JUXTAPOSITIONS
dec
‘09 –feb ‘10
dec
TA B L E O F C O N T E N TS
Featured Exhibition:
02 Warren Seelig: Textile per se 12/4–3/14
Editor:
mica gallery hours:
Jessica Weglein
Monday through Saturday
10 am–5 pm
Sunday, noon–5 pm
Designer:
Mike Weikert ’05
Closed major holidays
MICA VENUES
Main Building
1300 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Brown Center
1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Fox Building
1303 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Bunting Center
1401 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Gateway
1601 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Mount Royal Station
1400 Cathedral St.
Studio Center
113-131 W. North Ave.
Jewelry Center
at Meadow Mill
3600 Clipper Mill Road
In Our Galleries:
05 December Commencement Exhibition 12/4–12/20
06 Community Art—Works in Progress 12/8–12/18
07 Departmental Exhibitions 1/13–3/10
08 The Telepathy Drawings 1/27–3/10
Visiting Artists & Historians:
02 Warren Seelig 2/11
10 Mitchell Joachim 12/9
11 Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry 1/25 & 1/27
12 James Hyde 2/1
13 Kendall Buster 2/10
14 José Roca 2/10
14 Dan Geva Spring 2010
Special Events:
04 Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design 2/25
07 National Portfolio Day 12/6
15 MICA Art Market 12/9–12/12
17 MLK Day of Service 1/18
18 MICA Jewelry Center Open House 1/10
18 Summer 2010 Young People’s Studios Camp Open House 2/20
19 Raw Art Sale 2/14–2/15
Performances:
16 Inspecting Carol 12/10–12/12 & 12/17–12/19
16 The Snow Queen 1/7–1/17
16 12, a performance piece for 12 actors 2/26–3/7
17 The Vagina Monologues 2/11–2/13
19 Coffeehouse 1/24 & 2/13
19 MICApellafest 2/27
‘09 –feb ‘10
FEATURed event
Artist Talk:
Warren Seelig, Shadowfield/Colored Light (detail), stainless steel, florescent Plexiglas, Collection
Reading Public Museum, 2007, photo by Jack Ramsdale.
Thursday, February 11, 7 pm
Decker Gallery, Fox Building
Reception:
Friday, December 4, 5–7 pm
WARREN SEELIG: TEXTILE PER SE
This winter, MICA will mount Warren Seelig: Textile per se, a retrospective of textilebased constructions by Rockland, Maine-based fiber artist Warren Seelig. Seelig,
who is teaching an interdisciplinary drawing course at the College during the fall
semester, has insisted on continuously defining and redefining the qualities that are
unique to textile and especially to a kind of abstraction rooted in repetitive processes.
The exhibition, which will include works produced by ceramics, fiber,
interdisciplinary sculpture, and general fine arts majors in Seelig’s class, features
selections from Seelig’s three main bodies of work. These include hand-woven and
manipulated wall mounted works of the 1970s and early ’80s and the skeletal/skin
“spoke and wheel” sculptures from the ’80s and ’90s. MICA will also reveal Seelig’s
most recent series of works that examine matter and light, Shadowfields.
“This is the first opportunity to acknowledge and examine Seelig’s major
contributions in defining the field of fiber in one space,” says Susie Brandt, chair
of MICA’s fiber department and curator of the exhibition. “As well, it is equally
satisfying to finally see such a large part of his oeuvre.”
In addition to transforming MICA’s galleries with Seelig’s idiosyncratic hybrid
forms, the exhibition includes the artist’s preparatory works – models, samples, and
sketches – to provide a glimpse into his working process.
Warren Seelig, Shadowfield/Crystal, stainless steel, Lucite balls, Collection Barbara and Jonathan Bick
and Family, 2009, photo by Jack Ramsdale.
Friday, December 4, 2009–
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Meyerhoff and Decker galleries,
Fox Building; Leidy Atrium,
Brown Center
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Warren Seelig, Blue Oval, stainless steel spokes, frame, lathe turned counterweight, vinyl coated mesh,
artist’s collection, 1994, photo by Jack Ramsdale.
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FEATURed event
In Our Galleries 05
Warren Seelig interacts with Decker Library
Friday, December 4–
Sunday, December 20
Decker Library, Bunting Center
During the exhibition, MICA’s Decker Library will feature a collection of Warren Seelig’s writings as well as selections
from his extensive list of recommended reading lists to allow students and visitors to further explore the artist’s
ongoing relationship between research, writing, and studio practice.
Screening of Handmade Nation and talk by Faythe Levine
Fox 2 and 3 galleries, Fox
Building; Main Gallery, Main
Building; Brown 3 and 4 galleries,
Brown Center; Middendorf
Gallery, Mount Royal Station
Reception:
Thursday, February 25, 7 pm
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
Friday, December 18, 2 pm
MICA hosts Faythe Levine, co-author of Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design, to present a
free screening of the 2009 documentary film of the same name and discuss the contemporary craft movement with
the audience.
Dubbed “the ambassador of handmade” by the New York Times, Levine in 2004 founded Art vs. Craft, Milwaukee’s
independent craft fair. She is co-owner and curator of Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery in Milwaukee.
About the film: In 2006, Levine traveled to 15 cities and interviewed 80 artists and designers to capture the tightknit virtual community that exists through Web sites, blogs, and online stores, and connects to the greater public
through independent boutiques, galleries, and craft fairs. Interviews were also conducted in artists’ studios and homes
of the featured makers.
Frank Sobczynski ’09, Untitled, collage, 2009.
For a sneak peek of Handmade Nation, visit www.handmadenationmovie.com.
Georgi Ivanov ’09, #2b Recycling Plant in Cockeysville, Maryland from the Single Use series, c-print, 2009.
D EC E M B E R C O M M E N C E M E N T EX H I B I T IO N
After years of hard work, graduation has finally arrived. The December Commencement
Exhibition highlights works by BFA students graduating in December 2009. The
students’ programs of study include: art history, theory, and criticism; fiber; general
fine arts; graphic design; illustration; photography; and video and film arts.
Warren Seelig, Conjuncture, double woven cotton, rigid polyester inserts, artist’s collection, 1978 (from
1978 International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles/London).
Jenine Bressner’s studio, Providence, R.I., 2006
In Our Galleries
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D E PA RT M E N TA L EX H I B I T IO N S
C O M MUNITY ART—WORKS IN PROGRE S S
Lindsey Bailey, Louisa and Rose, sculptural piece from installation, Louisa and Rose with Dante, clay, fabric,
spray paint, icing, ribbon, acrylic hair, floral pins, Styrofoam, 2008.
Michelle Faulkner, It Starts and Stops Here,
photography, 2009.
Community Art—Works in Progress highlights the Master of Arts in Community Arts
(MACA) students’ recent work. Each artist explores a visual thesis project that represents
personal growth, exploring the role of a community artist and his or her relationship with
an AmeriCorps community-based residency site. Grounded in principles of social justice,
the artwork provides a platform for the multiplicity of diverse voices in the community to
come to life, as understood and interpreted by the artist.
Tuesday, December 8–
Friday, December 18
Fox 4th floor hallway galleries,
Fox Building
MLK
Black Heritage
Wednesday, January 13–
Sunday, January 24
Rosenberg Gallery and Leidy Atrium
Tuesday, February 9–
Sunday, February 14
Rosenberg Gallery
Senior Thesis
Graphic Design
Tuesday, January 26–
Sunday, January 31
Fox 2 Gallery
Wednesday, February 10–
Sunday, February 21
Brown 3 Gallery
Painting
Video and Film Arts
Tuesday, January 26–
Sunday, February 7
Brown 3 Gallery
Wednesday, February 10–
Sunday, February 21
Brown 4 Gallery
Video and Film Arts
Photography
Tuesday, January 26–
Sunday, February 7
Brown 4 Gallery
Friday, February 12–
Tuesday, February 23
Main Gallery
Asian Heritage
Painting
Tuesday, January 26–
Sunday, February 7
Rosenberg Gallery
Tuesday, February 16–
Sunday, February 21
Fox 2 Gallery
Foundation
MA in Teaching
Thursday, January 28–
Tuesday, February 9
Main Gallery
Friday, February 19–
Tuesday, March 9
Fox 3 Gallery
Post-Baccalaureate
Reception:
Friday, January 29–
Tuesday, February 16
Fox 3 Gallery
Ceramics
Friday, January 29, 5–7 pm
General Fine Arts
Drawing
Tuesday, February 2–
Sunday, February, 7
Fox 2 Gallery
Tuesday, February 23–
Sunday, February 28
Fox 2 Gallery
Interdisciplinary
Sculpture
Graphic Design
Tuesday, February 2–
Wednesday, February 17
Middendorf Gallery
Drawing
Tuesday, February 9–
Sunday, February 14
Fox 2 Gallery
Sunday, December 6,
9:30 am–5 pm
Campuswide
National Portfolio Day is an opportunity
to meet the representatives from
more than 50 of the nation’s leading
art colleges and universities. All
participating institutions are
National Portfolio Day Association
members and offer professional
programs accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Art and
Design. Representatives from these
institutions will travel to MICA to
review students’ artwork, discuss
educational and professional
goals, and share information on
art programs, careers, admissions,
and financial aid. Pre-registration
to attend the event is not required.
For more information, visit the
MICA Web site at www.mica.edu/
portfolioday.
Friday, February 19, 5–7 pm
Saturday, February 20–
Monday, March 8
Middendorf Gallery
Reception:
National
Portfolio Day
Wednesday, February 24–
Tuesday, March 9
Brown 3 and 4 galleries
Photography
Friday, February 26–
Wednesday, March 10
Main Gallery
Artwork for National Portfolio Day poster by David Plunkert, Spur Design
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In Our Galleries
Thursday, January 28, 5–7 pm
T H E TELEPATHY DRAWINGS ,
C O L LABORATIV E WORKS BY JOHN MO R R IS ’ 0 1
In 2005, adjunct photography faculty John Morris ’01 (MFA Photography and Digital
Imaging) and Christina Ayala ’00 (Mount Royal School of Art) began telepathy
drawings, by transmitting and recording telepathic messages. Each session lasts seven
minutes, while Morris transmits a singular thought to Ayala, aka “Princess Di.” During
the transmission, Ayala receives and transcribes the message through drawing, and Morris
photographs the complete session with a large format camera. This image stands along
with the drawing as a document of the collaboration. In addition to their own presented
works in the exhibition, the artists will install a Telepathy Station, inviting gallery visitors
to create their own telepathic drawings. The project explores and confronts the junction
of meaning, belief, and collaborative nature in art making and viewing.
Installation view of the Telepathy Station, ARTSPACE, New Haven, Conn.
Reception:
Black Magic (detail), from The Telepathy Drawings by Christina Ayala ’00 and
John Morris ’01, pen and ink with Prismacolor and silver gelatin print, 2006.
Wednesday, January 27–
Wednesday, March 10
Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center
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Diesel Power (detail), from The Telepathy Drawings
by Christina Ayala ’00 and John Morris ’01, pen and
ink with Prismacolor and silver gelatin print, 2007.
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Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Woman
And Child (detail) (after Imitation of Life, from
the Projection Series, 1934), oil on linen, toner
on silk, 2009.
Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE, Fab Tree Hab
(detail), living graft prefab structure, 2008-2009.
Wednesday, December 9,
12:30 pm
Brown 320, Brown Center
Monday Artist at Noon
Lecture Series
Monday, January 25,
noon
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
Art@Lunch
Wednesday, January 27,
12:30 pm
Brown 320, Brown Center
A RT @LUNCH: MITCHELL JOACHIM, Ph D,
F UTURE CITIES BY MASSIVE DESIGN
Mitchell Joachim, PhD, a faculty member at Columbia University and Parsons the New School for
Design, both in New York, is co-founder of Terrefuge, an ecological design collaborative for urban
infrastructure, building, planning, and art; and Terreform 1, a non-profit design group that promotes
green design in urban environments.
“I give a voice for people and things that can’t necessarily speak for themselves, like trees and wildlife.
Or the residents of Harlem, whom often don’t have free access to professional planners and architects,”
Joachim stated in Rolling Stone magazine. During his talk, Joachim will discuss innovative solutions for
local sustainability in energy, infrastructure, buildings, and food.
Joachim’s awards include The History Channel’s City of the Future, N.Y., and Time magazine’s Best
Invention of the Year 2007 for a compacted car developed with MIT Smart Cities Group. He was selected
by Wired magazine in “The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To” and by
Rolling Stone magazine as one of “The 100 People Who Are Changing America.”
Joachim’s project, Fab Tree Hab, has been widely published and exhibited at The Museum of Modern
Art in New York. For more information about Joachim’s projects, visit the Terreform 1 Web site at
www.terreform.org.
The talk is organized by the department of art history, theory, and criticism with support from the
Office of Academic Services as well as MICA’s Engaging the City group.
B RA D L EY M C CA L L U M A N D JAC Q U E L I N E TA R RY
A collaborative artist team since 1998, Brooklyn-based artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry
have worked and exhibited internationally, seeking to surface and discuss issues revolving around
marginalized members of society. Their work, which moves fluidly between large-scale public projects,
performative sculpture, painting, photography, video, and self-portraiture, challenges audiences to face
issues of race and social justice in communities, history, and the family. Embedded within their work,
whether it is of historical, personal, or civic-based nature, is their standing as an interracial couple.
The artists are represented by Galerie Nordine Zidoun in Paris and Luxembourg, and Nichido
Contemporary Art in Tokyo. For more information on McCallum and Tarry, visit their Web site at
www.mccallumtarry.com.
Beginning in May 2010, McCallum and Tarry’s new work and previous projects will be presented
by MICA’s current Exhibition Development Seminar, a group of student curators, educators, and
designers, with the Contemporary Museum. This collaboration will be part of Project 20, a year-long
series of exhibitions celebrating the Baltimore museum’s 20th anniversary organized by its executive
director, Irene Hofmann. For more information about the Contemporary Museum, visit its Web site at
www.contemporary.org.
Last year’s Exhibition Development Seminar show, Follies, Predicaments, and Other Conundrums: The
Works of Laure Drogoul, received wide recognition, including the Best Solo Show award in the City Paper’s
Best of Baltimore issue and a Best of Baltimore award in art exhibitions by Baltimore Magazine.
The Monday Artist at Noon Lecture Series is organized by the drawing, general fine arts, painting, and
printmaking Senior Thesis program. Art@Lunch talks are organized by the department of art history,
theory, and criticism with support from the Office of Academic Services.
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James Hyde, Recline, acrylic on archival inkjet print on stretched
linen, 2009.
Monday, February 1, noon
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
Kendall Buster, New Growth, shadecloth, steel,
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, 2007.
Wednesday, February 10, 7 pm
Main 110, Main Building
JA M ES HYDE
K E N DA L L B U ST E R
Known for transformations of abstract paintings into physical objects, such as glass boxes, pillows, and
handles, James Hyde’s most recent work investigates the collision of paint on the flat field of a photographic
surface. He employs a broad range of materials, techniques, and disciplines, including painting, sculpture,
and furniture design, as he fearlessly expands the vocabulary of abstract painting. He will discuss his recent
paintings and explorations during his visit to MICA.
Kendall Buster, a professor in the department of sculpture and extended media at Virginia Commonwealth
University, will talk about her sculptural installations during her visit to MICA.
Born in Philadelphia, he lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has exhibited widely, including recent solo
exhibitions at SOUTHFIRST, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York; and Elisabeth Kaufmann
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich. Hyde’s work is held in several museum collections, including the
Brooklyn Museum of Art, N.Y.; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum;
and the Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland. His work has been reviewed by many major art
publications, including Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, and Flash Art. In 2008, Hyde was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship. For more information on Hyde, visit his Web site at www.jameshyde.com.
The Monday Artist at Noon Lecture Series is organized by the drawing, general fine arts, painting, and
printmaking Senior Thesis program.
Art writer and critic Christopher Schnoor reviews her work in the article Stratum Auspicium, describing
Buster as an artist with an academic background in microbiology and a multicultural interest in the history
of architecture and urban development. Buster recognizes the intrinsic, empathetic relationship between
the spread of man-made structures and communities, and the biological processes of growth, regeneration,
and colonization. She demonstrates, in many mediums, that the unseen processes and structures of the
natural world have relevance to, and provide a formal vocabulary for, a reconsideration of the way people
fabricate their environment. An aesthetic built on the membranous architecture of biology, breathing life
into static form, culminates in her current series of work, New Growth.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, the S-Bahnhof Westend in Berlin, and the KZNSA
Gallery in Durban, South Africa. She recently completed a sculpture commission for the Agave Library
in Phoenix. An upcoming project includes a commission for Gilman Hall at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore. For more information on the artist, visit Buster’s Web site at www.kendallbuster.com.
The talk is sponsored by the interdisciplinary sculpture department.
Visiting Artists and historians
Wednesday, February 10,
12:30 pm
Brown 320, Brown Center
A RT @LUNCH: JOSÉ ROCA , THE GRAPH IC U N C O N SCIO U S :
P R I NT AT THE CORE OF CONTEMP ORA RY A RT
As artistic vocabularies have expanded and mixing media has become commonplace, artists have
increasingly drawn from inherent characteristics of the print to achieve specific aesthetic and expressive
goals. Concepts of imprinting, multiplicity, reproduction, and seriality, as well as physically printed forms
are frequently used by artists who do not consider themselves printmakers.
Curator José Roca’s talk will present the concepts behind the curatorial premise for Philagrafika 2010: The
Graphic Unconscious, a citywide event in Philadelphia, January-April 2010, that explores the ubiquitous
presence of printed matter in daily visual culture. Roca, the artistic director of Philagrafika 2010, is
a Colombian curator working from Bogotá and Philadelphia. Art@Lunch talks are organized by the
department of art history, theory, and criticism with support from the Office of Academic Services.
DA N GEVA
Spring 2010 Schusterman Artist Residency at MICA
Dan Geva, an Israeli director, cinematographer, producer, editor, and academic scholar in the field of
documentary filmmaking, comes to Baltimore as a resident artist and teacher in spring 2010. In addition
to teaching two classes in a collaborative program between MICA’s video and film arts department and
the film and media studies program at Johns Hopkins University, Geva will participate in many public
events throughout Baltimore with partner organizations. The latest film by Geva and his wife, Noit, a
producer and screenwriter, Description of a Memory, won the Camera-Stylo Grand Prize at the Rencontres
Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, among other awards.
The Spring 2010 Schusterman Artist Residency at MICA and public programs are sponsored by the
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, with additional generous funding from the Joseph
and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds.
The consortium of community organizations and institutions collaborating with MICA on public
programs is THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Greater Baltimore, Baltimore
Hebrew Institute at Towson University, Gordon Center for the Performing Arts, Goucher University,
Hillel – Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies, Jewish Community Center of
Greater Baltimore, and the Maryland Film Festival.
Wednesday, December 9–
Saturday, December 12,
10 am–6 pm
Leidy Atrium and Falvey Hall
lobby, Brown Center
M ICA A RT M A R K E T
The third-annual MICA Art Market, featuring 250 MICA students, alumni, faculty, and staff, includes
jewelry, illustrations, paintings, prints, posters, sculptures, mosaics, stationery, T-shirts, ceramics, textiles,
book arts, toys, and wrapping paper.
Holiday shoppers and collectors can discover work by emerging artists as well as find collectibles from
leading artists in their respective fields during this festive sale. Visitors can talk one-on-one with the artists
about their work while enjoying the market’s lively atmosphere and supporting the local economy.
The market, sponsored by the MICA Alumni Association, fosters student professional development and
peer-to-peer networking, and provides funding for need-based student scholarships. Last year, scholarships of
$2,500 each were awarded to three MICA students who had participated in the event: Sarah Machicado ’12
(illustration and graphic design), Nisha Ramnath ’10 (animation), and Michele Stidham ’10 (graphic design).
Vendors will accept the following forms of payment: Visa, MasterCard, cash, and check. Admission to the
market is free.
Alisha Green, Kiss, silver, magazine clippings,
Plexiglas, 2008.
Dan Geva
Hillery Sproatt ’08, Wind Whistles, embroidery
and collage, 2008.
José Roca
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Nisha Ramnath ’10, Carotine Brother, knitted, 2009.
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The Snow Queen
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12, a performance piece for 12 actors
Jacket art for Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues,
Villard Books, revised edition, 2001.
I N S PECTING CAROL
Thursday, December 10–Saturday, December 12,
Thursday, December 17–Saturday, December 19, 8 pm;
additional Sunday matinees may be added
Gateway
The Soapbox Players are broke. So for the 20th year, they are putting on their tried and true Dickens’ A Christmas
Carol. However, the company’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant is being withheld pending an artistic
review. When Wayne Wellacre gives an impossibly bad audition, the cast and crew mistake him for the NEA inspector
in disguise and hilariously terrible things happen. This play, presented by the troupe Perimeter Productions, is part The
Inspector General, part A Christmas Carol, with a smidge of Noises Off sprinkled on top of this “everything that can go
wrong does” comedy.
T H E SNOW QUEEN
Thursday, January 7–Sunday, January 17
Gateway
The Snow Queen is a 60-minute aerial and mask performance, featuring traditional Latvian lullabies, that incorporates a
hearing and deaf cast. Set atop floating ice castles, amidst magical masked and flying forest creatures, both speech and
sign are set in a context of ground and air in telling this famous Hans Christian Andersen dark tale about love, friendship,
and courage. The Snow Queen is a theatrical journey of real and imagined risk during a young girl’s courageous sojourn
for friendship, hope, and love at all costs. The aerial choreography and concept is by Mara Neimanis. The Snow Queen is
created by and featuring Monique Holt, Ben King, Bryce Butler, Mara Neimanis, and Tim Chamberlain.
1 2, A PERFORMANCE PIECE FOR 12 ACTO RS
Friday, February 26–Sunday, March 7
Gateway
Daydreams and Nightmares Aerial Theatre, the creative team that brought Look Up: The Story of the Fall of Icarus
recently to BBOX, explores the desolate environment of a dystopian society with 12. An aerial performance piece by
a dozen actors, 12 explores the relationship between individuals while struggling for human survival. A work with no
speaking parts and loosely based on Ayn Rand’s Anthem, this performance has an eerie soundtrack combined with
an ethereal, mechanical, and desolate soundscape. 12 is part theater, part dance, part circus, and part otherworldly
experience. Daydreams & Nightmares is focused on bringing traditional and invented circus work to a new audience.
For updated information on BBOX performances, visit the MICA Web site at www.mica.edu.
M L K DAY O F S E RV IC E
Monday, January 18
Throughout Baltimore
In recognition of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service calls all students, faculty, staff, and members
of the general public to participate in a community service project. Volunteering opportunities will be with numerous local
charitable organizations. This event is coordinated by the Office of Diversity and Intercultural Development.
T H E VAGI N A M O N O LO G U E S
Thursday, February 11–Friday, February 12, 8 pm; Saturday, February 13, midnight
Admission: $5, MICA students, faculty, and staff; $10, general public
Gateway
The Vagina Monologues has been performed in cities across the United States and at hundreds of college campuses.
Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play gives voice to women’s fantasies
and fears, encouraging audience members to see a woman’s body in a different way. The Vagina Monologues has
inspired a dynamic grassroots movement, V-Day, February 14, to stop violence against women. For more information
about the V-Day movement, visit www.vday.org.
The Vagina Monologues will be performed by the MICA community during Parent & Family Weekend. Sarah Wren ’10
(general fine arts) will produce and direct the play along with Cheryl Garner, associate dean of student development.
This event is coordinated by the Office of Diversity and Intercultural Development. Tickets will be available at the
MICA Bookstore.
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Raw Art Sale
M I C A JEWELRY CENTER OPEN HOUSE
COFFEEHOUSE
Sunday, January 10, noon–2 pm
Jewelry Center at Meadow Mill
Sunday, January 24 and Saturday, February 13, 8–10 pm
Visit the space, meet the faculty, and see faculty and student work. The Jewelry Center provides a thorough foundation in traditional and contemporary jewelry making. Students learn how to produce one-of-a-kind art objects as well
as production jewelry. Students with little or no background in jewelry making can take classes as well as those looking to advance their skills.
S U M MER 2010 YOUNG PEOPLE’S STUD IO S CA M P O P E N H O U S E
Saturday, February 20, 10 am–2 pm
Fox Building
Come meet the faculty, see student work, and learn more about MICA’s summer camp for children in grades 1-8.
Each summer the program allows children to immerse themselves in an array of intensive art studio experiences and
recreational activities. Courses are offered at both MICA’s Mount Royal campus and at the Ward Center for the Arts
at the St. Paul’s Schools.
Gateway
Coffeehouse is an ongoing series that provides a showcase for MICA students to demonstrate their talents outside
of the visual arts. Students can sign up for Coffeehouse at the Gateway, Meyerhoff House, or The Commons front
desks the week prior to the event.
RAW A RT SA L E
Sunday, February 14, noon–4 pm; Monday, February 15, 10 am–4 pm
Gateway
A selection of well-priced MICA student artwork is on sale to the public during this annual event sponsored by the
Student Activities Office. Prints, photographs, drawing, painting, small sculptures, and other “raw” (unframed and
unmated) artwork are available.
M ICA P E L L A F E ST
Saturday, February 27, 8 pm
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
MICA’s fifth-annual a cappella concert features the College’s co-ed MICApella ensemble as well as talented guest
singers from neighboring colleges.
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Visit the Calendar or Events & Exhibitions pages at www.mica.edu for more detail and updates on MICA events or call the
Office of Communications at 410-225-2300.
Thank you for your support of MICA and its programs! MICA’s exhibitions and public programs receive generous support
from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Special Programs Endowment; the Amalie Rothschild ’34 Residency Program Endowment;
The Rouse Company Endowment; the Richard Kalter Endowment; the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to
cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive; and the generous contributors to MICA’s Annual Fund.
BBOX—Betty • Bill • Black Box—is named for Betty Cooke ’46 and Bill Steinmetz ’50.
CA L ENDAR
December
12/4–3/14
Warren Seelig: Textile per se
12/4–12/20December Commencement Exhibition
12/6National Portfolio Day
12/8–12/18
Community Art—Works in Progress
MICA’s student dramatic company,
Rivals of the West, along with
faculty, staff, and director Peter
Shipley, will offer 10 performances
of Shakespeare’s woodland romantic
fantasy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Director Peter Shipley works with MICA student
actors. Photo by Al Heishman ’09.
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Wednesday, March 24–
Sunday, March 28
Wednesday, March 31–
Sunday, April 4
Gateway
12/9–12/12MICA Art Market
12/9Mitchell Joachim
12/10–12/12
& 12/17–12/19Inspecting Carol
MFA Thesis
Exhibitions
January
MFA Thesis 1,
Friday, March 26–Sunday, April 4
MFA Thesis 2,
Friday, April 9–Sunday, April 18
MFA Thesis 3,
Friday, April 23–Sunday, May 2
Decker, Meyerhoff, and Fox 3
galleries, Fox Building
1/7–1/17
The Snow Queen
1/10MICA Jewelry Center Open House
1/13–3/10Departmental Exhibitions
1/18MLK Day of Service
1/24Coffeehouse 1/25 & 1/27Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry
1/27–3/10
The Telepathy Drawings
February
2/1James Hyde
2/10 Kendall Buster
2/10José Roca
2/11Warren Seelig
2/11–2/13
Monday, April 12, noon
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
Allen S. Weiss, performance studies
and cinema studies faculty at New York
University, discusses music’s symbolic
aspects and the micro-structures of
audiophonic representation. The lecture
is made possible by the Richard Kalter
Fund. Contributions to the fund can be
made any time by contacting MICA’s
Advancement Office at 410-225-2556.
Jacket art for Allen S. Weiss’ Phantasmic Radio
(detail), Duke University Press, October 1995.
The Vagina Monologues
2/13Coffeehouse
2/14–2/15 Raw Art Sale
2/20Summer 2010 Young People’s Studios Camp Open House
2/25Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design
2/26–3/7
Dr. Richard Kalter
Lecture Series:
Allen S. Weiss, On
Transcendence and the
Demonic in Music:
Sound Art
12, a performance piece for 12 actorS
2/27MICApellafest
Spring 2010Dan Geva
Graduate students from the MFA in
Graphic Design, Hoffberger School of
Painting, Mount Royal School of Art,
MFA in Photographic & Electronic
Media, and Rinehart School of Sculpture
exhibit work. Refreshments are provided
by the MICA Alumni Association.
Annual Benefit
Fashion Show,
Reflections
Saturday, April 17, 8 pm
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
MICA’s annual, always sold-out fashion
show, featuring practical and outrageous
creations by students in a wide array of
disciplines, benefits the Diversity Office
Fund for scholarships. Mika Eubanks ’11
and Erik Clark ’12 will direct this event,
sponsored by the Office of Diversity and
Intercultural Development.
Designers: Sarah Konigsburg ’10 and Julia Stone
’10, 2009 Annual Benefit Fashion Show.
Maryland Institute College of Art, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities
in its programs, services, and activities. To request disability accommodation for non-student events, please call 410-225-2300
or e-mail [email protected]; to request disability accommodation for student events, please call 410-225-2284 or
e-mail [email protected].
In this issue:
Warren Seelig exhibition
Bradley McCallum and
Jacqueline Tarry talks
Spring 2010 Schusterman
Artist Residency at MICA
© 2009 Maryland Institute College of Art Cover: Natalie Tranelli ’10 and Arianna Clatterbuck, Confusion and Boredom, collaborative portrait, 2009.
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