Join our team of volunteers! Support the local arts community while having fun and meeting new people by volunteering with ArtSpan! There are numerous volunteer opportunities still available, from helping at the Private Preview Gala, installing the SF Open Studios Exhibition, and acting as a Gallery Representative! Contact info@artspan.org for more information!

• K R I S T I A N A road tripped 9,000 miles in her Airstream Trailer to collaborate with TLC's show Making Over America (the Airstream can be seen in each episode on Friday nights). The Airstream, which doubles as her studio and showcase, was also featured in Daily Candy and Apartment Therapy this summer.
• Jack Androvich's nomalfotos are featured at Triptych Restaurant and Gallery, 1155 Folsom, SF.
• Phylis Johnson-Silk is presenting her unique jewelry designs in the Cole Valley Fair on 9/20, 10am- 5pm, on Cole Street between Carl and Grattan.
• Richard Bolingbroke is showing selected works from his series "Ritual and Meditations" in "Love Life and Death" at Minna Street Center on Minna and 8th, now to 9/25.
• Art Space 712 present their inaugural exhibition "I'll Bet You Can't Paint a Portrait: The Genesis of Bay Area Figurative Art Now," juried by Theophilus Brown, at 712 Sansome, 2nd Fl., 9/26 & 9/27, noon to 5pm. Opening Reception: 9/25, 6-10pm. Art Space 712 will collect donations to benefit ArtSpan.
• Mr Rogers is participating in the iB Crafty trunk show on 9/26, 12-6 at Workspace Ltd, 2150 Folsom St.
• Sevilla Granger's piece entitled "Larger and..." has been granted the "Florence Ferrario Award" from the Northern California Arts Association, and has been selected for the 54th annual international juried exhibition "Bold Expressions" at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 9/29 to 10/24. She will be participating with 25 other SF artists in iB Crafty on 9/26, 12-6 at Workspace Ltd, 2150 Folsom St. Four of her pieces are hanging in the store front windows of EZDG Design Group, 1246 18th St. She is completing a large commission for RCD Architects which will be featured in the community center of Shinsei Gardens, their new housing development in Alameda.
• Ari Salomon's work is showing in "One Shot x2" at SF Photo Center Gallery at the Harvey Milk Arts Center, 50 Scott (in Duboce Park), now to 9/30. He has one piece in "It's Still Life" at RayKo Photo Center, 428 3rd St. He will be exhibiting large lightboxes from his "Motion Studies" series in the SFMOMA Minna and Natoma Street windows, 2/6 to 3/30/2010, along with work from Andy Vogt.
• Biff Moshe will exhibit paintings in a solo show, "San Francisco and Beyond" at the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, 134 Golden Gate Ave., SF, now to 9/28.
• Roxanne Worthington and Adrienne Defendi present their artwork in "Transformation," a group show at Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd., Palo Alto, now to 10/5.
• Marc Ellen Hamel's work is exhibited at Barton Art Gallery, 1732 I Street, Sacramento now through 10/6. She is part of a group show "Going North" by Nordic 5 Arts at Eddie Rhodes Gallery, Contra Costa College, 2600 Mission Bell Dr., San Pablo, CA, now to 10/30. Her abstract oil paintings will be included in "Color on the Wall" at Nomad Rugs, 3775 24th St. now to 10/15.
• SF Open Studios Preview Party: The Nocturnes and the Bay Printmakers at Fort Mason, Building D, 10/16, 6-9pm. Click here for more info.
• SF Open Studios Preview Party: Reception and silent auction for RAMs, an umbrella agency for various organizations providing mental health services to 10,000 under-served adults, families, and children in SF, 10/23, 6-10pm, SOMA Artists Studios, 689 Bryant Street.
• Support the art community at Hunters Point Shipyard in an Annual Benefit Auction taking place during the last weekend of SF Open Studios, 10/31 and 11/1, 5-7pm or participate in proxy bidding throughout the weekend for the chance to take home artwork by SF Open Studios 2009 Shipyard Artists. Also, new this year, is a raffle. The event supports Shipyard Trust for the Arts, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to conserving affordable art, creating arts exhibition and education programs, and supporting arts programs in the surrounding community.
• Karl Roeseler is part of a group show at the SF Convention and Visitors Bureau, featuring 6 figurative paintings from his "Black & White Paintings" series, now until 12/11. His work is also exhibited in the upstairs dining loft of Tokyo Go Go.

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• SF Artist Network Professional Development for Artists Lectures with Stephen C. Wagner: 9/23, 7-9pm, $30, Preparing Your Packet, Artist Lecture, Marin Arts Council, 555 Northgate Drive, #270, San Rafael. 9/24, 7-9pm, $15, Promotion: Marking Yourself and Your Artwork, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, 2278 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. 10/13, 7-9pm, $10, Paint The Town: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Oil Paint, NOM-TL CBD Center, 134A Golden Gate Ave., SF. 10/19, 7-9pm, $10, Promotion: Marketing Yourself and Your Artwork, City Art Coop Gallery, 828 Valencia, SF.
• The Symposium for Independent Arts on Friday, 9/25 at David Brower Center in Downtown Berkeley features an afternoon program of panels, networking opportunities, DIY workshops and more. Topics include: The artist as citizen and worker, shoestring fundraising and marketing, twitter, facebook and social media for artists, discover local arts service providers, discuss the state of the arts. Sliding scale admission, free for struggling artists. Reserve your spot today at exposymposium-09.eventbrite.com. More information here or call 415.738.4975.
• Artists' Career Development Workshops with Keith Miller; call 415.519.4094 to register: Building a National Gallery Career, 8/26, 6:30-8:30pm, $50 fee, Rm Q11. No Starving Artists, 9/26, 10am-3pm, $75 fee, Classroom 304. All workshops held at The Center, 1800 Market.
• The Nocturnes are accepting registrations for their annual Death Valley workshop with Tim Baskerville. 3 nights, 10/30 to 11/1. Pre-registration is required no later than 9/25. More info here. The Nocturnes announce a new course "The Advanced Digital Nocturne" taught by Tim Baskerville and Mark Jaremko to be held at Fort Mason, 9/26. More info here.

• ArtSpan's funder, SF Arts Commission, seeks a Program Associate for the Cultural Equity Grants Program. More info here

• Deadline: 9/30/09. Donate to Visual Aid's Big Deal. Send your name, email & mailing addresses, and phone number to bigdeal@visualaid.org by 9/30/09. Proceeds from Big Deal are used to underwrite grants and provide free arts supplies and exhibition opportunities to Visual Aid artist living with AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses. The event will be held 11/14/09. The theme this year is "BLUE" although donated artworks do not have to be blue. Work must be ready to hang. Volunteers are also needed for the event; call 415.777.8242.
• Deadline: 10/7/09. West Marin Review is seeking art for Volume 3, to be published in Winter 2010. Submission guidelines can be found at westmarinreview.org.
• Deadline: 10/2/09. RayKo Photo Center's Artist-in-Residence application deadline has been extended to 10/2/09. More info here.
• Deadline: 10/18/09. Access Institute for Psychological Services invites artists to contribute their work to Spectrum, Access's annual art auction fundraiser that will be held on 10/18 at Mezzanine in SF. Access is a SF-based non-profit that delivers affordable mental health serves to the local community. Contact Julie Henderson, Spectrum's art curator, with an image of your artwork at juliehenderson317@gmail.com.
• Deadline: 10/22/09. The Nocturnes are now accepting submission to the latest online show " The Panocturnists" featuring Panoramic Night Photography, curated by Tim Baskerville and juried by Chris Faust.
• Deadline: 11/6/09. The Creative Work Fund invites letters of inquiry for projects in which artists and nonprofit organizations collaborate to create new works. Grants range from $10,000 to $40,000. In 2010, projects featuring visual artists or performing artists are eligible to apply. More info at creativeworkfund.org.