The SFAC Galleries presents TRUDGE, a new site-specific installation by the Cardboard Institute of Technology

On View May 24 - August 31, 2013

SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site at 155 Grove Street

Viewable  24/7

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2013 - On May 24, past and present will collide as a large-scale mastodon of the recycled cardboard variety appears in a Jurassic landscape in the heart of the Civic Center. The Cardboard Institute of Technology (C.I.T.) artist collective unveils its latest Bay Area construction,TRUDGE, at the SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site on Friday, May 24.

"When people pass by the window installation site they'll catch a massive dinosaur walking into the sunset!" said SFAC Galleries Director Meg Shiffler, "The Cardboard Institute of Technology is so inventive. Passersby will be amazed by what can be achieved with such a simple material."

Founded in 2007 by Joshua Short and Scott Falkowski, C.I.T. is a self-described "collective of artists, technologists and handymen dedicated to the development, functionality and everyday practice of art...through cardboard and other means." Joshua Short, Jesse Wilson, Joel Stockdill, Mike Murnane, and Robin Frohardt, members of the group took turns working on the massive installation made from recycled cardboard over an 18-day period.

C.I.T. wants the public to interpret the installation on their own terms, however Short admits that it might bring to mind our relationship with the earth, and with fossil fuels in particular.  He is quick to also add that, "C.I.T. is more about provoking dialogue around liberty than around politics. We like to look at the big picture and are drawn to narratives that comment on the human condition at large."

Special Events

Sidewalk Artist Talk

Friday, May 24, 6:00 - 7:30pm

Please join us for this special kick-off event. Galleries Director, Meg Shiffler will moderate a sidewalk chat with the members of C.I.T. Learn about their new installation, how they work as a collaborative, and what inspires them!

Helpful Links:

C.I.T. http://cardboardinstitute.blogspot.com/

Check out this video of C.I.T.'s large-scale, battery-car velodrome installation at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvobYSmUKgk

Media Contact:
Kate Patterson, San Francisco Arts Commission
Tel: 415-252-4638 E: Kate.Patterson@sfgov.org

Meg Shiffler, SFAC Galleries
Tel: 415-252-2568 E: Meg.Shiffler@sfgov.org

2013 Sister City Exchange: San Francisco - Zürich

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery has teamed up with the City of Zürich to present a dynamic, multifaceted, travelling exhibition project celebrating the 10th anniversary of our Sister City relationship. SFAC Galleries piloted the biennial Sister City Exchange in 2011 with Sydney, AU, and has greatly expanded the scope of this important cultural exchange project with the Zürich collaboration. In addition to a central exhibition featuring artwork by emerging and mid-career photographers from SF and Zürich, there will be downtown kiosk posters, educational programs and public events that accompany the exhibition in each city.

TWISTED SISTERS is co-curated by SFAC Galleries Director, Meg Shiffler and Zürich-based independent curator Alexandra Blättler. They asked conceptual photographers from each city to create new and unexpected urban portraits. The resulting 80+ images challenge and occasionally subvert stereotypes associated with these two great metropolises through narratives and landscapes that strip away, twist, or dig under the picture-perfect postcard and expose nasty histories, private lives, hidden views and constructed alter-realities.

Featured Artists:

San Francisco:
Tammy Rae Carland, Pablo Guardiola, John Chiara, Sanaz Mazinani, Lindsey White

Zurich:
Bianca Brunner, Cat Tuong Nguyen, Georg Gatsas, Dominic Hodel, Marianne Müller

Locations and Dates:

Zurich, Museum Bärengasse
Exhibition + 80 Downtown kiosk posters
July 4 – September 7, 2013
Opening Reception: July 4, 6 – 9pm

San Francisco, San Francisco City Hall
Ground Floor Exhibition and North Light Court Banners
+40 Downtown kiosk posters
October 16, 2013 – January 17, 2014
Opening Reception: October 16, 5:30 – 7:30pm

TRUDGE in progress.

Exhibition Dates: May 24 - August 31, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, May 24, 6 - 7:30pm

Location: SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site
155 Grove Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Hours: Viewable from the sidewalk 24/7

On May 24, past and present will collide as a large-scale mastodon of the recycled cardboard variety appears in a Jurassic landscape in the heart of the Civic Center . The Cardboard Institute of Technology (C.I.T.) artist collective unveils its latest Bay Area construction, TRUDGE, at the SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site.

“When people pass by the window they’ll catch a massive dinosaur walking into the sunset!” said SFAC Galleries Director Meg Shiffler, “The Cardboard Institute of Technology is so inventive. Passersby will be amazed by what can be achieved with such a simple material.”

Founded in 2007 by Joshua Short and Scott Falkowski, C.I.T. is a self-described “collective of artists, technologists and handymen dedicated to the development, functionality and everyday practice of art…through cardboard and other means.” Joshua Short, Jesse Wilson, Joel Stockdill, Mike Murnane, and Robin Frohardt, members of the group took turns working on the massive installation made from recycled cardboard over an 18-day period.

C.I.T. wants the public to interpret the installation on their own terms, however Short admits that it might bring to mind our relationship with the earth, and with fossil fuels in particular. He is quick to also add that, “C.I.T. is more about provoking dialogue around liberty than around politics. We like to look at the big picture and are drawn to narratives that comment on the human condition at large.”

Special Event

Sidewalk Artist Talk
Friday, May 24, 6:00 – 7:30pm

Please join us for this special kick-off event. Galleries Director, Meg Shiffler will moderate a sidewalk chat with the members of C.I.T. Learn about their new installation, how they work as a collaborative, and what inspires them!

Watch for e-newsletters about upcoming C.I.T. public programs. Sign up here (see right sidebar): http://www.sfartscommission.org/

Links:

C.I.T. http://cardboardinstitute.blogspot.com/

Check out this video of C.I.T.’s large-scale, battery-car velodrome installation at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvobYSmUKgk

American Artists Professional League, Inc.
New York, NY

ONLINE STUDENT EXHIBITION

WORKS ELIGIBLE:

Open to all art students of colleges and art institutions. Up to five entries per student may be submitted for selection in the same media only; however, only one entry per artist will be accepted. Works only in Representational or Traditional Realism will be considered. Original oil, acrylic, water-media, mixed media, graphics, pastel and sculpture.

There will be two classes for submitting work: Students under the age of 19, and Students 19 years of age and above. If you are under the age of 18, parental permission is required.

Image must be submitted in the following format: Last Name_First Initial_Number_Title

ACCEPTED ARTISTS:

All accepted artists will be eligible for Cash and Merchandise Awards, will receive a Studiosum Membrum (studio-sum memb-room) card with student membership benefits, and will receive a personalized letter of acceptance from the AAPL President. Also, accepted artists will be listed the AAPL Grand National catalog.

Awards will be given in two categories: (1) 19 years of age and older, and (2) Under 19 years of age. All award winners - up to the age of 25 - will be eligible for an AAPL scholarship based on 501 (c) (3) conditions and an accredited art institution's faculty support. Monetary scholarship awards will go towards tuition unless there is a situation of hardship.

To download the Prospectus:

http://www.americanartistsprofessionalleague.org/pdf/fame.pdf

Contact: Peter Rossi
email: office@aaplinc.org
Phone: 212.645.1345
Website: http://www.americanartistsprofessionalleague.org/

Deadline: 05-04-2013

Bay Area Currents is a juried exhibition based on studio visits by a regional curator.

The exhibition offers a snapshot of the energetic and risk-taking work made in the Bay Area today, selected by a curator who has a clear knowledge of the region, and illustrated by a small number of key artists.

Selections by Michael Schwager
Professor of Art History and Museum Studies
Director of the University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University

Exhibition Dates: July 2 - August 9, 2013

Contact: Pro Arts Gallery
email: info@proartsgallery.org
Phone:
Website: http://www.proartsgallery.org/callforentry/2013_bac.php

Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency Program located in Joshua Tree, CA. This is a 6 week summer program for artists interested in exploring new work or specific projects each artist is presently working on for 2013. Prospectus & application are available online at www.jthar.com
Contact: Frederick Fulmer
email: jthighlandsco@me.com
Phone: 760.366.3636
Website: http://www.jthar.com

Friday, April 26, 6-8 p.m. SFAC Main Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue (@ McAllister)

After seventeen years, the SFAC Main Gallery, will close while the War Memorial Veterans Building undergoes a seismic retrofit. Don’t worry, the SFAC Galleries isn’t going anywhere! In 2015, we look forward to welcoming you to our new 4000-sq-ft gallery in the Veterans Building featuring expanded exhibition, programing and office space as well as a small retail store. Until then, we will continue to bring exciting exhibitions to City Hall and commission site-specific installations for our Grove Street Window Site.

• In the meantime, it’s time to party! Help us close this chapter with a toast to all of the excellent exhibitions and programs we’ve presented at this location and celebrate the highly successful run of Conversation 6: Jason Hanasik and Berndnaut Smilde. This is your opportunity to meet Hanasik and check out Smilde’s latest cloud prints, which were shot in the historic Green Room.
• A limited number of the amazing Nimbus prints are available for sale, and we’ll also open up our print archive for viewing and purchase.
• Get a sneak preview of our new gallery space. Our floor plan for the new space will be on view and we’ll collect your feedback on the “Envision The New SFAC Main Gallery With Us!” board.
• Leave your mark by contributing stories about your involvement with the SFAC Galleries for a time capsule that will be put into a wall in the new gallery.
• And because this is a SFAC Gallery party there will be plenty of delicious beverages and tasty treats!

See you there! 

Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus Green Room II, 2013.
Photo: RJ Muna

We invited acclaimed Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde to come to San Francisco and create a new cloud print in conjunction with our current Main Gallery exhibition Conversation 6: Jason Hanasik and Berndnaut Smilde (on view through April 27). Smilde spent three days in the Green Room of San Francisco's Veterans Building, home to the SFAC Main Gallery, creating clouds, orchestrating a photo shoot with renowned regional photographer RJ Muna, and working on a video with The Avant/Garde Diaries.

We're pleased to offer two prints to our patrons that bring an historic location into Smilde's international Nimbus series.

Note: More than half of this edition has been sold.

125 x 170 cm ($9000)

Please contact Galleries Director, Meg Shiffler, at meg.shiffler@sfgov.org or at 415-252-2568 for more information and purchasing arrangements.

Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus Green Room I, 2013.
Photo: RJ Muna

Berndnaut Smilde lives and works in Amsterdam. He has exhibited across Holland and also in Toronto, Taipei, Istanbul, Dublin, Paris, London, Rotterdam and now San Francisco. Earlier in 2013, he opened his first large scale solo exhibition in the US at Land of Tomorrow in Louisville, Kentucky. Smilde's work resides in both the Saatchi and the Smithsonian collections, among others. He has been written about extensively in art publications; additionally his Nimbus series was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the "Top Ten Inventions of 2012". He received his BA in 2001 from the Minerva Academy and his MA in 2005 from the Frank Mohr Institute, both in Holland. Smilde is represented by Ronchini Gallery in London.

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Deadline: June 1, 2013

Root Division is a visual arts non-profit located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Root Division’s mission is to improve appreciation and access to the visual arts by connecting personal inspiration with community engagement.

In order to increase professional opportunities for Latino artists and to better serve our student population, we are currently seeking applicants for the 2013-14 Latino Teaching-Artist Fellowship.

The applicant will act as Resident Teaching Artist in one of our partner school sites, Mission Education Center, a K-5 school for newly arrived immigrant students who speak only Spanish. Part of the commitment involves adapting an existing curriculum & project called My Two Homes, in which students participate in discussions and art-making around their transition to a new home in the U.S. The Fellow actively participates in developing and teaching these lessons.

In addition to teaching weekly in our Youth Education Program, the Fellow Artist will be part of the Studios Program, volunteering 12 hours a month towards Root Division's mission.

In exchange for service within the organization with a focus on teaching youth, the artist will receive:

• Free studio space for 12 months
• Teaching Stipend
• Artist Stipend

Deadline: 06-01-2013
Root Division
San Francisco, CA

Contact: Root Division
email: education@rootdivision.org
Phone: 415.863.7668
Website: http://rootdivision.org/fellowship.html

Deadline: May 1, 2013

The LOOP Arts Grant provides chosen artists with FREE access to a 44" Canon IPF 8300 inkjet printer and a 200 sq. ft. studio space for up to one month in order to make prints for a scheduled exhibition. Additional information regarding proposals and guidelines can be found at www.looparts.com.
LOOP Arts
Oakland, CA

Contact: Ryan Hendon
email: loopartsgrant@gmail.com
Phone: 215.939.3781
Website: www.looparts.com