U of A Photography

Come check the Photography, Video and Imaging senior capstone exhibition this week!

Professor David Taylor will be in conversation with Kade L. Twist and Cristóbal Martínez of Postcommodity, jazz musician Arturo O'Farrill, and artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE at the UCLA Fowler Museum this coming Friday afternoon. October 15, 2021, 4:00PM - 5:00PM

https://fowler.ucla.edu/events/share-the-mic-frontearte/?fbclid=IwAR3_VXRvgwdAzaqTSdPq6ssZmcpYynXmK8xGlV-zauOYvXDD5vtLUs8e_J4

Share the Mic: Frontearte | Fowler Museum at UCLA RSVP

Tomorrow ! Join us !

Upcoming VASE lecture: rafa esparza & Timo Fahler, Oct 7th @ 5:30 pm, at the Center for Creative Photography

were-:Nenetech Forms

Los Angeles based artists rafa esparza and Timo Fahler will give a lecture focusing on collaboration and experimentation within their shared and individual artistic practices. The artists will present examples of past projects initiated together, participated in jointly, and undertaken respectively with other collaborators leading up to their forthcoming project were-:Nenetech Forms presented at MOCA Tucson and the University of Arizona’s Joseph Gross Gallery.

Bios:

rafa esparza is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals his interests in history, personal narratives, and kinship, his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that it produces. Using live performance as his main form of inquiry, esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory, and what he calls (non)documentation as primary tools to investigate and expose ideologies, power structures, and binary forms of identity that establish narratives, history, and social environments. He has exhibited work at internationally recognized museums such as the Whitney, MASS MoCA, and the Hammer Museum. He was the Wanlass Resident at Occidental College and has lectured at UCSD, SAIC, CalArts, and Colombia in 2020 alone.

Timo Fahler works with utilitarian mediums and found objects to construct highly visual and culturally significant works. Combining formal elements of sculpture with references to his mixed heritage, Fahler’s work explores ideas of use and reuse through casting and manipulating found objects and combining them with relics and materials that relate to personal experiences. His restructuring of objects in a manner that indicates both function and meaning invokes a bricoleurian practice evident in his midwestern background, and representative of a multi-cultural aesthetic.

Part of the University of Arizona School of Art, The University of Arizona VISITING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS SERIES
MOCA Tucson

!ANNOUNCEMENT!

The Border Lab Graduate Fellowship program is now accepting project proposals from The University of Arizona graduate students.

These projects should ultimately help create new frameworks for understanding border dynamics in Arizona-Sonora communities. These research and/or creative projects should also bring about positive impact to our regional communities while contributing to the Border Lab’s mission of advancing UArizona’s border related education and research.

Applications due on October 25, 2021, by 5:00PM

Visit the Confluencenter website for more information on how to apply here: https://confluencenter.arizona.edu/funding/border-lab-graduate-fellowships



University of Arizona Hispanic Serving Institution - HSI
Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona
University of Arizona Center for Latin American Studies
University of Arizona, Office of Research, Innovation & Impact
College of Humanities at The University of Arizona Arizona Arts University of Arizona School of Art University of Arizona - Mexican American Studies UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Arizona Arts University of Arizona Law UA College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture

Upcoming VASE lecture: rafa esparza & Timo Fahler, Oct 7th @ 5:30 pm, at the Center for Creative Photography

were-:Nenetech Forms

Los Angeles based artists rafa esparza and Timo Fahler will give a lecture focusing on collaboration and experimentation within their shared and individual artistic practices. The artists will present examples of past projects initiated together, participated in jointly, and undertaken respectively with other collaborators leading up to their forthcoming project were-:Nenetech Forms presented at MOCA Tucson and the University of Arizona’s Joseph Gross Gallery.

Bios:

rafa esparza is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals his interests in history, personal narratives, and kinship, his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that it produces. Using live performance as his main form of inquiry, esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory, and what he calls (non)documentation as primary tools to investigate and expose ideologies, power structures, and binary forms of identity that establish narratives, history, and social environments. He has exhibited work at internationally recognized museums such as the Whitney, MASS MoCA, and the Hammer Museum. He was the Wanlass Resident at Occidental College and has lectured at UCSD, SAIC, CalArts, and Colombia in 2020 alone.

Timo Fahler works with utilitarian mediums and found objects to construct highly visual and culturally significant works. Combining formal elements of sculpture with references to his mixed heritage, Fahler’s work explores ideas of use and reuse through casting and manipulating found objects and combining them with relics and materials that relate to personal experiences. His restructuring of objects in a manner that indicates both function and meaning invokes a bricoleurian practice evident in his midwestern background, and representative of a multi-cultural aesthetic.

Part of the University of Arizona School of Art, The University of Arizona VISITING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS SERIES
MOCA Tucson

Bella Maria Varela, who earned her MFA from the UA School of Art this spring, has been named the 2021 summer resident at the Border Art Residency (BAR) in El Paso, Texas. Congratulations Bella!

Bella Maria Varela | border art residency Bella Maria Varela is the 2021 Summer Artist in Residence.

Our amazing colleague Sama Alshaibi has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship!

Congratulations to recent PVI graduates Kennady Schneider and Alex Turner for both being selected for the Critical Mass Top 50!

Top 50 | Photolucida

An upcoming exhibition of work by Marion Palfi, who fled N**i Germany for the United States, is on view at the Phoenix Art Museum. Curated by our new colleague Audrey Sands who joined the Center for Creative Photography and PAM just as we entered the pandemic.

Freedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America (at Phoenix Art Museum) | Center for Creative Photography Marion PalfiChicago School Boycott, 1963-64 (from the series "That May Affect Their Hearts and Minds," 1963-64)1963-1964© Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of RegentsMarion Palfi Archive/Gift of the Menninger Foundation and Martin Magner, The Center for Creative Photography Exhibition ...

Sharing what should be a great talk next Monday, Nov. 2nd with UA Art History alum Mary Statzer and imagemaker Jess T. Dugan. Registration req'd.

Art and Activism: A Conversation with Photographer Jess T. Dugan and Curator Mary Statzer | Event Calendar | Amherst College The Department of Art and the History of Art and the Program in Film and Media Studies is excited to present a conversation between artist Jess Dugan and curator Mary Statzer.