Talk | New Art School Modality: Making New Monuments
January 21, 20256:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Tickets available in January
About the Event
Participants of the New Art School Modality spring 2024 course “Making New Monuments” share their interdisciplinary outcomes that result from considering innovative forms and revised approaches to memorial. Members of the pedagogical community present sketches and articulations of works in progress created through the course. The MCA was the 2023–24 inaugural site for the New Art School Modality.
About the School
The New Art School Modality explores and brings to life new forms of teaching, learning, art production, and impact. The school is grounded in an ethos of collaboration, experimentation, and improvisation. The New Art School Modality offers a revised version of the art school model, methods, and procedures. It is conceived as a different take on, or an alternative approach to, art school education, one that has fewer guard rails and institutional protocols. There’s intentionally less handholding and the apparatus is reduced, all of this as a nod to prior historical moments when making art and being an artist were less reliant on costly infrastructures. Courses are hybrid, online and in-person. Unlike place-based art schools, it is decentralized, taking up different “perches.”
Access Information
English CART captioning is available for this talk.
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Participants & Projects
- Fabiana Gibim, INVISIBLE ARCHIVE: EXPLORING NON-LINEAR METHODS AND EXPERIMENTS OF RADICAL ARCHIVE ACTION
- Haerim Lee, The Critical Race Theory Manifesto
- Katherine Clarke Langlands, IT WAS ONCE A TREE
- Joy Ray, NIGHTINGALE
- Lisa Brown, Embrace of Unity
- Dorian Sylvain, Anna and Frederick Douglass Monument Mural
- Dina Cline, Found Juice
- Taylor Cheng, Abstract Documentation and the Plastic Anxiety — A tribute to Professor Romi Crawford’s essay ‘Fleeting Monuments and the Wall of Respect’
- Abdelalim Amine Slimani, Echoes of Forgotten Voices
- Myriam Zarhloul, AS WHITE SUPREMACY CRUMBLES, a disembodied Confederate statue
- Dr. Douglas A. Williams, Documenting the Monumental: A Chicago-Based Black Arts Movement Exemplar
- Marvin Veloso, Becoming Monument: urban archipelagos and ecological change
- Shonna Pryor, ON PAPER
- Denny Mwaura, Marinhero Só (Lone Sailor)
- bianca gabrielle goyette, notes on being : rejection letters, a study in contingencies
- Dolly Meieran, “The Quickening”
- Lloyd Rice, “‘To the boy that still lives beneath the eyes.’ – ode to the young black man in America”
Funding
Lead support for Learning programs at the MCA is provided by Jana and Bernardo Hees.
Major support is provided by Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund.
Additional generous support is provided by the Friends of Edwin A. Bergman Fund, the Hulda B. & Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation, Diane Kahan, The Marshall Frankel Foundation, and The William Randolph Hearst Foundations.
Lead support for the New Art School Modality is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.