Category: artists

Design/Race 3.31.15

Design-Race poster Final

Flyer Design by Doug Akagi, CCA Professor Emeritus and Design Department Advisor

This panel discussion will take place at the California College of the Arts, 101 Carolina Street, San Francisco, CA, on Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 8:30-10 AM. It is free and open to the public.

Designers will talk about how identity influences their work and the importance of building community both at CCA and beyond. Moderated by Lionel Ramazzini (BFA Industrial Design 2014), panelists will include a mix of alumni and other leaders in design with an opportunity for Q&A. Panelists will include Agelio Batle (MFA 1993) of Batle Studio, Maricarmen Sierra (DMBA 2013) of Metapattern, Mateo Hao (BFA Furniture 2013), and others.

Breakfast provided, networking encouraged.

RSVP by March 25, 2015 at alumni@cca.edu

https://www.cca.edu/calendar/2015/designrace-conversation

Sponsored by the CCA Alumni Association and the CCA President’s Diversity Steering Group, with support from the CCA Faculty of Color Research Alliance

LEC: Curating Pacific Spaces @ Int’l Studio & Curatorial Program

URL for additional information: http://www.iscp-nyc.org/events/current/curating-pacific-spaces.html

On August 13th, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents the panel Curating Pacific Spaces: Recent Developments in Contemporary Art from the South Pacific. New Zealand is home to one of the largest populations of Pacific people in the world, however Indigenous Pacific artists and curators have, until recently, rarely been featured in the art history of this nation. Today a new generation of indigenous artists endeavor to have their contribution to the contemporary art scene of the South Pacific fully recognized.

Curators of contemporary Maori and Pacific Islander art, Reuben Friend and Shelley Jahnke, will present their findings on recent developments in contemporary Pacific Art, from trends in the private gallery scene to the latest generation of emerging millennial artists. Reuben Friend’s findings highlight the types of contemporary Pacific Art currently being exhibited in public galleries in New Zealand and how these works translate to an international audience. Shelley Jahnke’s research examines the dynamics of selling and positioning contemporary Māori and Pacific Art within New Zealand and international markets.

Reuben Friend is an artist and curator of Māori and Pākehā lineage. From 2009-2013, he worked as the Curator of Māori and Pacific Arts at City Gallery and recently relocated to Brisbane where he works as the Exhibition Manager at Logan Art Gallery while developing contemporary Pacific art projects on a freelance basis.

Shelley Jahnke is a Māori curator with experience working within public and commercial galleries in New Zealand. Prior to taking up the role of curator, at Te Manawa Art Gallery, Palmerston North, she worked exclusively for an Asian-based private international art collector and contributed to the curation and project management of the international touring show Roundabout. This ambitious three year project debuted at the City Gallery, Wellington in late 2010 and later the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2012.

The presentation will be facilitated by ISCP artist-in-residence Shigeyuki Kihara.
Contact Email: ebees@iscp-nyc.org

Meschac Gaba in Conversation with Chris Dercon @ Tate Modern

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Beninese artist Meschac Gaba talks to Chris Dercon, Director of the Tate Modern.

The occasion: To mark the Tate’s largest acquisition and display of Meschac Gaba’s work, Museum of Contemporary Africa Art 1997-2002.

The conversation:
An opportunity to hear Gaba speak about his work and its journey to the Tate Modern. The talk will also feature personal anecdotes of Dercon and Gaba’s friendship. They’ve been buddies since 1996/7. In 2000 Dercon interviewed Gaba as Director of the Museum Bojimans Van Benunigen, Rotterdam, and later that year acted as a witness at his wedding. Documentation of the wedding features in the Marriage room of Gaba’s exhibition.

Meschac Gaba in Conversation with Chris Dercon

Starr Auditorium
Wednesday 3 July 2013,
Time: 18.30 – 21.00
£12, concessions available
Ticket holders’ private view of the display after the talk from 20.00–21.00

Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG

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African Masters on The Africa Channel

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African art in your living room!

African Masters is a new arts series that starts on the Africa Channel at 9pm tonight. The 6-part programme visits studios in Senegal, galleries in New York, artists residences in Nigeria and auction houses in London to reveal how the African art scene is emerging as a dynamic force internationally. The globe-trotting show shot on location in Nigeria, Senegal Benin, Kenya, South Africa, France, the USA and the UK features interviews with a wide range of artists, Ousmane Sow, William Kentridge, Romuald Hazoumé, Yinka Shonibare and Yusuf Grillo, exclusive studio  visits with El Anatsui, Ablade Glover, Soly Cissé, Sokari Douglas-Camp, Bruce Onabrakpeya and Mary Evans as well as discussions with art world key players including André Magnin (French Curator and Art Dealer) and Bisi Silva (Curator at the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos).

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CFP: “Life in My City Photo Africa” Photography Contest @ Life In My City Art Festival, Enugu, Nigeria

INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST: LIFE IN MY CITY PHOTO AFRICA

Life In My City Art Festival, Enugu, Nigeria, hereby invites entries for Life in My City Photo Africa as part of the 2013 Life In My City Art Festival holding in October 2013.

Photo Africa is an international photo contest for African photographers who will be not more than 35 years of age by October 12th, 2013, living and working in Africa.

Submitted works are expected to portray interesting current living conditions in the African city as seen through the lens of photographer, bearing in mind that one of the aims of the Life In My City Art Festival is to provide a platform for young artists to make meaningful statements about their environment.

Rules available at website www.lifeinmycityartsfestival.com

CFP: “Italian American?” @ Italian American Studies Association Conference

The 2013 conference of the Italian American Studies Association (October
3-5, New Orleans) examines the politics of the identifying term “Italian
American” from multiple perspectives and in different time periods. What
are the social conditions in which the ever-changing narratives of
collective identity are formulated and perpetuated? How are ethnic symbols
and practices mustered and re-invented at the service of “Italian
American?” And ultimately, how do competing politics reveal and engender
intragroup tensions but possibly also productive dialogue, both of which
might re-configure understandings and enactments of the very term “Italian
American?”  The conference is open to scholars in different disciplines,
creative writers (novelists, poets, and memoirists), and visual and media
artists.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JUNE 15, 2013.

Abstracts for scholarly papers (up to 500 words, plus a note on technical
requirements) and a brief, narrative biography should be emailed as
attached documents, by June 15, 2013, to
iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net to whom other inquiries may also be
addressed.

Prospective presenters may expect to be advised of their acceptance or
otherwise by August 1, 2013. All presenters, respondents, and discussants
must be members in good standing of the Italian American Studies
Association by September 15, 2013.

Conference Committee: Bénédicte Deschamps, Michael Eula, Laura E. Ruberto,
Joseph Sciorra, chair

Tribute to Fitzroy ‘Fitz’ Harrack (1945-2013)

Jasmine Thomas-Girvan wins 2012 Aaron Matalon Award