PAFA Alumni

12/27/2022

Alumni Awards | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Throw some shine on who deserve recognition for their work! Each year at Commencement, the PAFA Alumni Association presents two alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alumni Service Award.

Alumni and members of the school and museum community, please see the descriptions of the awards and submit your nominations here by January 15, 2023:

PAFA's Alumni Association presents two annual alumni awards—the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alumni Service Award—during the annual Commencement exercises.

11/09/2022

Opening Reception tomorrow, November 10 for Lamentations: Paintings by Jennifer Baker (cert '78)

Patricia M. Nugent Gallery is in the Lawrence Hall on the campus of Rosemont College, 1400 Montgomery Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010.

More information:
https://bit.ly/3EeQxPO

10/19/2022

Hopper Prize: We support artists with grants and a platform for visibility.

Sharing a grant opportunity—Fall applications for Hopper Prize cash grants due Tuesday, November 15:

The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis.

10/04/2022

Artists Opportunities — The Curator's Salon

Sharing a publication opportunity with Art Seen — The Curator’s Salon Magazine. Submissions for the spring edition 2023 are due October 23.

The Curator's Salon invites submissions for the next virtual exhibition. Open to artists worldwide.

09/14/2022

Young Painters Competition

Of interest for Representational Realist Painters: This year's Miami Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award.

Young Painters, U.S. residents, ages 25 – 35 as of competition entry are invited to participate in an annual juried competition for the 2022 $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award. Entrants should have achieved a significant degree of success as an emerging artist of noteworthy talent. The Yeck Award winning artwork becomes part of the Miami University Painters of the 21st Century Collection.

Submission Deadline: Friday, September 30, 2022

Young Painters, U.S. residents, ages 25 – 35 as of competition entry are invited to participate in an annual juried competition for the 2022 $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award. Entrants should have achieved a significant degree of success as an emerging artist of noteworthy talent. The Yeck Aw...

08/16/2022

MPCFC - Artist

We were contacted by the Memorial Presbyterian Church of Fox Chase to share their new Philadelphia artist residency with students or any interested alumni. The opportunity has an hourly rate model for artwork in the space and teaching. "We are a small, creative Presbyterian congregation in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia looking to have our horizons expanded in terms of art and creativity." All information at the link:

Apply for our 2022-2023 Residency Program! We are a small, creative Presbyterian congregation in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia looking to have our horizons expanded in terms of art and creativity. We received a grant to start an Artist-in-Residence program. This is a 10-month

06/15/2022

"I am learning so much in the class...It would have been impossible to take an in-person class, as much as I love them, at PAFA. So, being able to take your "Color for painters" class in the Fall of 2021 and now "Alla Prima Landscapes" on zoom have been real treats." Thanks to west coast student Véronique Robigou of Seattle, Washington for joining Al Gury’s painting Continuing Education classes from afar!

Image: Veronique’s landscape painting made in online class

https://bit.ly/3MQKGkF

06/02/2022

Exhibition Reception: Exhibition Reception: Academy Generations | June 3, 2022 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Please join us on Friday, June 3, 2022 from 4:00-7:00pm to celebrate the current exhibition in the alumni gallery, Academy Generations.

Please join us on Friday, June 3, 2022 from 4:00-7:00pm to celebrate the exhibition, Academy Generations.

05/04/2022

Baltimore Magazine | Mt. Vernon Studio of Late, Legendary Painter Raoul Middleman to Become a Museum | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Painter Raoul Middleman's studio is becoming a museum, reports Lydia Wood for Baltimore Magazine. Middleman attended PAFA before moving to the Baltimore home in 1961.

05/03/2022

Deeper into the Isolation of Self Information and Gender by Ilene Spiewak

A big congratulations to Low-Res MFA Ilene Spiewak! The artist's self portrait is a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery. Visit the artwork in-person and vote for the People's Choice Award online!

For over fifty years, Ilene Spiewak has focused on the relations between color and visual space, painting at the edge of representation and abstraction. The introspection and solitude brought by the pandemic made her compositions more sparse and her palette more restrained. “I realize...

04/27/2022

Leeway Foundation

Leeway Foundation’s grant applications are open. The Leeway Foundation, based in Philadelphia, supports women and trans artists and cultural producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social change. Grant-making and programs "promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on the margins, promotes sustainable and healthy communities, and works in the service of movements for economic and social justice."
Grant categories are open for: Art and Change, Leeway Transformation Award and Media Artist and Activist Residency.

The Leeway Foundation supports women and trans artists and cultural producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social change.

04/26/2022

Academy Generations | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Assembled by PAFA grad and Continuing Education faculty member, Fred Danziger, the latest exhibition in the Alumni Gallery "Academy Generations" shows an authentic snapshot of teacher/student, classmate/classmate and alumni/institution connectedness from the late 1930s up to the work of current students. We see with this eclectic work, the “unbroken line” of artists working, teaching and supporting each other, all held together by their love of art and their common element of lineage at PAFA.

This exhibit is not about a particular aesthetic or artist. Assembled by PAFA grad and Continuing Education faculty member, Fred Danziger, Academy Generations shows how the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, since 1805, has nourished American art as one of the premier museums and art schools in....

04/15/2022

Exhibitions - Gross McCleaf Gallery

Faculty and alum in two solo exhibits at Gross McCleaf Gallery this month! Check out faculty Michael Gallagher's exhibition "Infinition," and graduate of the PAFA/UPenn coordinated BFA, Mickayel Thurin's "Awakening."

Gross McCleaf Gallery is a contemporary art gallery with the mission of promoting mid-career and emerging artists. The gallery features monthly exhibits and on-site access to its extensive inventory.

04/07/2022

Art Works - Philadelphia Foundation

Artist Grant alert! Check out Art Works Grants which launched last year from the Forman Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Foundation. Spread the word—in addition to Organization Grants, there are two-year, $25,000 per-year Artist Grants that can be used for development of new work OR to pay for living or studio expenses.

Four individual Philadelphia-based emerging artists will be selected based on how closely their work aligns with Art Works' programmatic goals of supporting "arts, culture, and creativity in community-based organizations and artists working in partnership with Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and other marginalized, vulnerable communities in Greater Philadelphia." Deadline to apply for 2022 cohort is May 16.

Art Works Art Works is a $3-million grant program for community-based organizations and emerging artists that is designed to support arts, culture and creativity — particularly those working with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) individuals and those in other under-served communities....

04/04/2022

Congratulations to MFA alum, Elizabeth Hamilton, whose work is featured in the online Viewing Room of Dina Wind Art Foundation, curated by Gerard Silva, Fleisher Art Memorial.

03/15/2022

In the artist's words, American+ "speaks to the resilience Black people have exhibited for centuries." Read about the current School of Art exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Michael Coppage (MFA ’05), in the the latest interview: https://bit.ly/3CPWQa7

03/11/2022

Trebuchet Magazine | The Way I See It. Presence, Realism, and the Artist in Physical Space: Peter van Dyck

Read about painting faculty Peter Van Dyck in the latest edition of ! "Van Dyck’s process brings whoever is watching into soft afternoons and empty streets touched with the light melancholy of contemplative solitude. Our eyes, following the graceful curves of perspective, begin to subtly doubt the verisimilitude of what we see, forcing us to look at and feel more acutely our new world and what it means to be here."

The work of painting faculty, Peter Van Dyck, is explored in Trebuchet Magazine's latest issue, Process.

03/08/2022

PAFA Alumni Design and Sculpt the Sally Ride Quarter for USMint | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

For , check out the work of two PAFA alumni on the new quarter of astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space! Designed by Elana Haglar (MFA '07) and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill (Sculpture '87), look out for the new coin in circulation March 22.

Two PAFA alumni, designer Elena Haglar (MFA '07) and sculptor Phebe Hemphill (Sculpture '87), created the depiction of astronaut Dr. Sally Ride on a new quarter released this year.

02/10/2022

Save the date for the 121st Annual Student Exhibition Preview Party—Thursday, May 12! Support rising artists, connect with fellow art lovers, and purchase work by the art stars of tomorrow before the exhibition opens to the public: https://bit.ly/34lRsi5

Image: Detail of "Woman at the Window," Taylor Larsen, Oil on canvas, 2021

02/08/2022

Have you been dropping by extra model sessions this semester?
You still have time to attend in February and March:

Saturdays - Alumni Drawing hosted by Douglas Randall
9:30am - 12:30pm Hamilton Room 1023

Sundays - Open drawing and painting with PAFA peers
10am - 2pm Hamilton Room 1023

Tuesdays - Alumni Sculpture and Drawing hosted Elizabeth Heller
6:30pm - 9:30pm Hamilton Room 740

For more information contact Elizabeth Heller

02/04/2022

2022 PAFA Alumni Awards - Nomination Form

Each year at convocation, the PAFA Alumni Association Council acknowledges two alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alumni Service Award. Submit your nominations by 2/15:

Each year at convocation, the PAFA Alumni Association Council acknowledges two alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alumni Service Award. The Council seeks nominations from the alumni base and members of the school and museum community. Please see the descriptions of the awards below a...

10/01/2021

PAFA Pours: Creativity, Collectives, and PAFA | October 5, 2021 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Join Corpus VI, a collective fashioned after the Red Rose Girls by Clarity Haynes, Elena Peteva, and Suzanne Schireson, for an online artist conversation this Tuesday.

How did the decades-long collective impact the artists' work, careers, and presentation to the public - on their own terms? Inspired by a shared commitment to figurative representation, this exciting group has kept these connected even as their careers have taken them to different locations across the United States.

Register for free to receive the zoom link and participate live:

Join PAFA alums Clarity Haynes, Elena Peteva, and Suzanne Schireson for a conversation about their decades-long collective, Corpus VI, a contemporary collective of women artists formed in 2003.

08/25/2021

MFA Alum Ana Vizcarra Rankin '12 Speaks to Camera on her Work in the PAFA Museum Exhibition "Taking Space" | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Ana Vizcarra Rankin (MFA '12) speaks about her work "Global Optimization Diagram," on view in “Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale." Watch the full video here:

Artist Ana Vizcarra Rankin graduated from the Master of Fine Art program in 2012. She received the Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize at the Annual Student Exhibition in May 2012 for her work Global Optimization Diagram. The painting is on view at the museum in “Taking Space: Contemporary Wo...

07/06/2021

'His passing is a great loss': Art show to honor Rochester painter Jason Bombaci

It is with sadness and deepest condolences we share news of the passing of MFA alum Jason Bombaci. Volunteers are curating an exhibition in his honor at the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts for the month of July, in Suite 135 of the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center. There will be a public reception on Thursday, July 8 from 6 to 8 pm:

Rochester artist Jason Bombaci, who died of cancer, will be honored with a final art showing at the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in July.

07/05/2021

CONGRATULATIONS to Yikui (Coy) Gu on this Hyperallergic review. The show “The Americans” is open at the Delaware Contemporary through August 21, after being at Gallery 456 in New York earlier this year.

https://bit.ly/3dEVlQz

Yikui (Coy) Gu, “The Fist Bump” (2020), gouache, acrylic, gouache on photograph, printed newspaper ad, ink, yarn, colored pencil, and photograph on bristol board, 18 x 24 inches

06/26/2021

PAFA Presidential Search 2021 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

After a period of community input, the presidential search is open for applications. The search committee also welcomes your nominations. Find info, contact, and application link:

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has launched a search for its next President & CEO. A search committee co-chaired by two members of the Board of Trustees leads the search supported by Isaacson, Miller – a search firm with substantial higher education, arts, and cultural organization exp...

06/14/2021

spring '21 — The Space for Creative Black Imagination

Join us for these important conversations on the theme "Blk Freedoms/Blk Time" on June 16, June 21, and June 23. Colleagues from PAFA, MassArt and MICA will revisit and critically rethink the historic ruptures of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, and Juneteenth, 1865. In the intimate context of these workshop gatherings we hope to both commemorate Black lives relegated to the death worlds of racial slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, and reaffirm (& reimagine) the possibilities of Black Freedom/Black Time.

In each workshop, a group of invited guests will present an object of their choosing - an ornament, artwork, film, song or text - and reflect on the ways in which it animates key concepts or practices they associate with these histories of struggle, loss and aspiration, and their resonance in the present.

Register today:

Cohosts:
Dr. Raél Jero Salley
Director of The Space for Creative Black Imagination
Chair, Department of Art History, Theory & Criticism at MICA

Dr. Rónké Òké
Director of DEIB & Deputy TIX Coordinator
Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at PAFA

Further, the museum will be closed on Friday, June 18 (including for staff as a paid holiday) to facilitate the redirection of our community's focus towards these events at The Space for Creative Black Imagination, as well as any other commemorations. We will be sharing more Juneteenth events local to Philadelphia on this page.

Jun 16 Blk Freedom_Blk Time / Soweto, Tulsa & Juneteenth #1 Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:00 AM 12:30 PM Google Calendar ICS “Bittersweet”_Workshop SOWETO, TULSA & JUNETEENTHWorkshop details forthcoming…Register here This is the 1st in a three-part series of workshops, titled Blk F...

05/21/2021

Dear PAFA Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students,

As we begin the search for PAFA’s next President and CEO, we need your input and feedback to help inform and guide the recruitment and selection process.

We encourage you to share your thoughts regarding the qualifications and characteristics of our next President and CEO through a short online survey. This content is being gathered and processed by Isaacson Miller, the firm hired to assist in this critical search and selection. The deadline for providing your feedback and input is Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 5 PM.

To access the survey, please click on this link: https://www.research.net/r/SBQS25B

More information on the search process is on the PAFA website here: https://www.pafa.org/pafa-presidential-search-2021.

05/18/2021

‘Jacintha’s wall’ pops up overnight to everyone’s delight

Proud of alum Jacintha Clark for working with Penn State Health Pediatric Specialties. “I am passionate about painting in medical centers because it allows me to be a part of healing through art.”

During the past year, artwork at Penn State Health Pediatric Specialties in the University Physician Center looks as though it sprang from the pages of E.B. White’s literary classic, “Charlotte’s Web.”

05/18/2021

Summer Studio Critique Program | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Are you missing a community of thoughtful artists for studio visits? The Summer Studio/Critique Program is a six-week online program designed for visual artists and educators who desire constructive feedback on their artwork, as well as the support and of an artistic community. Stimulate your personal artistic growth through individual weekly critiques from a stellar ensemble of nationally and internationally known artists, including members of PAFA’s acclaimed faculty, as well as discussion, group critiques, and virtual artist studio visits.

This six-week online program is designed for visual artists and educators who desire constructive feedback on their artwork, as well as the support and interaction of an artistic community. Stimulate your personal artistic growth through individual weekly critiques from a stellar ensemble of nationa...

05/11/2021

Summer Art Camp for Kids Ages 6-14 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

We are thrilled to offer Summer Art Camp, both Virtually and IN PERSON this year. Virtual art camp is specially designed for busy families with creative youngsters at home, while PAFA's award-winning in person camp is also back this summer!

Learn more about both camps at this virtual Open House on May 13, 6 PM. Advanced registration here:

Make new friends, create artworks and explore playful ideas all summer long at one of PAFA's award-winning Art Camps. Camp serves ages 6-14. For teens 15 and older visit Teens and Pre-College Summer Programs. Instructors for online and onsite camp are separate teams and will be focused on one mode o...

04/19/2021

Pre-College Events | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Choosing the right teen summer art program is tough! Come to our virtual or in-person Open Houses to learn more about Summer Academy or One-Week Intensives.

Tuesday, April 20, 5 PM virtual
Saturday, April 24, 10 AM in-person

PLUS a virtual open house specifically for high school art teachers is on Wednesday, April 21, 7 PM

Teens can connect with PAFA at a range of Pre-College events, where they can learn about art, society and exciting opportunities for growth.

04/15/2021

PAFA’s award-winning art camp is virtual again! Building on the successes of last summer, virtual camp days have been laid out by professional educators with the developmental needs of campers in mind. Virtual camp days will include a well-balanced mixture of:

Live Zooming and friendship-making time (prescheduled so your family can plan ahead!)
Off-screen activities for independent play and learning (and naps! and yard time!)
Hands-on activities with real art materials (art camp should be a little messy!)
Small group sizes ensure that campers receive high quality instruction and individual attention from their teachers.
Daily movement and mindfulness exercises integrated throughout the day to get the wiggles out
Camp tuition includes an Art Toolbox mailed to your home and a live exhibition every Friday that the whole family can attend, even those living far away.

Membership and multi-camp discounts are available!
Partial scholarships are available
Email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Link in bio

04/14/2021

PAFA Alumni! Submit your proposals to the Alumni Gallery Open Call by April 19!

https://bit.ly/3uMt7d2

04/08/2021

PAFA is proud to be a part of the newly created Monuments Men and Women Museum Network, established by the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art ().

The museum has a direct connection to the Foundation through # MonumentsMen Albert Sheldon Pennoyer (1888-1957), an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Walker Kirtland Hancock (1901-1998), an alumnus and head of the sculpture department at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

During their work in the , both men played vital roles in the protection, recovery and restitution of Europe’s greatest artistic treasures. To learn more about the wartime service of Pennoyer and Hancock, please view our stories ⬆️

PAFA will be offering free admission to all Monuments Men Foundation Members.

03/18/2021

PAFA Alumni Call for Exhibition Proposals 2021

PAFA Alumni, you're invited: Submit proposals for an exhibition in the Alumni Gallery!

Individual, group, and curated exhibitions of works featuring PAFA Alumni (BFA, Certificate, Post-Bacc, and MFA/Low-Res) will be considered for upcoming exhibitions beginning Fall 2021 and into the following year.

Proposals are due Monday, April 19, 2021.

PAFA Alumni Call for Exhibition Proposals Open to Alumni of BFA, Cert, PB, and MFA/Low-Res MFA Programs Selected by the Alumni Gallery Artists Assembly Call Description: PAFA Alumni are invited to submit proposals for an exhibition in the PAFA Alumni Gallery. Group - individual - and curated exh...

03/09/2021

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PAFA's student-run art journal, dumb, is currently accepting submissions for Issue 2.⠀
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📮 Submit your contributions at the link in bio—the deadline is March 21.⠀
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Open to the PAFA community at-large: students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, family, etc. ⠀
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All forms of image and text, as well as digital media, video, and audio (including reproductions, reprints, comparative analyses of published works, found art, and more) are accepted.⠀
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The theme of the first issue was entirely open, and we want to keep it that way. However, in brainstorming about the second issue the editors thought about the opposite of openness. ⠀
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What are the structures that occlude passages? What separates and prevents connection by keeping subjects apart? How can boundaries be pushed, and limits be expanded? What might be possible in the overlap? And what paths can never be crossed? ⠀
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This issue will focus on borders; however, the theme remains suspended and open. So, feel free with your submissions, and we are excited to bring the work of our extended community together on this print and digital platform.

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