Illustration by Topos Graphics for BFAMFAPhD
Making & Being: Conversations about Art & Pedagogy
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation about forms of critique, cooperatives, artist-run spaces, healing, and the death of projects. These conversations about art and pedagogy are co-presented by BFAMFAPhD & Pioneer Works, hosted by Hauser & Wirth, and covered by media partners Eyebeam and Bad at Sports.
Events are free and open to the public. RSVP is required.
Schedule Modes of Critique Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street Friday 18 January 2019, 6 – 8 pm The first installment of this series will focus on Modes of Critique. What modes of critique might foster racial equity in studio art classes at the college level? The conversation will include Billie Lee, Anthony Romero, and Judith Leeman of the Retooling Critique Working Group, and fimmaker Eloise Sherrid.
The Retooling Critique Working Group is organized by Judith Leemann and was initially funded by a Massachusetts College of Art and Design President’s Curriculum Development Grant. Register Artist-Run Spaces Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street Friday 1 February 2019, 6 – 8 pm The second installment of this series focuses on artist-run spaces and how artists create contexts for encounters with their projects that are aligned with their goals. The conversation will include Linda Goode-Bryant, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and Salome Asega. Register
Illustration by Topos Graphics for BFAMFAPhD
Building Cooperatives Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street Friday 22 February 2019, 6 – 8 pm The third installment of this series will focus on building cooperatives, exploring the question: What if the organization of labor was integral to your project? The conversation will include members of Meerkat Filmmakers Collective and Friends of Light. Register
Healing and Care 151 West 30th Street, Suite 403, New York, NY 10001 (Off site event) Thursday 28 February 2019, 6 – 8 pm The fourth installment of this series will focus on healing and care. How do artists ensure that their individual and collective needs are met in order to dream, practice, work on, and return to their projects each day? The conversation will include Adaku Utah and Taraneh Fazeli. Register
Solidarity Economy, illustration from the book Making and Being by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhD. Illustration adapted from Ethan Miller and the Community Economies' Collective by Topos Graphics for BFAMFAPhD
When Projects Depart Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street Thursday 14 April 2019, 6 – 8 pm The fifth installment of this series will focus on what practices might be developed to honor the departure of a project. For example, where do materials go when they are no longer of use, value, or interest? This conversation will include Israeli and Lindsay Tunkl. Register
Group Agreements Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street Friday 19 April 2019, 6 – 8 pm The sixth installment of this series will focus on how group agreements are necessary in gatherings that occur at residencies, galleries, and cultural institutions today. The conversation will include Sarah Workneh, Laurel Ptak, and Danielle Jackson. Register
Sites of Shaping, Sites of Change, illustration from the book Making and Being by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhD. Illustration adapted from Generative Somatics by Topos Graphics for BFAMFAPhD
Open Meeting for Arts Educators and Teaching Artists Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street Friday 17 May 2019, 6 – 8 pm The next installment of this series will focus on open meeting for arts educators and teaching artists. How might arts educators gather together to develop, share, and practice pedagogies that foster collective skills and values? The conversation will include members of the Pedagogy Group. Register
Book Launch: ‘Making and Being: A Guide to Embodiment, Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts’ Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street Friday 25 October 2019, 6 – 8 pm What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? Stacey Salazar in dialog with Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, and Emilio Martinez Poppe of BFAMFAPhD. Registration is not yet open
Lifecycle Phases, illustration from the book Making and Being by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhD. Illustration by Topos Graphics.
BFAMFAPhD is a collective that employs visual and performing art, policy reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. Pioneer Works Press publishes a range of publications that foster experimental ways of thinking, and seeks to advance the dissemination of the arts through publication and recorded sound. Drawn from programs at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, all editions can be found at pioneerworks.org. Contemporary art talk without the ego, Bad at Sports is the Midwest's largest independent contemporary art podcast and blog.
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