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Doomsday Story Hour
Oct
30
6:00 PM18:00

Doomsday Story Hour

Please join us for Doomsday Story Hour, presented by the Collaborative Center for Storm, Space and Seismic Research, which will introduce a series of short narrative segments each exploring the theme of "doomsday" from various frameworks, including ecological, religious, conspiratorial, and fictional perspectives.

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Artist Talk with Terri Friedman and Kathy Butterly
Sep
17
6:00 PM18:00

Artist Talk with Terri Friedman and Kathy Butterly

Please join us for a conversation between artist Terri Friedman and curator Kathy Butterly in conjunction with Friedman’s solo exhibition, Rewire. Friedman creates large, painterly weavings that ooze, sag, pinch, and dangle in vibrant shades of magenta, vermilion, fluorescent yellow, and cobalt blue. Her compositions, full of seemingly dissonant yet pleasurable colors and patterns, draw upon viewers’ feelings of discordance to provoke a visceral response. Friedman and Butterly will be available for questions following the conversation.

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Kinetic Resistance: Street Dance as Protest
Aug
12
5:30 PM17:30

Kinetic Resistance: Street Dance as Protest

Organized by Kut the Rug Institute and featuring visual artists, dancers, and scholars from the Vogueing, Breakin’, Hip-Hop, and House Dance communities, Kinetic Resistance will expand and contextualize recent press coverage of Street Dancers deploying Black and gay vernacular dance practices in support of the ongoing protests, actions, and uprisings against police brutality, racial injustice, and white supremacy. Investigating how socio-political resistance is embedded in the practice of Street Dance and exploring the symbiotic relationship between Street Dance, visual culture, and surveillance, guest speakers will discuss dance as a physical, existential, collective, and spiritual form of resistance.

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Pattern Recognition: A conversation with Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Chang Yuchen
Jul
30
5:00 PM17:00

Pattern Recognition: A conversation with Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Chang Yuchen

Please join us for short presentations from Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Chang Yuchen followed by a conversation between the artists. Kameelah Janan Rasheed will discuss what it means to establish patterns that can be instrumentalized by surveillance states and the implications of intentionally breaking patterns, while Chang Yuchen will discuss a parallel concept but in language - the patterns inherent in the standardization of any given language, and personal or regional dialect as a means of breaking those patterns.


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Artist Visas in the Age of COVID
Jul
16
5:00 PM17:00

Artist Visas in the Age of COVID

Join Woods Law Group’s Principal Attorney, Teresa Woods Peña, for an overview of how to apply for an O Visa. Find out how the current Executive Order, travel restrictions, and closed consulates impact your application. Learn strategies for navigating event cancellations, exhibition postponements, gallery and event space closures, and more.

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ART@COVID.EDU: Studio Art MFAs and the Cost of Remote Learning
Jul
7
6:00 PM18:00

ART@COVID.EDU: Studio Art MFAs and the Cost of Remote Learning

In this forum, MFA students in the field address the cost of remote learning on studio art programs in which students depend upon facilities on campus and physical resources to fulfill their most basic educational needs. Facing the lack of action on the part of MFA programs, students have been organizing to reassess the value of their education and examine the priorities of the institutions entrusted to provide it. 

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Exhibition Walk-through with Mo Kong and Steffani Jemison
Jun
13
6:30 PM18:30

Exhibition Walk-through with Mo Kong and Steffani Jemison

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Exhibition Walk-through with Mo Kong and Steffani Jemison
Thursday, June 13, 2019
6:30pm - 7:30pm
FREE

Please join CUE Thursday, June 13th at 6:30pm for a public walk-through of Making A Stationary Rain On The North Pacific Ocean with artist Mo Kong and curator Steffani Jemison. Blurring fact and fiction, art and science, truth and near-truth, the artist turns the gallery into an immersive installation exploring a not-so-distant future in which China and the United States are in the midst of a political Cold War, echoed externally by an atmospheric antagonism rendered by climate change that has turned China and the U.S. into the hot and cold centers of the world.

Kong and Jemison will be available for questions after the walk-through.

Mo Kong is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher born and raised in Shanxi, China, and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. They received their MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. They have had solo exhibitions at Artericambi Gallery, Verona and Chashama, NY, and their work has been included in exhibitions at the Queens Museum, NY, and the RISD Museum, RI. They have participated in fellowships and residencies at the Triangle Arts Association, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MASS MoCA Studio Residency, the Vermont Studio Center, Gibney Performance Center, and Chashama. Their work was featured in the book Brand New Art from China by Barbara Pollack and has been reviewed by Hyperallergic, the Wall Street International, The Round, and more.

Steffani Jemison’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including MASS MoCA, Nottingham Contemporary, Jeu de Paume, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Drawing Center, LAXART, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and others. Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Kadist. Jemison has completed many artist residencies and fellowships, including the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, Rauschenberg Residency, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Studio Museum in Harlem AIR, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Jemison holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University New Brunswick.

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Case Studies: Behind-the-Scenes with Curators - Asian American Arts Alliance
Mar
6
6:30 PM18:30

Case Studies: Behind-the-Scenes with Curators - Asian American Arts Alliance

What curatorial thinking goes on behind-the-scenes when visual arts practitioners plan exhibitions, special projects, and festivals? What aspects of personal identity come into play that frame a curator's point of view? What innovative approaches have they taken to expand the parameters of art-viewing through their projects, and how have they responded to today's social and political climate?

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Strange Attractors: Opening Presentations
Nov
4
3:00 PM15:00

Strange Attractors: Opening Presentations

This is the opening event of Strange Attractors: Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence, a multi-format symposium. This event features presentations by art historian, James Elkins of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Elaine Reynolds, associate professor of biology and neuroscience at Lafayette College; and artist Matthew Ritchie. Refreshments will be served.

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