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 JANUARY COLLOQUIUM + REVIEWS // REQUIREMENTS + GUIDELINES

Below, please find student requirements, guidelines, and study packet for the 2024 January Colloquium:

 

STUDY PACKET: REQUIRED READINGS / VIEWINGS
READINGS:

 

  1. Crimmins, Peter. “ Sculptural fountain at Philly’s Cherry Street Pier is a 16’ glass bed of living mussels.” WHYY, June 2 , 2022. 
  2. Hervey, Jane C. “This is Why The World Needs Artists.” Forbes, February 27, 2018.
  3. Helguera, Pablo. Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook, ix – 51. New York: Jorge Pinto Books, 2011. { Introduction (pg.ix) to Collaboration (pg.51) }
  4. Baker, Chenoa. “Traveling Somewhere Warm in Our Minds: A Review of Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence. ” Sixty Inches From Center, July 31, 2023. [ Original Article ] 
  5. Baker, Chenoa. “Shadows and Scripts.” Public Parking, May 8, 2023. [ Original Article ] 
  6. Baker Chenoa. “my pretty side frays: Chenoa Baker shares an inside look at Gio Swaby’s creative process.” Peabody Essex Museum, August 7, 2023. [ Original Article ]  
  7. Baker, Chenoa. “Beauty is in the “I” of the Beholder.” Sixty Inches From Center, December 2, 2022. [ Original Article ] 
  8. Watlington, Emily.  “Our Work Is Working.”Art in America (October 2022): 36- 43. [ Original Article ] 
  9. Porges, Maria F. “Group Material.” Shift, 4 no.1 (1990): 20 -23
  10. Ashford, Doug, Ewald, Wendy, Felshin, Nina, and Patrica C. Phillips. “A Conversation on Social Collaboration” Art Journal (July 2006): 58 – 82 { Please download the PDF using your Massart email from the Library Database. }
VIDEO + PODCAST

 

  1. Rydz, Evelyn. “ Curative Collective Conversation: Comida Casera Project.” June 14, 2021. National Museum of Women in the Arts. 39:45.  [ Closed Caption Available // Comida Casera Project by Artist Evelyn Rydz. This is an ongoing project using food and storytelling to create connections and cultivate community. The intimate, multigenerational events they produce create a space for both strangers and friends to share stories and food inspired by women who give them the sense of home. This event was livestreamed on NMWA’s Facebook page and at nmwa.org/livestream. ]
  2. Adams, Amanda and Nicole Mueller. “ Morel Doucet talks Community – Building, the Power of Storytelling, and Diversifying your Skill Sets,” Beyond the Studio. Podcast audio. April 27, 2023.
STUDY PACKET: FURTHER (OPTIONAL) READING / STUDY
FURTHER (OPTIONAL) READING:
  1. Mendelsohn, Meredith. “A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art.” New York Times. May 3, 2021. [ original article ]
  2. Helguera, Pablo. Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook, 52 -83. New York: Jorge Pinto Books, 2011. (Remaining chapters).

EVENTS / ATTENDANCE POLICY

To receive full credit for the colloquium and reviews, students must be present in real time at all events where students are engaged (talks/presentations, workshops, study groups, small group critiques, formal reviews, both days, wrap-up meeting):

  • Opening Event / Sharon Louden Artist Talk (Wed 1/3/24 | 6:30pm)
  • At the Table Seminar/Study Group  (Thurs 1/4/24 | 12-2pm)
  • At the Table Panel #1 Collaboration as Art Practice: Making, Thinking, and Working Together (Thurs 1/4/24 | 3-5pm)
  • At the Table Keynote Lecture / Q+A: Jean Shin (Thurs 1/4/24 | 6:30pm)
  • At the Table Panel #2: Beyond The Studio: The Expanded Art Community (Fri 1/5/24 | 12-2pm)
  • Weekend Reviews (first years) (Sign-up) (Sat 1/6/24 | 10am-3:15pm)
  • Weekend Reviews (second years) (Sign-up) (Sun 1/7/24 | 10am-3:15pm)
  • Colloquium Debrief and Discussion (Sun 1/7/24 | 3:15-4pm)

ALL PROGRAMMING AND PARTICIPANT DETAILS, INCLUDING ZOOM LINKS, CAN BE FOUND HERE AFTER 12/21.

CRITIQUE AND REVIEW REQUIREMENTS

Participation in the following feedback sessions is required:

 

  • First Year Revews | Saturday 1.6.24 | with Kelly Knight, Loretta Park, Craig Stockwell, YoAhn Han and Guest Critic| Review Schedule / Links Here
  • Second Year Revews | Sunday 1.7.24 | with Kelly Knight, Loretta Park, Craig Stockwell, YoAhn Han and Guest Critic| Review Schedule / Links Here

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

  • All students will present their own work during the Satuday + Sunday formal / individual reviews by sharing their own screen with images, clips, or a looping presentation of their work. 
  • Weekend reviews are 30 minutes each.
  • Image slideshows / presentations should be set to loop so that students can focus on the discussion. 
  • Students must upload assets by 9am January 3 (giving reviewers 3-4 days to pre-view and explore student work); the grad team will share student assets (and links, if applicable) in advance with reviewers. Please keep this in mind: all reviewers will have already spent time with your work prior to these sessions. Images and (silent) clips shown during the reviews are simply reference points for the discussion.
  • Student introductions should be brief, reserving the majority of the 30-minute review slot for reviewer feedback. Students are welcome to include a brief artist statement with their images/assets, or link to a web or blog page that includes a written introduction to the work.
  • The graduate office is offering a mini-workshop on Virtual Presentation and Zoom Screen-share Best Practices on Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 6:30pm EST with Rebecca Morrison, for students who would like to learn or refresh their virtual presentation skills for a smooth screen-sharing experience. Please see further info below.

ASSET PREPARATION GUIDELINES

  • Students must share images and/or clips of their work in advance, via Google Drive (required). Students may also share a URL of a blog page or website (optional). UPLOAD YOUR IMAGES / ASSETS HERE by 9am on January 3, 2024. 
  • If you have a blog or website that showcases your work and provides additional context, please provide that link on the sign-up sheet, which the grad team will share with reviewers.
  • Required image and video specs: Images should be high-res JPEGs, 2000px minimum on the longest side, and the filenames should contain your name. Videos may be in the form of web links to Vimeo or another streaming platform (via Google doc), but can also be shared as .mp4’s directly in Google Drive. Sound works may be shared as .wav or .mp3 files via Google Drive, or as links to a streaming platform.
  • The grad team will share your assets and links with faculty and guest reviewers in advance, on January 3, leaving them time to spend with your work prior to your review.

ASSET PREPARATION + ZOOM PRESENTATION MINI-WORKSHOP

6The grad office will hold a brief virtual mini-workshop on asset preparation and online presentation best practices on Thursday, December 28 at 6:30pm EST. Please join Rebecca Morrison to learn or refresh on best practices for online presentation of work.