Art Department News

Advanced Studio students and Professor Margaretha Haughwout organized an online exhibition to showcase students' exceptional work in the spring 2020 semester.

For Queer Paranormal, curated by the Two Chairs collective and Anne Thompson, Professor Margaretha Haughwout's Coven Intelligence Program collective (formerly known as APRIORI) shared spell-to-seed packets, a (BETA) SpellWeaver application, a large diagram of their speculative history, maps, mugwort harvested from nearby fields on summer full moons, and a film in which witches and herbalists are asked what plants they would choose to teach ethics to machines. A self-guided walk offered plant stakes marking "signs" important to the collective's speculative history.

Professor Hatton has written a catalog piece for the recent show at Twelve Gates Arts in Philadelphia.

“The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.” -William Kentridge

Professor Luthra participated in Full Haus: The Seeld Library, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art storefront exhibition space, as part of the research collective Seeld Library.