Posts from — July 2010

MFA Alum Alethea Norene ‘10 has an upcoming installation at chelliswilson.

The Particulars of Persistent Reverie:
an experiment in fashioning the lost and looming
chelliswilson | Portland, ME
August 6th 2010

August the sixth beginning at five o’clock in the
evening, it would be our deepest honor to share in
the delights of your company

for

Alethea Norene’s latest reconciliations with Southern apparitions

High Society Music * Tailored Clothing * City Gossip *
Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Beverages * Scandal * Ripe Peaches

MFA Student Kim Vose Jones ‘12 is in a group show at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.

What Remains
Confederation Centre of the Arts | Prince Edward Island
May 15th – September 19th 2010

Curated by Mireille Eagan
Featuring: Joyce Wieland, Rick Burns, Terrance Houle, Genevieve Cadieux, Sarah Maloney, Jeff Wilson, Sarah Saunders, Kim Vose Jones, Irene F. Whittome, Vessna Perunovich, Lisa Steele, Scott Saunders.

Manicured by choice or modified by circumstance, every body is a portrait of knowledge, histories and politics, both real and imagined. What Remains considers the interwoven issues of vision and space, gender and representation, politics and pleasure, while showing how contemporary artists have drawn on insights of diverse media.

Read more about the exhibition »

MFA alums Cori Champagne ’08 and Sandra Preston ’08 (aka The Bunny Sandwich Collective) will participate in the Maker Faire in New York City.

American Nomads Project
Maker Faire | Queens, NY
September 25th & 26th 2010

The America expansionist legacy begets a destiny of wanderlust. Envisioning America without a hunger for development requires imagining another country; yet as modern artists we often consider the ideals of pioneering from the contemporary standpoint of colonial heartache and ecological betrayal. In American Nomads the bi-coastal members of The Bunny Sandwich Collective will tackle the American ideals of the nomadic ‘Pioneering Spirit’ precisely by embracing them.

American Nomads is possible in part thanks to generous grants from the Puffin Foundation and the Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

MECA Open House

Join faculty, current students, and alumni for an afternoon of studio tours, portfolio reviews and information about our graduate studio program. Friday August 6, 2010 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. RSVP by August 2, 2010 online, by email, or phone 800.699.1509.

2009 MFA Open House: Elaine Angelopoulos MFA ’09,
Brian DeRosia MFA ’05, and Alethea Beeker MFA ’10.

MFA Alum Tina Zagyva ’09 has a new installation at the Westcott Community Art Center.

Vessel #3
Westcott Community Art Center | Syracuse NY
July 1st – July 27th 2010

From Tina:

I am a designer of instances. I conceive and produce immersive-sculptural environments for my viewer centric practice. The 21st century has accumulated an abundance of refuse & discarded materials, in which I seek to uncover found objects hidden potentials. By gathering materials, I build structures to craft a theater of a yet-to-exist future. I have developed a post-appocalyptic narrative entitled, Themselves Has Been a Gathering. From the narrative, I have developed meditative spaces for our future human selves called Vessels. Both sculptural and interactive, the Vessels act as a garrette, or club house.  The viewer must abandon habits and learn to ‘play’ by act of crawling into the space and re-vitalizing a sense of wonder, exploration and imagination.

Three MFA Alums will participate as MECA Artists in Residence for the 2010 Season.

Quinlan Corey MFA ‘06 will be at the Stephen Pace House in Stonington, ME in June and Matt Burnett MFA ’06 will be there in August. In September, Tina Zagyva MFA ’09 will travel to Nova Scotia to Baie St Marie Artist and Family Residency at the Jenny Family Compound in New Edinburgh.