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With school out for the summer,
many third year MFA candidates and one recent MFA graduate are taking their work
out of the studio and traveling abroad. From Alaska and Tennessee to Germany, Korea, and beyond, students are exploring unique
opportunities that compliment their studies and enhance their current projects.
Here’s a peek at their plans:
Chuck Chaney recently retraced his father’s homestead journey to
Alaska and documented interviews with surviving family members
who also made this journey.
Emily Diehl (MFA ’07), who applied for a travel grant before she
graduated, is traveling to Berlin, Dessau, and Weimar, Germany, in conjunction
with her studio work on utopian and modernist architecture. She will complete
research at the Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design and photograph the Haus Am
Horn.
Vasia
Markides is traveling to
Cyprus to fulfill an internship at the Cyprus Mail.
Markides will research and record compelling stories on video to post on the
newspaper’s Web site.
Rebecca Bird Grigsby has been awarded funds to travel to
Pittsburgh, PA, and Nashville, TN, to create work based on her interest in replicas of
the Parthenon’s Elgin Marbles and the influence of geographical displacements
relating to conceptual and contextual changes in the understanding of the
artwork.
Faith
Johnson is traveling to
Minsk,
Belarus, to perform in the International Festival of
Performance Art Navinki.
Sean Johnson
is traveling to
San
Francisco,
CA, and Seattle,
WA, to create film, photographs, and collaborative works
based on the Northwest region’s homosexual bear
subculture.
Youngsun Lee is traveling to Kyunggi-do,
Kyungju
, and Kochang,
Korea, to document dolmen and burial tombs, which will serve
as the basis for her latest paintings, which explore the human face,
monochromatic palette, and large scale minimalist work.
Christine
Rogers is traveling to Six Flags Fiesta
Texas, and then on to the
Grand
Canyon
National
Park.
Rogers will create family portraits with strangers she meets
during the trip in order to examine “the construction of family through the
construction of family portraits and home movies.”
Kathleen Rugh
is traveling to
Santa
Fe, NM, and Denver,
CO. During her drive back to
Boston, Rugh plans to photograph and film places that are part
of her life in order to explore how place and location symbolize and come to
represent the specific attributes of our lives.
Richard
Spartos is attending the International
Artists’ camp in Myślenice, Poland. Spartos will collaborate with international
performance artists and present his own performance.
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