "Contour of the Common" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) // CCA Derry-Londonderry (Northern Ireland)

FRI 21 // In Conversation // Jeffrey Deitch and Lawrence Rinder (friend of the program) on Barry Mcgee // 6PM // Berkeley Art Museum (2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley)

FRI 21, SAT 22 // ON VIEW // "Corpus Curare" by Calder Yates (MFA/MA '14) // Friday 5 - 9PM, Saturday 1 - 5PM // Recology (501 Tunnel Ave, SF)

(9/23) Bean Gilsdorf at Headlands

(9/23) Sita Bhaumik (MFA/MA alum) workshop at the Women's Building

(9/26) Open Figure Drawing in PLAySPACE

(9/26) Wattis Small Talk: Andy Vogt and Rena Montero

(9/26) Notes From the Studio: James Gobel (MFA faculty) in PLAySPACE

(9/27 - 28) Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) performance at Blackwood Gallery, Ontario

(9/27) We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award opening at the Oliver (OAK)

(9/28) Ann Cvetkovich in conversation with Tammy Rae Carland (MFA faculty), Timken

(10/1) Serena Cole (MFA alum) at Phillips de Pury, NYC

(10/1) Mariam Ghani lecture in GC4

(10/2) Charlotte Cotton lecture in Timken

(10/3) Wattis Small Talks: Constance Lewallen

(10/3) Notes from the Studio: Keith Boadwee (MFA faculty) in PLAySPACE

(10/9) Kristin Neidlinger (MFA Design alum) in Lille, France

(10/10) Notes from the Studio: Matt Borruso (MFA advisor) in PLAySPACE

(10/10) Wattis Small Talks: Andrew Weiner

(10/17) Wattis Small Talks: Will Rogan

(10/17) Notes from the Studio: Mel Davis in PLAySPACE

(10/24) Wattis Small Talks: Zarouhie Abdalian

(10/26) Notes from the Studio: Bryan Keith Thomas (MFA advisor) in PLAySPACE

(10/27) Sune Woods (MFA alum) at Koplin Del Rio

(10/31) Wattis Small Talks: Glen Helfand (MFA faculty)

(10/31) Notes from the Studio: Serena Cole Halloween Special in PLAySPACE

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "Piece Offering" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (through October 5) "I (Heart) Data Mining" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Kadist Foundation (through September 2012) "Telling Fortunes" by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 13) "dOCUMENTA(13)" with participation by Amy Balkin, Shaun O'Dell (both MFA faculty) and Elizabeth Dorbad, Ann Schnake, Ruth Robbins (all MFA alums) (through September 16) "Strange Fruit" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Five Corners" with work by Evan Ellsworth Jourden, Matt Gordon (both MFA alums) and others at 2nd Floor Projects (through September 12) "I'm So Goth - I am Dead!" curated by Bob Linder and Julio César Morales (both MFA advisors) with work by Andrea Bacigalupo, Bessma Khalaf, Jonathan Runcio (all MFA alums) and Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel (both MFA advisors) and Desiree Holman (MFA faculty) at Queen's Nails Annex (through September 15) "Searose Garden" solo show by Kathleen Clausen (MFA alum) at Ramon's Tailor (through September 15) "dOCUMENTA (13)" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Mueuem Fridericianum (through September 16) Jessica Skloven (MFA alum) solo show "Recent Works" at Z Space (through October 14) "Residency Projects" with work by Michele Carlson (MFA faculty) at Kala Institute (through September 15) "MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7) "Movement in Many Parts" with work by Kim Anno, Sanjit Sethi (MFA faculty) Mik Gaspay, Susan Chen (MFA alums), curated by Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum) at the Asian Resource Center Gallery (through September 28) "Rendez-vous 12" with work by Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) at South African National Gallery (through October 14) "At the Edge" with works by Sean McFarland, Jamie Vasta, Anna Von Mertens (all MFA alums) and Jay Nelson (BFA alum) at Berkeley Art Museum (through December 23) "Strange Fruit" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Salon No 9" with work by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) at MArine Art Salon, LA (through September 15) "Chico & Chang" group show with work by Pablo Cristi (MFA alum), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through September 16) "Anomalous Perspectives: The 2011 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition" with work by Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) at Sheldon Art Galleries (through September 15) "Mind the System, Find the Gap" group show with work by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty), z33 (through September 30) "International Orange" group show with work by Doug Hall, Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco (all MFA faculty), Fort Point National Historic Site (through October 28) "David Maisel: History's Shadow" at Keck Center (through October 5) Paintings and wall installation by Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) at State Bird Provisions (ongoing)

friday september 7 - friday, september 14

A painting by James Gobel (MFA faculty) makes an appearance in the September issue of California Home + Design Magazine

An article about Ranu Mukherjee's (MFA faculty) recent works in up on SFGate

A write-up about Lynn Kirby (MFA faculty) is on the CCA website, written by Joyce Grimm (CURP alum)

Some nifty images and brief synopsis about S.H.E.D. Projects (with participation from Zachary Royer Scholz [MA/MFA alum]) is up on Oakland Art Beat

A sweet little post on Chow.com profiles Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) and her colleague's "Cindy Sherman Ice Cream Float" collaboration at SFMOMA





FRI 7 // OPEN SESSION // Dialogues & Practices incoming student slideshow // 12 - 3 PM // Timken Hall (SF)FRI 7 // ALL GRAD BBQ // 5:30 - 8:30 // Hooper 2 Courtyard (SF)

FRI 7 // PLAySPACE Art Party + Skill Share // 5:30 - 8:30 // Hooper 2 Courtyard (SF)  MORE INFO

MON 10 - 28 // Digital Fine Arts Studio (DFAS) pre-requisite training workshops // 11am, 3pm // no reservation required (OAK)

TUE 11 // Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series // Dawoud Bey // 7PM // Timken (SF)

WED 12 // Photography Lecture Series: Dawoud Bey // 11AM // Ralls 202 (OAK)

WED 12 // Opening // CCA Faculty Exhibition // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Oliver Art Center (OAK)

THU 13 // Wattis Opening // When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes // 7 - 9PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)

FRI 7 // Opening // Malak Helmy (MFA alum) in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

FRI 7 // Opening // "Coming Up Roses" solo show by Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Mark Wolfe Contemporary (1 Sutter St, SF)

FRI 7 // Opening //  "Capoeira: Roots, Myths and Legends" public art installation by Anna Ludwig (MFA '10) // 6:30-9:30PM (artist talk 7PM // Capoeira Mandinga Academy (4137 Piedmont Avenue, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Phantasmagoria" with work by Rachel Dawson, Amy Keefer (both MFA alums) // 6 - 9PM // Make Hang Gallery (450 Green St, SF)

FRI 7 // Closing // "Residency 3: Amanda Curreri" (MFA alum) // 7 - 10PM // Royal Nonesuch Gallery (4231 Telegraph Ave, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "In Stasis" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum), curated by Jackie Im (CURP alum) // 7 - 10PM // MacArthur B. Arthur (4030 MLK Way, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition" // 6:30 - 9PM // SOMARTS (934 Brannan St, SF) 

FRI 7 // Opening // "2 x 2 Solos: Amy M. Ho" curated by Zachary Royer Scholz (MFA alum) // 6 - 8pm // Pro Arts (150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland) 

SAT 8 // Opening // "The Distance Plan" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others // Favorite Goods (936 1/2 Chung King Road, LA)

SAT 8 // On View // "We the People" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) and others // The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY)

SAT 8 // Opening // with works by Christina Conklin (MFA '14) and others // 6pm // Rowboat Gallery (Pacific City, Oregon)

SAT 8 // Opening // "Introductions 2012" with work by Christine M. Peterson, Kate Nartker (both MFA alums 2012) // 7 - 10PM // Root Division (3175 17th St, SF)

WED 12 // Opening // "(re)collection - A collaboration with Lost and Found: Family Photos Swept by the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami" with work by Taro Hattori (MFA advisor) and Sean McFarland (MFA alum) // 7 - 9pm // Intersection for the Arts (925 Mission, SF)

WED 12 - DEC 8 // ZERO1 BIENNIAL // "FREE TEXT: The Open Source Reading Room" by  Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) // ZERO1 Garage (439 South First St, San Jose)

THU 13 // Opening // "Uncharted" with work by  Amber Stuck (MFA alum) // 5 - 7:30PM // Caine Schulte Contemporary Art (251 Post St Ste 210, SF)

THU 13 // Opening // "Tempus" solo work by Natalie Tyler (MFA alum) // 4:30 - 6:30pm // Azarian McCullough Art Gallery (St. Thomas Aquinas College, 125 Route 340, Sparkill, NY)

FRI 14 // ZERO1 BIENNIAL // "Sensoree Ger" by Kristin Neidlinger (MFA Design alum) // 6PM - 12AM // SoFA District (South 1st St btwn San Carlos and Reed, San Jose) 

FRI 14 // Opening // "Through a Glass, Darkly" solo show by Serena Cole (MFA alum) // 6 - 8pm at Soo Visual Arts Center (2638 Lyndale Ave. S Minneapolis)

(9/15) Imin Yeh (MFA alum) at ZERO1 Biennial (SF)

(9/15) Sara Thacher (MFA alum) at ZERO1 Biennial (SJ)

(9/15) Headlands Center for the Arts 30th Anniversary in SF

(9/15) Ranu Mukherjee (MFA Faculty) screenings at ZERO1Biennial (SJ)

(9/15) Sune Woods (MFA alum) at Koplin Del Rio (Culver City, CA)

(9/15) Man Yee Lam (MFA '13) and Abby Chen (VCS alum) at Chinese Cultural Foundation

(9/16) Chimera Flea Market (SF campus)  RSVP as a seller

(9/18 - 10/7) VIP Vernissage Art Fair in NYC

(9/19) Painting/Drawing Lecture Series: Andrew Masullo (SF)

(9/19) Design and Craft Lecture Series: Maria Elena Buszek (OAK)

9/19) Lynn Marie Kirby (MFA faculty) at Brava Theater (SF)

(9/19) Jake Ziemann (MFA alum) at Tartine Bakery (SF)

(9/20) Graduate Lecture Series: Matthew E. May (SF)

(9/21) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at CCA Derry in Northern Ireland

(9/21) Jeffrey Deitch and Lawrence Rinder in conversation, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive

(9/23) Sita Bhaumik (MFA/MA alum) workshop at the Women's Building

(9/27 - 28) Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) performance at Blackwood Gallery, Ontario

(9/27) We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award opening at the Oliver (OAK)

(10/9) Kristin Neidlinger (MFA Design alum) in Lille, France

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "Piece Offering" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (through October 5) "I (Heart) Data Mining" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Kadist Foundation (through September 2012) "Telling Fortunes" by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 13) "dOCUMENTA(13)" with participation by Amy Balkin, Shaun O'Dell (both MFA faculty) and Elizabeth Dorbad, Ann Schnake, Ruth Robbins (all MFA alums) (through September 16) "Strange Fruit" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Five Corners" with work by Evan Ellsworth Jourden, Matt Gordon (both MFA alums) and others at 2nd Floor Projects (through September 12) "I'm So Goth - I am Dead!" curated by Bob Linder and Julio César Morales (both MFA advisors) with work by Andrea Bacigalupo, Bessma Khalaf, Jonathan Runcio (all MFA alums) and Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel (both MFA advisors) and Desiree Holman (MFA faculty) at Queen's Nails Annex (through September 15) "Searose Garden" solo show by Kathleen Clausen (MFA alum) at Ramon's Tailor (through September 15) "dOCUMENTA (13)" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Mueuem Fridericianum (through September 16) Jessica Skloven (MFA alum) solo show "Recent Works" at Z Space (through October 14) "Residency Projects" with work by Michele Carlson (MFA faculty) at Kala Institute (through September 15) "MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7) "Movement in Many Parts" with work by Kim Anno, Sanjit Sethi (MFA faculty) Mik Gaspay, Susan Chen (MFA alums), curated by Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum) at the Asian Resource Center Gallery (through September 28) "Rendez-vous 12" with work by Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) at South African National Gallery (through October 14) "At the Edge" with works by Sean McFarland, Jamie Vasta, Anna Von Mertens (all MFA alums) and Jay Nelson (BFA alum) at Berkeley Art Museum (through December 23) "Strange Fruit" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Salon No 9" with work by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) at MArine Art Salon, LA (through September 15) "Chico & Chang" group show with work by Pablo Cristi (MFA alum), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through September 16) "Anomalous Perspectives: The 2011 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition" with work by Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) at Sheldon Art Galleries (through September 15) "Mind the System, Find the Gap" group show with work by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty), z33 (through September 30) "International Orange" group show with work by Doug Hall (MFA advisor), Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco (both MFA faculty), Fort Point National Historic Site (through September 3) "David Maisel: History's Shadow" at Keck Center (through October 5) Paintings and wall installation by Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) at State Bird Provisions (ongoing)