Portrait Painting (Online)
July 2- August 20
6:00-9:00pm |
Thursdays |
Ingrid V. Wells |
Develop a series of three portraits using your own source material while at home, tailored to the specific needs of participating students through an individual tutorial approach. |
$385 |
Painting |
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Institutional Garbage: At Work in the Archive (Online)
July 14- August 18
6:30-9:30pm |
Tuesdays |
Sean Dickerson |
Waste away with art practices that have exploited or engaged in archival excess, cults of the ephemeral, trash as resource, or dustbin histories. |
$295 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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Strike While the Ink is Hot: Political Printmaking
July 22- August 19
5:00-8:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Kate Laster |
This online lecture class dive into the radical history of political printmaking focusing on artists of color, womxn and queer activists.
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$245 |
Printmaking |
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Expanded Collage (Online)
July 22 -August 12
6:00-8:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Connie Zheng |
Challenge yourself to experiment with scale and a variety of materials in this experimental collage class. |
$195 |
Drawing, Painting |
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All This. And Nothing
June 18- July 23
6:30-9:30pm |
Thursdays |
Jaimie Healy |
This course is for students wishing to explore their practice through a variety of experimental forms. The class will include group discussions, field trips, performances, and a final project. |
$295 |
New Genres |
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Reality TV is My Family (Online)
June 30- August 4
6:00-9:00pm |
Tuesdays |
Jordan Holms |
Through discussions, lectures, readings, and “viewing parties” we will unpack the allure of reality television and theorize about the role it might play in today’s zeitgeist. |
$295 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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Graphic Ceramic (Hybrid)
June 26-July 12 (No session July 3-9)
1:00-4:00pm |
Friday - Sunday |
Alyssa Block |
Learn all the basics of hand-building ceramic objects and ‘painting’ with glaze. Students of any skill level are welcome to apply. |
$295 |
Ceramics |
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Personal Mythology in the Age of Social Distancing (Online)
July 1- August 5
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesday |
Mara Ramiriez |
Investigate your own personal mythology in an unprecedented time through self-portraiture, visual journaling, and storytelling. |
$295 |
Drawing |
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Contemplative Drawing (Online)
June 30- August 11
6:00-9:00pm |
Tuesdays |
Sarah Ammons |
Sync your hand with your eye and practice contemplative drawing in this course focused on working from life, pattern, figure, and concept. |
$385 |
Drawing |
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Introduction to Drawing (Online)
June 30- August 4
6:00-9:00pm |
Tuesdays |
Emily McPeek |
This class will provide a comprehensive understanding of various techniques in drawing as well as methods on how to conceptually approach it. |
$295 |
Drawing |
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Notebook as Studio (Online)
July 22- August 12
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Kate Laster |
In this workshop we will explore the many modes of image making through keeping a sketchbook.
Students will work in dry and wet medium, acquiring skills to draw from life and imagination.
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$195 |
Drawing |
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Contemporary Plein Air Painting
July 18- August 8
10:00am-4:00pm |
Saturdays |
Lauren Jade Szabo |
Take your painting practice outside and investigate today's natural, urban, and hybridized landscape within approaches of contemporary painting from observation. |
$385 |
Painting |
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Inhabited Spaces: Abstraction and the Built Environment (Online)
June 29- August 3
6:00- 9:00pm |
Mondays |
Jordan Holms |
This course will grapple with our fraught relationship to the built environment through painting. Employing abstraction as a primary methodology, we will examine how different spaces are materialized, organized, and made to mean. |
$295 |
Painting |
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Darkroom Film Photography (Hybrid)
July 1- August 19
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Alex Peterson |
Learn the wonders of black and white darkroom photography in SFAI’s iconic photography department. This course is for beginners to intermediate students to learn the basics of traditional film photography and darkroom printing. |
$385 |
Photography |
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Simplified Metalworking for Sculpture (Online)
July 8- August 12
6:30-9:30pm |
Wednesdays |
Marshall Elliott |
Explore the qualities of metal as a medium for constructing sculptural objects and expand on the possibilities of creative freedom with this material. |
$295 |
Sculpture |
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InIntro to Found Object Sculpture: Resourceful Making (Online)
July 16 - August 20
6:00pm -9:00pm |
Thursdays |
Sherwin Rio |
This course will provide students the foundational knowledge, historical study, technical skills, and building experience to create found object sculpture, assemblages, readymades, and sculpture that includes repurposed common place items found locally. |
$295 |
Sculpture |
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Soft Sculptures and Creatures (Online)
July 15- August 19
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Cristina Velázquez |
Engage your creative side in 3D object making and immerse yourself in creating amorphous shapes and objects made of stuffed fabric material. |
$295 |
Sculpture |
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Online Writing for Artists (Online)
July 13- August 17
Online |
Mondays |
Kathy Sirico |
Writing for Artists will help you develop confidence in your writing skills. This course will focus on improving your technical and professional skill sets, while also considering writing as a process for idea development. |
$295 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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Horizons of the Metaverse (Online)
July 1- July 22
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Judit Navratil + Beatriz Escobar |
Experiment with working with a VR space and combining multiple media to push the boundaries of embodied practices and digital art. |
$195 |
Art & Technology |
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Narrative Painting (Online)
July 10- August 27
6:00–9:00pm |
Fridays |
Felicita Norris |
Examine intimate visual narratives as you make paintings centered on how human experience is remembered and transformed in this intermediate/advanced course for water-based painters. |
$385 |
Painting |
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Get Experimental with Photo Transfers (Online Intensive)
July 18- 26
10:00am-1:00pm |
Saturday + Sunday |
Beth Davila Waldman |
This class will introduce students to a non-toxic photo transfer method using their own photography and encourage exploration with material and other media. |
$195 |
Photography |
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Advanced Drawing (Online)
July 2- August 20
6:30- 9:30pm |
Thursdays |
Tom Colcord |
The artists in this class will be tasked to utilize drawing to not only expand on skills, but to build on who they are as conceptual artists. |
$385 |
Drawing |
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A Dialogue: Image & Paint (Online Intensive)
July 6 -10
10:00am-1:00pm |
Monday- Friday |
Beth Davila Waldman |
Using paint and photographic images, we look at how the dialogue between them can result in powerful new mixed media works. |
$250 |
Painting, Photography |
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Paint at Home with Food (Online)
July 24-August 1
10:00am-1:00pm |
Friday + Saturday |
Cristina Velázquez |
Coffee, black tea, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and more will serve as your paint to illustrate still-life and other expressive explorations at home. |
$195 |
Painting |
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Online High School Expressive Figure Drawing (Non-Credit)
June 29- July 29
10:00am-1:00pm |
Monday + Wednesday |
Felicita Norris |
Learn to tell stories, communicate visually, and imagine new worlds through large- and small-scale drawings working from models and beyond. This course has been adapted to be delivered online. |
$385 |
Drawing |
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Online High School Painting + Permutations (Non-credit)
June 30- July 30
10:00am-1:00pm |
Tuesday + Thursday |
Katie Curry |
Emphasize originality and craftsmanship in your painting as you bring your ideas to light. This course has been modified to be delivered online. |
$385 |
Painting |
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Modern Art History: Women and POC (Online)
July 1- August 5
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Liesa Lietzke |
This course attempts to restore the legacy of overlooked nonwhite artists and female artists of the 20th Century in Europe and America. |
$295 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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Photographic Design and Composition (Online)
July 28- August 13
6:30-8:30pm |
Tuesdays + Thursdays |
Victoria Mara Heilweil |
Learn how photographic design and composition strategies can be used successfully to strengthen the visual impact, originality and narrative in your photographs. |
$195 |
Photography |
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Introduction to DIY Filmmaking (Online)
July 29- August 19
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Tessa Siddle |
Immerse yourself in this introductory course to DIY video and filmmaking practices. |
$195 |
Film, New Genres |
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Drawing Botanicals Intensive (Online Intensive)
July 24- July 27
10:00am-1:00pm |
Friday-Monday |
Sarah Ammons |
This weekend intensive class is designed to help you slow down and look closely at the tiny marvels of nature. Using Right Brain, observational drawing techniques we will be drawing flowers, house plants, fruit and vegetables from home. |
$195 |
Drawing, Painting |
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An Introduction to Sound Art (Online)
June 18 - July 23
6:30-9:30pm |
Thursdays |
Marc Manning |
This course will provide students with an overview of sound art. The focus will be on the history of the medium through listening and discussion of important pieces. |
$295 |
New Genres |
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Between a Rock and a Flat Screen (Online)
June 24- July 29
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Irene Carvajal |
Explore traditional printmaking processes such as relief and screen printing. |
$295 |
Printmaking |
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Plein Air “Window” Painting Workshop
June 27 - 28
10:00am -1:00pm |
Saturday + Sunday |
Felicita Norris |
Using acrylic or oil paint, capture your view of the world from the inside out... |
$110 |
Painting |
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Introduction to Color Theory (Online Intensive)
July 17- July 19
5:00-8:00pm |
Friday- Sunday |
Rebecca Kaufman |
In this 3 day intensive, we will explore the basics of color theory in acrylic painting. |
$150 |
Painting |
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Introduction to San Francisco’s Contemporary Art Scene
Please see description for specific dates
5:00-7:00pm |
Selected Thursdays + Saturdays |
Katherine Vetne |
A beginner’s guide to the people and organizations that make up contemporary art in San Francisco. Meet artists, dealers, curators, and more! |
$210 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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Mono-printmaking ‘Imprints’ (Online)
July 20- 24
4:00-7:00pm |
Monday- Friday |
Tobias Fifield |
Make impression imprints from found textures with relief mono-printmaking into Abstract Two-Tone Relief Mono-Prints. |
$245 |
Printmaking |
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Digital Media Compositions (Online)
July 21 - August 11
Online |
Tuesdays |
Nancy Jones |
Create visual representations of moods and learn visual literacy with media imagery. |
$$195 |
Artist-Driven Experience, Photography |
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