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EVENTS
Filmmaking, MFA
Narrative and Non-fiction Cinema
Parkway Theatre, 5 West North Avenue
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Wednesday, April 15, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Social Design, MA Social Design Exchange
BBOX at the Gateway
Monday, April 27, 6:00PM - 8:30PM
Curatorial Practice, MFA
Students in MICA’s MFA in Curatorial Practice program complete curatorial projects and collaborate with artists, communities, organizations, and venues. Each student works in a variety of contexts and formats in order to bring contemporary art and culture to new audiences. Visitor hours for individual sites vary.
Visit micagradshow.com for a complete list of exhibitions.
EXHIBITIONS
GRAD SHOW 1: TEACHING, MA
February 17 - 20 Install
February 21 - March 11 On View
February 21 (Friday) 5-7PM Opening Reception
March 12 - 13 De-install
GRAD SHOW 2: Graphic Design, MFA / Illustration Practice, MFA / Graphic Design, MA / Illustration, MA / LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, MFA
March 23 - 26 Install
March 27 - April 9 Show on View
March 27 (Friday) 5-7PM Opening Reception
April 10- 14 De-install
GRAD SHOW 3: Community Arts, MFA / Mount Royal School of Art, MFA / Photographic and Electronic Media, MFA /
April 15 - 19 Install
April 20 - May 3 Show on View
April 25 (Saturday) 5-8:30 PM Reception (on-campus)
May 4 - 6 De-install
GRAD SHOW 4: Studio Art, MFA
June 15 - 18 Install
June 19 - July 5 On View
June 20 (Saturday) 5-7PM Opening Reception
July 6 - 7 De-install
Working with Exhibitions - Show 1, 2, 3 & 4
Visit the Exhibitions Office webpage or contact at 410.225.2280 with any questions about the online proposal forms, timeline, and student responsibilities.
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Decker Gallery
Fox 3 Gallery
Meyerhoff Gallery
Pinkard Gallery
Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery
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Student Exhibition Responsibilities
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MICA Exhibition Handbook
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Exhibitions Office Equipment Inventory
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Artwork Labels
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Important Student Deadlines
SHOW 1 DEADLINES (MAT)
January 29: Tech/Pedestal Request due
February 4: Students notified about request
SHOW 2 DEADLINES (GDMFA, GDMA, ILP, ILMA, HOFF)
March 2: Tech/Pedestal Request due
March 9: Students notified about request
SHOW 3 DEADLINES (MFACA, MTR, PEM, RINE)
March 29: Tech/Pedestal Request due
April 1:
MGS3: Curators and Fellows Information
We are delighted to announce Liz Park and Kristen Hileman will curate the 2020 MICA GRAD SHOW 3 including 4 MFA programs: Mount Royal School of Art, Photographic and Electronic Media, Rinehart School of Sculpture, and Community Arts. MICA GRAD SHOW 3 will be on view April 20th – May 3rd, 2020 in galleries on MICA’s campus and in Station North. Opening Reception, Saturday, April 25th, 5Pm - 8:30PM. Liz and Kristen will work with MICA students, faculty, and staff to bring together this multi-location, multi-program exhibition representing individual artists, their programs, and the college as a whole in ways that will also engage the public with the remarkable work being produced.
Liz Park is Curator of Exhibitions at University at Buffalo Art Galleries. She was most recently the associate curator of the 2018 Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. She has curated exhibitions at a wide range of institutions including the Western Front in Vancouver, the Kitchen in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and Seoul Art Space Geumcheon. Her writing has been published by Afterall Online, Afterimage, ArtAsiaPacific, Performa Magazine, Fillip, Yishu: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Pluto Press, and Ryerson University Press, among others. Her topics of investigation have included representation of violence, invisibility, migration and moving images, burial and buried histories. She was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2011-2012 and Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at ICA Philadelphia in 2013-2015.
Kristen Hileman is an Independent Curator based in Baltimore and currently in residency at The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington. She served as Head of The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Department of Contemporary Art from 2009 through 2019, where she oversaw the reinstallation of the museum’s renovated contemporary wing in 2012, initiated numerous acquisitions to diversify the collection, and presented exhibitions featuring an array of artists, among them the Guerrilla Girls, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Sarah Oppenheimer, Dario Robleto, Anri Sala, and Tomas Saraceno. Her most recent BMA projects included Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance, Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, DIS: A Good Crisis and John Waters: Indecent Exposure, a large-scale retrospective of that influential cultural figure’s visual arts career. Throughout her time at the BMA, Hileman foreground artists with ties to Baltimore including Seth Adelsberger, Maren Hassinger, Sharon Hayes, Jimmy Joe Roche, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek. Jo Smail: Flying with Remnant Wing, her survey of the career of the distinguished painter and Maryland Institute College of Art professor, will open at the BMA in spring 2020.
From 2001 through 2009, Hileman worked at the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., where she organized the first full career retrospective of Anne Truitt, bringing new attention to the important DC-based abstractionist. At the Hirshhorn, Hileman also co-curated the international film and video exhibition The Cinema Effect: Realisms and led projects featuring John Baldessari, Cai Guo-Qiang, Cyprien Gaillard, Mario Garcia Torres, Oliver Herring, Jim Hodges, and Wolfgang Tillmans. She has taught at Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design and is a frequent visiting critic and lecturer at colleges and universities.
2020 MICA GRAD SHOW 3: Curatorial Fellows
Deyane Moses, Curatorial Practice, MFA
Babette Pendleton, Curatorial Practice, MFA
Ryan Patrick, Curatorial Practice, MFA
Kadija Hart, Social Design, MA
Livia Xie, Graphic Design, MA
Terra Blissett, Photographic and Electronic Media, MFA
Related Documents and Timeline
2020 Curators Announcement and Biographies
2020 Curatorial Fellows Announcement and Biographies
2020 MICA GRAD SHOW Timeline and Process