BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sierra Nevada University - ECPv5.16.1.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sierra Nevada University X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.sierranevada.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Sierra Nevada University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180111 DTSTAMP:20240328T033736 CREATED:20170622T232416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180109T235151Z UID:181284-1514851200-1515628799@www.sierranevada.edu SUMMARY:MFA 2018 Winter Residency DESCRIPTION:All events listed are free and open to the public. \nCreative Writing Faculty   Interdisciplinary Arts Faculty \n\nMFA in Creative Writing\n\nFriday January 5\nEvening Reading\n6 – 8 pm | Prim Library\nMFA Faculty Sampler\nCome join us for an evening with a little bit of everything – perhaps even music! \n\n\n\nSaturday January 6\nCrafting the Argument\n4:15 – 5 pm | Prim Library\nwith Lisa Papademetriou\n Young adult author Lisa Papademetriou is the author of A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic (a South Asia Book Award Highly Commended Title)\, the New York Times-bestselling novels Middle School: My Brother is a Big\, Fat Liar and Homeroom Diaries (both with James Patterson)\, the Confectionately Yours series (over 750\,000 books in print)\, and many other novels for middle grade and young adult readers. Her latest book\, Apartment 1986\, was a School Library Journal Popular Pick. \n\n\n\nSunday January 7\nEvening Reading\n7 pm | Prim Library\nwith Monica Sok\, Julie Iromuanya\, and Luis Alberto Urrea\n Poet Monica Sok was born and raised by Cambodian refugees in Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Year Zero (Poetry Society of America\, 2016) and has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Calabash/The Conversation Literary Festival\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, Hedgebrook\, Fine Arts Work Center\, Jerome Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell Colony\, Montalvo Arts Center\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Saltonstall Foundation\, Stadler Center for Poetry\, and others. Her poems appear in CONSEQUENCE Magazine\, Kenyon Review\, Narrative\, POETRY\, The New Republic\, and TriQuarterly Review\, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. \n\n Julie Iromuanya‘s first novel is Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press\, 2015)\, a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award\, the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\, the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature\, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction\, and a San Francisco Chronicle “Best of 2015\,” a Star Tribune Critics Choice\, and a “Best Minnesota Books 2015.” Her creative writing has also appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Passages North\, the Cream City Review\, and the Tampa Review\, among other journals. Her scholarly-critical work is forthcoming in Meridians\, Callaloo\, and Afropolitan Literature as World Literature. Born and raised in the American Midwest\, she is the daughter of Igbo Nigerian immigrants. \n\n Luis Alberto Urrea\, hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart\,” is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 16 books of poetry\, fiction and essays. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother\, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer\, though he says\, “I am more interested in bridges\, not borders.”\nThe Devil’s Highway\, his 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert\,  was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  The Hummingbird’s Daughter (2005) tells the story of his great-aunt Teresa Urrea\, sometimes known as the Saint of Cabora and the Mexican Joan of Arc. Both books were named a best book of the year by many publications. His 2009 novel Into the Beautiful North (2009) is a Big Read selection of the National Endowment of the Arts and a popular community read choice. His most recent book\, the short story collection The Water Museum\, was a finalist for the 2015 PEN-Faulkner Award and was a Washington Post best books of the year choice. \n\n\n\nMonday January 8\nOn Grammar\n2 – 2:45 pm | Prim Library\nwith Rebecca Makkai\n Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the short story collection Music for Wartime (2015). Her novel The Hundred-Year House won the Chicago Writers Association award\, and The Borrower was a Booklist Top Ten Debut which has been translated into eight languages. Her short fiction won a 2017 Pushcart Prize and was chosen for The Best American Short Stories collections for four consecutive years (2008-2011). Makkai is the recipient of a 2014 NEA fellowship and has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop\, Tin House\, and Northwestern University. \n\n\n\nTuesday January 9\n\n \nMFA in Creative Writing Graduation Ceremony\n4 – 5 pm | Prim Library \nTwo Pines Reading\n6 – 7 pm | Prim Library\nOur new graduates present their work. \n\n\n\nMFA Interdisciplinary Arts\n\nWednesday January 3\nFaculty Lectures – Ayanah Moor + Kelly Nipper \n7 pm | Holman Arts & Media Center\nAyanah Moor works across various media creating paintings\, prints\, drawings and performance within a visual field where notions of blackness and gender identity take shape. Her practice involves individual action\, collaboration and participation\, and operates within the discourse of authorship\, sampling\, and appropriation. Moor has exhibited at ONE Archives—University of Southern California Libraries; The Studio Museum in Harlem\, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts\, OH; The Andy Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh; Subliminal Projects\, Echo Park\, CA\, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts\, New Zealand; and Proyecto ‘ace\, Buenos Aires\, Argentina. & Anthony Romero’s 2016 book\, The Social Practice That Is Race\, described Moor alongside Dan S. Wang Hank Willis Thomas and Ellen Gallagher as “carrying forward a new black arts tradition.” Moor completed her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA at Tyler School of Art. She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n\n\n\nKelly Nipper began working with dancers\, movement systems\, and Labanotation as a study into the foundation of photography and the moving image in the late 1990’s. At this time\, she began a new series of questions\, explorations\, and experiments: crystals and anatomy as a generative means for shaping space\, objects as environments for moving\, theory and practice for ordering movement in space\, body connectivity\, and flow. Nipper’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles\, Kunsthaus Zürich\, Switzerland\, Tramway\, Glasgow and the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston. Her performances have been commissioned by Performa\, New York\, The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle\, Warsaw\, Poland\, and South London Gallery\, UK. Nipper’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou\, Paris\, France\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst\, Zürich\, Switzerland\, Whitechapel\, London\, and the Institute for Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia. She received her MFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts in 1995 and BFA in Media Arts from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1993.\n\nFriday January 5\nVisiting Artist Lectures – Zanna Gilbert and David Horvitz\n7 pm |Holman Arts & Media Center\nZanna Gilbert is a research specialist in the Getty Research Institute curatorial department. She completed her PhD at the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex\, UK\, in collaboration with Tate Modern. From 2012 to 2015\, Gilbert was Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York\, where she was responsible for research focusing on art in Latin America and was coeditor of the online publication post. She has curated a number of exhibitions\, including Daniel Santiago: Brazil Is My Abyss (Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói\, 2012\, 2014); The Unmaker of Objects: Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s Marginal Media (MoMA\, 2014); Home Archives: Paulo Bruscky and Robert Rehfeldt’s Mail Exchange (Chert\, Berlin\, 2015) and contributed a section on artistic exchange for the exhibition Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America\, 1960–1980 (MoMA\, 2015). Most recently\, she was co-curator of the PST:LA/LA exhibition Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Gilbert’s texts have appeared in Art in America\, Art Margins\, Fillip\, OEI\, Arte y Parte\, Caiana\, Blanco sobre Blanco\, and Art in Print\, as well as in a number of exhibition catalogs and books. \n\n\n\n\nDavid Horvitz is an artist based in Los Angeles\, California. His expansive and borderless body of work is presented through the forms of photographs\, books\, performances\, memes\, or\, through the use of ‘mail art’\, with postal dispatches. His actions often explore varying conceptions of time and space\, as well as interpersonal relationships and the dissemination of images via the internet. Horvitz collects images\, texts\, and objects\, through media such as the internet\, the postal system\, libraries\, and airport lost and found services\, letting them develop\, spread\, and\, in the long term\, get out of hand. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at Blum and Poe Gallery\, the New Museum\, the Museum of Modern Art\, and the Brooklyn Museum. He has created projects with Recess\, Triple Canopy\, and Rhizonme (exhibited at the Tate Modern\, London)\, among others. The artist founded Porcino Gallery in Berlin and Galerie Morille in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\nSaturday January 6\nMFA-IA Thesis Exhibition\, Panel\, and Graduation\n6 pm | Tahoe Gallery\, Prim Library \n129/713 days\, Erin Shearin.\nAn American Aura\, Nicole Bommarito.\n\n\nTuesday January 9\nFaculty Lectures – Sameer Farooq and Christine Heindl\n7 pm | St. Mary’s Art Center\, Virginia City\, NV\nSameer Farooq (b. 1978) completed an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie\, Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary practice investigates tactics of representation and enlists the tools of installation\, photography\, documentary filmmaking\, writing and the methods of anthropology to explore various forms of collecting\, interpreting\, and display. Recent projects include an ambitious public installation at the Aga Khan Museum\, Toronto and an upcoming exhibition at the University of Nevada Reno’s new arts centre. He has exhibited internationally and nationally at the Art Gallery of Ontario\, the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)\, the Art Gallery of York University\, Open Studio (Toronto)\, Maquis Projects (Izmir\, Turkey)\, Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga)\, Trankat (Tétouan\, Morocco)\, Sol Koffler Gallery (Providence\, USA)\, Artellewa (Cairo\, Egypt)\, and Sanat Limani (Istanbul\, Turkey). Farooq has been awarded several grants from the Canada Arts Council\, Ontario Arts Council\, Toronto Arts Council\, and the Europe Media Fund\, as well the President’s Scholarship at the Rhode Island School of Design. He also appeared on the 2017 Sobey Art Award long list. He is currently working as an visual artist\, designer\, educator\, and is a member of the documentary film collective Smoke Signal Projects as director. His artist book/print editions have been distributed through Art Metropole. \n\n\n\n\nChristine Heindl’s paintings shimmer with the tension of interruption; various kinds of “mistakes” hover between shifting facets and discontinuous planes. Ideas of fragmentation that can be both pleasurable and a surrender to sadness\, simultaneously\, are a touchstone for her work. She has an intuitive studio process\, honed by years of painting\, which alternates between building regimented grids and giving in to forms\, words and shapes that emerge on their own. An early training in weaving and piecework returns in the mastery of patterning and unique spatial makeup of her paintings\, which seem to slip in and out of focus. Christine Heindl lives and works in Queens\, and received her MFA in Painting from Cornell University. She was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2001 and an individual artist grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2009. She has exhibited at White Columns\, Clementine Gallery\, Curt Marcus Gallery\, Columbus Museum of Art\, Jamaica Center for the Arts\, and Gavlak Gallery\, among many other places. \n\n\n\nWednesday January 10\nMFA-IA Open House\n5 – 7 pm | St. Mary’s Art Center\, Virginia City\, NV\nPublic Opening for Daphne Osell’s Midway Exhibition. Student projects on display throughout building. Join us afterwards at the iconic Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City. URL:https://www.sierranevada.edu/event/mfa-winter-residency-2018/ LOCATION:Sierra Nevada University Campus CATEGORIES:Community,Featured,Grad Admissions,Graduate,MFA,MFA Academic Calendar,MFA-IA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sierranevada.edu/wp-content/uploads/typewriter-story-420x315.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR