What should contemporary art education look like today? The new Media Arts MFA program at Purchase College, State University of New York takes an interdisciplinary post-studio approach, focusing its research on contemporary art forms, social and political engagement, materiality, critical data studies. , media ecologies and alternative fields of cultural production and circulation.
Purchase College’s excellent production facilities, funding, teaching, research, and public engagement opportunities provide a fertile environment for graduate studies in the arts. Beyond the confines of a traditional studio art program, Media Arts MFA prepares its students to advance their practice and reflect critically on global socio-political and cultural events. Students can choose a dual degree in two or three years, which allows them to supplement their studies with a master’s degree in art history or entrepreneurship in the arts.
The Purchase College recently completed its first year of the program, during which they developed a unique curriculum supported by exhibitions, events, lectures, reviews, and public engagement projects. This fall marks the opening of the new Media, Film and Theater Shopping Center, a state-of-the-art building that will house the graduate program, serving as an intellectual hub while providing cutting-edge technology. for artistic production. Their public programming focuses on interdisciplinary encounters between artists, scientists and academics, and a series of seminars to critically reflect on the future of arts education.
Purchase College is a public liberal arts college and one of the most respected art schools, a hidden gem located in the greater New York City area. With its thriving graduate programs and diverse student body, it offers unprecedented research and production opportunities. Its full-time faculty is made up of artists, anthropologists, sociologists, engineers and media specialists. His current and future teachers include Michael Bell-Smith, Rachel Fabian, Sara Magenheimer, Shaka McGlotten, Nathan Holmes, Steve Lambert, Jason Pine, Brooke Singer, and Hakan Topal.
Currently accepting applications for fall 2019. For more information, please visit, www.purchase.edu/media-arts-and-culture.
This exhibition in Pasadena, California features artists Antonius Bui, Audrey Chan, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Amir Fallah, Akiko Jackson, Alan Nakagawa, and Kate-hers RHEE.
Not content to wait for a host of critics to comment on events in the non-white art world, Hooks took it upon himself to write about the artists she considered critical in the field.
Between 1962 and 1975, Willenbecher produced substantial work reflecting his interest in games and the night sky, in the ancient human desire to bring order to the inexplicable.
Johnson’s paintings can be seen on Flea Street in Menlo Park, California, and in a group exhibition at Questroyal Fine Art in New York City.
Jaider Esbell has shown us that future biennials should consider artistic activists and ethnic collectives not as contingent collaborators but as author agents.
This week, Metro Pictures officially closed, paying homage to bell hooks, the Wayfair plot, celebrity profiles and more.
Located in New York’s Hudson Valley, students have immediate access to the Hessel Museum of Art and the CCS Bard Library and Archives. Apply before February 1, 2022.
