wednesday august 2 - friday august 16, 2013






// Congrats to Nicole Markoff (MFA alum) on her Jentel Residency in Banner, Wyoming!

// Fred Alvarado (MFA alum) and the Break the Silence Media and Art Project have started a fundraising campaign to support their trip to Gaza to raise awareness of water issues in that region

// The newsletter regrets not listing the inaugural exhibition of the Helena Hallway Gallery with participation from Justin Hurty, Dustin Kelly, Nicola Noelle Buffa, Zina Al-Shukri, Natalia Gomez, Raphael Noz, Cameron Kelly (all MFA alums), and others, but promises to catch the next one

// Chrissie Bradley finally got married





// Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum), Chris Johnson (MFA faculty), Bayete Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair's Question Bridge project has recently gotten press in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Time Out New York, and the BBC

// Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) has launched a website archive of her Citizen Bridge project




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ON VIEW // "The Rights of My Passage" with work by Neil Rivas, Maria Guadalupe, Alex Hernandez, Monique D. Lopez, Bruna Massadas, ManYee Lam (all MFA alums), Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik (MA/MFA alum) // Cultural Alliance of Long Beach (727 Pine Avenue, Long Beach)
WED 7 // Smithsonian Asian-Latino Festival 2013 // "Intersections As American Life" with participation from Pablo Cristi (MFA alum) // 8 - 10PM // Veterans Plaza (1 Veterans Place, Silver Spring, MD)
FRI 9 // Opening // "War Gastronomy" with work by Justin Hoover and Chris Treggiari, curated by Nicole Markoff (MFA alum) // 6 - 9PM // 18 Reasons (3674 18th St, SF) 
SAT 10 // Workshop // "Collaborative Combative Drawing" with Melissa Wyman (MFA alum) // San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
SAT 10 // Opening // "A Lot Of People Do This" with work by William Emmert (MFA alum) and Adam Feibelman // Guerrero Gallery (2700 19th St, SF)
SAT 10 // Roundtable Discussion // "Flyover This: Art Criticism is St Louis" with participation from Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) and others // Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts (3151 Cherokee St, Saint Louis)
SAT 10 // "8th National Juried Exhibition" with work by Carmen Lang (MFA alum) and Susannah Dotson (MFA '14), curated by Glen Helfand (MFA faculty) // Axis Gallery (1517 19th St, Sacramento)
SAT 10 // Artist Talk // "New Financial Architectures for Creative Communities (NFACC) presented by Edgar Arcenaux // 12:45PM // Armory Center for the Arts (145 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena)  MORE INFO
SUN 11 // Stairwell's LPP Residency // "Draw your dream stair" collaborative art project // 1 - 4PM // Little Paper Planes (855 Valencia St, SF)


(8/17, 18) Neil Rivas at Museum of Latin American Art
(8/22) Toyin Odutola at Asian Art Museum
(8/23) Hank Willis Thomas at NYMoMA
(8/31) stair games at Little Paper Planes
(9/6) Em Meine at Antena Pilsen Gallery
(9/7) Kim Anno, Rebeca Bollinger, Lia Cook at Berkeley Art Center
(9/6) Hank Willis Thomas at MOCA Detroit
(9/20) Lia Cook at Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art
(9/20) Lia Cook at China National Silk Museum



"The Bitters - 'Fuck It'" with work by Andrea Roberts (MFA '14) and others at Whitdel Arts (through August 24)


"Collaborative Combative Drawing" with work by Melissa Wyman (MFA alum) and others at Steynberg Gallery (through August 31)

"Hank Willis Thomas: Selected Works and Question Bridge: Black Males" at Jack Shainman Gallery (through August 23)

"Rijswijk Textile Biennale" with work by
Lia Cook (MFA faculty) and Anna Von Mertens (MFA alum) at Rijswijk Museum (through October 27)

"Practicing to Pretend" with Kate Bonner, Rebekah Goldstein (both MFA alums) and others, curated by Melissa Dickenson and William Emmert (both MFA alums) at Alter Space (through August 17)

"Sleazy Cheesy Cheap and Easy" solo show by Joshua Reinstein (MFA alum) at the Alter Space Peephole Gallery (through August 17)

"The Farming of Scars and Stains" solo show by Maja Ruznic (MFA alum) at the Smoking Nun Gallery (through August 17)

"American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime" solo show by David Maisel (MFA faculty) at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (through September 1)

Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)

"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)








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