Jan 28, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
As the 21st century progresses, the narrative that we are telling in our teaching and mentoring gets more crowded. Movements come and go more quickly, the politics of the era become increasingly more complex, information flows more quickly (there is simply more of...
Jan 10, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair, News
It is my intent today to be unashamedly utopian, to address how we look at, how we discuss, how we circulate and inscribe images of dancing bodies in a pluralistic world, a world that is increasingly mediated by technologies of representation, by social media, and by...
Dec 3, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
It is my duty to voice the sufferings of people, the sufferings that never end and are as big as mountains. Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Can art really convey empathy? What can an image really do in the world to empower or encourage empathy? I pose those questions...
Nov 26, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
I have been thinking about the link between art and literature lately, mostly that it seems to have gone missing, or at least seems less prevalent than in other generations of art practice. The origins of ideas, the points of tangency of those ideas, and their...
Nov 19, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
A recent article in New Yorker Magazine by Claudia Roth Pierpont recounts how a small group of women painters crashed the canvas ceiling as part of the historic Ninth Street Show, held amongst the cheap industrial spaces of downtown New York in 1951. The jury for the...
