By Daniela Izaguirre (MFA 2016) I am a bad liar. As I mentioned in my previous post I was a slightly nervous about traveling to China. In all honesty, I didn’t know what to expect. It is said that it takes twelve days to recover your body from jet lag and forty days to adopt a new habit. It is… Read More
by Claire Cushman Emily Davis Adams (MFA 2011, Fellow 2012) just completed the “Dumfries House Residency,” at Dumfries House, in Scotland. Dumfries House was built between 1754-1759 for the 5thEarl of Dumfries, and is set on 2,000 acres of land in East Ayrshire, Scotland (about an hour’s train ride South of Glasgow). The estate’s principal rooms and their contents have… Read More
By Magaly Vega-Lopez (MFA 2016) Today I write a story, without much to say, like a room full of forgotten memories: an irrelevant story, the kind that doesn’t stay for long time. A static story, where the dust keeps accumulating and the insects fly with apathy. I start this story, on a rainy summer day, that type of rain that… Read More
By Sarah Novio (MFA 2015) This is my second week in Altos de Chavón, and I am amazed how beautiful this place is! Jess Leo (MFA 2015) and I arrived during Alex Smith (MFA 2015) and Andres de la Torre’s (MFA 2015) last week of their residency. They helped us get acclimated to the new environment, taking us on various… Read More
By Lowell Poisson (MFA 2016) Urban exploring is always a freeing experience, a new place with mystery and questions and excitement. The abandoned escalator was what the group needed, a break from museums and cathedrals and large throngs of zombified tourists. Climbing over broken concrete and fractured steel is always a rush, maneuvering through piles of broken glass and getting… Read More
By Leonid Lerman (Academy Faculty) Leonid Lerman serves as adjunct faculty at the New York Academy of Art and participated as the visiting critic for the Academy’s Istanbul residency this summer. Image courtesy of Austin Lopez I’m not much of a blogger, but feel like briefly sharing with you some of the impressions of the last few days. I’m slowly… Read More
By Austin Lopez Whether it is making friends at cafes, seeing historical structures, visiting museums and galleries, or creating art at Mimar Sinan, the residency here in Istanbul has created a source of inspiration in me that could last a lifetime. Just for an idea of a typical week, I will describe this week so far. Sunday I had the usual çay… Read More
By Benjamin Craig (MFA 2016) Inspiration is right around the door from my studio here at the Central Academy of Fine Art. I’ve spent a good deal of time walking around the CAFA Art Museum looking at the current exhibition. I find myself amazed by the wide variety of student work displaying the best of each department here at CAFA…. Read More
By, Matthew White (MFA 2016) Our time here in Moscow has been quite a trip! It seems only a couple weeks ago that we arrived in this mysteriously orthodox city. Our days have been filled with plenty of sight-seeing. Stunning architecture, such as the “onion domed” churches, seems to lie around every corner. And centuries old palaces like the one… Read More
By Simon Ramirez Restrepo (MFA 2016) In conjunction with studio time, Ali has been giving us private tours of Turkish artists’ studios and museums. His visits have been enriching and engaging. The conversations have been related to Turkish social climate in relationship with art, politics and religion. Each visit has been unique to a particular artist but the conversation tends… Read More
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