Kim Budd, Maryland Institute College of Art , Untitled 3, Digital Print
Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society and guest curator for New Insight has selected works by the following MFA candidates for inclusion in New Insight, one of Art Chicago's most anticipated onsite exhibitions. Each selected student has made it through an extensive and highly competitive selection process that begins within their own department. Together these works provide an extraordinary opportunity to see fresh ideas and innovative works by a new generation of talented young artists coming out of a broad and diverse spectrum of elite graduate programs.
April Totten Cal Arts
Nery Gabriel Lemus Cal Arts
Michael Nixon Carnegie Mellon University
Im Schafer Cranbrook
Terry Conrad Cranbrook
Bryan Zanisnik Hunter College
Julio Grinblatt Hunter College
Kristof Wickman Hunter College
Amita Bhatt Maryland Institute College of Art
Kim Budd Maryland Institute College of Art
Esteban del Valle Rhode Island School of Design
Rachel Menashe-Dor Rhode Island School of Design
Chaewon Kim School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cheryl Pope School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kristen van Diggelen San Francisco Art Institute
Anne McCaddon UCLA
Jane Parshnall UCLA
Ryan Sluggett UCLA
Faheem Majeed Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
Jesse McClean University of Illinois at Chicago
Bobby Belote University of Illinois at Urbana
Ryan Thompson University of Illinois at Urbana
Elaine Stocki Yale
Lourdes Correa Yale
Doctor Artist: PhDs, MFAs, and the Future of Artistic Production
Friday, May 1 at 1pm
Join New Insight students and art historian James Elkins, author of "Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art" (March 2009, New Academia Publishing, LLC), for a roundtable discussion that addresses the MFA program and its value today.
Location: NEXT Talk Shop, 7th Floor
Cheryl Pope, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Army of One, 2008
