PennDesign MFA studios featured in Philadelphia Open Studio Tours Sat., Oct. 4

Come to our Morgan Building and Franklin Annex for refreshments, drinks, artists, and artwork! Open from 12-6pm.

Morgan Building
205 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Franklin Annex
3451 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

For more info:
http://www.philaopenstudios.com/welcome.aspx

email: fine-arts@design.upenn.edu
tel: 215-898-8374

Demetrius Oliver (MFA '04) reviewed in NY Times, Time Out NY, and Village Voice

Demetrius Oliver's solo show, Observatory, at D'Amelio Terras, has been reviewed in three important New York publications! See the article links below.

The exhibition dates are: Sep 02 - Sep 27,2008

D'Amelio Terras
525 West 22nd Street
New York, New York 10011
Phone: +1-212.3529460
Tue-Sat 10-18


NY Times Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19gall.html?ref=design

Time Out New York Review:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/art/58811/demetrius-oliver-observatory

Village Voice Review:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-09-17/art/demetrius-oliver-s-observatory-at-d-amelio-terras-john-o-connor-implant-at-ubs-art-gallery/


Find out more about the show at:
http://www.damelioterras.com/home.html

Linnea Paskow (MFA '02) exhibition at Michael Steinberg Fine Art opening Friday

Linnea Paskow's exhibition of recent collages will open this Friday in New York City.

Exhibition dates: September 19 - October 14, 2008

See Linnea's work at: www.linneapaskow.com

Penn Graduate Humanities Forum 2008-09

Topic: Change 2008-2009, Check website calendar for events and keynote
Events begin Sept. 24: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/calendar.shtml

Past Topics:
Origins 2007-2008, Keynote "Googlization of Everything" by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Travel 2006–2007, Keynote "Old Histories, New Itineraries" by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
(Organized in part by Shayna McConville MFA '07)
Word and Image 2005-2006, Keynote "Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein and the Everyday" by Michael Fried
(Organized in part by Emily Hoy MFA '06)

VIA Book Launch

Thursday, September 18, 7-10pm
MeyersonHall School of Design
210 S 34th Street
Philadelphia

Friday, September 19, 6-8pm
Hines Gallery Center For Architecture 534 Laguardia Place
New York

"Occupation" is the first major new volume published by via (winner of the 2008 AIA Student Journalism Award). It studies the macro- and micro-scales that inform how we read, claim, and intervene in our evolving territories. It maps contemporary discourse and investigates the relationship between individual or collective identities, the tensions in definition and space-claiming, and the potentials for the space in between. These relationships are broken into 'novellas'—terra nullius, annex, colony, and body—that separate content into territorial categories, though not reducible to scale or time. Content is political at one end—questioning the roles of designer and occupant—and sensitive on the other end—acknowledging our use of space as one of borrowing.

Contributors include Deb Hoy (MFA '08), Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and others.

http://www.amazon.com/Via-Occupation-Publications-1/dp/0980003601/

RESOURCES for Penn MFAs

STORE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS AT PENN'S CAREER SERVICES

Establish a file to store all of your recommendations through Penn's credential systems:
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/credentials/credentials.html

You often need letters of recommendation when you apply for fellowships, grants or jobs. You may establish a file of letters of recommendation which will be permanently stored by Career Services. You may have these mailed whenever you need to provide letters of recommendation. Your letters will always be available on short notice and you will not have to ask the same person to write letters for you again and again.

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TEACHING CERTIFICATE FOR PENN MFAS
If you've worked as a Teaching Assistant for two semesters, you're less than four steps from getting a Teaching Certificate from Penn's Center for Teaching and Learning. These are the requirements:

1. TA for two semesters
2. Take a few workshops (about an hour each; take during your coffee break)
http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/grad_workshops.html
3. Write a teaching philosophy
4. Have a CTL staff observe one class

And you're done: http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/certificate.html
Contact Bruce Lenthall for more info lenthall[at]sas.upenn.edu
(This is available to doctoral students and MFAs -- those pursuing a terminal degree.)

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CONCERNED ABOUT TAKING AN ELECTIVE OUTSIDE OF PENNDESIGN?
Check out Penn's course and instructor ratings for that elective

(click on a category in the "Browse Courses" section on the left):
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/coursereview/

While this electronic publication lists mostly professors and courses from the undergraduate program, many graduate professors are listed as well (almost all of our MFA professors are listed).

RESOURCES for Penn MFAs

STORE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS AT PENN'S CAREER SERVICES
Establish a file to store all of your recommendations through Penn's credential systems:http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/credentials/credentials.html

You often need letters of recommendation when you apply for fellowships, grants or jobs. You may establish a file of letters of recommendation which will be permanently stored by Career Services. You may have these mailed whenever you need to provide letters of recommendation. Your letters will always be available on short notice and you will not have to ask the same person to write letters for you again and again.

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TEACHING CERTIFICATE FOR PENN MFASIf you've worked as a Teaching Assistant for two semesters, you're less than four steps from getting a Teaching Certificate from Penn's Center for Teaching and Learning. These are the requirements:

1. TA for two semesters
2. Take a few workshops (about an hour each; take during your coffee break)http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/grad_workshops.html
3. Write a teaching philosophy
4. Have a CTL staff observe one class

And you're done: http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/certificate.html
Contact Bruce Lenthall for more info lenthall[at]sas.upenn.edu(This is available to doctoral students and MFAs -- those pursuing a terminal degree.)

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CONCERNED ABOUT TAKING AN ELECTIVE OUTSIDE OF PENNDESIGN?Check out Penn's course and instructor ratings for that elective
(click on a category in the "Browse Courses" section on the left):http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/coursereview/
While this electronic publication lists mostly professors and courses from the undergraduate program, many graduate professors are listed as well (almost all of our MFA professors are listed).

College Art Association Fellowship for MFAs: Deadline Oct. 1

College Art Association is pleased to announce that the 2008 Professional Development Fellowship award is now a one-time award of $15,000. Applications are due October 1, 2008. Award notifications are mailed by January 2009.

Visual-Art Fellowships: Visual-art fellowship applicants must include the following on a CD or DVD: application form; essay; résumé or CV; description of your MFA exhibition and its timetable; all visual documentation (up to six images of still work on CD or up to ten minutes of video work on a DVD, properly labeled and formatted for both PC and Macintosh); and image script (caption list and short descriptions of the work). Three letters of recommendation; a copy of your 2007 IRS income-tax form or 2008 Free Application for Student Federal Aid (FASFA); and graduate transcript must be submitted in hard copy and mailed to CAA with the CD or DVD. Deadline: October 1, 2008; fellows are chosen by December 31, 2008.

College Art Assocation initiated the Professional Development Fellowship Program in 1993 to help MFA and PhD candidates in art and art history bridge the gap between their graduate study and professional careers. The program's purpose is to support outstanding students from socially and economically diverse backgrounds who may have been underrepresented in their fields. By nurturing promising artists and art historians at the beginning of their careers, CAA aims to strengthen and diversify the profession as a whole.

For more information, visit: http://www.collegeart.org/fellowships/

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) featured in exhibition at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
51 Sandy Pond Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-2600

August 30, 2008 – January 4, 2009

The exhibition features artists:

Alice Attie, Astrid Bowlby, Jim Dingilian,Jacob El Hanani, Dave Eppley, Tom Friedman, Darina Karpov, Laura Kim,Ricardo Lanzarini, Martha Lewis, Cynthia Lin, Marco Maggi, LouiseMarshall, Jane Masters, Julie Mehretu, Tadashi Moriyama, Mary O’Malley,Carol Prusa, Jessica Deane Rosner, Andrea Sulzer, Kako Ueda, Julia vonEichel, Rachel Perry Welty, David Omar White, Martin Wilner, and DanielZeller.
This exhibition is organized by the Curatorial Affairs Directors, Rachel Rosenfield and Lafoand Koch, and Curatorial Fellows Kate Dempsey and Nina Bozicnik.

For more information see: http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/drawn%20to%20detail/drawn%20to%20detail.htm

See Tadashi's website: http://www.tadashimoriyama.com/

Erica Baum Photography Exhibition Opening Tonight (Thurs., Sept. 11) at the Kelly Writers House

7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Kelly Writers House Art opening for Word Each to Cling I

A series of photographs by Erica Baum based on pianola rolls

Erica Baum received a B.A. in Anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1984 and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Yale School of Art in 1994. She has exhibited in New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Kansas City, Germany, Italy and France. Her work will be shown in the upcoming show titled Subject, Index at the Malmo Konstmuseum in Malmo, Sweden. Her work has been reviewed in ArtForum and Art in America and she was recently included in the book Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, edited by TJ Demos (Phaidon Press, 2006).


The Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk (a pedestrian walk located between Walnut and Spruce Streets)
Philadelphia, PA

For more information: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0908.php

Openings tonight at PennDesign (Thurs. Sept. 4)

Join us tonight for some very exciting openings in the PennDesign community. The openings are at the Addams Gallery, the Upper Meyerson Gallery and the ICA. All openings start at 5pm. See the previous posts for more information and addresses. The press release for the Addams Gallery Exhibition is below. We hope to see you there.

(click on the image to read it in full)