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Clay Club is meeting Monday, February 24, and March 1, at 4:15 pm in SAB 156, the ceramics classroom, to discuss club goals and events. Please join us.

FRAME 2020: Call for Moving Image Work -
Deadline extended until Tuesday, March 10

Selected works will be shown on the Screen@SAB
Current work on the Screen is on view through March 18.
Read more about Frame 2020 in our Opportunities section below.

Screen@SAB

New work from the final projects created by students
in Art 274 Animation Fundamentals, taught by Colleen Keough
from the fall 2019 semester, will be featured on the Screen@SAB.

February 20 - March 18
SAB Commons

The symposium aims to ignite conversations about the representation of black people
in the media. Forms of media the symposium will analyze in-depth include film,
television, and the internet.  It includes a screening of Professor Anaiis Cisco's short film,
as well as a faculty conversation between Professor Anaiis Cisco and a student moderator. There will also be several workshops and discussion groups on Saturday, February 22.

February 21 - 22
Mwangi Cultural Center at Smith College

Anton Ginzburg

The exhibition "In-N-Out" by Anton Ginzburg is an installation that includes a mural and paintings from the VIEWs series that examines the process of viewing through a suggested 'window' into opposite directions of the diagrammatic landscape. The installation is both a reaction to and intervention in the existing space of the gallery.
Anton Ginzburg (b. 1974, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a New York-based artist, known for his films, sculptures, paintings, and text-based printed work investigating historical narratives and poetic studies of place, representation, and post-Soviet identity. He earned a BFA from The New School for Social Research and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

February 25 - March 13
Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 25, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Gallery Conversation on Tuesday, February 25, 11:30 pm 
Design Building Gallery

In-Transition
Juana Valdez

In –Transition, is a solo exhibition by Juana Valdes, bringing together
her practice of prints, photography, and sculpture.

 January 23 - February 27 
Artist Talk: Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
South Gallery
Greenfield Community College

27th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival 2020
Film Studies | UMass 
Imagine Better 

Weekly screenings on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm
February 26 - April 2
Flavin Family Auditorium SOM 137

Read more about the film festival

This exhibition is something of a departure from UMCA’s series “Dialogue with a Collection”. Over the years, artists have been invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the museum's works-on-paper collection, which includes over 3000 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs. This year Procheta Mukherjee Olson has opted to select one single artwork from UMCA’s collection by Yun-fei Ji, which she finds pivotal and meaningful to her own art practice.

In this Dialogue with a Collection, Procheta Mukherjee Olson explores the multiple ways in which her work parallels the formal and conceptual concerns of Yun Fei Ji’s “Three Gorges Dam Migration” (2002). A magnificent 32-feet-long hand scroll made with over 500-hand-carved woodblocks, this print from the University Museum’s permanent collection maps the massive social and psychological disruptions caused by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtse River in China.
Read more here about Olson's work.

February 7 -  April 26
Artist's Talk: Wednesday, February 26, 5:30 pm
UMCA

Fluid Artist Marsis Shuron paints vibrant abstract imagery that leads the viewer on an "other worldly" journey, that moves and flows through space. She calls these paintings, "Whirldz of Imagination." Each painting is a microcosm of the universe that engages the viewer and evokes wonder. The artist writes, "It is my intention to inspire people to exercise their imaginations, to be more playful, mindful of what they are thinking,
and to gaze long and curiously at the heavens." 

Eben Kling, Awaiting the Results; Acrylic and Flashe on Canvas, 32"x32", 2018

A juried exhibition of recent work by MFA Alumni from the
UMass Amherst Department of Art. 

Alumni represented are Nour Bishouty, Rebecca Graves, Priya Nadkarni Green,
Karen Gustafson, Kelly Scott Kelley, Eben Kling, Ron-Wontae Kim, Christy Patrick,
Vic Quezada, Marcia Reed, Renee Richard, Chelsea Sams,
d'Ann de Simone, Jenny Tibbetts, and Amanda Tiller.

As part of the opening event, there will be a panel discussion with the artists moderated by Department Chair, Professor Shona Macdonald, and Graduate Program Director, Professor Young Min Moon. Please join us at the reception to celebrate the artists
and to hear more about their process and work!

March 5 – March 26
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Herter Art Gallery

A woodcut & poetry collaboration by Department of Art Lecturer Julie Lapping Rivera,
 and friends, inspired by the New York Times OVERLOOKED Series.

March 3 - 29
Reception and Reading: Saturday, March 28, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Sandford Gallery at Zea Mays Printmaking
Florence, MA

"My first few weeks of student teaching have been the most immersive compared to any semester before. Although it’s nerve wracking at times being looked over by a bunch of high school critics, most of them are incredibly forthcoming and engaged in the lessons I’m making for them. There’s always a fair share of students who will try to test your patience and push you to your limit, but I’m making sure to take it all in. Since, teaching is an equal balance of good days and bad, it’s important to be able to take it all in at the end of the day and assess both my progress and struggles. Which I’m doing constantly in my practicum."

Berkshire Art Association Fellowship 2020

Berkshire Art Association Fellowships have been awarded annually since the early 1970s to encourage emerging college artists in their choice of visual arts as a means of expression. Fellowships are open to any enrolled college student majoring in art who either grew up in Berkshire County or goes to college in Berkshire County. Jurors are artists, art educators and other art professionals. They will award $5000 in prizes this year. Visit the BAA website berkshireartassociation.org to view recent BAA Fellowship Shows.

Application Deadline: Friday, February 21 at 11:59 pm 

Read more about the BAA Fellowship Show!

We are currently seeking submissions from Black artists, across the 5 Colleges,
in the following areas:
Visual Arts: sketches, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics.
Performing Arts: music performances, dance performances, poetry and
   short story readings, and spoken word.
Film and Television: storyboards and short films .

Submit physical pieces to the Multicultural Resource Center by Feburary 21!
Email MRC@Amherst.edu to sign up for performances!

Black Art Matters Fesitval: Friday, February 28, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
The Mead at Amherst College

Between MASS MoCA's 250,000 square feet of gallery space and our year-round performing arts events, it's always an exciting time to be at MASS MoCA. 

Summer 2020 - Internships across all departments available
Dates of internships: Monday, May 18 – Saturday, August 15
Application deadline: Sunday, March 1

The Graduate School is delighted to announce our annual Graduate Commencement Student Speaker Contest! One graduate student will be awarded the honor of addressing the audience at an iconic university event—Graduate Commencement.The winner of the Graduate Commencement Student Speaker Contest will be a focal point of this major celebration, claim a special place in UMass history, and win a $500 prize. Do you want to be recognized as the voice of the 2020 UMass graduate class? Then don't miss the opportunity to compete for this unique honor!       

All UMass graduate students who earned or will earn an advanced degree in September 2019, February 2020, or May 2020 are eligible to compete in this contest.

Submission Deadline: Monday, March 9

What: Comic convention-style Artist’s Alley celebrating student and local talent

When: Saturday, March 28, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Where: W. E. B. Du Bois Library, Lower Level

How to get involved: contact Lauren Weiss, Marketing and Outreach Assistant at the UMass Amherst Libraries, weiss@library.umass.edu

Art work is from Trenton Doyle Hancock, I Made a Mound City in Miami Dade County,
recently exhibited at Locust Projects.

Locust Projects 
Summer Residency and Exhibition: Open Call
Seeking Studio Art MFA Students

Locust Projects, Miami’s longest-running alternative art space, invites graduate-level artists to submit project proposals for an exhibition in our 400-sq ft Project Room during the summer of 2020. Exhibition proposals should reflect an expansion of an artist’s practice in conceptual scope, scale, or media. Proposals can reflect new work that will be created for the exhibition that has never been presented before or work created on site. Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate exceptionally unique methods, processes, or concepts, particularly those that could not be presented in a traditional gallery setting with an emphasis on site-specificity and installation. For more information including submission instructions, see Locust Projects' full description of the residency program!

Application Deadline: Sunday, March 29, 11:59 pm
Residency Dates: June 19 - August 5
Locust Projects
Miami, FL

Jabberwocky is open for submissions for Spring 2020!
  All majors are encouraged to submit, so tell your friends!

Jabberwocky, the English Department’s official undergraduate literary journal, is looking for submissions for its Spring 2020 issue! We publish once at the end of the semester and you can submit:

  Up to three pieces of short fiction,
Up to six poems,
Up to three pieces of literary criticism/nonfiction,
And as much visual art as you’d like!

Submission deadline: Tuesday, March 31.
Please email all submissions as attachments to umassjabberwocky@gmail.com. Questions or concerns can be sent to this address as well.