SFAI Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2012-2013

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ANNUAL REPORT

FISCAL YEAR 2012–2013

SFAI ANNUAL REPORT

Since 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute, a nonprofit institution, has been a vital convening place for arts communities and an interna-tional leader in fine arts education. The Institute gratefully acknowl-edges the supporters who enable SFAI to continue serving both students and the general public through access to and engagement with contemporary artistic and cultural practices.

SFAI is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). SFAI is also a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).

Historic Chestnut Street campus

Photographed by Mark Johann

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SFAI ANNUAL REPORT

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

2012–2013 HIGHLIGHTS

SFAI by the Numbers

Advancing the Institute’s Strategic Priorities

Additions to the Leadership Team

Academic Highlights

Student, Faculty, and Alumni Accomplishments

Exhibitions and Public Programs

135th Commencement and Awards

Donor and Alumni Events

ADVANCEMENT REPORT

2012–2013 Donors

Memorial and Tribute Gifts

Endowed Funds

ENROLLMENT SUMMARY

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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LETTER FROM

THE PRESIDENT

Last spring, an article in Fast Company posed the question, “Is an MFA the New MBA?” Drawing on information from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, the author argued that artists have the most important skill to succeed in today’s increasingly complex, uncertain world: creativity.

At a time when education is being reduced to mere vocational utility, the San Francisco Art Institute is proud to be an incubator and laboratory for creative learners to experiment, strive, and thrive. While committed to providing exceptional undergraduate and graduate education to emerging artists — who continually amaze me with their talent and insight — SFAI has also been working to broaden its impact and re-assert its role as the “Institute” of its name. This vision positions the Institute as not only a school, but also a cultural hub that engages the public; a thought leader that propagates and promotes art, ideas, and scholarship; and a civic partner to advance the centrality of the arts in the Bay Area.

As you’ll see throughout this Annual Report, which covers the fiscal year from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013, the past year contained major successes and laid the groundwork for future initiatives. Among many highlights, the Institute:

• Approved a five-year Strategic Plan, establishing priorities ranging from investment in full-time faculty to comprehensive facilities planning

• Launched a new annual art festival, combining an alumni reunion, blow-out party, and art sale into a major public event

• Honored one of today’s most culturally relevant artists, the filmmaker (and SFAI alumna) Kathryn Bigelow, with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at Commencement, where she spoke about the lasting impact of her art school education

• Continued to build a top-notch leadership team, welcoming Dr. Rachel Schreiber as Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Hesse McGraw as Vice President for Exhibitions and Public Programs

Even as the Institute has amplified its activities, this fiscal year marked the fifth consecutive one with an operating surplus, which we used for major capital improvements and to create a new Diversity Scholarship. In the coming year, SFAI will strive to further improve its operations and heighten its ambitions in the service of art, artists, and the Bay Area community. Your support is crucial to that effort — thank you for your continued engagement.

Charles DesmaraisPresident

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LETTER FROM

THE BOARD CHAIR

As incoming Chair of the Board of Trustees for the 2013–2014 fiscal and academic year, I am so fortunate to be able to applaud the accomplishments of my predecessor, Diane Frankel.

In her three-year tenure as Chair, which includes the year covered by this report, Diane provided extraordinary leadership during a complex period of transition. She was instrumental in facilitating more exten-sive dialogue among the Board, staff, faculty, and students — positioning the Institute for shared investment in a vibrant future.

Among her many achievements, Diane oversaw the successful search for a new President, resulting in the appointment of Charles Desmarais. She spearheaded Board development, growing the Board and strength-ening its engagement in strategic oversight and stewardship. She helped steer a strategic planning process, which developed audacious yet well-grounded priorities that will guide the Institute’s work for the next five years. Moreover, she’s done all this with style, good humor, generosity, and fierce determination. I speak on behalf of the whole Board in thanking Diane for her service, which continues as a Trustee.

During the last year, the Board also welcomed several new Trustees who have already made an impact with their dedication and expertise: Pam Rorke Levy, Jeff Magnin, Dusan Mills, Joy Ou, and Elizabeth Ronn. (You can meet the full Board at sfai.edu/board-trustees.) These new Trustees come to the Institute with varied professional backgrounds and different life experiences that have motivated them to become involved. They are united with all Board members in our commitment to this beloved institution.

The coming year promises to be a major one in the history of the San Francisco Art Institute, with significant initiatives on the horizon. Stay tuned, and as always, thank you for your engagement and support.

Cynthia PlevinChair, Board of Trustees

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Charles Desmarais, President

Photographed by Joshua Band

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Cynthia Plevin, Board Chair

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SFAI BY THE NUMBERS

• Fall 2012 enrollment was 670 students, the highest in over 10 years

• Fiscal year 2013 marked 5 consecutive years of operating surpluses

• Students came to SFAI from 24 states and 30 countries

• SFAI presented 45 exhibitions by student artists in on-campus galleries

• More than 50 visiting artists and scholars came to campus for public lectures, colloquia, and studio visits

• SFAI awarded more than $6 million in financial aid, and 85 percent of students received some form of institutional aid

• The number of donors increased 106% in fiscal year 2013 over 2012

• Participation in the Public Education program increased 31% in fiscal year 2013 over 2012

• More than 2,000 alumni and art enthusiasts attended the first annual Alumni Celebration and Winter Art Festival

• There were 464,298 visits to the SFAI website, a 13.7% increase over the previous year

• SFAI connected with 8,603 fans on Facebook and 2,300 followers on Twitter (and more every day!)

ADVANCING THE INSTITUTE’S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

For the first time in a decade, in 2012–2013, SFAI undertook a strategic planning process to guide the Institute over the next five years in a holistic, integrated approach to excellence. The Board of Trustees approved the Strategic Plan in March 2013.

The successful implementation of the plan will reinterpret SFAI’s distinct culture and long-held values in a contemporary context, enabling students, faculty, alumni, staff, and trustees to achieve at their full potential as artists, scholars, and creative leaders. Above all, it will build on a remarkable living legacy, positioning the Institute to thrive as a vanguard arts institution for many decades to come.

Strategic Priorities

1 Re-assert SFAI’s Identity, Mission, and Values

2 Student Life: Strengthen the Complete Cycle• A Strategic Enrollment-Management Plan• Student Success• Alumni Engagement: Life-Long Relationships

3 Advance Academic Ambitions• Investing in Faculty• More Effective Administration• Assessment and Planning

4 Build Community Engagement

5 Increase Organizational Capacity• Facilities• Technology• Financial Growth


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Opening reception of Gutai, Walter and McBean Galleries


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A student at work on a drawing

Photographed by Yu Sheng

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Ruby Neri at the opening reception of Gutai, Walter and McBean Galleries



Through the end of the fiscal year, SFAI progressed on all strategic areas. Key actions include:

1A Revised Mission StatementAs part of the planning process, the mission statement was revised to provide a compelling rationale for why educating artists and pro-moting art serves society, and to reflect the Institute’s dual service to students and the community. This paves the way for renewed emphasis on SFAI’s role as an essential hub and resource for arts communities — a place of learning, artistic development, and knowl-edge production that engages members of the public along with degree-seeking students.

The San Francisco Art Institute is

dedicated to the intrinsic value of

art and its vital role in shaping and

enriching society and the individual. As

a diverse community of working artists

and scholars, the Institute provides its

students with a rigorous education in

the fine arts and preparation for a life

in the arts through an immersive studio

environment, an integrated liberal arts

curriculum, and critical engagement

with the world.Adopted by the Board of Trustees on March 28, 2013

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2Active Retention EffortsWith retention and graduation established as an institutional priority, in 2012–2013 the Vice President for Enrollment assumed the role of Chief Retention Officer, and has led a collaborative effort across all departments. The Retention Steering Committee sets the vision and strategy for the Retention Working Committee, which comprises 2 faculty and 18 staff members.

Specific initiatives being pursued by the Working Committee include:

• Using data more effectively to identify early the students who are in danger of attrition

• Developing outreach plans for at-risk students

• Improving transactional ser-vices that students experience across the campus

• Implementing a financial literacy program

• Launching a faculty and staff mentor program for new students

• Improving student surveys to better assess satisfaction and engagement

The Diversity Scholarship FundTo recognize the importance of diversity in higher education as preparation for life in a global society, SFAI has established the $250,000 Diversity Scholarship Fund. The Diversity Scholarship ($10,000 per academic year), first awarded in April 2013, is given to African American and Latino students who are the first in their families to attend college. Students who are selected and accept this award are considered Diversity Scholars, and encouraged to partic-ipate in campus life in ways that nurture and maintain the vibrancy of diversity within the SFAI community.

3New Tenure-Track FacultyRecognizing the need to invest in full-time faculty, SFAI has made the strong commitment to hire at least 10 tenure-track faculty members over the next five years, at an average rate of two searches per academic year. In Summer 2013, the Institute appointed the first of these new faculty members: Christopher Coppola as head of the Film program, and Nicole Archer as Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Contemporary Art.

“I couldn’t be more excited

about being at the San

Francisco Art Institute, a place

where art history is made in

the present. All at SFAI are

committed to promoting the

importance of arts discourse

and practice, which is

particularly gratifying at a time

when global austerity measures

are telling us that this kind of

knowledge is expendable.”

–Dr. Nicole Archer, newly appointed Assistant Professor and Chair, BA Department

“SFAI is my alma mater

and the experimental

atmosphere there

allowed me to discover

my own artistic vision

and style. I look

forward to sharing my

knowledge with

my students.”

–Christopher Coppola, newly appointed head of Film

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Opening reception of ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND: Mission School,

view from the Zellerbach Quad

Photographed by Shane O’Neill


Christopher Coppola is a tireless advocate for the artistic, techno-logical, and social potentials of filmmaking, and will provide strong leadership to build on the legacy of SFAI’s Film program as a center of experimentation and innovation. He earned his BFA from SFAI in 1987, where he studied under legendary independent filmmaker George Kuchar. He has made eight feature films and produced and directed television shows for the likes of Fox, Nickelodeon, and Disney, along with developing content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms. Coppola is also the founder of the non-profit Project Accessible Hollywood, which brings digital empower-ment to underserved communities and individuals through traveling new media festivals. In April 2013, he was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to the California Arts Council.

Nicole Archer researches contemporary art and material culture, with emphases in modern textile and garment histories, critical and psychoanalytic theory, corporeal feminism, and performance stud-ies. She earned her PhD in History of Consciousness with a declared emphasis in Visual Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, A Looming Possibility: Towards a Theory of the Textile, considers how critical understandings and uses of tex-tiles can challenge and extend poststructuralist theories of the text. She also earned an MA in Cultural History from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Along with her position as Assistant Professor, she will serve as Chair of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Department.

4Reimagined Exhibitions and Public ProgramsIn Summer 2013, SFAI welcomed Hesse McGraw to the newly cre-ated position of Vice President for Exhibitions and Public Programs (see page 21 to learn more). The appointment reinforces SFAI’s dual mission as both a school and the “Institute” of its name: an active cultural center that welcomes a large and widely dispersed public seeking to engage, at various levels, with art and artists.

Significant changes include reimagining the former Adult Continuing Education program as Public Education. Along with courses to develop technical skills, the program will now offer more artist-driven experiences, off-site adventures, unexpected twists on the classics, and a deeper exploration of conceptual practices. This new curriculum will make the program more dynamic, and will more closely align it to the Institute’s mission and spirit.

5Comprehensive Facilities PlanningAt the core of the Strategic Plan is a comprehensive facilities initiative that will create a powerful symbiosis between two iconic sites — 800 Chestnut Street and Fort Mason — and amongst SFAI’s undergraduate, graduate, and public programs. SFAI will work to es-tablish Pier 2 at Fort Mason as a dynamic center for graduate studios and public engagement (replacing rented studios in the Dogpatch), and invest in the beloved 800 Chestnut Street campus through accessibility upgrades, interior expansion and renovation, and ad-dressing deferred maintenance. Together, these efforts will position SFAI for a vibrant and sustainable future as both an international leader in arts education and a central part of the cultural landscape.

Project Imperatives:

• Enhance the sense of community across locations

• Improve the student experience and learning environment

• Enhance connections between the undergraduate and graduate populations

• Address accessibility for people with mobility challenges

• Maintain the historic and emo-tional character of Chestnut Street and Fort Mason

• Provide increased opportunities for community engagement with art and artists

• Address deficiencies (insufficient heat, deferred maintenance, etc.)

• Improve the staff and faculty working experience

• Foster the interdisciplinary nature of SFAI’s programs

• Reduce the financial burden on student artists

• Prepare SFAI for moderate enrollment growth

• Provide long-term security for the Institute and its programs

• Increase SFAI’s visibility in the community

• Raise sights of philanthropy

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ADDITIONS TO THE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Rachel Schreiber, Dean and Vice President for Academic AffairsDean Schreiber joined SFAI in July 2013 from California College of the Arts (CCA), where she served as Director of Humanities & Sciences. She has been teaching in the fields of studio arts, critical theory, and the humanities for more than 17 years. As an admin-istrator, Schreiber was a graduate department chair at Maryland Institute College of Art for eight years and, from 2008 until Spring 2013, divisional director at CCA.

A practicing visual artist and publishing historian, Schreiber holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA in Art and Writing from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and MA and PhD degrees in American history from Johns Hopkins University.

Hesse McGraw, Vice President for Exhibitions and Public ProgramsHesse McGraw came to SFAI from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, where he had been Chief Curator since 2008. He began his new role at SFAI in June 2013, overseeing the Institute’s Walter and McBean Galleries, as well as lecture series and Public Education programs for youths and adults.

At the Bemis Center, McGraw developed an exhibition program focused on site-specific, immersive, cross-disciplinary, and socially engaged projects, including major public projects with artists Theaster Gates and Michael Jones McKean. His recent grants include an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship, an ArtPlace America grant, a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant, and an NEA Our Town grant.

MEET THE REST OF THE LEADERSHIP TEAM AT SFAI.EDU/ADMINISTRATION

“When you step onto the SFAI campus, you feel the vibrant en-ergy of a place where people live and breathe art 24/7. All around you, students and faculty are mak-ing art, viewing it, thinking about it, writing about it, talking about it. And at SFAI, this is happening in an environment that reflects its city’s culture of risk-taking and in-novation; of breaking old rules and inventing new ones. I can’t think of a better place to be an art student than SFAI!”

–Dr. Rachel Schreiber

“Anyone who went to art school knows it is the best place on earth, and the San Francisco Art Institute has helped define the cultural landscape of America’s most beautiful city for well over 100 years. It is a tremendous honor to join the team at SFAI — I cannot imagine a greater role than developing exhibitions, public pro-grams, and community outreach for an institution, and a city, known for restless experimentation, risk, and the implicit trust of artists.”

–Hesse McGraw

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Dr. Rachel Schreiber, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs


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Hesse McGraw, Vice President for Exhibitions and Public Programs


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Installation by Ryland Cook at the 2012 MFA Exhibition.

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Work by Chad Kipfer at the 2013 MFA Exhibition Currency



ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS

FACULTY-LED PROGRAMS

Contemporary VietnamJanuary 6–18, 2013With China taking center stage in the contemporary art scene for the last decade, little is known about Vietnamese contemporary art outside the Asia-Pacific region. However, there exist thriv-ing contemporary arts communities in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, despite lack of public funding and ongoing censorship. This travel intensive, led by visiting faculty member Shannon Castleman, immersed students in contemporary art production in Vietnam — a country in the midst of profound cultural and industrial change — through the perspectives of local artists and curators.

Italy, Past and PresentJune 3–14, 2013Italy provides fascinating examples of cultural tension, with tra-ditional Renaissance and pre-Renaissance art juxtaposed against the globalized spectacle of contemporary art that is the Venice Biennale. Led by Associate Professor Mark Van Proyen, participants in this travel class explored the cultural and historical background of a wide variety of key masterworks of Italian art from 1300 to 1600, and contrasted their artistic effects, iconography, and cultural contexts with those of the international artists who were selected to participate in the 55th Venice Biennale.

NO RESERVATIONS ART

When 17 SFAI artists answered the call to create an original work of art from instructions given over the telephone, they were following in the footsteps of such artists as John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, and Sol LeWitt, who participated in the seminal 1969 exhibition Art by Telephone at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

That exhibition inspired the 2012–2013 project Art by Telephone…Recalled, an international collaboration among students from SFAI, Barnard College, and the French institutions École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, École d’Enseignement Supérieur d’Art de Bordeaux, and Centre National de Danse Contemporaine–Angers. Working in different time zones and under various constraints, artists recreated this provocative collaboration, exhibiting the final works in San Francisco and Bordeaux.

The project was enabled by No Reservations Art, a platform that provides emerging artists at SFAI with opportunities to gain profes-sional experience outside of the classroom. No Reservations Art was founded by Zeina Barakeh (Director of Graduate Administration at SFAI) and is funded in part by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

CAPSTONE EVENTS

SFAI was proud to present a series of free exhibitions and events in May 2013 that invited the public to engage with emerging talents in the Bay Area art scene, and continued the Institute’s legacy of innovative thinking and experimentation.

CurrencyCurrency showcased provocative new work from the San Francisco Art Institute’s 2013 Master of Fine Arts graduates. The exhibition lo-cation, the Old Mint, offered a unique opportunity for SFAI’s emerg-ing artists to juxtapose contemporary expression with a stunning National Historic Landmark that was central to the country’s eco-nomic development. Featuring 90 artists working in painting, photog-raphy, printmaking, film, sculpture, site-specific installation, digital media, performance, and across media, Currency invited audiences to discover the next generation of pioneering contemporary artists.

Currency: The Moving ImageIn conjunction with the Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFAI presented a screening of works by graduating Master of Fine Arts students who excel in the moving image field. Across works in film, video, and performance documentation, the featured artists carried on the Institute’s avant-garde tradition.

MA Thesis SymposiumGraduating scholars in SFAI’s Master of Arts programs in Exhibition and Museum Studies, History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, and the Dual Degree MA/MFA presented selections of their completed theses. Engaging a diverse and interdisciplinary range of topics across global contemporary art practices, the 2013 cohort took on such subjects as religiosity and ritual in cult cinema, the punk aesthetics of radical AIDS activism, curatorial strategies in architecture and design exhibitions, and street-level citizenship in Mexico City.

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“Currency left me excited for the future

of art-making in the Bay Area.”

–KQED


MA Collaborative ProjectsForming a capstone of the MA program, MA Collaborative Projects are public works focusing on a crucial aspect of contemporary art and its critical contexts.

• Cultures of the Maker: San Francisco Art Institute and Creative Growth was a book project and pair of exhibitions in partnership with the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, an organization that offers studio and exhibition opportunities for people with disabilities. Students developed relationships with resident artists and teachers, did archive-based research, conducted interviews, and discussed the history of art brut, craft, folk art, and “outsider art,” rethinking these fraught categorizations in the broader con-text of contemporary art.

• A group of visual scholars researched art exhibition history in order to conceptualize the Museum of Exhibition History (MoX), which aims to recharge archival histories into contem-porary conversations. Its inaugural show, Everything Out There: Bay Area’s First Triennial Now, in the Diego Rivera Gallery, was a re-mounting of the influential Bay Area Now exhibition, origi-nally presented by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 1997.

Spring ShowThe annual, campus-wide Spring Show at Chestnut Street highlighted the work of graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate students across all media, with a reception following Commencement.

VIDEO PRODUCTION: FROM IDEA TO REALIZATION

In the highly competitive art world, receiv-ing grant funding and other forms of assis-tance is a challenging yet crucial practice. This graduate-level New Genres course, taught by Tony Labat and supported by the Kadist Art Foundation, modeled the grant application process, with each student artist developing a proposal for a video/film/moving image work. A panel of outside experts then awarded one project $5,000 for production. The winning artist, Javid Soriano (MFA Film, 2013), spent the summer producing Factotum of the City, a documentary about a Juilliard-educated opera singer who fell from the world stage to become a street hustler in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, and it screened at Kadist SF in the fall.

DONOR-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS

The Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation continued to support its Distinguished Visiting Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Painting Practices, allowing SFAI to bring to campus five prominent artists working across different media, with painting at the center of their practice: Linda Besemer, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Chris Johanson, Paul Sietsema, and Sue Williams. All of them worked directly with students in studio critiques, small discussion groups, workshops, and public presentations.

The Harker Fund of the San Francisco Foundation continued its generous support of the Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Visiting Artist Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, which supported a Summer 2013 symposium, The Artist in Public Life. The symposium, which explored the complex dimensions of working in the public realm, featured a keynote address by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of the Public Art Fund, as well as a panel and roundtable discussion with leading arts administrators and bound-ary-pushing artists.

The support of the Seed Fund enabled SFAI to host Pablo Helguera, a pioneer of socially engaged art and Director of Adult and Academic Programs at MoMA, as the Seed Fund Teaching Fellow in Urban Studies in Fall 2012. His visit included a public lecture, an intimate colloquium, and an event at Kadist SF.

The Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship enables a contem-porary artist to both teach at SFAI and pursue independent studio work in a studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito. The recipient of the 2012 fellowship was Judie Bamber, a Los Angeles–based artist whose meticulously rendered drawings and paintings explore issues of gender representation and personal biography. Bamber taught two courses, gave a public lecture, and engaged with the SFAI community through activities such as student critiques. Established in 1998, the fellowship is funded by the generosity of the family of Richard Diebenkorn.

The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation funded SFAI’s MFA course Art Worlds: History, Theory, and Practice, in which emerging artists learn strategies for negotiating galleries, curators, collectors, art schools, foundations, nonprofit cultural institutions, and the media, while defining career trajectories that are appropriate to their indi-vidual needs and studio practice. An extension of the course, No Reservations Art, offers practical experience in the form of off-campus exhibitions, public events, and publications.

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STUDENT, FACULTY, AND ALUMNI ACCOMPLISHMENTS

SFAI’s students, alumni, and faculty received numerous accolades in 2012–2013, demonstrating the continued strength of the Institute’s academic and studio offerings. The following is a selection of recent accomplishments.

STUDENTS

Sarah Biscarra-Dilley (BA Urban Studies candidate, 2015) was selected as a 2012 Scholar by the Point Foundation, which empowers promising LGBTQ students to achieve their full academic and leadership potential. She also exhibited her work as part of the National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco.

Ed Drew’s (BFA Sculpture candidate, 2014) series of tintype photographs of soldiers in Afghanistan — the first tintypes made in a combat zone since the Civil War — earned international acclaim from The New Yorker, The Guardian, and TIME Magazine, among other outlets.

Marshall Elliott (MFA Sculpture candidate, 2014) received a Summer 2013 ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) residency in Steuben, Wisconsin.

The Library of Congress acquired two posters created by a team of printmakers from SFAI, working anonymously under the collaborative name Fahrenheit 6.8%. The posters, which address the topic of student debt, were created by student artists in visiting faculty Art Hazelwood’s Spring 2013 courses Social Movement through Print and Introduction to Screenprinting.

Caity Fares (MFA Photography candi-date, 2014) and Andréanne Michon (MFA Photography, 2013) were accepted into the 2012 International Art of Photography Show at the San Diego Art Institute, juried by Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography and Chief Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Their photographs were among 200 selected from 17,000 entries representing 77 countries.

Daniel Rodriguez (BA Urban Studies, 2013) was awarded the Bridge Initiative Arts + Health grant by Native Arts and Cultures Foundation to complete the mural proj-ect “Indigenous in Oakland: Health and Wellness Mural” at the Native American Health Center Oakland. He also received the 2013 Davis Project for Peace grant, for a project to record and archive native musical traditions in Mexico.

Dimitra Skandali (MFA New Genres, 2013) was selected to participate in the presti-gious International Biennale of Santorini in Greece, contributing an installation related to her experience of growing up on Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea.

Jill Taffet’s (MFA New Genres, 2013) experi-mental digital animation Cosmic Ancestry was featured in the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival.

Ten SFAI artists received the 2013 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards, which provide $5,000 to Bay Area Fine Arts graduate students: Sarah Ammons (MFA Painting candidate, 2014), Shay Arick (MFA Sculpture candidate, 2014), Chandler Daniel Holmes (MFA Photography candidate, 2014), Monika Lukowska (MFA Printmaking can-didate, 2014), Li Ma (MFA Painting candidate, 2014), Lila Maes (MFA Sculpture candidate, 2014), Golbanou Moghaddas (MFA Printmakingcandidate, 2014), Anna Meryl Rose (MFA Film candidate, 2014), Geoffrey Traxler (Dual Degree MA/MFA candidate, 2014), and Missy Weimer (MFA Photography, 2013). The artists were also featured in an exhibition at SOMArts in Fall 2013.

Seven SFAI artists were featured in the juried exhibition MFA NOW 2013 at Root Division, celebrating new talent emerg-ing from the Bay Area’s seven prominent MFA programs: Missy Engelhardt (MFA Sculpture, 2013), Marie-Luise Klotz (MFA Photography, 2013), Sarah Nantais (Dual Degree MA/MFA, 2013), Tamra Seal (MFA Sculpture, 2013), Dimitra Skandali (MFA New Genres, 2013), Sarah Tell (MFA Printmaking, 2013), and Kevin Tijerina (MFA Design and Technology, 2013).

Michal Wisniowski (MFA Painting, 2013) and Amber Crabbe (MFA Photography, 2013) were selected for Futures, a showcase for promising local MFA candidates, at Arc Gallery, San Francisco.

Numerous students were accepted into prestigious graduate programs, including Felicita Norris (BFA Painting, 2013), who entered the Stanford MFA program; Luyi Xu (BFA Painting, 2013), who entered the Yale University MFA program; and Blaze Gonzalez (BA Urban Studies, 2012), who attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design Career Discovery Program for Summer 2013.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT STUDENT ARTIST ED DREW’S EXPERIENCE AT SFAI, AND WATCH A VIDEO OF HIS TINTYPE PROCESS. VISIT: SFAI.EDU/CHAMPION

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Work by Mie Hørlyck Mogensen at

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Self-portrait of Ed Drew

Tintype, 5 x 7 inches

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FACULTY

Zina Al-Shukri (Visiting Faculty, Painting) was included in New American Paintings Pacific Coast issue #103 and presented a solo show at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco.

Thor Anderson (Visiting Faculty, Urban Studies) was the local organizer for the international exhibit Audio Observatories at SOMArts, which included projects from stu-dents in SFAI’s Ethnographic Media course. He also presented a paper and accompa-nying film at the American Anthropology Association’s annual meeting, documenting the views of highland Maya peoples with respect to the “end” of the Maya calendar.

Robin Balliger (Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Liberal Arts) presented papers at two international conferences held in San Francisco: “Occupy Oakland and the Eruption of the Social: Conflict and Policing at the Boundaries of Neoliberal Citizenship” at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, and “Oaklandish!: Hipster Arts and Urban Development in Oakland, California” at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting.

Chris Bell (Visiting Faculty, Sculpture) was commissioned by a collective in Trondheim, Norway, to make and install the temporary public work Sovereign Powers, and by the Exploratorium to create the piece Sun Swarm for the museum’s new Pier 15 building.

JD Beltran’s (Visiting Faculty and Director of City Studio) Cinema Snowglobe was featured by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) during the exhibi-tion The Making Of… at its closing week-end event. Beltran and collaborator Scott Minneman have been commissioned to create custom versions of the work for the Exploratorium, The Bay Lights, and Barneys New York. Beltran was also awarded the John H. Hauberg Fellowship at the Pilchuck Glass School. In June 2013, Beltran was chosen as the author and curator of the Public Art Master Plan for the downtown Yerba Buena Arts District.

Amy Berk (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) exhibited her photography and video installation Near and Far as part of the Dark Nights, Bright Lights festival at Meridian Art Center.

Nikolas Bertulis (Visiting Faculty, Urban Studies / Design and Technology) launched the website foodwebstories.com — focused on intercultural and multimedia stories of food web dynamics — with a tour through the Colorado River Delta.

Laura Boles Faw (Visiting Faculty, Sculpture) received the LOOP Arts Residency in Oakland (for her collaborative ap-art-ment, with Cathy Fairbanks) to pro-duce the solo exhibition We are the field at SCRAWL Drawing Center in San Francisco.

Pegan Brooke (Associate Professor, Painting) presented the solo exhibitions 10 Years of Water at Bergelli Gallery in Larkspur, California, and Flux at Friesen Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Clark Buckner’s (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) forthcom-ing monograph, Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers, was accepted for publication by the State University of New York Press, as part of the series, “Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature.”

Luke Butler (Visiting Faculty, Painting) was featured in the group show Approximately Infinite Universe at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Chris Carlsson (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) co-produced a week-long festival in September 2012 surrounding the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass in San Francisco, and co-edited a new book covering the global history of the phe-nomenon (Shift Happens! Critical Mass at 20). He also gave public presentations at the California Studies Association conference in Berkeley, the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in Davis, SPUR in San Francisco, and as part of the Litquake Festival.

Dale Carrico (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) presented a paper at the Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, which is being edited for publication by Existenz journal.

Terri Cohn (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) published criticism and reviews in publications including Art in America, Art Practical, and Public Art Review.

Linda Connor (Professor, Photography) presented the solo exhibition From Two Worlds at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, and di Rosa, Napa, and the two-person exhibition Growth & Gravity, Linda Connor Photography & Yoshitomo Saito Sculpture at Goodwin Fine Art Gallery, Denver.

John de Fazio (Visiting Faculty, Sculpture/Ceramics) was featured in the exhibitions German Mettlach Ware (1850–1915) & Present-Day Translations at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California and La Luzapalooza 2013 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles.

Laura Fantone (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) co-edited (with Paola Bacchetta) the book Trans-Q Fem: Elements for a Queer Transnational Feminist Critique, published by ScriptaWeb, Italy, and curated Romani Leaving/Living, an exhibition by Italian photographer Ippolita Franciosi, at The New Parish, Oakland.

Tania Hammidi (Visiting Faculty, History and Theory of Contemporary Art) contrib-uted a feature article “Sapphic Screen: Studs on the Big Screen” to Curve Magazine and led a Butch/Trans Fashion Workshop at the Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco.

Art Hazelwood (Visiting Faculty, Printmaking) had a print included in the portfolio Occuprint, created by 30 artists during the Occupy movement, which was purchased by several collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Yale University Library.

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Glen Helfand (Visiting Faculty, History and Theory of Contemporary Art) curated the three-part exhibition Proximities at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.

Betti-Sue Hertz’s (Visiting Faculty, Exhibition and Museum Studies) exhibi-tion Nayland Blake: Free!Love!Tool!Box! at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received the 2013 2nd Place Award in the Nonprofit/Alternative Gallery category from the International Art Critics Association-USA.

Mildred Howard (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) received a 2012 Silver SPUR Award in recognition of achievements that have made the Bay Area a better place to live and work. Internationally, she was featured in the Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition in Venice, Italy, and the US Department of State acquired a major installation for the US Embassy in Dakar, Senegal.

Joshua Keller (Visiting Faculty, Sculpture) was the project architect on the Halls Ridge Knoll Guest House in California’s Santa Lucia Preserve, which was awarded one of four national housing awards by the American Institute of Architects.

Paul Klein (Associate Professor and Chair, Bachelor of Fine Arts Department) was on the Organizing Committee and concluding speaker for the Computer Art Congress 3 in Paris, France, in November 2012, attend-ing the conference through the support of the Partner University Fund Grant awarded to SFAI.

Jennifer Kroot (Visiting Faculty, Film) re-ceived a grant from the Creative Work Fund for a documentary she is making in collabo-ration with the Japanese American Museum of San Jose called George Takei: Terrestrial Helmsman, about the Star Trek actor’s activism on behalf of marriage equality and his childhood experiences in an internment camp during World War II.

Tony Labat (Professor and Chair, Master of Fine Arts Department) was featured in the group show Mixed Message Media at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York.

Kerry Laitala (Visiting Faculty, Film) had a three-program retrospective, The Muse of Cinema, at the European Media Art Festival in Germany, and her short film Conjuror’s Box was featured at the San Francisco International Film Festival. She was also awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.

Nick Lally (Visiting Faculty, Design and Technology / Math) presented the solo exhibition soft edges at Plaines Projects, Chicago, and was featured in the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose with the project A Spatial History of Computing. He also re-ceived an Alternative Exposure Grant from Southern Exposure and a Summer 2012 ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin.

Jennifer Locke (Visiting Faculty, New Genres) was featured in the installation Want.Here.You.Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Room for Big Ideas, and par-ticipated in SFMOMA’s Future Countdown Live, a 24-hour art variety show during the museum’s closing weekend.

Whitney Lynn (Visiting Faculty, New Genres) performed in the SFMOMA festival Here, There, and Elsewhere: Assembling Communities and exhibited nationally, including in The Temporary Institute of Emancipated Objects at Philip J. Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver, and See You Next Tuesday, Portland State University.

David Martinez (Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies) was awarded the Shin Eun Jung Prize For Documentary Filmmaking, a Korean-US collaborative fund to support films from both countries that have social justice themes.

Frances McCormack (Associate Professor, Painting) was featured in the exhibitions Mixed Media at R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, and Terroir at Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho, and presented the multimedia collaboration Artifacts with composer Kurt Rohde and writer Sue Moon, commissioned by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and per-formed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Ian McDonald (Visiting Faculty, Sculpture/Ceramics) presented the solo exhibition Per Se at Play Mountain in Tokyo, Japan, and the two-person exhibition (with Matt Connors) The Turn at 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, and was also featured in the April 2013 issue of Ceramics Monthly.

Sean McFarland (Visiting Faculty, Photography) presented the solo exhibition Untitled (1948–2012) at Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, and was featured in the group exhibitions Selected Histories at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and At the Edge: Recent Acquisitions at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Darcy Padilla’s (Vising Faculty, Photography) photograph of President Barack Obama from election night, 2012, was featured in The New Yorker.

Matthew Passmore (Visiting Faculty, Urban Studies) opened Kaleidoscape, a large-scale interactive sculpture, at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and exhibited work at a number of international venues in Fall 2012, including the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and the Get It Louder exhibition in Beijing.

Brett Reichman (Associate Professor, Painting) was featured in the exhibitions All I Want is a Picture of You and New…Now…Next… at Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, and visited the Morgan Library in New York, re-searching its collection of drawings, as part of an SFAI faculty-development grant titled

“Male Model: Otherness and Melodrama.”

Lisa Reinerston (Visiting Faculty, Sculpture/Ceramics) presented the solo ex-hibition Edge of Extinction at Pence Gallery in Davis, California.

Meghann Riepenhoff’s (Visiting Faculty, Photography) work was featured in a pull-out centerfold in Aperture magazine’s The PhotoBook Review with the group Library Candy, and in the Spring 2013 issue of Zyzzyva.

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Rigo 23 (Visiting Faculty, Graduate Program) participated in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India, and the 5th Auckland Triennial in New Zealand. He was also in-cluded in the group exhibitions Autonomous Regions at the Times Museum, in Guangzhou, China, and Brazilian Customs Snafu at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.

John Roloff (Associate Professor, Sculpture/Ceramics) developed the public project Étude Atlantis for ARTLANTIC, a series of temporary art installations that trans-formed vacant city blocks in Atlantic City, and received a “Year in Review” award from Public Art Network, a program of Americans for the Arts.

Chris Sollars (Visiting Faculty, New Genres) earned a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. His work revolves around the reclamation and subversion of public space through interventions and performance.

Tim Sullivan (Visiting Faculty, New Genres) presented the solo exhibition Blackout, Bleach and Blueballs at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, and was featured in the exhibition Gallery Collection at Collectors Contemporary, Singapore.

Taravat Talepasand (Visiting Faculty, Painting) had a solo exhibition, Pathétique, at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, and was featured in New…Now…Next… at Angles Gallery, Los Angeles.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

Each year, SFAI awards grants to tenured and tenure-track faculty members to further their research or studio work. During the 2012–2013 cycle, these grants supported projects that took faculty around the world, from Italy to the Himalayan mountains.

Linda Connor took an extended trip to photograph in the Himalayas, an area whose landscape and spiritual culture has been of great inspiration.

Paul Klein traveled to Marseille, France — the 2013 “European Capital of Culture” — to document cultural events in the city, focusing on the deep con-nections between politics and cultural production.

Reagan Louie continued production of a book and DVD project called Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, which depicts modern China’s explosive transformation from 1980 to 2010.

Jeremy Morgan traveled to Yellowknife, Canada, to witness the Northern Lights as inspiration for his paintings, which reference landscape and weather.

Meredith Tromble attended the NetSci 2013 conference, which fosters inter-disciplinary communication among networks researchers, at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark.

Mark Van Proyen visited the 55th Venice Biennial to continue his longstanding project of generating critical commentar-ies about global mega-exhibitions.

Frances McCormack continued multi-media collaborations with the composer Kurt Rohde and writer Sue Moon through technical and professional development support in video production.

John Roloff worked on a new body of drawings and sculptures exploring dia-grammatic systems, to be exhibited at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco.

Meredith Tromble (Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies) was recognized by Creative Capital as author of a “project to watch” in the Emerging Fields category for her work in digital installation. She also continued work on a major grant from the Art Writers Initiative of the Andy Warhol Foundation in support of her blog Art & Shadows.

Henry Wessel (Professor, Photography) presented a solo exhibition, Incidents, at Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and a portfolio of prints from the series was ac-quired by Tate Modern. The series was also published as a book by Steidl, Germany.

Lindsey White (Visiting Faculty, New Genres) was a 2012 SFMOMA SECA Art Award finalist, and presented the solo exhi-bition Matter of Fact at Eli Ridgway Gallery. With her collaborative group Will Brown (with David Kasprzak and SFAI alumnus Jordan Stein), she was a 2013 Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence.

Eddie Yuen (Visiting Faculty, Urban Studies) presented papers at numerous conferences, include Grabbing Green in Toronto, and Historical Materialism and Left Forum in New York.

HIMALAYASLINDA CONNER

COPENHAGEN, DENMARKMEREDITH TROMBLE

VENICE, ITALYMARK VAN PROYEN

CHINAREAGAN LOUIE

MARSEILLE, FRANCEPAUL KLEIN

YELLOWKNIFE, CANADAJEREMY MORGAN

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIAFRANCES McCORMACKJOHN ROLOFF


ALUMNI

1960s

Lewis Baltz’s (BFA Photography, 1969) archive was acquired by the Getty Research Institute, joining those of artists such as Robert Irwin and Ed Ruscha.

Don Ed Hardy (BFA Printmaking, 1967) re-leased the memoir Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos, published by Thomas Dunne Books.

Elaine Mayes (1958–1961) was the recipient of the Society for Photographic Education’s 2013 Honored Educator Award and 2013 Insight Award for her significant contribu-tion to the field of photographic education.

Paul McCarthy (BFA Painting, 1969) pre-sented three exhibitions — Sculptures, Life Cast, and Rebel Dabble Babble — at Hauser & Wirth in New York, as well as his largest work to date, WS, at the Park Avenue Armory.

1970s

Kathryn Bigelow’s (BFA Painting, 1972) film Zero Dark Thirty was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, and won Best Picture and Best Director at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, among many other awards and nominations. She also appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from SFAI (see page 26).

Fred X Brownstein’s (BFA Sculpture, 1970) sculpture The Gift won the Pietro and Alfrieda Montana memorial prize for “an outstanding work either carved or cast” in the 80th Annual awards exhibition of the National Sculpture Society at The Tampa Museum of Art, Florida.

Kathy Goodell (BFA and MFA Sculpture, 1971 and 1972) received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts for her work dealing with perception and the process of seeing.

Annie Leibovitz (BFA, 1971) won the presti-gious Prince of Asturias award for humani-ties in Madrid, given to an individual whose work promotes the “humanistic values that form part of mankind’s universal heritage.”

Merle Temkin’s (MFA Sculpture, 1974) oil-on-paper work London Plane Tree, 2011, was acquired by the RISD Museum.

1980s

L. C. Armstrong (BFA Sculpture, 1987) presented the solo exhibition Central Park Paintings at Marlborough Gallery, New York.

Enrique Chagoya (BFA Printmaking, 1984) was the subject of the exhibition Freedom of Expression: The Work of Enrique Chagoya, a survey of his art from the past thirty years, at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.

Genie Chow (BFA Film, 1985) wrote and illustrated two original children’s books, Thunder Elk and the Fairy Children and The June Baby.

Laura Poitras (1986–1989) was awarded a 2012 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” for her “elegant and illuminating documen-taries.” She also played an integral role in breaking the Edward Snowden revelations about government surveillance, and was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine.

1990s

Daniel Davidson (BFA Painting, 1990) presented the solo show Double Feature at Mulherin + Pollard, New York, and a two-person show at Paulsen Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Tricia Keightley (BFA Painting, 1990) was commissioned by the Arts for Transit and Urban Design program to create a 15-foot-wide mosaic for the MTA of New York City, on the #7 subway line in Long Island City in Queens.

Barry McGee (BFA Printmaking, 1991) was the subject of a critically acclaimed retro-spective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in fall 2012, which then traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

KirsiMarja Metsähuone (BFA Film, 1992) re-ceived a Visual Artists’ grant for artistic work from the Arts Council of Finland, and pre-sented video work at festivals including the International Videopoetry Festival, Buenos Aires, and the Sardinia Film Festival, Italy.

Stephanie Syjuco (BFA Sculpture, 1995) was the 2013 Gifford Fellow at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and a finalist for the 2012 SFMOMA SECA Art Award.

Kehinde Wiley (BFA Painting, 1999) had a solo exhibition, The World Stage: Israel, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and the Boise Art Museum in Idaho, and presented The World Stage: Jamaica at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

2000s

Rick Bahto (BFA Film, 2004) presented a series of performances of Accretions, a work for multiple slide projectors, at the wulf., Los Angeles; Or Gallery, Vancouver; Svensson Contemporary at Yale University, New Haven; and Real Time and Space, Oakland. Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA also presented his performance we’re (still) living), with collaborators Julia Holter and Mark So.

Devendra Banhart (1999–2001) released his eighth studio album, Mala, with Nonesuch Records.

Patrick Donovan (MFA Painting, 2012) earned first place in the 2012 Crocker-Kingsley Art Competition and his work was displayed at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento.


Ala Ebtekar (BFA Painting, 2002) was fea-tured in Proximities 1: What Time Is It There? at the Asian Art Museum and Migrating Identities at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and presented the solo exhibition Absent Arrival at Gallery Paule Anglim, all in San Francisco.

Ferdinanda Florence (MFA Painting, 2010) published a new art history text-book, Approaches to Art: A Journey in Art Appreciation (Cognella Academic Publishing), offering a practical, humanistic approach to understanding art.

Christopher Füllemann (MFA Sculpture, 2012) was the winner of the 2013 Prix Buchet, awarded by the Gustave Buchet Foundation, and presented an associated ex-hibition at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Kira Nam Greene (BFA Painting, 2002) had a solo exhibition, Blue Plate Special, at Accola Griefen Gallery, New York.

Leslie Kulesh (BFA New Genres, 2008) was shortlisted for the United Kingdom’s Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2012 in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery — one of four finalists awarded a monetary prize and commissioned to make a new work for a group show.

Yoon Lee (MFA Painting, 2005) had a solo exhibition, Road to Absolution, at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn.

Steven Vasquez Lopez (MFA Painting, 2007) earned second place in the 2012 ArtSlant Prize, and was selected by ArtSlant to exhibit at the fair Aqua Art Miami.

Dara Lorenzo (MFA Printmaking, 2012) was an Artist in Residence at Art Print Residence in Barcelona.

Seth Lower (MFA Photography, 2008) was featured in the group exhibition Narcissism, the Real, the Fake and the Anti-Digital Impulse at Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles.

Carolyn Jean Martin (MA/MFA Dual Degree, 2013) completed a month-long residency at the Wenying Art Highland Art Museum, Guangzhou, China, and also pre-sented her work at the museum.

America Meredith (MFA Painting, 2003) launched First American Art Magazine, a print and online magazine dedicated to the art of the indigenous peoples of North and South America. FAAM is the only publi-cation to showcase reviews of Native art exhibits by Indigenous American art writers.

Robert Minervini (MFA Painting, 2009) was an Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, and at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. He also had solo exhibitions at Marine Contemporary in Venice, California, and Electric Works, San Francisco.

Jordan Stein (MFA Photography, 2005) curated a long-term sculpture-in-residence exhibition, Night (1947–2015), at Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut — the first formal art exhibition to be held on-site. With his collaborative group Will Brown (with David Kasprzak and SFAI visiting faculty Lindsey White), he was a 2013 Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence.

Luca Nino Antonucci (MFA New Genres, 2010) and Carissa Potter Carlson (MFA Printmaking, 2010) launched the creative venture Edicola, selling a curated selection of artists’ books, newspapers, and prints out of a former San Francisco Chronicle kiosk on Market Street.

Mido Lee and Janice Suhji (both MFA Photography, 2012) were selected to par-ticipate in the Santa Cruz Art and History Museum exhibition Photo ID, centered on the theme of identity.

Painting alumni Chris Ballantyne (MFA 2002), Ana Teresa Fernandez (BFA 2004, MFA 2006), Brett Goodroad (MFA 2007), Jack Leamy (MFA 2010), Yoon Lee (MFA 2005), Leslie Shows (BFA 1999), and Paul Wackers (MFA 2004) were featured in the exhibition 10 Revolutions Around the Sun: A Decade of the Tournesol Painting Award at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

SFAI IN THE MUSEUMS

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted the definitive exhibition to date of Jay DeFeo, who taught at SFAI from 1964 to 1971 and in subsequent summers. (Her masterpiece, The Rose, spent two decades in SFAI’s McMillan Conference Room, until it was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1995.) Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective then traveled to the Whitney Museum in Spring 2013.

Richard Diebenkorn, who attended SFAI in 1946 and taught in the late 1940s and again from 1959 until 1966, was the subject of the major exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 at the de Young Museum. Diebenkorn’s legacy at the Institute continues through the Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship (see page 14).

Rose Mandel, who attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1940s and studied with Ansel Adams and Minor White, was the subject of the exhibition The Errand of the Eye: Photographs by Rose Mandel at the de Young Museum. The exhibition offered the first full assessment of the under-recognized artist.

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EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs provide direct access to artists and ideas that advance our culture. The Walter and McBean Galleries, established in 1969, present exhibitions at the forefront of contemporary art practice. The gallery serves as a laboratory for innovative and adventurous projects and commissions new work from emerging and established artists. Together, the exhibitions and public programs of the Institute promote an environment that catalyzes the creative processes of its student artists and thinkers, and creates intimate connections between the SFAI community and the public.

WALTER AND McBEAN GALLERIES

Temporary StructuresSeptember 14–December 15, 2012Curated by Glen Helfand and Cydney Payton

Temporary Structures was an interdisciplin-ary group exhibition featuring artists who explore the allure of temporary architecture as a site of human interaction, spectacle, and fun. Inspired by San Francisco’s colorful history of World’s Fairs and expositions, the exhibition included works — many of them site-specific to the Walter and McBean Galleries — concerned with architectural aspirations, follies, and momentary acts of cultural transformation.

“An… exceptional exhibition that offers contemporary and quite local perspectives on the timely topic of physical and psychological impermanence.” –Art Practical

Participating Artists

Pawel Althamer / Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt / David Gissen / Amy M. Ho / Paul Kos / Roy McMakin / Christian Nagler and Azin Seraj / Ben Peterson / Michael Robinson / Jonathan Runcio / Mungo Thomson / Together We Can Defeat Capitalism

Experimental Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Mid-Winter Burning Sun: Gutai Historical Survey and Contemporary ResponseFebruary 8–March 30, 2013Curated by John Held, Jr. and Andrew McClintock

This exhibition was the first West Coast survey exhibition of Gutai (1954–1972), a significant avant-garde artist collective in postwar Japan that was founded by Jiro Yoshihara under a primary directive: “Do something no one’s ever done before.” Showcasing nearly two dozen paintings from private collections, original video and photographs, mail art from more than 30 countries, and local artists’ responses to groundbreaking performances, the exhibition created a dialogue with clas-sic Gutai works while demonstrating the lasting significance and radical energy of the movement.

Special thanks to the Ashiya City Museum of Art & History and the Museum of Osaka University.

“A near-perfect show… This time capsule of an exhibit cries out to be seen, savored and discussed.” –Squarecylinder

¡Oye, Mira! Reflective Approaches in Contemporary Latin American Video ArtApril 19–June 29, 2013Curated by Tony Labat

Befitting SFAI’s role as a pioneer in per-formance, moving image, and installation through the New Genres program, this exhibition brought together artists from Latin America who use video as a tool of reflection and contemplation, exploring relationships of identity to site, history, and memory. Working with varied ap-proaches to production and display, these artists — from Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia — play an important role as mediators in the geopolitical landscape.

“The exhibit… takes a serious turn in its explo-ration of place-specific issues of social justice and political oppression.” –7x7

Participating Artists

Edgardo Aragón / Alexandre Arrechea / Miguel Calderón / Sergio De La Torre / Humberto Diaz / Felipe Dulzaides / Ana Teresa Fernandez / Luis Gárciga / Claudia Joskowicz / leonardogillesfleur / Julio Cesar Morales / Yoshua Okon / Eamon Ore-Giron / Amapola Prada / Maya Watanabe

Special thanks to the Kadist Art Foundation.

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Gutai exhibition poster


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LECTURE SERIES

Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture SeriesSFAI’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series (VAS) provides direct exposure to major figures in international contemporary art and culture.

FALL 2012

Judie Bamber Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow

Cynthia Carr in conversation with Amy ScholderFire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz

Urs Fischer documentary screening*

Brent Green

Rashaad Newsome

Michael Robinson*

Carolee Schneeman

Paul Sietsema**

Mungo Thomson*

Sue Williams**

*Associated with the exhibition Temporary Structures

**Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Interdisciplinary Painting Practices

SPRING 2013

Linda Besemer**

Trenton Doyle Hancock**

Pablo HelgueraSeed Fund Teaching Fellow in Urban Studies

Chris Johanson**

Roy McMakin

Takeshi Murata

Ruby Neri

Doug Rickard

Tom Sachs

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SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs are made possible by the generosity of donors and sponsors. Major support is provided by

Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

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Artist Tom Sachs

Photographed by Maya Smira

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Artist Paul Kos

Photographed by Trevor Hacker


Graduate Lecture SeriesThe Graduate Lecture Series (GLS) enables students and the general public to engage with emerging and estab-lished artists, curators, critics, and historians from local and international art communities.

FALL 2012

Cornelia ButlerLygia Clark: From Painting to Participation

Liz CohenBod Mods, Chick Dicks, and Cars

Simon O’SullivanOn the Production of Subjectivity

Mark PaulineTrick Others into Accepting Your Sick Schemes as an Exciting Source for Personal Success and Acceptance

Wilfredo PrietoMore with Less

J. John PriolaForm | Idea

John RoloffSentient Terrains: Selected Works

Thomas ZummerOn the Notion of

“Capture” — Mediality and the Problematic Dispositions of the Image

SPRING 2013

Dan CameronRacing to Catch Up

Anna ChaveHigh Tide: Fluidity in Women’s Art Practice

Sergio de la TorreLabor

Johanna DruckerAesthesis: Does Aesthetic Knowledge Matter in Current Culture?

Claudia JoskowiczLandscape and Memory in the Work of Claudia Joskowicz

Paul KosAllegories and Metaphors

Frances McCormackThe Constant Gardener

Meredith TrombleNothing Means Anything

SUMMER 2013

Michael ArcegaLanguage and Landscape: Where Am I and Who Are These People?!!!

Ron AtheyPleading in the Blood

Lucy RavenPlease Focus

Leslie ShowsMine Map

Marjorie VecchioThe Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border

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Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock

Photographed by David Lasley

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Artist Takeshi Murata with faculty member Glen Helfand

Photographed by Maya Smira


Radical Directing Lecture SeriesIn fitting with SFAI’s pioneering presence in experimental film, this series emphasizes cinematic approaches that veer from tradi-tional narratives, along with the conceptual frameworks filmmakers use to articulate char-acters, plot, subtext, tension, and drama. The series was organized to complement a course taught by Lynn Hershman Leeson for SFAI’s Film program.

SPRING 2013

Richard Beggs

Connie Field

Maureen Gosling

Jaron Lanier

Dennis Muren

The Roxie Theater Leadership Team

PhotoAlliance Lecture SeriesPhotoAlliance, an affiliate of SFAI, is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the understanding, appreciation, and creation of contemporary photography. PhotoAlliance fosters connections within the Bay Area pho-tography community through public programs and educational activities including work-shops, lecture series, and portfolio reviews.

SPRING 2013

Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson

James Henkel

Richard Misrach

Leo RubinfienSixth Annual Our World Portfolio Lecture: The View from the Street

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Opening reception of

ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND: Mission School, Zellerbach Quad


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Tony Labat, Chair of the MFA Department and

curator of ¡Oye, Mira! at the opening of the exhibition



SPECIAL EVENTS

26th Annual Art Criticism ConferenceAugust 13–17, 2012This conference introduced participants to the historical and contemporary practice of writing about art in its many poetic and professional functions. Coordinated by Mark Van Proyen, art critic and Associate Professor, it included two public events: a staged reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Critic As Artist and a keynote address by Lane Relyea, Associate Professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University.

Return to SFAI Alumni Celebration + Winter Art FestivalNovember 3 and 4, 2012SFAI welcomed more than 2,000 alumni and art enthusiasts to campus for a weekend extravaganza — and new annual event — that embodied the verve and nerve of SFAI’s art community.

On November 3, SFAI’s first Alumni Celebration in nearly 15 years was held on the Russian Hill campus (see page 28). On November 4, hundreds more people attended the Winter Art Festival to view and buy new art by 170 student artists and alumni. The event also included live music, food trucks, interactive Design and Technology installations, and special New Genres performances. Works on dis-play included painting, drawing, collage, photography, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, video, performance, and fiber art, with all proceeds from the sale of work supporting the students directly.

PUBLIC EDUCATION

SFAI’s Public Education courses served hundreds of artists and cre-ative individuals of all ages and levels through year-round, noncredit evening and weekend classes, the five-week summer PreCollege Program, and the three-week summer Young Artist Program. The programs provide unique opportunities to study with professional artists in SFAI’s legendary studio environment. (See page 11 for more on the future of Public Education at SFAI.)

City StudioSFAI’s City Studio program continued to offer free after-school courses at local community and arts centers throughout the Bay Area. City Studio directly supports underserved youth through a long-term, high-quality arts education program that cultivates passion for and skills in the fine arts. In 2012–2013, City Studio re-ceived generous grants from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Kadist Art Foundation, Kimball Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, and former SFAI Dean Jeannene Przyblyski.

Highlights from the past year include:

• Expanding the partnership with the San Francisco Boys & Girls Clubs to include four clubs: Tenderloin, Excelsior, Willy Mays (Bayview), and Columbia Park (Mission)

• Working with the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) to develop weekend graphic design workshops for all City Studio participants

• Collaborating with Jeannene Przyblyski and The Bureau of Urban Secrets on “K-Bridge (KBRDS) Radio,” a phantom radio station created for International Orange, a series of projects commis-sioned by the For-Site Foundation for the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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grasp on my own artistic

process and the way that I

work. I figured out how to

work through a concept and

a piece from start to finish.

After being constantly

surrounded by art, I am

driven to keep working.”

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135TH COMMENCEMENT AND AWARDS

HONORARY DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS RECIPIENTS

Kathryn BigelowKathryn Bigelow is one of the most accomplished and culturally relevant filmmakers working today. She is the director of The Hurt Locker (winner of six 2008 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture), Zero Dark Thirty (nominated for Best Picture at the 2012 Academy Awards), Near Dark, Point Break, Strange Days, and other films. Throughout Bigelow’s eight feature films, she has challenged conventional Hollywood stereotypes by specializing in traditionally male-focused genres: war, action, and horror. This genre-pushing, experimental approach to art was refined at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she earned her BFA in Painting in 1972, and further as part of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program under apprenticeships with Richard Serra, Susan Sontag, Vito Acconci, and Lawrence Weiner. Bigelow is a native of San Carlos, California.

“I had an extraordinary experience here. It was really transformative. Art school questions become life questions. The things that your faculty is asking you, what you’re asking yourself right now, you’re going to carry with you forever. That’s why art education is really vital and unique.”

–Kathryn Bigelow to the graduating class of 2013

Paul SchimmelPaul Schimmel, who was the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from 1990 until 2012, is known as an intellectual powerhouse and a great storyteller, com-bining these qualities to curate exhibitions that offer fresh, bold per-spectives on contemporary art. He is largely credited for bringing relevance to the LA art scene when he presented Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s more than 20 years ago. Other important, recent exhibitions include Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–81, a major survey that was central to the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time. Schimmel currently serves on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the La Caixa Contemporary Art Collection Acquisition Committee, and is Chairman of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

“When we think of the rise of the visual arts in California, more than maybe any place in the world, it’s tied to colleges and art schools… And the mother of real artist-driven art schools is right here. All of you, every year, have to own that, and make it something that the rest of the world is reminded of again and again.”

–Paul Schimmel to the graduating class of 2013

STUDENT SPEAKERS

Evan Moring, BFA PaintingCarolyn Jean Martin, Dual Degree MA/MFA

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS RECIPIENTS

Anne Bremer Memorial PrizeFirst Place, Dimitra SkandaliSecond Place, Tamra Seal

Ella King Torrey AwardAlex Shephard

Spring Show, Best in ShowFelicita Norris

Headlands Center for the Arts Residency David Janesko

Outstanding Student Award, Design and TechnologyKevn T. B. Tijerina, GraduateNathan Warner, Undergraduate

Outstanding Student Award, FilmLindsay Tully, GraduateJames Howzell, Undergraduate

Outstanding Student Award, New GenresDimitra Skandali, GraduateHannah Kirby, Undergraduate

Robert Howe Fletcher Cup HonorEmily M. Gorman

Outstanding Student Award, PaintingEvan Reiser, GraduateLuyi Xu, UndergraduateFelicita Norris, Undergraduate

Gamblin Painting PrizeMikaela McLeish

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Hart Lipton Art Supplies PrizeJonathan Bicos

Jack Schafer Prize for Art SuppliesDianna Settles

Outstanding Student Award, PhotographyAdam Donnelly, GraduateMatthew Schoonmaker, Undergraduate

John Collier Award in PhotographyAngelina Alvarez

PhotoAlliance Service AwardJulie Sadowski

Still Photography AwardAngelina Alvarez

Paul Sack Building AwardElisabeth Ajtay, First Place Black & WhiteCarly Rosen, Second Place Black & WhiteMarie-Louise Klotz, Third Place Black & WhiteRaul Lira, First Place ColorJason Sandoval, Second Place ColorDaniel Postaer, Third Place ColorAlex Constable, Third Place Color

Outstanding Student Award, PrintmakingAlex Shepard, GraduateHenry Shenk, Undergraduate

Bronze Roller Honor, PrintmakingAlex ShepardHenry Shenk

Outstanding Student Award, Sculpture/CeramicsTom Van Houten, Graduate

Harold E. Weiner Memorial Fund AwardMelissa Engelhardt

Dennis Patrick Gallagher Award for Excellence in Ceramic SculptureSarah-Dawn Albani

Isaac M. Walter Sculpture PrizeTamra Seal

Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Achievement AwardPaula Tracy Lesser

Outstanding Bachelor of Arts AwardGilberto Daniel Rodriguez

Recognition of Academic Achievement

Maria LewisFelicita NorrisStephanie PenceMatthew Schoonmaker

Excellence in Scholarship Master of Arts Thesis AwardManuela Ochoa RonderosAriel Zaccheo

Student Affairs Student Recognition AwardAnnette Elverum ØstbyEvan ReiserTrever ReyesGilberto Daniel RodriguezTian Sun

Student Affairs Rising Leader AwardAdrian BurrellConor DaniellsJulia GrayChristopher GrunderNuda ThamkongkaStephanie Vazquez

Virgil Williams Prize for Outstanding LeadershipCarolyn Jean Martin

Student Union Award for Undergraduate FacultyNicole ArcherRichard BergerJohn de FazioChristian Nagler

Student Union Award for StaffCharlie ByrneRene LopezLuis RodriguezJohn Seden

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Kathryn Bigelow


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Paul Schimmel


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Student artists Li Ma and Laura

Hyunjhee Kim at the Graduate Center


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Student artist David Janesko with a

Gala Vernissage attendee

Photographed by Alessandra Mello


DONOR AND ALUMNI EVENTS

First Annual Legacy LuncheonOctober 24, 2012Diego Rivera GalleryAll students who received named schol-arships and prizes of $1,000 or more from SFAI endowed funds were invited to meet the donors or family members associated with those funds. In attendance at the lun-cheon were 16 students, as well as represen-tatives from the Bernard Osher Foundation and The San Francisco Foundation, and family members of the Allan B. Stone Scholarship Fund and the Ellen Hart Bransten Scholarship Fund.

Return to SFAI Alumni CelebrationNovember 3, 2012Chestnut Street CampusHundreds of alumni caroused and connected at this campus-wide celebration. The event featured an alumni exhibition in the Diego Rivera Gallery, specialty cocktails by The Bon Vivants, food by renowned Bay Area chefs, an exclusive performance by SFAI alumna Karen Finley, and live music by Bay Area punk icons and SFAI alumni Penelope Houston of The Avengers and Debora Iyall of Romeo Void. Alumnus, faculty member, and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow Carlos Villa was honored with a tribute, shortly before he passed away in March 2013.

Annual Valentine’s LuncheonFebruary 14, 2013Diego Rivera GalleryHosted by the Board of Trustees, this event was a reunion for key former leaders at SFAI: former Board, Council, and InSight members. The meal provided an opportunity for Board Chair Diane Frankel and President Charles Desmarais to share the good news with this community about the Institute’s strength and stability.

New York City Alumni ReceptionFebruary 15, 2013Jennifer Rissler, Acting Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs; Tony Labat, Chair, Master of Fine Arts Department; and Claire Daigle, Chair, Master of Arts Department, attended an alumni cocktail reception in New York City coinciding with the 101st annual conference of the College Art Association.

Alumni Reception at the Old MintMay 18, 2013Alumni enjoyed the innovative work of nearly 100 graduating artists on view in Currency, the 2013 MFA Exhibition, while mingling with fellow alumni and SFAI faculty members.

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Opening reception of the 2013 MFA Exhibition Currency

From left: David Bransten, Peter Bransten, Trish Bransten,

and Gala honoree Rena Bransten

Photographed by Gary Sexton

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Opening reception of the MFA Exhibition Currency

From left: Barry McGee, artist and SFAI alumnus;

Jennifer Rissler, Associate Dean


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Opening reception of the MFA Exhibition Currency


Gala VernissageMay 15, 2013Gala Vernissage at the Old Mint was an exclusive opportunity to preview the 2013 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Currency, and discover the next generation of innovative artists from this cele-brated institution. The exhibition provided a stylish and provoca-tive setting for guests to mix and mingle, enjoy delicious food and cocktails, and participate in private exhibition tours by prominent US curators.

The Institute’s premier annual fundraiser, Gala Vernissage raised $125,000 for scholarships given annually in support of excellence and diversity in the arts.

HONOREES

Paule AnglimRena BranstenRuth Braunstein

GUEST CURATORS

Lucinda Barnes, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveJulian Cox, Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoRené de Guzman, Oakland Museum of CaliforniaCourtney Fink, Southern ExposureRudolf Frieling, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtGary Garrels, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtBetti-Sue Hertz, Yerba Buena Center for the ArtsSusan Krane, San Jose Museum of ArtJoAnne Northrup, Nevada Museum of ArtSandra Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtKathryn Reasoner, di RosaLawrence Rinder, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveKaren Tsujimoto, Contemporary Jewish MuseumConnie Wolf, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University

HOST COMMITTEE

Terje Arnesen, Chair, Organizing CommitteeBrian CayneHoward and Caroline CayneMarna ClarkCynthia and Theodore ColebrookChristopher CoppolaEdward DetersRoberta EconomidisHank Feir*Charles and Penny Finnie*Sarah GallivanLee Gregory*Ann S. Hedges

Sandra and Charles Hobson*Bonnie Levinson* and Donald KayMarc and Jamie Lunder*Jorge MaumerKate and Wes MooreJan and Howard Oringer*Sandra de Saint Phalle*Antony and Lara Ritch*Mary Robinson*Jack* and Betty SchaferChris Tellis* and Isabella KirklandLydia Titcomb

GALLERY COMMITTEE

Gretchen Berggruen, John Berggruen Gallery (Chair)Claudia Altman-Siegel, Altman SiegelFrish Brandt, Fraenkel GalleryKathan Brown, Crown Point PressCatharine Clark, Catharine Clark GalleryLisa Dolby Chadwick, Dolby Chadwick GalleryEd Gilbert, Gallery Paule AnglimBrian Gross, Brian Gross Fine ArtAnthony Meier, Anthony Meier Fine ArtsJoAnne Northrup, Nevada Museum of ArtWendi Norris, Gallery Wendi NorrisCynthia Plevin*, Bekris GalleryKelly Purcell, Paul Thiebaud GalleryJessica Silverman, Jessica Silverman GalleryConnie Wirtz, Stephen Wirtz Gallery

LEAD SPONSOR

George and Beverly James

TABLE SPONSORS

The Bransten FamilyCharles Desmarais and Kitty MorganJenny EmersonFirst Republic Bank and Kelny DenebeimCharles and Diane FrankelCandace and Vincent GaudianiMichael and Pepper JacksonJohn SangerJeremy StoneRoselyne Chroman SwigUSA Student Residences

EVENT PARTNERS

*Trustee or Trustee Emeritus 292012–2013 HIGHLIGHTS

ADVANCEMENT REPORT

2012–2013 DONORSJULY 1 , 2012–JUNE 30, 2013

INSTITUTE CIRCLE - $20,000+

Emily Hall Tremaine FoundationDiane and Charles FrankelGrants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax FundJack K. and Gertrude Murphy FundMichael and Pepper JacksonGeorge and Beverly JamesJosh Lipton and Wendy CloughMental Insight FoundationClare StoneThe Kimball FoundationWalter & Elise Haas FundWinifred Johnson Clive Foundation

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE - $10,000+

Alvin H. Baum and Robert HolgateD. A. BrookeMatt Brooks and Pamela Rorke LevyDavis United World College ScholarsSandra de Saint PhalleQuinn Delaney and Wayne JordanCharles Desmarais and Kitty MorganJennifer EmersonHank FeirCharles and Penelope FinnieCandace and Vincent GaudianiDon Ed Hardy*Charles* and Sandra HobsonBonnie Levinson and Donald KayMarc and Jamie LunderDusan MillsJoy OuPartner University FundCynthia Plevin and Nicholas HeldtAntony and Lara RitchJohn M. SangerBrent Sikkema*Judith Snyderman*

Jeremy StoneChris Tellis and Isabella KirklandRio R. Valledor and Diane Shaw

DEAN’S CIRCLE - $5,000+

Julio and Amy AlvarezAnonymousRena Bransten/Rena Bransten GalleryKelny Denebeim and First Republic BankEdna M. Reichmuth Educational FundBetsy and Roy EisenhardtCarolyn Zecca Ferris* and Timothy FerrisFerrilli Information GroupG2 Insurance ServicesPeggy LamoreeLucasfilm FoundationJack and Betty SchaferRoselyne C. SwigSeed FundUSA Student Residences

TOWER CIRCLE - $2,500+

Adaline Kent Memorial FundRichard Alpert*John and Gretchen BerggruenMichael R. Chambers*Christopher R. Coppola*Quentin and Sarah GallivanLee GregoryH. William Keland* and Roxana Keland-Bartholomay*

Gregory MarkoulisHoward and Jan OringerMary L. RobinsonPaul SackGeorgene TozziWest Coast Vending and Food Services, Inc.

COURTYARD CIRCLE - $1,000+

Anita AdamsPaule I. AnglimAnonymous (6)Robert Bechtle and Whitney ChadwickAndrew and Olga BicosRobert and Daphne BranstenKathan Brown* and Tom MarioniElizabeth Cayne*Theodore and Cynthia ColebrookFrancis and Eleanor CoppolaImogen DoumaniMarina Drummer and The Marion Greene Fund at Community Futures Collective

Steve and Sharon EdelmanChristian and Jacqueline ErdmanBob and Randi FisherRoderick Freebairn-SmithJerome and Leah GarchikJack* and Nina Gray**Kent Hodgetts*Kurt and Melanie HoeferJames C. HormelThe Kanbar Charitable TrustJohn and Christina KekerPaul Kos* and Isabelle SorrellRichard and Pamela KramlichAnthony Ligamari* and Juana SchurmanFrank Mainzer and Lonnie ZwerinIvan and Ruth MajdrakoffPaul Ryder and Tony Maridakis*Heather A. Martin*Flicka McGurrin*John and Leslie McQuownAnthony Meier/Anthony Meier Fine ArtsWes and Kate MooreMichael J. O’Shea*Lisa and John PritzkerJane* and Larry Reed*Mary Kate Rittmann

* = Alumna/Alumnus ** = Deceased30 SFAI ANNUAL REPORT

Lili Ruane*Espi and Veera SanjanaSC Johnson Giving, Inc.Albert and Jo SchreckNancy H. SchwanfelderRichard* and Martha ShawW. Douglass SmithSteven Spector and Robert RippsCarlie WilmansDiane B. WilseyWilliam and Margery Zellerbach

FRIENDS ($500 TO $999)

Ehsan AlipourHarry and Mary AndersonAssured Guaranty CorporationAdelie Bischoff*Nancy and Roger BoasJoe and Rema BreallGlenn and April BucksbaumAnne E. Cohen*Victoria CooperGinger CraneRobin CritelliDavidsTeaPriscilla Donegan*Leonard Eber and Diane RubinAriel EnglanderShaari ErgasCecilia and Gregor FreundDiana FullerJohn GreenGerald GrodskyPaul HolmAnthony* and I’Lee HookerMark and Lori HorneKaren Sipprell and H. M. IrvinJudy JohnstonMady JonesHolly Karmanocky and Andrew MurdochNick and Denise LapinsJonathan LazarMary Kay LyonChris and Gwen ManfrinPaul MartinezNion McEvoyElizabeth O’BrienBlair and Helen PascoeJay Pidto and Lynne BaerNick and Leslie PodellThomas and Shelagh RohlenElizabeth and Karl RonnBen and Toby RoseByron Rouda

Robin SeegalMatilda Stoddard*The Boeing CompanyLava Thomas*Alan and Joanne VidinskyLauren Wales-Chanler and Clifford ChanlerWill K. WeinsteinJames* and Barbara WillenborgMark WolfeBrigitta* and Martin Wolman

FRIENDS ($499 AND BELOW)

Arlo Acton*Verda Alexander*Lorraine Almeida*Claudia Altman-SiegelJanette AndrawesSusan Andrews and Buddy Rhodes*Anonymous (5)Marisa Aragona*Terry Aramendia*Christine Arata*Nicole ArcherTerje ArnesenCarolyn Asbury*AT&T Employee Giving ProgramSylvia Augustiniok*Naseem Badiey*Jonathan BallJoshua Band*Zeina Barakeh*Suzy Barnard*Jerry Barrish* and Nancy RussellHathaway BarryLeslie Bauer*Ciara Bedingfield* and Don Budetti*Sharaine Bell*J. D. Beltran*David BennettGary* and Andrea BishopJulie Blankenship*Jon Blazeski*Jaren Bonillo*Thomas Borden*David Borengasser*Tracy and Larry BoscheAgnes BourneSusan BowerRobert BradyPeter Brandt*Christopher Bratton and Dalida BenfieldRuth BraunsteinLola* and Dennis BrownPatricia Brown*

John and Claudia BruSuzie Buchholz*Mark Bulwinkle*Roger and Michele BurchDaniel Burnham, Jr.*Jacqueline ButticeJaclyn Calderon*Richard Camire*Charles A. Cantwell*John Carney*Jerome Carolfi*Rachel CarterMark and Mimi Chambers*Alma Chaney*Annie Cheung*Rick and Marsha ChisholmTravis ChristopherJeanine CieckoCatharine ClarkMarna ClarkMargaret ClarsonBonita Cohn*Emily ColeEllen ColemanSusie ColiverHuguette CombsCorynne CondonLinda ConnorDoris E. CottamDoug Cover*Carol CovingtonCarly CramJohn and Patricia* CrowleyDewey Crumpler*Ellen Curley*Annette DaltonCarlie DanielsonMalcolm Davis*John de Fazio*Jose de los Reyes*Janet Delaney*Anna DeloreficeGregory DeLory*Gail DeMartisChristopher and Mary DentonMamadou Dieng*Tina DillmanSteve DolanLisa Dolby Chadwick/Dolby Chadwick GalleryPatrick Donovan*David* and Wendy DunneDavid DwormanMark DziewulskiAla Ebtekar*Jim Edwards

* = Alumna/Alumnus ** = Deceased 31ADVANCEMENT REPORT

Sara Eliassen*Nancy Elkus*Peter Eller*Chris Enos*Epstein Family Philanthropic FundJoe and Judi EpsteinLin Evola-Smidt*Laura Faw*Richard Felix*John and Carol FieldRoy* and Sue FigoneNancy Finkelstein* and Daniel BarryBean FinneranHoward Foote*Thomas and Joan* FrenkelStephen* and Pamela GachAllison GannonDeborah Koons Garcia*Carlos Garcia Montero*Ross GarlandAni Garrick*Juan GarzaMichal Gavish*Carla Gaytan*Ingeborg Gerdes*Helen Gilbert*Joan Gilbert and Joel ArmstrongRegina Gilligan*Paul Glaviano*Rebecca Goldfarb*Marc* and Diana GoldsteinStephen Goldstine* and Emily KeelerJordan Good*Lynne Good*John Goodman and Kerry KingRichard and Gretchen GrantJulia GrayBarbara GregoryBrian GrossClaude and Nina GruenAndrea Guerra*Harvey HackerAlexandra HammondDennis Hearne*Matt Heckert*Ann Hedges*John HeldJudith Helle*Christian HelmersCody HennesyEthel Herst* and Miles DurrFred Hill the Photosmith*Rich HillisJulie Hodge*

Helen Holt*DNA HooverJustin Hoover*Richard and Theresa HorriganMerrilee and Berne HowardJohn Humble*Katie HunterRobert Hyatt*Kira Inglis*Rodger Jacobsen*Kay Jacobson*Evan E. James*Aubrey JenkinsEvie JohnsonLawrence JordanSo Young Jun*Jon and Myla Kabat-ZinnKathryn Kain*Carrie Katz*Joshua Keller* and Carissa Potter-Carlson*Brian KennisonKyong Ae Kim*Lynn Kirby*Paul KleinBradley* and Theresa KokiEmily Kramer*Cynthia Krieble*Caroline LaBauveKerry Laitala*Gyongy LakyYasmin Lambie-Simpson*Lynn Landor*Camille LangloisJennine Lanouette*Pamela Lanza*Nancy LeavensDanial LemireMatthias Leue*Helen* and Norman LichtCharles Linder*Phil* and Sharon LinharesLydia Linker*Julie London*Ellery LongNannette Love*Alice LowePatsy Ludwig and James J. LudwigJeff Magnin*Sarah MalashockAdrian Malone and Joan Skewes-Cox MaloneMarynell Maloney*Michelle Mansour*Aline Mare*

Carl and Janet MartinStephanie Dudek and Fred T. Martin*David and Kathleen* MartinLois MartinStephen S. MartinClea Massiani-LaurentJorge MaumerMimi Mayer*Michael McAnelly*William C. McClure*Frances McCormackIan McDonaldJon* and Mary Ann McDonaldDoris L. McKeever KeenanMargreta McKeownDennis Mcnulty*James F. MelchertEdward Millett*David and Rebecca MillsSusan J. MoldawJames MooreChristine Moran*Jean Morrison*Colleen D. Mulvey*Kieran MurphyLaurie NashNewell Rubbermaid, Inc.Wendi Norris/Wendi Norris GalleryCharles and Yoko OlsonYari Ostovany*John OutterbridgeTina Panziera*James Pavlicovic*Jinny Pearce*Kristen Perkins*Daniel Phill*Frank Pietronigro*Jill Pilaroscia*Mimi Plumb*Alissa Polan*Chana Pollack*Harrison PollockLaura Poppiti*Anthony Powers*Judy and Joshua Pryor*Eric Jaye and Jeannene PrzyblyskiMoshe Quinn*Roy* and Carol RagleSusan Rashkis*Gerald* and Marla RattoSheri ReelsRichard ReismanAmanaa Rendall*Andrea Rex*

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Sally Richardson*Debbie RizzoSheri Lee Robinson*Lupe RodriguezAdeline Ropion*Henry RosenthalMarilyn RosenweinJennifer RuoccoHarlan Sadberry* and Pamela Kessler*Michael SantiagoBarbara ScalesSusan Schneider*Jacob Schurman*Andrea Schwartz/Andrea Schwartz Gallery and Steve Dolan

Pam Scrutton and Bill MorrisonSean ScullionAnne Seeman* and John Whitehead*Robert Shimshak and Marion BrennerAnne ShulockSimone Simon*Ken* and Tina SlosbergDana Smith*Joshua Smith*Thomas SparksGeorge Steinmann*Leslie Straw*Jack Stuppin, Jr* and Diane StuppinCarol Swanson-Petterson*Naoko Takabu*Charlene TanPhilip James Teeter*Paul TempletonPaul Thiebaud GalleryLynnette Todaro*Laura TohJessica Tully*John Upton*Jacy ValentineMark Van Proyen*Jessica VerTrudi Vetterlein*Erika VidaureLenore Vogt*Jai WaggonerAmanda Wallace*Linda Wallgren*Wendy WarrenLaurel Watanabe*Bambi Waterman*Jessica WatsonLibby WeathersKatie WeeksWells Fargo Matching Gift Program

Christina Wiles*Chuck Wiley*Harry Wilson*Michal Wisniowski*Jenifer Wofford*Charles Wong*Alison Woods*Edmund Wyss*Karyn Yandow*Paul and Maureen YasiAmber Jean Young*Cid YoungPatricia YoungDaniel Yovino*E. J. Yurkov*Nicole ZinmanCarl and Elizabeth ZlatchinJohn and Nina* Zurier

GIFTS-IN-KIND

AAA Business SuppliesJonathan AdlerTrumer BrauereiBull Stockwell Allen ArchitectureColette Campbell-JonesCarol Wattis CaseyMeg DawsonMike and Kara Dunn/Dunn VineyardsRobert W. EdwardsChris Enos*Carolyn Zecca Ferris*Diane and Charles FrankelLucas FogliaDon Ed Hardy*Charles Hobson*Justin Hoover*Fred MartinBruce McGawFlicka McGurrin*/Pier 23 CafeJim MillerGeorgia PackardHoward Petrick*Cherie PinskyJohn RoloffRandy RoederGlen Serbin

Roderick Freebairn-SmithJeremy StoneNora and Norman StoneNathaniel SwopeTom TiecheKaren L. Topakian*Karen WatsonSusan WaylandJoyce YiJon Zemans

VOLUNTEERS

Marna Clark Rod Freebairn-SmithDan GregoryFrank MainzerKate RittmanSteven SpectorPat Troolin

SFAI DALLAS/FORT WORTH – ARKANSAS TRIP PARTICIPANTS

Alvin H. Baum and Robert HolgateCharles DesmaraisDiane and Charles FrankelToby and Jerry LevineSusan MallSusan Weber

* = Alumna/Alumnus ** = Deceased

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Former Trustee Robert Bransten (L)

and Trustee Jeremy Stone (R)

at the 2012 Legacy Luncheon


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Trustee Emeritus Jack Schafer with Mario Ayala,

recipient of the Jack Schafer Prize for Art Supplies,

at the 2012 Legacy Luncheon


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MEMORIAL AND TRIBUTE GIFTS

DONATIONS IN MEMORY

In Memory of John BertolinoDavid* and Jackie Johnson

In Memory of Nader EbrahimiXylor Jane*

In Memory of Michael C. FenderCatharine Fender

In Memory of Robert HervatineJonathan Holland* and Heather Hickman Holland*

In Memory of Minna LiebermanJerome and Leah Garchik

In Memory of Helen MartinSeth Ammerman

In Memory of Sam TchakalianMichael* and Lola Krouse

In Memory of Carlos VillaMichael M. Arcega*Deborah Van AttaRenee Bareno*Amy BerkBill Berkson* and Connie LewallenBeverly Berrish-VillaD. A. BrookeKit Cameron*Whitney ChadwickRae Ann DonnellyMarina Drummer and The Marion Greene Fund at Community Futures Collective

Betsy and Roy EisenhardtCarolyn Zecca Ferris*Donna Ficarrotta and Michael PotepanJack and Diana Fulton*Carol GinzburgTheodore GonzalvesJeff Gunderson and S. J. LeyAnne Herbst*Paul and Ann KarlstromH. William Keland* and Roxana Keland-Bartholomay*

Anthony Ligamari* and Juana SchurmanBruce McGawFlicka McGurrin*Harry and Ellen ParkerRudjen Roldan*Moira RothJovi C. Schnell*Marian SherwoodJeremy StoneRoselyne C. SwigLydia TitcombRio R. Valledor and Diane ShawShirley Vollhardt, Pam Ed Wallace & FamilyDiane B. Wilsey

In Memory of Deane WernetPatricia Offer

DONATIONS IN HONOR

In Honor of Lenore AlexanderMaria Contreras

In Honor of Candace GaudianiVera Gaudiani

In Honor of Lara and Antony RitchElliott and Suzanne Felson

In Honor of Peter HassenSusan Wayland

In Honor of BA Graduates, Class of 2008Angela Conway

In Honor of Cynthia ColebrookSusan Avila

In Honor of Madeleine Thomas FioreArthur Thomas

In Honor of Diane and Charles FrankelAlvin H. Baum and Robert HolgateWendy LukeKathy SouthernStuart and Lee PollakAlan and Ruth SteinMurry and Marilyn Waldman

In Honor of Lee GregoryWill Weinstein

In Honor of Jeff GundersonKaren L. Topakian

In Honor of Allan KaprowAnonymous

In Honor of Lonnie ZwerinFrank Mainzer

In Honor of Joseph RaffaelBeverly Berrish-Villa

In Honor of Mary RobinsonKathleen McKenna

The Institute has made every effort to be accurate and all-inclusive in the names listed, while respecting anonymity when requested. If you have not been

recognized correctly, please call the Advancement Office at 415.749.4516.

* = Alumna/Alumnus ** = Deceased

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Carlos Villa for SFAQ

Photographed by Andrew McClintock

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Alumni Exhibition at SFAI CONCENTRATE, with work by Robert Minervini



ENDOWED FUNDS

SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS

Ellen Hart Bransten Scholarship FundEstablished in 1965 by a bequest from Ellen Hart Bransten and contributions from her husband, Joseph Bransten, their sons, Robert and John, and her brother James Hart; income to provide a merit-based scholarship to a fourth-year student major-ing in painting or graphic art.

Anne Bremer Scholarship FundEstablished in 1924 by Albert M. Bender and his friends in memory of his cousin, Anne Bremer; income to provide five scholarships each year to students of SFAI.

Lawrence Calcagno Scholarship FundEstablished in 1994 by a bequest from SFAI alumnus Lawrence Calcagno; income to provide a scholarship to an undergraduate painting student.

Rick Cramer Memorial Scholarship Fund Established in 1996 by Richard and Beverley Cramer in memory of their son, SFAI MFA student Rick Cramer; income to provide a need-based scholarship for an MFA student of painting, 30+ years old.

Ruth Cravath Scholarship FundEstablished in 1982 with a gift from SFAI alumnus Michael Fender in memory of his mother, Ruth Fender, named after Ruth Cravath; income to provide merit scholar-ships to students of SFAI.

Hector Escobosa Memorial Scholarship FundEstablished in 1964 by a gift in memory of Hector Escobosa; income to provide a schol-arship to an advanced student of painting.

Ford Student Aid Established in 1963 by a grant from the Ford Foundation; income to provide scholarships to students of SFAI.

Aline Gunst Memorial Scholarship FundEstablished in 1959 by a bequest from Aline Gust; income to provide scholarships to students of SFAI.

Sine Marie Hahn Scholarship FundEstablished in 1970 by a bequest from Sine Marie Hahn; income to provide a scholar-ship for a student of oil painting.

Mary H. Keesling Scholarship Fund Established in 2007 by a bequest from SFAI Trustee Emerita Mary Heath Keesling; income to be used to grant scholarships to one or more graduate students pursuing an MFA in painting, drawing, or sculpture, or an MA in curatorial studies.

Alfred Lavoie Scholarship FundEstablished in 1989 by William Lavoie in memory of his father; income to provide scholarships to students of SFAI.

Hart Lipton Scholarship Fund Established in 2012 by the family of SFAI student Hart Lipton in his memory; income to provide a scholarship to attract, based on merit, a transfer painting student.

Nancy E. Martin Scholarship FundEstablished in 2001 by a bequest from Nancy Martin; income to be awarded annually to a student selected by SFAI based on merit and need.

Barbara McKee Memorial Scholarship FundEstablished in 2003 by the family of SFAI alumna Barbara McKee; income to provide a scholarship to a female fourth-year painting student.

Elizabeth O’Shaughnessy Scholarship Fund Established in 2000 by a bequest from Elizabeth O’Shaughnessy; income to provide scholarships to students of SFAI.

Bernard Osher Scholarship FundEstablished in 1998 by the Bernard Osher Foundation; income to be awarded to first-year students at SFAI on the basis of merit as well as need. Those selected are desig-nated as Osher Scholars.

James D. Phelan Scholarship FundEstablished in 1930 by a bequest from former San Francisco Mayor and US Senator James D. Phelan; income to provide scholar-ships to students of SFAI.

Abraham Rosenberg Scholarship FundEstablished in 1935 by a bequest from Abraham Rosenberg; income to provide scholarships to students of SFAI.

Madelon J. Sneed Scholarship FundEstablished in 1999 by the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed in memory of his wife; income to be awarded annually to a student selected by SFAI faculty and staff based on merit.

Corinne and Stanton Sobel Memorial Scholarship Fund Established in 1982 by contributions in memory of SFAI Trustee Emerita Corinne Sobel and her husband Stanton; income to provide a competitive merit scholarship for recruiting purposes.

Allan B. Stone Scholarship Established in 2009 by a pledge from Clare Stone in memory of her husband; annual contributions to provide scholarships to two undergraduates and one continuing MFA student in painting.

Carlos Villa ScholarshipEstablished in 2013 through contributions made in memory of alumnus and longtime faculty member Carlos Villa; income to provide a merit scholarship awarded to a student from a San Francisco public high school who demonstrates financial need.

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ENDOWED FUNDS

VISITING ARTISTS

Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship Established in 1996 by the family of Richard Diebenkorn in his memory; income to fund a visiting artist fellowship including a cash award, a teaching appointment, and a studio residency.

McBean Lectureship & Residency (1999)Established in 1999 by a grant from the McBean Family Foundation; income to fund the McBean Distinguished Lectureship and Residency Award granted annually to an outstanding contemporary artist.

LIBRARY FUNDS

Chris Alpert Library Fund (1995)Established in 1995 by the family of SFAI staff member Chris Alpert; income to be used to purchase rare books for the SFAI library.

Anne Bremer Library Fund Established in 1924 by Albert M. Bender and his friends in memory of his cousin, Anne Bremer; income to be used to purchase books for the SFAI library.

ANNUAL PRIZES

Anne Bremer Memorial Prize Fund Established in 1924 by Albert M. Bender and his friends in memory of his cousin, Anne Bremer; income to provide two prizes to art-ists exhibiting in the annual MFA exhibition.

John Collier Award Established in 1992 by contributions in memory of SFAI faculty member John Collier; income and annual contributions to be awarded to an outstanding photography student.

Dennis Patrick Gallagher Prize for SculptureEstablished in 2008 by friends and family in memory of SFAI faculty member Dennis Patrick Gallagher; annual contributions to provide an annual cash award to an out-standing sculpture student.

Hart Lipton Art Supplies PrizeEstablished in 2012 by the family of SFAI student Hart Lipton in his memory; a $500 prize to be awarded to one student per se-mester for the purchase of art supplies.

Paul Sack Building AwardsEstablished in 1996 by Paul Sack; annual contributions to fund 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes for black and white photography, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes in color photography, and a prize for still photography.

Jack Schafer Prize for Art SuppliesEstablished in 2004 by Jack Schafer; income to be awarded to one student per year for the purchase of art supplies.

Curtis Anthony Smith Award Established in 1999 by David Gleba; income to be awarded annually to a gay male under-graduate student selected by SFAI.

Ella King Torrey AwardEstablished in 2003 in memory of SFAI President Ella King Torrey to provide an annual cash award to an outstanding MFA candidate.

Isaac M. Walter Sculpture Prize Established in 1927 by a gift from Caroline Walter in memory of her husband; income to provide an annual cash award to an out-standing sculpture student.

Harold E. Weiner Memorial Prize Established in 1971 by contributions in memory of SFAI student Harold Weiner; income to be used to provide an annual prize for sculpture.

Virgil Williams Prize Established in 1920 by a gift from Dora Norton Williams in memory of her husband, the first director of SFAI; income to provide one award to be given annually to a student of SFAI.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Mary H. Keesling Student Exhibitions Fund Established in 2007 by a bequest from SFAI Trustee Emerita Mary Heath Keesling; income to support student exhibitions.

Judith Snyderman Community Program Support FundEstablished in 2010 by Judith Snyderman; income to support regularly scheduled, free life-drawing opportunities for the public and students.

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Student at work in the painting studio

Photographed by Yu Sheng

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2012 Winter Art Festival



ENROLLMENT SUMMARY

FALL 2012

Student Type Headcount FTE

New Undergraduate 180 174.25

New Post-Baccalaureate 13 13

New Graduate 71 71.25

New Student Total 264 258.5

Returning Undergraduate 262 254.75

Returning Post-Baccalaureate 1 0.25

Returning Graduate 132 107.58

Returning Student Total 395 362.58

Non-Degree 11 8.25

All Student Total 670 629.33

SPRING 2013

Student Type Headcount FTE

New Undergraduate 37 36

New Post-Baccalaureate 0 0

New Graduate 8 7.5

New Student Total 45 43.5

Returning Undergraduate 373 362.25

Returning Post-Baccalaureate 13 13

Returning Graduate 195 168.75

Returning Student Total 581 544

Non-Degree 6 2.5

All Student Total 632 590

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

Fiscal Year 2012–2013 was the fifth consecutive year of operating surpluses, demonstrating that SFAI is in good financial health and growing stronger.

REVENUES

Tuition and Fees 23,908,264

Less College-Funded Scholarships (6,716,128)

Net Tuition and Fees 17,192,136

Contributions 940,689

Housing 1,478,515

Other 617,914

Investment Income 680,125

Total $20,909,379

EXPENSES

Instructional 5,549,401

Community Programs 380,147

Public Programs 263,821

Academic Support 1,372,235

Enrollment Services 2,210,213

Institutional Support 3,648,513

Facilities 2,153,233

Development and Communication 1,445,346

Housing 1,321,952

Depreciation Expense 847,559

Total $19,192,420

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Tony Hooker, I’Lee Hooker, and Joanne Vidinsky

at 2013 Gala Vernissage with work by John Steck Jr.

Photographed by Gary Sexton

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Tim Armstrong flour painting at SFAI CONCENTRATE



BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Meet the Trustees at sfai.edu/board-trustees

OfficersDiane Frankel, ChairCynthia Plevin, Vice ChairPenelope Finnie, SecretaryChris Tellis, Treasurer

TrusteesSandra de Saint PhalleJennifer EmersonPenelope FinnieHank FeirDiane FrankelCandace GaudianiLee GregoryMichael JacksonBonnie LevinsonJamie LunderDusan MillsJoy OuCynthia PlevinLara RitchMary RobinsonJohn SangerJeremy StoneChris Tellis

Trustees-at-LargeAnnie Leibovitz

Trustees EmeritiPaule AnglimGardiner HempelBeverly JamesHoward OringerPaul SackJack SchaferRoselyne C. SwigWilliam Zellerbach

Faculty TrusteesDewey CrumplerCharles Hobson

Student RepresentativesEmily M. GormanLana Williams

At the annual meeting on May 30, 2013, the following individu-als were elected for the coming fiscal/academic year:

OfficersCynthia Plevin, ChairPenelope Finnie, Vice ChairBonnie Levinson, SecretaryChris Tellis, Treasurer

TrusteesCharles HobsonElizabeth RonnPam Rorke LevyJeff Magnin

Trustees-at-LargeDon Ed HardyBarry McGeeBrent Sikkema

Faculty TrusteesPaul Klein

Student RepresentativesBenjamin AshlockTina Dillman

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Documents

SFAI Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2012-2013