February 01, 2021
The UNM Tamarind Institute is collaborating with the City of Albuquerque to create opportunities for several local artists. Five artists have been selected to create lithographs through the project: Eric Garcia, Szu-Han Ho, Gabriela Hernandez, Jane Lackey, and Zahra Marwan.
The plans for this project began well before the pandemic hit. Inspired by the momentum of the City’s initiative Tipping Points for Creatives, Tamarind’s project is providing an opportunity for artists who are poised to benefit from expanding their practice to include collaborative printmaking, specifically at Tamarind Institute.
For many artists, the opportunity to collaborate with Tamarind’s highly skilled printers yields new thinking about their creative practice and builds new international audiences for their work, essentially tipping local professional artists into the next phase of their career and into new markets.
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FSU College of Fine Arts faculty featured in virtual exhibition ‘What it Takes’
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In a first-of-its-kind virtual faculty exhibition, Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) has brought together the six schools and departments in the College of Fine Arts for a celebration and exploration of the power of research in the arts.
“What It Takes” features work from faculty across the college, showing the strengths, visions and skills of its many esteemed artists, performers, choreographers, designers and historians.
“Not only does this exhibition highlight the diverse accomplishments and research pursuits of CFA faculty, but it also underscores our college’s basic educational mission of encouraging students to see and experience differently and engage the world critically,” said Michael Carrasco, associate dean of the College of Fine Arts. “Its web-based presentational format demonstrates
It turns out there s $285,000 at the end of a yellow brick road.
Students in the Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy gained a new appreciation for historic brick streets after taking a project course designed to provide a local municipality with data relevant to the upkeep of its infrastructure.
From left to right: Rachel Bukowitz, Erick Shiring, Yunxi Luna Hu and Shunyu Charlotte Rao studied the costs and benefits associated with preserving brick streets in Mt. Lebanon.
Mt. Lebanon, located about 10 miles southwest of CMU s Pittsburgh campus, has about one quarter of its streets paved with bricks, 76 in total. While anecdotal evidence showed that residents find the streets charming, the municipality didn t have hard data to show it was economical to continue to maintain the streets. Enter CMU students.
NEH grant to support digital archive of Black choreographers work
Professor Mason has been working for a number of years to archive the work of Black choreographers.
AUSTIN, TX
.- In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded just under $100,000 for a project spearheaded by University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor of Dance Gesel Mason to support her ongoing project to archive the work of Black choreographers.
Mason and co-project director Rebecca Salzer, associate professor of dance and director of the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative at the University of Alabama, received an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for their project Prototyping an Extensible Framework for Access to Dance Knowledge.
How Ryan Villamael relearned how to paint
Written by Oliver Emocling
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endIndex: After a decade of producing intricate latticework and delicate paper sculptures, Ryan Villamael finds use for his collection of off-cuts through painting. Photo courtesy of SILVERLENS GALLERIES
Stepping into a space inhabited by Ryan Villamael’s works is a convenient way of teleporting to paradise. In “Locus Amoenus,” which was exhibited at Singapore Biennale in 2016 and at Biwako Biennale in 2018, monstera leaves cut from maps hung from ceilings and crept up on walls, depicting a beautiful scene from an untended garden. Locus amoenus means “pleasant place” in Latin, but the installation of Villamael’s clusters of paper leaves in unnatural spaces perhaps also reflect on invasiveness and the Anthropocene. When “A Paradise Lost” was showcased at Silverlens in 2019, the exhibition space offered a vantage point to a vast mountain range a 20-meter scroll painstak