Carolee Schneemann
The MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department presents a talk by Carolee Schneemann, a multidisciplinary artist who has helped to transform the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality and gender. Schneemann has shown painting, photography, performance and installation works at The Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Schneemann's books include Cezanne, She Was A Great Painter; Early and Recent Work; and More Than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings.
Thursday, February 1, 7pm
Amphitheater
209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
Childhood Traumatic Grief: How to Go Beyond Scared and Sad
Robin F. Goodman, ATR-BC, PhD, will discuss the difficulties children have when dealing with death. She will describe the current conceptualization of childhood traumatic grief and discuss how art-based techniques can be integrated into trauma and grief-focused interventions to help children find the courage to go beyond being scared and sad. Goodman is currently Director of Family Programs for Voices of September 11th and recently was consultant to the Department of Defense Educational Opportunities Directorate and National Child Traumatic Stress Network. She wrote and developed Caring for Kids After Trauma and Death: A Guide for Parents and Professionals, used throughout the country following 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
Wednesday, February 7, 6:30 - 8:30pm
132 West 21 Street, 3rd floor
Free admission. Attendees must RSVP to 212.592.2610 or acockle@sva.edu.
Jillian Mcdonald: Zombie Loop
The MFA Computer Art Department hosts a screening and discussion with video artist Jillian Mcdonald. Her two-channel video, Zombie Loop, is presented on two opposing walls, which positions the viewer in the center of the visual loop, wherein a gruesome zombie endlessly pursues a running survivor. Mcdonald enacts the roles of both zombie and survivor.
Tuesday, February 13, 6 - 8pm
133 West 21 Street, 10th floor
For more information visit www.mfaca.sva.edu
Honors Lecture: Stephen Pippin
The Honors Program presents a lecture by British artist Steven Pippin. Pippin has long been interested in investigating the photographic process; during his career he has turned refrigerators, bathrooms, even entire houses into cameras. Since 1991 he has also made sculptural machines, which have interconnected moving parts that spin, flip or rotate, like a gyroscope, around a stable central point, which houses an image or object. Pippin was short-listed for the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery in London in 1999.
Thursday, February 22, 7pm
Amphitheater
209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
Digital Diving: A Cut and Paste Update
A panel discussion on digital culture and its impact on the visual arts and information technologies. Concepts to be explored are the uses and abuses of such technologies as they effect the acquisition and manipulation of knowledge. Moderated by BFA Fine Arts Department Chair Suzanne Anker, panelists include Executive Director of Rhizome.org Lauren Cornell, digital artist and faculty member Joseph Nechvatal, MFA Computer Art Department Chair Bruce Wands and author McKenzie Wark.
Tuesday, February 27, 7pm
Amphitheater
209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
Distinguished Alumnus Lecture: Drew Hodges
As a part of the Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series, SVA alumnus Drew Hodges (BFA 1984 Graphic Design) will speak about his work as the founder and CEO of SpotCo, New York's innovative full-service advertising agency for the theatrical industry. Hodges launched SpotCo in 1997 and has since created the branding and advertising campaigns for countless Broadway shows, such as Rent, Chicago, Doubt, The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone and Avenue Q. Hodges also works extensively with The Actors' Fund and has taught graphic design at School of Visual Arts, lectured at Columbia University and served on the board of directors for the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Tuesday, March 13, 7pm
Amphitheater
209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
Somatics and Art Therapy
Saga Graham, ATR, LCAT, will discuss somatics and the concept that we are our bodies. Graham has worked mostly with cancer patients and has analyzed the coping resources and possibilities patients face with a life-threatening illness. Using art therapy as a link to connect to our bodies on a visceral level, we increase our sensing, feeling and action towards physical and mental health. With the understanding that synaptic connections (chemical or electrical transmissions between neurons) concerned with visual perception are fixed, art therapy invites a safe bridge to work on memory, emotion and higher functioning with its ever-changing synaptic transmissions.
Wednesday, March 21, 6:30 - 8:30pm
132 West 21 Street, 3rd floor
Free admission. Attendees must RSVP to 212.592.2610 or acockle@sva.edu.
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