Congratulations New Officers!

HADSA is proud to announce the new officers for 2010-2011:

Co-Presidents: Stephanie Guasp and Christina Manzella
Secretary: Rebecca Walton
Treasurer: Brian Cook
Lecture Series Coordinator: Christina Jurasek

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Fine Arts Graduate Symposium

Symposium Poster

30th Annual
Graduate Symposium

All events open to the public.

Graduate Department of Fine Arts

conducted by Sheila Pepe

Presentations:
Memorial Hall
tuesday march 30th 12:30-2:00

Professional critique of student work:
Student Union

tuesday 6th    12:30 – 2:00 Michael Rush
tuesday 13th 12:30 – 2:00 Paddy Johnson
tuesday 20th 12:30 – 2:00 Matthew Higgs
tuesday 27th 12:30 – 2:00 Andrea Scott

Artists:

Komail Aijazzuddin
Matthew Hassell
Sioban Lombardi
Laura Murdoch
Bryan Rogers
Veronika Szkudlarek
Ana wieder-blank

Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby ave
brooklyn, NY

Ninth Annual History of Art & Design Master’s Symposium

Friday April 9^th, in two sessions at 12pm and 2:30pm (with a reception lunch at 1:00pm)

Alumni Reading Room, Brooklyn Campus Library

with presentations by graduates of the Master of Science program in the Theory, Criticism, and History of Art, Design, and Architecture

Nina Accorsini: Women and the Historiography of Bauhaus: Lucia Moholy, Ise Gropius, and Marianne Brandt

Barb Elam: Raw Power: Video Resisting the Filmic

Alicia Gibb: New Media Art, Design, and the Arduino Microcontroller: A Malleable Tool

Tal Nadan: Target Audience: Private Label Food Packaging and the American Middleclass

Greg Singer: Building for the Proletariat: Socialism in the Architecture of Workers’ Housing in Western Europe between World War I and World War II

Jeffrey Smith: The Readymade [After] Marcel Duchamp

Rachelle Street: The Photographs and Writings of Nellie T. McGraw:  Alternative Documents to Popular Artistic and Commercial Photography of American Indians

Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

Sign Up TONIGHT! For Trip to Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

HADSA will be taking a trip to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine this Friday, March 5th at 3PM.

10 students will take a vertical tour of the cathedral!

From the cathedral’s website: “Climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world’s largest cathedral. Get a close look at the magnificent stained glass windows and study the grand architecture of the nave while standing on a buttress. The tour culminates on the roof with a wonderful view of the Morningside Heights area of Manhattan.”

SIGN-UP will begin TONIGHT (Mar 2) at 10 PM via email to hadsa.pratt@gmail.com.  First-come, first-served.  If you aren’t around the computer then, have a friend email your name in for you.  (Only one name per email please). You will receive a confirmation email when you make the group.

On Friday March 5th, the group will meet at the front doors of the Cathedral at 2:45 PM to make sure that the group is gathered and ready to climb at 3!

Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10025

By Subway
#1 or #9 train to the 110th Street and Broadway

http://www.stjohndivine.org/

Upcoming Events

At the meeting, we discussed several upcoming events and, pending reservations, are planning on holding events on the following dates:

Trip to Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

- “Vertical Tour”  “Climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world’s largest cathedral. Get a close look at the magnificent stained glass windows and study the grand architecture of the nave while standing on a buttress. The tour culminates on the roof with a wonderful view of the Morningside Heights area of Manhattan.
- March 5th at 3 PM for 10 students

Trip to the Noguchi Museum

- Students are welcome to participate in the gallery lecture at 2 PM

- March 26th at 1:30 PM for 10 students

Trip to the National Gallery

- April 3rd all day for 20 students (transportation will be provided)
- Meeting time and return time TBD

All trips will have sign-ups announced before the event — Stay tuned!

Reminder: Lecture February 23rd

HADSA presents: Jackie Battenfield, artist and author of “The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love” on Feb. 23rd in MAIN 230 at 4 PM

HADSA (History of Art and Design Student Association) cordially invites you to a lecture by the artist and author Jackie Battenfield in Main Building Room 230 on the Pratt Brooklyn Campus on Tuesday, February 23rd at 4:00 PM.  A Q&A session and reception will follow.

Jackie Battenfield is author of The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love.  Her website, www.artistcareerguide.com, describes the book as “a comprehensive handbook that provides the information, tools, and techniques, for developing and sustaining a successful art career. It provides answers to the challenges artists face everyday and includes real-life examples, illustrations, step-by-step exercises, and bulleted lists that allow readers to dive in and begin working immediately.”

Her perspective is relevant to all students at Pratt interested in developing a professional artistic life.  Please join HADSA on Tuesday February 23rd!

For more information about Jackie Battenfield:

http://www.artistcareerguide.com/

http://www.jackiebattenfield.com/

Location: Pratt Brooklyn Campus, MAIN 230, 200 Willoughby Ave

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Time: 4 PM with Q&A and reception afterward

Please e-mail HADSA if you have any questions:  hadsa.pratt@gmail.com

Free admission to NYHS Saturday, February 13 to Sunday, February 21

Free admission to the New York Historical Society for students and their families in honor of President’s Day!

Go check out Lincoln and New York, FDR’s Brain Trust & the Beginning of the New Deal, and John Brown: The Abolitionist & His Legacy.

More details:

http://www.nyhistory.org/presidentsweek

The New-York Historical Society is located at
170 Central Park West between 76th & 77th Street
Tel. (212) 873-3400

Subway: B or C to 81st Street

HADSA meeting Tues. Feb 9th at 12:45 PM

The first HADSA meeting of the Spring Semester will take place Tuesday, February 9th at 12:45 in the Library Alumni Reading Room.

We will be discussing trips and lectures for this semester as well as Officer elections for the 2010-2011 school year.

Here are trips that will be scheduled this Spring:

1. National Gallery, Washington D.C.
2. Noguchi Museum
3. Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

Come with ideas for speakers and any events that you want to see in the future!

Hope you had a great holiday break and start to the semester!

HADSA Officers