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A research trip to China connects an artist drawing from life with the factory that made his an all-white bouncy house with no entrance.
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Art Practice News Updates
We are at the beginning of a new age, but how do we account for the past? How did and how will black lives matter at Art Practice?
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An urgent critique, deSouza’s new book mishears “Heart of Darkness” in the most intriguing ways.
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Due to Coronavirus, the Department of Art Practice closed all studios and workspaces. Read more about online instruction, refunds, and graduation.
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Congratulations to Painter Becky Suss [MFA 2005] received a great review in the March 3 issue of the New Yorker Magazine
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Nadia Shihab wins the Film Independent Spirit Award.
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At work in her Berkeley studio, Prof. Stephanie Syjuco navigates the deeply embedded visual tropes of American history applied in her practice.
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This year, Murphy Cadogan awards go to Shirin Towfiq [B.A. 2017] Brian Bartz [M.F.A. 2020], Ghazal Rahimi [M.F.A. 2020], and Xandra Ibarra [M.F.A. 2020].
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Congratulations to our Summer Studio students who mounted a very impressive show at the Worth Ryder gallery with the support and guidance of Instructor Carrie Hott. The show will be up until the end of August, and it’s evidence that a great summer at Cal can involve some truly transformative work.
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In the heart of Richmond, a thriving arts center called NIAD serves artists with a full range of arts resources. The gallery now features work by Gabriella Willenz.
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Call to all artists: the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is launching a grant to support art projects that engage substantively with cybersecurity in themes, topics, audiences, and/or materials. Through this grant, CLTC hopes to expand public dialogue around — and awareness of — cybersecurity. The primary goal of this prize is to expand and refine representations and portrayals of cybersecurity, broadly defined.
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Congratulations to the 68 artists who make up the proud Class of 2019. Feeling environmental, ecological and political uncertainty, they recognize uncertainty as the starting point for new ways of thinking and new meanings.
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For the forty-ninth year, BAMPFA and Art Practice jointly present an exhibition of works by Berkeley Master of Fine Arts graduates. This year’s exhibition includes the exceptional work of Tia Cabral aka Spellling, Ricki Dwyer, Heesoo Kwon, Gabriella Willenz, and Connie Zheng.
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Congratulations to UC Berkeley Art Practice Ceramics Studio Manager and Lecturer Ehren Tool for his full profile in the NYT Magazine on 05/01/2019. The extensive article describes his career as a Marine, what he learned from it, and how his experiences inspire his art.
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The UC Berkeley 2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Liminal Space, offers a reflection on the boundary of liminal space that the graduating seniors find themselves in.
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Allan deSouza is discussing his new book on art pedagogy, “How Art can be Thought” inspires engaged dialog about the role of art as a force of renewal, memory, identity and community. The book tour continues…
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MOMA acquired all seven of Stephanie Syjuco’s Cargo Cult photographs after exhibiting them in the 2018 "Being: New Photography” exhibit.
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Quantopia is a multimedia performance celebrating the evolution of the internet. Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky composed music to underscore the epic convergence of technological innovation and social progress and Greg Niemeyer directed visualizations to complement the music. Visualizations included a VR interface developed by Medium Labs, a network simulation developed by Roger Antonsen, and a montage by Greg Niemeyer based on historical records from the Internet Archive. The project was funded by the Peder Sather Grant and the Hewlett Foundation, and is now touring around the world.
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