The San Francisco Studio School is active in the discourse surrounding art locally and in a larger sense in our time. Ongoing lectures and exhibitions as well as talks by art historians, artists, visiting faculty and others related to the mission of the school and contemporary issues in art will be listed here. Numerous of these events will be open to the art community, while others are reserved for students and invited guests only. Fall 2008 Visiting Faculty, Hearne Pardee "Fairfield Porter" Students and Invited Guests Only October 9, 2008, 6:30PM Visiting Faculty, Sandy Walker "Individual Painting Crits" Full-Time Painting Students Only October 20, 2008, 2 to 5PM SFMoMa Graphic Studies Department Landscape Photography: Viewing of original prints by photographers ranging from Stephen Shore to Mario Giacommelli Thursday, October 23rd, 11AM Full-Time Students Only SF Studio School Gallery Opening "Surface & Substance: Works on Paper" November 6th, 6:30 to 8:30PM: Open to Public Visiting Faculty, Sandy Walker "The Figure" Students and Invited Guests Only November 13th, 2008, 6:30PM Visiting Faculty, Sandy Walker "Drawing & the Figure" Full-Time Students Only November 20, 2008, 2 to 5PM Photography Intensive: The Incomplete Photograph November 21st to 23rd Instructors: Lon Clark & Laura Harden Email info@sfstudioschool.org to register. Visiting Faculty, Sandy Walker "Drawing & the Figure" Full-Time Students Only December 4, 2008, 2 to 5PM