Graduate News

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MICA Writing Studio "Drop In" in the Lazarus Building

Tuesdays & Fridays, October 27 - December 12, 2017
12:30pm - 2:30pm
​Lazarus Center L070

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Rinehart School of Sculpture's Fall Show

Opening: Friday, November 3 @ 5PM
Location: Fox 3 Gallery
On View: November 3 - November 19
Featuring:
HUNTER BOEH
SERA BOENO
DALILA BROOKS
ALEXANDRA GREEN
CHUXI GUO
CLAIRE LYNCH
RYAN LYTLE
CYNTHIA O’NEILL
CEVAHİR ÖZDOĞAN
JOSHUA PYBURN
ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ MEDRANO
YU LI SUNG
CRISTAL TADEO
XUN WANG

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PHOTOGRAPHIC AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA Fall Show 

Opening: Friday, November 3 @ 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: RIGGS-LEIDY GALLERIES | FRED LAZARUS IV CENTER 
On View: November 3 - November 19
MONDAY - FRIDAY 10AM - 5PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12PM - 5PM 

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FRANCES BARTH| NEW PAINTINGS 2011-2017

Silas von Morisse gallery
Opening Reception
Saturday,  November 4, 2017 
3:00p - 5:00p
Showing through December 17, 2017
​app.robly.com/archive?id=146ad9fdf40745d45d45d893ba0b041b&v=true

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Amy Wetsch (Mt. Royal '19) featured in upcoming GradEx Solo Exhibition!

Entangled Systems
On view: Friday, October 27, 2017 - Thursday, November 9, 2017
Fred Lazarus IV Studio Center Hallway

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Pie Party Poster! Open Call for Designers!

Grad Pie Party, our annual holiday party and pie baking contest, is approaching soon! And, while the bakers are busy baking their award winning pies, we are calling out designers to create a mouthwatering poster for the event! And we would be offering $100 for the final poster design.
If interested, please fill out this google form by Sunday, 11/5, 23:59. Be sure to attach a link to your online portfolio. We would be reviewing all the applications and will get back to you by 11/9.
Link: https://goo.gl/forms/hMfijv2G0meUpZZb2
Happy baking everyone!

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​The American Visionary Art Museum

Reverend Albert Lee Wagner: Miracle At Midnight
Tuesday, November 7, 10:30am–12pm

The American Visionary Art Museum would like to invite you to a free lecture at AVAM on Tuesday, November 7, 10:30am–12pm. It's on the first national retrospective of the Reverend Albert Lee Wagner’s work. Born in the south to sharecroppers, it was when his family moved to Ohio that he finally felt the freedom to paint “story pictures” about the horrors of racism and prejudice that he had witnessed in Arkansas. Accompanied by his handwritten testimony, his work provides rich visual testimony to a life begun amidst dire poverty, to one that devolved into excess and lust, and finally one that attained spiritual peace and a love for all humanity. 
www.facebook.com/events/276850486165188
​avam.org/exhibitions/Reverend-Wagner-Miracle-At-Midnight.shtml

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Student Advisory Group, November 10th - RSVP

The Office of Graduate Studies would like to invite your participation this semester in the Graduate Student Advisory Group. We look forward to continuing the constructive dialog with you about new graduate studies initiatives. Your perspectives and ideas have been invaluable and have greatly informed our thinking and approaches to what we do in graduate education. 

​Please plan to join us! We will serve lunch. 
Our first meeting is Friday, November 10th from 12PM - 1:30PM.

The agenda for the first meeting is to review and get your feedback on:

• Graduate Studies Mission and Vision
• Graduate Orientation programming

Please RSVP to let me know if you plan to attend!

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​WORKSHOPS

Thursday, 11.02.17

Reading Group Sessions
2:00-3:00 PM, Lazarus Center, L070

Every Thursday during the semester, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Led by Sukyun Weaver Launching this fall for anyone wanting extra reading support, participants can bring in readings and be guided through topics such as approaching dense texts, formulating discussion topics, mastering vocabulary, and making connections. Reading sessions will be held in Lazarus Room 070 every Thursday from 2 pm - 3 pm. These open drop-in sessions require no advanced registration. Designed for English Language Learners, these sessions are open to everyone. For more information or questions, please contact: Sukyun Weaver, English Language Learning Specialist, sweaver@mica.edu.

Intro to Processing

Grad Lab Workshop
7:30-10:30 PM, Lazarus Center, 5th floor

Ever been interested in learning an object oriented programming language? Created for artists, Processing is great introduction to computer programming. Whether you are creating highly intricate computer illustration or making interactive sound and video works, Processing provides a way to dip into any of these possibilities while learning a simple but expandable programming language, and its free! No experience necessary.
*** It is highly recommended that you attend both the processing and electronics workshops before attending the Physical Interface Workshop
​http://graduate.mica.edu/lab/Workshops

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North Avenue Knowledge Exchange Day!

Free Workshops, Community Connections, and Creative Expression 
11/04/17 | 10am​ ​-​ ​6pm

Saturday, November 4th,​ ​2017​, Station North Arts & Entertainment District will transform with the activity of nearly​ ​50​ ​workshops​, all of which are FREE​ and open​ ​to​ ​the​ ​public​. The day will be filled with classes covering Health & Wellness, Visual & Performing Arts, Social Justice & Advocacy, and Entrepreneurship & Professional Development. Venues include: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), The Baltimore Free School, Impact Hub, and the Ynot Lot, among others. Attendees will also enjoy assorted entertainment and plenty of opportunities to form meaningful connections.  Join us by signing up for workshops at http://www.nakexchange.org/courses

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VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

Chris Sickels / Red Nose Studio (ILP) | 11.02.17

Thursday, November, 2, 2017
12:15-1:15 PM 
Lazarus Auditorium (L115)​ 

Chris Sickels grew up on a small family farm where working hard was the only option, things had to be fixed with what was on hand. Now he creates 3D illustration and stop-motion animation with what is at arms reach here in the studio. His work has been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, with three golds and a silver medals from the Society of Illustrators/NY. His stop-motion animated films have screened at various festivals including LA International Short Film Festival and Montreal Stop-Motion Film Festival, and he has authored and illustrated The Look Book, Here Comes The Garbage Barge, The Beginner’s Guide to Running Away From Home, and The Secret Subway. This Lunchtime Lecture is sponsored by MICA's MFA in Illustration Practice. Illustration Practice, MFA

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Jason Fulford & Tamara Shopsin (GDMFA) |11.03.17

Friday, November 3, 2017
3:30pm- 4:30pm
Brown 413

JASON FULFORD and TAMARA SHOPSIN. Jason is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the United States, in Japan, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Spain. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), and Contains: 3 Books (2016). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children, This Equals That (2014), and co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014). Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors. Tamara is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work is regularly featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is the author of two memoirs: Mumbai New York Scranton and Arbitrary Stupid Goal. She is also designer of the 5 Year Diary, co-author with Jason Fulford of the photobook for children, This Equals That and a cook at her family’s restaurant in New York City.
Graphic Design, MFA
Post Baccalaureate Graphic Design, GD BFA

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Vincent Desiderio | 11.06.17

Monday, November 6, 2017
12:00pm- 1:00pm
Falvey Hall

DRW - GFA - PTG Presents Artists at Noon Vincent desiderio was born in 1955. He graduated from Haverford College in 1977 and later attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he is a Senior Critic. He is also a Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities both here and abroad, most recently at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China. He lives and works in New York. Desiderio has received several grants and painting awards among which are the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Two National Endowment for the Arts Grants -1987 and 1991and the Grand Prize of S.A.S. Prince Ranier III, Thirtieth Annual Show of Contemporary Art in Monte-Carlo, Monaco in 1996. He was the first American to receive that award. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from both the New York Academy of Art and the Lyme Academy. In 2007 Desiderio was invited to be Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College. His work can be found in many important public collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Numerous articles about Vincent Desiderio have appeared in periodicals and magazines including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, The Village Voice, the New York Post, The New York Sun, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquire, Le Figaro, American Art (Smithsonian Publication), Comparative Literature (University of Oregon) and others. In 2005, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers published a major monograph devoted to his oeuvre, Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005, with significant texts by Mia Fineman, Donald Kuspit, Barry Schwabsky and Lawrence Weschler http://www.vincent-desiderio.com/

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​Catherine Howe (Hoff) | 11.07.17

Tuesday, November 7, 2017
10:30am- 12:00pm
Lazarus Auditorium (L 115)

"Catherine Howe Capsule Bio 
Catherine Howe's lush, densely layered paintings overflow with sensuous color. Forms from nature emerge from her expressionistic brushwork, balancing abstraction and representation. The author, Michèle C. Cone observes: ""Though Catherine Howe takes her motifs from the Continental tradition of nature morte, her transpositions are anything but static, her images swarm, boil over with energy, sensuality, abundance, and warmth. Her reds are hot, but so are her blues, and her blacks.... Maybe Howe’s evocative paintings are not about still life per se, but about the naming of things transposed into paint, and the magical interaction between medium, memory and perception."" 
Born in Western New York in 1959, Catherine Howe received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo in 1983. The many publications that have reviewed her work include Art in America, Artforum, Art Critical, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times. Howe has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe for over twenty years, including shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, MoMA PS 1 in New York, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Recent gallery representation includes: Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles; Lesley Heller Workspace, New York; and William Shearburn Gallery, St Louis. Howe lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley." 

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, MFA

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ALUMNI NEWS

Shrink Ganatra, (MFA17)

An interview with Shrenik Ganatra MFA17 was posted on The Design Kids. (thanks for the MICA shout outs.)

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OPPORTUNITIES

MAAE Winter/Spring GPA Graduate Program Assistant!

The MA in Art Education is seeking a Graduate Program Assistant position for Spring 2018.  Candidates for this position will need to be available during the MLK Winter Session, January 10-15.  The schedule for the rest of the spring semester is flexible and negotiable.

The successful candidate for this position should be:

• Proactive
• Organized
• Familiar with a fast paced administrative environment
• Familiar with MS Office
• Familiar with Adobe Creative Suite 
• Able to work independently
• Exhibit excellent interpersonal skills

Valued, but not required:

• Knowledge of Adobe Connect
• Familiar with the field of Art Education 

Please send a brief email of interest and resume to Stacey Salazar, ssalazar@mica.edu. The subject of the email should indicate "GPA, MAAE:  2018."
Click link to view

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The Maryland State Arts Council: CALL-TO-ARTISTS

Public Art Opportunity University of MarylandCall-to-Artists – Deadline: Friday, November 17, 2017
The Maryland State Arts Council in partnership with the University Systems of Maryland announces a Request for Qualifications for a public art project for a new STEMM education building on the campus of the Universities at Shady Grove, Rockville, MD.
​www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=4201​ 

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Photography
University of San Diego

The Department of Art, Architecture + Art History at the University of San Diego invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor to begin September 2018. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. 

We seek an accomplished visual artist with the ability to teach from a deep knowledge of both darkroom and digital photographic processes and technologies. S/he would be capable of expanding an established photography program, and be an active, engaged member of the department and university communities. Candidates must be able to teach from a demonstrated familiarity with photo history and theory, especially with critical issues in contemporary photography. A commitment to teaching a broad range of undergraduate courses, from introductory to advanced studios, is important, with prior teaching experience at the college/university level required. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of exhibitions and professional accomplishments.

MFA or equivalent is required. Applications should include a letter delineating professional and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, samples of creative and students' work, syllabi of two courses you would like to teach at the University of San Diego (one introductory course in Photography and one advanced undergraduate studio) and contact information for three recommenders. Creative work and students' work should be submitted either entirely in PDF form, or via a URL included in a PDF. No email submissions will be accepted. 

For full consideration materials should be submitted by December 5th, 2017. Electronic submissions of all application materials through SlideRoom is required (there is no fee); after establishing an account, candidates can upload the above-listed materials at http://usdphotography.slideroom.com. In addition, all candidates must register through USD's online job site: go to www.sandiego.edu/jobs/ reference IRC24158 and complete the application form (but DO NOT submit any other of the above-listed materials through this site.) 

Background check: Successful completion of a pre-employment background check.
Degree Verification Requirement: Persons offered employment in this position will be required to provide official education transcripts for degree verification purposes. Serious candidates are encouraged to request official transcripts to help expedite the hiring process.

Click Here To Apply (USE Safari or Firefox--Chrome can be buggy)
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