Text for exhibition publicity

Hi Everyone,

Below is the text required for exhibition publicity on your postcards and posters. You must also include the Rutgers Logo. (Download here)
Show Title
Exhibition Dates (include year)

Opening Reception time and date

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mason Gross School of Art
Department for Visual Arts
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-2222 ext 798
 
Gallery Hours:
Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Sunday Closed

Snow day

Rutgers has cancelled classes today. This is unfortunate but it gives you a chance to spend much needed time on your thesis exhibition and your written draft. You don't need a finished essay but we do need a draft of your thesis essay by March 12. Get it done today and you won't have to worry about it. Hand it in as soon as you have it done.

Last week we asked that everyone post images of their artwork on their blogs, as in too many cases we are still talking about ideas rather than things. This hasn't happened for everyone yet. In lieu of class today you must post these images on your blog by the end of today, no matter how incomplete. If you are still considering multiple options post all of them. This is a requirement. Students in Group 1 in particular need to have very clear plans on how they are going to complete their exhibitions. Remember, this work should be progressing in your advanced classes too.

We will have our planning meeting next Friday rather than today. In the meantime you can email me with any issues/problems with exhibition planning.

Class on Friday 26 Feb

We will be meeting back in 117 on Friday. Our focus will be on exhibition planning as we need to sort out both shows asap. So both exhibition planning groups will meet together initially. Please have an update on where all of the subgroups are and any issues that need to be resolved. We will not have critiques groups this week, though you can talk to us after the planning discussion. However, could you please post images of your work as it currently stands on your blog. As discussed last Friday, we are still requiring you to post after you have had a critique, and also for the rest of the critique group to comment on that post. These comments can be very brief, one or two sentences. Also don't neglect your written thesis, remember the draft is due on March 12.

Class Schedule Friday 2/19

Hi Everyone,

We will be meeting at the Livingston Art Building as a class this Friday 2/19.  Everyone is expected to be there. Here’s a map of how to get there: http://maps.rutgers.edu/maps/default.aspx There should be parking available or you can take the Rutger’s bus.

We will meet as a group in the LAB gallery at 10am.  Several of your classmates are exhibiting their work in the space and it will give you all a chance to conceive of the LAB gallery’s potential for your thesis exhibitions if you decide to exhibit there.

We will then break up into our exhibition planning groups and critique groups into various rooms in LAB.  The rooms will be announced in the morning in the gallery.

Students who have studios or artwork at LAB should be prepared to present their work.  Students who are scheduled to present their work next week should also transport their work to LAB.  If you are supposed to present work in your crit group but are unable to transport it to LAB due to its size, you will have a crit next Friday instead.

I also want to remind you all that the List of Opportunities for Emerging Artists are due Friday.  You should complete all the info as completely and accurately as possible.  I will not be expanding on your research, only compiling the list for you all.  I’ve pasted the directions below.  Please email your lists to me as an attached doc file or in the body of the email.  Do not put it in my mailbox or on your blog. 

And yet another reminder: you should all be posting a response/reaction/summary of topics discussed in your critique after each crit you have.  Viktor, Gerry, and I will be periodically reviewing these and they will contribute to a portion of your grade.  They will also help you in keeping a record of ideas for the development of your work and your written thesis.  Members of every critique group should be commenting on each other’s posts.  Many of you have been doing this and they seem very helpful so far!

See you all Friday!

Best,
Megan

Resource List for Emerging Artists and Designers
Due February 19, 2010

Please email all lists to meganeflaherty@gmail.com either as text in the body of
the email or as a word doc attachment. Please only send one email.

The purpose of this assignment is to cull a list of opportunities in several categories:
Internships, Jobs, Artist Residency Programs, Juried Exhibitions, Galleries for Emerging
Artists, and Art/ Design Organizations.

Each student is required to list at least 8 opportunities in any of the categories (ex: 2
residencies, 2 internships, and 4 arts organizations) for which you are eligible. This
means that you cannot list an opportunity for, say, a mid- career or established artist or
an employee with many years working in the field already on their resume. You are
looking for opportunities for emerging artists and designers.

Megan and Viktor will then compile all of your findings creating a great resource for all of
you to share!

To make this document as useful as possible please list the following information for
each category:

Artist Residencies:
-Organization Name
-Location
-Who is eligible? (Be specific: painters, sculptors, photographers, performers, writers,
etc. Age? Ethnicity? Nationality? Career level? etc.)
-Length of residency
-Does the residency provide housing?
-Provide a studio?
-What does it cost? Are there scholarships available? If so, what are those
requirements?
-Does it provide a stipend (how much)?
-Application deadline(s)/ requirements/fee
-Contact info: website/email/phone/ Name of Contact Person
-Any other important information

Internships:
-Organization Name
-Location
-Who is eligible?
-Is it paid (how much)?
-Other offerings for interns? (ex. classes, housing, studio, materials, etc.)
-Intern job responsibilities/ short description/ title
-Length and hours per week
-Are their specific dates?
-Application requirements and deadlines
-Contact info: website/email/phone/ Name of Contact Person
-Any other important information

Jobs*:
-Organization Name
-Location
-Title of position
-Who is eligible? Requirements (education, work experience)
-Job responsibilities (be brief)
-Pay? If info is available.
-Application requirements and deadlines
-Contact info: website/email/phone/ Name of Contact Person
-Any other important information

*We understand that you may have a lead on a job opening that you may not want to
share with the rest of the class and that’s OK. What you should do for the Jobs category
is research organizations or institutions that have positions you are interested in and
would be eligible for were the position available. Fill out as much information or relevant.
For example, maybe you’d like to work as an assistant to a specific artist but s/he is not
currently hiring. BUT if you do wish to share an actual job opening, please do.

Juried Exhibitions/ Calls for Entries/ Competitions*:
-Organization name/gallery/venue
-Location
-Title of Show
-Who is/are the juror(s)?
-Show dates
-Who is eligible? (medium, subject matter of work)
-Application deadline and requirements
-Is there an application fee?
-Are there monetary or other prizes offered to those selected?
-Contact info: website/email/phone/ Name of Contact Person
-Any other important information
*This may include calls for publication in print or on the web.

Galleries showing Emerging Artists:
-Name
-Location
-Are they accepting submissions?
-Portfolio/submission requirements
-Contact info: website/email/phone/ Name of Contact Person
-Any other important information

Art and/or Design Organizations*:
-Name of organization
-Location
-Mission
-Services, information, publication(s), events/conferences, etc. they offer
-Do they offer memberships? What are the rates and benefits?
-Contact info: website/email
-Any other important information

*This category can include design firms/ groups or artist cooperatives/ other types of
artist groups. What kind of work do they do?

Here are a few resources to get you started:

New York State Artist Workspace Consortium http://www.nysawc.org
NYFA Source http://www.nyfa.org/source
Arts Opportunities: http://www.artsopportunities.org
College Art Association: http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/
https://artistsregister.com/opportunities
https://artistsregister.com/links
http://www.artshow.com
Residencies listed around the world:
http://www.resartis.org/
http://www.transartists.org
http://www.artheals.org
Residency search/ opportunity listings:
http://www.artistcommunities.org
The slide library staff put this document together:
United States Residencies
For jobs and internships:
http://www.idealist.org
Design:
http://www.designobserver.com/
http://www.design21sdn.com/
http://www.aiga.org/
Rutgers Career Services: http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/
You may also find information in the binders in the Visual Arts Office or the Slide Library.

PS1 Studio Visit website

An example of democratic access that gives some idea of what a range of artists are up to in New York.

Thesis Paper Guidelines

Please see this document for the guidelines for writing your thesis paper.

Resource List for Emerging Artists and Designers

Here's a link for the directions we handed out in class.

interesting live sculpture event

Spring Visiting Artist Lectures- Thanks Dan for the poster!

Exhibition Groups

Hi Everyone, Below you will find the group you will be exhibiting with and the dates. I will post the install/ de-install dates ASAP.
 
Exhibition Group 1 
Tuesday March 30th to Saturday April 10th 
Opening Reception April 1st
1. Battistoni, Kara 
2. Benevenia, Michael 
3. Blaine, Joshua 
4. Blair, Dominique 
5. Boruch, Brendan 
6. Bocage, Eric 
7. Budesheim, Dennis 
8. Butkovic, Tomislav 
9. Centore, Kristina 
10. Chery, Rudolph 
11. Cypser, Gregory 
12. Daly, Rebekah 
13. Demetropoulos, Alexis 
14. Enwere, Christian 
15. Farrell, Kyle 
16. Freeling, Edward 
17. Flaherty, Daniel
18. Graniello, Regina 
19. Grosche, Bruce 
20. Imgrund, Mary 
21. King, Kelli 
22. Leahy, Theodore
23. Malm, Ashley 
24. Mancini, Matthew 
25. Masino, Jeffrey 
26. Merced, Luis 
27. Nunuz, Luis 
28. Pillis, Daniel 
29. Pinheiro, Heather 
30. Pirela, Jessica 
31. Regiec, Joanna 
32. Schweighardt, Andrew 
33. Scott, Kerry 
34. Sharma, Priyam 
35. Shaughnessy, David 
36. Stevens, Naqeeb 
37. Tropel, Neil 
38. Wondbandue, Julie

 
Exhibition Group 2 
Tuesday April 20 to Saturday May 1st 
Opening Reception April 22nd
1. An-Wong, Jaime 
2. Arancibia, Ariana 
3. Bajew, Alexandra 
4. Battaglia, Matthew 
5. Bockoven, Katie 
6. Breen, Justin 
7. Brown, Nakeya 
8. Cano, Alan 
9. Chapin, Sarah 
10. Costa, Michael 
11. Donofrio, Matt 
12. Eber, Fran 
13. Epstein, Rebecca 
14. Figueredo, Daniel 
15. Hall, Justin 
16. Hartman-Ohlson, Amy 
17. Jarrett, Julie 
18. Juliano-Villani, Jamian 
19. Kipilla, Kristen 
20. Koo, Kevin 
21. Lykes, Jeffrey 
22. Mack, Conor 
23. Manning, Jennifer 
24. Mecca, Kathryn 
25. Minervini, Christopher 
26. Mitra, Rohan 
27. Nyquist, Marie 
28. O'Bara, Kelly 
29. O'Brian, Hannah 
30. Picone, Vincent 
31. Rabinowitz, Allison 
32. Ramirez, Danielle 
33. Reynoso, Angela 
34. Ruck, Joseph Christian 
35. Ryan, Andrea 
36. Rypkema, Christopher 
37. Stewart, Marteha 
38. Totten, Jenna 
39. Tran, Tony

contemporary art

Take a look at this contribution from Jonathan Jones, which makes this very valid point on why we need to pay attention to contemporary art: "Very few works of art in current exhibitions are going to be remembered, still less accepted into the canon of art history, but contemporary art is the mirror of contemporary life. Its tactics, methods and attitudes reflect this world, here and now."

transition roundtable

Here are links for the five alumni who will be speaking next week

Wendy White, painter http://www.wendywhite.net

Mike Gallagher, designer and educator http://www.wehavephotoshop.com

Larissa Nycz, art director/ designer http://tribeccadesigns.com

Tiffany Ludwig, photographer, multi-media artist, and designer (she works as part of a collaborative pair of artists)  www.twogirlsworking.com

Miriam Romais, photographer and director of En Foco http://www.romaisphotos.com/ and www.enfoco.org 

eflux online journal

There is a new issue of the eflux journal available online. It addresses something that we will be talking about tomorrow, the problem of defining contemporary art.

residencies, grants and resources

The slide librarians have all put together this list of residencies, grants and resources: Residencies

Scroll to the last page for links to research more residencies and opportunities for artists.

thesis update

This is an update on where we are on the Thesis class, please keep reading till the end as there is information on our next class. On Friday 13 November we collected everyone's draft thesis proposals. Those people who did not have the ten annotated images and the annotated bibliography of books, articles, poems, novels etc. need to put the revised printed proposal in my mail box for tomorrow Wednesday 18. The same goes for those of you who missed class. The specifications, as discussed in class are here on the second page of the pdf. http://bfathesis.blogspot.com/2009/09/download-revised-thesis-syllabus.html

We also asked people to do a blog review of the first year MFA show in the gallery, paying particular attention to the way in which the space was used and the pieces worked, or didn't work, in the space. This show is not curated, students are simply assigned a space and have to hang a show. Think about how you would have arranged the show. That should be posted asap, we asked the students who were in class on Friday to post it by that evening. Some of these are up and I have read some really thoughtful responses. We will discuss what we can learn from this series of Mason Gross shows in class.

Students also collected the resumes and artist statements that they had handed in previously. Those I have not yet looked through I will put in your mail boxes by the end of the week.

We stressed that you have until the Wednesday after Thanksgiving, December 2, to bring all of your blog posts up to date. Next class on Friday November 20 is a writing week, we have decided that the class will not meet but that we will give you the opportunity to work on your blog, revise your resumes etc. We will return the thesis proposal drafts, with our comments and suggestions during the following class Friday December 4. I want to stress that these are drafts, we don't expect your written thesis to be finished this semester, rather we want to get it underway to make sure you are thinking about your thesis in a critically informed fashion. Next semester you will be producing the actual Written Thesis and developing your Thesis Show. The final Written Thesis won't be due until near the end of the semester, and it will go through revisions up to that point.

I am happy to hear any suggestions you may have for the structuring of next semester. This iteration of the Thesis class is based on the feedback from last year's students. So please email if you want to give feedback.

bauhaus exhibition at MoMA

This has just opened and will be up until January 2o1o. The Bauhaus linked art and design education and inspired much of modernist design. Those of you who are drawn to clean simple solutions can find the origins here. There are a series of workshops inspired by the Bauhaus that you can take part in and and a Bauhaus lounge.

Design Show in New York

This show's theme could be interesting for you designers and artists, some big design names are involved.

Control Print

A Collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London
Considering the Fate of Ink on Paper Through Explorations in Design, Craft, and Technology
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, December 20, 2009
Opening Reception: November 6, 7:30-9 p.m.

What is the fate of print in a digital age? Parsons The New School for Design takes on this challenge with Control Print, a collaborative exhibition with the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, which explores the intersection of craft and technology. The exhibition will be on view from November 7 through December 14 at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. An opening reception will be held on November 6 from 7:30-9 p.m.

Control Print features works by a number of notable international artists and designers who play with the notion of digital technology. In this first American presentation, prominent members of the Parsons community create work in traditional, digital, and mixed media that extend the idea of ink on paper and showcase how machinery and technology can enter the representational process. First conceived by RCA as a research project investigating the possibilities of a customized future for digital art and design, Control Print also features the results of these experiments in a series of limited edition book spreads, large-scale artwork, and digital projections and renderings.

“The Control Print research project was an effort to elevate the digital press, and consider its place in the future of the printed page,” said Russell Warren-Fisher, co-organizer, designer, and lecturer in Communication Art and Design at RCA. “Partnering with Parsons has allowed us to keep this investigation alive through a reflective, cross-cultural dialogue.”

Among the featured artists are co-organizers Lucille Tenazas, Henry Wolf Professor of Communication Design at Parsons, Warren-Fisher, and Dan Fern, Head of the School of Communications at the RCA; Parsons-commissioned artists Andrea Dezso; Danny Durtsch, Jesse Hlebo and Arthur Ou; Zachary Lieberman with James Powderly, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue and Tony Quan (TEMPT); Spylab (Benjamin Bacon, Glendon Jones, Kyle Li, and Sven Travis); and Allan Wexler; and RCA-commissioned artists Chris Bigg of V23; Sara Carneholm and Leah Harrison Bailey; Malcom Clarke, and Mark Wilson. Also participating remotely are designers Reza Abedini (Iran), Bruno Monguzzi (Italy/Switzerland), Leonardo Sonnoli (Italy), and Catherine Zask (France).

“We often think of digital technology as alienating, as removing us from the production process in some way,” said Tenazas. “Using the RCA project as a starting point, Parsons is exploring the notion that technology can also be a tool to re-engage, to adjust the tactile tradition of craft for the digital age, which is a particular focus of my work at Parsons.

In timing with Control Print, Parsons will present a series of related programs, including three intensive 24-hour workshops, where the public can view teams of Parsons students and faculty creating work that actively explores the boundaries between traditional and digital technologies. A symposium on November 7 will bring together a number of the participants, including Clarke, Tenazas, Warren-Fisher, and Wilson, as well as leading voices from the worlds of art and design, including Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, and Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons, who will discuss the future relationship of design, craft, and technology.

“This show is just the beginning of a long-term partnership between two world-class universities to explore urgent issues relating to all aspects of contemporary culture,” said Fern, who also chairs the RCA's International Development Group.

For more information on the symposium and other related programming, please visit the Public Programs page.


General Information:
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center


Parsons The New School for Design, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York


Gallery hours: Open daily 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m..; closed all major holidays and holiday eves.
Admission: Free


Info: Please contact 212.229.8919 or visit www.parsons.newschool.edu/events.

list of posts

Here are the examples of posts I promised. They all engage with their exhibition in different ways, they are models of what we are looking for on the course. They also give a broad sense of what is going on in contemporary art, so take a look. 

Andrea Ryan

David Shaughnessy

Ed Freeling

Fran Eber

Hannah O'Brien

Jamie An-Wong

Jeffrey Masino

Jennifer Manning

Julie Wongbandue

Kyle Farell

Marteha Stewart

Matt Mancini

Mike Benevenia

Mike Costa

Neil Tropel

Rohan Mitra

Nakeya Brown

Careers in the Visual Arts Panel

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

6-7:30 pm, Civic Square Building, Rm. 110/117

Join us for a panel discussion with professionals from fields such as graphic design, painting, video art, college art teaching, digital media arts, sculpture, and web design. The panelists will talk about what they do, offer advice for entry into their professions (including internship and job searching), and answer your questions.

Panelists:
Tim Beitz, Production Artist, 160OVER90
Danielle Bursk, Digital Stone Project (sculpture)
Melodie Dhondt, Senior Editor / Graphic Designer
Lucas Kelly, Painter / Video Artist / Art Professor
Sarah Sweeney, Digital Media Artist / Web Designer / Art Professor

Space is limited, sign up required. To register, please call 732-932-7997 or 732-445-6127.
Visit careerservices.rutgers.edu for more information.

Intern at Murakami's NY studio

Hey all,

Ironically, I just saw this listing on NYFA looking for interns at Kaikai Kiki New York, LLC
(Long Island City NY)... Murakami's studio. It could be an interesting experience!