Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow Linda Besemer talks about exploring the plasticity and physicality of painting.

Artist and SFAI Visiting Fellow Chris Johanson talks about his work exploring the quandary that is the modern human condition, traversing the age of consumerism, and other perilous psychological phenomena such as self-help, psychotherapy, and cult spirituality.

Celebrated sculptor, installation artist, and painter, Tom Sachs discusses his innovative renaming, examination, and questioning of icons of capitalist culture and systems of daily life.

Takeshi Murata discusses extraordinary digital works—videos, loops, installations, and electronic music—that refigure the experience of animation.

Artist and SFAI Visiting Fellow Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses his transformation of traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern—into opportunities to create new characters, develop subplots, and convey symbolic meaning.

Photographer Doug Rickard talks about his classic documentary approach that acknowledges an increasingly technological world.

Artist and designer Roy McMakin explores the ontological complexities of furniture—which occupies the same space as sculpture, but is not culturally recognized as such.

Pablo Helguera, the Director of Adult and Academic Programs at MoMA and this semester's Seed Fund Teaching Fellow, reflects on his work as both an artist and educator.

Painter and sculptor Ruby Neri discusses her figurative forms that are modeled expressively by hand and animated by the application of unabashed colors, decorative patterning, and incised painted lines.

Artist Carolina Caycedo invites us to explore the inner and outer spaces of our bodies, our neighbors, and our locales in a series of performances organized by the SFMOMA. SFAI hosts Caycedo's telescopic exploration of the landmarks and limits from the rooftop amphitheater of its Chestnut Street Campus.