Visitors watch artist Shahzia Sikander's animation The Last Post in the Walter and McBean Galleries,
which present exhibitions of global contemporary art.
visiting artists and scholars lecture series
Visiting artists and scholars are of decisive importance to the San Francisco Art Institute’s educational mission.
The Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series provides students and faculty at SFAI—as well as the wider Bay Area public—with direct exposure to major figures in contemporary global art and culture. It creates an open forum through which SFAI’s students are challenged to go beyond basic canonical approaches to the study of art and to discover a global perspective that encourages conceptual and comparative approaches.
Past guests include Lisa Yuskavage, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili, Laurel Nakadate, Teresa Margolles, Sharon Lockhart, William Kentridge, Rem Koolhaas, Nicole Eisenman, Francesco Bonami, and Andrea Zittel. In addition to the public lectures they give, visiting artists and scholars regularly engage with students in an immediate and active way, by teaching intensives or by participating in seminars, critiques, or colloquia.
See the Spring 2012 Schedule
Lectures are at 7:30 pm
800 Chestnut Street campus, Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public
