NEWS

Transart alum & current advisor, Rachel Epp Buller discusses her artistic practices of listening, particularly in light of her 2021-22 Fulbright fellowship at the University of Alberta's CoLaboratory for Research-Creation and Social Justice. This is the 6th episode of Renewing the World podcast, a project developed by Transart advisor Elena Marchevska, TT alum & advisor Rachel Epp Buller & Charles Reeve.

What Knots Knot Knots" is an invitation to think about the ways in which knotting and unknotting are active practices that build and shape creative research, revealing attachments between/with materiality, epistemologies, ecologies and socio-political affinities and tensions.

Curated by TT advisor Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovales, INDECENCIA brings together a cohort of queer/rare* artists from Latin America and/or of Latin American descent and living in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean or in-between spaces/identities, whose praxes center on performance art and ephemeral actions. From the perspective of several generations, countries, and sociopolitical contexts, these artists invite us to consider Latinidad/Latinxidad and its relationship to religion, enfleshment, and sexuality. Their inquiries extend—through videos, props, scripts, costumes, and other channels—to the disjointed corpus of an entire hemisphere where, for many, the colonized and the colonizer can easily wrestle within a single body.

Image: Margaret Hart, Chimera Portrait 15, mixed media collage, 2022

Margaret Hart and The Endpoint Collective, comprised of Transart alums Deborah Carruthers, Gabriel Deerman, Margaret Hart, and Mark Roth present What Remains Unexplained 2.0 an exhibition on view from October 5, 2021, to November 5, 2022 at Kingston Gallery (Boston).

The Endpoint Collective brings together artists and artworks all investigating issues of connection, replication, and structure through process-based works including printmaking, collage, photomontage, and painting.

Mother Talk / Schedule a one-on-one encounter with Nicolás at the Hispanic Society of America — The Interior Beauty Salon.

Calling specifically people of Dominican and Haitian descent–living in the island or abroad–and Dominican, Haitian and BIPOC neighbors of Washington Heights, the Bronx and New York at large. During our encounters we engage on relational practices, conversations and stories regarding our mothers, mother figures or mother presences in our lives, as well as challenges we might be facing or have faced with this relationship. We will also dialogue about class, gender, race, colonization and decolonization as it pertains to the Virgin of La Altagracia.

Transart MFA and advisor Raphael Raphael has been appointed this month to Assistant Professor at University of Hawaii of Manoa.

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).

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

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