ART-jacent Conversations – Portfolio Ready & Local Art Opportunities
Jenny Gifford, Carlos Noguera, and Jennifer Printz
The annual ARTISTS, SCHOLARS & CURATORS: A LECTURE SERIES at NWSA will focus on ART-jacent Conversations this academic year. NWSA Visual Arts will host a variety of local and national experts to talk about what happened once the research is completed, the experimentation in the studio is done, and the body of work is produced. The invited experts will cover topics like how to put together a successful portfolio, how to connect with local art institutions, how do artist build their networks, and what opportunities for graduate education exist in Miami. This series of lecture-conversations are organized in the spirit of helping students to build their tribe and their art communities.
Jenny Gifford earned her MFA from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in 1992 and her BA from The College of William and Mary in 1988 both in painting and printmaking. She has been Nationally Board Certified since 2004 and has taught for 27 years. She is a 2019 recipient of the Ellies Teacher Travel Grant from Oolite Arts for printmaking. She was a 2001 SURDNA Fellow and was the On-Site Coordinator at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Summer Seminar for 13 years. She worked briefly as the Assistant Director of Admissions at Maine College of Art and as a Regional Admissions Representative at Maryland Institute College of Art. Her drawings and prints have been shown nationally and her writing has been published in "Art in Print."
Carlos Noguera, A4L Artist Services Director, holds a BFA.Ed from Tufts University and a M.A in Arts Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has worked in Boston Public Schools, Miami Dade-County Public Schools and abroad. As an educator, he is interested in inquiry-based learning to engage students learning in and through the arts. He believes that the arts can provide an opportunity for developing the social, emotional, intellectual and personal intelligence of students. While working in Seoul, S. Korea, he helped establish the arts program at Dwight International School in his role as the Arts Coordinator. More recently, he spent seven years working at Raha International School in Abu Dhabi where he was working in the nexus of the Arts and Service Learning in addition to teaching Media and Film Studies.
Jennifer Printz graduated with a BFA from East Tennessee State University and then completed her Master of Fine Art in 2001 from The University of Georgia. Printz uses both photography and drawing as differing means to observe her world, and she unifies them together to make poetic works that reflect the unseen structures of the universe. She has continued to be a highly awarded artist. In 2004 she was awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant, followed by a Dendo Fellowship in 2016, amongst many others throughout her career. Printz is also an educator who has honed her skills in a variety of classroom situations from museums to large public research universities since 2002. She has taught a wide range of two-dimensional media at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as public art and professional practices. Currently, Jennifer is an associate professor and director of the MFA in Visual Arts program at Florida International University. Printz' work has been included in publications as diverse as Tricycle and the Carolina Review. In 2019, her studio practice was included for in-depth articles in Peripheral ARTeries and In Her Studio. Her scholarly output includes papers given at the SGC International, College Art Association in 2009, and Southeastern College Art conferences in 2018, 2013 and 2011. In 2010, the Norton Simon Museum included her essay “Print University” in Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California. She is also an active arts leader, previously serving as President of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society from 2007-2009, the Vice President of External Affairs for SGC International in 2010-2012 and most recently on the Board of Directors for SECAC 2017-2019. In 2014 she was awarded an NCAA Emerging Arts Administrators Fellowship.
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