Read more about Professor Chris Sancomb’s work on UConn’s STEAM tree initiative, a solar powered installation capable of charging portable devices.
UConn Will Soon Have a ‘Solar Tree,’ Thanks to Interdisciplinary Group of Faculty and Students
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Call for Submissions- UConn Grief Project
Call for submissions: The UConn Grief Project invites students to share responses to the challenges we have faced, both as individuals and as a community, over the past year. Inspired by the powerful art of German printmaker Käthe Kollwitz.
The UConn Grief Project brings together reflections on loss, and creates a space for acknowledging the emotional impacts of this moment in history.The UConn Grief project is a collaboration between Design Center, Counterproof Press, and the William Benton
Museum of Art.
For More Information go to: https://benton.uconn.edu/thursdays-with-the-benton-the-uconn-grief-project/ Counterproof Press: https://counterproofpress.uconn.edu/
Annual MFA Sale – Live Now
The Annual MFA Sale is now live and can be viewed at http://bit.ly/GAAMFA
This sale supports the MFA Studio Art Program’s thesis exhibition in New York City. This annual sale offers a range of work by current and past faculty, graduate students, and alumni, all offered at affordable prices. The work reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the program, and spans a breadth of media, including photography, painting, screenprinting, intaglio, drawing, and zines. The sale consists of artworks donated by artists within the UConn community, and the sale will run until the end of January.
Thank you!
Graduate Art Alliance
Artist Talk 11/6 – Laura Splan
On Friday, November 6th, at 4 PM, artist Laura Splan will be giving an artist talk through Zoom. The event is open for all to attend. Splan will be speaking about her practice followed by a Q & A. Visit Splan‘s website and the event registration page on Eventbrite.
Prof. Betsy Athens presenting at Homer at the Beach exhibition
Prof. Betsy Athens will be presenting at the Cape Ann Museum, as part of their Homer at the Beach exhibition and programming.
Winslow Homer and the North Sea, Saturday, November16 at 2:00 p.m.
This talk examines the influence of Homer’s time in Cullercoats, England, on his portrayal of the sea. While his earlier works cast the coast more benignly as a place for leisure or industry, his later canvases present the sea as a site of struggle between humanity and the natural world.
This Cape Ann Museum program is part of a larger collaboration of museums across the New England area highlighting Homer and his national and regional impact. Here, for example is a photo of Professor Athens’ groundbreaking 2017 exhibition catalogue Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England featured at the Harvard Art Museum as part of their exhibition promotion.
Making Welcome Opening Reception
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon TODAY
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hopes to bring more coverage of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. The Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon will be taking place on Monday, April 1 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Greenhouse Studios and the Humanities Institute, located in the Babbidge Library. If you are at the Hartford Campus, it will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. in HTB 223 Computer Lab.
Read more about the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon here
Study in Florence
CAG Exhibition: Protests, Proclamations and Celebrations
Protests, Proclamations, and Celebrations:
Sharon Hayes
Part Two of Four Acts
Artist Sharon Hayes is part of our four part exhibition, Protests, Proclamations and Celebrations. She addresses ideas of romantic love, queer theory, activism, and politics. Incorporating recordings, speeches, songs, and letters along with her own writing, she describes her practice as “a series of performatives rather than performance”. She will be participating in an artist talk and opening reception from 5 pm to 7pm on Monday 25th in the Art Building at UCONN. Please join us for refreshments and conversation with the artist.
Ricerche: Three, 2016, Film Still
Fingernails on a Blackboard: Bella, 2014, Video Still
We Cannot Leave This World to Others, 2014, Video Still
Ricerche: Three, 2016, Installation Shot
Protests, Proclamations, and Celebrations: Shen Xin
Part One of Four Acts
Shen Xin delivered an artist talk to the UCONN community followed by a reception at the Contemporary Art Galleries. Shen also met with the graduate students for individual critiques.
Installation view of Shen Xin’s Escape Forms: Prologue, 2016 and Provocation of the Nightingale, 2017.
Still from Provocation of the Nightingale, 2017
Shen Xin speaks at the Thomas J. Dodd Center
Gallery Talk: Sujith S.N.
If you are in New York on Saturday, February 16th, please stop by for one of the last days of this sumptuous exhibition by Mumbai based artist Sujith S.N. at Aicon Gallery on Great Jones Street. Kathryn Myers will be doing a gallery talk with him. You won’t want to miss it!
Perspectives on #MeToo
Thursday February 7, 12:15-1:45 pm
Branford House, UConn Avery Point
This will be a discussion among UConn students, faculty and staff about sexual violence and consent.It will be offered in conjunction with a gallery installation featuring the work of UConn graduate student Jeanne Ciravolo, and is based on UConn’s Humility and Conviction in Public Life’s “Encounters” reflective, structured dialogue model. This discussion will include a variety of experts: representatives from Safe Futures, UConn’s Counseling and Mental Health Services and UConn’s Women’s Center.
Lunch will be served.
Artist Talk: Shen Xin
February 7th
9am to 11am
Dodd Center Konover Auditorium
Shen Xin was born in Chengdu, China and currently is living and working in London
and Amsterdam. She graduated from La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore and
earned her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
Provocation of the Nightingale , 2017 and Forms Escape: Prologue , 2016, are two of
Shen Xin’s exhibited multichannel media works that are complex and profound, and
require time and concentration to decipher. Both works avoid linear narrative and the
use of irony, for Shen Xin does not want to restrict viewers’ freedom to make their
own assumptions. “It’s a very sensory experience when things are complex because
you have to be open. That’s why I want to move away from irony because I want to
explore how to be even more engaged with that ability to open up space when
viewing the film.” You are continually challenged to assess how you come to believe
and form opinions about something. For Shen Xin, that something is connected with
notions of love, suffering, emotional pain and spirituality along with afflictions of
contemporary capitalism’s relationship with power and how Buddhist philosophy and
everyday life interconnect.
Portfolio Review at UConn 12/1/2018
Sendak Young Illustrators’ Prize 2018
In conjunction with the CT Children’s Book Fair hosted by UConn and Barnes and Noble, our undergraduate students studying Illustration participated in the Maurice Sendak Young Illustrators’ Prize program. Participants were treated to an individual critique of their works by professional illustrator Doug Salati. Salati was a 2015 recipient of The Maurice Sendak Foundation’s Sendak Fellowship.
Congratulations to the 2018 Prize winners:
First Place: Hal Tedeschi
Second Place: Aberdeen Taylor
Third Place: Hayley Joyal
Honorable Mention: Gillian Partyka
At Erector Square, Practice Morphs Into (Well)Being
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Artist Talk – Tiziano Lucchesi and Gloria Marco Munuera of ISI Florence
Tiziano Lucchesi (artist and fresco restoration specialist) and Gloria Marco Munuera (artist and photographer) from ISI, International Studies Institute in Florence are coming to the UConn Department of Art and art History. For those students who are interested in our Education Abroad, UConn Florence Studio Art program, this is a must see. Tiziano Lucchesi will be talking about the process of making and restoring fresco, while Gloria Gloria Marco Munuera will be presenting some of her own photography work. The presentations are scheduled for next Tuesday, October 16, from 3:30-5:00 in the art building. Room TBA, so come to the Pit to orient.
Image information:
Tiziano Lucchesi, fresco resturation
Annunciazione di Rodolfo del Ghirlandaio, XVII c.
Montanino-Firenze
Gloria Marco Munuera
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Discovery Day for Prospective Students at Storrs
School of Fine Arts: Discovery Day for Prospective Students at Storrs
Monday, November 12, 2018
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Observe and participate in classes, workshops, presentations, and exhibits for a unique opportunity to explore what it is like to be a student in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut in one of the four exciting artistic disciplines: Art & Art History, Dramatic Arts, Digital Media & Design, and Music.
Parking is available in the North and South garages and the Storrs Center Parking Garage (located on Royce Circle) for a nominal fee.
Register at https://connect.uconn.edu/register/sfa-discovery-day
For more information: https://sfa.uconn.edu/openhouse/
Open House: Join Us Sunday, Oct. 21st!
Meet with Dean Anne D’Alleva for the School of Fine Arts Dean’s Welcome
Von der Mehden Recital Hall
10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Then meet with faculty in a round-robin Q & A to explore our Degree options, Areas of Concentration, see student work, discuss career paths in Art and Art History, tour facilities, and more!
Department of Art and Art History
Arena Gallery, Art Building
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
We look forward to seeing you!
UCONN Art History Grad Nicholas Orchart’s Successful Internships
Nicholas Orchart, a recent UCONN graduate of Art History, took part in helping to create an exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum that hopes to Illuminate early American connections to slavery. To see an article written about this exhibit, see here: https://hyperallergic.com/439716/can-art-museums-help-illuminate-early-american-connections-to-slavery/
Nicholas is now at a paid internship at MoMa.
Alternative BFA Photography Show – Apr. 17
We are pleased to invite you to view our latest photographic work. This work is independent and reflective of each artist’s endeavors over the past few months in Senior Project. Come and celebrate our finished work and enjoy delicious appetizers and beverages during the opening reception on Tuesday, April 17th from 5-6:30pm. The work will remain hanging in the Art Building until Friday, April 20th.