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Special Announcements

Fab Lab Milk and Cookies III

Meet the techs, Bob Woo, Evelyn Snyder, and Dan Wessman, see the shops & eat cookies!

Friday, October 5, 2:00 -- 4:00 pm, SAB 142 (meet at the Wood Shop)

HFA POP-UP ARTS CAREER ADVISING SESSION!

When: Thursday, October 4, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm

Where: Studio Arts Building Commons

What: Stop by with Career questions
Learn about the upcoming HFA Internship Fair
Pick up an Arts-major career resource guide
Bring your resume for review
Meet your new HFA Internship Advisor!

(This event will be held before the HFA Internship Fair (below), but other sessions will be offered soon!)

Department of Art Events

Department of Art
Drawing Marathon

Join us this Saturday for a day of drawing! No previous drawing experience necessary. Students, faculty, kids, and general public welcome! Music, snacks and drinks available!

Open sessions: 12:00 pm - 12:00 am
Amanda Boggs & Colleen Keough - Performative Drawing - 8:00 pm
Taylor Benoit - Drawing on Hidden Panels
Richenda Cope - Stuff Drawing, Wall Drawing, Floor Drawing, Sidewalk Drawing

Workshops
Emily Tarella - Drawing With the Earth 12:00 - 4:00 pm
David Osgood - Exquisite Corpse Drawings 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Xuan Pham - Make It Work 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Lora M. Barrett - Observational Drawing 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Althea Keaton - Group Comic Workshop 2:00 - 3:00 pm & 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Kelsi Giguere - Language and Drawing 1:00 - 2:00 pm & 6:00 - 7:00 pm

Saturday, September 29th, 12:00 pm – 12:00 am, Studio Arts Building, UMass

Pockets of Light
Bibiana Medkova, Kathryn Fanelli, Xuan Pham

Three MFA candidates are illuminating areas of their summer research. The three investigations overlap in their various interpretations of transparency, the interplay of visible with invisible, bridging of spaces (public or private, collective memory, etc), and personal narrative. Light is our medium and our metaphor. Our collective voices are seeking our personal truths.

September 11 - 28
Closing reception: Thursday, September 27, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Student Union Art Gallery, UMass Amherst

Juana Valdes, Redbone Colored China Rags, 2017. Porcelain bone china fired 1234c, 12 x 3 x 4 inches.

The Colored Bone China
Juana Valdes

The Herter Art Gallery is pleased to present The Colored Bone China, an exhibition of new work by faculty member, Juana Valdes. A professor in the Department of Art, Valdes uses printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific installations, to explore issues of race, transnationalism, gender, labor, and class.

October 3 - 30
Opening reception: October 3, 5 :00- 7:00 pm
Herter Art Gallery, UMass Amherst

Double Zero: Goggles of True Seeing
Shane Mecklenburger

UMass Department of Art Professor Shane Mecklenburger’s virtual reality work Double Zero is on exhibit with the Digital Museum of Digital Art (DiMoDA) at WallPlay.

through Monday, October 1st
Visiting hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00 – 7:00 pm, Thursdays, 12:00 – 9:00 pm
325 Canal Street, Manhattan NY

Dialéctica Oaxaqueña

Mexican printmaking gallery Estampa Galería is comprised of seven highly skilled artists dedicated to the promotion of contemporary graphic art of their capital city Oaxaca. On view are works on paper that display honor for animals, people and plants as well as symbolic tributes to spirituality.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 2, 5 - 7 pm
October 2 - 24
Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass

Fall Arts and Humanities Internship Fair

The UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and BDIC are pleased to present the Arts Entrepreneurship Initiative's Fall Arts and Humanities Internship Fair! The fair will feature local internship opportunities in the arts, arts management, and cultural non-profit fields. Refreshments will be provided. A list of participating internship providers will be available Monday, October 8.

Thursday, October 11, from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM at the Fine Arts Center Atrium

Art Education News

Left to right: Caroline Whelan, Helen Austin, Ryan Lavigne, Emma Hubacz, Kayla Reno

Kayla Reno is the last but certainly not least of her graduating Art Education class to be hired! She has been hired to teach at the Edward P. Boland Elementary School in Springfield.
Congratulations to Kayla and all of the recent Art Education graduates !!!

Continuing Notable Events

Labyrinth of Fables

Copper Giloth
View by reservation in large green screen room.
DuBois Library, Third floor, Digital Media Center

Daily Drawings: 2012 - 2018
Lynn Peterfreund
September 5 through 29, 2018
Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass

Ice to Water
Holly S. Murray
through October 11
Hampden Gallery, UMass

Meteors Are Space Eggs
Jenn Houle
through October 11, 2018
Hampden Gallery, UMass

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. July 1 – November 1

Pat Lasch

through November 23

Merideth Ward Fine Art Gallery

Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities

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 e 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.

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.

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