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TO THE STREETS!

Teachers
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Sarah Al-Yahya, Paige Fulton
Date
Section 1: September 18, 2024 to October 16, 2024
Section 2: September 21, 2024 to October 19, 2024

(5 classes)
Time
Section 1: Wednesdays, 6-9pm ET Section 2: Saturdays, 1-4pm ET
Location
Online (Zoom)
Cost
$750 Scholarships available learn more...
Deadline
Applications closed on August 4, 2024

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Description

City blocks, streets, sidewalks, neighborhoods, towns, bridges, telephone poles, bulletin boards, mailboxes, windows, crosswalks, porches… How do we practice collectively within the streets/public? TO THE STREETS! is an exploration of making work in the public eye, understanding how our work can affect or be affected by the spaces that surround us, drawing connections between our work and communities in the streets, and thinking intentionally, procedurally, or computationally, about utilizing our work in and for the public as political strategy. Each week we will cover five areas of thinking and making: maintenance, movement, intervention, publishing and collective. From investigating seen and unseen histories of our surrounding streets, to practicing ephemeral ways of making such as printmaking for public installation or performance, to studying direct actions such as guerrilla/pirate radio or disability networks that inform investigations in maintenance and mutual aid work to the influence of printed political graphics in the telling of community stories. Every week, we will do readings, exercises, crits and make work within the classroom of the streets—together and apart!

Course of Study

  • Maintenance: Ground our studies together in the maintenance of our collective space, classroom, community, neighborhood, abolition, mutual aid, ritual and lifelong movement work.
  • Movement: Embodied movement theory, mapping, derivatives and performance studies.
  • Intervention: Direct action strategies, disability studies/movements, pirate/guerilla radio and the ways we intervene within public spaces.
  • Publishing: Printed mediums such as, zines, posters, newspapers, broadsheets, newsletters, pamphlets, wheat-pasting, banner drops, etc. that play a huge role in storytelling within public spaces.
  • Collective: Collective strategies/methods, collectives who have formed political movements over history, mass action/mobilization, and union history.

Expectations

Time & Workload
  • Students should expect to spend at least 2-3 hours a week outside of class to complete the readings and practice the materials within the streets.
Technical Experience
  • All students are welcome! There are no prerequisites.
Learning Outcomes
  • This class will approach hands-on art making primarily through do-it-yourself printmaking methods.

Is this class for me?

This class may be for you if:

  • Are a community organizer, social justice advocate, and/or prison/police abolitionist—or want to become one!
  • Are open to making work and installing it in public spaces; practicing and performing within communities, neighborhoods, and collective bodies around where you live.
  • Are interested in the practice of printmaking and its historical/social importance.
  • Want to take interdisciplinary approaches to study art, theory, storytelling, and performance.

Meet the Teachers

teacher

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, abolitionist, educator and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work, performance and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, People of color’s stories. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at MOCA Cleveland, Konsthall C, EFA Project Space, San Francisco Arts Commission, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and L’Internationale Online, amongst others. Their artist books and printed editions have been published by Endless Editions, Childish Books, Ghost Proposal, Press Press, Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry, Printed Matter Inc and Wendy’s Subway. They are a practitioner of global liberation movements, protest tactics, tools & strategies, handmade paper and flight!

They/them · website · instagram

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Sarah Al-Yahya

Sarah Al Yahya is a researcher and interactive media artist based between New York and Amman. She’s currently pursuing an MA in Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. She experiments with multiple mediums including software art, AR, writing, UX/UI design and physical computing. Her research interests center on digital and internet cultures in Palestine and the SWANA region, open source intelligence, and the decolonial and other sociopolitical potential of new media technologies.

She/Her/Hers · website · instagram

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Paige Fulton

Paige Fulton is a multidisciplinary artist. She makes psychedelic black power zines with a focus on chaotic storytelling, light, time, and the ancestors. You can her writing and dreaming at ,dahologram.com

she/her · website · instagram

How do I apply?

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Applications open until Applications closed on August 4, 2024.

You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on . Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.

How much does it cost to attend?

For 5 classes, it costs $750 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule weekly or monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.

SFPC processes all payments via Withfriends and Stripe. Please email admissions@sfpc.study if these payment options don't work for you.

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