ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jaimie Warren | Performance & Talk | Thursday 09.21.17
Fall 2017 Lecture Series | Friday 09.22.17
Artist: Dread Scott
Location: (L 115) Lazarus Auditorium
Time: 4:00pm
Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is exhibited across the US and internationally. For three decades he has made work that encourages viewers to re-examine cohering norms of American society. In 1989, the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed one of his artworks and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its use of the American flag. His art has been exhibited/performed at MoMA/PS1, Pori Art Museum (Finland), BAM (Brooklyn) and galleries and street corners across the country. He is a recipient of grants form Creative Capital Foundation, the MAP Fund, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation and his work is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum.
Location: (L 115) Lazarus Auditorium
Time: 4:00pm
Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is exhibited across the US and internationally. For three decades he has made work that encourages viewers to re-examine cohering norms of American society. In 1989, the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed one of his artworks and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its use of the American flag. His art has been exhibited/performed at MoMA/PS1, Pori Art Museum (Finland), BAM (Brooklyn) and galleries and street corners across the country. He is a recipient of grants form Creative Capital Foundation, the MAP Fund, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation and his work is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum.
Fall 2017 Lecture Series | Tuesday 09.26.17
Artist: Jarrett Earnest
"Absolute Unmixed Attention is Prayer: On Josephine Halvorson and Simone Weil"
LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, MFA
Location: (L 115) Lazarus Auditorium
Time: 10:30-12:00pm
Artist: Andrea Bowers
Los Angeles multimedia artist whose work explores the intersection between activism and art. Her main focus is the necessity of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience in the lives of women.
Location: (L 115) Lazarus Auditorium
Time: 4:00- 5:30pm
"Absolute Unmixed Attention is Prayer: On Josephine Halvorson and Simone Weil"
LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, MFA
Location: (L 115) Lazarus Auditorium
Time: 10:30-12:00pm
Artist: Andrea Bowers
Los Angeles multimedia artist whose work explores the intersection between activism and art. Her main focus is the necessity of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience in the lives of women.
Location: (L 115) Lazarus Auditorium
Time: 4:00- 5:30pm
Hoffberger Film Series | Monday 09.25.17 7pm | (L 115) Lazarus Auditorium
Monthly screenings organized by the Hoffberger Critic-In-Residence Jarrett Earnest, open to all MICA graduate students only. Focusing on the formal and thematic concerns of film as an art, as well as its interconnection with other mediums, particularly painting, each film will be followed by group conversation.
Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this meta-narrative follows the dysfunctional cast and crew of a film while they’re waiting to work, lounging on coast of Spain. Often compared with Godard’s cooler and more distant Contempt, here Fassbinder shows his genius for marrying lush, languid images, with explosive Germanic angst.
Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this meta-narrative follows the dysfunctional cast and crew of a film while they’re waiting to work, lounging on coast of Spain. Often compared with Godard’s cooler and more distant Contempt, here Fassbinder shows his genius for marrying lush, languid images, with explosive Germanic angst.
Visiting Artist: Xu Bing | 10.03.17
Xu Bing is deeply engaged in a global art practice that helps us envision a just and sustainable world. Internationally renowned and firmly rooted in our time, he is a master artist and an artist for the ages. He reveals how we work, how we see ourselves and how we treat each other. His concerns include cultural and national identity, social change and surveillance. His work is monumental and technically and conceptually complex, employing diverse materials and strategies from invented language to tobacco, silkworms, corn husks and dust.
He was born in Chongqing, China, and his artistic sophistication, political conscience, and far-reaching imagination has led to exhibitions in China, Japan, Australia, Africa, Canada, the United States and Europe at venues like the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. He is a graduate with an M.F.A. from Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing where he has also taught and served in academic leadership. He has been included in the Venice Biennale three times and honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Graphics Council, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, the Wales International Visual Art Prize and a US Department of State Medal of Arts.
This event is free and open to the public.
Location: Falvey Hall: Brown Center
Time: Tuesday, October 3 at 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
He was born in Chongqing, China, and his artistic sophistication, political conscience, and far-reaching imagination has led to exhibitions in China, Japan, Australia, Africa, Canada, the United States and Europe at venues like the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. He is a graduate with an M.F.A. from Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing where he has also taught and served in academic leadership. He has been included in the Venice Biennale three times and honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Graphics Council, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, the Wales International Visual Art Prize and a US Department of State Medal of Arts.
This event is free and open to the public.
Location: Falvey Hall: Brown Center
Time: Tuesday, October 3 at 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
7X $500! Graduate Research Development Grants | 10.20.17
The Office of Graduate Studies and Research will be awarding 7 grants of up to $500.00 in October and February this year. Applications consist of a simple 3 page proposal explaining how you would use the awarded funds to develop your practice as an artist, designer, educator or activist through research and exploration. Please visit micagradcommunity.org for full details on submission guidelines. Fall proposals are due no later than 9am on Friday, October 20th!
Please contact Drew Lundholm in the Graduate Office if you have any questions about the process or would like to discuss a proposal idea before submitting.
Drew Lundholm
410-462-7548
alundholm@mica.edu
NEW!
Graduate Studies will no longer be running a grant cycle during the summer. However, we have increased the number of awarded grants from 5 to 7 for both the Fall and Spring Cycles.
Please contact Drew Lundholm in the Graduate Office if you have any questions about the process or would like to discuss a proposal idea before submitting.
Drew Lundholm
410-462-7548
alundholm@mica.edu
NEW!
Graduate Studies will no longer be running a grant cycle during the summer. However, we have increased the number of awarded grants from 5 to 7 for both the Fall and Spring Cycles.
WORKSHOPS
Grad Lab Workshop: Sound Capture | Thursday 09.21.17
When working with sound half the battle is starting with a good recording. This workshop will introduce students to the wide variety of microphones, accessories and recording devices available for field recording through the Grad Lab Checkout. Additionally, this workshop will cover some basic recording techniques, concepts and benchmarks.
Location: Grad lab from 7:30-10:30pm
Location: Grad lab from 7:30-10:30pm
Color Darkroom 101 | 09.23.17
2017 Workshops with MICA's Visiting Engineer, Paul Mirel | 09.23.17
For MICA Faculty, Staff, Graduate, Undergraduate, Open Studies Students
Location: In the dFab Studio in MICA's Station Building
Sponsored by MICA's Office of Graduate Studies
You can attend any of these hands-on workshops. You can attend as many as you like or just one. There are no prerequisites. The workshops are not sequential. You can also bring in-progress projects with you to work on. There is no charge for the workshops.
Saturday, September 23 – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Introduction to Electronics: Control and Power
Learn about and use electronics components in simple circuits. Learn to plan your circuits so that they work, and how to build them so they work reliably.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – circuit play time and consultation with Paul
RSVP to Paul Mirel <pmirel@mica.edu>
* Read a profile of Paul in MICA's Magazine, Commotion
** What is an Arduino? A baby computer that can accept signals from the world and manipulate objects to interact with the world.
Location: In the dFab Studio in MICA's Station Building
Sponsored by MICA's Office of Graduate Studies
You can attend any of these hands-on workshops. You can attend as many as you like or just one. There are no prerequisites. The workshops are not sequential. You can also bring in-progress projects with you to work on. There is no charge for the workshops.
Saturday, September 23 – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Introduction to Electronics: Control and Power
Learn about and use electronics components in simple circuits. Learn to plan your circuits so that they work, and how to build them so they work reliably.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – circuit play time and consultation with Paul
RSVP to Paul Mirel <pmirel@mica.edu>
* Read a profile of Paul in MICA's Magazine, Commotion
** What is an Arduino? A baby computer that can accept signals from the world and manipulate objects to interact with the world.
ALUMNI NEWS
Edon Muhaxheri's Vithkuqi Digital
Muhaxheri, an Albanian artist from the Republic of Kosovo, received a Fulbright scholarship in 2015 to pursue an MFA in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art. His highly original idea for a thesis project involved making an automaton that could write in Albanian. These complex devices were very popular in Europe in the 19th century, and Muhaxheri chose to have his automaton write a text from the first Albanian alphabet book, Ëvetari by Naum Bredhi, published in 1844. The Albanian language is among the oldest in Europe, dating back 5,000 years, but it lacked a formal writing system until Bredhi’s manuscript was published.
A story published by AIGA, Eye on Design about Edon Muhaxheri's thesis project, Vithkuqi Digital, is listed as "required reading" on Hyperallergic this weekend. Click here for the link to the Hyperallergic list and click here for the original AIGA story.
A story published by AIGA, Eye on Design about Edon Muhaxheri's thesis project, Vithkuqi Digital, is listed as "required reading" on Hyperallergic this weekend. Click here for the link to the Hyperallergic list and click here for the original AIGA story.
OPPORTUNITIES & OTHER NEWS
Rinehart BBQ | 09.23.17
Open Applications for the 25th Anniversary of MICA’s Annual Benefit Fashion Show
There will be three separate applications: Designer applications, Set Designer Proposals, and Faculty and Staff Collaboration Proposals. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to apply to what they are interested in. The deadline for all applications is on 10/6 (Fri) at 5 p.m.! Please refer to the attached application forms for more information.
The Benefit Fashion Show team proudly presents the theme: Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies.
Throughout the 25 years of the fashion show, artists and designers were presented the opportunity to express their means of authenticity. The 25th year speaks to narrative and storytelling; it is a show that gathers a room full of people who contemplate their own definition of realness. Society tramples the “real eyes”; the eyes cannot decipher the truth between how one physically presents oneself and one’s inner identity. Does that matter, though? There are countless limitations, restrictions, and stereotypes that encompass how we appear. It is difficult to truly express yourself, and people make assumptions without realizing. We have been given all real eyes to realize the real lies.
Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies will pose questions regarding the nature of authenticity.
The Benefit Fashion Show team includes the Director Brandon Brooks, Assistant Director Cynthia Fang, and Assistant Director Calvin Chang.
Questions or concerns? Please email 25benefitshow@gmail.com
The Benefit Fashion Show team proudly presents the theme: Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies.
Throughout the 25 years of the fashion show, artists and designers were presented the opportunity to express their means of authenticity. The 25th year speaks to narrative and storytelling; it is a show that gathers a room full of people who contemplate their own definition of realness. Society tramples the “real eyes”; the eyes cannot decipher the truth between how one physically presents oneself and one’s inner identity. Does that matter, though? There are countless limitations, restrictions, and stereotypes that encompass how we appear. It is difficult to truly express yourself, and people make assumptions without realizing. We have been given all real eyes to realize the real lies.
Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies will pose questions regarding the nature of authenticity.
The Benefit Fashion Show team includes the Director Brandon Brooks, Assistant Director Cynthia Fang, and Assistant Director Calvin Chang.
Questions or concerns? Please email 25benefitshow@gmail.com
| set_design_proposal.pdf |
| designer_applications.pdf |
| faculty_staff_collaboration_proposal.pdf |
OCE Grant and Award Infosessions
Join the Office of Community Engagement at any one of their upcoming info sessions with any questions you have about applying for OCE opportunities. All sessions are in Fox 110.
Students & staff may apply for up to $1500 for art and design projects that engage a community partner or respond to a compelling community opportunity or need.
Grant Info Sessions
Tuesday, Sept 19, 2017
12PM-1PM
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
12PM-1PM
Grant Info Sessions
Tuesday, Sept 19, 2017
12PM-1PM
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
12PM-1PM
Students may apply for up to $5000 to fund community-engaged projects that use art and design to create a new paradigm for racial and/or ethnic understanding, equity, and harmony.
Y.L. Hoi Award Info Sessions
Wednesday, Sept 20, 2017
12PM-1PM
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2017
12PM-1PM
Y.L. Hoi Award Info Sessions
Wednesday, Sept 20, 2017
12PM-1PM
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2017
12PM-1PM
New York Foundation for the Arts Boot Camp | 10.07.17
MICA Entrepreneurship is collaborating with the New York Foundation for the Arts to host a boot camp on 10/7 specifically geared towards helping fine artists build a sustainable and profitable practice. The event requires a refundable deposit at registration, but attendees are refunded when they attend the event, meaning it's technically free. Click here for registration and additional info.
2017 New for Graduate Students: Drop-In Writing Activities & Consultations!
Graduate students: Come to Lazarus Room 070 during drop-in hours with Amy Eisner and try a writing activity/game (bring friends!) or have a conversation about your writing. If you email ahead with your concerns, she might even have an activity custom-designed for you! You can also request an in-studio consultation. Just email aeisner@mica.edu or text 410-935-7355.
Drop-in writing activities & consultation hours for September & October:
Tuesdays, 1-3pm
September 12
September 26
October 10
October 24
Fridays, 1-3pm
September 8
October 6
October 20
Want to find out what you're thinking?
Need help finding words to describe your work?
Want someone to think carefully about the words you're using in your work?
Want to think differently, more playfully, about writing?
Miss creative writing?
Need a listener?
Drop-in writing activities & consultation hours for September & October:
Tuesdays, 1-3pm
September 12
September 26
October 10
October 24
Fridays, 1-3pm
September 8
October 6
October 20
Want to find out what you're thinking?
Need help finding words to describe your work?
Want someone to think carefully about the words you're using in your work?
Want to think differently, more playfully, about writing?
Miss creative writing?
Need a listener?
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