September 25–December 11, 2018, 7:30pm
The ArtCenter Graduate Art MFA program is pleased to announce its fall 2018 graduate lecture series, organized by Jason Smith and Diana Thater.
Unless otherwise indicated, lectures are free, open to the public and take place in the L.A. Times Auditorium on ArtCenter’s Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena 91103. Check our website to confirm dates, times and locations for the lecture series and for more information about the Graduate Art program.
Fall 2018 seminar schedule
September 25
Jonathan Hepfer on Julius Eastman
October 2
Julia Wachtel
October 9
Tony Cokes
October 30
Kerry Tribe
November 8
Jack Bankowsky presents Stephen Shore*
November 13
Blake Rayne
November 20
Polly Apfelbaum
November 27
Shahryar Nashat in conversation with Anthony Huberman
December 4
Gary Indiana on Vile Days (Semiotext[e], 2018)
December 11
David Velasco presents Ralph Lemon
* Please note this talk will be held on Thursday in the Ahmanson Theater instead of the usual Tuesday / LA Times Media Center.
About ArtCenter Graduate Art MFA
With a core faculty of 10 internationally recognized artists and writers, 15 to 30 visiting and adjunct faculty per term and a total of 35 students, we have one of the lowest student-to-faculty ratios among comparable MFA programs. The result is an intense work environment where concentrated art-making is assured equally concentrated and careful attention, whether within specific disciplines or among them: in film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, performance and everything in between.
Fundamental to our program are one-on-one studio visits with faculty and rigorous critical, academic and practical coursework. We extend our reach internationally, inviting artists and writers—famous and infamous—as well as historians and philosophers for weekly seminars and our biannual conference series. Coming from and going to Europe respectively, our artist-in-residence partnership and student exchange link us with programs in Paris, Berlin and Cologne. Our student and faculty exchanges link us with programs in key European art capitals.
Closer to home, indeed at home, is Los Angeles, one of the world’s great art capitals. Closer still is the renowned design school to which we are connected, with leading-edge software and hardware technology and the equipment that goes with it. On site, we provide students with individual studios, a fabrication shop, several gallery spaces, and dedicated computing and moving-image production labs. We make our public gallery spaces and project rooms available to all our students, from their first term through graduation, when they mount their final solo show.
