artSLANT

News, ideas, and insights from the Department Head.

• EL INSTITUTO AND AAH CO-SPONSORED VISITING ARTIST FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ, FEBRUARY 18-20

  13 Feb 2013

  Art and Art History was pleased to co-sponsor Visiting Artist Favianna Rodriguez with El Instituto (Latin American and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies) in February 2013. Rodriguez conducted printmaking and poster workshops and spoke with students across campus during her visit in the newly renovated Bishop Center Studios. Favianna Rodriguez is a celebrated printmaker and digital artist [...]

• Art Gathers STEAM

  30 Jan 2013

  Across higher education and in industry, the familiar acronym STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) is morphing into STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics). Why add art to the mix? Because innovation and creativity are vitally important to our economy, and artists and designers are innovators and creators. They ask questions. They come up with unusual [...]

• MFA ALUM JENN DIERDORF IS MAKING A CAREER AS AN ARTIST AND GALLERY DIRECTOR IN NYC

  16 Jan 2013

  Jenn Dierdorf (MFA 2008) is working as Gallery Director at Soho20 Chelsea in NYC and actively pursuing her career as an artist. Jenn Dierdorf MFA, 2008 What attracted you to our MFA program? I didn’t know much about the program when I applied, or rather I didn’t realize how certain aspects of the program would [...]

• Two Exhibitions featured work by Professor Emeritus Gus Mazzocca and His Students

  30 Dec 2012

  After four decades of teaching printmaking at the University of Connecticut, Prof. Gus Mazzocca retired at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. In January and February, the Contemporary Art Galleries hosted a multi-site retrospective on Gus and his work entitled “Gus Mazzocca: 4 Decades/4 Generations.” In addition to the monograph exhibition of Gus’s work [...]

• Contemporary Art Galleries Featuring an Exhibition of Textiles by Vibeke Rohland

  12 Nov 2012

  In Crossroads, the new exhibition at the Contemporary Art Galleries, Danish artist and textile designer Vibeke Rohland engages with the intersection of visual art and design. Her work deliberately blurs the lines that have been drawn between the fine and applied arts for so long, and explores the ways that art and design influence each [...]