The painting “Inglorious Nocturne†by Holly Ann Sailors has provoked a strong reaction from many members of the Academy’s staff, faculty and student community. To address the serious nature of these concerns, the Academy feels that it has a responsibility to its community to create a platform where all sides of this issue may be aired in a reasonable and… Read More
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 After selecting a stone, a warm and pale white marble taking its name, “Statuario”, from its historical use, I was given a place to work and all the tools and advice necessary to extract form from stone. Seeing that I was basically just scaling up an existing work and transferring it into a different material,… Read More
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 I decided that it would be best to arrive in Italy prepared to start carving immediately. I have been developing a series of simple beeswax heads that hang off the wall. It seemed fitting to make a plaster cast of one of these pieces that I had already become very familiar with, and then attempt… Read More
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 In the weeks after the dizzying and malnourished/sleepless whirlwind that is the ascension towards the ever-exciting TriBeCa Ball, one by one e-mails revealing those students selected for the abundance of scholarships, residencies and fellowships trickle down from the committees and faculty meetings in the sky and all students hope to read their name as they… Read More
A Review by Jon Beer, MFA 2012 Alÿs, Untitled from When Faith Moves Mountains During the off-season of the Chelsea galleries in New York, art lovers from all parts come to the lineup of summer exhibitions at the big museums. This line up for this summer is nothing to scoff at – the Met boasts a Richard Serra Drawing Retrospective… Read More
The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012) “Isn’t it difficult to live in the same room with someone else for two… Read More
The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig during the summer. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Nicolas Holiber (MFA 2012) When I first starting working with animal flesh, in Catherine Howe’s… Read More
The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012) In 2005 I stood at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA staring at… Read More
The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Alexander Barton (MFA 2012) Nic, Aleah, Holly and Alex in front of the Spinnerei Acres of rescued brick… Read More
The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012) Cliffside Cotton Mill, North Carolina Four thousand five hundred and six miles away… Read More
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