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Newsletter - 9/19
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Special Announcements | Department of Art, UMass, and Five College Art Events
Art Education News | Continuing Notable Events | Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
50th Anniversary of Herter Art Gallery!
Disruptions & Continuities: Recent Work by George Wardlaw will have its opening reception from 5 - 7 pm, on Wednesday, September 25.
Special Announcements
Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhD
New York Book Fair, MOMA PS1
"We have an essay published in Learning and Unlearning, a new book featured through Printed Matter at the New York Book Fair held at P.S. 1 September 21-23. As associated panel will be held on Sunday, at the Rubin Foundation."
Making and Being
BFAMFAPhD
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation about forms of critique, cooperatives, artist-run spaces, healing, and the death of projects.
These conversations about Art & Pedagogy are co-presented by BFAMFAPhD & Pioneer Works Press, hosted by Hauser & Wirth, covered by media partners Eyebeam and Bad at Sports. Each conversation exists now as a podcast that can be listened to Bad at Sports.
Department of Art, UMass, and Five College Art Events
Disruptions & Continuities
George Wardlaw
The Herter Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is honored to inaugurate it's 50th year on campus with Disruptions & Continuities: Recent Work by George Wardlaw. While also tracing back to work made in the last six years, it presents Wardlaw's final series, Disruptions. In this final body of work, Wardlaw enters into a dialogue with Picasso's portraits of women, to confront the latter on his treatment and depictions of women. Interjecting with imagery from his own lexicon of hard-edged geometric abstraction, Wardlaw relentlessly layers, arranges, and rearranges to mutate the syntax of these complicated portraits. The resulting work is a new gestalt – a dynamic terrain of contesting forms and legacies.
Made primarily on an iPad due to his increasingly failing health, this body of work was painted on canvas by his studio assistant, Kelsi Giguere. A practicing artist and a recent graduate from the Department of Art at the University, Giguere quickly assumed the role of a collaborator. Thereby, what began as an assistantship evolved into a partnership of mutual respect and a mentorship that had a profound impact on both Wardlaw and Giguere.
Opening Reception: September 25, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
September 25 - October 25
Herter Gallery
Molding Young Minds
Art Education Juniors and Seniors
BFA Juniors and Seniors who are concentrating in Art Education
have prepared an exhibition of a sampling of art work and lesson plans that they will use when they teach.
Reception: Tuesday, September 24, 5 – 7 pm
Lee Edwards Gallery, Studio Arts Building
Reasonable Certainty
Jenny Vogel
with sound by Tim Lehmacher
Since the invention of photography our experience of history has become synonymous with the experience of a photograph. The digital documentation of an event, because of its infinite capacity for reproduction, presents itself as the event itself. Art, monuments and historical markers can become dust but their digital representation remain forever. History then occupies a space of an infinite present but to lose historical consciousness is a terrifying prospect.
Institut für Alles Mögliche / Stützpunkt Teufelsberg is located in a former radar station on Teufelsberg in Berlin and part of a program that seeks to revive the Teufelsberg region.
September 20 - 29, 2019
Opening Reception Friday September 20, 2-5 pm.
Institut für Alles Mögliche / Stützpunkt Teufelsberg
Fielding: Goldenrod and an Exploration of Connections
Curated by Emily Tariela
Fielding, curated by Emily Tareila (MFA, Studio Arts, 2019) uses the plant Goldenrod (L. solidago) as a lens through which to engage the Natural History Collections and the UMass community. The project looks at both human uses and history of the plant, its local history and current presence in the area, and its significance in the non-human sphere and ecology. Fielding consists of a pop-up exhibition in Morrill Science Center with original artwork and selections from the CNS collection, as well as experiential events around campus, from natural dyeing, to plant identification, to cyanotype photography, and more. This exhibition is an outcome of Tareila’s Graduate Assistantship at the UMCA and a pilot project leading to UMCA’s future collaborations with the UMass science collections.
The Fielding exhibition will open to visitors on five Wednesdays:
September 11, 18, & 25, and October 2 & 9, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 11, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
144 Morrill Science Center 2 South
Augusta Savage Gallery Performance Festival
With art by Dianne McMillan Brannen & Tracey Physioc Brockett as the backdrop, visit the Augusta Savage Gallery for its annual Performance Festival,
September 23 - 27, featuring live music, poetry and more. Free Admission!
Held each evening at 7:00 pm
September 23 - 27
Augusta Savage Gallery
Art Education News
Molding Young Minds
Art Education Juniors and Seniors
BReception: Tuesday, September 24, 5 – 7 pm
Lee Edwards Gallery, Studio Arts Building
Continuing Notable Events
Department of Art - Artist in Residence
Joanna Tam
Lecture: Thursday, October 24, 12 noon, room 240 SAB
*Closing reception in the LEG Gallery TBA
SCREEN2019: CLIMATES
September 3 - October 15
Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
Studio Arts Building Commons
Materialized
Curated by Suzan Shutan
September 8 - October 6
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 8, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Hampden Gallery
Slicey Dicey
Suzan Shutan
September 8 - October 6
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 8, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Hampden Gallery
Games of Chance
Dianne McMillan Brannen & Tracey Physioc Brockett
September 9 - 27
Augusta Savage Gallery
103 New Africa House
Latchhooking with Chaehee Yoon and Xuan Pham
Continues in the Commons @ SAB until finished, on Fridays from 12 - 4 pm. Come and help or just keep them company! Refreshments served!
Gather: a clinic and exhibition
Richenda Cope and Avery Forbes
A month-long clinic for broken and wounded household items. Through October 11, M - F, 12 - 2 pm, or by appt.
Student Union Art Gallery (SUAG)
Cycles
Leonardo Drew
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
September 20 - December 8
UMCA
Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
Upcoming UMass OPD Workshops:
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Info Session
Sep 23, 2019 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | 538 Goodell - 6th Annual "Teaching at Teaching Intensive Institutions"
Oct 4, 2019 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Westfield State University (Bus available!)
plus many more offerings scheduled!
Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference
Trinity College, February 28-29 2020
Call for Proposals
Do you have a new DH project? Are you in the throes of one, and unsure of its destiny? CT DH is an opportunity for getting feedback, developing skills, or sharing your work with other researchers and teachers across New England.
Read more about the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference
Proposals are due October 1, 2019.
Presenters will be notified of acceptance by end of November.
Upping the Ante: How to Secure More Funding as an Artist
Arts Extension Service
The Arts Extension Service announces two free fun and interactive workshops for artists! Upping the Ante: How to Secure More Funding as an Artist will be taught by Burns Maxey on Sept. 24th 6-8 pm at the Jones Library Amherst and Oct. 2nd 6-8 pm at the Holyoke Public Library. Please RSVP ASAP (so we can plan food) by contacting the Arts Extension Service at aes@acad.umass.edu or 413-545-2360. More information at www.umass.edu/aes. Both events are funded in part by the LCC’s of Amherst and Holyoke and the Arts Entrepreneurship Initiative.
September 24, 6 - 8 pm
Jones Library, Amherst
October 2, 6 - 8 pm
Holyoke Public Library
Makerspace Student Mentor Positions Available
Makerspaces are places where people have an opportunity to explore their own interests; learn to use tools and materials, both physical and virtual; and develop creative projects. UMass Amherst has launched a new All-Campus Makerspace that has multiple openings for “Makerspace Assistants”. These assistants will help set up and manage a new location where students from all over campus in any major can come to work on “maker projects” in a helpful, collaborative setting.
Job Title: All-Campus Makerspace Assistant
Hiring Period: Fall Semester | Hourly Pay Rate: $12.50 | Hours per week: 10
On Campus
View job posting
Dear Students,
Do you feel that museums do not speak to your experience – or "got it wrong"?
Get paid to be an art critic for the day! No art or museum background required. Join Professor Karen Kurczynski and Sid Ferreira from Student Affairs one evening this fall for a small group dialogue about art, museums, and belonging in the University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) at UMASS. Apply online by filling out a 2-minute questionnaire.
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 29th or Wednesday, Nov. 20th
Time: 5:30 – 8 pm. Free dinner provided.
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (entrance in the basement of the Fine Arts Center, at the south end of the pond)
Stipend: $30
This project is supported by a Campus Climate Improvement Grant, the Department of Art History and Architecture, and the UMCA
Blacklist Journal-Brandeis University
Blacklist Journal is currently seeking submissions from talented student writers and artists in graduate and undergraduate programs across the country. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to have their works published.
We are a student-run publication seeking work that balances clarity, experimentation, and bite. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and all forms of visual art that can be rendered in a 2-D still or moving format.
Submissions are due October 31, 2019, before midnight.
