PUBLIC EDUCATION

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Jamil Hellu, The Time for Miracles Is Now (Found Books), 2014Digital pigment print, 30 x 24 inches

ART & TECHNOLOGYINTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL ABSTRACTION | ANA MONTENEGRO 12 sessions: Mondays, January 26–April 20 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Delve into abstraction as a concept and a process, while learning digital tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to visualize your abstractions and take them from the screen to the physical world.

SPRING 2015 FURTHER ADVENTURES IN DRAWING & PAINTINGreconFIGUREation | KATIE HUMPHRIES 12 sessions: Mondays, January 26–April 207:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Paint from the live model as you learn about structure, proportion, and mixing color in acrylics and oils.

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PAINTING | SARAH STOLAR 12 sessions: Saturdays, January 31–April 1810 am–1 pm  | $480

+ Turn inward and explore your own story, cultural identity, or family history through painting.

DRAWING WITHOUT LINES | JAIMIE HEALY12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Further your visual skills through careful observation in this drawing course using collage, mixed media, assemblage, and pencil.

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED PAINTING | GLENN HIRSCH 12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Explore the content of your art through irony, humor, narrative, mood, and the use of traditional and nontraditional painting materials.

BUILD DRAWING & PAINTING SKILLSDRAWING FUNDAMENTALS | MICHELLE RAMIN6 sessions: Wednesdays, March 4–April 87:30–10:30 pm  | $250

FIGURE DRAWING | MICHAEL AZGOUR5 sessions: Tuesdays, March 31–April 287:30–10:30 pm  | $250

INTRODUCTION TO OIL PAINTING | ROBERT BURDEN12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 237:30–10:30 pm  | $480

INTERMEDIATE DRAWING | SARAH STOLAR12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 237:30–10:30 pm  | $480

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Robert Cortlandt, Untitled, 2012Digital image, 11 x 16 inches

TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGE-MAKING IN PHOTOGRAPHY

CONTEXT AS CONCEPT: PHOTOGRAPHIC SEQUENCING AND NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION | CHRIS GRUNDER12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 23 7:30–10:30 pm | $480

+ Create a body of work that uses photographic sequencing to build narrative, mood, and emotion.

MINING THE ARCHIVE | CAITY FARES12 sessions: Saturdays, January 31–May 2 10 am–1 pm | $480

+ Navigate everything from governmental to personal archives, as you retouch and reproduce images from the past, imbuing them with new meaning.

IMAGE-MAKING SKILLS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINTMAKING, & FILMLEARNING TO SEE | VICTORIA MARA HEILWEIL12 sessions: Thursdays, January 29–April 23 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Study camera functions, design principles, and conceptual strategies to make compelling photographs.

INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING: THE BITING IMAGE | JONATHAN PALMER6 sessions: Saturdays, March 7–April 1110 am–3 pm  | $350 (includes a $25 lab fee)

+ Learn techniques of monoprinting, drypoint, hard-ground and soft-ground etching, sugar lift, aquatint, and Chine-collé.

BASIC EDITING TECHNIQUES | CHRISTINA KOLOZSVARY6 sessions: Thursdays, March 26–April 307:30–10:30 pm  | $250

+ Learn to create basic film sequences in Premiere and Final Cut Pro using your own material or found footage.

DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING FOR NEW MEDIA | ROBERT CORTLANDT12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Develop, plan, shoot, and edit a short documentary while learning aspects of interviewing and how to build a compelling narrative.

THE ABSTRACT IN LIFE | BRENT HALLARD12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Consider how the abstract informs the every day by using notes, memos, encounters, and Instagram posts as source material for experimental paintings.

FIVE-DAY INTENSIVESPALETTES FOR PAINTERS: JANUARY INTENSIVE | MEL PREST5 sessions: Monday–Friday, January 12–16 9 am–5 pm  | $530

+ Expand your acrylic color palette through exercises that balance play with the production of thematic paintings.

THE STRUCTURED ACCIDENT: MARCH INTENSIVE | ALLISON MILLER5 sessions: Monday–Friday, March 16–209 am–5 pm  | $530

+ Use risk-taking and chance to open up your painting practice, push yourself to experiment, and recalibrate your work.

Brent Hallard, Drafting Board, 2014

NEW GENRESMIND AND BODY IN SPACE | AMY M. HO12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Examine your physical and psychological relationships to architecture through readings, discussions, field trips, and lectures. Then develop installation projects related to space and experience, land art, or architecture.

NEW URBAN NATURALISTS | SASHA PETRENKO12 sessions: Saturdays, January 31–April 187:30–10:30 pm  | $480

+ Explore and catalogue your immediate natural environment, and express it visually through a range of media, including drawing, dance, graphic design, performance, prose, or essays.

Mel Prest, Installation view of MoonBrightChime Galleri Urbane, Dallas, 2014

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CONSTRUCTING OBJECTS THROUGH SCULPTUREBEGINNING CERAMICS FOR THE HANDS-ON ARTIST | ALYSSA BLOCK12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

MOLDMAKING & CASTING IN CERAMICS | CATHY LU12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 28–April 22 7:30–10:30 pm  | $480

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Ages 17+ | All levels

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Monday–Friday, 9 am–5 pm

Cathy Lu, Afterlife, 2014Ceramic, 42 x 36 x 36 inches

PORTRAITURE IN PHOTOGRAPHY | JAMIL HELLU12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 27–April 21 7:30–10:30 pm | $480

+ Examine the history and development of portrait photography from the 1800s to present, as you produce your own series.

FIVE-DAY INTENSIVEURBAN ATLAS: EVIDENCE OF CHANGE | AARON ROSENSTREICH5 sessions: Monday–Friday, January 12–169 am–5 pm | $530

+ Respond to the radical political, metaphorical, and physical changes underway in the Bay Area through photography in this intensive open to film or digital, color or black-and-white photographers.

Ana Montenegro, Untitled, 2013Digital image, 800 x 800 pixels

Public Education at SFAI spans the breadth of contemporary art, from traditional techniques in drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and sculpture, to radical experiences, off-kilter journeys, collaborative public projects, and educational experiments.

Become part of SFAI’s diverse community of artists and scholars through noncredit evening and weekend courses. No matter your experience level, there's a unique course to expand your skills and interests.

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COVERSasha Petrenko, Experimental Basket #1, 2014Red oak, cane, sound, and movement

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