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March 7, 2011 By squirt

Free University Art School – First Demonstration / Documentation

The Free University of San Francisco aims to make the highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free. The only requirement for membership is a desire to teach and/or a desire to learn.

We believe that the purpose of education is not to turn the student into a better consumer and profit-earner but to help him or her to discover the wealth of human culture upon whose shoulders she or he stands. What we share at the Free University of San Francisco is a passionate determination to see the restoration of humanity—warm, literate, democratic—to vibrant human life. And in order to achieve this aim we have taken hold of the very hub of our culture, which is education, in order to create a brand new kind of institution, one whose existence makes no sense in the current social order, one that stands in direct defiance of the privatized profit-oriented social engineering centers that pass for universities today.

We are the Free University of San Francisco and we are rebels of knowledge.

All classes to be held at Viracocha – 998 Valencia, San Francisco

Sunday, March 6, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Chris Shaw

Sunday, March 27, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Winston Smith

Sunday, April 3, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Jon-Paul Bail and special guests

Check out the Free University website here for more info:  http://freeuniversitysf.org/

 

Below are the posters printed in the first demonstration:

 

Photos below document the first demonstration of March 6, 2011

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Free University of San Francisco

March 2, 2011 By squirt

Steve Miller Band Poster Wins Award

My Steve Miller Band poster won Poster of the Week on Expressobeans. I appreciate it! A nice surprise for a rainy day.

Also, I’ll be happy to see everyone who can make the very first Free University Art School presentation at Viracocha, 998 Valencia at 21st Street on Sunday, March 6, 2 to 4 pm. Chris Shaw, Ron Donovan and I will be showing posters, discussing our work, and conducting a demonstration in silkscreen printmaking.

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Chris Shaw, Expresso Beans, Free University of San Francisco, Ron Donovan, Steve Miller Band

February 27, 2011 By squirt

Free University of San Francisco, School of Art

The Free University of San Francisco aims to make the highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free. The only requirement for membership is a desire to teach and/or a desire to learn.

We believe that the purpose of education is not to turn the student into a better consumer and profit-earner but to help him or her to discover the wealth of human culture upon whose shoulders she or he stands. What we share at the Free University of San Francisco is a passionate determination to see the restoration of humanity—warm, literate, democratic—to vibrant human life. And in order to achieve this aim we have taken hold of the very hub of our culture, which is education, in order to create a brand new kind of institution, one whose existence makes no sense in the current social order, one that stands in direct defiance of the privatized profit-oriented social engineering centers that pass for universities today.

We are the Free University of San Francisco and we are rebels of knowledge.

This course will offer courses, lectures and demonstrations in the field of  visual arts, those arts which seek to enlighten, inform and entertain with common sense imagination in populist mediums.

Sunday, March 6, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Chris Shaw

Sunday, March 27, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Winston Smith

Sunday, April 3, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Jon-Paul Bail and special guests

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Chris Shaw, Free University of San Francisco, Jon-Paul Bail, Ron Donovan, Winston Smith

January 30, 2011 By squirt

The Free University of San Francisco

Poster Edition Information:

The Free University of San Francisco 2011

23 x 35

Edition of 150

3 color poster on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD Out – Thank You!

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Matt Gonzalez contacted me and put me in touch with Alan Kaufman to make a poster for the newly established Free University of San Francisco. I include the class schedule below; you can see there’s something thought-provoking for everyone, taught by some of San Francisco’s best and brightest minds:

Here’s a little background

THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

First Teach-In

All classes are free and take place at Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street@21st, the Mission District, SF, CA

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Sat. 9:30-11:30 AM – “Criminal Procedure and Sentencing” – Instructor: MATT GONZALEZ

Sat. 11:30-1:30 – “Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk and Jackson Pollack” – Instructor: ALAN KAUFMAN

Sat. 2-4 PM – “Vision and the Visionary Poem” – Instructor: DIANE DI PRIMA

Sat. 2-4 PM – “San Francisco Labor History and the Great Strike of 1934” –  Instructor: BOBBY COLEMAN

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Sun. 9-11:00 AM – “Restoring San Francisco’s Urban Wildlands” – Instructor: MARTIN HOLDEN

Sun. 11:30-1:30 – “RE/Search-Modern Primitives, Angry Women&Modern Pagans” – Instructors: V. VALE and CHARLES GATEWOOD

Sun. 2-4 PM – “Abolishing Corporate Personhood to Create Authentic Democracy” – Instructor: DAVID COBB

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Mon. 6-7:45 PM – “Marx from Modernity to Postmodernity (labor, time, fantasy)” – Lecturer: SUSAN SHUN HEE PARK

Mon. 8-9:45 – “John Cage and the Spirit of Dada” – Instructor: JOHN SMALLEY

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8

Tues. 6-7:50 PM – “Critical Thinking (Introduction to Logic)” – Lecturers: JORDAN BOHALL and ELENA GRANIK

Tues. 8-10 PM – “Introduction to Nietzsche” – Lecturers: EVAN KARP and ANDREW PAUL NELSON

For more information about The Free University of San Francisco: http://fusf.wordpress.com/ or 415-573-5766

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Here’s a photo of the poster:

Poster Edition Information:

The Free University of San Francisco 2011

23 x 35

Edition of 150

3 color poster on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered


Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alan Kaufman, Andrew Paul Nelson, Bobby Coleman, Charles Gatewood, David Cobb, Diane Di Prima, Elena Granik, Evan Karp, Free University of San Francisco, John Smalley, Jordan Bohall, Martin Holden, Matt Gonzalez, Susan Shun Hee Park, V. Vale

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