Art Practice News Updates
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.
Read MoreCongratulations 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreCongratulations 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.
Read MoreThe UC Berkeley 2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Liminal Space, offers a reflection on the boundary of liminal space that the graduating seniors find themselves in.
Read MoreKenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury and Marlon Mullen were chosen by SFMOMA as the winners of 2019’s SECA Art Awards. Two out of the three winners have ties with UC Berkeley.
Read MoreRonald Rael has been an affiliated faculty member of Art Practice since 2012. The New York Times featured an extensive and celebratory profile of their work, much of which is connected to Art Practice’s Ceramics Studio.
Read MoreAllan 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…
Read MoreMOMA acquired all seven of Stephanie Syjuco’s Cargo Cult photographs after exhibiting them in the 2018 "Being: New Photography” exhibit.
Read MoreQuantopia 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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