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Newsletter - 10/04
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Announcements | Department of Art, UMass, and Five College Art Events
Continuing Notable Events | Art Education News | Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
Young Min Moon, Professor in the Department of Art, is a recipient of the 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant!
More about Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, (including the full list of recipients)
Announcements
Registration Advising and Studio Applications coming up soon!
Information about the Department of Art Advising Fair will be sent out to student's email later this month. Studio application information will be sent in November. Both announcements will be announced in the newsletter, as well.
Department of Art, UMass, and Five College Art Events
Forever Young
Featuring work by Cynthia Consentino
This exhibition examines portrayals of childhood and youth from the 18th century to the present. Since the dawn of American portraiture, children have been a popular subject for paintings and photographs. Representing children is not only about capturing a likeness, but also about portraying childhood as symbolic of innocence, transition, growth, awakening, mortality, youth, education, and freedom or abandon.
October 5 - December 31
Opening Reception: October 4, 5 - 7 pm
Newport Art Museum
Avital Sagalyn: A Life of Exploration
This exhibition, researched and curated by a team of three UMass Art History students, provides a glimpse into the range of Sagalyn’s work and rich cultural history. Sagalyn and her family fled the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940 and settled in New York. She was among few women in the Manhattan art scene of the 1950s. After moving to Amherst in 1968, she helped select the first director of the Fine Arts Center.
Oct 4 – Dec 8, 2019
Reception for the Artist: Oct 3, 5:00 – 8:00
UMCA
20th Annual Mark Roskill Symposium
The 20th annual Mark Roskill Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the UMass Art History Graduate Program and ask the question: how does thinking the "global" allow us to position ourselves outside of mainstream art histories and perhaps give us leverage to reconsider those very histories? Alumnae of the UMass Art History Department will join in for a roundtable discussion. Refreshments will be available. This event is free and open to the public.
Saturday, October 5, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Old Chapel, Great Hall, UMass Amherst Campus
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
Games of Chance
Erika Radich & Rocío Olguín
Erika Radich started drawing as a child. It was her parents' bold aesthetics and joy in "seeing" that nurtured a fascination with the world just as it is. Having always felt a sense of wonder with how things connect, and how beauty, proportion, and composition exist everywhere in the natural world, it is this thread between art and science that inspires and guides all of her work.
Rocío Olguín is a visual artist born in Mexico City, with professional training in Graphic Design. From an early age she developed her painting skills by attending various workshops and art schools, with the San Carlos Academy being her main influence.
October 8 - 29
Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 8, 5 - 7 pm
Augusta Savage Gallery
Oddtopsy
Elena Olson
Artist in residence alumna Elena Olson was invited to feature her work in progress on the Wall@SAB. Her work, a photo/print based installation, will continue to be installed through to the closing date.
On display through Sunday, October 27
Closing Reception: Sunday, October 27, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Wall @ SAB
Studio Arts Building Commons
Art Education News
Molding Young Minds
BFA Art Education students created work that they will be teaching their K-12 students, and displayed it throughout the Studio Arts Building.
Students made the artwork with found or free materials. Amazing!
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
Latchhooking
Chaehee Yoon and Xuan Pham
Continues in the Commons @ SAB until finished, on Fridays, 12 - 4 pm.
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
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)
SCREEN2019: CLIMATES
Program II
September 24 - October 15
M - F, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
SAB Commons
Cycles : Leonardo Drew
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
September 20 - December 8
UMCA
Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities
HFA Here to Career ("H2C") Series
The Fall 2019 HFA Here to Career ("H2C") Series, hosted by the College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA), is a six week career and internship-skills workshop series geared toward HFA students that teaches students strategies to help successfully navigate the job/internship search and application process. Free dinner is provided at every session and students who attend all six sessions are eligible to receive a $20 Gift Card and Certificate of Completion.
The H2C Series meets every Wednesday
from September 25, 2019 to October 30, from 5:30-7:30 pm
South College E470.
Students of all majors are welcome. Students can register by completing this
registration form .
John Wilmerding Internship
National Gallery of Art
Applications are now open for John Wilmerding Internships for 2020-2021. The John Wilmerding Fund for Education in American Art supports two internships - one in American art and one in digital interpretation. These programs are focused on providing institutional training to students who are interested in pursuing a museum career. Both programs will run for 9 months in Washington, D.C.
Apply for John Wilmerding Internship
The Artifice
The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, Anime, Comics, Literature, Games, and Arts. It is collaboratively built and maintained by the writers. The platform has an established audience of millions. We are currently expanding and we would like to provide an opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to join our team of writers. Our writers range from undergraduates to emeritus professors.
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.
