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Collegial Art with Prof. Julia Jacquette
Energy, excitement, and emerging talent were apparent at the student critiques in Prof. Julia Jacquette’s Painting VI: Sources of Painted Imagery class last week. The class of 23 students was well along on their assignment: Identity and Cultural Influence, when Joan Endres, who oversees the School of Art and Design Instagram account, visited them in week…
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Art for a Sheltered-in-Place World
At a time when at best it is just getting safe for most museums to admit live visitors, consider “The Gates,” the massive Christo-Jeanne-Claude installation in Central Park, in February 2005. There were 7,500 orange saffron arches along 27 miles of park pathways… room for at least 24,000 visitors at a time, six feet apart!…
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Urban Studio creates a splash at Art Basel
“Art Basel is to the art world what Fashion Week is to the fashion world,” says Melissa Starke, advisor for the FIT Fine Arts club Urban Studio. This year Urban Studio was selected to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach, a contemporary art exhibition held every December since 2002. Art Basel is referred to as the “Olympics of the…
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Watch it here! The fine art of Stephanie DeManuelle
“The filmmaker shows the way artists think and work to overcome obstacles and get past their struggles. Artists work their way through things…It verifies what art students are doing,” – Stephanie DeManuelle, Chair of Fine Arts On Monday November 14, a film screening of “The Art of Stephanie DeManuelle,” was held in a lecture room packed…