Session 1B : Bourdon Lecture Theatre
Friday June 9th, 2023 : 10:00 – 12:30
Overview
As professors at art programs within public universities, our students are diverse—economically, ethnically, and in their artistic ambitions. In the wake of pandemic disruptions, and amidst societal pressures, we are interrogating our art pedagogy today.
How do we maintain the rigor required for our most ambitious students to become working artists while still educating those who will not make art after graduating, and not always knowing who fits into which category? What are the markers of success? What role does new technologies play in our teachings? And how to integrate decolonization and creating a culture of care.
Speakers
Julian Kreimer
Julian Kreimer is an artist, critic, and associate professor of Painting at SUNY Purchase College. His work has been exhibited at 1969 Gallery, the 2021 Armory Show, Morgan Lehman Gallery, TSA LA, Lux Art Institute (CA), and Weeknights Gallery (Brooklyn), and has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Artcritical. He has attended multiple Yaddo and MacDowell residencies and won the 2018 NYFA painting award. From 2005-2020 he was a frequent contributor to Art in America, and has written for Paper Monument, Tablet, Hyperallergic, and Modern Painters, as well as numerous museum catalogs.
Jason Lazarus
Jason Lazarus is an artist exploring vision and visibility. His work includes a range of fluid methodologies: original, found and appropriated images, text-as-image, photo-derived sculptures made collaboratively with the public, pigment-inks-as-image, live archives, LED light images, and public submission repositories among others. This expanded photographic practice seeks new approaches of inquiry, embodiment, and bearing witness through both individual and collective research.
Beth Livensperger
Beth Livensperger has exhibited widely, with recent solo projects at SUNY Cortland, and Hobart & William Smith colleges, and group exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, RISD Memorial Hall Gallery and Essex Flowers, among others. Her work has been reviewed in Politico and Two Coats of Paint blog. External support has been received by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Lower East Side Printshop, the Golden Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Abrons Arts Center, and the Saltonstall Foundation. Livensperger holds a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union, and an M.F.A. from Yale University.
Noelle Mason
Noelle Mason (b. 1977, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is about the insufficiencies of images to communicate important experiential layers that complicate the dialog around and response to disturbing and traumatic rifts in the American cultural fabric. Noelle's work has been shown at the Ringling Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston among others. She is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant, the Florida Prize for Contemporary Art, and the Southern Prize. In 2004 Noelle was a resident at the Skowhegan school of Painting and Sculpture, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of South Florida.
Gina Osterloh
Gina Osterloh's art practice activates photographic conditions including replica, representation, flatness and volume, presence and absence, illusion and the Real, desire and repulsion. Her work urgently asks us to pause – as we participate in a world of image text militarization. Osterloh’s teaching addresses the intersections of photography and identity. Gina Osterloh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University and her artwork is represented by Silverlens Galleries (Manila & New York) and Higher Pictures Generation (New York).
George Rush
George Rush is an Associate Professor of Art at the Ohio State University. Previously, he taught at Yale School of Art, RISD, Vassar, University of Tennessee, and Columbia School of the Arts. He earned a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. He has shown internationally since 2000 and is a recipient of awards from New York Foundation of the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and, in 2021, he was a Greater Columbus Arts Council Dresden Residency Fellow. He lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.