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Faculty Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons to Exhibit at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Saturday, June 1, 2013
For over a century, the Venice Biennale has been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Since its founding in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organizing international events in contemporary arts from dance, art and film, to architecture, music and theater. The 55th International Art Exhibition will take place June 1–November, 24 2013 featuring artists from over 80 countries, among them SMFA faculty Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons who will represent her native country, Cuba.

MFA Thesis Exhibition: Kate Gilbert's "Hide:Seek"

Tuesday, May 28, 2013
On view May 28–June 1 at Carroll and Sons Art Gallery, Kate Gilbert's "Hide:Seek," presented as a pop-up retail environment, combines clothing, sculpture and media to portray the artist's perspective on self-actualization as a non-hierarchical journey of being alone together.

Critic and Curator Hou Hanru Named 2013 Commencement Speaker

Sunday, May 19, 2013
International art critic and curator Hou Hanru will deliver the commencement address to SMFA's 225 graduates on Sunday, May 19 at 6 pm in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

MFA Thesis Exhibition at Fourth Wall

Thursday, May 16, 2013
Visit Fourth Wall Project May 16–-30 to view the diverse thesis presentations of Jess Anderson, Lauren Coulson, Megan Herwig, Neerja Kothari, Katherine Romero and Nicole Rosato.

SMFA Metals Area Honored by the IPMI

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Congratulations to the SMFA Metals Area which recently received an Institutional Award at the 23rd Annual Jewelry Design Competition hosted by the New England Chapter of the International Precious Metals Institute (NE IMPI).

"Ridley Howard: Field and Stripes"

Saturday, May 11, 2013
On view May 11–October 27, 2013 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), "Ridley Howard: Fields and Stripes" presents the first solo museum exhibition of the SMFA alumnus and Traveling Fellow. Debuting new paintings created since 2011, when the SMFA awarded the artist with a prestigious Traveling Fellowship to research works by early Renaissance and Modernist painters in Italy, "Field and Stripes" is organized by Jen Mergel, Beal Family Senior curator of Contemporary Art.

MFA Thesis Show: "Human & Machine, Retrace & Depart"

Thursday, May 9, 2013
On view view May 9–25 at Howard Art Project, "Human & Machine, Retrace & Depart" featuring MFA student Valerie Ng and artist Andy Lauzier, examines motorbike subcultures and the meditative act of the ride. Featuring photographic portraits of people within the moped subculture, a video installation with footage shot from motorcycle rides in Indonesia, Malaysia and the USA plus a sound performance using discarded moped parts, the exhibition maps out human attachment to objects, times and places.

MFA Thesis Exhibition: Tim McCool's "These Things Take Time"

Friday, May 3, 2013
On view at Carroll and Sons Art Gallery May 3–June 1, 2013, Timothy McCool's These Things Take Time is a collection of stream of consciousness drawings that recreate the experience of what it's like to live in a world where there's too much information and no one knows exactly what to do with all of it.

"Collections: Organizing and Interpreting an Environment," MFA Library Exhibition

Thursday, April 18, 2013
 22 SMFA artists are showing in "Collections: Organizing and Interpreting an Environment" within sister art libraries of the MFA and SMFA. Curated by SMFA student Julie Weaver, the work in Collections explores collecting as a way of interpreting culture and the environment. It will be on view at MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library April 18–May 31, 2013 and at SMFA's W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library April 23–May 31, 2013. Opening receptions with light hors d'oeuvres and extended viewing hours will be held at each location: April 18, 2013, 5–7 pm at the SMFA Library; and April 23, 2013, 5–7 pm at the Hunt Memorial Library.

Skowhegan Summer Fellowship + Ann and Graham Gund Scholarship Recipient

Thursday, April 11, 2013
 Jaime Eduardo Restrepo (BFA, '13) has been accepted to the 2013 Skowhegan Summer Studio Program and is the recipient of the Ann & Graham Gund Scholarship, a full-tuition award given to outstanding SMFA students who are accepted to this highly competitive, intensive nine-week summer residency program. This year there were 2,297 applicants to the Skowhegan program, and Restrepo is one of only 65 emerging visual artists selected to attend. The program, established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a diverse group of individuals demonstrating a commitment to art-making and inquiry for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth.

"Students Curate Students: Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts" March 9–August 18, 2013

Saturday, March 9, 2013
Each year SMFA students have the unique opportunity to exhibit at the Museum through the Students Curate Students program. Selected from a range of curatorial proposals, this year's exhibition features five students whose work explores the threats to meaningful human connections in today's social media-focused world.

SMFA Artists in MFA's "New Blue and White" Exhibition

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Alumna Molly Hatch (BFA '00) and faculty member Mark Cooper (MFA '80) have work included in the new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, "New Blue and White." The exhibition showcases inventive works in blue and white by 40 international artists and designers; nearly 70 objects in contemporary sculpture, ceramics, fashion, glass, furniture and more offer a new twist on age-old imagery.