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It's that time of year again when you assess your It's that time of year again when you assess your career, rebudget, and flirt with the idea of going back to school. We hear you! It's a big and tough decision, especially after an unpredictable year. The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design offers a fully-funded M.F.A. program, graduate stipends, tuition assistance in the M.A. and M.A. Ed. programs, and assistantships to all graduate students. . With degrees in Studio Art, Art History, and Art Education, the overarching goal of our programs is to offer rigorous, scholarly, and studio-based activities that challenge and foster conceptual, technical, and intellectual development. Application deadline for the fall semester is February 1, 2021. Learn more at our link in bio! . Work by @hanna.sculpture: Hanna Newman is a sculptor from Minnesota and currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. This series of photographs uses resin sculptors situated within domestic settings compromised of fragmented and isolated life-casts of her own body. She is inspired by the relationship between interiority and exteriority. . #mfa #ma #maed #artschool #fullyfunded #fullyfundedmfa #free #art #hannanewman #art #applynow #gradschool #atlantaart @gsuarts
It’s Transgender Awareness Week, leading up to t It’s Transgender Awareness Week, leading up to tomorrow’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. Here at the Welch school, we reflect with gratitude on work by our artists that intimately depicts and expresses personal experiences of those in the Transgender community. Today we share work in a series by B.F.A. alum @tealkorby that “emphasizes the internalized nature of gender and disembodies the idea that facial features dictate one’s gender or gender expression.” Each portrait is captioned with every individual’s pronouns—a reminder that using someone’s correct pronouns is an essential way to acknowledge their authentic self!
Museums are adapting to 2020 and many festivals ha Museums are adapting to 2020 and many festivals have had to move online, but we are glad for the opportunity to see our alumni in programs and exhibitions across the country. Earlier this year, M.F.A. Alumna @jessica_blinkhorn_performance was featured in @themomentary ‘s @inverseperformanceartfestival which highlights works of performance art, inviting virtual responses and participation. Blinkhorn is a Franklin Furnace Performance Grant recipient for 2019-2020. To check out the video, visit the festival’s highlights under the artist’s name. *photo by Walter Wlodarczyk of NY* . #performanceart #alumni #jessicablinkhorn #themomentary #inverse #inverseperformanceartfestival #virtualartfestival
This week is the last opportunity you have to visi This week is the last opportunity you have to visit our current shows. This work is one of our favorites in “A Facsimile of Events,” curated by @jessepenridge. The piece is titled “An Other Another” by @bennymerris. Check out more work that draws upon the deep history of human intervention in the landscape and the cannon of Land Art! . @gsu_artdesigngallery #atlantaexhibition #landart #jessepenridge #bennymerris #environment #covidexhibition
Happy Veterans’ Day! We are lucky to have vetera Happy Veterans’ Day! We are lucky to have veterans and military personnel in our Georgia State Community. Today we share work by veteran, ceramicist, and alumnus (M.F.A. 2016), @tyler.leigh.nicholson! This work is from his thesis exhibition “Embrace the Suck,” referencing a military colloquialism. To learn more about Ty Nicholson’s work and the Veteran Art Movement he is a member of, visit tylerleighnicholson.com
IT IS THE EVE OF ANOTHER GSU MFA TALK! Tomorrow, W IT IS THE EVE OF ANOTHER GSU MFA TALK! Tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov 11 at 11a.m. GSU Photo Grad Travis Dodd will discuss his multimedia work concerning gold’s relationship with constructing technological utopias. Travis Dodd was born and raised amongst the dense suburban sprawl of Miami, Florida. He moved to Savannah, Georgia in 1998 and competed his BFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002. In 2006 Dodd moved to Atlanta and began to participate in various group exhibitions in the southeast with shows at: Marcia Wood Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Gallery 5 (Richmond, VA), and Bridge Art Fair (Miami, FL). In Atlanta he has had solo exhibitions at: Eyedrum, Whitespec, and Beep Beep Gallery. Internationally, Dodd has shown in Mexico, Scotland, and Italy. In 2010 he received an MA in sculpture from SCAD-Atlanta. In 2016 Dodd was a finalist for the Emerging Artist Award presented by the Forward Arts Foundation. His work has been collected by: Museo Riso, Savannah College of Art and Design, Lucinda Bunnen Collection, as well as private collections. Currently Dodd is an MFA candidate at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. . #mfa #mfaphotography @gsuphoto #artistalk #artschool #thesis
This afternoon we are perusing the @claycrits page This afternoon we are perusing the @claycrits page to check out work posted during our @gsu_ceramics grad take over! The account features work by M.F.A.s, 1st-3rd years. Visit our site for more about our program and why these phenomenal grads chose our fully-funded program to further their careers. Pictured here is work by @theresebee!
It’s almost the last week that @madorafrey’s i It’s almost the last week that @madorafrey’s incredible installations will grace our gallery. We wish “Stargaze” and a “Facsimile of Events” were here to stay.🤩🤩🤩
As a part of their Art 8500 course, M.F.A.'s will As a part of their Art 8500 course, M.F.A.'s will be giving lunchtime artist talks. Tune in for talks on their practices as these artists wrestle through and develop concepts for the M.F.A. thesis. Wednesday at 11:00 am is Photo M.F.A. Talecia Tucker (@stolengfsclub). Link in bio. . Talecia Tucker is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who lives and works in Atlanta, GA. In 2016 she earned her B.A. in fashion design and merchandising from Clark Atlanta University. She has exhibited work with Flux Projects, Wish Gallery and MOCA GA and was a 2018-2019 WonderRoot Hughley Fellow. Her photography explores the social and cultural nuances of Black identity in the American South. Informed by historical references, composition, textiles and cultural influences, her work provides insight into experiences that are usually private. It engages themes of familiarity, cultural identity, class, gender, race and encapsulates fleeting moments of intimacy through portraiture, zine-making, installation art, and design. . #mfa #gsuphoto #taleciatucker #arttalk #virtualtalk #art2020
We interrupt our usually scheduled programming to We interrupt our usually scheduled programming to share an on-campus exhibit, featuring work by the first year M.F.A.s who entered our program this year. The show, organized by @feliciaacastro, is titled, “6,696 Miles to Here,” representing the collective miles the grads drove during the pandemic to move or come to school at Georgia State. Participating artists include: Kate Kosek,Leeza Negelev, Alyssa Hood, Adam Winnie, Sally Garner, Azya Moore, Em Getsay, Katie Kerns, Emily Albee, and Kengel Maysonet. View the show at gallery 650, in the main building, 6th floor. . #1000miles #1000more #artschool #gradlife #mfa #exhibition #mixedmedia #exhibition2020 @gsuarts
Tune in every Wednesday at 11am for talks on our M Tune in every Wednesday at 11am for talks on our M.F.A.s’ practice as they wrestle through and develop concepts for thesis. This Wednesday, Oct 28, is Lizzy Storm! Link in bio. . "My work often calls on systems of order and chaos, out of curiosity and perceptiveness for the apparatus of the world, and of being. The procedural nature of my work makes artifacts of process that, in volume, tend to reflect our relationship towards these diametrically opposed systems back to us." . #artschool #artisttalk #thesis #mfa @lizzystorm
PSA! Did you know @georgiastateuniversity is an ea PSA! Did you know @georgiastateuniversity is an early voting location for Fulton County!? Visit Student Center East this week; 8:30am-6:00pm, Tues and Wed, to cast your ballot and make a difference!! . Animation art done by the phenomenal @magdadoesart ! #exclamationpoints #election2020 #georgiavotes #vote2020 #bethechange #earlyvoting #usa @gsuarts
Today we share the second installment of our two-p Today we share the second installment of our two-part BFA interview + artwork curatorial series with @hannahlibrooks! BFA Danae Antoine (@artfully_antoine) has been selecting work and artists in our BFA program to highlight and engage in conversation. Check out our Facebook or YouTube channel to hear the interview, “All Paths Lead Back to the Press,” the second in our Deep Dive series. Brooks’s talks about her path to graduation, how she found printmaking, and how she’s been working from her home during COVID. . For more info on Brooks’s work, check out our link in bio! . #deepdive #bfa #printmaking #studiotime #artschool #interview #curatorialseries @gsuarts
As a part of their Art 8500 course, M.F.A.'s have As a part of their Art 8500 course, M.F.A.'s have been giving lunchtime artist talks, and the next one for @daryafard is tomorrow! Tune in each Wednesday for talks on their practice as these artists wrestle through and develop concepts for the M.F.A. thesis. . “My work is inspired by Persian poetry, dance, music and meditation and how they work to experience the transcendent. Rumi's verses have a monolithic perceptive of the world which is the bases for my research. I explore the inner sight of being, the transcendent and metaphysical belief system with visual interpretation of non visible world and energy system to understand our place in the universe. My work invites the viewer to consider unity, connection, and the transcendent.” . #arttalk #artschool #printmaking #daryafard #mfa
This Thursday, Oct 22, we will host @rubycity’s This Thursday, Oct 22, we will host @rubycity’s @kellyoconnor_art for another installment of our virtual Welch Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series! . Ruby City is a contemporary art center in San Antonio, TX, dedicated to providing a space for the city’s thriving creative community to experience works by local and internationally acclaimed artists. Envisioned in 2007 by the late collector, philanthropist and artist Linda Pace, Ruby City presents works from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection of more than 900 paintings, sculptures, installations and video works, which reflect a feminist perspective, engage social issues and consider aspects of spirituality and beauty. . Kelly O’Connor, Head of Collections and Communications, will give the audience an inside look into how Ruby City became a reality by the late collector, philanthropist and artist Linda Pace. The focus of this lecture will be on BIPOC artists in the collection. . Wangechi Mutu This second Dreamer, 2017 Bronze 5.5 x 15 x 16 in. © Wangechi Mutu, courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels Linda Pace Foundation Collection, Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas. . Link in bio! @gsuarts @wes_harvey1 #arttalk #vas #curator #rubycity
Today we kick off our two-part BFA interview + art Today we kick off our two-part BFA interview + artwork curatorial series with Sutton Wilkinson (@artby_sutt)! BFA Danae Antoine (@artfully_antoine) has been selecting work and artists in our BFA program to highlight and engage in conversation. Check out our Facebook, IGTV, or YouTube channel to hear the interview, “Space, Time, and Artistic Possibilities,” the first in our Deep Dive series. For more work by Sutton, check out our link in bio! . #deepdive #bfa #painting #drawing #studiotime #artschool #interview #curatorialseries @gsuarts

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