Author Archives: jelm

The Making of Window Studios

Posted on February 27, 2015

In case you missed last night’s lecture at WINDOW STUDIOS, here’s how it got started. By Nicholas Rispoli WINDOW STUDIOS: How two Academy alumni connected to start a storefront community art center in  Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2013 02:47:16 -0700 From: annelafond366@hotmail.com To: (me) nicholas.rispoli@gmail.com Subject: Studio                             … Read More

Istanbul: A Mix of Ancient and Industrial

Posted on February 23, 2015

By Erinn Heilman (MFA 2015) We arrived in Istanbul at the start of Ramadan. Sarah and I both have rooms in a girl’s dormitory in the Ortakoy district down the street from a small mosque. The mosque’s call to prayer happens around 5 times per day over load-speakers and the dogs on our block start howling back to the prayer,… Read More

Artist-in-Residence Program at Istanbul 2015

Posted on February 20, 2015

During the summer of 2014 Jacob Hayes (MFA 2014), Erinn Heilman (MFA 2015), Nick Lepard (MFA 2015) and Sarah Schlesinger (MFA 2015, Fellow 2016) participated in a month-long Artist-in-Residence Program at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey. This exhibition includes some of the work created during or attributed to their residency experience. The Academy’s Mimar Sinan University Residency has been… Read More