Dialogues (2016-17)

November 5, 2016 through February 25, 2017

Opening at Minnesota Street Project Saturday, November 5, 1pm-4pm

SAN FRANCISCO (October 19, 2016) – The San Francisco Arts Education Project explores the relationship between artist mentor and student artist. The exhibition will be the conversation of formal, material or conceptual elements found in the work of both the older and the younger artists. The work of SFArtsED artist mentors will hang alongside work created by students in each artist’s residency in a San Francisco public school or in an SFArtsED after-school program. Who inspires whom? Is resonance reciprocal? Lori Starr, executive director of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, serves as guest curator.

SFArtsED Artists

  • Alexis Arnold
  • Agelio Batle
  • Araya Boonbandansook
  • Zoe Farmer
  • Tiersa Nureyev
  • Richard Olsen
  • Wendy Robushi
  • Josephine Taylor

Participating Schools

  • Claire Lilienthal Alternative School
  • Commodore Sloat Elementary School
  • Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy
  • McKinley Elementary School
  • Miralmoa Elementary School
  • Ruth Asawa SF School of the Arts
  • Sherman Elementary School

DIALOGUES is on exhibit November 5, 2016 through February 25, 2017 in the San Francisco Arts Education Project’s art studio-classroom in Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street (@24th Street), San Francisco, second floor. Opening reception is Saturday, Nov. 5 from 1pm to 4pm. Regular hours are Tuesday-Thursday 11am-4pm and Friday 11am-1pm (and by appointment). First Saturday hours on November 5, December 3, January 7 and February 4 are 4pm to 8pm.

 

About SFArtsED

Founded in 1968 (as the Alvarado School Arts Workshop) by renowned artist Ruth Asawa, SFArtsED has transformed the lives of children, their families, teachers, artists and volunteers. Programs include SFArtsED Summer, In-School Artist Residencies, After-School programs, The SFArtsED Players Musical Theater Company, Interdisciplinary Arts Program and apprenticeships for college and high school students. SFArtsED moved into its new space at Minnesota Street Project in March 2016, marking the first time in the organization’s nearly 50-year history that it has a space of its own for instruction, exhibition, seminars, workshops and gatherings of all kinds. www.sfartsed.org

About Minnesota Street Project

Located in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district, Minnesota Street Project offers affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting over 100,000 square feet, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco’s contemporary art community in the short term, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term. Founded by entrepreneurs and collectors Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Minnesota Street Project was inspired by the couple’s belief that philanthropic support for the arts today requires an alternate model—one suited to the innovative nature of Silicon Valley and the region as a whole. Their vision of a dynamic, self-sustaining enterprise that shares its economic success with arts businesses and professionals aims to encourage heightened support for the arts from newcomer and established patrons alike.
www.minnesotastreetproject.com

For more information, photos or to arrange interviews, please call 415.551.7990, or e-mail chad.j@sfartsed.org. Right click on images below to download.

Dialogues

FACT SHEET

WHAT Dialogues
A conversation of formal, material or conceptual elements found in the work of both older and the younger artists. The work of SFArtsED artist mentors will hang alongside work created by students in each artist’s residency in a San Francisco public school or in an SFArtsED after-school program.
WHO The San Francisco Arts Education Project
WHERE Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street (@24th Street), San Francisco, second floor
WHEN November 5, 2016 – February 25, 2017

Opening:
Saturday, November 5, 1pm-4pm
First Saturdays: November 5, December 3, January 7 and February 4 hours are 4pm to 8pm.

Regular Hours:
Tuesday-Thursday 11am-4pm
Friday 11am-1pm
And by appointment

INFO SFArtsED | www.sfartsed.org | 415.551.7990

Lori Starr, Executive Director of The Contemporary Jewish Museum, serves as guest curator. “Artists and their students engage in dialogue, sometimes unspoken—through emotional connection, mood, and in the quiet of making the work,” Ms. Starr says. “The process of creating art together sparks imagination and risk-taking—for everyone.”