Quality lectures, artist talks, and workshops are dotted through this last full week of August in the SF Bay Area.

I will be trying to catch the lunchtime artist talk at SF Commission Gallery on Wednesday. Later that day at SOMArts Cutural Center there will be a workshop called "Fundraising Tools for Artists" care of a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) representative, one of my favorite online resources for artists opportunities.

On Friday try and catch this screening of animated art arriving from Seattle at ATA.

Saturday has an intriguing closing for Luggage Store Annex's show "Granny's Missed You."

See you at the artist talks!
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Wednesday:
+ Workshop: "Fundraising Tools for Artists presented by NYFA" at SOMArts Cultural Center
+ Artist Talk: "The Art of Passing Time: Artists Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz in conversation with Douglass Bailey of SFSU’s Anthropology Department" at SF Arts Commission Gallery

+ Artist Talk: "An evening discussion with Filmaker, Dolissa Medina" at Galeria de la Raza

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+ Binh Danh , Kathryn Spence at Mills College Art Museum

Thursday:
+ Open Studio: "CE Conversations" at Creativity Explored
+ Lecture: "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings" by Timon Screech at Berkeley Art Museum
+ Artist Talk: "Contemporary Sublime: The Artist in Nature with Ned Kahn, Jeremy Morgan, and Mariele Neudecker" at Headlands Center for the Arts

Friday:

+ Closing reception: Neet and Brian Moran "Owl Cave Book Store & 667" at 667Shotwell

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+ Screening: "Animated Art" at A.T.A.

Saturday:

+ Artist Talk: Enrique Chagoya at Galeria de la Raza

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Wednesday, August 25

+ Workshop: "Fundraising Tools for Artists presented by NYFA" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, Free, optional preregistration, 6:30-9pm

+ Artist Talk: "The Art of Passing Time: Artists Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz in conversation with Douglass Bailey of SFSU’s Anthropology Department" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 12:15-1:15pm

+ Artist Talk: "An evening discussion with Filmaker, Dolissa Medina" at Galeria de la Raza Mission District: 2857 24th Street , 7-9pm

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+ Binh Danh , Kathryn Spence at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

"Flowers of the Four Seasons" Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $8, $5 for students, 11am-5pm

Thursday, August 26

Book Signing: Asma Salehi "Behind the Burka" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 6pm

"Teacher Open House: 10 Museums / 1 Neighborhood" at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, 4-7pm

James Kao "Do It Cuz You Love It" at Marina Abramovic Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, suite 203, 7-9pm

Performance: Eyal Perry, Lital Dotan "Our Bed" The Glasshouse at Marina Abramovic Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, 7-11pm

+ Open Studio: "CE Conversations" at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 1-2pm

+ Lecture: "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings" by Timon Screech at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Museum Theater, Free, 7pm

+ Artist Talk: "Contemporary Sublime: The Artist in Nature with Ned Kahn, Jeremy Morgan, and Mariele Neudecker" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Building 944 | $20 / $15 Members (includes dinner), 6pm

Friday, August 27

"Four-Squared" curated by Priscilla Otani , Stephen C. Wagner at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, 7-10pm

+ Closing reception: Neet and Brian Moran "Owl Cave Book Store & 667" at 667Shotwell Mission District: 667 Shotwell Street, 6-8pm

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Scott Albrecht "Somethingmistakenfornothing" at Curiosity Shoppe
Mission District: 855 Valencia Street, 6pm

+ Screening: "Animated Art" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

"Fourteen" at FreeGoldWatch
Haight Ashbury: 1767 Waller Street, floor 1, 7-11pm

Closing reception: "August Artist-in-Residence closing party de Young, Kimball Education Gallery" at de Young (Golden Gate Park)
Bernal Heights: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 6-8:30pm

Closing reception: Alexandra Blum "Silhouettes and Conversations: Articulating a Communal Vision" at de Young (Golden Gate Park)
Bernal Heights: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 6-8:30pm

Saturday, August 28

Closing reception: "Granny's Missed You" curated by Constance Castillo at Luggage Store Gallery (Luggage Store Annex)
Downtown: 509 Ellis Street, 7pm

Closing reception: Cecilia Ramirez-Corzo, Claire Jackel , Jason Dunda, Ross Racine "Environments" at Cafe Royale
Downtown: 800 Post Street, 2-5pm (Artist talk at 3pm)

"Esoteric" curated by Dylan Kelly at Space Gallery
Civic Center: 1141 Polk Street, 7pm-12am

Reading: "Bay Area Poetry Marathon" curated by Donna de la Perriere , Joseph Lease at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $3-15 Sliding Scale, 7-9pm

+ Artist Talk: Enrique Chagoya at Galeria de la Raza Mission District: 2857 24th Street , 4pm

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"16777216" at Jancar Jones Gallery
Mission District: 965 Mission Street, Suite 120, 6-9pm

Tour: "Regeneration: Intersection for the Arts Intern Artwalk 2010" at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, Free, 12pm

Closing reception: "Wondrous Strange" A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities at SF MOMA (SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason)
Marina District: 0 Fort Mason Center, 2-4pm

Sunday, August 29

Performance: "Godwaffle Noise Pancakes" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $5 - $10 sliding scale or FREE with membership, Doors at 11:30am

"San Francisco" at City Art Gallery
Mission District: 828 Valencia Street, 7-10pm

Closing reception: T. Joseph Enos "We Are All Going To Die" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, 2-5pm

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