Re/View: An SFArtsED Visual Arts Retrospective (2016)

 

March 18 to May 20, 2016

New exhibit celebrates the opening of SFArtsED’s new art studio classroom space in Minnesota Street Project

SAN FRANCISCO (March 2, 2016) – Since 1968, the San Francisco Arts Education Project has created hands-on creative experiences for children in San Francisco public schools alongside some of the Bay Area’s finest practicing artists. Through in-school artist residencies, after-school and weekend programs and a six-week arts summer camp, SFArtsED has earned the reputation as San Francisco’s finest arts education program.

This year, SFArtsED takes the next big step opening an art studio classroom and office space in the Minnesota Street Project development in Dogpatch. This former industrial warehouse is now at the center of San Francisco’s newest arts district, housing 11 contemporary art galleries and one nonprofit: SFArtsED.

To celebrate the opening of SFArtsED’s new art studio classroom in Minnesota Street Project, we honor exhibitions from our past – the student artists, the teaching artists and the extraordinary work they created together. The show is Re/View: An SFArtsED Visual Arts Retrospective.

Since 1995, when SFArtsED began creating art exhibitions for student work, there have been more than a dozen shows in galleries, storefronts, building lobbies, schools and other creative spaces usually reserved for working artists. Now that SFArtsED has, for the first time, a space to call its own, it seemed fitting to share some of the great work of the past created with veteran artist teachers including Richard Olsen, Agelio Batle and Tiersa Nureyev among many others.

This opening exhibition includes pieces created for INTERNATIONAL ORANGE: The Bridge Re-imagined, a 2012 show created in conjunction with the GGNRA’s official 75th birthday celebration of the Golden Gate Bridge; PAPER/GARMENT, a 2014 fashion-inspired show that challenged young designers to create runway-ready gowns made entirely of paper; Through the Looking Glass: Images of Young People, a 2006 collection of self-portraits in various media; and The Brick Project, commissioned for the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1995.

Re/View: An SFArtsED Visual Arts Retrospective opens March 18 and continues through May 20, 2016 in the San Francisco Arts Education Project’s art studio classroom in Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco. Opening weekend hours are: Saturday, March 19, 11am-6pm and Sunday, March 20, 11am-4pm. Regular hours are Tuesday-Thursday 11am-4pm and Friday 11am-1pm.

 

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. 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

Re/View: An SFArtsED Visual Arts Retrospective

FACT SHEET

WHAT Re/View: An SFArtsED Visual Arts Retrospective
For nearly 50 years, the San Francisco Arts Education Project has partnered practicing artists with students in San Francisco public schools to create hands-on creative experiences in the visual and performing arts. In celebration of SFArtsED’s new art studio classroom in the Minnesota Street Project, we honor exhibitions from our past – the student artists, the teaching artists and the extraordinary work they created together.
WHO The San Francisco Arts Education Project
WHERE Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco
WHEN March 18 – May 20, 2016

Opening Weekend:
Saturday, March 19 11am-6pm

Sunday, March 20 11am-4pm

Regular Hours:
Tuesday-Thursday 11am-4pm

Friday 11am-1pm

INFO SFArtsED | www.sfartsed.org | 415.551.7990