Art Professor Jeffrey Kasper Featured During The ArtSalon on May 11
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Jeff Kasper, assistant professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Art, will be one of five artists featured during The ArtSalon, a social evening of engaging presentations by established and emerging artists in the Pioneer Valley, at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) on Thursday, May 11, at 6:30 p.m. Kasper will be joined by Nima Nikakhlagh, lecturer in the Department of Art and director of the Herter Art Gallery, and Massachusetts-based artists AJ Rombach, Malaika Ross, and Sara Smith.
The ArtSalon gives artists of many disciplines a platform to present their work and discuss their artistic process with the public through Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) style presentations. This format allows the artists to present for six to eight minutes each, followed by a Q&A with the audience. This ongoing series of live oral presentations about creativity, process, and finished work reveals the vitality of contemporary visual arts in Western Massachusetts.
Kasper is an artist, writer, and educator. He works with the tools and techniques of design, contemplative practices, and community engagement, to create public art, publications, workshops, and participatory learning projects. His artworks center dialogical, reflective, and instructional texts, as well as pedagogical objects that prompt meditation, relationship building, and serious play. Based on his own lived experiences and observations, many of his projects explore topics of support, safety, and proximity. Kasper’s recent exhibitions have been presented internationally, including with New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Meta Open Arts, and Queens Museum, and his past public programs have been facilitated with BRIC, CUE Art Foundation, and moCa Cleveland. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of Art.
UMCA is located at the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center, 151 Presidents Drive, in Amherst, MA.