SFAC Gallery Staff and Interns enjoying their work

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is now accepting resumes for Spring 2010 intern positions. 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. 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.

Please read the following descriptions carefully. If you are interested in working with the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, submit your resume and a cover letter to Aimee Le Duc, Gallery Manager. The application deadline is Friday, March 26, 2010. In your cover letter, please be sure to indicate the position in which you are interested as well as your available work hours. All internships are unpaid and require a commitment of 5-10 hours per week for at least 6 months. Come be a part of a fast paced, multi-venue arts organization that supports local and international visual artists of all disciplines!
Must be available Tuesdays – Saturdays and possibly some evenings. Knowledge of FilemakerPro and the Adobe Creative Suite along with documentation/photo experience is a plus.

Intern Position: General
The SFAC Gallery is currently seeking an intern to help with general tasks related to our 2010 Anniversary season of exhibitions. This position offers a glimpse into all aspects of the administration of an art gallery: from bookkeeping, development and database management to installation and operations to how to prepare for public events. During the course of your internship, you will gain a greater understanding of how the SFAC Gallery functions within the framework of the San Francisco arts community and the City government. Applicants with a working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, FileMakerPro are strongly encouraged to apply.

Tasks will likely include:
- Gallery sitting, answering the phone, and greeting visitors.
-Database updates using FilemakerPro, including the mailing list and Gallery press list.
-Installation and de-installation
-Work with the Gallery Manager to manage the general operations of the Gallery and the maintenance of all current exhibitions
-Assisting with gallery openings, public programs and fundraising events

Intern Position: Press and Communications
The SFAC Gallery is currently seeking an intern to assist with the maintenance of the SFAC Gallery’s relationship with all media outlets and communications with the greater SFAC community. This position is ideal for someone who is interested in learning more about how an arts organization creates and distributes its message to the public at large. During the course of your internship, you will gain a greater understanding of how the SFAC Gallery functions within the framework of the San Francisco arts community and the City government. Applicants with a working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, FileMakerPro are strongly encouraged to apply.

The project includes:
-Work with the Gallery Manager and Director to update all online listing sites.
-Formatting press releases and web announcements to be sent out to mailing lists
-Updating the website, Facebook page and Twitter feed
-Work with the Gallery Manager to prepare and distribute an annual press booklet
-Work with the Gallery Manager to prepare and send all email newsletters and announcements

Intern Position: Archivist and Advisory Board Intern
The SFAC Gallery is currently seeking an intern to assist with the maintenance of the SFAC Gallery’s exhibition and press archive. This position is ideal for someone who is interested in learning more about the history of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, strategies employed by an arts organization to document and maintain its living history. This intern will be responsible for both the archive of the Gallery as well as the collection and documentation of all press and public mentions of the SFAC Gallery. This Intern will also assist the gallery Manager and Director with the preparation of all Advisory Board meetings and would take minutes at all of these meetings. During the course of your internship, you will gain a greater understanding of how the SFAC Gallery functions within the framework of the San Francisco arts community and the City government. Applicants with a working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, FileMakerPro are strongly encouraged to apply.

The project includes:
-Work with the Gallery Manager and Director to archive all exhibitions and programming.
-Collecting, scanning and saving all Gallery press
-Assist the Gallery Manager and Director in the collection of data needed for all annual reports, district reports and other needed information requested by the agency and/or City Government offices
-Attends all advisory board meetings, takes minutes at all board meetings
-Maintains the SFACG wiki and internal communication sites

To apply email resume and cover letter to:
SF Arts Commission Gallery
Gallery Manager
Aimee Le Duc
aimee.leduc@sfgov.org
415.554.6080
Snail mail applications will not be accepted.

Economica: Women & Global Economy
Exhibition Dates: June 8 - August 27, 2010
Opening reception: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 5:30-7:30 pm
Location: Ground floor, City Hall

Economica: Women and the Global Economy was co-produced with our partner, the International Museum of Women. The mission of I.M.O.W. is to value the lives of women around the world. I.M.O.W. is a groundbreaking social change museum that inspires global action, connects people across borders and transforms hearts and minds by amplifying the voices of women worldwide through global online exhibitions, history, the arts and cultural programs that educate, create dialogue and build community. With its unique focus on cultural change, I.M.O.W. advances the human right to gender equity worldwide.

An Open Call for Photography! Submissions due by April 10
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery's Art at City Hall (SFAC Gallery) program has teamed up with the International Museum of Women (IMOW) to coordinate and present a large-scale photography exhibition at San Francisco City Hall that will include works by artists across the globe centered on the theme of women and the global economy.  As a project of IMOW's multifaceted online exhibition Economica: Women and the Global Economy, the Picturing Power & Potential photography exhibition will include a global celebration of women as economic change-agents in as many as fifty photographs selected from this call for submissions. The chosen submissions will be presented in the physical exhibition in San Francisco City Hall and to global audiences on the IMOW Web site.

For more information about Economica and the Picturing Power & Potential submission guidelines, please visit their website (note: you must first register with the IMOW Community to view information)

Leslie Shows
untitled, 2009
archival pigment print, collage and monoprint
17" x 14 1/2"
Edition of 20
$525, unframed

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is pleased to offer a monoprint by Leslie Shows, produced exclusively for the SFAC Gallery. Shows created a unique pattern for each print using a monoprinting technique. Finally, incorporating her elegant and complex collage process, the process resulted in a series where no two prints are alike! These remarkable monoprints are Shows’ foundational pieces exploring imagery that will inform an upcoming video project.

Shows received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her MFA at the California College of the Arts. Shows was included in Bay Area Now 5 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work has also been exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Armory Show, NY; Frieze Art Fair, London, England; and Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Nova, Miami, FL. Solo Exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A recipient of the SFMOMA 2006 SECA Art Award, her work was featured at SFMOMA in early 2007 and is also included in their permanent collection.

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

SFAC Gallery Day Proclamation

The 40th Anniversary Exhibitions Opening was a tremendous success. In fact, it was so successful, that Mayor Gavin Newsom proclaimed February 12, 2010 to be San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Day! The full text of the proclamation is below.

Proclamation City and County of San Francisco from Mayor Gavin Newsom

WHEREAS, located in the heart of San Francisco Civic Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (SFAC)
makes contemporary art accessible to broad audiences; and

WHEREAS, for the last 40 years, the SFAC through its curated exhibitions has reflected our City and our region’s diversity
and has firmly established our position in the Bay Area as a leader in contemporary art on an international level; and

WHEREAS, by commissioning new works, collaborating with arts and community organizations, and supporting artists’ projects, the SFAC Gallery’s programs provide new and challenging opportunities to foster a greater civic dialogue on contemporary art and artist; and

WHEREAS, the SFAC Gallery was founded in 1970 and is entrusted to provide meaningful exhibition programs for the
San Francisco Arts Commission, the agency of our City; now

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, that I, Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, in celebration of 40 years of making art accessible to the public, do hearby proclaim February 12, 2010 as…

SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION GALLERY DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO!

SFAC Gallery 40th Anniversary Celebration and Exhibition Openings

40th Anniversary Season: A Year of Artist-Driven Projects

Opening Reception: Friday, February 12, 2010
5:30 – 7:30pm, San Francisco City Hall, Ground Floor
6:00 – 9:00pm, Main Gallery and Grove Street

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Director of Cultural Affairs, Luis R. Cancel are proud to announce the opening of our 40th Anniversary Season. Since 1970 the SFAC Gallery, originally Capricorn Asunder Gallery, has been a vibrant part of the Bay Area art scene and a champion of regional emerging and established artists. In the past 40 years we have exhibited over 4000 artists in over 500 exhibitions. This year we’re commemorating the past, celebrating the present and looking toward the future with a series of exhibitions that positions Bay Area artists at the front and center of our upcoming exhibition programming.

Please join us on February 12 at all three at our exhibition spaces to celebrate our long and cherished history as well as all of the thrilling programming coming up in the future!

Madrid, Christina Seely: Lux

Dates: January 14 – June 18, 2010
Location: North Light Court, San Francisco City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm, Free

An exhibition of large-scale photographic banners representing LUX: an extensive artist project about both the beauty of manmade light, and the impacts of resource overconsumption.

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is very pleased to present Lux, an exhibition of large-scale photographic banners by San Francisco-based artist Christina Seely as part of our ongoing Art at City Hall program. This banner installation in City Hall’s North Light Court features portraits of cities within the most brightly illuminated regions on NASA’s map of the Earth at night. Seely’s beautiful and haunting images bring to the fore issues related to light pollution and the overconsumption of resources.

Engaged in both art and environmental circles, Seely employs her Lux series to portray the tension created by human dominance over the planet. The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery wishes to create a platform for this visual eco-conversation, utilizing Lux as the impetus from which to engage the City in a public dialogue around global warming and energy consumption.

“In a time when it is argued that no aspect of nature is unaffected by human impact, my work reflects on a lifestyle that fosters an intense need to dominate and control nature while existing in an increasingly delicate balance with it’s resources and rhythms. I am interested in the dialectic between the surface documentation of a photograph and the complex reality that lies beyond that surface – how beauty can suggest the simple and ideal while both subtly reflecting and obscuring an often darker more complicated truth.”
– Christina Seely

More About Christina Seely
Seely is also a founding member of the design collective Civil Twilight, creators of Lunar Resonant Streetlights an innovative system of lighting that respond to moonlight, dimming and brightening each month as the moon cycles through its phases. These lights  reduce unnecessary light pollution, allowing city dweller better visual access to the night sky, and use up to 90% less energy than conventional outdoor lighting.  To learn more about Civil Twilight, please visit, www.civiltwlightcollective.com

Dates:  January 14 – June 18, 2010
Location:  North Light Court, San Francisco City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm, admission is free to the public

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is very pleased to present Lux, an exhibition of large-scale photographic banners by San Francisco-based artist Christina Seely as part of our ongoing Art at City Hall program. This banner installation in City Hall’s North Light Court features portraits of cities within the most brightly illuminated regions on NASA’s map of the Earth at night. Seely’s beautiful and haunting images bring to the fore issues related to light pollution and the overconsumption of resources.

Engaged in both art and environmental circles, Seely employs her Lux series to portray the tension created by human dominance over the planet. The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery wishes to create a platform for this visual eco-conversation, utilizing Lux as the impetus from which to engage the City in a public dialogue around global warming and energy consumption.

“In a time when it is argued that no aspect of nature is unaffected by human impact, my work reflects on a lifestyle that fosters an intense need to dominate and control nature while existing in an increasingly delicate balance with it’s resources and rhythms. I am interested in the dialectic between the surface documentation of a photograph and the complex reality that lies beyond that surface – how beauty can suggest the simple and ideal while both subtly reflecting and obscuring an often darker more complicated truth.”

– Christina Seely

This exhibition is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission & the Public Utilities Commission.

More About Christina Seely
Seely is also a founding member of the design collective Civil Twilight, creators of Lunar Resonant Streetlights an innovative system of lighting that respond to moonlight, dimming and brightening each month as the moon cycles through its phases. These lights  reduce unnecessary light pollution, allowing city dweller better visual access to the night sky, and use up to 90% less energy than conventional outdoor lighting.  To learn more about Civil Twilight, please visit, www.civiltwlightcollective.com

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.

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Please continue to check back to the list. It will be updated every Friday afternoon.

For questions or comment about THE LIST, or to offer a submission, please contact Aimee Le Duc, gallery manager; aimee.leduc@sfgov.org.

1 Artist Registry 2010-2011:  Permanent, Site-Specific Public artwork
Open to professional artists reading in California*

This Registry is for artists who have experience making permanent, site-specific public artwork; opportunities will be available for exterior and interior projects, be appropriate for artists working in a variety of materials and styles, and have a range of project budgets. Individual contracts may range from approximately $20,000 to $200,000.

2 Artist Registry 2010-2011: Small-Scale, Wall-Mounted Artwork

Open to artists who live, work, or rent/own a studio in Alameda County.*
This Registry is for artists who are making small to mid-sized, wall mounted, two-dimensional or low-relief artwork. Individual contracts may range from $4,000 to $20,000; artists may be commissioned to make one new artwork or a new series of work.

*Additional eligibility restrictions for artists who currently have work in the Alameda County Art Collection. Refer to the complete application for details or call the Arts Commission office for more information.

Application Information
Complete application information is available at www.acgov.org/arts (click on "Opportunities") or call (510) 208-9646 to receive the information by mail.
To be considered for these opportunities, artists must register and submit an application through the CaFÉ website, www.callforentry.org (search for "Alameda County") A separate application must be submitted for each of the two Registries.

The 3rd Street Corridor project is searching for local artists to create a series of 6-10 iconic images to represent the Bayview Hunters Point District of San Francisco. These images will be stylized illustrations of local landmarks that capture the spirit of this part of the city and will be used on a series of street banners and other collateral such as T-shirts.

Final selections for scenery will be communicated to the artist at the time of the commission. These scenes may include:
* Bayview Opera House
* T-Line
* Quesada Gardens
* View of Downtown from 3rd
* Shipyards
* Candlestick Park
* Local Art and Murals
* MLK Municipal Pool
* Bayview Library
* Industrial Buildings

Candidate Selection
The ideal candidate for this commission will be a local artist who lives and/or works in the Bayview Hunters Point District of San Francisco and can bring his or her personal style into the project and offer an authentic view of these neighborhoods. The artist must also be able to work within the established color palette of the 3rd Street logo (red, yellow, green and black- see samples for reference). To be considered for this project please submit three (3) JPEG images of your past work that best communicates your style. If you are selected as a finalist you may be commissioned to create one sample illustration before the final contract for the rest of the series.

The selected artist will receive a $6,000 stipend for the final series of images. Artwork and reproduction rights will become property of the Third Street Corridor Project. In the event that finalists are asked to create a sample illustration as part of the selection process then they will be compensated $500 for their time.

Call Ben Kaufman, Outreach Coordinator of the Bayview Merchants' Association, at 415-647-3728 x407 if you have any further questions or visit, http://www.baycat.org/thirdstreet/