B.C. Art MFA Student Meeting. (TOMORROW!)

B.C. Art MFA Student Meeting. (TOMORROW!)

Monday June 1st, 2009
5pm.
Brooklyn College - Boylan Hall (west wing)
4th floor studios, common area (a.k.a granny's room)


Below is a tentative list of topics to be discussed. Following each
topic student request/concerns will be discussed. Bring your
questions, comments, concerns or email them to us in advance. Although
it is very last minute we feel it is a little overdue, we hope all of
you can attend. Please let us know if you can or cannot attend. We
will post and email the minutes for those who cannot attend but wish
to be informed.



GASU RELATED
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- GASU Constitution
- Elections: procedures, elections, terms
- GASU Budget: figures, uses (current, future)
- Structure within Brooklyn College (see Student Affairs)
- GASU transitional elections
- GASU future: resources/contacts, budget templates, communications, etc.
*** Student inquiries for GASU.



VISITING ARTIST RELATED
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- Visiting Artist responsibilities, cycle.
- Visiting Artist List 2009/2010: procedures, liaisons, payments, announcements.
- Visiting Artist transitional periods.
- Visiting Artist/ Lecture series future.
***Student inquiries for current Visiting Artist.



DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS RELATED
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- Student Center (SUBO)
- Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
- College Association
- Student Development Club Liaison.
- Starting a new club with art potentials.
***Student inquiries for Student Affairs



ART MFA DEPARTMENT RELATED
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- Internet in studios.
- Information resources, future resource repository.
- Streamlining BC Art MFA experience (student portal, identity)
- Studio move in times/dates, current petition to extended stay.
- Senior Thesis Show 2010. Responsibilities, deadlines.
***Student inquiries for MFA Art Department.

A Few Updates and Goings On...

CUNY Meet-up photos posted on the blog by Jacob. Students from Queens and City College are interested in working together in doing some shows, more info coming soon. -Antonio

NOW: New Feeds & Links added to the Blog (right hand column).
-Hunter's visiting artist & lecture feeds
-Queens College's Blog
-ArtCat, opening and journal
-E-Flux, Journal and announcements

TONIGHT: 6:30-8:30 - Fred Tomaselli and Ken Johnson tream up for The Hunter/Zabar Visiting Artist Public Critique. Critique of student work from Lisa Davis' 2D-Seminar by Fred Tomaselli, Ken Johnson of the New York Times, and Professor Joachim Pissarro.


TONIGHT: Christian Jankowski/Public Art Fund April 29, 2009 6:30 p.m.
The second lecture in the series will be delivered by multimedia artist Christian Jankowski. At the New School.
http://www.newschool.edu/vlc/events.aspx?id=27196


THIS WEEKEND: Those who were fortunate to have Elana Herzog in your studio, she is participating in the LMCC Open Studio's this weekend, Friday-Sunday, You need to RSVP to enter the buildings:
http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2008/openstudioweekend.html


NEXT WEEK: Queens College is hosting Curator Nato Thompson, MAY 5th at 4:30pm in Kiely Hall room 170 Refreshments to follow in Klapper Hall, 6th floor FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
http://cunyqueenscollegemfa.blogspot.com/

NEXT WEEK: Finally, a 1998 Documentary on painter, fisherman, visionary, eccentric- Forrest Bess: Keys to the Riddle is screening at The Piloctetes Center May 5th (Directed by Ari Marcopoulos & Chuck Smith):
http://www.philoctetes.org/Calendar/Forrest_Bess_Keys_to_the_Riddle

NEXT WEEK: Cory Arcangel/Public Art Fund -> May 6, 2009 6:30 p.m.
The final lecture in the series by media artist Cory Arcangel at the New School
http://www.newschool.edu/vlc/events.aspx?id=27198

NEXT WEEK: ALfredo Jaar Lecture at Hunter/Zabar, Kossak Theatre HN 15th fl 68th st, Thu, May 7, 7:30pm – 9:00pm

Pictures from the Hello Cuny event

Hello CUNY + Open Studios Spring 2009

Are we ready? The websites are!!!, let me know if I misspelled anything or if you need me to add a URL here and there.

HELLO! my name is CUNY
Friday April 17th, 2009 6-9PM

Brooklyn College Open Studios
Spring 2009
Friday April 24th 6-10pm
Saturday April 25th 12-6PM

From Deb comes these images of a clever advertising campaign for a small Zimbabwean newspaper. They've printed all their advertising on actually money - which, unfortunately, has become completely worthless

Brookyln College Emailer Final

click to download the full resolution version. Or right click + "save link as"

SPRING 2009
MFA OPEN STUDIOS

BROOKLYN COLLEGE
BOYLAN HALL: floors 4, 5, & 6
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210

SUBWAY/BUS:
2 to Flatbush/Brooklyn College
Q to Avenue H
B6 or B11 to Bedford Ave at
Campus Rd


FOR A DETAILED MAP AND INFO:
www.brooklynmfa.com

brooklynart@gmail.com
tel: 718.951.5572


photo © Steve Baldwin
brooklynparrots.com

danish knitting artist isabel berglund

WORKING THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Exhibition at Queens College.
Feb 9- June 9, 2009

GODWIN-TERNBACH MUSEUM
405 Klapper Hall
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
Phone: 718.997.4747
Fax: 718.997.4734
Email: gtmuseum@qc.cuny.edu

Open Studios Post Card V2: More Color

Hey All,
I tried out a new image, with more color and character(s). I located the image online and had received permission from the photographer Steve Baldwin (he is trying to get me a high resolution version fro printing as we speak). I can almost here the wild cackle of our feathered friends now....

Comments pls.

p.s. I'm liking this one.

Queens College Open Studios March 27, 2009

Tonight 6-11pm.
The Master of Fine Arts program at CUNY Queens College is pleased to announce their Spring 2009 MFA Open Studios event. For one evening, FRIDAY, MARCH 27th 2009, 6:00pm - 11:00pm, approximately 20 current graduate art students will open their studios to the public to share works in progress and converse with visitors in an informal setting.
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 917-885-3492, email: lcandage@qc.cuny.edu or visit
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=70840105750

Press thing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Brooklyn College Master of Fine Arts Open Studios

4.24.09 6-10pm
4.25.09 12-6pm

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. I come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, "My God, did I do that?".
-Philip Guston

America's oldest M.F.A. program is holding its Spring Open Studios.
Twelve first year and eleven second year Masters candidates open their workspaces to the public, showing finished works and ideas in progress, fleeting successes and unmitigated disasters. What better time to support the arts than now, at the brink of our Nation's demise?

Artists: Dominik Wyka | Jacob Zurilla | Emily Bicht | Mark Bump | Juan Ortega | Lars Rassmusen | Susanne Cranston | Antonio Serna | Paul Gagner | David King | JungHwa O'Connell | Luiza Kurzyna | Nathaniel Lieb | Marina Pavlutskaya | Jeff Frederick | Erin Zelley | David Loncle | David Friedman | Matthew Wilson | Elias Melad | Emet Sosna | Sara Reiss | Maria Tasigiannis | Zane Wilson

Take either the 2 or the 5 train
to Flatbush/Brooklyn College.

http://www.brooklynmfa.com/
For more information contact us at brooklynart@gmail.com
or call 718.951.5588 ext. 5181








Edit as you will guys. Make sure I spelled your name right and didn't forget anybody.
Also I don't know that we've decided on these times. We should decide on the time before we tell people to come.

Spring Open Studios 2009

Hey All,
Here is the Brooklyn College Open Studios card. Let me know what you all think.

Regarding Dates and times, I'm sort of for having it 2 weeks after spring break, May 1 and May 2, Instead of the week right after spring break. Also, I noticed a few people concerned about the Saturday hours.. I'm thinking maybe we should have it earlier 12-6 (instead of 2-8)? More brunch-style, bagels and coffee emphasis, plus the early light is nice!

Please comment and let us all know what you think.

Matthew will email/post the press release soon too so be on the look out.

Things remaining: Paul is gonna help us get the budget for the printing. I'll be in contact with him.

BACK:

It's Alive!! Brooklyn Art MFA's Brain...

... well -sort of. I put up a mind map of potentials for the Brooklyn College Art MFA program. Seem like there are many potentials out there but they always fleeting. One way to catch them or start to is put them down and then work them out, slowly. So this is a start, have a look, explore. If you feel like getting in there and adding/arranging stuff let me know and I will send out an invite to share/edit the map. (but email me first, you have to be invited- as a matter of fact I should just invite everyone as soon as I have some time.)

The brain lives here without a frame, bookmark it:
Brooklyn Art MFA: Resource

P.S. It's great for spatial thinkers.

Wrong Angles

Interesting article plus multimedia in the New York Times last month about a show of the Ceausescu Collection in Romania's Bucharest’s National Museum of Contemporary Art. The paintings were all hung at angles or low to the ground to so the show is not interpreted as a tribute.

Romania Shrugs Off Reminder of Its Past (article)
From the Ceausescu Collection (multimedia)

(repost from Bureaux)

** Oh, yeah, in case you don't remember the Ceausescu's... watch this clip of artist Harun Farocki's Videograms of A Revolution on you tube: