WDNSDY OCTBR 24 - FRDY 2, 2012



// Did you know this newsletter now exists in a truncated blog version? Tell your "friends"!

// The new Gitz Magazine features an interview with Klea McKenna (MFA alum) 




WED 24 // Wattis Small Talks // Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) // 7PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)
WED 24 // Design & Craft Lecture Series // Gabriel Craig // 7PM // Nahl Hall (SF)

WED 24 - SAT 27 // LAST DAYS // "We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition" // 10AM - 6PM weekdays / 12PM - 6PM weekends // Oliver Art Center (OAK)

THU 25 // Grad Lecture Series // David L. Eng // 7PM // Timken (SF)

SAT 27 // Painting Department Workshop // "Spontaneous Critique" with Mel David // 4PM // PLAySPACE (SF)

MON 29 // Photo Lecture Series // Idris Khan // 11AM // Ralls Painting Studio (OAK)

MON 29 // Grad Lecture Series // Kai-Uwe Bergmann // 7PM // Timken (SF)

TUE 30 //  Info Session // "2012-13 IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards" // 3 - 4PM // Timken (SF)

TUE 30 // Ceramics Alumni Potluck // 6:30-9PM // Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center (OAK)

TUE 30 // Grad Lecture Series // Claire Fontaine and Hal Foster // 7PM // Timken (SF)

WED 31 // Info Session // 2012-13 IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards // 11AM - 12PM // Timken (SF)
WED 31 // Wattis Small Talks // Glen Helfand (MFA faculty) // 7PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)

WED 31 // Notes from the Studio // Serena Cole Halloween Special // 4PM // PLAySPACE (SF)

THU 1 // Lecture // Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley // 6PM // Timken (SF)

 

WED 24 // Closing Reception // "Marking a Scene" with work by Torreya Cummings, Bessma Khalaf (both CCA alums) and The Center for Tactical Magic (MFA faculty) // 6 - 9PM // Southern Exposure (3030 20th St, SF)

THU 25 // Opening // "Telling Fortunes" and "Local Color" solo show by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) // 8 - 9:30PM // San Jose Museum of Art (110 South Market St, San Jose)   let Ranu know if you want to go

THU 25 // Panel Discussion // "Goodbye to Craft" by Glenn Adamson, with responses by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) and Ron Rael, moderated by Julia Bryan-Wilson // 6PM // Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley)

FRI 26 // "10 Artists Walk From Home" with
Zarouhie Abdalian, Sean McFarland, Lindsey White (all MFA alums), Shaun O'Dell (MFA faculty) and others // 6 - 9PM // Will Brown (3041 24th St, SF)

SAT 27 // Closing // "Paintings" solo show by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor) // Stephen Wirtz Gallery (49 Geary Street #350 SF)

SAT 27// Readings // Nicole Markoff (MFA Alum) // Neon Raspberry Gallery (3605 Main Street, Occidental, CA)

SAT 27 // Blue Trail Design Jam // 10-5:30PM // Adaptive Path (Pier One, Bay 2, SF)

SAT 27 // 2012 Bay Area Graduate Symposium in Art History, Film and Media // 9AM // The Contemporary Jewish Museum (736 Mission St, SF)

SAT 27 // Festival // "CODAME Art + Tech Festival" featuring work by Jonathan Wallraven (MFA '12) // 8PM - ? // BUY TICKETS

SAT 27, SUN 28 // Closing // "FOR-SITE Foundation's International Orange Exhibition" with work by Allison Smith, Stephanie Syjuco, Doug Hall (all MFA faculty) and others // Fort Point (SF)  MORE INFO  http://www.international-

SUN 28 // "Headlands Fall Open Studios" with work by Victoria Gannon (VCS alum), Liam Everett, Ali Naschke-Messing, Zachary Royer Scholz (MFA/MA alum), Christina Seely (MFA advisor) // 12 - 5PM // Headlands Center for the Arts (944 Fort Barry, Sausalito)

MON 29 // Artist Talk // Allison Smith (MFA faculty) // State University of New York at Buffalo (112 Center for the Arts, North Campus)

MON 29 // Artist Talk // Michael Robinson // 7:30PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut Street, SF)

FRI 2 // Opening // "An Abridged Visual Mapping of A Place of My Own within the Context of 667 Shotwell" solo show by Kelly Lynn Jones (MFA alum) // 6PM // 667 Shotwell (SF)



 

(11/3) Kate Bonner (MFA alum) at Important Projects

(11/3) MacArthurBArthur Auction 

(11/5) Bovey Lee Grad Satellite Lecture

(11/5) 2012-13 IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards, info session

(11/7) 2012-13 IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards, info session

(11/7) Luther Price Design & Craft Lecture Series talk

(11/8) 2012-13 IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards, info session

(11/8) Fred Alvarado (MFA alum) discusses his collaboration in Lebanon

(11/10) Christine Elfman, Emily Eifler, Julia Goodman, Klea McKenna, Leah Rosenberg and Maria Porges at Root Division

(11/12) Fulbright Info Panel with Rebecca Najdowski (MFA alum)  RSVP  careers@cca.edu.

(11/13) Stephen Goldstine (MFA advisor) Grad Satellite Lecture

(11/13) 2012-13 IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards, info session

(11/14) 2012-13 IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards, info session

(11/15) Jedediah Caesar Grad Satellite Lecture

(11/19) Robert Crouch Grad Satellite Lecture

(11/27) Nayland Blake Grad Lecture Series talk

(11/29) David Goldblatt Larry Sultan Lecture Series talk



  

"Tracing Light" with work by Klea McKenna (MFA alum) and others at the Datz Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Group Exhibition with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) and others at Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art at Temple University (through November 4)

"MoMA Studio: COMMON SENSES: Mildred's Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity)" with work by Allison Smith, Brian Conley (both MFA faculty), and others at MoMA NY (through November 19)

 "El cine de 1930. Flores azules en un paisaje catastrofico," curated by Karen Fiss (MFA faculty) at the Reina Sofia (through October 31)

"Encuentros con los anos 30," curated by Karen Fiss (MFA faculty) and others at the Reina Sofia (through January 7)

"Making a Scene" with Torreya Cummings, Bessma Khalaf (both MFA alums) and the Center for Tactical Magic at SOEX (through OCT 27)

New ceramic work by Carmen Lang (MFA´13) at Roscoe Ceramic Gallery (through OCT 27)

"Winds Ground Hollow" solo show by
Kathryn Spence (MFA advisor) 

"Paintings" solo show by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor)  at Stephen Wirtz Gallery (through OCT 27)

"The Desert of the Real Itself" with work by Christine M. Peterson (MFA '12), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP '12) at MacArthur B. Arthur (through October 28)

"Even Gravity has its Ups and Downs"
Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA Alum), Arena 1, (through NOV 10)

"Keeping Time" with work by Carol Ladewig, Leah Rosenberg, Ansley West (all MFA alums) and Christina Seely (CCA faculty) at Kala Art Institute (through November 27)

 Jeanne Finley (MFA faculty), Anthony Discenza (MFA faculty/alum), Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum), Carlos Ramirez (MFA alum) at Palo Alto Arts Center (through April 14)

"What Goes Without Saying" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MA/MFA alum) at Jack Shainman Gallery (through Nov 18)

"Cumulus" solo show by
Cara Levine (MFA Alum) at Make Hang Gallery (through Nov 30)

"I like where this is going" group show with work by Kate Bonner (MFA '12) and others at Queens Nails (through Nov 10)

"A.D.D." with work by Phillip Maisel (MFA '12), Tony Discenza (MFA faculty), killer banshee, Tom Comitta, Ann Schnake, Laura Sackett, , Travis Meinolf (all CCA alums) at The Emerald Tablet (through Nov 16)


THRSDY OCTBR 18 - FRDY OCTBR 26, 2012




 

// There's a nice little feature on Natasha Wheat (MFA '11) on CCA's website

// (MFA/MA alum) Hank Willis Thomas's photograph of Sanford Biggers is on the cover of the latest issue of Art News Magazine



FRI 19 // Student Reading // with participation from Lynn Kirby (MFA faculty/student), Sam Cavedon, Kristin Adochio, Nora Toomey, Jenny Goldsmith (all MFA Writing) // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Writers Studio (195 DeHaro, SF)

SAT 20 // POP UP SHOW // http://venicebiennaleamericanpavilion.com/ by Matt Kotzin and Adam Henderson (both MFA '14) // 7:30 - 9:30PM // Hooper One Atrium (SF)

TUE 23 // Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Lecture Series // Zoe Strauss // 7PM // Timken (SF)
 

WED 24 // Wattis Small Talks // Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) // 7PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)

WED 24 // Design & Craft Lecture Series // Gabriel Craig Design & Craft Talk // Nahl Hall // 7PM (OAK)

WED 24 // Notes from the Studio // Bryan Keith Thomas (MFA advisor) // 4PM // PLAySPACE (SF)

THU 25 // Grad Lecture Series // David L. Eng // 7PM // Timken (SF)




 

THU 18, FRI 19, SAT 20 // Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts 2012 Open Studios with work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA) and others, organized by Natalia Nakazawa (MFA alum) // EFA Studios (323 W 39th St, NYC)  MORE INFO

THU 18 // Opening // "What Goes Without Saying" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MA/MFA alum) // 6 - 8PM // Jack Shainman Gallery (513 West 20th Street, New York)

THU 18 // Screening // "Men and Women in Water Cites, Chapter One" directed by Kim Anno (MFA faculty) // 6 - 9PM // UC Berkeley Student Union building

FRI 19 // BERC Energy Symposium 2012 // "Energizing Cultural Innovations: How the Arts Can Promote a Sustainable Energy Future" with participation from Amy Balkin, Kim Anno (both MFA faculty) and others // 2:15PM // UC Berkeley Student Union (MORE INFO)

FRI 19 // Opening // "Cumulus" solo show by Cara Levine (MFA Alum) // 6-9PM // // Make Hang (450 Green Street, SF)

SAT 20 // Opening // "I like where this is going" group show with work by Kate Bonner (MFA '12) and others // 8-10pm // Queens Nails (3191 Mission St, SF, CA)

SAT 20 // Opening // "A.D.D." with work by Phillip Maisel (MFA '12), Tony Discenza (MFA faculty), killer banshee, Tom Comitta, Ann Schnake, Laura Sackett, , Travis Meinolf (all CCA alums) // 7 - 10PM // The Emerald Tablet (80 Fresno Street, SF)

SAT 20 // Opening // "Blind Passenger" solo show by Nicole Markoff (MFA Alum) // 6 - 9PM // Neon Raspberry Gallery (3605 Main Street, Occidental, CA)

SAT 20 // Street Festival // "Urban Prototyping Festival // 12PM - 10PM // Civic Center  (MORE INFO)

SUN 21 // Alumni Event // Surfrider Foundation Beach Cleanup // 10AM - 12PM //  (RSVP / MORE INFO)

SUN 21 // Screening // "Sweet From the Permanent Collection: (Internally Commissioned) Movies & (Build Your Own Richard Serra) Cookies with work by Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) and others // 7 - 9PM // Will Brown (3041 24th St, SF)

MON 22 // Artist Talk // Sue Williams // 7:30PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut, SF)

MON 22 // Artist Talk // Bean Gilsdorf (MFA alum) // 1-2PM // Alberta College of Art & Design (1407-14 Ave. NW, Calgary, AB Canada)

WED 24 // Opening // "two mind to leave, and but one to stay" with work by Heather Watson (MFA alum) // 8 - 10pm // Tartine Bakery (600 Guerrero St)

THU 25 // Opening // "Telling Fortunes" and "Local Color" solo show by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) // 8 - 9:30PM // San Jose Museum of Art (110 South Market St, San Jose)   let Ranu know if you want to go

THU 25 // Panel Discussion // "Goodbye to Craft" by Glenn Adamson, with responses by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) and Ron Rael, moderated by Julia Bryan-Wilson // 6PM // Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley)





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

(10/27) Floris Schonfeld (MFA '13) at Objectif (Belgium)

(10/27) Readings by Nicole Markoff (MFA Alum) at Neon Raspberry Gallery

(10/27) Painting Department Workshop "Spontaneous Critique" with Mel David

(10/27) Blue Trail Design Jam

(10/27) 2012 Bay Area Graduate Symposium in Art History, Film and Media

(10/29) Michael Robinson talk at SFAI

(10/29) Idris Khan Photo Lecture Series Talk

(10/29) Kai-Uwe Bergmann Grad Lecture Series Talk

(10/30) Ceramics Alumni Potluck 

(10/30) Claire Fontaine and Hal Foster Grad Lecture Series talk 

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

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

(11/1) Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley talk

(11/2) Kelly Lynn Jones (MFA alum) at 667 Shotwell

(11/3) Kate Bonner (MFA alum) at Important Projects


(11/3) MacArthurBArthur Auction




 

"El cine de 1930. Flores azules en un paisaje catastrofico," curate by Karen Fiss (MFA faculty) at the Reina Sofia (through October 31)

"Encuentros con los anos 30," curated by Karen Fis (MFA faculty) and others at the Reina Sofia (through January 7)

"Textile Topologies" with work by Alyssa Pitman, Tali Weinberg, Dimeng Brehmer, Dalia Anani, Leora Lutz, Christina Conklin, Maral Hashemi, Diedrick Brackens, Caroline Hayes Charuk, Margo Wolowiec, Sadie Harmon and Susannah Dotson (all MFAs) at College Avenue Galleries (through OCT 20)

"Making a Scene" with Torreya Cummings, Bessma Khalaf (both MFA alums) and the Center for Tactical Magic at SOEX (through OCT 27)


New ceramic work by Carmen Lang (MFA´13) at Roscoe Ceramic Gallery (through OCT 27)

"Winds Ground Hollow" solo show by
Kathryn Spence (MFA advisor) // "Paintings"

solo show by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor)  at Stephen Wirtz Gallery (through OCT 27)

"The Desert of the Real Itself" with work by Christine M. Peterson (MFA '12), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP '12) at MacArthur B. Arthur (through OCT 28)

"Even Gravity has its Ups and Downs" Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA Alum), Arena 1, (through NOV 10)
"Keeping Time" with work by Carol Ladewig, Leah Rosenberg, Ansley West (all MFA alums) and Christina Seely (CCA faculty) at Kala Art Institute (through November 27)

 Jeanne Finley (MFA faculty), Anthony Discenza (MFA faculty/alum), Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum), Carlos Ramirez (MFA alum) at Palo Alto Arts Center (through APR 14)



THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 - FRIDAY OCTOBER 19, 2012


 
 Congrats to Renee Gertler (MFA '07) on her honorable mention for a Santo Foundation Grant

Kudos to Arash Fayez (MFA '13), one of 19 artists shortlisted for the 2013 Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize



 

// Nicki Grattan and (MFA alum) Klea McKenna's blog In The Make has a new site, and a few new visits: Michelle Blade (MFA '08), Jamie Vasta (MFA '06), and Rebeca Bollinger (MFA faculty) 






THU 11 // Grad Lecture Series // Leila Chirayath Janah // 7PM // Timken Hall (SF)

THU 11 // PLAySPACE Committee Meeting (open to all!) // 7:15 - 8PM // Curatorial Practice Room, Hooper 1 (SF)

SAT 13 //  Painting Department Workshop // "Experimental Watercolor" with Serena Cole (MFA alum) // 12 - 3PM // N14/16 (SF)

SUN 14 // PLAySPACE Financial District walking tour // 1:45PM - 4PM // 101 Spear Street @ Mission  (RSVP)

SUN 14 // BENEFIT // "Passport 2012" featuring artist-designed stamps by Stephanie Syjuco, David Huffman (both MFA faculty), Walter Logue (friend of the program), and others // 12 - 4PM // starts in Washington Square Park  (MORE INFO)

WED 17 // GRAD FINE ARTS SATELLITE LECTURE SERIES // Lisa Lapinksi // 7:15 pm // Graduate Center (SF)

WED 17 //  Wattis Small Talk // Will Rogan // 7:00–8:00 pm // SF

WED 17 // PLAySPACE // Notes from the Studio: Mel Davis // 4PM (SF)



 

THU 11 // Opening // "The White Horse Prophecy" with work by Max Esplin (MFA '12) and others // hpgrp Gallery (529 W 20th St 2nd Fl, NYC)

FRI 12 // "Creative Time Summit 2012: Confronting Inequity" with participation from Julian Myers (MFA faculty), Renny Pritiken (CURP faculty), Elizabeth Thomas (MFA advisor), Neil Rivas (MFA '13) // 7AM - 4PM // Arts Research Center (201 Dwinelle Annex, UC Berkeley)  MORE INFO

SAT 13, SUN 14 // Performance // "I Paint You. You Paint Me." by Piero Passacantando (MFA alum) // 10AM - 6PM // Art in Odd Places (Union Square, NYC)

SAT 13 // Kristin Neidlinger (MFA DESIGN alum) at FUTUROTEXTILES3

TUE 16 // Berkeley Center for New Media Artist Talk // Henry Witecki (MFA/MA '13) // 6:30PM // Moffitt Library (340 Moffitt, UC Berkeley)

TUE 16 // Performance  // Christian Nagler's "Market Fitness: Foreign Exchange" // 7:30pm - 9:00PM // SFAI Cafe (800 Chestnut Street, SF)

WED 17 // Artist Talk // Jayson Musson // 7:30PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut, SF)

WED 17 // Artists' Reception // "Making a Scene" with Torreya Cummings, Bessma Khalaf (both MFA alums) and the Center for Tactical Magic (MFA faculty) // 6 -9PM // SOEX (20th St)

THU 18 // Opening // "What Goes Without Saying" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MA/MFA alum) // 6 - 8PM // Jack Shainman Gallery (513 West 20th Street, New York)

FRI 19 // Opening // "Cumulus" solo show by Cara Levine (MFA Alum) // 6-9PM // // Make Hang (450 Green Street, SF)




 

"Textile Topologies" with work by Alyssa Pitman, Tali Weinberg, Dimeng Brehmer, Dalia Anani, Leora Lutz, Christina Conklin, Maral Hashemi, Diedrick Brackens, Caroline Hayes Charuk, Margo Wolowiec, Sadie Harmon and Susannah Dotson (all MFAs) at College Avenue Galleries

"Keeping Time" with work by Carol Ladewig, Leah Rosenberg, Ansley West (all MFA alums) and Christina Seely (CCA faculty) at Kala Art Institute (through November 27)

"Nu Body" with work by Taravat Talepasand (MFA faculty) and others at Eleanor Harwood Gallery (through OCT 13)


New ceramic work by Carmen Lang (MFA´13) at Roscoe Ceramic Gallery (through OCT 27)

"The Desert of the Real Itself" with work by Christine M. Peterson (MFA '12), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP '12) at MacArthur B. Arthur (through OCT 28)

 "Winds Ground Hollow" solo show by
Kathryn Spence (MFA advisor) // "Paintings"

 solo show by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor)  at Stephen Wirtz Gallery (through OCT 27

 Jeanne Finley (MFA faculty), Anthony Discenza (MFA faculty/alum), Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum), Carlos Ramirez (MFA alum) at Palo Alto Arts Center (through APR 14





WDNSDY OCTBR 4 - FRDY OCTBR 12, 2012


 
// Please join us in welcoming Jessica Skloven (MFA '08) to her new position as Grad Fine Arts Program Coordinator!


 
// Glen Helfand (MFA faculty) was joined in conversation with Margaret Tedesco (MFA advisor) on KUSF IN EXILE

// Check out these fab photos of "We're All Here Because We're Not All There" currently on view in the Oliver. And here's a pdf of the accompanying catalog for your perusal. Want more? Recollections and reminiscences from past Barclay Simpson winners are collected here.


 
// Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) caught some genuine moments in a recent photoshoot for BloombergBusinessweek

// Photo District News ran a piece on Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) on Jim Goldberg (MFA faculty)



THU 4 // Ceramics Lecture Series // Brad Miller // 7:15pm // Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center (OAK)

THU 4 // Artist talk // Phil Jimenez, presented by MFA in Comics // 7PM // Timken (SF)

FRI 5 // American English Speech Workshop for non-native English Speakers // 10 - 11:30am // GC4 (SF)  RSVP

FRI 5 // Photography Lecture Series // Mikhael Subotzky // 11AM // Ralls 202 (OAK)

FRI 5 - SUN 7 // Society for Photographic Education West Regional Conference (OAK)  MORE INFO 

SUN 7 // Alameda Antiques Market // 11AM - 3PM // pick ups at SF and OAK // RSVP

TUE 9 // Opening // Group exhibition with work by Mario Miron (CCA BFA) and others // Bruce Galleries (SF)

TUE 9 // IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Awards Team Presentations with participation from Jesus Landin-Torrez, Teresa Baker, Floris Schonfeld, Heidi Lubin, Neil Rivas (all MFA '13), Roberto Gomez (MFA/MA '13) // 7PM // Timken Hall (SF)

WED 10 // Photography Lecture Series // Susan Meiselas // 11AM // Ralls Painting Studio (OAK)

WED 10 // Opening // "Knots: Textile Topologies" Textiles Program exhibition // 5:30 - 7:30PM // College Avenue Galleries (OAK)

WED 10 // Notes from the Studio // Matt Borruso (MFA advisor) //  PLAySPACE (SF)

WED 10 // Wattis Small Talks //  Andrew Weiner // 7PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)

THU 11 // National Coming Out Day Mixer // 12 - 1PM // Macky Lawn (OAK)

THU 11 // National Coming Out Day Mixer // 3 - 4PM // Nave (SF)

THU 11 // Grad Lecture Series // Leila Chirayath Janah // 7PM // Timken Hall (SF)

THU 11 // PLAySPACE Committee Meeting (open to all!) // 7:15 - 8PM // Curatorial Practice Room, Hooper 1 (SF)


 

THU 4 // Opening // "Keeping Time" with work by Carol Ladewig, Leah Rosenberg, Ansley West (all MFA alums) and Christina Seely (CCA faculty) // 6 - 8PM // Kala Art Institute (1060 Heinz Ave, Berkeley)

THU 4 // Artist talk // "Precarious Performance" with presenter Jennifer Devere Brody and discussant Shannon Jackson // 4:30 - 6:30PM // Dwinelle Hall 370 (UC Berkeley)

FRI 5 // Screening // "Mommy is Coming" by Cheryl Dunye (MFA faculty) // 11PM // Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse Ritz)

FRI 5 // ART MURMUR Opening // New ceramic work by Carmen Lang (MFA´13) // 6 - 10PM // Roscoe Ceramic Gallery 473 25TH St, OAK)

FRI 5 // Opening + Artist Talk // Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) // 5 - 8PM Burlington City Arts (135 Church St, VT)

FRI 5 // Opening // "The Desert of the Real Itself" with work by Christine M. Peterson (MFA '12), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP '12) // 7 - 10PM // MacArthur B. Arthur (4030 MLK Jr. Way, Oakland)

FRI 5 // On View // "Making A Scene" featuring (MFA alum) Torreya Cumming's Strange Familiars (or Non-Daguerreian Anti-Portrait Studio for Local Types), (MFA alum) Bessma Khalaf's Invisible Thief, and (MFA faculty) The Center for Tactical Magic's Bank Heist Contest // MORE INFO

SAT 6 // Opening // "Winds Ground Hollow" solo show by Kathryn Spence (MFA advisor) // "Paintings" solo show by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor) // 4 - 6PM // Stephen Wirtz Gallery (49 Geary, SF)

SAT 6 // Grand Opening // work by Jeanne Finley (MFA faculty), Anthony Discenza (MFA faculty/alum), Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum), Carlos Ramirez (MFA alum) // 11 - 5PM // Palo Alto Arts Center (1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto) 

SAT 6 // Screening // "Looking for Jiro" by Tina Takemoto (MFA faculty) // 9PM // Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, Austin)

SAT 6, SAT 13, SUN 14 // Performance // "I Paint You. You Paint Me." by Piero Passacantando (MFA alum) // 10AM - 6PM // Art in Odd Places (Union Square, NYC)

SAT 6 // ROOF + RENT RAISER // 9PM - !!! // WILL BROWN (3041 24TH ST, SF)

MON 8 // Artist Talk // Mungo Thompson // 7PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut St, SF)

TUE 9 // Glen Helfand's Physical Exhibitions Class Presents // Christian Nagler's "Market Fitness: Economics" // 6PM // Sports Basement (1590 Bryant Street, SF)

TUE 9 // Opening // "Upbraid" solo show by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) // 10PM // Night Gallery (204 S Ave 19, LA)

WED 10 // Salon // Guerrilla Cafe: Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC) // 12 - 5PM // Walter and McBean Galleries (SFAI, 800 Chestnut, SF)

FRI 12 // "Creative Time Summit 2012: Confronting Inequity" with participation from Julian Myers (MFA faculty), Renny Pritiken (CURP faculty), Elizabeth Thomas (MFA advisor), Neil Rivas (MFA '13) // 7AM - 4PM // Arts Research Center (201 Dwinelle Annex, UC Berkeley)  MORE INFO



(10/13) Painting Department Workshop "Experimental Watercolor" with Serena Cole (MFA alum)

(10/13) Kristin Neidlinger (MFA DESIGN alum) at FUTUROTEXTILES3

(10/14) EXPLORING THE SEASONAL COLOR+TASTE PALETTE workshop at PERMACOUTURE INSTITUTE

(10/14) PLAySPACE Financial District walking tour

(10/15) Jacques Tati's Playtime at SFAI

(10/16) Henry Witecki (MFA/MA '13) talk at Berkeley Center for New Media

(10/16) Christian Nagler's "Market Fitness: Foreign Exchange" at SFAI Cafe

(10/17) Lisa Lapinksi Satellite Talk

(10/17) Wattis Small Talks: Will Rogan

(10/17) Jayson Musson talk at SFAI

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

(10/18) Hank Willis Thomas (MA/MFA alum) at Jack Shainmain Gallery

(10/19) Cara Levine (MFA Alum) at Make Hang SF

(10/20) Phillip Maisel, killer banshee, Tom Comitta, Ann Schnake, Laura Sackett, Tony Discenza, Travis Meinolf at The Emerald Tablet

(10/20) Nicole Markoff (MFA Alum) at Neon Raspberry Gallery

(10/21) CCA Alumni Surfrider Foundation Beach Cleanup (RSVP)

(10/22) Sue Williams talk at SFAI

 (10/23) Zoe Strauss Larry Sultan Talk 

(10/24) Wattis Small Talks: Zarouhie Abdalian

(10/24) Gabriel Craig Design & Craft Talk

(10/25) David L. Eng Grad Lecture Series Talk 

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

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

(10/27) Floris Schonfeld (MFA '13) at Objectif (Belgium)

(10/27) Readings by Nicole Markoff (MFA Alum) at Neon Raspberry Gallery

(10/27) Painting Department Workshop "Spontaneous Critique" with Mel Davis

(10/27) Blue Trail Design Jam

(10/29) Michael Robinson talk at SFAI

 (10/30) Ceramics Alumni Potluck 

(10/30) Claire Fontaine and Hal Foster Grad Lecture Series talk 

(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...




"New York Studio: Contemporary Dialogues Around Painting" with work by Eric Dyer, Jeremy Ehling, Jaimie Healy, Megan Lavelle, Nan Peletz (all MFA'13), and Linda Geary (MFA faculty) at West Gallery, OAK (through October 7)

 "We're All Here Because We're Not All There" Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award with work by Anthony Discenza, Josh Greene, Todd Hido, David Huffman, Lawrence LaBianca, Scott Oliver (all MFA faculty/alums), Dina Danish, Bill Durgin, Patricia Esquivias, Harrell Fletcher, Llewellyn Fletcher, Mik Gaspay, Hannah Ireland, Katie Lewis, Travis Joseph Meinolf, Linn Myers, Patricia Olynyk, Conrad Ruiz, Gabrielle Teschner, Hank Willis Thomas and Imin Yeh (all MFA alums) // Oliver Arts Center (OAK) (through October 27)




"Liminalscape Study: SOMArts + Environs" with work by Heidi Lubin (MFA´13) at RAMP Gallery, SOMArts (through Ocotber 15)

"Color as Space, as Sense" paintings by Linda Geary (faculty) and Danielle Lawrence, 2nd Floor Projects (through October 31)

"When Attitudes Become Forms Become Attitudes" with work by Hank Willis Thomas, Natasha Wheat, Zarouhie Abdalian (all MFA alums) and others at the Wattis Gallery (through December 1)

"Temporary Structures" curated by Glen Helfand (MFA faculty) with work by Jonathan Runcio (MFA alum) and others, SFAI (through December 15)

"Espirito Alegre" solo show by Yoshimoto Saito (MFA '97) at Goodwin Fine Art, Denver (through October 6)

"Blown Out" with work by Bryson Gill (BFA alum) at Mollusk Surf Shop (through October 14)

"Piece Offering" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (through October 5)

"Telling Fortunes" by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 1

"MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7)

"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)

"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)







"Coming Up Roses" solo show by Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) at Mark Wolfe Contemporary (through October 27) 


  




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