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San Francisco Art Institute: Who’s Critical? Art School Confidential

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San Francisco Art Institute faculty member Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton is the artist behind the artist in Terry Zwigoff’s new film Art School Confidential. The film, based loosely on Daniel Clowe’s 1991 comic of the same name, takes a critical look at the world of art education.

Quoting Saul Steinberg, Mitchell-Dayton explains, “‘You can’t parody anything you can’t love.’ The art world in general, and the denizens of art schools in particular, famously tend to take themselves dead seriously; and to a certain extent I see that as necessary in the face of the almost overwhelming number of pragmatic reasons not to make art at all. But in an environment in which critique is the primary teaching tool, and subversion of the status quo is a core goal, there’s room in the dialogue for examination of the clichés we’re living out ourselves.”

Teaching Intermediate/Advanced Drawing: Serial Autobiography this summer at SFAI, Mitchell-Dayton is one of the many artists and scholars who contribut

Santa Fe Art Institute

Founded in 1985 by artists for artists, The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) is an independent arts organization forging critical inquiry and cultural exchange among artists, creative practitioners, and the broader community. They support and amplify dynamic artistic practices that engage complex social issues, inspire individual transformation, and inform collective action.

SFAI is committed to fostering positive social change through creativity by providing residencies and fellowships to socially engaged, marginalizied, and/or underrepresented artists and creative practitioners from across the globe. SFAI has hosted over 1200 residents, including over 400 international and 200 local residents in its 35 years of history. SFAI keeps offering thematic residencies and fellowships with various context each year.


The HARPO Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute is a prestigious award established in 2013 to provide an emerging visual artist with strong artistic ability and an evolving practice, the space and time to expl

Santa Fe, United States

This award is open to self-defined under-recognized visual artists. Must be over the age of 25. May not be enrolled in a degree program at the time of the application deadline, October 1, 2020. The application requires a project proposal, 10 work samples, artist biography, CV, and 2 recommendations from professional references. The only required outcome is for the HARPO Emerging Artist Fellow is to submit 5 images of work made during the residency and a statement of impact. The Artist Fellow is not required to engage in SFAI's 2020-2021 residency theme, "Labor," but may do so at their discretion. For more information about the residency, the HARPO Foundation, and past recipients of the Emerging Artist Fellowship Residency, please visit: sfai.org/residency/fellowships/harpo harpofoundation.org.

1 artist will be selected for the 2021 HARPO Emerging Artist Fellowship. Duration of residency: 6 weeks at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Applicants can choose one of the following six-week periods for their residency in 2021: January 4 to Fe

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