Month: September 2013

Prospective Students Are Invited to Discovery Day, Oct. 14

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Prospective students and their families are invited to visit the Department on Monday, October 14th, 2014. It’s an ideal day for a visit because high schools typically have a vacation day but UConn doesn’t, so prospective students can see us in action.

The day begins with a 10 am joint session for all prospective students and their families. This one-hour session will feature presentations by the Dean and Assistant Dean as well as professional staff from Admissions and Financial Aid.

At 11 am, prospective students for Art & Art History will have the chance to visit classes, including Drawing I, Basic Studio: Painting, and Aqua Media. Prospective students will then have a casual lunch with current students and faculty in the Arena Gallery, 12-1 pm. At 1 pm, we’ll have special demonstrations in our digital photography and sculpture labs and printmaking studios. Students will have the option of joining a campus tour at 2 pm.

There is no cost for this day – attendees are asked to RSVP to
SFAOffice@uconn.edu with their contact information and area of interest.

 

 

 

AAH Convocation: Brave New Art World

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Featuring “Two Coats of Paint” art blogger and artist Sharon Butler and New Zealand multimedia artist Shigeyuki Kihara, this panel will explore the contemporary art world from two perspectives.  What are the emerging trends in contemporary art? How can young artists get their work shown?  How does social media affect what happens in art? Sharon Butler is a long-time commentator on and participant in the New York art scene, and Shigeyuki Kihara is a visitor to New York, currently serving as artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn.  Kihara has exhibited recently at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Trondheim Museum, Norway; and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.  Butler is represented by Pocket Utopia gallery in New York, and has exhibited at Real Art Ways in Hartford and Season in Seattle, WA.

“Brave New Art World” will take place Thursday, September 19, at 6 pm.  This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History and the William Benton Museum of Art, with the generous support of the Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture Fund.  It is free and open to the public.  All Art and Art History students are required to attend.

Visiting Artists Megan and Murray McMillan Presentation – September 12 at 3:30 PM

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Department of Art and Art History
Visiting Artists
Megan and Murray McMillan

September 12, 2013
Presentation: 3:30pm, Arena Gallery

Megan and Murray McMillan produce interrelated video, installations, and photographs that delve into the nature of performance and the history of representation. Their process begins with large, sculptural sets that serve as the site and material for short videos of choreographed movements of actors and friends, gallery installations, and photographs. The notion of performance is front and center in these works in both subject matter and their impressive, large-scale gallery installations that double as sets. In each project, the distinction between ‘real’ performance and ‘staged’ performance is blurred.

For more information on their work, visit meganandmurraymcmillan.com.