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. Summer Study 2011 The Visual Artist Today: A One-day Workshop -Saturday, June 4th: 10AM to 5PM Painting as a Contemporary Force -Six-week concentrated course, June 28th to August 2nd Figure Drawing as a Tour de Force -Six-week concentrated course, June 23rd to July 28th Landscape Painting Workshop -Thursday, August 4th through Sunday, August 7th Spring 2011 Lecture Series: Josine Smits, Ph.D Art History as a Living Force: "Tiepolo, Fragonard, Goya: Isolated Talents Linked to "National Traditions" -Tuesday, February 8, 6:30 PM: Giambattista Tiepolo -Tuesday, February 22, 6:30 PM: Jean-Honore Fragonard -Tuesday, March 8, 6:30 PM: Francisco Goya Lecture Series: Laura Harden, Director -Thursday, March 31: "The Language of Vision & Integrity of Spirit" -Thursday, May 5: "Fauvism & The Integrity of Color" Lecture Series: Lon Clark, Dean -Thursday, February 10: "Mercedes Matter, Recollections" -Thursday, April 14: "Cubism & Formalist Integrity in the 20th Century"