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MFA cohort Fundraiser & Raffle


The 2023 MFA cohort is looking for financial support in order to pay fees necessary to produce, organize, install, curate, and publicize a group show showcasing their work and collective conversations. To help reach their goal, 11 artists, including 9 members of the 2023 cohort and two UCSD faculty members, have donated small artworks as part of the raffle adjacent to the fundraiser! The raffle ends July 28th and tickets are priced: $25 for 1 ticket, $50 for 3 tickets, $100 for 10 tickets. In order to participate in the raffle you must either include your name and email address with your donation or contact mika Castañeda m1castan@ucsd.edu

MFA graduating cohort presents Sites of Blood and Water

Reception: July 29, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

July 29 - August 12, 2023

Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA

Sites of Blood and Water, curated by beck haberstroh and Naomi Nadreau, will include artwork by Amir Saadiq, Arlene Mejorado, Cat Gunn, Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, Jack Coventry, Lorena Ochoa, DIA PHANO Collective (Claire Anderson, Maria Mathioudakis and Grace Wardlaw), mika castañeda, Sabrina Piersol, and Wren Gardiner. The artists gathered in this exhibition engage in the hard work of negotiating belonging - to a nation, to a time, to a family, and to each other.

MFA alumni Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems in Black Venus

July 20 - September 24, 2023

Somerset House, London UK

BLACK VENUS celebrates and explores the many faces of Black femininity, with over 40 contemporary and primarily photographic artworks. The exhibition’s contemporary works offer a radical affront to a centuries-long dynamic of objectification, showcasing all that Black womanhood can be and has always been. 

Associate Professor Nicole Miller in Actual Fractals, Act I

Summer 2023 - October 2024

Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI

Actual Fractals, Act I brings together the work of seven distinguished artists from diverse backgrounds whose sculptures touch on concerns, pastimes, and pleasures that shape contemporary life, here and in the world beyond. The exhibition features artworks in a range of mediums that can rescale our expectations of contemporary sculpture.

Professor Monique van Genderen talk Paintings Are People Too

August 1, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

The Athenaeum, La Jolla CA

Paintings Are People Too, by Monique van Genderen, is a reconsideration of humanity, of what it means to be human in the social climate of today. By utilizing her vertical paintings as stand-ins for people, van Genderen reflects on some of the pressing issues facing our citizenry, the dehumanizing effects of new communication technologies, and the physical displacements happening in urban centers. 

Professor John C. Welchman at LA Art Book Fair

August 10 - August 13, 2023

Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles CA

Fair programming includes The Classroom, a space for artists, writers, designers, and publishers to spotlight new releases and discuss important themes in artists’ book publishing. Star Feliz, Harmony Holiday, La Pocha Nostra, Anuradha Vikram, and John C. Welchman are participating in this year’s Classroom, which was organized in collaboration with David Senior, Director of Library & Archives at SFMOMA.

Professor Benjamin Bratton interview The Evolution Of What It Means To Be Human

Noema

To further explore the notion of “post-Anthropocene humanism” raised in a recent Noema essay, I asked him to weigh in on the nature of human being and becoming when anthropogenesis and technogenesis are one and the same process.

MFA alum Oscar Magallanes in Reflexión

CLOSING SOON!

June 20 - July 28, 2023

Quad Art Gallery, Riverside CA

Art Makes a difference in our community! This exhbition is a collection of artwork originally exhibited at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Arts and Culture during the inaugural opening. Featuring Guest Curator Cosme Cardova. 

Assoc. Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya Lustrer and Push/Pull

CLOSING SOON!

June 3 - July 28, 2023

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris and Zurich

Sepuya's anachronistic take on 19th and early 20th century Western European and American photo studios becomes a site for both playful and tensely charged interactions and reflections, bringing a contemporary Black and queer perspective to the origins of desire within the medium.

Assoc. Professor Brian Cross The West is Awake

CLOSING SOON!

July 18 - July 29, 2023

Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland

This exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of hip hop and features a number of his photographs installed outdoors at Galway City Museum.

MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in Mud Kin

CLOSING SOON!

July 15 - July 29, 2023

Roski Graduate Gallery, LA Arts District

A contemporary cohort of Indigenous, Latinx, and Immigrant artists and activists working in the southwestern United States are engaging with ancestral adobe structures and construction to resist artistic, cultural, and ecological assimilation.

MFA alumni Trevor Amery, Taylor Chapin, Ruth Wallen in Good Natured

CLOSING SOON!

May 13 - July 30, 2023

Central Public Library, San Diego CA

At a time when vast amounts of scientific data are sounding the alarms of our current poly-crisis, our collective experiences implore us to reconsider our environmental impact and the need for reciprocity. Good Natured challenges us to act in this contingent world and ponders the question what it is to be both the problem and the solution.

Professor Amy Alexander in Attention! Please Scan!

CLOSING SOON!

July 23 - 31, 2023

Sojourner Gallery, New York NY

Viewers are prompted to scan the QR codes with their mobile devices, which then reveal the digital representation of the artwork. This shift from physical presence to digital representation subverts the traditional gallery experience by incorporating a layer of virtual and interactive engagement. This exhibition aspires to propel the art space into fulfilling its utmost social role, serving as a catalyst for critical discourse and thought-provoking dialogue.

UG alumni Marisa DeLuca and Lizelle Lopez Aguilar present 4th Annual Auction for Migrant Families

CLOSING SOON!

July 15 - July 30, 2023

Online Auction Site

Artists in Solidarity is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that stands with and supports migrant families and children who all deserve their chance to safely begin their American story and to be treated as human beings. The immigrant’s plight in the US remains untenable, and we raise money through art auctions to support organizations that work to bring decency, compassion, and respect to the process.

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

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