Art Studio Alumni News & Exhibitions

Alum Ryan Meyer (MFA 2018), along with his cohorts of the collaboration VINEGAR, will participate in the Magic City Art Connection, an annual contemporary art festival in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Magic City Art Connection will run from April 26-28. VINEGAR will be presenting a tent installation as well as a free film screening on the side of the Board of Education Building, Friday 7:30 pm.

Alum Julia Haft-Candell (BA 2005; MFA CSU Long Beach, 2010) is participating in an exhibition of new sculpture at the Parrasch Heijnen Gallery in LA.

Alum Julia Elsas (MFA 2009) will exhibit new sculptures in her new show ”SONIC MUD: Ugav nights.” Sonic Mud will be held Thursday, March 28th at 8pm at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. As a New Jewish Culture Fellow, sponsored by the Brooklyn Jews and the UJA-Federation of NY, Julia reimagined the mysterious biblical instrument, the Ugav, through a series of ceramic sculptures.

Alum Tavarus Blackmon (MFA 2018) will be showing at the Verge Center for the Arts this February. His exhibition “Exquisite Diversion” will be on display from February 1 to March 24.

Blackmon’s show will be presented alongside “The Amazing Black-Man” by Kumasi Barnett and both will have a shared opening on Friday, February 1 from 6-9 pm.

KC Studio recently published a write-up of alum Benjamin Rosenthal (MFA 2011), now an Associate Professor of Expanded Media at University of Kansas, Lawrence. The article explores Rosenthal’s recent video works that examine “hypothetical futures and the ever-changing course of human sexuality. Utilizing his own body, digital avatars and prison-like structures, Rosenthal explores his own desires and feelings toward these topics, not with a mind to educate or argue an ideology, but to make an honest investigation into all possibilities.”