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Spring 2020 Wiesenfeld

Lecture Series

CONNIE ZHENG

Art Practice recipient of the 2019 Sam Francis

Fellowship and Headlands Center for the Arts

Graduate Fellow

Please join us for Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series of the Spring 2020 semester, featuring interdisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker, Connie Zheng!

Kroeber 285 | Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

Monday, April 27th | 6:30pm-8pm | Doors open at 6pm

All lectures in the series are FREE and open to the public

About the Artist

Connie Zheng is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker. She draws heavily upon methods of assemblage and recontextualization. She is interested in the diverse manifestations of propaganda, the possibilities for expanding the language of climate apocalypse, and what a rhetorical alternative to “disaster porn” might look like.

This year’s Spring 2020 lecture series is curated by Prof. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and focuses on artists who deal with issues concerning the intersections of social justice, healing and politics of belonging.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice

Spring 2020 Wiesenfeld

Lecture Series

PUBLIC ART & PROTEST

Please join us in our first workshop of the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Spring 2020 semester, featuring guest speaker and artist Lava Thomas! Informed by feminist discourse, alternative approaches to portraiture, secular and religious ideas of the sacred, and African-American devotional and protest traditions, Thomas considers themes of social justice, female subjectivity, current events and the shifting tides of history in her personal practice. 

Kroeber 285 | Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

Wednesday, April 15th | 6:30pm-8pm | Doors open at 6pm

All lectures in the series are FREE and open to the public

Workshop Description

Interactive workshop and discussion involving unpacking and decolonizing the practices and structure within public art, the selection of public art and the intersections of the roles between the artwork itself, the artist as creator, the community and the selection committee.

This year’s Spring 2020 lecture series is curated by Prof. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and focuses on artists who deal with issues concerning the intersections of social justice, healing and politics of belonging.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice

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WILLIAM POPE.L

Please join us for Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series of the Spring 2020 semester, featuring the renowned Chicago based artist, William Pope.L!

BAMPFA | 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720

Monday, April 6th | 6:30pm-8pm | Doors open at 6pm

All lectures in the series are FREE and open to the public

About the Artist

Pope.L (b. 1955, in Newark, NJ) is a Chicago-based visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. Recent solo exhibitions include 'member: 1978-2001', Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2019), 'Choir', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City(2019), 'Conquest', Public Art Fund, New York City (2019), 'One thing after another’, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2018), 'Flint Water', What Pipeline, Detroit, Michigan (2017) and ‘Trinket’ at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles (2015). Group exhibitions include 'Brown People Are The Wrens In The Parking Lot', University of Chicago, Illinois (2017), 'Whisper Campaign', Documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany (2017) and 'Claim', Whitney Biennial, New York City for which he was awarded the Bucksbaum Prize (2017).

This year’s Spring 2020 lecture series is curated by Prof. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and focuses on artists who deal with issues concerning the intersections of social justice, healing and politics of belonging.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice & co-sponsored by Berkeley Arts + Design and BCNM

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AUTUMN KNIGHT: REAL BIG

Please join us for Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series of the Spring 2020 semester, featuring the award winning interdisciplinary New York based performance artist, Autumn Knight!

BAMPFA | 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720

Monday, March 2nd | 6:30pm-8pm | Doors open at 6pm

All lectures in the series are FREE and open to the public

About the Artist

Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, and text. Her performance work has been on view at various institutions including Krannert Art Museum (IL), The Institute for Contemporary Art (VCU), Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) and Akademie der Kunste, (Berlin). Her performance and video work is held in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight participated in the 2019 Whitney Biennial as a performance and video artist.

This year’s Spring 2020 lecture series is curated by Prof. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and focuses on artists who deal with issues concerning the intersections of social justice, healing and politics of belonging.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice & co-sponsored by Berkeley Arts + Design and the Graduate Fine Arts Program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco

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Earlier Event: February 19

INVINCIBLE CALIFORNIA - UC Berkeley Art Alumni Exhibition 2020

Later Event: March 16

Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sherin Guirguis

Hosted by Berkeley Arts + Design, BAMPFA, and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, this career event offers students the opportunity to engage with working professionals from some of today's leading art, design, and tech companies.

Come network with industry professionals, ready to answer questions about their work, companies, career paths, and potential internships. No resumes - just conversations!

After the event, stay for the A+D Mondays lecture, Working as a "Creative" in the Bay Area, with Drew Bennett, creator of Facebook's Artists-in-Residence program from 6:30-8pm.

Hello, Students! Platform Artspace invites you to apply to be on the Spring 2020 Curatorial Board. This semester we will be working on the Night Market, an art/craft/performance event happening in May. Open to all majors! APPLICATION DUE DATE: FRIDAY, DEC 13, 5PM.

Platform Artspace has openings for members of the curatorial board for the Spring 2020 semester. The commitment is one semester, with an option to participate in the following semester. Curatorial board members must be current UC Berkeley graduate or undergraduate students whose field of study is in the arts (Art Practice, TDPS, Architecture, etc) or whose personal interests are in an area of creative practices (social practices art, AR/VR, gaming, curating, community engagement, comics and illustration, design, activism, etc).

In Spring 2020, Platform curators will focus on the Night Market, an event where the broader UC Berkeley community sells, barters, and trades handmade art, crafts, and zines in a celebratory environment with food and music. Board members also review artist proposals, work one 2-hour shift at Platform each week (gardening, painting, opening and closing the space), help produce events, and run the space. Board members take leadership roles at Platform and should be comfortable working collaboratively as well as leading independent projects in the space.

NOTE: Weekly curatorial board meetings will be held Thursdays from 1pm-2pm, and attendance is required.

In collaboration with facilitators from the Multicultural Center (MCC) on campus, this Thursday from 7-9 PM, there will be a Dismantling Power and Privilege workshop for the Art Practice community. This event will be hosted in the Platform Art Space, accessed through room 178 Wurster Hall. Over hot tea and food, we will engage in conversations about how power and privilege actively underpin our program. The goal is to (1) establish a common language, (2) collaborate on a shared vision for how we might transcend these realities, and (3) brainstorm what the practical next steps are in working towards a stronger community. 

This event is open to all in the Art Practice department, though will center the voices of students and staff. The event will shift between indoor and outdoor spaces with heaters, and we strongly recommend blankets and warm clothing.”

Color Theory brings together womxn and gender non-conforming working artists of color from four generations to explore the intersections of race, gender, class and labor in and around art institutions. These reflections, stories, and remedies (through essay, image, and poetry) engage a multidisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue around ethical aesthetics, systemic oppression, and the ritual landscape. More than a simple indictment (though indict it, unabashedly, does), Color Theory is a must-read collection of communal solidarity, critical resistance and creative healing. “We are not afraid of color,” the editors declare, “because we are the embodiment of color.”

Contributors include Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Nasim Aghili, Onyinye Alheri, Grace Rosario Perkins, Leila Weefur, Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Jen Everett, Keara Gray, Shah Noor Hussein, Las Nietas de Nonó, Vreni Michelini Castillo, Maya Gomez.

On Monday, November 4th the following contributors will give a performative lecture at PLATFORM Artspace from 6:30pm-8pm for The Wiesenfeld Lecture Series.

Caitlin Cherry draws as much from the traditions of art history as from the trailblazing cultural theory authored in this technology-saturated age.

Caitlin Cherry received her MFA from Columbia University in 2012 and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI (2018); Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2018); University Museum of Contemporary Art at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (2017); and at The Brooklyn Museum as part of the Raw/Cooked series curated by Eugenie Tsai (2013). Group exhibitions include A Wild Ass Beyond: ApocalypseRN (2018) at Performance Space, New York; Punch (2018) curated by Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Deitch, New York; Touchstone (2018) at American Medium, New York; The Sun is Gone but We Have the Light (2018) at Unclebrother/Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Hancock, NY; Soul Recordings at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art (2016) at UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT; Banksy's Dismaland Bemusement Park (2015) in Somerset, UK; This is What Sculpture Looks Like (2014) at Postmasters Gallery, New York; and Fore (2012) at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Cherry is a recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Residency (2016) and Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2015), among other awards and honors.

For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu

Color Theory brings together womxn and gender non-conforming working artists of color from four generations to explore the intersections of race, gender, class and labor in and around art institutions. These reflections, stories, and remedies (through essay, image, and poetry) engage a multidisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue around ethical aesthetics, systemic oppression, and the ritual landscape. More than a simple indictment (though indict it, unabashedly, does), Color Theory is a must-read collection of communal solidarity, critical resistance and creative healing. “We are not afraid of color,” the editors declare, “because we are the embodiment of color.”

Contributors include Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Nasim Aghili, Onyinye Alheri, Grace Rosario Perkins, Leila Weefur, Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Jen Everett, Keara Gray, Shah Noor Hussein, Las Nietas de Nonó, Vreni Michelini Castillo, Maya Gomez.

On Monday, October 21st The Color Theory Contributors will discuss the process of creating and publishing a book at PLATFORM Artspace from 12pm-1pm.

Sussman Prize Winners Showcase:
Nelli Astvatsatrian & Jay Bland

Opening Reception: 5 - 8pm, Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
At Platform Artspace, Wurster Courtyard, UC Berkeley Campus

The Wendy Sussman Prize, awarded for outstanding achievement in undergraduate art practice, honors figurative painter and inspirational professor Wendy Sussman, who taught at Berkeley from 1989 until her untimely death in 2001.

INK YOUR DIRTY DINOS & KINK YOUR FAVORITE TALES Find your freak flag at this sex-positive artmaking workshop where you can visualize your wildest and sexiest stories.

Apply using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdydS_C0hCYrsULxUFN9H6Ui3wYj_M8g7Upc6GIi1eKJvC-WA/viewform?usp=sf_link

An All-day Visual Storytelling Workshop with Vanessa Conte. Come draw and script your fantastic imaginations in this allday artmaking workshop! You don’t need any previous experience as an illustrator or a fiction writer, just your incredible brain and a desire to see your stories in the flesh. Are you interested in finding your creative voice and visualizing your fantasies? Do you want to satisfy your libido’s weirdest craving? Are you just kink-curious and like to draw? All levels of interest are welcome! 

In this workshop you will learn to:

Create a rich and titillating visual world
Develop your own sexy and unique characters
Compose scenes that pack the biggest visual punch
Combine words and pictures effectively

Ten participants will be invited to create a safe and open space in which to share the narratives of their dreams, fetishes, or real experiences. Participants will work throughout the day on forming and fine-tuning these visual stories into one-two page contributions that will be bound into a zine for us all to enjoy at the end of the workshop. 

Workshop participants will: 

Analyze and talk about examples of erotica and other masterworks

Sketch and ink their fantasy characters and worlds

Leave the workshop with a unique and personal set of visuals to inspire further writing and artworks

TO APPLY use the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdydS_C0hCYrsULxUFN9H6Ui3wYj_M8g7Upc6GIi1eKJvC-WA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Limited Spots Available: 10 and lunch is provided for the participants!

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In this one hour workshop we'll use embodiment techniques and letter writing practices to work on connecting to the places, people, or things that feel like home. Each participant will walk away with the seed for future work and a one minute performance.

Maggie Lawson uses various media, including photography, performance, and installation, to inspire healing on personal and community levels. She uses everyday rituals and artifacts as an access point for collaboration and participation. Her forthcoming performance lecture, "Go Home" is inspired by her move back to Cincinnati, Ohio after 15 years as an Oakland- based artist and chef.

Goodbye Water, Goodbye Air, Hello Fire Everywhere is a series of performance parties by interdisciplinary artist and alumni Leyla Modirzadeh. In the first of these four performances, Modirzadeh will be joined by brother Hafez Modirzadeh who is a saxophonist. Using humor and improvisation, Modirzadeh engages the community in celebrations and meditations on four natural elements: air, water, earth, and fire. Please join us for this first gathering: a farewell party for the air, sign a thank-you-for-everything-we-are-sad-to-see-you-go card, play and move with air, spend an hour thinking about that which we cannot see but without which we would surely die.

Leyla Modirzadeh is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on theatre for social justice and experimental film, currently teaching at UC Berkeley in the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Department. As a professional actress, Leyla is best known for her collaborations with Obie Award winning theatre artist Ping Chong in New York City for over 20 years and tours of her original solo shows.

Saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh has performed, recorded, published and lectured internationally and is currently a Professor of Creative/World Music at San Francisco State University. His Grammy-nominated work on saxophones can be heard on Pi Recordings, while his published research can be found in Black Music Research, Leonardo, Critical Studies in Improvisation, and Popular Music Studies.