October Wednesday Speaker Series
The Weekly Wednesday Arts Speaker Series presented by the School of Art & Design + Performing Arts Division features a line. The events take place every Wednesday evening at 7pm in Nevins Theater. In the series, faculty, staff, visiting artists and scholars present short talks on their creative practice. The series aims to engage the Alfred community by creating a unique sharing space focusing on the arts.
The Weekly Wednesday Arts Speaker Series presented by the School of Art & Design + Performing Arts Division features a line. The events take place every Wednesday evening at 7pm in Nevins Theater. In the series, faculty, staff, visiting artists and scholars present short talks on their creative practice. The series aims to engage the Alfred community by creating a unique sharing space focusing on the arts.
October 5: New Faculty: Stephanie Hanes Assistant Professor of Ceramic Art; Heidi Jensen Visiting Assistant Professor of Music; Mary Johnson Director of Foundations, Kelsey Sucena Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography, William Wheeler Assistant Professor of Sculpture
October 12 Sharon Kagan in conjunction with her exhibition and durational performance in the Scenography Gallery, Miller Performing Arts Center October 10 - 14. Kagan’s work focuses on freeing the viewer from generational trauma, prejudice, and fear. As the daughter of Holocaust survivors Kagan says, “I have wrestled my entire life with the subject of forgiveness. How do we forgive these enormous tragedies? Who do we forgive? What does it mean to be forgiven?”
10/19 International Randall Chair Ziyang Wu. Ziyang Wu is an artist based in Hangzhou and New York, currently teaching at the School of Design and Innovation at China Academy of Art, and is a current member of NEW INC at the New Museum. With an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, his video, AR, AI simulation and interactive video installation have exhibited internationally, including the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, Rhizome at the New Museum in New York, Walker Art Center and Rochester Art Center in Minnesota, SXSW in Texas, Art Dubai, Annka Kultys Gallery in London, Eigenheim Gallery in Berlin, Medici Palace in Florence, Milan Design Week, Today Art Museum in Beijing, Chengdu Biennale, Song Art Museum in Beijing and Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. His recent fellowships and residencies include “Kai Wu” Interdisciplinary Studio residency, Media Art Lab, Times Museum; AACYF Top 30 under 30; Residency Unlimited; MacDowell Fellowship; Artist-in-residence at Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University; Winner of The ROCI Road to Peace by Robert Rauschenberg Art Foundation. His work has been reviewed and featured by Artnet, Brooklyn Rail, It’s Nice That, Vogue Singapore, Hypebeast, ArtForum China, Wall Street International, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), BIE, Neural Magazine, Vie Des Arts Magazine, ANTE Magazine, Frontrunner Magazine, LEAP Magazine, Coeval Magazine, Stir World Magazine and more.
10/26 IEA: Ben Fino Radin. Ben Fino-Radin is an art conservator and entrepreneur passionate about helping others solve complex challenges in preserving digital art and cultural heritage. As founder of Small data Industries, Ben has collaborated with artists, estates, museums, and private collections all over the world. Before establishing Small Data, Ben served as associate Media Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where in addition to the conservation of time-based media art, they managed the design and development of the institution’s digital repository. Prior to this, Ben led preservation initiatives at Rhizome as their inaugural Digital Conservator.
11/2 Jonathan Faber. Jonathan Faber received his BFA from Alfred University in 1994 and a MFA from the University of Texas Austin in 2003. His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums across the country, including Cue Art Foundation, the Galveston Arts Center, David Shelton Gallery, and the Blanton Museum of Art. Among his awards are those from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Faber is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas State University in the School of Art and Design. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.