Visual Arts: Related Content

¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø faculty member Mary Lum has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship to support her ongoing work in the visual arts.

Artist and educator Nick Tobier will speak about his recent and upcoming work on Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30 pm in the College's Tishman Lecture Hall. The event, part of this term's Visual Arts Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø will celebrate the opening of Marina Zurkow's Crossing the Waters, an exhibition of seven animated single and multi-channel works, on Tuesday, March 2, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the College's Usdan Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

Participating in ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø's new Local Field Experience program, 16 students spent Field Work Term volunteering at 11 organizations in ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø and North ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø, including schools, counseling services, family support centers, and other community-based agencies.

Faculty member Ann Pibal was one of 30 U.S. artists this month to receive a $20,000 grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

A photo of Evie Garf 11's "," an inverted bookshelf she made for an architecture course two years ago, was featured last week on "," a New Yorker blog that frequently publishes great images of books from around the world.

The entire ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø community mourns the loss of Kenneth Noland, an internationally celebrated abstract painter and former College trustee, who died on Tuesday, January 5, at 85 years old.

Faculty member Liz Deschenes' Right/Left photography exhibition was on display last month at the prestigious Sutton Lane art gallery, marking her third solo exhibition of 2009 (and her first-ever in Paris).

A series of photos by faculty member Liz Deschenes were selected for the first-ever photography exhibition to run in the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.

¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø's 2009 Senior Art Show opened on Wednesday, May 13, in the College's Usdan Gallery.

Faculty member Mary Lum received high praise in recent issues of Art in America and Artforum for her solo exhibition , which was on display at Frederieke Taylor gallery in New York earlier this year.

During a post-Katrina panel discussion with a group of New Orleans-based artists in early 2006, Dan Cameron '79, then-senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, just blurted it out: "A biennial would go really, really well in New Orleans."

Faculty member Jon Isherwood was one of four American stone sculptors chosen to participate in a contemporary art exhibition in China that demonstrates a fusion of traditional carving techniques with technology that is—quite literally—on the cutting edge.

This fall, photographer and faculty member Jonathan Kline completed a three-year photographic history project with the Photographic Conservation Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, involved recreating five different variants on the paper negative process, a method used by French and British photographers in the 1840s and ’50s and one that, with the advent of the film negative, few photographers are skilled in using today.

The work of photography faculty member Liz Deschenes is part of , an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through October 19, 2008.

Two paintings by visual arts faculty member Andy Spence are presently featured in New Works, a group show by gallery artists at the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York. These two recent pieces, Variation 2 and Untitled (Corner Painting 1), will be on view at the Gallery through August 1, 2008.

¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Bookmarks, a new collaborative art installation, will be unveiled at an opening reception at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College’s Crossett Library on Tuesday, May 20, at 5:00pm.

International artist Mimi Robinson designs commercially celebrated products, and four months out of the year, she designs solutions. As founder of the organization (BCTD), Robinson develops international programs that allows her to work directly with local artists on sustainable business ideas that preserve their culture and traditional skills.

The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that five members of ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø's community have been honored with this year's 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships for their "distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the nation's most prestigious honors, were given to current MFA in Writing faculty member Michael Paul Burkard; acclaimed poet Reginald Shepherd '88; innovative choreographer Myrna Packer '74; New Yorker magazine editor and translator Ann Goldstein '71; and professor of organism biology and ecology at the University of Massachusetts, Laurie R. Godfrey '67.

Field Work Term is ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College's annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work.
This photo contest brings those experiences to life. Students use #FieldWorkTerm to share photos of themselves making, working, and learning to tell the story of their unique work exploration over Field Work Term.

Photographer for Newsweek, Reuters, and, for eight years, at the White House as the President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton’s official documentary photographer

Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology, member of the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the Rome Prize in Architecture

Elisa Lendvay’s explorations in making form, color and enigmatic objects move between sculpture, painting and drawing. They present interplays among internal vision, observation of nature, and corporality to generate moments of perception, truth, and whimsey. Diverse materials are employed to consider how unlike elements can merge into something other and new. She explores the physicality of making and matter with a sense of play and discovery in the process.

Director of the IDEAS Lab at UCLA and winner of a NASA competition to design habitation on Mars

John Umphlett MFA '99 is an innovator and inquisitive thinker, consistently searching for new experimental processes. Entranced within material parameters and properties, he finds ways to fuse those findings with the ephemeral human body.

Oliver Wasow uses photography to explore the space between fact and fiction in works that engage with the territory of the uncanny and the sublime.

Founder of jewelry brand Knockout, a collection of rings designed with self-defense in mind. A portion of every sale is donated to SAVI (Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention) at Mount Sinai.

Multimedia artist who creates sculpture, installation, performance, and video art that engages questions of race and gender, and director of the Rhinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art

Jordan Reznick is a trans photo historian and artist. Reznick's research on settler colonialism in photography describes how Indigenous knowledges and colonial myths shape the medium of photography.