1:00 – 5:00pm  Thesis Talks, Lazarus Center Auditorium
5:15 – 6:00pm Ceremony, Lazarus Center Auditorium
6:00 – 7:00pm Reception, Riggs & Leidy Galleries

All events free and open to the public.

Friday, 7/31
Reception, 5-7 pm
Riggs/Leidy Galleries
Lazarus Center, First Floor

TODAY, July 23
5-6:30pm
Lazarus Center Auditorium
Lazarus Center, 1st Floor
Sponsored by the MFA in Studio Art

Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor who works both independently and collaboratively. She often assumes curatorial and editorial roles as forms of artistic practice. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics and frequently engages historical inquiry. Ault's recent exhibitions include Afterlife: a constellation, for the 2014 Whitney Biennial; the collaboration Macho Man Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Artists Space, New York, 2013–14, (and Museum für Gegenwarts-kunst Basel; Culturgest, Lisbon, 2013); and “Ever Ephemeral, Remembering and Forgetting in the Archive,” Signal and Inter Arts Center, Malmö, 2011. Ault’s edited and authored publications include: Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, (2013); (FC) Two Cabins by James Benning (2011); Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (2010); Felix Gonzalez-Torres, (2006); Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita (2006); and Alternative Art New York 1965–1985 (2002). In 1979 Ault cofounded Group Material, whose practice explored the relationship between art, activism, and politics until disbanding in 1996. Ault teaches on a visiting basis, including in the Social Practice MFA program at Portland State University, OR. 

Thursday, July 27
5-6:30pm
Lazarus Center Auditorium
Lazarus Center, 1st Floor
Sponsored by the MFA in Studio Art

Michael Bramwell is visual artist and writer whose practice spans over two decades of conceptually-based, socially-engaged work. At the center of his artistic program are paintings, drawings, performances and new genre public art works that explore historical memory, freedom and ethical consciousness. Bramwell was born in the post-war Bronx, New York in 1953 and raised in Harlem. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology/Sociology from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, a Master of Arts from Columbia University in Special Education, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an alumnus of MoMA P.S.1 National and International Studio Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. His work has been exhibited at the Neuberger Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Portland Museum of Art, Ackland Art Museum, New Museum, International Print Center New York, Sotheby’s, and the Jack Tilton Gallery. Bramwell’s work is supported by fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council and the New York Foundation for the Arts among others. Bramwell is a volunteer researcher at the Marina Abramovic Institute and supports Cancer research and AIDS treatment with the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA). His work is represented in public and private collections including: New School University, Davis Museum, Jersey City Museum, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the International Print Center New York. Michael Bramwell lives and works in North Carolina.

Graduate Research Development Grants are designed to further new research and creative projects for graduate students by providing funds up to $500 on a competitive basis. Grants are made possible through funds from the Office of Research and a percentage of the proceeds of the Master's Benefit Art Sale, an annual sale of graduate student art work.

For grant proposal guidelines and submission process, visit the Graduate Research Development Grant info page!

If you missed the opening reception Wednesday, be sure to come by Riggs & Leidy Galleries this weekend to take a look at the MFA Studio Art 2nd & 3rd Year show! There is some great work on display by returning Studio Art students from the Classes of 2017 and 2018.

John Rajchman is a philosopher who has written extensively on contemporary art and architecture. Professor Rajchman is Director of Modern Art M.A. Programs in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has previously taught at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, and The Cooper Union, among others. He is a Contributing Editor for Artforum and is on the board of Critical Space. He is a co-editor, with Etienne Balibar and Anne Boyman, of French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions (The New Press). His other books include The Deleuze Connections, Truth and Eros, Foucault, Lacan and the Question of Ethics, and Constructions, Rendre la terre légère, The Identity in Question, Philosophical Events: Essays of the '80s, Le Savoir-faire avec l'inconscient : éthique et psychanalyse, Post-analytic Philosophy (1985) editor with Cornel West, and Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy. He lives in New York City.

Staurday, 7/18
6-7:30pm
Lazarus Center Auditorium
Lazarus Center, 1st Floor
Open to the Public

Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor who works both independently and collaboratively. She often assumes curatorial and editorial roles as forms of artistic practice. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics and frequently engages historical inquiry. Ault's recent exhibitions include Afterlife: a constellation, for the 2014 Whitney Biennial; the collaboration Macho Man Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Artists Space, New York, 2013–14, (and Museum für Gegenwarts-kunst Basel; Culturgest, Lisbon, 2013); and “Ever Ephemeral, Remembering and Forgetting in the Archive,” Signal and Inter Arts Center, Malmö, 2011. Ault’s edited and authored publications include: Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, (2013); (FC) Two Cabins by James Benning (2011); Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (2010); Felix Gonzalez-Torres, (2006); Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita (2006); and Alternative Art New York 1965–1985 (2002). In 1979 Ault cofounded Group Material, whose practice explored the relationship between art, activism, and politics until disbanding in 1996. Ault teaches on a visiting basis, including in the Social Practice MFA program at Portland State University, OR. 

Michael Bramwell is visual artist and writer whose practice spans over two decades of conceptually-based, socially-engaged work. At the center of his artistic program are paintings, drawings, performances and new genre public art works that explore historical memory, freedom and ethical consciousness. Bramwell was born in the post-war Bronx, New York in 1953 and raised in Harlem. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology/Sociology from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, a Master of Arts from Columbia University in Special Education, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an alumnus of MoMA P.S.1 National and International Studio Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. His work has been exhibited at the Neuberger Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Portland Museum of Art, Ackland Art Museum, New Museum, International Print Center New York, Sotheby’s, and the Jack Tilton Gallery. Bramwell’s work is supported by fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council and the New York Foundation for the Arts among others. Bramwell is a volunteer researcher at the Marina Abramovic Institute and supports Cancer research and AIDS treatment with the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA). His work is represented in public and private collections including: New School University, Davis Museum, Jersey City Museum, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the International Print Center New York. Michael Bramwell lives and works in North Carolina.