Transart MFA candidate, Vanessa Lustig has been selected to participate in The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center’s summer intensive at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA).
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Transart MFA alum Anna Binta Diallo was nominated to the 2022 longlist for the prestiguous Sobey Art Award.
Anna Binta Diallo, Wanderings, 2020. Collages printed on Photo Tex™ adhesive fabric, aluminum composite, MDF, dimensions variable. © Anna Binta Diallo. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography for Access Gallery
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Transart alum (2020) and current MFA advisor, Syowia Kyambia represents Kenya as part of the pavilion of Kenya, together with Dickens Otieno, Wanja Kimani and Kaloki Nyamai. Curated by Jimmy Ogonga, under the title “Exercises in Conversation.”
Photo: Maximos Pantelidakis
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Set aside some time on a Sunday afternoon to disconnect from busyness and reconnect with the ecosystem you are a part of! Join Transart advisor Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles for "Growing a Green Heart", a three-hour experiential community gathering-walk-movement-drawing workshop at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, where participants are invited to become ONE with its ecosystem, and thus for us to develop deep connections with it that can lead to advocacy for our borough's green areas and for the future of Tibbetts Brook.
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Transart Institute for Creative Research invites you to our spring Open Window Series. The last weekend of every month, the Institute briefly opens the window on our sessions to share with alumni and the public part of what takes place in our topic-based intensives for our students. Each Intensive Weekend addresses a curated topic through workshops, screenings, panels, studio visits, sound and somatic sessions with our renowned international faculty, advisors, and guests.
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Canadian dance artist Marie France Forcier presents “Crux”
Forcier Stage Works, the byname under which Canadian dance artist Marie France Forcier presents her work, is excited to present Crux on Friday March 25th and Saturday March 26th 2022 at the DJD Dance Centre.
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Reflections brings together a group of creatives from various cultures, ages, social demographics, and widely differing artistic practises. It asks them to reflect on the problems humans face as a local, national and global community and how they can make good through the times they live as makers.
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Syowia Kyambi participates in Open Encounters exhibition at thx again gallery, Berlin with works by Abdullah Qureshi, Tasnim Bagdadi, Sara Khan, Natasha Jozi and Gloria Zein. On view from March 10 until April 23.
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Rachel Epp Buller was recently awarded a 2021-22 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Arts and Humanities at the University of Alberta. She is spending winter/spring 2022 on site in Edmonton, in partnership with the University's Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. Her multimodal research-creation project is titled Acts of Listening: Art and Relational Attunement.
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The exhibition The Ordinary Lives of Women brings together work by various artists that interpret the value of everyday women and their contribution to humanity. Showing at the Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta, until the 13th of March.
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Art by Caroline Golden and fables by Derek Owens.
A master of disguise tries to seduce the sun... a horticultural club tours a dream-garden… afishwife is serenaded by a severed head … a lunar king appeals to the people of earth one last time…
These are a few of the characters you'll meet in this collection of 37 tales, each conjured by Derek Owens in response to the surreal art of Caroline Golden. You are formally invited to enter this enchanted everwhen: an eclectic gallery of whimsical souls; a chorus of voices fanciful, dark, and strange.
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Histories of global oil extraction and movement entangle with stories of colonial settlement and threatened ecologies. An autoethnographic field work on erasure and displacement. Filmed on site in California and Singapore, situated within the regional Ring of Fire.
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February 4-25th, 2022
Artist Talk: Feb 3rd at 7pm EST
Through traditional and interpretive means of exploring speculative futures in a posthumous era, group collaborations and realizing individual works, the Collective has found a distinct model for their creative endeavors.
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February 10th - 20th, 2022
In their essayistic tour de force NUCLEAR FAMILY, Erin and Travis Wilkerson investigate the use of atomic energy in the US for both peaceful and military means; they don’t just uncover many fenced-off areas in the desert, but also various answers to the question of how to make political cinema today.
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Focusing on urgent questions animating the debate around radical education and the recent disruptions caused by the pandemic, the roaming symposium is a moment to look closely at the proliferation of both online and offline platforms and methods which aim to facilitate the documentation, activation of case studies, and the application of toolkits.
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Recreational Meetings invite participants to reimagine digital platforms and social formats through experimental and experiential exercises. Developed by Stephen Kwok in collaboration with creative practitioners from diverse fields, Recreational Meetings explore how distance may enable, rather than limit, engagement with our surroundings, ourselves, and each other.
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Luis Lara Malvacías, Transart MFA alum and creator of 3RD CLASS CITIZEN presents Somatic Sessions, part of Transart’s NYC Micro-Residency Oct. 30th 2021.
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Over the twelve months of 2020, Transart alumni, Rachel Epp-Buller and Derek Owens engaged in a long-distance collaboration. The resulting work was featured in "After the End of the End of the World," an exhibition at the Regier Art Gallery at Bethel College, and ultimately, a publication that documents both the exhibit and that final poem.
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Session 10: Methodologies
Saturday, 25 September 2021
15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Do you dream about opening wine bottles with your butt crack? Herr Frölich (German Nihilist life coach) can’t teach you how, but he can try!
Transart Postgraduate Researcher, Jake Tkaczyk, performs a live show on Zoom as part of the Play the Fool Festival. September 24-25. Additional Writing Quips and Outside Eye by Transart MFA Alumn, Kristine Nutting.
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