VIRTUAL EVENTS

Friday, June 4, 1:30 – 3:00pm | “Seed Score” Performance and Workshop

Working directly from Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit (1964), SVA Continuing Education faculty member and visual artist Patricia Voulgaris (BFA 2013 Photography and Video) will be performing from two specific event scores featured in Grapefruit, using everyday materials. The interactive workshop will encourage participants to create their own score performance. Using scores as a jumping-off point, participants will explore performance art through their own practice. A discussion will follow to examine scores and improve on existing ideas.

Tuesday, June 8, 7:00 – 8:30pm | Alyssa Coppelman

Join Alyssa Coppelman, an Austin-based photo editor, photo-book consultant and art researcher with Harper’s Magazine and Oxford American, for a talk about her work. Presented as part of MPS Digital Photography’s i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, Coppelman will discuss working directly with photographers to provide oversight in editing, sequencing, design and editorial aspects of portfolios and photo book projects. Coppelman is the archival researcher on the Emmy-nominated PBS NewsHour series Brief But Spectacular and regularly juries photography exhibitions, teaches editing workshops and guest lectures to photography students.

Friday, June 11, 1:30 – 2:30pm | Shifting the Narrative: Megan Izen

Megan Izen, managing editor of Word Force at Narrative Initiative, will explore what narrative is, the role artists play in shaping narratives and how art can make change, as part of MFA Visual Narrative’s Shifting the Narrative lecture series.

Wednesday, June 16, 6:00 – 7:30pm | Ayana Evans

Tune in for the MFA Art Practice keynote lecture from New York City-based artist Ayana Evans. Her work includes shows at FIAP performance festival in Martinique, Tiwani Contemporary in London, and Ghana’a Chale Wote festival, plus countless guerilla-style performances at institutions including El Museo del Barrio, The Barnes Foundation, The Bronx Museum, Newark Museum and the Queens Museum. Evans was a 2018 Fellow at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, 2017 – 2018 awardee of the Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art, and a 2018 NYFA Fellow. Her recent press includes The New York Times, Artnet News, New York’s “The Cut,” Hyperallergic, and Bomb. Evans is currently an adjunct professor at Brown University.

Thursday, June 17, 4:30 – 6:00pm | Artivism: Children on Guns in America

Join SVA Continuing Education and MA/MAT Art Education for an intensive workshop for in-service educators on the subject of gun violence in America. Facilitated by professional photographer Kathy Shorr (BFA 1988 Photography) and art educator Adrienne Mikulka (MFA 2004 Photography, Video and Related Media), this event will feature a presentation on a photography project that is centered around gun violence and “artivism”—a combination of social activism and art. The discussion will focus on how children, whose lives have been radically changed by the pervasiveness of guns in our society, express their concerns and fears through their artwork. Workshop attendees will receive a lesson plan suitable for middle- and high-school students.

Tuesday, June 22, 9:30 – 11:00am | Jean Shin

Join MFA Art Practice for a lecture with Jean Shin, nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant identity and community engagement expressions. Her work has been widely exhibited in over 150 major museums and cultural institutions, including solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona and Crow Collection in Dallas.

Tuesday, June 22, 7:00 – 8:30pm | Jerry Takigawa

Join photographer, designer and writer Jerry Takigawa as part of MPS Digital Photography’s i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. As a Japanese American artist, Takigawa is constantly practicing integrative thinking—bringing two things together that seem to be opposites and making them new/better together than they were separate.

June 29, 9:30 - 11:00am | Catherine Opie

Join MFA Art Practice for a lecture from Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie, known for her powerfully dynamic photography that examines the ideals and norms surrounding the culturally constructed American dream and American identity. In addition to receiving numerous award and solo exhibitions, Opie has been a professor of fine art at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 2001 and serves on the board of directors of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the board of trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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