Platform reopens for spring programming, and this semester has an exciting focus on alumni and lecturers! Stay tuned for detailed information each week.
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Each semester Art Practice majors are invited to submit applications for a $200 grant, and we are pleased to be able to offset materials costs and help so many students in producing their work! For Spring 2022 we were able to award a total of 15 students (all applicants) this semester, supported by the Toombs endowment fund.
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Clement Hil Goldberg is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and collapse.
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Worth Ryder Gallery's new Exhibition Manager Gazelle Samizay is a widely-exhibited artist, an experienced curator, and an organizer, particularly in support of displaced /exiled Afghans, and Afghan artists and writers.
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On National Handwriting Day, students reflect on the future of handwriting as a political choice as part of Prof. Greg Niemeyer’s L&S 25: Creativity in Practice course.
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Installation in progress for the First Year MFA show at Worth Ryder Gallery
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Zygote quarterly did a nice feature article of MFA graduate student Juniper Harrower's environmental art practice in Joshua Tree National Park that you can read about in issue 30 of their biomimicry focused publication.
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Art Practice Alum, Artist and Ceramics Lab Manager Ehren Tool was recently featured in a Berkeley News article.
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Professor Jill Miller and Art Practice major Nassirah Nelson’s collaborative artwork is featured in Art Prospect 2021: Forms of Unity festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Mentorship was an important part of Bruce Cohen’s (BA 1987) practice, and with the launch of this scholarship, his influence lives on.
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Join Root Division this July and August for "I AM...", curated by Adrianne Ramsey. This group exhibition features 15 artists who question and challenge established definitions of personal identity, including Prof. Stephanie Syjuco.
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Current Art Practice major Anaya Crouch discusses her experience working on a Juneteenth art commission for a corporate client.
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Major art commissions and projects by young and senior artists celebrate Juneteenth, June 17-20 in the Bay Area.
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Art Practice is pleased to welcome new lecturer Gaia WXYZ to our department! Gaia will teach ART 25 Graphic Novel: Foundations in Summer Session D. Gaia was interviewed by Professor Jill Miller about their background in comics, their expansive art practice, and their feelings about celebrating Pride Month.
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Reserve tickets to attend the MFA show at BAMPFA June 11th - July 11th.
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Lecturer Sholeh Asgary participated in UnTerminal, a performance informed in part by Iranian Shia mourning rituals and in part by contemporary politics of protest. This iteration of the mourning is dedicated to Palestine.
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The Masters of Fine Arts & Bachelor of Arts commencement ceremony was held virtually on May 17th, 3-5pm.
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Art Practice wishes all graduating students in the class of 2021 a happy, productive and meaningful future. We also celebrate five BA students who shared their next steps to graduate school with us: Jaz Bryant, Benjamin Fedosky, Catherine Hsu, Camron King, and Xiaotan Yang.
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Department of Art Practice Chair Allan deSouza is going on vacation! Professors Jill Miller and Asma Kazmi will be filling in during their away time.
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