FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The University of the Arts MFA Program in Ceramics, Painting and Sculpture announces the
14th Annual Summer Lecture Series featuring noted visiting artists and critics. Held in the
CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall at 320 South Broad Street from 12-1 pm each Wednesday from
June 18 through July 23, 2007, the lectures are free and open to the public. For further
information, contact Program Director Carol Moore 215.717.6106 or, Erin Boyle, at 215.717.6489.
June 18
Stacy Levy
Stacy Levy received a BA in Sculpture and Forestry from Yale University in 1984 and MFA in 1991 from the Tyler School of Art. She has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a Mid -Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant. She was a visiting artist at Pilchuck Glass School 2004 and at Haystack Mountain School of Craft in 2006 working with the tides of coastal Maine. Through public commissions she has detailed microscopic life forms in Seattle, Philadelphia, and New Jersey making works about storm water, hydrodynamics and watersheds at the Philadelphia Waterworks, The Morris Arboretum, and the North Carolina Zoo. She is currently working on a tidal piece on the Hudson River in New York with Matthews Nielson Landscape Architects, and developing a wind piece for the University of South Florida in Tampa.
June 25
Fred Gutzeit
Fred Gutzeit is a New York-based artist who received his MFA from Hunter College and has lectured at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Miami University. He has taught courses in multi-media at University of the Arts that fostered the development of his own series "Work Gloves". Recently, he has exhibited at the Side Show Gallery in Brooklyn and the FusionArts Museum in New York; Ohio State University, Columbus; and The Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, California. A recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, his work is found in numerous public and private collections that range from Arthur Danto to The Library of Congress. His recent works are interpretations of specific landscape locations that show natural forms that become patterns.
July 2
Karyn Olivier
Born in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Karyn Olivier received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, MI, and a BA in Psychology, from Dartmouth College. Recent exhibitions include: The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri; the Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden; The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Whitney Museum of Art at Altria, New York; The Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea; and the 2005 "Greater New York" at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. A Creative Capital grantee, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award. Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Tyler School of Art, Olivier is currently on the faculty of Bard College's MFA Summer Program.
July 9
Jane Marsching
Digital media artist, Jane D. Marsching's current project, Arctic Listening Post, explores our past, present and future human impact on the Arctic environment through interdisciplinary and collaborative practices, including video installations, virtual landscapes, dynamic websites, and data visualizations, all of which foster emerging forms of participation and social engagement. Recent exhibitions include: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA; the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia. She has received grants from Creative Capital, LEF Foundation, Artadia and Artists Resource Trust. Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art, she received her MFA in Photography from The School of Visual Arts, New York City.
July 16
Benjamin Edwards
Benjamin Edwards lives and works in Washington, D.C. He received his BA from UCLA, CA, and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Internationally recognized exhibitions include solo shows at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York, NY; Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard in Paris, France; and Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and The New York Public Library. Edwards is known for his colorful fragmented cityscapes, which he makes in both acrylic, oil, and recently, unique inkjet prints. These canvases blur the line between reality and virtual reality, as Edwards employs computers and 3D modeling, which allows him to design his own city including both historical and imaginary buildings, hybrid figures or 'automatons' and atmospheric effects.
July 23
Sadashi Inuzuka
Sadashi Inuzuka was born in Kyoto, Japan. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, and his BFA diploma from the Emily Carr Institute of Art, Vancouver, Canada. As he continues to push the physical and symbolic potential of clay, Inuzuka has become well known for his large installations that address the intersection of human society and the natural world, traditional and innovative processes, art and science. He has exhibited, lectured and produced work in Australia, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Internationally recognized for his innovative and poetic installations, Inuzuka has received grants from: the Pollack/Krasner Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust, and The Canada Council for the Arts. He currently teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Hi Folks,
Here are some links to each lecturer's work if interested!
Best,
TerriStacy Levy:
http://
www.stacylevy.comFred Gutzeit:
http://www.fredgutzeit.com/Karyn Olivier:
http://www.dunnandbrown.com/exhibitions-art-olivier.htmlJane Marsching
http://www.janemarsching.com/Benjamin Edwards
http://www.benjaminedwards.net/Sadashi Inuzuka:
http://www.dubhecarrenogallery.com/
