SF State professor hones novelty art in glass blowing
After graduating art school, Nathan Watson has managed to stay busy and keep his creative endeavors going at full force. With a master’s in fine arts and bachelor’s in history, Watson says that…
Cannes Festival showcases SF State film graduate’s work
While waiting to learn if he was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival, Joey Izzo received an unexpected email from the festival requesting more information. Having submitted his short film for a slot in…
Diatribe advances legacy of female artists
Establishing an artistic medium for creative output is of utmost importance to artists. For Diatribe, a group composed of local female artists, they have found theirs. “Technically, Diatribe means a forceful, bitter attack…
Korean American artist sculpts dual identity
A young man in clay-smudged jeans sits on a stool, steps on a pedal and molds a heap of clay with quiet finesse. The wheel spins the now curvy tower of clay like…
MFA Thesis Exhibition spotlights students’ unique art
The professor sits in front of his art students and discusses the status of their upcoming exhibition. As soon as he dismisses them from their meeting they disperse into sections of the room….
UpCycling exhibition displays waste transformed into art
Tablecloths as dresses, wire hangers as a lighting fixture and leftover scraps of lumber used to build a stool may look like ordinary do-it-yourself projects, but together they make up SF State’s latest…
SF State alum forges innovative art form
What may appear to be junk or random items can be the inspiration to a new art mechanism for artist Doron Fishman. Fishman, 43, has made a career for himself combining his two…
The Bay Bridge becomes canvas for massive light sculpture
Billed as the largest light sculpture in the world, The Bay Lights officially illuminated over the San Francisco Bay two weeks ago, bringing a bright new addition to the city’s skyline. The massive…
SF State showcases Asian inspired gallery, ‘The Moment for Ink’
Lucy Arai, 57, became enthralled with ink art while she was experimenting with her calligraphy brushes, sumi ink and handmade paper. Now she sees ink as a medium of art that tells the…
Student director adapts pivotal film to SF State stage
Stephan McGrue, 22, is making history by producing and directing the first all-black leading musical cast at SF State with “That Jones Gal.” As a theater arts major, McGrue was inspired to have…
‘The Dutch Mona Lisa’ graces SF with American tour opening
San Franciscans have the opportunity to view one of the world’s most acclaimed paintings at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, featuring Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece, “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” The…
SF State artist forges storytelling craft
Rather than simply picking one medium to master, April Martin Chartrand has gone so far as to completely create her own art form altogether. Her art form called ”fiberalchemy,” is her attempt to…
‘ParaNorman’ exhibit spooks stop motion enthusiasts at Cartoon Art Museum
Tim Burton is often credited for pioneering — or at least reinventing — the medium of stop motion animation with his classic “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” The technique allows animators to create a…
“Fluorescent Virgins” exhibit illuminates local artists’ work for Dia de los Muertos
In a dimly lit gallery, images of the Virgin Mary with hands folded in prayer glow through lightbox displays of blinking fluorescent colors. Arranged on ceremonial altars dedicated to the dead, the components…
VIDEO: nerd JERK creator crochets her way to love
Fast-talking and fun-loving, Stephanie Cortes has made it her mission to make people smile through her passion for nerdy crafting. The 29-year-old San Francisco native is the “geek mastermind” behind nerd JERK, an…
SF State art class to host Art Faculty Exhibition from ground up
The half-empty room is itself a blank canvas. The white walls wait as they are slowly transformed into a broader work of art with the political, surrealist, contemporary and abstract works of others….
Comic book sales thrive despite digital age
While they have no armor, weapons or gadgets, comic books possess super strength when it comes to persisting through a declining market. The digital age has acted like kryptonite for many forms of…
PHOTOS, VIDEO: Ship-Shape! tattoo exhibit at SF State features One Shot Tattoo artists
The neatly arranged collages of frames that fill the walls of the Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery starkly contrast the bold, vivid designs that threaten to explode out of them. In styles perhaps…
SF State’s Got Talent engages incoming student community
Welcome Days serve to get new SF State students acquainted with the campus, but only SF State’s Got Talent yields a fast track to on-campus fame. With everything from kung fu to beatboxing, the…
Club Six showcases interactive art show “So You Think You Can Paint?”
Geordan Mallory didn’t come to Club Six for just drinks when she and her friend got paint smeared on their clothes while creating a surreal portrait of a dinosaur and a squid using…
SF State’s Runway 2012 fashion show showcases secondhand clothing
Armed with scissors, pins and sewing machines, students in the Advanced Apparel Design Problems class transformed clothing they found at a Goodwill store into new and trendy outfits that will grace the runway…
Creators Project festival a successful experiment at Fort Mason
Two of the most definitive words of this generation are globalization and technology – and many times they’re not always used in the most positive way. But over the weekend, the two were…
“Straight Outta Hunters Point” sequel highlights neighborhood issues, changes
Kevin Epps grew up in the West Point projects of Hunter’s Point. As a kid he would look out his window at the spectacular view of the Bay Bridge and the ships that…
SF State interactive art exhibit opens in memory of late professor Stephen Wilson
A robotic hand welcomed guests to the SmART Space opening reception, deciding which of its three grip strengths to use based on each person’s heartbeat and touch. The interactive exhibit, which explores the…
SF State artists stick it to the Student Center in graffiti sticker art show
If street art is the underbelly of the highbrow art world, then hand-drawn stickers, often slapped on newspaper boxes or light poles, are so to the graffiti world. A new exhibit in The…
SF State’s Fashion Network Association hosts winter runway show
Diversity was on display at the Fashion Network Association’s winter runway show, which showcased collections and designs from SF State’s apparel design and merchandising students. Over 30 student designers presented their work at…
Alcatraz Island exhibit highlights Native American history
The American Indian occupation of Alcatraz may have ended in 1971, but the Native American presence still remains active in the Bay Area highlighted by the “We Are Still Here” multimedia exhibit on…
Art exhibit explores gender in new light
Art is a tool that can change the world, inspire leaders and shape entire cultures. However, can even the best art completely restructure centuries of female objectification? A new San Francisco art exhibit…
San Francisco artist displays laser-cut sculptures in Mid-Market art walk
You will be hard-pressed to find any paintbrushes or charcoal pencils in the studio of San Francisco-based artist Nicole Aptekar – though you will find a behemoth, humming laser cutter. Aptekar has been…
Picturing Parallax show explores immigration impact
As students get into the swing of the semester, six artists with roots in various locations around South Asia will be presenting art on immigration and their cultural roots through various art forms….
