SF ARTS COMMISSION GALLERY: Recipients of the 2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts will showcase their recent works in Immediate Future, the SFAC Gallery's biggest event of the year. The exhibition provides Bay Area MFA students with an opportunity to share what they have been developing in their studios with a wider audience. Media represented in the exhibition include drawing, film & video, installation, mixed media, painting, fiber art, performance art and photography. The exhibition runs through December 12.

6 to 8 p.m. // San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (401 Van Ness Ave and 155 Grove St) // free

FOUR BARREL COFFEE ART SERIES: The Rumpus and artist/writer Paul Madonna have joined forces to bring readers Madonna's weekly comic series Small Potatoes, where "rowdy potato people rant and fret, defying all human decency." For the Four Barrel exhibit, Madonna has created a site-specific large-scale, multi-panel cartoon series, which can be read both forward and backwards.

6 to 8 p.m. // Four Barrel Coffee (375 Valencia St) // free

THE BLUE STUDIO: The Blue Studio is hosting an Open Studios Kick-Off Reception in the Michelle O’Connor Gallery for the city-wide Open Studios event going on all month. Twenty-five Blue Studio artists, including painters, sculptors, conceptual artists, designers, artisans, photographers and other less concisely identified “makers,” are offering sneak peeks at their work.

6 to 9 p.m. // The Blue Studio (2111 Mission St, 4th fl) // free