About the Exhibition: Recognizing that faculty and staff are productive artists in their own right, the show Artists Leading Artists intends to celebrate the academic tradition in which established artists lead new generations of artists, while the students inspire them in return. Frida Cano - Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex scholar and Claudia Schidlow, current EMS students at SFAI, develop a project in which collaboration between students and faculty occurs. Both the Diego Rivera Gallery - at the 800 Chestnut Street campus - and Swell Gallery - at SFAI's Graduate campus - will function as the laboratory in which this adventure will occur. The space and light conditions of the Diego Rivera Gallery will encourage more traditional work to be displayed, in comparison with the Swell Gallery where media based works will take place.

Artists: Will Barclift, Bernadette Bellomo, J.D. Beltran, Timothy Berry, Pegan Brooke, Terri Cohn, Jose de los Reyes, Juan Fuentes, Jack Fulton, Susannah Hays, Grey Jenkins, Ian Kimmerly, Yoon Lee, Colleen Mulvey, Doran Rivera, Mai Ryuno + Emily Dippo, Laetitia Sonami, Meredith Tromble + Pamela Belknap, Zoë Wesenberg

Please join us to our different events:


Diego Rivera Gallery
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
on view: August 30 - September 3, 2010
artist talk: August 31 4:30-5:30 pm
opening reception: August 31 5:30-7:00 pm


Swell Gallery
2565 Third Street, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107
on view: August 30 - September 10, 2010
artist talk: September 2 7:30 - 8:00 pm
opening reception: September 2 8:00-9:00 pm
panel discussion: September 9, 2010 7:30-9:00 pm
Jeannene Przyblyski, Terri Cohn, Mark Van Proyen,
Jeffrey Songco and Massimo Paccione (moderator)



For more information go to: http://artistsleadingartists.blogspot.com

*Free and open to the public