PROGRAM 2020

All events are free.

CHICAGO

THURSDAY, February 13, 2020: 5-7 pm (TBC)
FACULTY RECEPTION
ESSEX ON THE PARK, 808 South Michigan Avenue 2011, Chicago, IL 60605
BY invitation

THURSDAY, February 13, 2020: 7:30PM (TBC)
FACULTY DINNER
LOCATION TBA
RSVP

Thursday, February 13, 2020: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Art Happens: Amazing Women
ALumNA Miriam schaer

FRIDAY, February 14, 2020: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Politics of art in public spaces
TT Faculty Elena Marchevska

Friday, FEBRUARY 14, 2020: 10-12pM
TT ALUMNI BRUNCh
Little Branch Cafe, 1251 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60605

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2020 09-11AM
TT PHD INQUIRY MINI MEET-UPS (SIGN UP)

Saturday, February 15, 2020: 12:30-2:00 pm
WHAT is an Art Phd? An open informal forum
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
the Hilton Chicago Hotel, 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il 60605
Conference Room 4L, Fourth Floor
12:30 - 1:00:  Meet and greet
1:00 - 2:00:  Drop-in circle discussion

Saturday, February 15, 2020: 3:00-6:00 pm
WORKSHOP: Practice as Research, entwining the threads
WITH MICHAEl BOWDIDGE, PHD
(Description below)
COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF ART
1306S. Michigan Ave. first floor.Chicago, IL 60605
(sign up)

Saturday, February 15, 2020: 4:00 PM-5:30 pm
Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity
Alumni Rachel EPP Buller + Miriam Schaer

NEW YORK

A PRAXIS ENTWINED
ONE DAY SESSION
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Art In General, 20 Jay Street, Suite M1oE, Brooklyn, NY 11201

12:00 - 3:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Practice as Research, entwining the threads
WITH MICHAEl BOWDIDGE, PHD
(sign up)

3:00 - 3:45 PM
OPEN HOUSE Q&A SESSION (OPen to all)

3:45 - 5:15 pm
ARTIST TALKS BY
JEAN MARIE CASBARIAN
richard Jochum
Allison Geremia

5:15 - 6:00 pm
RECEPTION (ALL)

6:30 pm (TbC)
Transart Gathering
Drinks and Tapas nearby

ARTIST TALKS

Richard Jochum is a conceptual artist working in a broad variety of media with a strong focus on video, interactive installation, performance, and photography. He is a studio member at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and an associate professor of art and art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked in various media since the late 1990s and has had more than 200 international exhibitions and screenings. Richard Jochum received his PhD from the University of Vienna (1997) and an MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2001). His art practice is accompanied by publications and research in the field of cultural theory, new media, and contemporary art and he has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his latest large scale art installations has been a 30,000 square feet collaborative video mapping project onto the Manhattan Bridge.

Artistic Research One By One
Art has left the pedestal and frame. Without those, which lend a work form and definition, art needs, at a minimum, context, if not explanation. To the same extent that art has given up its form, it relies on research strategies that establish its practices under changed, new conditions. 

Allison Geremia is a current Ph.D. candidate at Transart Institute studying contemporary jewelry of the United States and its sociological implications. She received her Masters at Parsons in the History of Decorative Arts and Design at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Her undergraduate studies in Art History and Jewelry/Metalsmithing from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have allowed her to access craft in a hands-on and theoretical way. Her most recent publication is entitled “Through the Lens of a Jewellery Practice: An inquiry into photographic representation within a practice-based Ph.D.” in The Journal of Arts Writing by Students.

Beyond the Bench: Activation Through Inquiry
Allison Geremia’s jewelry practice is intertwined with many identities: the craftsman, the artist, the tradesman, the assembly line, and even the academic. The multi-faceted nature of a jewelry practice can lend itself to many conversations. Her practice blends a a range of jewelry perspectives, resulting in research that necessitates a fusion of methods. Throughout her Ph.D. studies, alumna Allison activated her research through practice, to investigate the social nature of jewelry and her role as maker. 

Jean Marie Casbarian received her MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College in New York in the year 2000 where she focused on interdisciplinary installation practices and incorporates photography, film and video projections, sound, sculpture and performance into her artworks. Along with exhibiting her works throughout the United States, Europe, Central America and Asia, she has received a number of awards and artist residencies including a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Grant, a Research / Studio Art Associate with Five-Colleges, Inc., Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation nomination, The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist's Assistance Project Grant, and an Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute. As an educator, Jean-Marie currently teaches and advises graduate students at Transart Institute and is also a faculty member with the ICP-Bard MFA program and the General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has taught in the film and photography departments at Hampshire College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jean Marie currently lives and works in New York City.

Notes from the Inside:  The Fusion of an Artistic Practice and a Teaching Life
Jean Marie Casbarian discusses the convergence of her artistic and teaching practices and the myriad of ways in which these two avenues have cultivated new artistic perspectives.  When considering the art of the assignment, Casbarian will oftentimes choose themes that resonate with her own creative research cultivating a fertile environment not only for her students but one that informs and deepens her own art practice. The classroom thus becomes a vital collective laboratory where in the end, everyone has a stake in the creative and intellectual research that they do together.

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Workshop
Practice as Research:
Entwining the Threads

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2020: 3:00-6:00 PM
Columbia College for the Arts, 1306S. Michigan Ave, First Floor, Chicago, IL 60605

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2020: 12:00 - 3:00 PM
Art In General, 20 Jay Street, Suite 210A, Brooklyn, NY 11201

DESCRIPTION:

Every successful practice-based doctoral research project springs from the questions that lie at the very heart of the individual creative practice that informs and drives it. This may seem obvious, but it is the key to ensuring that that such projects are intellectually rigorous and, most importantly, remain creatively vital.

This aim of this workshop is to assist candidates in the processes of articulating and refining exactly these questions, which underlie all serious creative practice, and bringing them into alignment with a potential doctoral research project, ensuring the best possible fit between their practice and their area of inquiry.

Over the three hours of the session, we’ll achieve this by moving through a series of phases. We’ll begin by articulating our respective practices to each other and ascertaining what problems or issues they might usefully be ‘nudged’ in the direction of (without compromising their artistic integrity). We’ll then examine the fit between the predilections of our practices and our areas of interest, to ensure that there’s a useful synergy between them.

Finally, we’ll conduct a ‘lightning’ review of the wider context that our prospective projects sit within, in order to begin to map how our projects sit within their field and also touch on the active roles that different kinds of writing can play in entwining these threads together.

Prospective candidates and others interested in the possibilities of practice-based doctoral research should attend this session.

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Faculty member and TT Programmes Coordinator Michael Bowdidge, PhD will lead this workshop. Michael an artist who works with found objects, images and sound. His PhD project took the form of a practice-based investigation into the relationship between the later philosophy of Wittgenstein and assemblage sculpture. This research was fueled by the same curiosity about the possibilities of object-based sculptural practice which has also driven 20 years of creative production in this medium, resulting in a substantial number of exhibitions both within the United Kingdom and internationally.

https://www.transartinstitute.org/people/michael-bowdidge
http://www.michaelbowdidge.co.uk