Herron’s Graduate Exhibitions open this Thursday, April 30, with a reception from 5–8 PM at Eskenazi Hall in all 3 galleries.
Join us for an evening celebrating the work of our graduate students completing their masters degrees in Fine Art, Art Therapy, and Design.
Featured here is a sneak peek of Cornfed & Queer, a series by Kate Luce, included in the MFA Thesis Exhibition in the Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries.
We hope to see you there!
First year MFA student exhibition Fools’ Errand opens this Wednesday, April 1 from 5-8pm in the EFAC galleries!! Here are a few lovely snippets I caught in class today during install. Can’t wait to see work up!!
First year MFA student Rafael Caro is working on an autobiographical series that use material as a language of metaphor, memory, and connection. These mixed-media portraits of family members are an attempt to hold together what distance tries to pull apart. #screenprint #mixedmedia #portrait #familyhistory #contemporaryart
Emma Zuercher is a first year MFA student working with native plants, bioplastics, and casting processes to explore ephemerality. #contemporarysculpture #metalcasting #bioplastics #nativeplants #materialexploration
For her thesis project, second year MFA student Meaghan Fleming is building steel dogs adorned with intricately knotted embroidery floss and surrounded by an oversize friendship bracelet with steel charms. This work explores the complexities of female adolescence by placing materials traditionally associated with strength, permanence, and industry in direct conversation with soft, domestic, and craft-based processes, disrupting hierarchies between hard and soft, masculine and feminine, public and private. #contemporarysculpture #contemporarycraft #labor #installationart #womenwhoweld
Calvin Caskey is a first year MFA student in painting and drawing. He is currently exploring nature and the landscape as a source of grounding, immigration policies as they intersect the natural world, and political corruption.
#contemporarypainting #reliefprinting #nature #landscape #creativeexploration
Second year MFA student Bekah Pollard has been in the studio tufting and pom pom making for her textile installations for the upcoming thesis show!
#contemporaryfiberart #colorful #yarn #installationart #flowstate
A peek inside the studio of 1st-year MFA candidate Chayton Davidson, an image-based artist examining Midwestern heritage and transforming everyday life into a visual narrative using photography, archived material study, and installation. #contemporaryphotography #installationart #visualnarrative #mfa #midwest
Second year MFA student Kate Luce in her studio finishing up her last camouflage figure painting that will be included in the MFA thesis show, and experimenting with sculpture by casting pączki, painting them, and adding glitter on top! #contemporarypainting #figurepainting #selfportrait #pinkcamo #contemporarysculpture
Thinking of applying to one of our grad programs? You’re in luck, you can apply FOR FREE from Dec. 1-7th!
#gradschool #artschool #musictech #mfa #arttherapy #design
Herron is so proud of second year MFA student Joan Wyand, who was awarded the Sherry Queener Graduate Student Excellence Award. This campus-wide award is one of the highest recognitions for achievement awarded to a graduate or professional student on our campus. The award honors the many contributions of our former Associate Dean, Dr. Sherry Queener, during her term leading the Graduate School at IUPUI. Dr. Queener presented the award to Joan on stage, and they were able to get to know each other a little after the ceremony. Congratulations, Joan!!
Herron MFA Conflux Exhibition opening tonight!
Drawing from the intimate relationships artists forge with themselves, their spirituality, gender and or ethos, we navigate the dichotomy between one’s sense of self and something grander. Each artwork serves as a lens and a vessel, which combined with their peers, act as a kaleidoscope that reorients personal narratives to a ‘larger than’ framework. Conflux is a merging and gathering of these artists, students, and their practice. Join us in celebrating the vibrant array of voices emerging from the Herron School of Art MFA program, March 15th, at NE Sculpture Gallery Factory. #mfa #herronschoolofartanddesign #iuiherron #contemporaryartists
