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Special Announcements

Undergraduate Advising

Studio Arts Building room 225

Jenny Vogel: Fridays from 2-5 pm
Susan Jahoda: Wednesdays from 2-5 pm

Sign in on the clipboard when you arrive.
Hours are for walk-ins or by appointment.
To make an appointment, call Lisa at 413-545-6937.

Save the Dates!

• Drawing Marathon Saturday, 9/29, 12 pm - 12 am
• FAB LAB Milk and Cookies III, Friday,10/5, 2 – 4 pm, SAB 142.
• Fall Arts & Humanities Internship Fair, Tuesday,10/11, 11:30am – 2:30 pm, FAC
• Collaborative Aggregates Scholarship Competition Submission Deadline, Saturday, 10/13

More details will follow in your UMass email.

Art Department Events

Department of Art Visiting Artist Program Lecture
Katherine Behar

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist (performance, media sculpture, writing) whose work has appeared throughout North America and Europe. Behar is the editor of Object-Oriented Feminism, coeditor of And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art and author of Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity. She is Associate Professor of New Media Arts at
Baruch College, CUNY.

Thursday, September 20,12:00 pm
Room 240, Studio Arts Building

Pat Lasch

Department of Art Retired Professor Pat Lasch's work is exhibited at Meredith Ward Fine Art Gallery.
Pat taught sculpture in the Art Department for many years.

September 21 - November 23
44 East 74th Street, Suite G
New York, New York 10021 USA

The Concinnitas Portfolio
Bob Feldman

Ten prominent mathematicians and physicists were invited to select what they considered to be "the most beautiful or elegant mathematical expression." The 10 equations chosen for The Concinnitas Portfolio were then printed as aquatints, reminiscent of chalk on a blackboard, and are accompanied by essays intended to explicate the selection process, and to comment on the significance of beauty as a motivational force in the production of mathematics.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 12, 5:00 pm
Open to the Public: Thursday, September 13, 11:00 am - 4:30 pm
UMCA, Fine Arts Center, UMass

Re(Creations) and MathStudio
Pau Atela

What does it mean for the fields of art and math to intersect? This exhibition offers glimpses into the work of Pau Atela that show how bridges can indeed be built between these two worlds. Over the past two decades, Atela, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Smith College, has helped his students to understand the creative process involved between the art and math. He brings a sense of playfulness and experimentation to his work as both mathematician and artist, as he strives to unravel many difficult — and some unsolvable — problems.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 12, 5:00 pm
Open to the Public: Thursday, September 13, 11:00 am - 4:30 pm
UMCA, Fine Arts Center, UMass

Cross Town Contemporary Art (XTCA) Symposium and Art Parade

The goal of this programming is to engage the “town and gown” by generating a robust public dialogue about the value of art and culture in building community. The Symposium will be introduced by co-curators of XTCA, Loretta Yarlow, UMCA Director, and Sandy Litchfield, Assistant Professor from the Department of Architecture. The keynote speaker is Jennifer Delos Reyes, Associate Director of the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Saturday, September 22, 10 am - 4 pm
John W. Olver Design Building, UMass Amherst

Art Education News

Another BFA Art Education Alumnus lands a teaching job! Caroline Whelan has been hired as an art teacher at Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, Long Island, New York.
Congratulations, Caroline!!!

Continuing Notable Events

SCREEN2018

The Screen@SAB's Fall 2018 screening program gathers artists from across the globe working in diverse moving image practices. This program offers a glimpse into the varied paths and approaches video, performance, and moving image artists explore. The program has two parts. part 1: BODY and part 2: ABSTRACTION.

9/4 - 9/23, Mon - Fri 9 am - 7:30 pm
2nd floor Commons, Studio Arts Building

Labyrinth of Fables
Copper Giloth

This Summer, Professor Copper Giloth and Jonathan Tanant completed their latest version of their virtual reality version of the Labyrinth of Fables for the HTC Vive. It will be on display on the third floor of DuBois library in the digital media center.

August 30, 3 - 5 pm

Daily Drawings: 2012 - 2018

Lynn Peterfreund has been drawing, painting and doing printmaking for decades, working both abstractly and representationally. Observational drawing has been the basis of it all, informing other work done from memory and imagination. Her daily drawings represent an ongoing commitment, begun almost ten years ago, to doing a drawing every day.

September 5 through 29, 2018
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 5, 5-7pm

Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass

WE GROW ACCUSTOMED TO THE DARK
Curated by Omid Shekari, Lecturer
Featuring Department of Art MFA students, other artists and contemporary poets

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark is an exhibition which investigates the role of identity in the current political climate by probing the connection between poetry and visual art. 11 visual artists and 4 poets come together as part of the 6th Annual Amherst Poetry Festival.

The exhibition is curated by Omid Shekari, Lecturer in the Department of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. An Iranian artist based in Amherst, Shekari's work captures stories which speak universally about how force and violence still determine the rhythms and laws of power within the human experience.

The artists in this show are Amanda Boggs, Kathryn Fanelli, Kelsi Giguere, Francis Greenleaf, Althea Keaton, Nikki Maloof, Bibiana Medkova, Kenneth Murphy, Xuan Pham, Kelly Popoff, and Margaret Wilson.Their work encompasses a promising diversity of approaches and mediums, ranging from photography, video, animation, performance, painting, to installation. On September 21st, 2018, the gallery will host a live performance by participating artist, Amanda Boggs, and a poetry reading featuring contemporary poets— Leslie Edwards, Mia Kang, Nathalie Vicencio, and Sarah Sousa.

September 5 - 23
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 5, 5 - 7 pm
Amherst Poetry Festival Reading and Live Performance:
Friday, September 21, 5 - 6:30 pm

Herter Art Gallery, UMass

Gallery hours: M-F 11 am - 4 pm, Sunday 1 - 4 pm

Cross Town Contemporary Art (XTCA)

The UMCA, along with the Department of Architecture, have partnered with the Town of Amherst to build an art and culture bridge– a series of public sculptures– to activate the North Pleasant Street corridor and connect downtown to campus. The exhibition features work by twelve national and local artists and members of the academic community. The goal of this project is to generate a robust public dialogue about the value of art and culture in future community development.

Artists include: Sarah Braman; Roberley Bell; CLOK (Collective– LOK: William O'Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo); Naomi Darling; Tom Friedman; Josephine Halvorson; Harold Grinspoon; Benjamin Jones; Pamela Matsuda-Dunn; Gary Orlinsky; Rob Swainston; and Erika Zekos

July 1 – November 1

Visit the UMCA website here for more information.

Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities

2018 CAA Professional Development Fellowships
now open for MFA students

Now accepting applications! CAA's Professional Development Fellowships program supports artists, designers, craftspersons, historians, curators, and critics who are enrolled in MFA or PhD programs and graduating in 2019. Fellows are honored with $10,000 unrestricted grants to help them with various aspects of their work.

Application deadline: November 16, 2018

Click here to learn more and apply.

Northampton Arts Council Funding Proposals

Proposals are now being accepted for community-oriented arts, humanities, and science programs. These grants can support a variety of artistic projects and activities in Northampton, Florence, and Leeds - including exhibits, festivals, field trips, short-term artist residencies, scholarships, or performances in schools, workshops, and lectures. This year, the Northampton Arts Council will distribute up to $13,700 in grants.

Proposal Deadline: Monday October 15th

SAVE THE DATE!!
Women in Arts Leadership Symposium
CONNECTING | EMPOWERING | CHANGING THE CULTURE

If you self-identify as an artist, arts manager, arts leader, or ally, please join us! People at all career stages and people of all genders are invited to attend.
Free for UMass and Five College students. $25 for Professionals.

Registration Deadline: Friday, October 19th
Saturday, October 27, 2018
South College, 2nd Floor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

For more information visit http://www.umass.edu/aes/wals or email aes@umass.edu.

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