April & May 2016 College News

new video project by the Colombian artist. Gina will be traveling to Lisbon, Portugal to present the paper “Antagonistic Environments: Spatial Politics, Gender, and Sexuality in the Kinetic Installations of Feliza Bursztyn, Jacqueline Nova and Julia Acuña” at the international conference Penetrable/ Traversable/ Habitable: Exploring Spatial Environments by Women Artists in the 1960s and 1970s, May 19–20. The conference will be held at the Centro de Arte Moderna - Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian and is organized by the Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, Paris (AWARE) and Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Maia Wright and Kate Jarboe have been invited to create a new public art/design intervention in collaboration with the annual Open Engagement conference, based on local archives of LGBTQ civil rights activism in the Bay Area. On May 1, they will give a public presentation of this piece in the context of their ongoing social art and design project, “An Army of Lovers,” at the Oakland Museum of California. Maia Wright has been commissioned by the University of Chicago Press to design Darby English’s latest monograph, 1971: A Year in the Life of Color , which addresses two pivotal exhibitions of African- American art in 1971 — the Whitney’s Contemporary Black Artists in America , and The DeLuxe Show , which was presented in a renovated movie palace in Houston. Darby English is Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and Consulting Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. Maia has been invited to exhibit her book design work at the biennial National Museum Publishing Seminar, which will be held in Chicago, May 12–14, 2016. Presenters include publishers from the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Getty, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Yale University Press, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Maia has also been invited to give a presentation at the international ALMS (Archives, Libraries, Museum, and Special Collections) conference in London, June 22–24, 2016, on the topic of a socially engaged design interventions that incorporate archival research. The conference is co-sponsored by the City of London Metropolitan Archives and Bishopsgate Institute. Student Accolades Post-baccalaureate student in ceramics, Elizabeth Davis , has been accepted to the MFA ceramics program at Florida State University and Miami University with assistantship offers from both programs. After visiting both schools, she has decided to accept the offer from Miami University. Kathi Herron (BFA 2016) had a ceramic sculpture selected by Howard Taylor, Director of the San Angelo Museum of Art, for purchase for the museum’s collection from an exhibition of works by members of the Texas Clay Arts Association that he juried. The exhibition was shown at the museum’s Coop Gallery. Jennifer Masley (BFA 2016) and Jerry Solomon (BFA 2016) had ceramic works selected for the statewide student juried exhibition, Rising Eyes of Texas , at the Rockport Art Center. Brian Johnson’s print ... all a question of story ... Randall Reid | Fields of Color | a solo exhibition