Packard Jennings, Long Shot: Dining, Labor & Ponies, 2010

Date and Time: Tuesday August 31, 7:30-8:30 PM
Location: Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street (Btwn 15th and 16th)
Tickets: Available at the door only. $5-$15 sliding scale. All proceeds go to pay the participating actors.
Join us for Circular Time, a live reading of artist Packard Jenning's project, Longshot: Dining Labor and Ponies on view now at the SFAC Gallery as part of the exhibition Now & When. For Longshot, Jennings invited eight conceptual artists to meet in the private dining room of an upscale restaurant to discuss what project to make with their project budget provided by the gallery. The brainstorming for a time capsule took place over the course of a three-hour meal. After the bill was paid there was not enough stipend left to produce the project. All that remained was the conversation.

During this live performance, Jennings has hired actors to read a transcription of the Longshot dinner conversation. The names of the original particiapting artists will be left anonymous with the idea that the potential value of this reading comes, not from thinking of any specific artist’s perspective, but from experiencing a collaborative conversation between a group of artists. Like revealing the larger mass of ice that lay beneath the small cap of an iceberg, we want to make this normally invisible aspect of art-making visible.

The point of this work was to value process over product, to fund the development side of a work, rather than a physical final object. Please join us for this unusual experiment.
Based on the project Longshot: Dining Labor and Ponies by Packard Jennings with Amy Balkin, Anthony Discenzam Aaron Gachm Jonn Herschend, Lizabeth Rossof, Steve Shada and Stephanie Syjuco. Currently on view as part of Now & When at the SFAC Gallery through Saturday, September 4, 2010.

Passport 2010, presented by the SFAC Gallery is an affordable do-it-yourself art collecting experience. This annual public art event takes participants on a neighborhood stroll to collect artist-designed “passport stamps” in a special booklet that, once complete, becomes a limited-edition art book with original work by some of the Bay Area’s finest artists, both established and emerging.

Passport 2010 Participating Artists: Timothy Cummings, Richard Diebenkorn (courtesy of the estate), Jamaica Dyer, Ana Fernandez, Suzanne Husky, Jason Jagel, Ruth Laskey, Paul Madonna, Nigel Poor, Ricardo Richey, Lordy Rodriguez, Jovi Schnell, Travis Somerville, Deth P. Sun, Weston Teruya, and Lindsey White.

What: Passport 2010 Kick-Off Party
When: Saturday, October 9, 6–9 p.m
Where: The Rickshaw Stop
How Much: $5 suggested donation at the door, no one will be turned away for lack of funds

At the Passport 2010 Kick-Off Party, guests can pick up pre-purchased passport books or purchase passports at  the door, enjoy drinks and live music, and enter to win raffle prizes from a range of exciting community partners. Passport 2009 artist, Sean McFarland will be running a photo booth, Passport 2010 artist Suzanne Husky will be hosting a video kissing booth for any and all willing participants. Music by DJ Nuxx, who was just voted best DJ by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. More details coming soon so check back!

What: Passport 2010
When: Sunday, October 10 noon–4 p.m. (will call opens at 11am)
Where: Passport 2010 home base: Patricia’s Green, Hayes Street @ Octavia
Stamps available at various locations in the Hayes Valley, San Francisco

Visit favorite spots in Hayes Valley or discover new ones while collecting original stamps created by Bay Area artists for Passport 2010. Stop by Passport 2010 Home Base at Patricia’s Green to purchase a passport, pick up a map of locations, learn more about the SFAC Gallery, or relax and enjoy $1 hot dogs in the park with the whole family.

THE DETAILS
SFAC Gallery has commissioned fourteen Bay Area artists this year, including Ana Fernandez, Suzanne Husky, Jason Jagel, Paul Madonna, Nigel Poor, and Lordy Rodriquez to create their own version of a passport stamp for the event, which will be held in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. In a special contribution, the estate of the late Richard Diebenkorn will provide an additional stamp—a hand-carved wooden seal designed by the artist for the label of his own home-brewed beer.

HOW DOES THIS WORK?
To participate, art enthusiasts may purchase a Passport 2010 booklet for only $25 (a Moleskine® notebook donated by Chronicle Books that features a custom artist-designed cover) then follow a map to various Hayes Valley locations to get the book stamped by the artists themselves. Past “stamps” have been quite elaborate, sometimes involving hand-finished touches or performative elements. This year promises to bring similar surprises and attention to detail. Stamp locations in Hayes Valley will include Zonal, Rooky Records, MAC, Isotope Comics, and others. Proceeds from this fundraising event go toward the SFAC Gallery’s programming fund, which supports artist honoraria and exhibition costs throughout its entire season.

Passport 2010 begins the evening of Saturday, October 9 with a Kick-Off Party at The Rickshaw Stop, featuring passport pre-sales, live music, raffle, a full no-host bar, and many more surprises. The following day the event convenes at Patricia’s Green on Hayes Street at Octavia, which will serve as Passport 2010 Home Base between the hours of noon and 4pm. During that time participants can stop by to pick up a map, purchase a passport, or bring family and friends to relax on the lawn and enjoy a hot dog and soda while mingling with other Passport 2010 revelers.

HOW DO I GET A PASSPORT?
Passports may be purchased in advance online at www.eventbrite.com, and at the Passport 2010 Kick-Off Party. On the day of the event passports may be purchased only at the Patricia’s Green Home Base. Only official Passport 2010 booklets will be eligible to receive stamps. Passports from 2009 may not be used for any Passport 2010 stamps.

Passports are $25 and available online at eventbrite.com, during the kick-off party at Rickshaw Stop or at Passport 2010 Home Base on the day of the event.

NEW – This year the Gallery will offer a Concierge Passport option. For $125 Gallery staff will collect all the stamps for you and mail the Passport to your home. Only 25 Concierge Passports will be available, so early purchase is suggested.

SFAC Gallery's Passport 2010 is presented in partnership with Moleskin®.
Additional support generously provided by: Rickshaw Stop and Electric Works Gallery

Here is a glimpse of works by Passport 2010 featured artists

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery announces

PASSPORT 2010

Public Event Celebrates Bay Area Artists

and San Francisco’s Vibrant Neighborhoods

San Francisco, CA – On October 9 and 10, 2010, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (SFAC Gallery) will present Passport 2010, an affordable do-it-yourself art collecting experience. This annual public art event takes participants on a neighborhood stroll to collect artist-designed “passport stamps” in a special booklet that, once complete, becomes a limited-edition art book with original work by some of the Bay Area’s finest artists, both established and emerging.

SFAC Gallery has commissioned fourteen Bay Area artists this year, including Ana Fernandez, Suzanne Husky, Jason Jagel, Paul Madonna, Nigel Poor, and Lordy Rodriquez to create their own version of a passport stamp for the event, which will be held in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. In a special contribution, the estate of the late Richard Diebenkorn will provide an additional stamp—a hand-carved wooden seal designed by the artist for the label of his own home-brewed beer.

To participate, art enthusiasts may purchase a Passport 2010 booklet for only $25 (a Moleskine® notebook donated by Chronicle Books that features a custom artist-designed cover) then follow a map to various Hayes Valley locations to get the book stamped by the artists themselves. Past “stamps” have been quite elaborate, sometimes involving hand-finished touches or performative elements. This year promises to bring similar surprises and attention to detail. Stamp locations in Hayes Valley will include Zonal, Rooky Records, MAC, Isotope Comics, and others. Proceeds from this fundraising event go toward the SFAC Gallery’s programming fund, which supports artist honoraria and exhibition costs throughout its entire season.

Passport 2010 begins the evening of Saturday, October 9 with a Kick-Off Party at The Rickshaw Stop, featuring passport pre-sales, live music, raffle, a full no-host bar, and many more surprises. The following day the event convenes at Patricia’s Green on Hayes Street at Octavia, which will serve as Passport 2010 Home Base between the hours of noon and 4pm. During that time participants can stop by to pick up a map, purchase a passport, or bring family and friends to relax on the lawn and enjoy a hot dog and soda while mingling with other Passport 2010 revelers.

Passports may be purchased in advance online at www.eventbrite.com, and at the Passport 2010 Kick-Off Party. On the day of the event passports may be purchased only at the Patricia’s Green Home Base. Only official Passport 2010 booklets will be eligible to receive stamps. Passports from 2009 may not be used for any Passport 2010 stamps. For information about the event the pubic may visit www.sfatrscommission.org/gallery or call 415.554.6080.

Passport 2010 Participating Artists

Timothy Cummings, Richard Diebenkorn (courtesy of the estate), Ana Fernandez, Suzanne Husky, Jason Jagel, Ruth Laskey, Paul Madonna, Nigel Poor, Ricardo Richey, Lordy Rodriguez, Jovi Schnell, Travis Sommerville, Deth P. Sun, Weston Teruya, and Lindsey White.

Media Contacts

Meg Shiffler: 415.554.6080, meg.shiffler@sfgov.org

Aimee LeDuc: 415.554.6080, aimee.leduc@sfgov.org

Photos available on request.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Passport 2010 Kick-Off Party

Saturday, October 9

6–9 p.m.

The Rickshaw Stop

$5 suggested donation at the door; free for 2010 Passport holders

At the Passport 2010 Kick-Off Party, guests can pick up pre-purchased passport books or purchase passports at the door, enjoy drinks and live music, and enter to win raffle prizes from a range of exciting community partners.

Passport 2010

Sunday, October 10

noon–4 p.m. (will call opens at 11am)

Passport 2010 home base: Patricia’s Green, Hayes Street @ Octavia

Stamps available at various locations in the Hayes Valley, San Francisco

Visit favorite spots in Hayes Valley or discover new ones while collecting original stamps created by Bay Area artists for Passport 2010. Stop by Passport 2010 Home Base at Patricia’s Green to purchase a passport, pick up a map of locations, learn more about the SFAC Gallery, or relax and enjoy $1 hot dogs in the park with the whole family.

Information and Passport Purchase

Passports are $25 and available online at eventbrite.com, during the kick-off party at Rickshaw Stop or at Passport 2010 Home Base on the day of the event.

NEW – This year the Gallery will offer a Concierge Passport option. For $125 Gallery staff will collect all the stamps for you and mail the Passport to your home. Only 25 Concierge Passports will be available, so early purchase is suggested.

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

401 Van Ness Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94102

t: 415.554.6080

f: 415.554.6093

www.sfartscommission.org/gallery

About San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Civic Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery makes contemporary art accessible to broad audiences through curated exhibitions that both reflect our regional diversity and position Bay Area visual art production within an international contemporary art landscape. By commissioning new works, collaborating with arts and community organizations and supporting artist’s projects, the SFAC Gallery’s programs provide new and challenging opportunities for contemporary art to engage with a civic dialogue. The SFAC Gallery was founded in 1970 and is the exhibitions program of the San Francisco Arts Commission, the arts agency of the City and County of San Francisco.

Winning the Water: A Public Performance by Pawel Kruk

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Aquatic Park, 890 Beach Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Event Summary: Performance in which the artist will enter the water at Alcatraz (9 AM) and swim to Aquatic Park (anticipated arrival 10AM) while accompanied by the band Coconut. The public is invited to gather at Aquatic Park.

Continuing his artistic inquiry into the heroic nature of athletes and athletic feats, Pawl Kruk will swim from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park surrounded by a group of friends contributing to the performance in various ways. As the public cheers from the shore, Kruk’s swim will be accompanied by the two-person band Coconut performing live music on a small vessel propelled by oars, a videographer and photographer documenting the sounds and scenes of the performance, and another vessel carrying a group of spectators, whose presence will also contribute to the work. San Francisco’s South End Rowing Club’s history and their role in the dynamics of the interaction between people and the Bay will underlie the entire event. Documentation will be posted on the SFAC Gallery web site.

Kruk, a performance artist originally from Warsaw, spent a short time at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2002, and then returned as an Affiliate Artist in 2007. In 2008 he was a Fellow at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. Kruk exhibits internationally and in 2003 was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s major exhibition The American Effect. He had a critically acclaimed solo exhibition at San Francisco’s David Cunningham Projects in 2009 and is currently a finalist for the 2010 SECA Award at SFMOMA.

Acknowledgments: David Cunningham, Buck Delventhal, Justin Limoges, Airyka Rockefeller, Richard T. Walker, Members of the South End Rowing Club and Electric Works.

This performance is part of Transplanted at the SFAC Gallery.  Read more about Transplanted here:

http://www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/2010/press-release-transplanted-three-commissioned-projects-by-bay-area-newcomers/

Do Not Enter (Angus's Room), detail Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz

Wednesday, August 25, 12:15-1:15pm, Bring your own lunch
Artists Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz in conversation with Douglass Bailey of SFSU’s Anthropology Department.

Please note: Seats are limited to 30 and are available by reservation. Please RSVP to the SFAC Gallery (415-554-6080 or sfac.gallery@sfgov.org) no later than 24 hours prior to the event date.

SFAC Main Gallery at 401 Van Ness at McAllister inside the Veteran’s Building

This conversation will question what “evidence” is as it pertains to objects that help inform history or reflect humanity. We will also consider observations of value associated with objects, and how that relationship is formed and maintained through time. Curated and moderated by Gallery Assistant Shannon Green, these conversations will introduce the artists’ work in the exhibition and the guests’ demarcation of time in their own professions. As the events unfurl, the discussion will be opened up for audience participation. The aim of this programming is to make the art of Now and When and ideas of time more accessible and meaningful.

Gay Outlaw is an artist who has been exhibiting her work in San Francisco since the early 1990’s and has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the University of California at Long Beach, Mills College Art Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art. She has also produced significant work in printmaking, working in photogravure and later producing a group of prints inspired by Brassey’s Book of Camouflage. Typically creating sculpture from photos she takes, her work is a play and consideration of materiality and form. Gay and her husband, fine wood worker Bob Schmitz, collaborated on Do Not Enter (Angus’s Room), a multimedia, kinetic sculpture in Now and When that attempts to capture the essence of their nine year old son’s room at this point in time. http://www.gayoutlaw.com/

Douglass Bailey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at SFSU. His research and teaching interests range widely. Currently his work focuses on the archaeology of art and visual culture; He has been studying topics as diverse as prehistoric anthropomorphic figurines, Surrealist periodicals, and early 20th century photography. He has a long-running interest is the prehistory of Eastern Europe and is published widely on Neolithic architecture, landscape, and the body. Currently he is co-PI of the Southern Romania Archaeological Project, a long-running, excavation and survey carried out in collaboration with colleagues in Bucureşti and Alexandria, Romania. His more recent work celebrates the complexities of representation, material culture and the role of the human senses in understanding. http://bss.sfsu.edu/anthro/baileypage.html

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents THE LIST, an online resource for artists, writers, critics and curators living and working in the Bay Area. THE LIST will be inclusive of all creative disciplines and will focus on residencies, conferences, conventions, and calls for entries, papers, and proposals in the Bay Area, nationwide, and other key centers of art internationally.

How does THE LIST Work?

We track a large volume of websites which post opportunities of interest and share these as a single feed we call THE LIST using a tool called Google Reader. The best way to keep up with THE LIST is to subscribe and follow THE LIST using Google Reader to take advantage of Google’s search functions, organize the interesting opportunities that you find, tag them, and easily share them with others. Here are tips to get you started if you’re new to Google Reader. If you prefer not to use Google Reader, view the list in its most basic form here.

It’s About Time!

Two thought provoking Public Programs for Now & When that engage exhibiting artists and special guests in dialogue about art and time...

These two public programs partner artists from the SFAC Gallery exhibition, Now and When and members of our community who approach the subject of time in distinct and meaningful ways. Curated and moderated by Gallery Assistant Shannon Green, these conversations will introduce the artists’ work in the exhibition and the guests’ demarcation of time in their own professions. As the events unfurl, the discussion will be opened up for audience participation. The aim of this programming is to make the art of Now and When and ideas of time more accessible and meaningful. And to have some fun! Seats are limited to 30 for each event and are available by reservation. Please RSVP to the SFAC Gallery (415-554-6080 or sfac.gallery@sfgov.org) no later than 24 hours prior to the event date.

Tick-Tock: Linear and Visceral Expressions of Time

Jeannene Przyblyski of The Bureau of Urban Secrets in conversation with Alexander Rose of The Long Now Foundation.

Wednesday, August 18, 6:30 – 8:00pm, talk and short reception following

SFAC Main Gallery at 401 Van Ness at McAllister inside the Veteran’s Building

This conversation will juxtapose a linear approach to time with a not so linear approach. Participants will talk about moments as an events and the culmination of events as a single moment.

Jeannene Przyblyski is an artist and also the Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs and Chair of the History and Theory of Contemporary Art program in the School for Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is also the Executive Director of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets – an urban and visual arts think tank that promotes art and political intervention in city life. For Now & When the Bureau created podcasts that document the sites of eight instances of encapsulated history, sealed as sound an image, at eight different moments from 1776 to the present (the Bureau modestly acknowledges its well-established expertise in time travel). These time capsules may be accessed through the SFAC Gallery web site: www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/2010/bureau.

Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation (established in 1996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years) and the Project Manager for the 10,000 year clock. He has facilitated numerous projects including the 10,000 year clock, seminars about Long Term Thinking and the Rosetta Project. He has also been an artist in residence at Silicon Graphics Inc., a project manager for Shamrock Communications, and a founding partner of Inertia Labs. http://www.longnow.org/

The Art of Passing Time:

Artists Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz in conversation with Douglass Bailey of SFSU’s Anthropology Department
Wednesday, August 25, 12:15-1:15pm, Bring your own lunch                                     SFAC Main Gallery at 401 Van Ness at McAllister inside the Veteran’s Building

This conversation will question what “evidence” is as it pertains to objects that help inform history or reflect humanity. We will also consider observations of value associated with objects, and how that relationship is formed and maintained through time.

Gay Outlaw is an artist who has been exhibiting her work in San Francisco since the early 1990’s and has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the University of California at Long Beach, Mills College Art Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art. She has also produced significant work in printmaking, working in photogravure and later producing a group of prints inspired by Brassey’s Book of Camouflage. Typically creating sculpture from photos she takes, her work is a play and consideration of materiality and form. Gay and her husband, fine wood worker Bob Schmitz, collaborated on Do Not Enter (Angus’s Room), a multimedia, kinetic sculpture in Now and When that attempts to capture the essence of their nine year old son’s room at this point in time. http://www.gayoutlaw.com/

Douglass Bailey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at SFSU. His research and teaching interests range widely. Currently his work focuses on the archaeology of art and visual culture; He has been studying topics as diverse as prehistoric anthropomorphic figurines, Surrealist periodicals, and early 20th century photography. He has a long-running interest is the prehistory of Eastern Europe and is published widely on Neolithic architecture, landscape, and the body. Currently he is co-PI of the Southern Romania Archaeological Project, a long-running, excavation and survey carried out in collaboration with colleagues in Bucureşti and Alexandria, Romania. His more recent work celebrates the complexities of representation, material culture and the role of the human senses in understanding. http://bss.sfsu.edu/anthro/baileypage.html

Media contacts:

Meg Shiffler, 415.252.2568 or meg.shiffler@sfgov.org

Aimee Le Duc: 415.554.6080 or aimee.leduc@sfgov.org

Photographs available upon request.

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About the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Civic Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery makes contemporary art accessible to broad audiences through curated exhibitions that both reflect our regional diversity and position Bay Area visual art production within an international contemporary art landscape. By commissioning new works, collaborating with arts and community organizations and supporting artist’s projects, the SFAC Gallery’s programs provide new and challenging opportunities for contemporary art to engage with a civic dialogue. The SFAC Gallery was founded in 1970 and is the exhibitions program of the San Francisco Arts Commission, the arts agency of the City and County of San Francisco.

About the San Francisco Arts Commission

The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City agency that champions the arts in San Francisco. We believe that a creative cultural environment is essential to the City’s well-being. Our programs integrate the arts into all aspects of City life. The Commission was established by charter in 1932 (Charter sections 5.103 and 16.106).

Armand Emmamdjomeh, Alone on the Roof, 2010

SFAC Gallery and PhotoAlliance present:

Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark
Supporting Organizations: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and PhotoAlliance

Exhibition: Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 16 5:30-7:30 PM
Exhibition Dates: September 16, 2010 – January 14, 2011
Location: SFAC Gallery, Art at City Hall, ground floor

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Jay Ach, Barbara Collins, Tamara Danoyan, Armand Emamdjomeh, Miguel Farias, Linda Fitch, Andy Frazer, Terri Garland, Lenny Greenwald, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Daniel Konhauser, Oren Lukatz, Vanessa Marsh, Genevieve Masse, Kristopher Parra, Keith Petersen, Shawn Peterson, Jesse Pollock, Chris Rochelle, Greta & Manu Schnetzler, Jeff St. Andrews, Stephen Thomson, Lena Tsakami, Don Whitebread, Cynthia Wood, Nina Zeininger, Mark Jaremko

THE EXHIBITION: Night/Light: Bay Area Photographers Take Aim After Dark
The work selected for the exhibition explores what happens after sunset and before sunrise. The 28 Bay Area artists selected submitted nighttime images ranging from landscapes to portraits, from photodocumentary essays to fantastical narratives. More information on the exhibition coming soon. Please check back.

THE LOCATION
The City Hall ground floor exhibition space can accommodate up to 100 photographs. The jury will choose between three and ten images from each selected artist. Please do not submit less than three images. There will be no stipend for selected artists.

Please be conscious of the fact that the exhibition space at City Hall is a multi-use area that acts as a busy intersection for City employees, tourists, children and arts patrons. It is both a municipal cross roads and a place where individual concerns may be expressed. Please note that exhibited works will not be insured.

JURORS
Aimee Le Duc, Gallery Manager, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Thom Sempere, Executive Director, PhotoAlliance
Tim Baskerville, Founder, The Nocturnes

PRIZES:
1st place gets $200 and 1 month studio rental (screen or etching) in Mission Gráfica.
Also poster selected will be printed and reproduced for the Day of the Dead Festivities.
2nd place gets $150 + 1 week studio rental
3rd place gets $100 + 1 day rental

POSTER REQUIREMENTS:
Your image has to be submitted as a jpeg or tiff with a 300dpi on a CD
Please label CD’s with your name, title and phone number.
Your image can not be larger than 12in x 19in.
Image must be printable for screen printing- Up to 4 colors,
no CMYK process.

Please submit entry form and a check payable to
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and send to:
Mission Grafica, Day of the Dead Poster Contest, MCCLA
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94110
We also accept Visa and Mastercard.
For credit payment call 415-821-1155
Entry fees can be sent to or dropped off in our office.
MCCLA Staff and Teachers are not allowed to participate.

For further information please contact MG coordinator at
415-643-2786 or send an email to grafica@missionculturalcenter.org

For more information and entry forms, please visit:

http://www.missionculturalcenter.org/MCCLA_New/call-artist.html

Alternative Exposure grants provide direct support to visual arts projects in San Francisco and Alameda Counties that provide frameworks of support for artists to create and continue their work. It gives grants of up to $3,500 to support the work of unincorporated groups, burgeoning art venues and gathering spaces, publications, collectives, events and more.

Projects can include an exhibition or exhibition series, a public art project, a one time event or performance, the ongoing work of a venue or collective, the publication of writing directly related to the visual arts, an online project or publication, an artist residency, a series of screenings, and more. Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant program seeks to fuel the energy of the Bay Area visual arts community by supporting the vibrant artistic activity that occurs on the ground level – artists or groups of artists making and presenting work in a committed but informal way.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications must be received at Southern Exposure’s office by 6:00pm on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 (this is not a postmark date). Hand deliveries will be accepted.

TO APPLY: Go to the APPLY Section of the AltEx website for grant guidelines and application materials:  www.soex.org/alternativeexposure

A Brief History of Alternative Exposure
Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant program was launched in 2007 in partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in response to the desire to support the independent, under-the-radar work of artists and small groups that is a defining feature of the San Francisco Bay Area art community. Now entering its fourth year, SoEx has awarded $155,000 in direct funds to [LINK TO GRANTEES PAGE] 50 Bay Area projects through the first three rounds of Alternative Exposure. Southern Exposure is committed to continuing to serve as a resource for the independent visual arts community through Alternative Exposure and our other programs.

To learn more about the many projects funded by Alternative Exposure click on the previous round links at the left or visit: www.soex.org/alternativeexposure

A National Network
Since developing Alternative Exposure with SoEx, The Andy Warhol Foundation has invested in the creation of a growing national network of regional re-granting programs – supporting The Idea Fund (www.theideafund.org) in Houston, Texas; The Propeller Fund (www.propellerfund.org) in Chicago, Illinois; and Rocket Grants (www.charlottestreet.org/opportunities/rocket-grants/) Kansas City, Missouri. The Foundation aims to support the independent creative activity of artists by partnering with leading artist-centered, visual arts organizations across the country. Groups like Southern Exposure allow them to reach the sizeable population of informal, non-incorporated artist collectives and projects. To find out more about the network of regional re-granting programs beyond the Bay Area visit www.warholfoundation.org

Please visit:

http://www.soex.org/artistsresources.html