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Poetry and Feelings: Optional Workshop for Fine Art Students
NEW DATE:
27 April,11.00-13.00, G.13 (Studio Space), Armstrong Building.
Dr Sam Buchan-Watts, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Art Writing
Wordsworth once declared that ‘poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’, a phrase often used to suggest the uniquely personal and passionate status of poetry as an art form. However, Wordsworth’s modulating clause, ‘it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity’, can get forgotten.
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Excitation, or, Outside Together: Schändaustellungen, WHEREISANAMENDIETA, Forensic Architecture
Tuesday 31 May
A Fine Art Newcastle Event (Online)
Zoom link below
‘We’re chanting “Oi, Tate, we’ve got a vendetta, where the fuck is Ana Mendieta?” We really mean it. We are vengeful and burning with rage’ — Liv Wynter, 2016
This talk asks what happens when we cite, centre and practice agential forms such as protest, programming and reportage as art writing ‘that really mean[s] it’? What kind of accountability to the communities and practitioners outside institutions does that call us to?
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I hope you are keeping well and having an enjoyable Semester 2. I am getting in touch to follow up on a previous message to you concerning Industrial Action. It now seems that the planned national strike will go ahead from Monday 14th, and I wanted to explain a bit about what that will look like and what we are doing to help and support.
Some of us will have seen Industrial Action before, but not everyone, so here is the broad outline of what is likely to happen.
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For more details see the complete programme here
Fine Art Breakfast Club
Every Wednesday 9-10 AM, Art Cafe, in person. This is an opportunity to speak to the head or deputy head of department. Everybody welcome!
What is Breakfast Club?
Hosted by the Head of Fine and Deputy Head (Christian & Nick), Breakfast Club is an informal space for conversation, and community. You can pop in for a coffee and chat about anything that comes to mind. We can listen, answer questions you might have and resolve concerns or just chat about whatever is the hot topic that week. Breakfast Club continues every Wednesday 9-10am in the FA Cafe.
Everyone welcome. 🙂
First Year Exhibition
Fine Art Antiracism Forum speaker series announced
The Fine Art Antiracism Forum formed in October 2020 to discuss ways we in the department can work together towards anti-racism goals and enhance racial literacy amongst staff and students.
As part of this ongoing work, we’re excited to announce a series of talks and seminars which focus on student experience and approaches to teaching and art practice that provide alternatives to contemporary art cultures that privilege whiteness and are founded on racist traditions.
To find out more, click here.
OPEN STUDIOS 2021
OPEN STUDIOS is a great opportunity for our Fine Art community to come together and share some of the incredible work taking place in the department.
If you have not been involved before this is when we tidy up ALL of the studios (UG and MFA) and you present work in progress in your studio space. This year it also coincides with the second week of the Year 4 Interim shows that take place in the all bookable spaces – so lots of exciting stuff happening everywhere in the building.
Postcard Auction
Newcastle University Postcard Auction 2021
Friday 26th November
Silent Auction Begins 5pm – Long Gallery, Fine Art Building
Live Auction Begins 6pm – Fine Art Building
Thank you for all your amazing submissions, as anyone who has walked through the long gallery will have noticed, the postcard auction is shaping up and we are so excited to officially invite you all to this year’s Fine Art Department Postcard Auction!
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