The San Francisco Arts Education Project explores the relationship between artist mentor and student artist in Dialogues. The exhibition will be the conversation of formal, material or conceptual elements found in the work of both the older and the younger artists. The work of SFArtsED artist mentors will hang alongside work created by students in each artist’s residency in a San Francisco public school or in an SFArtsED afterschool program. Who inspires whom? Is resonance reciprocal? Lori Starr, Executive Director of The Contemporary Jewish Museum, serves as guest curator. “Artists and their students engage in dialogue, sometimes unspoken—through emotional connection, mood, and in the quiet of making the work,” Ms. Starr says. “The process of creating art together sparks imagination and risk-taking—for everyone.”

SFArtsED artists include Alexis Arnold, Agelio Batle, Araya Boonbandansook, Zoe Farmer, Tiersa Nureyev, Richard Olsen, Wendy Robushi and Josephine Taylor. Participating schools include Claire Lilienthal Alternative School, Commodore Sloat Elementary School, Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, McKinley Elementary School, Miralmoa Elementary School, Ruth AsawaSF School of the Arts and Sherman Elementary School