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Applications are open for Summer Abroad in Greece! Students can earn 6 upper division Art Practice units while making community-engaged art in Eleusis, Greece.

https://studyabroad.berkeley.edu/program/summerabroad/eleusis-greece

Xandra Ibarra (MFA’20 and Sculpture faculty) has received a prestigious Creative Capital Award in the category of “Wild Futures” for her proposed project “Unsettled Agreements (or Political Constipation).”

Organized by the Arts Research Center, the cohort will meet bi-weekly this spring for research, conversation, critique, and feedback, along with a $3,000 award.

Professor Jill Miller's NFT project, ARIEL STINKS, is featured in Billboard Magazine and ArtNet.

www.jillmiller.net

Professor Jill Miller's solo exhibition FUTURE PERFECT is on view at the FAB Gallery at University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

MFA grad student Juniper Harrower is the lead author on a new article which discusses her work with the Algae Society BioArt Design Lab. The article was published in the Leonardo journal for Art and Science through MIT and it is featured as their cover article!

Congratulations Gericault De La Rose (Murphy Award), and Irma Yuliana Barbosa, Eniola Fakile, and Tiare Ribeaux (Cadogan Awards).

The de Young Museum in San Francisco has recently acquired the works of three UC Berkeley Art Practice members: Professor Stephanie Syjuco, Sahar Khoury (Ceramics Lecturer and MFA alum) and Miguel Arzabe (MFA alum)

Four amazing new graduate students join the UC Berkeley MFA program.

Congratulations to Art Practice Professor and Chair Al-An deSouza, for their exhibition review in The New York Times by Holland Cotter!

Professor Jill Miller and Melody Chang (MCP 2021) exhibit augmented reality project, Dog Pack, at ICA San Francisco.

www.jillmiller.net

Clement Hil Goldberg is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and collapse.

Worth Ryder Gallery's new Exhibition Manager Gazelle Samizay is a widely-exhibited artist, an experienced curator, and an organizer, particularly in support of displaced /exiled Afghans, and Afghan artists and writers.

Zygote quarterly did a nice feature article of MFA graduate student Juniper Harrower's environmental art practice in Joshua Tree National Park that you can read about in issue 30 of their biomimicry focused publication.

Art Practice Alum, Artist and Ceramics Lab Manager Ehren Tool was recently featured in a Berkeley News article.

Professor Jill Miller and Art Practice major Nassirah Nelson’s collaborative artwork is featured in Art Prospect 2021: Forms of Unity festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.