Sandra Becker: Pop-Up Exhibition: When Artists Talk to Telephone Books – and They Talk Back

What do historical telephone directories tell us? More than just names and numbers. They preserve traces of people, everyday life, and communication – sometimes quietly, sometimes unexpectedly. In this pop-up exhibition, artists worked with historical Swiss telephone directories from the PTT Archives on behalf of Wikimedia CH (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, WMCH).

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Carlos Llerenga Aguirre : Mapping Printmaking, Douro Printmaking Biennal, Portugal

PhD candidate Carlos Llerenga Aguirre has been included in the Mapping Printmaking World Book project curated by Nuno Canelas, and the Douro Printmaking Biennial. Portugal

The “Mapping Printmaking” project is a work in progress on a digital book that compiles the work of hundreds of artists from around the world in the field of printmaking. All traditional engraving techniques are covered, such as Metal Engraving, Linocut, etc.

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Weaving Water @ Yarun Residency 2025

The theme of resilience at Weaving Water @ Yarun grounded an 11 day program exploring deep connection to place. Delivered in a year marked by disruption and recovery, Weaving Water focused on responding — to weather, to place, and to community needs as they emerged. What remained constant was a shared commitment to care for water, Country and each other through partnership, kinship and respect.

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Jisun Myung : Miyeokguk Project in Performing the Edible (Routledge, 2026)

Jisun Myung wrote 'Chapter 7: Communion of a Bowl of Seaweed Soup with Familiar Strangers: from Mukbang to Live Performance in the Miyeokguk Project' of "Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability" edited by Kristin Hunt (Routledge, 2026). This article is about of her recent performance piece that explores Korean women diaspora's reproductive stories.

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Erin Wilkerson : Manifesto on Feral Filmmaking published in La Furia Umana

PhD alum Erin Wilkerson published the manifesto, "Feral filmmaking: wilding cinema as a decolonial act," in the international cinema journal, La Furia Umana, issue 46: Nature/Ch'ixi/Culture and the Cinemas of Latin America. She developed the feral filmmaking methodology as part of her culminating thesis, "Invasive Species"

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Dyllan Nguyen: Fair Play at Crossing Gallery

On exhibition at the Crossing Gallery at the Harvard Ed Portal October 31, 2024 - January 3, 2025 Fair Play by Dyllan Nguyen explores the role that play has in human lives as a way to learn and relate to ourselves and others. The object language of table tennis is used as a jumping off point to explore individual difference, acceptance, and building empathy through playful experiences. Visitors are invited to play together or alone, create a new game, imagine their own equipment, and reflect on their experiences of playing across differences.

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Laurence Arcadias: animation The Eclipse screened at Iron Mule Film Festival in New York


An animated short co-directed by UMBC’s Robin Corbet, senior research scientist in the Center for Space Sciences and Technology, and Laurence Arcadias, an animation professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, will screen at the Iron Mule Film Festival—a short comedy film fest—in New York City on October 7. Corbet and Arcadias will attend the screening and take questions from the audience about science, art, and how they can complement each other.

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