UM MFA Grad Seminar: 2012

4/24/12

FINAL May 8

5-7:30 pm

Second group will present Rhizome ArtBase curatorial projects.

Bring printouts of your CV, statement & card, include the url of your website to turn in.

rhizome.org Member Exhibition presentations 4/24 AND 5/8

Sign up for a rhizome.org account (UM has an institutional membership, you will receive an invitational email shortly if you have not already). Explore all of Rhizome's resources, especially the ARTBASE. You will each curate a Member Exhibition, including a 400-500 word curatorial statement. Include 5-7 artworks in the exhibition that clearly articulate the theme you present in your curatorial statement. You will give oral presentations of your exhibitions during our final two meetings.

http://rhizome.org/artbase/exhibitions/view/1681/
http://rhizome.org/artbase/exhibitions/view/1665/
http://rhizome.org/artbase/exhibitions/view/1679/
http://rhizome.org/artbase/exhibitions/view/1678/

4/24
Dan
Colby
Martin
Yusmary
Eddy
Sean
Michelle

5/8
Abe
Colin
Cynthia
Leah
Valeria
Carrie
Gerry

Summer Reading

http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/

4/10/12

4/10 & 4/17 Resources

CV
There are many ways to organize an Artist's CV. It generally starts with the artist's contact info & education background (college and special programs only), followed by a variety of headings appropriate to the artist's exhibition, publication and award history. Headings include Solo Exhibitions, Two Person Exhibitions, Selected Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances, Commissions, Publications, Bibliography, Residencies, Awards and Honors, etc. usually beginning with Solo Exhibitions (if at least 3) or Selected Exhibitions. Notice that the categories and margins make it really easy to skim through these CV's and get the important info at a glance.

CV (Artist/Exhibition) from College Art Association

CV (Professional/Teaching) from College Art Association

Artist Resume Examples:
Jamie Isenstein
Molly Smith

Artist Statement
Examples:
Fabienne Lasserre

Things to think about:
Biographical info (a little, if it's relevant to the themes in your work)
Big ideas you address with your work
Artists/ movements who have influenced you
How the work is made
Description of an important piece and how it fits into your process
Your career/education up to now
Biggest accomplishment as an artist
Something that sets you apart from other artists

Cards
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwmZ65ndzEDcNE1jaHJMTlZTRE0 (Thanks Colby)
cardobserver.com
moo.com
forprintonly
http://www.designyourowncard.com/business-cards

Web Basics

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_fonts.asp

4/2/12

Museum Education 4/3

Emily Mello, Director of Education and Public Outreach at MAM, will talk about the artist's role in museum education programs.

Suggested reading:

http://machineproject.com/files/pdf/Machine_Project_Public_Engagement_Artist_in_Residence_Report_compressed.pdf

or scroll down, and can check out some videos of the project and others here:
http://machineproject.com/

2/9/12

March 6, 20 & 27= GROUP CRIT

I want each person to install one new work (not something we saw in your TED talks) in the Crit Room at the Studio Arts Building (1st floor). Try to install/ hang your work before class begins.

March 6: Colin, Dan, Gerardo, Abraham, Cynthia

March 20: Leah, Sean, Martin, Yusmary, Michelle

March 27: Colby, Valeria, Carolyn, Eddy

Read the play The Crit by Ricard Roth

Things we discussed
The Yellow Wallpaper

Cynthia: Liu Bolin, Cecelia Parades

1/27/12

Feb. 28 --Guest Critic

Nina Johnson, owner & director of Gallery Diet

Nina will talk about how her education and experience led her to open an art gallery and tell us about the gallery's program.

Then each student will do a short introduction of their practice and present a proposal for the project room OR exterior wall at Gallery Diet.

In return, Nina will do a cold crit of your presentations, websites & project room proposal materials.

This exercise is about putting together concise, eloquent, easy to follow proposal materials and getting a cold read on your website.

What you'll need when Nina visits:

Your proposal on a word document
A statement about your proposed project
A rendering of the project (one image)
A detail of the rendering if you'd like
Links to 3 relevant projects on your website
Link to your artist's statement (one paragraph)

Feb. 21 Artist's websites (free and paid)

Next week your website will be an important tool in showing Nina your work/proposals. I will go over 4 ways to make a free website in class (wordpress.com, blogspot.com, tumblr.com and wix.com), as well as a paid option (otheropeoplespixels.com) that is very affordable and versatile. Look at these beforehand and get started if you can.

Read this article about the free options.

Come to class with your images, artist's statement and laptop, and be prepared to edit your site or work on your Google Sketchup image & project room proposal.

1/17/12

Artslant Draft Reviews Feb. 14; Google Sketchup intro

We will peer-edit your drafts in class.

Notes from the Senior Editor:
Write in your own voice, if it works it works. Begin with a concise summary of the show. Elaborate in the body of the article, probing an aspect of the exhibition until you get to a deeper insight. Then summarize the idea in the conclusion. There is no limit on the amount of words. You can review any exhibition of art or design, any medium including performance, in any type of exhibition setting anywhere in South Florida.

In preparation for the upcoming visit from Nina Johnson, Colin will walk us through Google Sketchup. This is free software, I suggest bringing your laptop to class tonight and, if you can, install Google Sketchup beforehand.

Rhizome? Discussion Feb. 7

Read the Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus by Gille Deleuze and Felix Guattari
We will discuss the text in class on the 6th. Each student will be responsible for a particular aspect of this text, I'll assign those once the course enrollment is settled.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcODQwMjI0MGMtZWI0OC00MGZiLWFjZTEtZWRlNjVjNjQ0MjVi&hl=en_US

For the discussion, I have assigned students to lead the discussion about sections of the text. There will be a lot to look up. Page numbers refer to the numbers at the top of each page of the text, not the page of the PDF.

Sean: background info on Deleuze & Guattari
Leah: Pages 3&4
Abraham: Pages 5-6
Martin: Pages 7-8
Carolyn: Pages 9-10
Yusmary: 11-12
Cynthia: 13-14
Colby: 15-16
Dan: 17-18
Eddy: 19-20
Gerardo: 21-22
Valeria: 23-24
Michelle: 25 & notes
Colin: Why did "the rhizome" catch on as a metaphor? What are the rebuttals?

1/16/12

TED Talks-- January 31

On January 31, each student will give a 10 minute presentation of his or her work, including:

one overarching theme or idea
5 images
conceptual and material interests
artists/ movements who influence your work
a little background info

Practice this presentation, you have to pack it all into ten minutes.

Also, read this article by Roberta Smith:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/arts/design/23smit.html

More on Ted Talks

January 24--LegalArt Field Trip

On January 24 we will visit artist Trong Ngueyn's studio at the LegalArt Residency.
Trong will talk about his work and the trajectory of his career.

Trong is an artist, and also a writer/editor for www.artslant.com, a networking site for artists that publishes reviews of shows around the world. He will explain the submission process for writers who wish to review shows on the site.

Each of you will submit a review to Artslant, according to Trong's specifications. First Drafts will be due on Feb. 14, we will edit them in class. Final drafts will be due on the 21st. Hopefully some of you will have your work published on artslant.com.

Trong has asked us to read the following text before we come visit:
http://studiocleo.com/librarie/mallarme/prose.html

Syllabus/ Course Expectations

Art 604 Seminar in Studio Art
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwmZ65ndzEDcZmY5YmIyMzktMGRhNy00YjFmLThjZmQtY2JkYmJhNDI2YjU3

Events & Opportunities

Deadline 4/15

LegalArt is currently receiving applications of video-based artworks to be exhibited and screened in a public event.

In collaboration with Southernmost Situations, the exhibition and screening will showcase current and new works by national artists who work with video as medium.

One work will receive an Audience Award which will be voted for on the day of the exhibition and screening, which will take place at LegalArt on May 19^th, 2012.

Deadline 4/16
New York Arts Practicum is a summer program in New York City where advanced undergraduates, recent graduates, and graduate students experientially learn artmaking and participate in intellectual culture outside of the art school. The program centers around an internship with an active artist, a studio seminar, and weekly site visits to artist studios, galleries, and museums. Participants complete internships in the studios of Arts Practicum mentors. Through the intensive process of working with an artist on a day to day basis, students gain a view of their near futures as artists, learning models for negotiating a creative life outside of school in an expanded field of art prduction.

Ursula van Rydingsvard Lecture 4/21

at FIU Frost Art Museum

Deadline 4/21
Locust Projects is pleased to announce an open call to South Florida graduate-level artists for a solo exhibition in Locust Projects' Project Room during the summer of 2012. We are accepting applications for solo or collaborative projects. All artists must be currently enrolled in MFA students.

Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. http://www.locustprojects.org/submissions/the-lab-mfa.shtml

Deadline 5/4

Miami Writer's Prize is Artlurker's annual award aimed to encourage residents of Miami Dade County to write critically about art. To enter simply submit a review of a recent art related event to writersprize (at) artlurker (dot) com by May 4th 2012. The winner will receive an $800 stipend in return for an 8 post writing placement on ARTLURKER.com. The winner will be announced via www.artlurker.com on May 18th, 2012. An awards soiree in their honor will be held at Locust Projects’ new space at 3852 North Miami Avenue on May 24th, 2012.Jurors: Noah Becker (WHITEHOT MAGAZINE), Hunter Braithwaite (THEREISNOTHERE), Paddy Johnson (ARTFAGCITY) and Hrag Vartanian (HYPERALLERGIC).