Our third dispatch from Beijing comes from Tania Alvarez MFA 2017 Beijing: the food, the cheap art supplies, the wonderfully talented studios mates, CAFA, the architecture – all combined made for the perfect residency. This was the first of what I hope to be many residency experiences and one that I think will be impossible to forget. It was also the… Read More
Our second dispatch from Russia comes from Anders Fernbach MFA 2017 Our adventure began on July 16th at JFK International Airport. We met at gate 7 set to depart for Moscow, Russia at 2:20 pm (NY time). We would arrive in Moscow at 6am local time. Upon boarding the plane, there was a clear shift from what we were… Read More
Our third dispatch from Leipzig comes from Anastasiya Tarasenko MFA 2017It’s no simple task to sum up two months in one essay. I can begin by saying that I arrived with certain expectations of what I wanted to be doing and ended up being carried away by the consuming influence of this place. I had certain ideas of what I wanted my… Read More
Our second dispatch from Beijing comes from Isaac Mann MFA 2017.Getting StartedHere we are, halfway through our month in Beijing on the Central Academy of Fine Arts Artist Residency and none of us want to go home. I can tell you that lately not a day has gone by without one of us suggesting a new strategy for tricking the… Read More
Our first dispatch from Mexico City comes from Maya Mason, MFA 2017 As Fast as the Eye Can See: My Summer in Mexico City My primary fixation as a painter has always been the expressive power of the human body. Thrust into a new life in Mexico City for the past six weeks, I have been privileged to understand and… Read More
Our third dispatch from Leipzig comes from Anna Wakitsch MFA 2017. Even before we arrived in Leipzig, my fate was sealed. As soon as Laura (the coordinator of the LIA residency) sent photos of the spacious live-work space, I fell in love with the huge, luminous double-paned windows, and I knew I would be spending the bulk of my days… Read More
Our first dispatch from Russia comes from Allison Hill-Edgar MFA 2017 The icons. The light. The people. The food. The architecture. The history. I find that every day I have a new obsession. Today it is the sound of the canal and the cool light on the pink and ochre buildings just outside our window; Monday it was the bursting… Read More
Our first dispatch from Beijing comes from Pedro Perez-Guillon MFA 2017 News from Beijing! I have to start by saying that China has only surprised us in a positive way. First of all – the food. We have never eaten better and for so little money. For six dollars, we have been eating until we cannot take any more and our… Read More
Our second dispatch from Leipzig comes from Rebecca Orcutt MFA 2017. Neo Rauch painting in Berlin There has been much to reflect on from the past month while attending the Leipzig International Artist Programme Residency.I have experienced personal victories—this includes resisting the temptation to buy the amazingly priced Nutella (until a couple days ago), and owning a reusable water bottle for the longest… Read More
“Empire” Steve Mumford Interview by Claire Cushman MFA 2015 “I tried heroically to be an Abstract Expressionist in the late 80s and early 90s,” says Steve Mumford, when asked how he came to paint scenes of war. “It took me years to shake that and realize I wanted to return to my illustrational roots, to tell stories with my paintings.”… Read More
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