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Student work from Professor Robin Mandel's Junior / Senior Seminar.

Special Announcements

Save the Dates

Mandatory Advising Fair for Art Majors

Wednesday, October 24, and Thursday, October 25, SAB Commons
Check your UMass email for your specific advising date and time, plus other important info!

Advising for Freshmen Art Majors

November 5 - 9, and will take place in Foundations classes

Advising for Art Minors

Thursday, November 1, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, SAB Commons

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Screen@SAB

Join us for popcorn at the Screen@SAB on Wednesdays in Commons!
See the newest screening running through October 31(more below).

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Wall@SAB

The Department of Art is pleased to announce the second call for exhibiting students' work on the Wall. We'll accept two proposals for the spring 2019 semester.
More information about the Wall@SAB, and instructions on how to apply!

Department of Art Events

The Colored Bone China
Lecture
Juana Valdes

Join us this for a conversation with the artist!

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.

Thursday, October 18, at 1:00 PM
Herter Art Gallery, UMass

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Art Salon

The ArtSalon is a dynamic social evening of engaging presentations by established and emerging artists in the Pioneer Valley. The ArtSalon provides an opportunity for artists and designers of all mediums to present their work and ideas in a format called Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) of 20 slides x 20 seconds each. Come meet and join the
artists, creators, critics, and collectors in a friendly, social gathering of conversations
about the arts in our community.

Presenting Artists: Naomi Darling, MFA candidate Bibiana Medkova,
Alumna Procheta Olson Mukherjee, Gary Orlinsky, and Darrell Petit.

Thursday, October 18
UMCA, UMass
6:30 pm, presentations begin at 7:00 pm
A brief Question and Answer period with the artists will follow the presentations.
$5 – $10 Sliding scale admission fee
Parking is free after 5 pm at all UMass parking lots.
Food will be provided by Jakes at the Mill

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Every Day Meal
Nima Nikakhlagh

MFA candidate NIma Nikakhlagh will perform
Thursday, October 18, 3:30 pm
Studio Arts Building room 110, UMass Amherst

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ASG Festival

Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts is pleased to
announce a week-long evening festival of music, spoken word and film.

October 15 - 19, 7:00 pm
Augusta Savage Gallery

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Unlearning Learning
Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard (BFAMFAPHD)

Unlearning Learning, the first event of this new season at Art in General, will consider the relationship between art and education, which lies at the heart of the entire series. Artist collective BFAMFAPHD and researcher Maria Rosa Sossai will consider how art and
pedagogy can become tools for understanding threlations of power that shape institutions
and practices, but also allow us to imagine new approaches to art and education.
As practitioners who havedeveloped workshops, teaching tools, and artworks that blur the boundary between art and educational practices, they will use this event to not simply
speak about this subject, but also to activate some of their ideas.
Saturday, October 20, 4 - 6 pm
Art in General, NYC

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[Containing] Great Space

Curated by Department of Art Professor Emeritus Jeanette Cole, and featuring artists Paula Elliott, Sigrid Miller Pollin, and Joan Weber, this exhibition originated with the notion of a container like image as a vehicle to enter a place of interiority, and the possibilities of distinctly personal results when artists embark on this path.

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 21, 2 - 4 pm
October 21 - November 15
Hampden Gallery, UMass

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Monika Schmitter
William T Oedel Lecture Series
HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, FALL 2018

Professor Monika Schmitter from the Department of History of Art and Architecture will lecture on the sixteenth-century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto's "signature acts" when signing his paintings, and how they evolved.
Monday, October 22, 1:25 - 2:15 pm
South College Commons W360, UMass

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One Down

A Durational Screening of Video Works by current Department of Art MFA Students.
Current screenings are running through October 31, Studio Arts Building Commons

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

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Dialéctica Oaxaqueña

October 2 - 24
Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass

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The Colored Bone China
Juana Valdes

through October 30
Herter Gallery

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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.
July 1 – November 1

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The Body of the Condemned
Omid Shekari

Greenfield Community College Art Department.
October 9 - November 8

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Pat Lasch

through November 23
Merideth Ward Fine Art Gallery

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The Concinnitas Portfolio

September 12 - December 9
University Museum of Contemporary Art
Fine Arts Center

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Pau Atela's (Re)Creations and MathStudio

September 12 - December 9
University Museum of Contemporary Art
Fine Arts Center

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Global Indigenous Visions Film Festival

Screenings at 7:30 pm
See schedule here.
Flavin Family Auditoria School of Management (SOM137)

Educational, Professional, and Internship Opportunities

Ceramic Figure Workshop

Cynthia Consentino, Ceramic Faculty, will be teaching a figure workshop in Mexico,
January 7 -13, 2019. Enrollment is still open, sign up here.
January 7 - 13, 2019
San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

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First Generation Initiative Schedule of Events

The First Generation Initiative, under the direction of the Graduate School's
Office of Inclusion and Engagement, offers supportive programming and special events
for graduate students who were the first in their immediate family to attend college.

• Student/Faculty Mixer - Wednesday, October 24, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
  Commonwealth Honors College room 160
• GSCA Luncheon Panel - Thursday, November 8, 12 - 2 pm
  Life Sciences Lab room 320
• OPD How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome - Thursday, November 15,
  1 - 2 pm, Goodell Lounge

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Graduate National Portfolio Day

MassArt Admissions and Graduate Programs are hosting the Boston Graduate National Portfolio Day Interested in pursuing a graduate level education in the arts? Join MassArt and meet with representatives from more than 30 of the leading art and design colleges accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
More information and pre-registration can be found here.

Saturday, October 27, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
MassArt Design and Media Center Atrium, MassArt, Boston

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Office of Professional Development Upcoming Events and Workshops for Graduate Students:

- How to Cope When You Feel Burned Out

- Getting Over your Fear of Public Speaking

More information about graduate events and workshops »

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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 19
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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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

More information and application for 2018 CAA Professional Development Fellowships.

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