ROOT DIVISION PRESENTS: Second Saturday February 2016
MFA Never Juried by: Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen, Founder/Director of A Simple Collective Donna Napper, Assistant Director, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary Brion Nuda Rosch, Artist & Studio Program Director for Minnesota Street Project
Presented as a counterpoint to our annual MFA Now juried exhibition, the MFA Never project joins the national dialogue around the value of advanced art degrees.
In highlighting artists who have chosen alternatives to the MFA route, this project considers the exclusivity of higher education in terms of financial viability, and in representing artists of color, queer artists, and "outsider" artists among others.
Juried by three Bay Area arts professionals, who themselves have opted out of the higher education path, the twenty five artists included in this exhibition were selected to represent a diversity of media, varying levels of commercial success, and a wide range of content and artistic identities.
An archive publication of all 184 MFA Never submissions will accompany the exhibition. Featuring images, brief statements, and biographical information on all applicants, the archive documents the wealth of experience, and breadth of professional practices existing in the Bay Area in spite of, or perhaps as a result of the artists' lack of an MFA.
Artists:
Jizell Albright Donna Anderson Kam Melissa Bolger George-Ann Bowers Michelle Brandemuehl Craig Calderwood Randy Colosky Kerri Conlon Art for a Democratic Society Lauren DiCioccio Lisa Espenmiller Georgia Hodges Michael Ifland Rudy Lemcke Stephanie Metz Midori Jeff Morris Joel Daniel Phillips Alice Raymond Roz Ritter D.B. Ryan Ron Moultrie Saunders Andy Vogt Ven Voisey Aaron Wojack
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