Thursday July 28th, 6-8pm: Many artists spend their daytime hours working regular jobs to pay the rent and spend the off hours creating.  The SF Arts Commission is celebrating these working artists by hosting "The Hootenanny: a celebration of the vast and deep talents of the public employees of the City and County of San Francisco."

Friday July 29th, 6-9pm: Take a walk down a hallway ramp of a former funeral home and view "Time x Time," an exhibition of time as a concept at Incline Gallery.

Saturday July 30th 6-8: Even in a world saturated with images of white noise, photography can still be smart and inventive and Circumspect at the Robert Berman/E6 Gallery is a show demonstrating important photography.

Also on Saturday don't miss 21 Solo Shows under one roof: The Water McBeer Group Show at the Ever Gold Gallery .

It's a great week to find a new muse.  See you out there.

Tuesday:

+ Anders Nilsen "PICTURES of BIRDS" at Needles & Pens

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Thursday:

+ Catherine di Napoli, Jonathan Parker "Art Movie Night" Untitled at Compound Gallery

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Friday:
+ Closing reception: "In Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing" curated by Art Hazelwood at Meridian Gallery

+ "I Know You Art, But What Am I?" The Pee-Wee Herman Tribute Art Show at Gallery 1988

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Saturday:

+ Closing reception: Amy Ahlstrom "Sampled Layers of Meaning" at a.Muse Gallery

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Tuesday, July 26

+ Anders Nilsen "PICTURES of BIRDS" at Needles & Pens Mission District: 3253 16th Street, 7-9:30pm

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Thursday, July 28

Amber Crabbe, Beatrice Thomas, Daryl Wells, Elizabeth Prillinger, Frank Patt, Maggie Preston , Paula Kehoe, Robert Reed, Robin Scheswohl, Rochelle Delavega, Ruth Geos, Thomas McGeorge, Vicky Knoop "The Hootenanny! City and County Employees of San Francisco Art Exhibition" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 6-8pm

Screening: Rick Bahto, Robbie Land "Poetry of Place" at A.T.A. Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 7:30pm

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+ Catherine di Napoli, Jonathan Parker "Art Movie Night" Untitled at Compound Gallery Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 8:30pm doors, starts 9pm

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Friday, July 29

+ Closing reception: "In Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing" curated by Art Hazelwood at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, Free, 4-8pm

+ "I Know You Art, But What Am I?" The Pee-Wee Herman Tribute Art Show at Gallery 1988 Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

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Steven Vasquez Lopez, Aleksandra Zee, Jesse Blamer "Idealization of Shapes" curated by Betty Bigas, Lauryn Laporte at Public Works
Mission District: 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, First Floor, 6-9pm

Screening: Spencer Clark, Suzy Poling, Zach Iannazzi "Fog Tropes #2" at A.T.A. Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6-$10, 8pm

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Alicia Escott, Randy Colosky, and Nicolas Torres "Time x Time MEDIUM" at INCLINE
Mission District: 766 Valencia Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Saturday, July 30

Ranu Mukherjee "Absorption into the Nomadic and Luminous" at Frey Norris Gallery
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 4-7pm

Aiyana Udesen, Albert Reyes, Alexander Ziv, Aubrey Learner, Calvin Marcus, Eric Shaw, Evan Nesbit , Gerald Anekwe, Guy Overfelt, Henry Gunderson, Jamie Williams, Jay Howell, Jeremy Fish, Jordan Bogash, Juan Manuel Bocca, Kool Kid Kreyola, Lili Ishida, Mario Ayala, Matt Furie, Matthew Palladino, PEZ, Quinn Arneson, Ryan De La Hoz, Susan Wu, Warren Thomas King "Water McBeer Group Show" 21 Solo Shows under one roof for one week only at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-10pm

Eliza French, Jeff Charbonneau "Circumspect" at Robert Berman / E6 Gallery Civic Center: 1632 Market Street, Suite B, 6-8pm

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+ Closing reception: Amy Ahlstrom "Sampled Layers of Meaning" at a.Muse Gallery Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 8-9:30pm

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Screening: Jodie Mack "The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations by Jodie Mack" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6-$10, 8pm

Evan Kolker, Jeff Rogers "Hot Glass-Cold Beer" at Public Glass
Hunters Point: 1750 Armstrong Street, Open to public, live music, 6-10pm

Sunday, July 31

Closing reception: "Stocking the Pequod: Charting the Depths from the High Seas to the Mysterious Mind" at Artseed (Corridor Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability)
Marina District: 1016 Torney Ave., 1-6pm

Open Studio: "Achenbach Graphic Arts Council Members Annual show-and-Tell Kala Gallery" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Free and open to the public, 1-4pm

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