MFA Now 2012 Juried Exhibition and Archive Project
Exhibition Dates: February 8 - 25, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION & ARCHIVE RELEASE PARTY: Saturday, February 11, 7-10 pm

Root Division presents MFA Now 2012, an archive project featuring over 140 Bay Area MFA Candidates and juried exhibition presenting nineteen selected artists.

According to the US News and World Report survey from 2010, the Bay Area is home to six of the top one hundred MFA Programs in Visual Arts in the country: California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. MFA Now is an unprecedented look at these artists and institutions with the aim of promoting dialogue and archiving current art-making practices and models.

The MFA Now 2012 Archive, is an inclusionary publication of all eligible MFA candidates, set to be released in February 2012 with a full page dedicated to each contributing MFA candidate and a compilation of essays by the organizers, Root Division, juror, and MFA program professors. Designed by the Gold Collective, this printed archive will serve to navigate the contemporary moment in Bay Area MFA programs and find connections between the artists and institutions.

Juror, Kevin B. Chen, Program Director of Visual Arts, Intersection for the Arts, selected nineteen works from the submitted archive materials to be shown in Root Division's gallery for the month of February. This Second Saturday event serves as an exhibition opening and release party for the archive project.

Copies of the archive publication will be for sale at the exhibition opening or during business hours for $20.

Artists:
Fatema Abdoolcarim
Ben Bigelow
Susanna Corcoran
Lise Currie
Christine Elfman
Arash Fayez
Sarah Frazier
Robert Gomez
Erin Johnson
Michael Koehle
Kate Nartker
billy ocallaghan
Kari Orvik
Simon Pyle
Michelle Ramin
Neil Rivas
Kent Rodriguez Segura
Dawn Weleski
Margo Wolowiec

Exhibition Dates: February 8 - 25, 2012

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 2-6 pm (or by appointment)

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ROOT DIVISION GALLERY
3175 17th Street (at S. Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.863.7668
www.rootdivision.org

ABOUT ROOT DIVISION:
Root Division is an arts & arts education non-profit located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Root Division's mission is to improve appreciation and access to the visual arts by connecting personal inspiration and community participation. We provide subsidized studio space to working artists in exchange for their service in creating shared learning opportunities for the community. Artists develop creatively and professionally by teaching art to underserved youth, leading adult education classes, and producing exhibitions that showcase local emerging artwork. By combining multiple opportunities for creative exchange, Root Division cultivates an artistic ecosystem that enriches life throughout the Bay Area.

Root Division is supported in part by grants from the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; Grants for the Arts: San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Voluntary Arts Contirbution Fund; Zellerbach Family Foundation, W A Gerbode Foundation, and Fleishhacker Foundation.

For further information regarding events and/or press materials, please do not hesitate to contact Amy Cancelmo at 415.863.7668 or events@rootdivision.org