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SAIC Alum featured in Interview Magazine: The Conceptual Entrepreneur

Martine Syms (BFA 2007) is featured in Interview Magazine's The 16 Faces of 2016. Syms spoke with Emily McDermott of Interview about her practice, specifically the influence of television on her work. Syms addresses the depiction of African Americans in popular culture through her use of found footage, performance, and text.

Syms recently finished her first documentary, is working on an ambitious solo show that will open in February at Human Resources in Los Angeles, and is preparing to publish two books.

Syms' written work has been included in Art in America and Triple Canopy, and she founded the publishing imprint Dominica. Her work was included in the New Museum's 2015 Triennial, and she recently presented a solo show at Bridget Donahue.

CAA Announces the Recipients of the 2016 Awards for Distinction

Abigail Satinsky, SAIC faculty and alum (Dual MA 2009), is a recipient of the 2016 Awards for Distinction from the College Art Association (CAA). Satinsky received the Art Journal Award for her text Movement Building for Beginners (Art Journal, Fall 2015).

The 2016 Awards for Distinction, "honor the outstanding achievements and accomplishments of individual artists, art historians, authors, conservators, curators, and critics whose efforts transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large."

Satinsky is currently Associate Director at Threewalls and a member of SAIC faculty, lecturing in the Departments of Art Education and Arts Administration and Policy.

Roger Brown Makes the Observer's Top 10 List of 2015 Gallery Shows in NYC

The dual Roger Brown (BFA 1968, MFA 1970) exhibitions at DC Moore and Maccarone in New York are #8 on the Observer's Top 10 NYC Gallery Shows of 2015.

"His detailed, and inflammatory political work at DC Moore showed us his fervent activist side while his meditative Maccarone show of abstract landscapes, used as backdrops for the artist's collected pottery, reveal the profile of an evocative aesthete." - Ryan Steadman, Observer

Roger Brown (1941–1997) was an American artist and painter. Often associated with the Chicago Imagist school, he was internationally known for his distinctive painting style and shrewd social commentaries on politics, religion, and art.

SAIC Photography MFA Candidate Receives CAA's Professional Development Fellowship

Derrick Woods-Morrow (MFA 2016) has received the College Art Association's (CAA) Professional Development Fellowship in the Visual Arts for 2015. Through a highly competitive national process, Woods-Morrow is one of two MFA students completing their degrees in 2016 to be named Professional Development Fellows.

Formal announcement of this award will be made in the forthcoming issue of CAA News and at the upcoming CAA conference.

CAA's Professional Development Fellowships program supports promising artists, designers, craftspersons, historians, curators, and critics who are enrolled in MFA, PhD, and other terminal degree programs nationwide.

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