Travel to Italy to view the 2009 Venice Biennale! Plans are now being made for the next Myers School of Art Faculty entrage to attend 2009 Venice Biennale! Upper level students get your passport ready! You could be going.
12 students and 10 faculty/staff were underwritten by scholarships to attend the largest art exhibition event in America. The Myers School of Art supports its students and faculty every year to take a firsthand reading on the state of art in our time. Occupying the Miami Convention Center and over a dozen satellite locations hundreds of galleries and thousands of artists from around the world showcase their finest work. This is THE exhibition and art world event in the American calendar!
This year faculty member Mark Soppeland's work was on view at the Bridge Art Fair that coincided with the exhibition at the convention center.
Sherry Simms, Associate Professor of Art, hosted a bus trip for 12 students to attend the 14th annual SOFA CHICAGO , held at the Chicago Navy Pier in November 2007. The critically acclaimed Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair annually presents the work of over 100 international art galleries and dealers along with a weekend of lectures and exhibitions. While in Chicago, students visited the Chicago Institute of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
On the trip home, a detour was made to spend the afternoon on the grounds of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Deerborn Michigan. There the students got a peek at the work being done by graduate students and saw architecture done by Albert Kahn and other works done during the Arts and Crafts movement. Cranbrook was founded by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth and is one of the premier art graduate programs in the country.
12 students and 4 faculty/staff were underwritten by scholarships to attend the largest art exhibition event in America.
Occupying the Miami Convention Center and over a dozen satellite locations hundreds of galleries and thousands of artists from around the world showcase their finest work. This is THE exhibition and art world event in the American calendar! Myers School of Art will be putting its students and faculty there every year to take a firsthand reading on the state of art in our time. Daytime gallery visits are bookended with oceanside walks in the morning and South Beach restaurants and clubs at night.
In November of 2007 a Myers School of Art student/faculty entourage attended the Venice Biennale. Six students and three faculty were able to make this trip with all their expenses paid, due to a lead gift from the Folk Foundation. Visits to the exhibit halls alternated with area museum and city tours, not to mention some fine dining. Students are preparing an art exhibition of their own work in response to what they learned on this trip. In 2009 students will again apply for selection to represent the school in attending this event—all expenses paid.
