Art School Confidential

Spring, at art school is an emotionally schizophrenic season. The weather tends to be glorious (and pollen-filled) as it was today, and campuses pulse with alternating currents of stress, anxiety, hope, exhaustion, and celebration as everyone lurches to the finish line. That was definitely the mix at SFAIthis evening when the campus was buzzing with multiple activities—MA thesis presentations, exhibitions, food carts, bands, red plastic cups, and a keg. To this, was added the Northern California stop of Teach 4 Amerika, a Creative Time-sponsored project by the contrarian art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation. San Francisco is the next to last stop in an eleven city tour of American art schools. (Full disclosure—I invited them as part of SFAI’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, which I coordinate.)The group, perhaps best known for their ambulance/hearse/gallery in the last Whitney Biennial, has been touring in another potently reconfigured vehicle—a tattered limo, crudely painted to look like a school bus.

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