May 2025: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
Professor, Adj. William Harper curated the AI photography show Magical Realism at the Perspective Gallery, which was reviewed by the New Art Examiner.
Professor, Adj. Eia Radosavljevic’s work, a headwear piece commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, is on view in the exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through May 25. The exhibition will come to the Art Institute of Chicago this summer.
Low-res MFA Director Aliza Shvarts was commissioned to write the feature story “Reproductive Justice Is Under Threat. What Can Art Do?” for Art in America.
Professor, Adj. Sonja Thomsen received a Josef Breitenbach Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. The Fellowship includes a monetary prize and the opportunity to be an artist-in-residence at the Center.
Saya Woolfalk’s Empathic Universe opens at MAD in NYC, featured in The New York Times
Detail of “Floating World of the Cloud Quilt,” 2022. Credit...Ramona Jingru Wang for The New York Times
Detail of Floating World of the Cloud Quilt, 2022. Over the last two decades, Woolfalk has undertaken a world-building project about a fictional race known as Empathics. Credit: Ramona Jingru Wang for The New York Times