Graduate Schools

For those of you have been asking about graduate programs - For those of you that are being to research graduate school programs there is a new section of links that will contain a list of potential schools. The link will bring you to the Art Department of the listed school. This is not a complete list nor is it listed in any particular order. After the school name you might find a media, this does NOT mean that you shouldn't look around if you a looking for a sculpture program and it indicated CD after the name. It simply means that if your first affinity is to X start looking here as a suggestion. Again, this is by no means an inclusive list… there are many many more programs out there. The list will keep growing so be sure to check back.

A few things to ask yourself.. is there a particular person that you encountered in your research that has helped to mentor your work through their work.. do they teach somewhere? Go out and find them? Are you looking to focus on one media or are you interested in letting your ideas determine your media? Which department will let you do what you need to do? Look at their Speakers Series or Visting Artist list... are they likely to bring artists that interest you? How is the Art Community were? How are the graduate studios and lab facilities? Big city.. meduim sized city.. small city..?

If you have found a school that is particularly interesting to you, post a comment here and share what you have found with your classmates. If you comment about a school that you found to this posting it will be added to the school listing. Be sure to include in your post the web link to that Art Department, please and thank you.

Coming soon ... we will be meeting as a entire group (all three sections) to talk about how to begin preparing for graduate school applications (and gallery submissions too) among other things. Stay Tuned...

10/6 Nina Freudenheim Gallery

Friday, September 30, 2005
10/6 Nina Freudenheim Gallery
ELLEN CAREY: Moirés Blinks Monochromes Starts & Stops Mixes

Reception for the artist Saturday, October 8, 6-8 pm
October 8 – November 8, 2005

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, from 10 AM to 5 PM

9/29 Class Meeting

Here are links to the artists that we looked at today

Gabriel Orozco
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/orozco/index.html

Ann Hamilton
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hamilton/index.html

John Feodorov
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/feodorov/index.html

Shahzia Sikander
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sikander/index.html

James Turrell
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/index.html

Season Three has started on PBS.. take a look around the site.
There are two people from Buffalo on Season 3

Any comments on these artists and there work?

Extreme Abstraction Ending Soon

Extreme Abstraction
Friday, July 15 – Sunday, October 2

Albright Knox Art Gallery
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222

For more information, please visit www.albrightknox.org

9/29 Jonathan Culler

Jonathan Culler
Time: 1:00pm, Clemens 640

Jonathan Culler is the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

Pacifications: New West Coast Art

Pacifications: New West Coast Art

9/29-10/15
Opening 9/29 5-7pm
UB Art Department Gallery
B45 Center for the Arts

9/30 Morrison Scholarship

REMINDER: The Morrison Scholarship applications are due 9/30/05. If you qualify, be sure to file an application, which you can get from the board outside of the Art Office CFA 202. This scholarship can help with your senior thesis project. It's not a guaranteed scholarship but it can't help you for sure if you don't apply and try.

9/29 Meet in CFA 144

Adriane'e Section - we will be coming together as a group on Thursday 9/29 in CFA 144. Please be sure to read Heidegger's The Origin of a Work of Art. Be sure to digest what Heidegger is writing about and be prepared to express how this can relate to your individual project and your process as object makers. This will also be a general housekeeping session to make sure that everyone is organized to move into the next round of individual meetings. In the meantime, please keep working on your projects.

9/26 James Currie

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

James Currie is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at UB. James was previously an Assistant Professor in the College of Music, Loyola University, New Orleans, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University. His primary research and teaching interests include hermeneutic and cultural musicological engagements with music and the Enlightenment; Modernism, style, and the music of the Second Viennese School; music and the ideologies of Romanticism; and critical-theoretical perspectives on music interpretation, including the role of feminist discourse in opera. He has authored many critical articles on music and is presently at work on a book project entitled, Come in Under the Shadow: Music, Failure, and the Act.

9/24 One Hour Gallery

"Urban/ Rural Divide"
NYC photographers exhibition
Angela Jimenez, Emily Baron, Kira Sugarman, Chiho Kitajma

Opening Saturday 9/24 at One Hour Gallery
Opening at 7-11pm

Gallery Hours:
Thursday, Sept. 29th from 4-8 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 30th from 5-8
Sat., Oct. 1st from 3-7
Closing Reception on 10/15

The One Hour Gallery is located at 2331 Elmwood Ave., Kenmore, NY
onehourgallery.chung.com

9/23 Carnegie Art Center Opening

EYES AND EARS: Sound Needs Image
On view: September 23 - October 22, 2005
Opening reception and performance: Friday, September 23, 7 - 9 p.m.

This exhibition highlights the work of area media and sound artists interested in composition and new methods of collaboration. This exhibition will be a witness to the development of original sound and image works that are collaborative and improvised, trustful and open to new ways of working between media and sound artists.

Twelve media artists have been invited to produce an original, silent (or near silent) short film or video piece to be "read" as a graphic score by variations of performers from local new music group, The Open Music Ensemble. Live recordings and performances of the scores in sound will be paired with visual works, developed especially for this exhibition. A live concert of selected works will be performed the night of the opening, Friday, September 23.

Featured media artists include Dorothea Braemer, Elliot Caplan, Stephanie Gray, Siew-wai Kok, Carl Lee, Brian Milbrand, Vince Mistretta, Jan Nagle, Alan Rhodes, Kelly Spivey, Carolyn Tennant, and Stephen Vitiello.

Participating musicians include Steve Baczkowski (horns), J.T Rinker (trombone), Josh DeScherer (bass), Ben Harris (violin), Leah Muir (cello), Otto Muller (accordian), Chris Reba (bass), Will Redman (percussion), Bill Sack (electric guitar), Andrew Walsh (contrabass), and Todd Whitman (horns and various alternative noise makers).

The Open Music Ensemble is a collective of over a dozen Buffalo-based musicians affiliated with The Open Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization for composers and artists dedicated to the promotion of artistic expression based on unconventional, experimental, open-form, and -- especially -- graphical, forms of communicating musical ideas.

9/22 Carol Parkinson

Individual Meetings that were scheduled for Thursday 9/22 are re-scheduled for Tuesday 9/27.

We have arranged for all three sections of Senior Thesis to attend the lecture by Carol Parkinson who is the Director of Harvestworks in NYC. Please go to CFA 144 at 3pm on 9/22.

Harvestworks was founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using electronic technologies, Harvestworks' mission is to encourage the creation and expand the dissemination of digital media artwork. From its central SOHO location and through its Internet presence Harvestworks provides accessible and coordinated digital media production, education, information and content distribution services to a diverse creative community that includes electronic music composers, interactive media designers, film and video makers, digital tool developers and computer programmers. By bringing together innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts, Harvestworks provides a vital context and catalyst for creativity in the digital arts. ... Harvestworks .--> 596 Broadway #602 NY NY 10012

9/22 Ros Diprose

Ros Diprose
University of Australia, Sydney

Time: 1:30pm, 120 Clemens Hall
Title: " 'Where' your people from girl?' Gender, Race and Place Beneath Clouds"

Rosalyn Diprose researches on the philosophy of Nietzsche, 20th Century French philosophy (including existential phenomenology and its critics) and feminist philosophy (sexual difference and philosophy of the body). She is currently researching on ideas of community.

9/19 William Pope L.

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

William Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. Pope.L was included in The 2002 Whitney Biennial, and his street performances have been featured in Art in America. Citing social conundrum as the engine that drives his work, Pope.L addresses contemporary issues such as class, consumerism, and culturally embedded racism with dark humor and biting critique. His installations use unconventional materials, including peanut butter, mayonnaise, and Pop Tarts to provoke a closer examination of the "stuff" of everyday life and to raise questions about art as a commodity. According to the artist's dictum "Race becomes You", and his own body becomes the site on which to play out, literalize and interrogate stereotypes. A traveling 25 year retrospective exhibition of Pope.L's work was exhibited in Portland, Maine; Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; New York City and at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

9/12 David Liss

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

David Liss is Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto where he has organized over 35 exhibitions and projects in 8 countries, including Canada. He also has organized and/or curated over 100 solo and group exhibitions of contemporary Canadian and international art. Liss regularly contributes art reviews to the Montreal Gazette and has had writings published in journals such as Canadian Art, Espace, C.V. Photo, ETC. Montreal, and ARCO Publications. David Liss is a contributing editor to Canadian Art magazine, an Adjunct Professor at York University in Toronto, and a practicing artist.

Welcome to Senior Thesis

Welcome.... This is what all of you have been working toward. Since you are all working independently on your projects and there may be a few weeks in between group class meetings, this is the place to check in and see what's going on. Keep checking back for exhibition/lecture announcements and scholarship opportunities. We look forward to an exciting and productive run toward the final exhibition in April 2006.

We will continue to add to the the links on this page for galleries, artists and general resourses. If there is something that you would like to add or share about an exhibition/gallery or an artist that you find as a resource post a comment here. This site is for you, make an addition for your classmates. Be Well and Productive.