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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

May 3 - May 3, 2010

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Since 1977, Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, enabling her to introduce public art into a system that serves and is owned by the entire population. Recent permanent commissions include Percent-for-Art Fresh Kills Park Project in New York City and the Schuylkill River Park in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA). Recent exhibition venues include the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga (California), the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem (The Netherlands), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (MoMA) in Long Island City (New York), and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. She has completed six "work ballets" that involve workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables in cities across the globe. Laderman Ukeles has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a number of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. *Named in honor of artist and SFAI faculty member Ann Chamberlain, the Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellow in Interdisciplinary Studies was created in 2010 as a lasting reminder of Ann Chamberlain’s contributions to SFAI and to the art world at large. The fellowship includes a public lecture and a colloquium with SFAI students. Mierle Laderman Ukeles is the first Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellow in Interdisciplinary Studies.