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Dushko Petrovich

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Bio

BA, 1997, Yale University; MFA, 2006, Boston University. Exhibitions: Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen; Zacheta—National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The de Cordova Museum, Boston; Gallery 400, Chicago; P!, New York; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Interference Archive, New York. Editorial: Founding Editor, Paper Monument; Editor and Publisher, Adjunct Commuter Weekly. Publications: Art News, Artnet News, Bookforum, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, n+1, Slate. Bibliography: Artforum, Art News, Artnet News, The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, The Wall Street Journal. Awards: Starr Scholar, Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency, Yaddo.

 

Courses

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Description

This three hour seminar is a professional practice class which examines what it means to have a productive, critical practice. Students not only refine their own identity as generative artist-scholar-citizen but also learn to represent that practice professionally with CVs, portfolios, project proposals, artist statements, and scholarly abstracts. Students also work collaboratively on exhibition projects to experience how different creative roles such as artists, curators, writers, and venue directors interact in the art world.

Class Number

1129

Credits

3

Description

This course enables upper-level students to develop a well-researched thesis project on a topic of their choice. Such a thesis project may be linked to their final BFA thesis or studio project, and may be useful for students considering graduate school in a field in which research and writing expertise is required. Students may choose to enlist innovative formats and incorporate a variety of media. Topics as diverse as 'Gay Cinema,' 'Culture as Industry,' 'Is Rap Subversive?,' 'The Art and Science of Fragrance,' and 'The Morphology of the Toy Soldier Body' have been explored. Class meetings are used to share research methods, discuss the given challenges of various projects, and present works-in-progress for critique.

Class Number

1958

Credits

3

Description

In this class we will prepare the student for life out of school through looking at at the lives of artists through their writings and biographies. Artists writings/biographies will include Joan Mitchell, Fairfield Porter, Andrey Tarkovsky, Seth Price, Laura Owens, among others. Group critiques and a field trip to an artist studio will be included, as well as practical advice on documenting work and writing artist statements.

Class Number

1333

Credits

3

Description

Publishing yourself and publishing others will both be addressed in a start-to-finish manner as we cover the key aspects of publishing as a creative enterprise, from pitching and editing to fundraising and promotion. We will look at various historical and current models for both digital and print publications as students develop and produce their own publishing projects.

Class Number

1259

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester across the Graduate Division, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2157

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester across the Graduate Division, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1222

Credits

3