Visit the University of Illinois South Studios complex and meet the Studio Art MFA candidates in their graduate studios. Current students are working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, drawing, collage, animation, photography, and social practice. Events include textile workshops, drop-in artmaking activities, artworks for sale, panel conversation, publication release, plant sale, and light refreshments.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12:
11:00am-12:30pm Photoembroidery Workshop
Victoria Schiodtz
Location: Building 5
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1:00-3:00pm Wardrobe Workshop ($5 deposit- to be returned at the workshop)
Lab Thair Thursday and Jennie Maydew
Location: Building 2
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4:00-4:45pm Publication Release and Panel Conversation
Location: Building 2
11:00am-4:00pm Collage and Button Making
Thursday Talcott
Location: Building 6
11:00am-4:00pm Printmaking Shop
Indigo Rodríguez
Location: Building 2
11:00am-4:00pm Plant Sale
Location: Building 2
11:00am-4:00pm DIY Popcorn Bar
Location: Building 6
Driveways are gravel and doors are not automatic — though, there are no stairs or ramps to worry about, and doors will be propped open.
Indigo Rodríguez is an artist and writer interrogating representation, erasure, and the confrontational nature of normative assumptions. He draws upon multiple disciplines to create sculptures and installations — working with materials in disrepair to challenge what is thought to be worthy of artistic attention.
Jennie Maydew explores how an interdisciplinary social practice can playfully dissolve prescription, emphasize process, and keep our personal and communal gifts in motion. Through an inquiry into alternate economies, (fun)ctionality, and the concept of play as serious work, she centers the nature and urgency of our obligations to past, present, and future beings. Creating the conditions where questions can be collectively tended, Jennie delays certainty to recognize attention, attunement, and ambivalence as life-sustaining strategies.
Victoria Schiodtz is an intermedial artist born in Viña Del Mar, Chile, in 1998. She attended the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art in 2021. Her body of work and exploration orbit the concepts of trauma, memory, body and origin. Victoria currently lives in Urbana, Illinois, where she is an MFA in Studio Art candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Thair Thursday – Sculptor, animator, fiber artist//organizer, gardener, friend//trans, queer, fag
