Sep 12, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
As the Fall semester begins and we welcome back the returning and new art students ready to create art and think critically about it, I’ve begun reading Hal Foster’s latest book Art, Criticism, Emergency. Foster’s writing is essential in its ability to concentrate...
May 9, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
Last thoughts for the year… There are numerous narratives about the generative moment of contemporary art; theories about the genesis of this trajectory toward the present. However, regardless of which point of origin one adheres to, or wherever one places...
May 2, 2016 | From the Chair, Promo
In the next year, the Art Department will be undertaking both a self-study and also an external accreditation study with the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). As we do this, there is a great opportunity to ask some big questions of ourselves...
Apr 25, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
The visual culture of protest offers us rich and powerful metaphors. The use of art to create such images, the optics of protest, are a vital part of art history. Consider the child labor photos of Louis Hine, or those from the Dust Bowl by Dorothea Lange. Such images...
Apr 18, 2016 | Essay, From the Chair
I have been thinking and writing a lot about aspirational ideologies that are apropos of contemporary life. Aspirational ideologies are perhaps, the contemporary answer to the manifestos of the 20th century. There are too many out there to discuss, however those I am...
