I'm late! Let me assure you this is totally my (Aaron) fault. But here we are, evening on Wednesday... I'll err on the side of brevity simply note there is a ton to see the next three days, try to not be overwhelmed and do catch some of it.

Tuesday:
+ Lecture: "Painting Lecture Series: Jason Meadows" at California College of the Arts (CCA)

Thursday:
+ Screening: Nathaniel Dorsky "Nathaniel Dorsky: Three Premieres" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Performance: Javad B., Scott Vermeire "Comedy @ Tony Clifton Eats for Free" at Et al.
+ Romare Bearden "Storyteller" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
+ Lecture: "Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Hunter Lovins" at California College of the Arts (CCA)

Friday:
+ Screening: Chantal Akerman "One Day Pina Asked..." at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Elise Ferguson "Striped Knot" at Romer Young Gallery
+ Aaron Finnis, Amy M. Ho, Cybele Lyle, Emma Spertus "Producing Space" curated by Suzanne L'Heureux at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)

Saturday:
+ Henry Gunderson "+0-000-000-0000" curated by Ever Gold at Ever Gold
+ Artist Talk: "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 6: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness: Installation View and Artist's Talk with Ben Rivers" curated by Steve Polta at Kadist Art Foundation
+ Evan Ellsworth Jordan, Heidi Anderson, Jarett Kobek "Candles to the Sun" at 2nd floor projects
+ Open Studio: Elizabeth Keegan, Helena Keeffe, Jason Fritz, Jessica Hankey, Joey Enos, Lee Lavy, Leslie Dreyer, Matt Smith Chavez, Michelle Ott, Sofie Ramos, Tanja Geis, Vreni Michelini-Castillo "UC Berkeley MFA Art Practice Open Studios" at UC Berkeley (UC Berkeley MFA Studios/Richmond Field Station)

Tuesday, April 1

June Schwarcz, Kay Sekimachi at Velvet da Vinci
Russian Hill: 2015 Polk Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Lecture: "Painting Lecture Series: Jason Meadows" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 6:30pm

Lecture: "Ceramics Program Lecture: Compound Gallery" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, 7:30 pm

Wednesday, April 2

Reading: "HearSay Reading Series: Steve Dickison" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Nahl Hall, 7:30pm

Artist Talk: Ali Naschke-Messing and Helena Meryman, Sue Mark (marksearch), Susan O'Malley, Taro Hattori "Print Public Charette" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 6-8pm

Thursday, April 3

Leonora Carrington "The Celtic Surrealist" at Gallery Wendi Norris
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 6-8pm

Ana Teresa Fernandez "Foreign Bodies" at Gallery Wendi Norris
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 6-8pm

+ Screening: Nathaniel Dorsky "Nathaniel Dorsky: Three Premieres" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $10 regular/$6 YBCA and SFC members, senior, student, teacher, 7pm & 9pm

+ Performance: Javad B., Scott Vermeire "Comedy @ Tony Clifton Eats for Free" at Et al.
Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, 6-9pm

Dorothy Goode "Sharpie Looks For God" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Chris Corales "Permanent Vacation: Collage Work" at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

David Maxim, Younhee Paik at Sandra Lee Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Louise Lebourgeois "Towards Horizon" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Pablo D'Antoni at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Romare Bearden "Storyteller" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Greg Miller "Buena Vista" at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Downtown: 341 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Chris Ehlers, Kirsten Tradowsky "Allegory" at Hang Art
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "SFAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and open to the public, VAS Social Hour: 6:30 pm | Lecture: 7:30 pm

Caleb Jagger, Derek Albeck, Grady Gordon, Hailey Gaiser, Jade Palasek, Koak, Yulia Pinkusevich "An Art Exhibition With All Your Friends" curated by Kevin Krueger, Valerie Leavy at SF Institute of Possibility
Mission District: 3359 Cesar Chavez St., 6-9pm

+ Lecture: "Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Hunter Lovins" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7pm

Lecture: "Photography Lecture Series: Jessamyn Lovell" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Ralls Paintings Studio, 11am

Friday, April 4

Abe Alvarez Tostado, Ben Walker, Emily Burns, Isabel Samaras, Jennybird Alcantara, Joseph Martinez, Justin Lovato, Katherine Brannock, Kelly Nicolaisen, Melissa Arendt, Michah LeBrun, Nate Van Dyke, Nome Edonna, Reuben Rude, Robert Bowen, Rogelio Martinez, Wrongbob "Less Is More" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5pm-late

+ Screening: Chantal Akerman "One Day Pina Asked..." at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Screening Room, General: $10; Student, Senior, Teacher: $8; YBCA Members: $8; YBCA:You: FREE, April 4-5, 7:30 pm & April 6, 2 pm

Rex Ray at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

Lecture: "SFAI Graduate Lecture: Richard Meyer" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, 4:30pm

Screening: Alexander Stewart, Amanda Thomson, Erin Espelie and Jodie Mack, Fred Worden, Jesse Malmed, Karissa Hahn, Lana Z Caplan "CROSSROADS 2014: Program 3" curated by Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Victoria Theater)
Mission District: 2961 16th Street, $5-$10, 7-9pm

Screening: Ben Rivers & Ben Russell "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 4: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness" curated by Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Victoria Theater)
Mission District: 2961 16th Street, $5 - $10, 5:30-7:30pm

"Art Explosion Spring Open Studios" at Art Explosions Studios
Mission District: 2425 17th Street, Free, 7-11pm

Jesse Sugarmann "We Build Excitement" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

+ Elise Ferguson "Striped Knot" at Romer Young Gallery
Dogpatch: 1240 22nd Street, 6-9pm

Esther Traugot "Natural Alchemy" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, 6-8pm

+ Aaron Finnis, Amy M. Ho, Cybele Lyle, Emma Spertus "Producing Space" curated by Suzanne L'Heureux at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)
Oakland: 486 49th Street, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Colter Jacobsen, David Wilson, John Bankston, Keith Cottingham, Sarah Hotchkiss, Sean McFarland, Vanessa Marsh "Not of This World" curated by Renny Pritikin at Pro Arts Gallery
Oakland: 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza , entrance on Kahn's Alley, 6-8pm

Saturday, April 5

Mike Zeck "Raw Fury: The Art of Mike Zeck" at Cartoon Art Museum
SOMA: 655 Mission Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Sandra Chevrier "Les Cages: A Fractured Gaze" at Mirus Gallery
Downtown: 540 Howard Street, 6-10pm

+ Henry Gunderson "+0-000-000-0000" curated by Ever Gold at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 7-10pm

Performance: Elise Baldwin and MSHR., Seitz vs Gendreau "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 7: APPARENT MOTION: Seitz vs Gendreau; Elise Baldwin; MSHR" curated by Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Victoria Theater)
Mission District: 2961 16th Street, $5 - $10, 8:00 pm

Screening: Christine Lucy Latimer, Jeremy Moss, Malic Amalya, Margaret Rorison, Mike Stoltz, Paul Clipson , Robert Todd and Giuseppe Boccassini, Zach Iannazzi "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 5: intimate immensities: ritual takes form and my beating heart bounds with exulting motion" curated by Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Victoria Theater)
Mission District: 2961 16th Street, $5 - $10, 3:00 pm

+ Artist Talk: "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 6: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness: Installation View and Artist's Talk with Ben Rivers" curated by Steve Polta at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 5-7pm

+ Evan Ellsworth Jordan, Heidi Anderson, Jarett Kobek "Candles to the Sun" at 2nd floor projects
Mission District: 3740 25th Street, floor 2, 7-10pm

Alexis Anne Mackenzie "Synthesis" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 4-7 pm

Kirk Maxson "Foraging" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 4-7 pm

Anna Torres, Bridget Shaw, Bridget Stagnitto, Christina Yglesias, Kate Rose, Lora ChauDavis, Minna Smith, Sarah DePol, Vanessa Cisneros "Close at Hand: Mills College Senior Thesis Exhibition" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, 6-8pm

Jeff Shea "Women of the World-Cultural Diversity" at LightRoom Gallery
Berkeley: 2263 Fifth Street, 5-8pm

Artist Talk: The Breakfast Group--Jan Wurm "Jive and Java with the Breakfast Group Artists" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 11am-1pm

+ Open Studio: Elizabeth Keegan, Helena Keeffe, Jason Fritz, Jessica Hankey, Joey Enos, Lee Lavy, Leslie Dreyer, Matt Smith Chavez, Michelle Ott, Sofie Ramos, Tanja Geis, Vreni Michelini-Castillo "UC Berkeley MFA Art Practice Open Studios" at UC Berkeley (UC Berkeley MFA Studios/Richmond Field Station)
Richmond: 1301 S 46th Street, Free, 1-6pm

Sunday, April 6

Screening: Allison Leigh Holt, April Simmons, Catie Eller, Charles Chadwick, Deborah Stratman, Isaac Sherman and Scott Stark, Robert Todd, Talia Feder, Thad Povey "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 8: intimate immensities 2: untethered…" curated by Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Victoria Theater)
Mission District: 2961 16th Street, $5 - $10, 3:00 pm

Screening: Jeanne Liotta, Karen Yasinsky, Laida Lertxundi, Michael Robinson, Mónica Savirón and Joel Wanek, Roger Deutsch, Sarah Rosalena Brady, Sílvia das Fadas "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 9: choreographies of devotion, in the roaring traffic’s boom…" curated by Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Victoria Theater)
Mission District: 2961 16th Street, $5 - $10, 5-7pm

Screening: Bettina Hoffman, Erik Anderson, Jeremy Moss and Jean-Paul Kelly, Kadet Kuhne, Karen Yasinsky "CROSSROADS 2014 Program 10: phantom tunneling 2" curated by Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Victoria Theater)
Mission District: 2961 16th Street, $5 - $10, 7-9pm

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