A relatively calm week of events in the Bay Area (with many galleries preparing for the SF Fine Art Fair later this month) -- but there are still some enticing options.

SFAI (San Francisco Art Institute) has a bigger than ever MFA Thesis Weekend with their exhibition reception and two screenings.

Rising star Clare Rojas opens at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and comes back to talk later this month (May 20th). Don't miss openings at Triple Base and Michael Rosenthal Gallery, a Wholphin screening at ATA, and the hot musical act Eats Tapes with Lucky Dragons will play at the BAM (Berkeley Art Museum).

Thursday:
+ Clare Rojas "We They, We They" curated by Natasha Boas at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
+ Artist Talk: Zhang Huan "Three Heads Six Arms" Dedication Ceremony with Mayor Gavin Newsom ??" Everyone is Invited! at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
+ Zhang Huan "Three Heads Six Arms" Dedication Ceremony with Mayor Gavin Newsom ??" Everyone is Invited! at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)

Friday:

+ Jars Filmed Inside "Elaine Buckholtz" at Triple Base Gallery

view image »

+ Screening: "Wholphin" Selections from issue 11 at A.T.A.
+ Performance: "Art Rocks, Featuring Lucky Dragons and Eats Tapes" at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:
+ Provincetown Fellows of 2010 "Mutual Migration" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery

Wednesday, May 12

Performance: Bonnie Banks "Poodle Sound Effects #3" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, , 8pm

Thursday, May 13

Screening: "75 Years in the Dark: Portraits of Women" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission, 7pm

Artist Talk: Thomas Heinser "Uberblick" Conversation with Thomas Heinser on "Uberblick" at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

+ Clare Rojas "We They, We They" curated by Natasha Boas at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, 7-9pm

+ Artist Talk: Zhang Huan "Three Heads Six Arms" Dedication Ceremony with Mayor Gavin Newsom ??" Everyone is Invited! at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, at Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza (Civic Center Plaza), near Larkin Street between the Main, 7pm

+ Zhang Huan "Three Heads Six Arms" Dedication Ceremony with Mayor Gavin Newsom ??" Everyone is Invited! at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, at Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza (Civic Center Plaza), near Larkin Street between the Main, 10am

Leah Rosenberg "Time Will Tell" at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, 7-9pm

"Casual Abyss" curated by Maurizzio Hector Pineda, Ray Potes at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, $5, 6-9:30pm

Screening: Janis Crystal Lipzin "De Luce" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

Friday, May 14

Brian Taylor "The Art of Getting Lost" at Gallery 291
Downtown: 291 Geary Street, floor 5, 6-9pm

Hunter Longe at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, Triple Basement, 7-10pm

+ Jars Filmed Inside "Elaine Buckholtz" at Triple Base Gallery Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

view image »

+ Screening: "Wholphin" Selections from issue 11 at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

Elizabeth Bernstein, Kirk Stoller "Still / Gesture" at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, 6-8pm

+ Performance: "Art Rocks, Featuring Lucky Dragons and Eats Tapes" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, , 7:30pm

Open Studio: "Art Party Firehouse North" at Firehouse Collective (Firehouse Nouth)
Berkeley: 1790 Shattuck Avenue, 7-9pm

Saturday, May 15

Heather Wilcoxon "Being Heather Wilcoxon" at Jack Fisher Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 3-5pm

Li Xiaofei, Lynn Marie Kirby "Sister Cities: Dreaming Alike Oceans Apart" at Togonon Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, 5-7pm

Screening: "MFA Screening of Time-Based Media" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 6-11pm

"2010 Vernissage / MFA Graduate Exhibition" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 6-8pm

+ Provincetown Fellows of 2010 "Mutual Migration" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
Mission District: 365 Valencia street, 6-9pm

Sunday, May 16

Screening: "MFA Film and Video Screening" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 4-6:30pm

Erik Otto "Open Studio Party" at fabric8
Mission District: 3318 22nd Street , 2-8pm

Artist Talk: Daniel Goldstein, Eleanor Dickinson, Paul Fromberg "CrossOverWise" curated by Fr. Jim Blaettler, Tamara Loewenstein at Manresa Gallery
Haight Ashbury: 650 Parker Avenue, 3pm

Artcards San Francisco is a weekly email publication led by editor Emma Spertus. Email event submissions to sfinfo@artcards.cc or use our submission form. New: you can now add an image to your listing by using the submission form.

+ = Editor's pick
? = Opening not confirmed - check site for updates.