Fall 2022 Curricular Framework: Life During Wartime and A Kaleidoscopic View
In the spring 2023, curricula responded to the exhibitions: Ukrainian Photography Today and A Kaleidoscopic View: Recent Prints from Graphicstudio on view at The Print Center. The works in this dual exhibition engaged many artists from multiple, diverse backgrounds during a particularly charged moment of global crisisinviting viewers to consider diverse artistic voices within the context of transnational, global experience. The artists challenge viewers not only to shift their perspective, but also to consider multiple overlapping perspectives and identities all at once. This “kaleidoscopic view” invites viewers to step beyond their comfort zones and engage imaginatively and empathically with the perspectives of others. Themes derived from this dual exhibition that inspired AISP participants included: Global Consciousness, Duality, and Point of View.
Spring 2023 Curricular Framework: The Shape of Memory
In the spring 2023, curricula responded to the solo exhibitions: Cheryl Mukherji: Ghorer Bairer Aalo (The Light Outside Home), María Verónica San Martín: Geology of Memory / Geología de la Memoria and Idalia Vasquez-Achury: Mind of Winter. These artists were selected to receive solo exhibitions from over 400 applicants to The Print Center’s 97th ANNUAL International Competition. All three artists were born outside of the United States, came here to further their artistic education and remained to pursue their careers. Each artist’s work explores elements of their heritage and layered histories, the spaces between cultures and nationalities, as well as those between physical locations and imagined or represented spaces. Themes derived from these three exhibitions that inspired AISP participants included: Personal vs. Universal, Immigration, and Memory.
