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COMING UP

VIS 106C Class Exhibition Behind the Paint

Reception: November 29, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

November 28 - December 1, 2023

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

"Painting: Portfolio Projects" instructed by Mara De Luca. A studio course in painting emphasizing individual creative problems. Class projects, discussions, and critiques will focus on issues related to intention, subject matter, and context.

Scaffolding Autonomies: Scores for Daily Rehearsal

December 2, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, Zoom Registration

An online workshop led by Kimi Hanauer of the Center for Liberatory Practice and Poetry. Grounded in the framework of mutual aid, this workshop explores practices of collective care that sustain social movements and encourage daily bodily motion, experience, and presence.

UG media student Jalal Al-Marashi Jaffer & alum Ryan Ritterby Another College Musical

December 3, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Price Center Theater, UC San Diego

Produced by Triton Television in association with The Suraj Israni Center for the Cinematic Arts. In addition to an exclusive world premiere, there will be an opportunity to network with local creatives and members involved with the creation of the film as well as a Q&A session where audience members can ask their burning questions! 


PhD student Jae Hwan Lim organized Cultural Lens on North Korea

December 7, 3:00 - 6:15 p.m.

Geisel Library, Seuss Room, UC San Diego

A reception for the exhibit “Mundanity of North Korea,” on display in Geisel Library, will be held in the Seuss Room and Lobby. Korean refreshments will be served. The reception will be followed by lectures featuring two prominent scholars of North Korea, with opening remarks by Professor Jin-Kyung Lee, Director of UC San Diego Transnational Korean Studies.

VIS 80 Class Exhibition Introduction to the Studio Major

Reception: December 7, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

December 5 - December 7, 2023

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

A practical introduction to the studio art major and a conceptual introduction to how diverse strategies of art making are produced, analyzed, and critiqued. Introduces historical and contemporary topics in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance art and field-based practices.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos curated Mitocondria, Inmersión en el linaje materno

December 7, 2023 - March 10, 2024

Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City MX

The project consists of an exhibition, physical and virtual, with 31 artists, researchers, and scientists, to address their maternal lineage using mitochondrial DNA as a trigger. The project includes the delivery of mitochondrial DNA results to participants, a laboratory for reflection and artistic creation, and an exhibition. This is a project developed in collaboration with the Genomic Studies Lab at UNAM.

Carlos Garrido Castellano Remote Lecture The Contemporary Art Novel

December 8, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

YouTube LiveStream

This talk examines contemporary literature concerned with creative practices and economies at a planetary level. Its main argument is that literature and artistic creativity are advancing modes of creative care and solidarity that go beyond creative capitalism. The term “contemporary art novel” attempts to capture a significant transformation within literary narratives on art’s social role at a time when processes of neoliberalization have blurred the distance between art and life. 

Video for MexiCali Biennial: Land of Milk and Honey


Multimedia arts exhibitions occurring in Mexicali and Calexico and along the US/Mexico border fence. This is the final round of programming pertaining to Land of Milk & Honey. Exhibitions in the borderlands venues include the Steppling Art Gallery and casa la linea – arte contemporaneo in Calexico, CA, USA. Simultaneous exhibitions took place at Planta Libre Espacio Experimental and IIC Museo in Mexicali.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Omar Pimienta and Professors Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum (EDT 3.0) in Land of Milk & Honey

October 14 - December 1, 2023

Planta Libre, Mexicali MX

The MexiCali Biennial presents Land of Milk & Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program that focuses on concepts of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Border Activations will occur on October 15th. (Electronic Disturbance Theater) EDT 3.0 will utilize audio and drone technology in a performance titled SOCIAL ECHOLOGIES: SCENE 3 starting at 2:00 p.m.

MFA alum Isidro Pérez García in Land of Milk & Honey

October 13 - December 2, 2023

Steppling Gallery & casa la linea, Calexico CA

The MexiCali Biennial presents Land of Milk & Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program that focuses on concepts of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Isidro Pérez García will perform Pulquería Chilote at casa la linea - arte contemporaneo following the reception from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Chico MacMurtrie Border Crossers

October 5 - December 8, 2023

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

These projects channel MacMurtrie’s aesthetic and political concerns into speculative interventions at or along the U.S.-Mexico border. While his “Border Crossers” inflate over the border fence from both sides at once as a gesture of connection between two countries, the “Dual Pneuma” sculpture embodies the idea of a fluid cultural identity.

MFA alumni Sadie Barnette and Carrie Mae Weems in Emancipation

August 17 - December 8, 2023

Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, New Orleans LA

Seven of today’s leading Black artists were selected to make visible their perspectives about freedom and imprisonment, identity and personhood, and emancipation and liberation. The commissioned works are supplemented by loans of Civil War era materials and works from Newcomb Art Museum’s permanent collection.

Mandeville Art Gallery How We Gather

October 7 - December 9, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. Opening Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12pm-8pm, Admission: Free

Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya and MFA alumni Sadie Barnette & Lorna Simpson in Young Gifted and Black

September 8 - December 9, 2023

Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis TN

Young, Gifted and Black champions an emerging generation of artists of African descent who are exploring identity, politics and art history as they engage with the work of their predecessors across a variety of media.

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