Announcements
MICA GRAD SHOW 2015
Last chance to view the Graduate Thesis Work!
Exhibition Closes Sunday, May 3rd
The Office of Community Engagement has compiled a list of public events, organizations and resources for students to get involved in light of this week's riots, peaceful marches, and Baltimore community coming together happening this weekend. Download here. Copies available in the Grad Office
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
MICA MASTER's Benefit Art Sale
Saturday, May 16th, 12-4pm @ Lazarus Center
Friday 5/1 // Power / Equity Forum
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Friday 5/1
3-5pm Lazarus Center, room L109 |
Power & Equity Forum at MICA invites you to join the discussion among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff to create a more inclusive campus at MICA. Our goals are to identify and make recommendations to inform a college-wide, multi-year initiative to promote a more equitable, diverse, and reflective place of learning at MICA.
You are invited to join us and contribute to advancing the conversation to make this institution more equitable and supportive of all its constituents. |
GRAD EX: RECEPTION
Eric Elmasian Borja
LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, MFA '16
Reception 5/2, 7pm
Great White Wall Gallery, Gateway Building
RESCHEDULED
3RD ANNUAL / MA in Critical Studies Symposium
NEW DATE - Mary 16th, 10am - 4:30pm
The Walters Art Museum
Narratives of Modernity, Contemporaneity, and Desire is a symposium devoted to a consideration of important points in our cultural past and present, with the aim of better understanding critical discourse in the arts and, more generally, the world around us. How have artists, writers, and activists employed narrative strategies in creating particular effects, or achieving certain goals? And how, in the process, has their work contributed to or challenged notions of modernism, history, and humanity?
A series of 20-minute talks will be followed by a keynote lecture by the poet and actor David Yezzi, as well as a summary discussion of the symposium's theme.
The Walters Art Museum
Narratives of Modernity, Contemporaneity, and Desire is a symposium devoted to a consideration of important points in our cultural past and present, with the aim of better understanding critical discourse in the arts and, more generally, the world around us. How have artists, writers, and activists employed narrative strategies in creating particular effects, or achieving certain goals? And how, in the process, has their work contributed to or challenged notions of modernism, history, and humanity?
A series of 20-minute talks will be followed by a keynote lecture by the poet and actor David Yezzi, as well as a summary discussion of the symposium's theme.
Social Design Exchange
In solidarity with our colleagues, community partners and neighbors who are immersed in Baltimore’s urgent struggle for social and racial justice, the Social Design Exchange will not happen as planned.
Instead, we, the MA in Social Design Class of 2015, are dedicating our collective energy to support current efforts across the city. Our class has spent this year working to understand social justice issues in Baltimore. We recognize that now is a crucial moment for action.
Many of you are already actively involved in this work, and we are humbled and inspired by you.
For those who are interested in learning more, offering support or taking action, we have assembled a list of resources below.
We are still eager to share our individual thesis work with you, and will do so at a later date.
Thank you for your support,
MA in Social Design (MASD) Class of ’15
Center for Social Design Associates, Fellows, Faculty & Directors
Instead, we, the MA in Social Design Class of 2015, are dedicating our collective energy to support current efforts across the city. Our class has spent this year working to understand social justice issues in Baltimore. We recognize that now is a crucial moment for action.
Many of you are already actively involved in this work, and we are humbled and inspired by you.
For those who are interested in learning more, offering support or taking action, we have assembled a list of resources below.
We are still eager to share our individual thesis work with you, and will do so at a later date.
Thank you for your support,
MA in Social Design (MASD) Class of ’15
Center for Social Design Associates, Fellows, Faculty & Directors
MAY 6 - May 10 // MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL @ LAZARUS CENTER
Lazarus EAST PARKING LOT will be CLOSED May 6 - May 11
Free TICKETS to screenings w/ MICA ID
The 2015 Maryland Film Festival will be on the MICA campus from May 6 -10, 2015.
Events and screening locations on Campus will be in Brown Center Atrium and Falvey Hall, Gateway BBOX and the Lazarus Center Auditorium.
The Film Festival’s Tent City will be in the Lazarus Center East parking lot (the lot nearest Maryland Avenue). The East Lot will be closed Wednesday, May 6th through Monday, May 11th.
The Lazarus Center West parking lot (by Joe Squared), the Falls Road Parking Lot, and the new Maryland Avenue parking lot will remain reserved for the MICA community. You must have a valid MICA parking permit to park in these parking lots. In the Maryland Avenue lot, you may only park in spaces marked "MICA." Please see the attached updated Graduate Parking Map for parking lot locations.
Because of MICA’s involvement with the Film Festival, you are entitled to a free ticket to any screening at any Film Festival venue with a valid MICA ID as long as there is available seating. You may use your ID to see one or many films. This offer excludes Opening night, closing night and the 7PM screenings in Falvey Hall on Friday & Saturdaynight. For more information and a schedule of the films, please visit www.mdfilmfest.com.
We realize that this is a very busy time of year for you, but hopefully you can take the time to see a movie or two in what promises to be a great festival.
MICA's Office of Events thanks you for your support of this important community event.
Events and screening locations on Campus will be in Brown Center Atrium and Falvey Hall, Gateway BBOX and the Lazarus Center Auditorium.
The Film Festival’s Tent City will be in the Lazarus Center East parking lot (the lot nearest Maryland Avenue). The East Lot will be closed Wednesday, May 6th through Monday, May 11th.
The Lazarus Center West parking lot (by Joe Squared), the Falls Road Parking Lot, and the new Maryland Avenue parking lot will remain reserved for the MICA community. You must have a valid MICA parking permit to park in these parking lots. In the Maryland Avenue lot, you may only park in spaces marked "MICA." Please see the attached updated Graduate Parking Map for parking lot locations.
Because of MICA’s involvement with the Film Festival, you are entitled to a free ticket to any screening at any Film Festival venue with a valid MICA ID as long as there is available seating. You may use your ID to see one or many films. This offer excludes Opening night, closing night and the 7PM screenings in Falvey Hall on Friday & Saturdaynight. For more information and a schedule of the films, please visit www.mdfilmfest.com.
We realize that this is a very busy time of year for you, but hopefully you can take the time to see a movie or two in what promises to be a great festival.
MICA's Office of Events thanks you for your support of this important community event.
Friday, May 15th // MICA GRAD PICNIC
Come enjoy a final celebration with your graduating classmates right after the MANDATORY COMMENCEMENT MEETING.
Open to graduate students, close friends and family.
MICA GRAD PICNIC
Friday, May 15th
6-9pm
Cohen Plaza
FREE food and drinks!
(for meat eaters and vegetarians alike)
Food will be provided by BIG BAD WOLF's House of BBQ and PARKHURST CATERING.
Extended Hours Coffee Kickoff // Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays until May 7th!
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Time is flying by and it's already our end-of-semester extended hours! To commemorate our first late night, come study, have a cup or coffee or tea, and maybe try a healthy snack (or reward your good study habits and healthy eating with a brownie).
Extended hours schedule, April 20 - May 7, 2015: Monday - Thursday 8:30 am - 11:00 pm Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Saturday - Sunday 12 noon - 7:00 pm |
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May 14th - May 19th // MAT - The Student Teacher Showcase Exhibit
The Student Teacher Showcase Exhibit will be on display in:
Riggs/Leidy Galleries, Lazarus Center
Thursday, May 14th -- Tuesday May 19th
Featuring our MAT students' work (artwork, teaching portfolios, research), their art units via the work of their K-12 students, and information about their growth as teachers.
Riggs/Leidy Galleries, Lazarus Center
Thursday, May 14th -- Tuesday May 19th
Featuring our MAT students' work (artwork, teaching portfolios, research), their art units via the work of their K-12 students, and information about their growth as teachers.
MICA GRAD SHOW 2015
Student Gallery Talks
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Curatorial Practice, MFA
Monday, May 4, 6pm A summary of Curatorial Practice thesis work Fred Lazarus IV Center, Room 109 Mount Royal School of Art, MFA Thesis Presentations: Tuesday, May 5, 1pm - 7pm and Wednesday, May 6, 9am - 1:30pm Fred Lazarus IV Center Auditorium |
Illustration Practice
Thesis Presentations: Monday, May 4, 9am- 3pm with Guest Critics Len Small, art director/Nautilus Magazine, and Jaime Zollars, illustrator Fred Lazarus IV Center Auditorium Illustration Practice Thesis Presentations: Thursday, May 7, 9am- 3pm with Guest Critics Paul Hoppe, graphic novel illustrator/writer, and Natalie Ascencios, painter and illustrator Main Building, Room 110 |
Workshops
Sunday, May 3rd // # Pirate Radio
(OluShola Cole '15 Mount Royal School of Art, MFA) &
PAUL RUCKER (Artist-in-Residence)
@ Red Emma's Bookstore
May 3rd 6pm - Paul Rucker (Visual Artist & Cellist) For more information on Cole's work: www.piratehaterjenny.com |
Please join us at Red Emmas Bookstore & Coffeeshop:
May 3rd 6pm - Paul Rucker (Visual Artist & Cellist) #PirateRadio is an experimental and interdisciplinary performance using installation, movement, spoken word and sound. It is the most recent approach of artist Shola Cole's work Jenny.Was.A.Pirate.Hater reflecting on her personal experience, history's pirates, their turf and working collusions with slaves during the Golden Age of Piracy and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Part talk show, part installation and full homage to the works of artists Nina Simone, Sparrow, Brecht, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya and Kathy Acker and others, #PirateRadio features Cole's time traveling alter ego Pirate Jenny and fellow collaborator and sound artist Mark Gunnery. Highlighting Baltimore based activists and artists against a backdrop of ambient sound, topics and conversations will revolve around historic pirate and slave interactions in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay area, with room to discuss those dynamics locally and nationally in the 21st century. |
MFA in Community Arts @ MICA PLACE
POWER Speaker Series
Critique of Richard Florida’s Creative Class (rescheduled from March 3)
with Dominic Moulden
Tuesday, May 5, 7-9 PM (free and open to the public)
MICA PLACE
The rise and fall of Richard Florida's Creative Class — a critique and reflection by community organizer Dominic Moulden on the role of the arts and the evolution of a community's local economy. What is the creative class? How and why did this theory become relevant? Is the creative class another way to displace, dispossess and dispose of the indigenous artist?
Ending Installment (rescheduled):
PODEROSAS: A Chat with Maria Gabriela Aldana & Guests
Tuesday, May 12, 7-9 PM (free and open to the public)
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave, 21224
A conversation to discuss the development of Latin American female leaders in Southeast Baltimore, where 30% of the community is Hispanic. Maria Gabriela Aldana invites women of Hispanic descent with multiple identities and races, to speak about how we identify ourselves, or not, to obtain power. We will discuss opportunities, competition amongst ourselves and how we can support one another through unity. Workshop is FREE and childcare is available. Bring a dish to share, such as fruit, tamales, or vegetables. Conversation will be in Spanish with interpretation for English speakers available. Men and all races are welcome! Please register with Creative Alliance at 410-276-1651 or email info@creativealliance.org
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The POWER Speaker Series addresses the concept and reality of "power” — that which impacts us all…all over the world. This 15-week investigation provides a uniquely civil, yet “aggressive” investigation addressing a myriad of power-related topics, issues and perspectives. Hosted by the MFA in Community Arts at MICA PLACE at 814 North Collington Avenue in East Baltimore, everyone is welcome to contribute as part of this inclusive set of discussions.
with Dominic Moulden
Tuesday, May 5, 7-9 PM (free and open to the public)
MICA PLACE
The rise and fall of Richard Florida's Creative Class — a critique and reflection by community organizer Dominic Moulden on the role of the arts and the evolution of a community's local economy. What is the creative class? How and why did this theory become relevant? Is the creative class another way to displace, dispossess and dispose of the indigenous artist?
Ending Installment (rescheduled):
PODEROSAS: A Chat with Maria Gabriela Aldana & Guests
Tuesday, May 12, 7-9 PM (free and open to the public)
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave, 21224
A conversation to discuss the development of Latin American female leaders in Southeast Baltimore, where 30% of the community is Hispanic. Maria Gabriela Aldana invites women of Hispanic descent with multiple identities and races, to speak about how we identify ourselves, or not, to obtain power. We will discuss opportunities, competition amongst ourselves and how we can support one another through unity. Workshop is FREE and childcare is available. Bring a dish to share, such as fruit, tamales, or vegetables. Conversation will be in Spanish with interpretation for English speakers available. Men and all races are welcome! Please register with Creative Alliance at 410-276-1651 or email info@creativealliance.org
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The POWER Speaker Series addresses the concept and reality of "power” — that which impacts us all…all over the world. This 15-week investigation provides a uniquely civil, yet “aggressive” investigation addressing a myriad of power-related topics, issues and perspectives. Hosted by the MFA in Community Arts at MICA PLACE at 814 North Collington Avenue in East Baltimore, everyone is welcome to contribute as part of this inclusive set of discussions.
MFA in Community Arts (MFACA)
CANNED FOOD DRIVE
“Baltimore’s Mother Theresa,” Bea Gaddy fed over 100,000 people in her lifetime…HOW MANY CAN WE FEED?
Please bring canned foods when visiting MFACA’s Thesis Show, Decker Gallery, Fox Building, MICA Main Campus
Friday, April 17-May 3, 2015
In honor of the late Bea Gaddy, MICA MFA in Community Arts student Ali Duggan is holding a campus wide canned good drive. All canned goods will be collected as part of her thesis exhibition in Decker Gallery.
All canned goods will be delivered to the Bea Gaddy Family Center at the end of the exhibition.
Please bring canned foods when visiting MFACA’s Thesis Show, Decker Gallery, Fox Building, MICA Main Campus
Friday, April 17-May 3, 2015
In honor of the late Bea Gaddy, MICA MFA in Community Arts student Ali Duggan is holding a campus wide canned good drive. All canned goods will be collected as part of her thesis exhibition in Decker Gallery.
All canned goods will be delivered to the Bea Gaddy Family Center at the end of the exhibition.
Professional Opportunities
TAHA HERYDARI '17 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, MFA) Show in NYC!
TAHA HERYDARI: See Something Say Something
Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present TAHA HEYDARI: See Something Say Something featuring Iranian artist Taha Heydari.
The exhibition will run from April 16th to May 30th , 2015.
Ethan Cohen New York
251 W 19th St
New York, NY 10011
www.ecfa.com
Taha Heydari’s works deconstruct the process by which media images, most associated with the Middle East, seduce the unwary into joining violent groups. The particular fluency of Middle East radicalism in the use of such methods has made the phenomenon a universal concern and Heydari explores the esthetic terrain of their propaganda. Heydari was trained in the art of miniature painting in Iran. He brings his highly-sensitized eye to the glossy post-modern palette of images generated by electronic screens, today’s equivalent of recruitment posters. He harvests into collages the kind of morally toxic, deceptively banal, visual junk that feeds the region’s wars with subliminal messages. Always ambivalent, suggestive, mysterious, his works invite the viewer to decipher, to look again and see the shiny visual poison at work, the slippery image-seduction of propaganda. In short, he asks us to be conscious of the process.
The exhibition will run from April 16th to May 30th , 2015.
Ethan Cohen New York
251 W 19th St
New York, NY 10011
www.ecfa.com
Taha Heydari’s works deconstruct the process by which media images, most associated with the Middle East, seduce the unwary into joining violent groups. The particular fluency of Middle East radicalism in the use of such methods has made the phenomenon a universal concern and Heydari explores the esthetic terrain of their propaganda. Heydari was trained in the art of miniature painting in Iran. He brings his highly-sensitized eye to the glossy post-modern palette of images generated by electronic screens, today’s equivalent of recruitment posters. He harvests into collages the kind of morally toxic, deceptively banal, visual junk that feeds the region’s wars with subliminal messages. Always ambivalent, suggestive, mysterious, his works invite the viewer to decipher, to look again and see the shiny visual poison at work, the slippery image-seduction of propaganda. In short, he asks us to be conscious of the process.
The 2015 BAU Otranto Summer Residency for Arts and Culture
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K-Town Studios AVAILABLE
There will be two studio spaces opening up on June 1 and if you are interested or know of anyone who is looking for studio space, please have that person email me. Thanks for passing on the word to interested parties.
2nd Floor, shared public bathrooms studio 1 : 300 Plus square feet, windows on two sides of the walls studio 2 : 150 Plus square feet, windows on two sides of the walls K-Town Studios 100 West 22nd Street Baltimore MD 21218 http://bmoreart.com/2014/07/living-with-art-k-town-studios.html https://www.facebook.com/ktownstudios Information I would need in the email: Full Name and email Interested in which size space On-line art portfolio or images of work / resume Sincerely Mina Cheon minacheon@gmail.com |
NOW LEASING-- Micro Studios at The Motor House
Micro Studios at The Motor HouseBaltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) is currently leasing 8 micro studios available on the second floor ofThe Motor House (120 W North Ave.) starting in November 2015. This is a great opportunity to join a community of multidisciplinary artists and nonprofits in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District.
MORE INFORMATION ON STUDIOS AND FLOOR PLANS
Micro Studios at The Motor HouseBaltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) is currently leasing 8 micro studios available on the second floor ofThe Motor House (120 W North Ave.) starting in November 2015. This is a great opportunity to join a community of multidisciplinary artists and nonprofits in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District.
MORE INFORMATION ON STUDIOS AND FLOOR PLANS
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Call for curatorial proposals for the 2016 and 2017 Impakt Festival
www.impakt.nl Submission dates Deadline: 25 May 2015 Notification: 25 June 2015 Residency opportunities for summer retreat in Greece http://www.irisartcentre.com/#!becoming-an-artist/csi4
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Wohnungsfrage AcademyThe Housing System October 22–28, 2015 Open call deadline: June 1, 2015 Haus der Kulturen der Welt housing@hkw.de www.hkw.de
DAVE BOWN PROJECTS
10th Semiannual Competition Prospectus info@davebownprojects.com Deadline: June 6, 2015 Nida Art Colony (Vilnius Academy of Arts)Call for applications: Climbing Invisible Structures Deadline: 24 May 2015 Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Art www.nidacolony.lt |
Mark your Calendar!
May 8 // Research Remix2-4pm JHU Mattin Arts Center, Off of Lower Lobby (JHU Homewood Campus, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, Current MICA students are invited to apply to be InterLink Assistants during the 2015-16 year. InterLink Assistants will work with International Affairs at MICA, providing cultural, academic, and practical and organizational resources to international students. InterLink Assistants will work out of the International Affairs reception area as they create resources and plan events for the MICA international student community. Positions are available for undergraduate and graduate students. Please see the attached job descriptions for further information. To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, and the contact information for three references to internationalaffairs@mica.edu by May 1, 2015 JOB DESCRIPTION |
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