Mount Royal featured in 2016 Transmodern Festival

Mount Royal artists featured at the Peale Museum for the 2016 Transmodern Festival (link).

Artists:

Cola Aaliyah-Yejide Anderson (class of 2015), Stephanie Barber (Mount Royal Artist in Residence), Cheeny Celebrado-Royer (class of 2016), Xin Ni (class of 2017), Yael Sloma (class of 2018) and Danni Tsuboi (class of 2016), 

Curators:

Markele Cullins/Suldao Abdiruhman, Isa Leal, LabBodies, Selina Doroshenko (class of 2016), Laure Drogoul, Valeska Populoh, Alicia Pulglionosi, SLee Triolo and Parade Collective.

Josh Sender's work screened at 2016 New York Art Book Fair at MOMA/PS1

Cold Open Verse is a collaborative project Blonde Art Books and Poet Transmit (Victoria Keddie and Cat Tyc) for Knockdown Center, Queens, and Printed Matter’s 2016 New York Art Book Fair at MOMA/PS1 (link).

Josh Sender (class of 2016) contributed work in the preview reel curated by Blonde Art Books.

MICA Announces three Mount Royal Alumni as full-time faculty

During the 2016-2017 school year, MICA welcomes new full-time faculty members to the College's community (link). Individually contributing their unique experiences as artists, designers and educators, MICA's new faculty includes Mount Royal Alumni:

Online exhibition at Connersmith.

Kyle Kogut, Lydia Lee, Rea Martin, and Josh Sender (class of 2016) featured in an online exhibition at Connersmith.

Bryan Funk - Do You Remember?

In collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art, GradEx presents Do You Remember?, a solo exhibition of Bryan Funk (Mount Royal '17).

Hamiltonian Fellow, Rachel Guardiola

Rachel Guardiola (class of 2015) is a distinguished 2016 Hamiltonian Fellow.

Jae Kuem Ko debuted a site-specific installtion at the CAMH

Jae Kuem Ko (Mount Royal '98) debuted a site-specific installation entitled flow 流, the latest addition to her series "Forces of Nature," at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH). Flow 流 is on display at CAMH now, until Sept. 18. Locally, you can see some of her work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny at Fields Fest

The performance of #PirateRadio proposes a live performance in the format of a roundtable hosted by Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny (Mount Royal '15) and First Mate/Collaborator Mark Gunnery.

This discussion will hold space within a sonic background of collected sounds and focus on the ideas of activism, the #LivesMatter Movement, race, and equality within artistry. Conversation will regard race along lines of access, music and culture – especially women of color on so many expressive front lines of activism. Concepts and connections within the history of piracy, borders and boundaries will potentially be explored in past, current and future strategies of artistic and socio-cultural equality. Confirmed guests include Fields Festival Artists, GreyDolf, Abdu Ali and Sheila Gaskins

SPECIAL COMBO at Terrault Contemporary

Luke Ikard (Mount Royal '17) and L.E. Doughtie (Mount Royal '15) were both selected to show in the juried group show, SPECIAL COMBO at Terrault Contemporary- curated by Doreen Bolger, Former Director of the BMA, Amy Cavanaugh-Royce, Executive Director Maryland Art Place, and Lu Zhang, Business Manager of The Contemporary.

Two Mount Royals are Sondheim Artscape Prize Semifinalists

Cheeny Celebrado-Royer (Mount Royal '16) and Jonathan Latiano (Mount Royal '12) are both semifinalists for the Baltimore based 2016 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The competition awards a $25,000 fellowship to assist in furthering the career of a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region.

Ali Seradge, Cheeny Celebrado-Royer, and Taha Hedari group show

Featuring: Ali Seradge (class of 2014), Cheeny Celebrado-Royer (class of 2016), and Taha Heydari.

Echo Chamber:
The media is the way we see the world beyond our own. That vision is sold to us as a reality when it is in fact a fabrication. Social media has also become complicit in selling us the illusion of knowledge.Text message, videoblogs, and peer to peer modalities allow for a more direct view of our world and each other. Ali Seradge, Cheeny Celebrado-Royer, and Taha Heydari address the way our main channels of communication are curated

Cheeny Celebrado-Royer & Cindy Cheng collaboration at 'Sindikit

A collaboration between Cheeny Celebrado-Royer (Mount Royal '16) & Cindy Cheng (Mount Royal '12) presented by 'Sindikit.

L.E. Doughtie and Phaan Howng featured at Fields Fest

L.E. Doughtie (class of 2015) and Phaan Howng (class of 2015) featured at Fields Fest and in ArtFCity.

Kyle Kogut featured in group show at Victori + Mo

Kyle Kogut (class of 2016) featured in 30 Under 30ish at Victori + Mo (link).

Katie Duffy and Eunjung Park at VOX POPULI

Katie Duffy (class of 2014) and Eunjung Park (class of 2015) featured in juried show at Vox Populi (link).

Eunjung Park - Solo Show at Napoleon

Eunjung Park (class of 2015), had a solo show at Napoleon Gallery in Philadelphia after winning their fourth open call. The show, Shelf Life, was up from 7/3/15 to 7/31/15. EJ was also a semifinalist for the 2015 Sondheim Artscape Prize.

Erinn Hagerty, Animation Professor

Erinn Hargerty (Class of 2016) becomes a full-time teaching faculty in the Animation department at MICA.

Mount Royal Featured and Profiled in art&education

We had the honour of being profiled by art&education. Give it a read for a sense of the dialog and the work that goes on in Mt Royal at MICA.

Amber Eve Anderson in "Not Really Here" at Platform Gallery

Amber Eve Anderson (Mount Royal '16) has work in group show Not Really Here at Baltimore-based Platform Gallery, curated by Nada Alaradi.

DEVIL MAY CARE in City Paper

Selina Doroshenko (class of 2016) curated the show, Devil May Care, at Current Space, featuring works in drawing, painting and sculpture by Phaan Howng (class of 2015), Kyle Kogut (class of 2016), and local artist Joe Crawford Pile. The show was reviewed in the Baltimore City Paper.