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Thursday, February 14, 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Special Announcements | Art Department Events | Art Education News | Continuing Notable Events
Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
Student work from Open House is on display throughout the Studio Arts Building.
Special Announcements
Advising Hours
Walk in for advising on Tuesdays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm,
and meet with Professor Jenny Vogel
OR
Schedule an appointment for Wednesday, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm,
and meet with Professor Susan Jahoda
Stop by SAB 218, or call 413-545-1903 for a Wednesday appointment.
Both sessions are scheduled in SAB 225
The UMASS POTTERY CLUB is looking for members.
The Club meets Sundays from 11 am to 2 pm in room 156 of the Studio Arts Building. All UMASS art students and students who have taken a clay course at UMASS are welcome. Bring your own tools.
Come this Sunday and check us out.
For more information, contact Mike Medeiros at mcmedeiros@umass.edu.
Department of Art Events
Movie Night - Blade Runner
The Department of Art presents Blade Runner in the LEG @ SAB on Valentine's Day, for a cozy showing of the 1982 classic. Blade Runner is a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.
It is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968).
Thursday, February 14, 7:30 - 10:30 pm
Lee Edwards Gallery (lobby of the Studio Arts Building)
SCREEN@SAB
Work by students in the Animation + Media/Motion Graphics discipline
Collaborative Animation – Art 274 F’18
and other work by:
Ava Gold, Cameron Neimeyer, Domghua Zhang, Elizabeth Brown, Emma Gallion, Liping Lin, Logan Cotto, Miles Briggs, Nathaniel Kim, Olivia DiPietrantonio
Sean Arria, Sophia Berger, Travis Correa, Wendy Li
On view now!
Studio Arts Building, Commons
starDust to starDust
Anne LaPrade Seuthe
Initially inspired by the writings of astrophysicist Karel Schrijver and Iris Schrijver,
professor of pathology at Stanford, this exhibition is comprised of abstract paintings
paired with found objects.
Among Anne LaPrade's many credits, she has taught at UMass and been the
Director of Hampden Gallery, UMass Amherst,
for 20 years. Read more here:
A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery
126 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060
February 2 – February 28
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday: 12 – 5
Friday: 12 – 8, Closed Monday
Tasha Robbins: Malachim: Coming Out of Darkness
Robbins’ body of work is both an abecedarian adventure in paint and a personal meditation on the Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet depicted in, what is known as angelic script, in an effort to keep their meaning in contemporary life
February 17 - March 3
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 17, 2 pm - 4 pm
Hampden Gallery, UMass
Bernice Massé Rosenthal: Collage/Assemblage
Rosenthal’s work, comprised primarily of wood assemblages, some painted, others natural, include both free-standing and wall sculptures. Her intent is to engage the viewer by introducing kinetic possibilities and by making two or three-part pieces that can be rearranged.
February 17 - March 3
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 17, 2 pm - 4 pm
Hampden Gallery, UMass
A/E: Body in Flux
A/E: Body In Flux is an exhibition which explores the tension between Affected and Effected states of being as experienced by the human body over a lifetime.
In this show, 7 visual artists draw deeply from rooted personal experiences to address the complexities of the body in these states of transition, touching upon themes of disease, death, gender, identity, discrimination, inclusion, union and vulnerability. The work presented here is an expression of the body, sometimes the artists own, as the author and location of these ongoing transformations.
February 20 - March 24
Opening Reception: February 20, 5 - 7 pm
Herter Art Gallery, UMass
Thirst
Vick Quezada (UMass MFA Alumnus) and Mateo Guadalupe
THIRST explores the driving force of human actuality spanning from basic needs of survival and desire to imperialist lust, additionally how these combined factors manifest into material reality. Placed in proximity, Mateo Guadalupe's photographic collection of erotic bodies within the margins, and Vick Quezada's video and sculpture of a nuanced indigenous identity works to explore the human condition and other worldly possibilities of being.
February 20 - March 9
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 20, 6 - 8 pm
The Student Union Gallery has been relocated to Bartlett Hall, 310.
Gallery Hours Mon -Thur, 10 am - 5 pm and Friday 10 am -3 pm.
Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Didier William
Didier William is originally from Port-au-prince Haiti. He received his BFA in Painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. He is currently Associate Professor of Art and the Chair of the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Thursday, February 21, 4:30 pm
Studio Arts Building Room 240
Quantopia
Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
Quantopia (formerly called Sonic Web) is a multimedia hip hop concert experience about the history and exponential growth of the Internet. DJ Spooky will create live loops and layers of sound and data visualizations using a one-of-a-kind touch screen instrument designed by Greg Niemeyer, Internet Archive and data artist, mathematician/artist Roger Antonsen, and virtual reality (VR) designers MEDIUM Labs. The performance also features a UMass Amherst student string quartet and choir. The hour-long experience will feature a narrator, resulting in a multi-sensory journey. A celebration of the history of the Internet, Quantopia is a tribute to the depth and high stakes of free speech and creative expression involved in our daily use of media.
Thursday, February 21, 7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium, UMass Amherst
Artist Talk: February 19, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Commonwealth Honors College Lounge
Art Education News
ARTaFACT
We are catching up with 2new Art Education newsletters.
See what our student teachers are doing in their classrooms!
Art Education's newsletter - February 8th Edition (pdf) »
Art Education's newsletter - February 15th edition (pdf) »
NEW VISIONS - Annual K-12 Art Show
BFA Student Teachers and teachers from area local public schools, MA Art Education Students will show their student work in a collaborative exhibit organized by the Department of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
NEW VISIONS Exhibition and more information
Continuing Notable Events
Impact On Innocence: Mass Incarceration
Deborah McDuff
Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass
Speak to Me of Rivers
February 12 - March 3
Terry Winters, Untitled (2), 1999. Gouache on paper, 44 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.
Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions
UMCA, Fine Art Center, UMass
Xylor Jane: Counterclockwise
Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
Paperbark Call for Visual Art
Paperbark Literary Magazine is looking for new visual art for their cover image. Here, we work to recognize harm and to unlearn its violent boundaries. We work to grow in tune with symbiosis, equity, and truth telling. Here, we honor what is daring, what dwells in liminality, what is strengthened through multiplicity. Submitters of underrepresented identities are strongly encouraged to send works.
Submissions are rolling - Submit your work to Paperbark »
Current exhibition: Jennifer Levonian and Eva Wylie: Outage
Locust Projects Summer Program
Locust Projects, Miami’s longest running not-for-profit, is seeking proposals for LAB MFA our summer residency and exhibition program. This paid opportunity is open to currently enrolled studio art MFA students and provides a project and travel budget. Applications are due on March 17th.
Learn More about the Locust Projects Summer Program (pdf) »
