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The special evening honored dynamic duos and how they’re pouring into the next generation of artists and craftmakers.

A new Australian film has been created for and with people with blind or low vision. Sound engineer Eliza Jane South shares her experience of how the professional and personal collided in this project.

The Institute’s MFA programs in Fine Arts and Photography are leaving the Pfizer building and moving to Dock 72 in the city’s fabrication headquarters for Fall 2024.

The rise of ChatGPT and visual AI platforms like Midjourney and DALL-E have some artists crying foul when it comes to fair use. But art institutions transformed by the digital revolution see AI as the logical next step.  Rick Dakan was teaching a comic book class last year with illustration faculty—including a professor who helped draw the famed comic Garfield—when a colleague arrived late because they had been looking at Midjourney, the generative AI platform that creates art with a simple prompt. “I remember cornering the fine arts chair, saying, ‘Have you seen this?’” said Daka...

For her current exhibition Halfway Off, South continues to produce from the mind of the hand and its partner, the industrial sewing machine. Between foot and plate, South finds the relational and situational dialectics, tensions, and moments between textures and fibers, discovering synthesis through process.