In addition to the exhibition at the Mills Building (220 Montgomery Street), the "INTERNATIONAL ORANGE: The Bridge Re-imagined" project encompasses 75 "Bridge Galleries" all over San Francisco and beyond, thus bridging the entire area with student artwork.

An official "tribute" of the Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary celebration, INTERNATIONAL ORANGE features the artwork of students in nearly two dozen San Francisco public schools working with SFArtsEd Master Artist and exhibition curator Richard Olsen. INTERNATIONAL ORANGE is a work in progress -- the finished exhibition runs May 14-Aug. 4 at the Mills Building in downtown San Francisco and in 75 bridge galleries around the city. This gallery contains photos of works in progress, detail shots and classroom shots to convey the variety of ages and approaches involved in the exhibition.

Curated by Richard Olsen; In Collaboration with ArtSource Consulting; This exhibition was part of the year- long celebration of SFArtsED’s 40th anniversary. Inspired by the photographic portraits of famed photographer Dawoud Bey, this exhibition at the Mills Building featured the work from students in the SFArtsED residency programs, from Gateway Charter and School of the Arts. It also featured the portraits created by current and past SFArtsED artist teachers including Seyed Alavi (net/seyedsite/publicart/), Ray Beldner (www.raybeldner.com), Libby Black (www.libbyblack.com), Deirdra Daw, Agelio Batle (www.agelio batle.com) and Shelia Guidini.

Exhibition at ZEUM; Project Leader: Anna Von Mertens (annavonmertens.com); The project was led by Anna Von Mertens, a contemporary artist who uses the quilt as a media for her own work. She led workshops in the art and craft of quilting for the SFArtsED artist teachers who in turn used newly acquired knowledge to inform collaborative quilt projects in their classes. Many of the quilts made were seen in tandem with the performance by the SFArtsED Players “The Invisible Princess” based on the book of the same name by Faith Ringgold, (www.faithringgold.com) renowned author and quilt artist at ZEUM in Yerba Buena Center.

ZEUM, the Richmond Health Center and San Francisco State Fine Arts Gallery; Conceived by Seyed Alavi (seyedsite/publicart); Directed by Emily Keeler and Camille Olivier-Salmon; "The Color of My Dreams" involved artists and teachers working closely with the young artists in workshops and art classes in which they explored the metamorphosis of the butterfly as a symbol for transformation. They studied the process of change as a natural order in the universe, examining the needs and reasons for change, and finally exploring such related notions as hope and healing. Afterwards, the students utilized pre-cut paper butterflies as their "blank canvas", on which to express their individual feelings and discoveries through a variety of mediums and materials. The exhibition was first mounted on the ceiling of the circular lobby of the ZEUM tower in The Yerba Buena Center. It then traveled to other locations including the Richmond Arts Center and The Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State where the exhibition was part of a group Co-Lab: New Generations, show organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission in conjunction with that University.

Glen Park Elementary and Gateway Charter High School; Project conceived by Richard Olsen; This project was a continuation of the MIX 2000. It involved Gateway Charter High School, Glen Park Elementary and students of San Francisco Art Institute. The graduate students were assigned to classes under the direction of artist teachers Richard Olsen or Abner Nolan. The object was to bring artists together of a variety of ages for discussion and ultimately for creation of new works. There were projects that included outdoor sites, and collaborations between the older and younger students. As the first MIX had, it challenged the students of all ages to become familiar with each other’s worlds.

Francisco Middle School; Project conceived and led by Rene Yung (www.reneyoung.com); The students of Francisco Middle School and the participants of the On Lok Senior Center under the direction of artist teacher Rene Yung created ten feet long dragon from collaged materials which was finished in time to honor the Chinese New Year. In the course of planning and working together at the senior center, which was walking distance from the school, these two disparate populations came to know one another fellow artists and as people. The Dragon was placed in the lobby of Francisco Middle School and the seniors came for the opening celebration for exhibition.

The Mills Building; Conceived and curated by Richard Olsen; In collaboration with ArtSource Consulting; This exhibition was the result of a 15-week artistic conversation between students from the San Francisco Art Institute and art classes from Gateway Charter and Francisco schools. The graduate students sat in on academic and art classes at both schools, and the younger students visited the San Francisco Art Institute graduate seminars. In this way each group learned about the other, so that they came to know each other as students, as people and as artists. The exhibition evidenced this close and unusual conversation. It included unusual portraits in a variety of media and a video of the artists entering each other’s worlds.

Curated by Richard Olsen and Agelio Batle; San Francisco Art institute – Diego Riviera Gallery; The exhibition consisted of documentation and artistic responses by students from several visual arts classes taught by SFArtsED artist teachers to the creation of the GARDEN. Student docents from Francisco Middle School led viewers through the gallery answering questions about the artwork and its genesis.

Project leader: Ray Beldner (www.raybeldner.com); Francisco Middle School; GARDEN was led by site-specific artist Ray Beldner in collaboration with landscape architect Loretta Gargan. The artists, aided by a group of students from the San Francisco Art Institute led the entire Francisco Middle School through a planning and creation process of a garden sanctuary that would sit at the center of their school’s site. The sanctuary was conceived as a learning tool about nature, and a safe, outdoor space in a neighborhood where there were few parks. Besides the many plantings, it included many elements that students suggested: a wishing pool, murals and a circular stonewall. Members of the Levis Community Involvement Team were among the many adult volunteers from the neighborhood who made significant contributions to its creation.

Exhibition at the Mills Building; Conceived by Richard Olsen; Curated by Larry Rinder; In collaboration with ArtSource Consulting; Distiguished mid-career artists and young people in SFArtsED classes exchanged “problems” to be solved by making works of art. Assignments included “what does the soul look like?” “make a work for the sky,” “make something that makes you nervous.” The artists visited the classrooms twice, once for the exchange of problems and the second to discuss the solutions. Likewise, the students visited the artists in their studios, in this way seeing the work for the exhibition in progress in the context with the artist’s other work. The culminating exhibition included the work of the adults and students' “solutions” side by side using a wide range of media, video, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and artist’s books

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Curated by Richard Olsen; This exhibition included the work from eight schools with SFArtsED residencies, WritersCorp and the Sculpture class at School of the Arts. The show included images and objects that were inspired by the dream world. In conjunction with this show there was a public conversation about arts education organized by SFArtsED. Participants included Patterson Sims, from the Education Department, Museum of Modern Art, SFUSD Superintendent Waldemar Rojas, Vas Prabhu from Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Artist William T. Wiley.

Exhibition at the Rena Bransten Gallery; Curated by Richard Olsen; The first of the public exhibitions of SFArtsED’s visual arts exhibition program called One-to-See. Its mission: to place the work of children in art galleries and museums thus putting their offerings in dialogue with the work of adult artists. By placing the work in these traditional art exhibition settings it challenged the viewer to take the expressions of the children seriously.

The Brick Project was originally commissioned by the San Francisco Arts in Education Foundation for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's opening in January 1995. Conceived and led by members of the Foundation's "Artists Research Team" Agelio Batle, Janet Borardus and Richard Olsen. The exhibit won the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's "Best of Design Award" for Environmental Design.