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Department of Fine and Performing Arts virtual tours to prospective students and families in Dance, Fine Arts, Music, and Theatre. These individualized meetings are available M-F during regular business hours and are guided by our friendly and knowledgeable guides.
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Exhibition
Sensory Overload: 2021 Loyola Fine Art Senior Exhibition
April 16 - May 14, 2021 On view from W. Sheridan Avenue and online
Sensory Overload is an online exhibition of the work of Loyola University Chicago’s most recent Fine Art graduates. With a variety of approaches to making across multiple disciplines, this exhibition represents the ambition, passion, and activism that make Loyolans stand out.
Featuring works by:
Gabby Auth | Maya Berg | Genevieve Boyle | Lena Brearely | Karla Bueno | Hana Comor | Giulia de Oliveira Borba | Kira Escobar | María Gutiérrez Berrios | Mia Hackett | Kathleen Harmon | Abby Kilani | Alyson Kobler | Mia Kraft | Ciara Krasovic | Mary Lang | Myhanah Lu | Elisa Violet Machlitt | Natalie Murdock | Rem Piguing | Amelia Robinson | Erin Schrock | MelanieJoy Thomas | Claire Trabue | Samantha T Uy | Joseph Barrett Whittle
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Arts Research
2021 Art History Senior Capstone Presentations
Wednesday, April 28 at 1:40pm (CT) on Zoom
Join us for an afternoon of thesis presentations by the 2021 graduates in Art History. Each senior will present a 15 minute overview of their thesis research followed by a Q&A session. This presentation will be moderated by Professor of Fine Arts in Art History Paula Wisotzki, Ph.D. and is free and open to the DFPA and Loyola community.
Presentations by: Emily Been, Emma Mattix-Wand, Julia Neufeld, Violet Pope, Karina Brobstein, Katie Smet, and Emma Whitehorn
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Sensory Overload Online Reception and Awards Ceremony
May 14, 5-6pm CT
Join us in celebrating the Fine Art graduating class of 2021
Sensory Overload is an online exhibition of the work of Loyola University Chicago’s most recent Fine Art graduates. With a variety of approaches to making across multiple disciplines, this exhibition represents the ambition, passion, and activism that make Loyolans stand out. The investigations and discoveries within Sensory Overload are often poignant and surprising and have become even more complex in these unprecedented times of protest and pandemic. Like the rest of the world, these students are asking the difficult question of what comes next — not just for themselves, but for the world that their work represents.
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Artist-in-Residence
Talking Back to Power Through Art and Activism
Friday, April 16 | 10:30am CT
Join DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes for "Talking Back to Power Through Art and Activism" as part of the Center for Urban Research and Learning's CURL Friday Morning Seminar series.
Aram Han Sifuentes uses art to disrupt, unsettle, and rupture dominate narrative to assert, demand, and claim spaces for those who are commonly othered, particularly for immigrants of color. She will talk about her projects U.S. Citizenship Test Sampler, Protest Banner Lending Library, and Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t and how she uses art to confront social and racial injustices against the disenfranchised and riff off of official institutions and bureaucratic processes to reimagine new, inclusive, and humanized systems of civic engagement and belonging.
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COVIDtv X OUVS Broadcast Saturday March 20th, 2021
COVIDtv is partnering with Artist-In-Residence, Aram Han Sifuentes, for three hours of virtual programming for the Let Us Vote! exhibition of the 2020 Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t exhibition at the Ralph Arnold Gallery at Loyola University, Chicago. As part of the virtual programs, watch Loyola students’ projects around disenfranchisement, sit in for an artist talk and live Q and A with Aram Han Sifuentes, a Biden Keep Your Word candle sale by QTVC, a voter suppression vs. voter fraud conversation with Erin Delaney, and so much more! Follow COVIDtv’s Instagram (@covidtv) for updates and links!VIEW -
Exhibition
Let Us Vote! Voting Stations for Those Who Legally Can't
March 12 - April 11, 2021
Organized by Aram Han-Sifuentes
What can voting look like if it were more accessible? What can voting look like if the disenfranchised could be the ones to determine what shows up on the ballots? Ballots and ephemera from the 2020 Official Unofficial Voting Stations will be on view at the Ralph Arnold Gallery in addition to Loyola student projects created in FNAR 393. Official Unofficial Voting Station is a site of empowerment, site for protest, site for sharing resources, site for social engagement and discussion, and is a collective art project making disenfranchisement visible and fighting against it in the United States.
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FNARFEST 2021
Join us for FNARFEST 2021, a two-day virtual celebration of the Fine Arts Division at Loyola University Chicago. See event details and registration below. -
Film Screening and Artist Discussion with AJ McClenon
Friday, February 19
Screening: 6:00pm CST
Discussion: 6:30pm CST
AJ holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has performed and shown work throughout the US, at locations like Steppenwolf, The Promontory, Woman Made Gallery, Echo Park Film Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Terrain Exhibitions. AJ is currently the co-director of Beauty Breaks, an intergenerational beauty and wellness workshop series for black people along the spectrum of femininity. AJ is also a co-founder of F4F, a domestic venue that cultivates a femme community, centers blackness, and expands upon understandings of what domestic space can be.
Join us in conversation with A.J. McClenon after the screening.
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Protest Banner Making Workshop with Aram Han Sifuentes
Saturday, February 20 | 5:30 - 6:30pm CST
Make protest banners with Protest Banner Lending Library creator and artist-in-residence, Aram Han Sifuentes. No sewing skills are needed. Come with a short slogan ready to go.
You'll need: fabric big enough for a protest banner (cotton works best); another fabric for the letters (such as felt); sharp scissors; a sharpie; at least one yard of Heat 'n Bond ultra hold (you can purchase this at Joann's, Michael's, Amazon); an iron; and some sewing pins or t-pins.
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Student Juried Exhibition
SAT FEB 20 | 6:30-7:00 PM CT on Zoom
Student Juried Exhibition Reception and Awards Ceremony
From a strong pool of over 100 submissions, Ruby T. has selected the most outstanding works based on their level of originality, thoughtfulness, and skill. The most exceptional artworks will be honored at this reception with first, second and third place.
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Students Create Voting Stations
As the 2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence at Loyola University Chicago, Aram Han Sifuentes is teaching a course, FNAR 393 Official Unofficial Voting Station. Students in this course created their own voting station activations and resources to speak to voting, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement. Click to view their projects!VIEW -
EVENT
Get It Together
FRI NOV 13 @ 5PM CT on Zoom
Getting It Together
A group conversation about our times with artists Nia Easley and Tulika Ladsariya
Join us for the opening reception for the Ralph Arnold Gallery exhibition Get It Together featuring the works of Nia Easley and Tulika Ladsariya. The way we operate in physical space is a manifestation of the political climate. Get it Together aims to pose questions of ownership and power in the built environment. Nia Easley and Tulika Ladsariya each create work that calls attention to the ways our surroundings are influenced by various ideologies. Through these works, the artists challenge expectations and reveal biases in an effort to put the pieces back together.
Afterwards we will be hosting a community forum to come together and talk as students, artists, and citizens about the challenges we are struggling to overcome as individuals and as members of a community. All voices are encouraged to participate.
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Artist-in-Residence
Roberto Sifuentes Guest Lecture
DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes invites interdisciplinary performance artist Roberto Sifuentes to visit her online class FNAR 393 to discuss his practices of creating radical communities through performance as well as structures for performance making. Click to view the entire conversation. Content warning: visual documentation of nudity and blood.WATCH VIDEO -
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Event
Online Reception and Artist Panel
Join us for an online opening reception of Pivot and artist panel discussion with exhibiting artists Jonathan Michael Castillo and Nicole Marroquin on Friday, October 16 from 5-6pm. Please register to participate.
All events at the Ralph Arnold Gallery are free and open to the public.
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Artist-in-Residence
Aram Han Sifuentes featured in Art Journal Open
2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes discusses her Official Unofficial Voting Station project in Art Journal Open. "The Official Unofficial Voting Station creates symbolic voting events, performances, and art installations for those whose votes are suppressed—including youth under eighteen years old, noncitizens, the presently and formerly incarcerated (depending on state laws), residents of US territories, and those without government-issued identification (depending on state laws)." Click to read the full text.READ MORE -
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Ishita Dharap Guest Lecture
2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes invites artist, designer, and arts educator Ishita Dharap to visit her online class FNAR 393 to discuss their collaborative project Cute Rage Press, and more. Click to view the entire conversation.WATCH VIDEO -
Artist-in-Residence
Ishita Dharap: Sticker Making Demo
2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes invites artist, designer, and arts educator Ishita Dharap to demo sticker making using Adobe Illustrator to students in FNAR 393. Han Sifuentes is also sharing this demo to the broader DFPA community. Click to view!WATCH VIDEO -
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Jon Satrom Guest Lecture
DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes invites new media artist, educator, entrepreneur, and organizer Jon Satrom to visit her online class FNAR 393 to discuss his glitch-informed practices. Click to view the entire conversation.WATCH VIDEO -
Artist-in-Residence
William Estrada Guest Lecture
2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes invites educator and multidisciplinary artist William Estrada to visit her online class FNAR 393 to discuss his pedagogic practice and socially engaged projects. Click to view the entire conversation.WATCH VIDEO -
Artist-in-Residence
Ehren Tool Guest Lecture
2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes invites artist Ehren Tool to visit her online class FNAR 393 to discuss his socially engaged ceramics practice. Click to view the entire conversation.WATCH VIDEO -
Incoming Students
Incoming Students
Thank you for choosing the Fine Arts Program at Loyola University Chicago. Follow the link below for important information as you prepare to join our vibrant community in Fall 2020.LEARN MORE -
Artist-in-Residence
Aram Han Sifuentes Appointed 2020-2021 Artist-In-Residence in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, 3Arts Awardee, and Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee, Aram Han Sifuentes will be teaching socially engaged art and present Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t in the Ralph Arnold Gallery during her residence at Loyola University Chicago's Department of Fine and Performing Arts.
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Alumni
Drawing, Painting & Printmaking Alumna Creates a Series of "Stay-In" Posters
Sylvia Bueltel (BA, '18) draws inspiration in World War II propaganda posters for her her series of posters responding to the COVID pandemic. Since beginning the project in late March, Bueltel has completed five posters in the series, each saturated with patriotic colors and evincing themes of sacrifice and duty -- with the "We Can Do It" ethos of "Rosie the Riveter" and "Uncle Sam." Sylvia's urgent and timely work is featured on ABC News. Click to read the full article.READ MORE -
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Faculty
Through the Photographer's Lens
Photography Professor Nori Minami reflects on his most recent project "California City (Real Estate)" and the challenge of embracing technology in and out of the classroom.READ -
