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Film and Media Studies
By Matthew Turk
Art Practice
SOMArts is proud to partner with the San Francisco Foundation to present The Annual Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, a focused look at the future of the Bay Area visual arts, launching October 1, 2020. Made possible by the San Francisco Foundation and its donors, we’re excited...
Art Practice
By Jose Alejandro Bastidas
A good documentary film provides an honest and complete look into the life and circumstances surrounding its subject. A great documentary makes audiences feel like they are right in the middle of the action. With the Friday, Sept. 18, release of “La Marea,” filmmaker...
Art History
PhD student Jason Vartikar’s first peer-reviewed article, “Ruth Asawa’s Early Wire Sculpture and a Biology of Equality,” was recently published in the spring issue of American Art, vol. 34, no. 1. Vartikar argues that the artist’s biomorphic sculptures engage midcentury biological science and its...
Art History
Cyle Metzger, PhD candidate in art history, and Kirstin Ringelberg, professor of art history at Elon University, together organized, edited, and composed the introduction to the first issue of the Journal of Visual Culture (Volume 19, Issue 2) dedicated to transgender art and visual culture.
