From the Chair

Pauline Oliveros, 1932–2016 From our vantage point as artists we are very aware of the current narratives about the push toward interdisciplinarity. From our own point of view the desire to interact with other art forms enables collaboration with those in other areas...

Dear Art Department Community

I am writing to all members of the department and beyond together to address recent shifts in the culture both at large and in our department, as a community. I have been waiting for a lull in the post-election conversation to write to you all, however, unfortunately,...

From the Chair

Every historical moment seems to produce a movement that speaks to the needs of those disenfranchised by the status quo. I have been thinking that in this moment Arte Povera and its message of humanism provides a framework for art as a way forward. Arte Povera was, in...

From the Chair

The singer-songwriter, poet and visionary Leonard Cohen passed away last week. Rolling Stone noted that Cohen wrote, “evocative songs that dealt with love and hate, sex and spirituality, war and peace, ecstasy and depression,” over a career spanning fifty years. Of...

From the Chair

As I write this, I am in Limerick Ireland, flying home tomorrow in time to vote. Knowledge of all kinds is rapidly becoming decentralized; seemingly flowing rhizomatically in all directions. The metaphor of the “world-wide-web” (as we know) has become literal,...