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Newsletter - 10/3
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Special Announcements | Art Department Events | Art Education News | Continuing Notable Events
Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
Special Announcements
Drawing Marathon
On Saturday, September 29, the Department of Art held their inaugural Drawing Marathon in the Studio Arts Building (images above). The event featured workshops and sessions created and run by several graduate students, as well as floor to ceiling papered walls for students, faculty, and members of the public, to freely draw upon. We had a very good turnout for the event and are looking forward to ‘Drawing Marathon’ redux in either 2019 or 2020.
HFA POP-UP ARTS CAREER ADVISING SESSION!
When:
Thursday, October 4, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Where:
Studio Arts Building Commons
What:
Stop by with Career questions
Learn about the upcoming HFA Internship Fair
Pick up an Arts-major career resource guide
Bring your resume for review
Meet your new HFA Internship Advisor!
(This event will be held before the HFA Internship Fair (below), but other sessions will be offered soon!)
Fab Lab Milk and Cookies III
Meet the techs, Bob Woo, Evelyn Snyder, and Dan Wessman, see the shops & eat cookies!
Friday, October 5, 2:00 -- 4:00 pm, SAB 142 (meet at the Wood Shop)
Department of Art Events
Juana Valdes, Redbone Colored China Rags, 2017. Porcelain bone china fired 1234c, 12 x 3 x 4 inches.
The Colored Bone China
Juana Valdes
The Herter Art Gallery is pleased to present The Colored Bone China, an exhibition of new work by faculty member, Juana Valdes. A professor in the Department of Art, Valdes uses printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific installations, to explore issues of race, transnationalism, gender, labor, and class.
October 3 - 30
Opening Reception: October 3, 5 :00- 7:00 pm
Herter Art Gallery, UMass Amherst
Asian Arts Culture Program, New Asia Cinema presents
Global Indigenous Visions Film Festival
Global Indigenous Visions is the 14th annual semester-long film festival in partnership with the UMass Asian Arts and Culture Program. This season, we present 12 films through December 12th. New Asia Cinema screenings are coordinated in conjunction with courses including Comm 296F, Film Festival colloquium. All events are free and open to the public.
Tonight: October 3, Kumu Hina
All screenings start at 7:30 pm
in Flavin Family Auditoria School of Management (SOM137).
Please note: there are no screenings on November 14 or 21.
Artist Talk + Town Hall
Artist Talk / Eric Gottesman, Co-Founder of For Freedoms
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For Freedoms Town Hall: Art, Activism, and Social (In)Justice?
The UMCA will host a series of events in partnership with ForFreedoms.
The For Freedoms 50 State Initiative is comprised of a national network of artists and institutions across the country who will stage art actions, town hall meetings, and special exhibitions to encourage broad participation and inspire conversation during the upcoming midterm elections. Founded by artists Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas and inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941) — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear — For Freedoms uses art to encourage and deepen public explorations of freedom in the 21st century.
The UMCA For Freedoms events are presented in partnership with the UMass Art Department, the Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series and the Women of Color Leadership Network - CWC with support from a Campus Climate Improvement Grant from the UMass Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Friends of the Fine Arts Center.
Artist Talk / Eric Gottesman, Co-Founder of For Freedoms
Thursday, October 11, 2018, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
For Freedoms Town Hall: Art, Activism, and Social (In)Justice?
Friday, October 12, 2018, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Panelists will include Omid Shekari, artist and Lecturer in the Department of Art,
UMass and Emily Tareila, artist and UMass MFA candidate. Emily also assisted with organizing For Freedoms events.
John W. Olver Design Building Atrium / UMass Amherst
Both events are free and open to the public. Food will be served!
Join the conversation, register to vote and let your voice be heard!
Fall Arts and Humanities Internship Fair
The UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and BDIC are pleased to present the Arts Entrepreneurship Initiative's Fall Arts and Humanities Internship Fair! The fair will feature local internship opportunities in the arts, arts management, and cultural non-profit fields. Refreshments will be provided. A list of participating internship providers will be available Monday, October 8. In preparation, consider attending the
HFA Pop-up Arts Careers Advising Session on Thursday, October 4 (see above).
Thursday, October 11, from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM at the Fine Arts Center Atrium
Art Education News
Left to right: Caroline Whelan, Helen Austin, Ryan Lavigne, Emma Hubacz, Kayla Reno
Kayla Reno is the last but certainly not least of her graduating Art Education class to be hired! She has been hired to teach at the Edward P. Boland Elementary School in Springfield.
Congratulations to Kayla and all of the recent Art Education graduates !!!
Continuing Notable Events
Labyrinth of Fables
Copper Giloth
View by reservation in large green screen room.
DuBois Library, Third floor, Digital Media Center
Ice to Water
Holly S. Murray
through October 11
Hampden Gallery, UMass
Meteors Are Space Eggs
Jenn Houle
through October 11, 2018
Hampden Gallery, UMass
Dialéctica Oaxaqueña
October 2 - 24
Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass
XTCA
The UMCA, along with the Department of Architecture, have partnered with the Town of Amherst to build an art and culture bridge– a series of public sculptures– to activate the North Pleasant Street corridor and connect downtown to campus. July 1 – November 1
Pat Lasch
through November 23
Merideth Ward Fine Art Gallery
Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
Community Engagement for Artists Workshop
Are you an artist curious about creating public art or art for social change projects with your community? Join the UMass Arts Extension Service (AES) for a free, evening-long Community Engagement for Artists Workshop this fall (pre-registration required). Learn about the innovative community-engaged art projects happening nationwide, best practices, and the skills required to create an art project that engages your community. Events through November 7.
Light snacks and beverages will be provided.
Pre-register by contacting AES at aes@acad.umass.edu or 413-545-2360.
Amherst Event: Tuesday, October 9, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Jones Library, Woodbury Room, 43 Amity St.
Northampton Arts Council Funding Proposals
Proposals are now being accepted for community-oriented arts, humanities, and science programs. These grants can support a variety of artistic projects and activities in Northampton, Florence, and Leeds - including exhibits, festivals, field trips, short-term artist residencies, scholarships, or performances in schools, workshops, and lectures. This year, the Northampton Arts Council will distribute up to $13,700 in grants.
Proposal Deadline: Monday, October 15th
SAVE THE DATE!!
Women in Arts Leadership Symposium
CONNECTING | EMPOWERING | CHANGING THE CULTURE
If you self-identify as an artist, arts manager, arts leader, or ally, please join us!
People at all career stages and people of all genders are invited to attend.
Free for UMass and Five College students. $25 for Professionals.
Registration Deadline: Friday, October 19th
Saturday, October 27, 2018
South College, 2nd Floor, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
For more information visit http://www.umass.edu/aes/wals or email aes@umass.edu.
2018 CAA Professional Development Fellowships
now open for MFA students
Now accepting applications! CAA's Professional Development Fellowships program supports artists, designers, craftspersons, historians, curators, and critics who are enrolled in MFA or PhD programs and graduating in 2019. Fellows are honored with $10,000 unrestricted grants to help them with various aspects of their work.
Application deadline: November 16, 2018
Click here to learn more and apply.
