Image © Andrew S. Yang, Summer 2023 MassArt Visiting Artist and Critic

MFA SUMMER LECTURE SERIES

VISITING SPEAKERS

Each summer, the MFA Low-Residency program hosts a Summer Lecture Series featuring artists, curators, and scholars who present their work to our community–many of whom also meet with our students for one-on-one and group critiques. From emerging to mid-career to well established artists, we seek out voices and perspectives that can open new worlds for our students and shift the way they view their own practice. These lectures are open to both the MassArt community and to the general public.

SUMMER 2023 LINEUP

CICELY CAREW

• Thursday, July 6 | 4:30pm | DMC Lecture Hall / Via ZOOM

ROZ CREWS

• Thursday, July 13 | 4:30pm | DMC Lecture Hall / Via ZOOM

ANDREW S. YANG

• Thursday, July 20 | 4:30pm | DMC Lecture Hall / Via ZOOM

CATHY DELLA LUCIA

• Thursday, July 27 | 4:30pm | DMC Lecture Hall / Via ZOOM 

L.A.-born artist Cicely Carew’s multimedia works comprise a self-sustaining ecosystem of possibility. With rebellious mark-making, vibrant color, and sweeping gestures, Carew captures the momentary magic of her process of building enduring spaces of radical joy and liberation. Carew earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art + Design in Boston (2005) and her MFA from Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA (2020). Carew has mounted solo exhibitions, two-person and group exhibitions across the northeast in MA, NY and RI. Carew’s work has also been featured in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, NPR Boston, WBUR’s The Artery, and Boston Art Review No.6 issue. Carew was recently awarded the ICA Boston’s James and Audrey Foster Prize, which will include a three-person exhibition opening in August 2023. Carew lives and works in Cambridge, MA. Read more about Cicely Carew HERE.

Roz Crews is an artist who uses curatorial strategies to produce public programs, events, and performances. Recent projects have explored the complexity of trauma at the dinner table, the oppressive structures of public schools and academic institutions, and the roles of authorship and labor in the arts. This layered work has emerged from a variety of  positions including: artist in residence in several universities and non-profits, manager of community engagement programs at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, co-curator and public programs manager at the King School Museum of Contemporary Art in Portland, OR, adjunct instructor at Portland State University, and full-time art teacher at the School Board of Alachua County in Gainesville, FL. She has an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a BA in Anthropology from New College of Florida. She is currently the Associate Curator of Programs at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA.

Andrew S. Yang works across the visual arts, natural sciences, and expanded research to explore our earthly and urgent entanglements. His projects have been exhibited from Oklahoma to Yokohama, including the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Spencer Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, with recent curatorial projects Earthly Observatory at SAIC Galleries and Making Kin – Worlds Becoming for the Center for Humans and Nature. His essays appear in Leonardo, Biological Theory,Art Journal and recently in the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies as well as the new series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. Yang is Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and starting in the fall of 2023 the Jonathan Lash Chair in Environmental Education & Sustainability at Hampshire College.

Cathy Della Lucia (b. 1989 South Korea) is a Boston based artist working predominantly in sculpture, ceramics and installation. She received a BA in studio art at Xavier University and MFA in sculpture from Boston University. Her work considers the role of objects, the body, and raw material as systems and vessels that carry, conceal, conduct, and connect. She uses modularity as a medium to explore ideas of unbelonging, identity construction, and the fetishization of human labor. Her practice is deeply focused on touch and material sensibility as a way of connecting with Korean traditions of craft and collaborating with familiar materials that are collected from the excess waste of local craftsmen, furniture builders, and home construction. 

Cathy Della Lucia has exhibited work in the US, Korea and Denmark. She is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Boston College.

LECTURE SERIES ARCHIVE

To view passcode-protected recordings, please contact the Graduate Programs Team (gradprogram@massart.edu).