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Saturday, 5 July—Sunday, 20 July 2008

Since its advent in the nineteenth century, photography has been a vital part of literature’s imaginings, and the rapport between literary and photographic media has been a consistent subject of interest for Princeton English Professor Eduardo Cadava. A former lecturer in SFAI's Spring 2007 Graduate Lecture Series, Spheres of Interest, Cadava is returning to SFAI starting Monday, 14 July to lead a graduate seminar—Photography and Literature, 1839 to the Present—the topic of which is the relation between photography, literature, and death. For more information on Cadava's course and other courses being taught this summer, please go to www.sfai.edu/courseschedule and download a PDF of Summer Institute 2008. In the fall of 2008, SFAI’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies is also offering a graduate-level seminar—Global Spectacle: Contemporary Art, Event Culture, and Urban Identities—that is open both to SFAI students and to graduate students from other institutions. The course will be led by SFAI Dean of Academic Affairs Okwui Enwezor, who is also the art director for the 7th Gwangju Biennial. For details about the course, please click here or go to www.sfai.edu/courseschedule and download a PDF of the Fall 2008 Course Schedule.

Alumna Jackie Sumell will be one of eighty artists exhibiting at Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest international exhibition of contemporary art ever presented in the United States. Opening on 1 November 2008, the new biennial has been conceived along the lines of the great international biennials and will advance new artistic practices as well as an array of programs benefiting the local community. Among Sumell’s inclusions will be her collaboration with Herman Joshua Wallace, The House That Herman Built. For more information on Prospect.1 New Orleans, please click here.

Congratulations to alumnus Paul Wackers, who has been granted the 2008–2009 Tournesol Award by the Headlands Center for the Arts. Wackers succeeds alumna Ana Teresa Fernández, some of the yield of whose standing as the 2007–2008 Tournesol Award winner will be on view starting Friday, 11 July, at the Luggage Store.

Time Is, Time Was—a painting from 1993 by SFAI Painting department chair Brett Reichman (see the image below)—perfectly captures the idea behind Ratio 3’s current exhibition, Kiki: The Proof Is in the Pudding, on view in San Francisco through 2 August. The exhibition commemorates the short-lived but influential 90s art space Kiki in San Francisco’s Mission district. Reichman’s work complements that of a host of SFAI alumni, including Jerome Caja, Kota Ezawa, Cliff Hengst, Scott Hewicker, Karla Milosevich, Catherine Opie, Rex Ray, and Michelle Rollman. See the SFAI Artists Now on View in the Bay Area section below for details.

Currently on view in SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries (on the 800 Chestnut Street campus) is We Remember the Sun—a group exhibition that both investigates the myths and legends growing out of the global activist protests of the late 60s and asks whether aspects of the utopian vision of that momentous period have carried over into the present. Among the fifteen Bay Area artists who devise interconnected but individualized responses to this inquest are SFAI faculty members Jill Miller and John Roloff and SFAI alumni Deer Fang and Michael Zheng. On view through 13 September 2008 and curated by SFAI’s assistant curator Mary Ellyn Johnson, We Remember the Sun is part of the New Voices component of SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs (directed by Hou Hanru); New Voices encourages the self-organizational initiatives of younger curators and other activists by providing them spaces and strategies through which to present their projects. For details on the exhibition, please go to www.sfai.edu/current. For a sample of some of the work that appears in We Remember the Sun, please see SFAI’s online gallery here.

Organized by SFAI faculty member J. D. Beltran, the Summer 2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series continues every Saturday through the end of July (the 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th). Designed to supplement SFAI’s Summer Low-residency MFA Program by giving graduate students exposure and access, on a weekly basis, to artists working in a wide variety of disciplines, the lectures take place, free and open to the public, at 3:00pm at the Third Street Graduate Center. Upcoming lecturers include Kara Maria (see calendar below), Nigel Poor (see calendar below), Gay Outlaw (see calendar below), and Chris Sollars. For more information, please click here.

SFAI’s 2008 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship has been awarded to SFAI alumna Josephine Taylor. A native of Colorado, Taylor studied religion and East Indian languages at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she earned a BA. She then came to SFAI to study painting and took an MFA in 2003. She will be teaching at SFAI and be in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts during the Fall 2008 semester. For more information, please click here.

For more information about on-campus SFAI-sponsored events (most of which are free and open to the public), as well as information on local exhibitions that include SFAI faculty, alumni, and current students, see the calendar and the SFAI Artists Now on View in the Bay Area section below.


Saturday 7/5		Lecture: Kara Maria - Summer 2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series - Lecture Hall - 2565 Third Street - 3:00pm - Free and open to the public


Tuesday 7/8		Exhibition: Heidi Maddess, Sonja Meller, and Laura Moretz - Diego Rivera Gallery - 800 Chestnut Street campus - Opening reception: 5:00 to 7:30pm - Artists’ talk: 4:30pm - Free and open to the public - On view from 6 July to 12 July (Image: Maddess, Tubular, 2008. Mixed media: graphite, watercolour, and digital. Courtesy of the artist.)


Saturday 7/12		Lecture: Nigel Poor - Summer 2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series - Lecture Hall - 2565 Third Street - 3:00pm - Free and open to the public


Tuesday 7/15		Exhibition: Summer MFA Group Show - Diego Rivera Gallery - 800 Chestnut Street campus - Opening reception: 5:00 to 7:30pm - Artists’ talk: 4:30pm - Free and open to the public - On view from 13 July to 19 July (Image: Sande Waters, Untitled, 2008. Graphite on synthetic paper, 7 x 5 ft. Courtesy of the artist.)


Saturday 7/19		Lecture: Gay Outlaw - Summer 2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series - Lecture Hall - 2565 Third Street - 3:00pm - Free and open to the public


Brett Reichman (and others) at Ratio 3		SFAI Artists Now on View in the Bay Area Exhibitions that include SFAI faculty, alumni, or current students Kiki: The Proof Is in the Pudding (Group Show) – Ratio 3 John Roloff – Walter and McBean Galleries Jill Miller – Walter and McBean Galleries Timothy Berry – Palo Alto Art Center Lynn Hershman Leeson – San Jose Museum of Art Charles Hobson – Peterson Gallery (Stanford University) Ana Teresa Fernández – The Luggage Store Summer Reading (Group Show) – Hosfelt Gallery Insider/Outsider (Group Show) – Root Division Verda Alexander and Paul Kyle – Soap Gallery Ala Ebtekar – Pro Arts Gallery Nina Hubbs Zurier (Text by Bill Berkson) – 2nd Floor Projects Deer Fang – Walter and McBean Galleries Michael Zheng – Walter and McBean Galleries Julie McNiel – SFMOMA Artists Gallery Ray Beldner – Catharine Clark Gallery Chris McCaw – RayKo Photo Center David Gremard Romero – Bucheon Gallery Edit: The Uncertain States of America (Group Show) – Maniac Shirley Hazlett – The Grotto Dianne Jones – Pro Arts Gallery (Image: Reichman, Time Is, Time Was, 1993. Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 in. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim.) SFAI’s exhibitions and public programs—a component of which is the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series—are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund. The Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellowships are also funded by the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation. The Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellowships are also funded by the Pilara Foundation. Additional funding for the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series has been provided by Bob and Betty Klausner. The Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship was established in 1998 by Richard Diebenkorn’s family. Together with studio space and housing at the Headlands Center for the Arts, 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 of his or her own. The McBean Distinguished Lectureship is endowed by the McBean Family Foundation.