The Bruce High Quality Foundation University has released its new Spring 2016 curriculum and it looks great. The nonprofit also announced plans for more public programming like another iteration of its book fair in March, big-name lecturers, and open applications for a year-long studio/teaching residency—all of which is free and can be registered for on the BHQF website. This is what we wish the rest of the art world/education-industrial-complex looked like.
Over the winter break, educational programming moved out of the BHQF’s Manhattan space to their studios in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This will greatly expand the school’s facilities, though we’ll hopefully still see tips for space-deprived New York artists like the above GIF excerpt from a lesson on exposing silkscreens in your bathroom.
Here is the schedule for the Spring semester (Jan 24 – May 14) the BHQF sent our way:
SPRING SEMESTER AT A GLANCE
Enrollment in all courses is free to everyone at bhqfu.org.
PUBLIC LECTURES
- TEN ARGUMENTS
Sundays, 3pm – 5pm, 24 JAN – 28 FEB
Instructor: Various Guests
Two special guests present individual arguments on a specific topic weekly, followed by a discussion moderated by BHQFU faculty and a public Q&A. Social hour to follow. Joining us this semester are Dawn Lundy Martin, Nayland Blake, Sue de Beer, Christine Sun Kim,Anna Craycroft, Kimberly Drew, David Levi Strauss, Anna Blume, Miguel Gutierrez, and more.
- THE INTRADISCIPLINARY SEMINAR AT COOPER UNION
Tuesdays, 7pm – 9pm, 26 JAN – 3 MAY
Instructor: Seth Cameron
Dig deep into the disciplines of the fine arts with presentations by Jayson Musson, Anne Pasternak, David Salle, Adriana Farmiga, Elizabeth Jaeger, and Devin Kenny, amongst others. This course meets at Cooper Union (41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium), but is free and open to all. The Spring 2016 Intradisciplinary Lectures is part of the Robert Lehman Visiting Artist Program at The Cooper Union. Cooper Union is grateful for major funding support from the Robert Lehman Foundation.
10-WEEK SPRING TERM
- THE ANNIHILATION OF TIME AND SPACE: IMAGE LITERACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Mondays, 7pm – 9pm, 29 FEB – 2 MAY
Instructors: Rin Johnson & Matthew Morrocco
Participants will gain a stronger image literacy while working together to locate the contemporary moment in the history of photography. All participants will maintain a photographic diary throughout the term.
- RADICAL PEDAGOGY WORKING GROUP
Wednesdays, 7pm – 9pm, 2 MAR – 4 MAY
Instructor: Jarrett Earnest
A working group for re-envisioning art education, addressing the basic question: is it possible to teach artists at all? Participants will read multiple texts by artist-educators and engage with many of the authors of the texts in-person.
- ONE THOUSAND PAINTINGS
Sundays, 3pm – 5pm, 6 MAR – 8 MAY
Instructor: Various Guests
Each week, a visiting artist will present a talk featuring one hundred images representing their own relationship to painting. At the end of ten weeks, participants will have been exposed to one thousand images from a rigorous roster of guests. Joining us this term are Charline Von Heyl, Bob Nickas, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Jennifer Packer, Nicole Wittenberg, Sam McKinniss, and more.
- POETIC IMAGE FOR THE PEOPLE
Sundays, 6pm – 8pm, 6 MAR – 8 MAY
Instructor: Ana Božičević
Through a series of critical readings and creative exercises we will challenge and redefine the study of the poetic image in our era of memes and online surveillance. Visiting artists include Aynsley Vandenbroucke,Tonya Foster, Bianca Stone, and Tan Lin.
EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC PROGRAMS The BHQFU
Book Fair is back in March, and we’ve got tons of other exciting public programs we’ll be announcing throughout the term. After having Betty Tompkins’ REAL ERSATZ exhibition named one of the 10 Best Art Shows of 2015 by Jerry Saltz for Vulture, we’re looking forward to a series of amazing exhibitions this spring.
Join us this Friday, January 15th for the launch of House of Ladosha’s brand new exhibition This is UR Brain, featuring never-before-seen video works, prints, and performances by one of New York’s most exciting artist collectives.
Starting in March, our Curators-in-Residence, the FUG Fellows, are programming a series of exhibitions and events borne out of their personal perspectives on what a university gallery can and should do. Stay tuned–we’ll be announcing their calendar very soon!
STUDIO + TEACHING RESIDENCY PROGRAM
And last, but certainly not least, this spring we’re opening up applications for the MFU Studio + Teaching Residency Program, our cost-free alternative to the MFA Industrial Complex. From what will surely be a highly competitive application pool, BHQFU will select 5 artists who will receive free studio space at the new BHQFU for a period of one year, September 2016 through August 2017. They’ll enjoy all the perks of an MFA: teaching opportunities, studio facilities, peer community, regular critiques, elective course offerings, visiting artists, and more, all completely tuition-free. Know someone interested in pursuing graduate school who doesn’t have $100,000 to blow? Tell them to check out the MFU, going live very soon at bhqfu.org.
About BHQFU
BHQFU is New York City’s freest art school and community space offering a full curricula of critique courses, studio residencies, and special events. The educational programming is enriched by a rigorous exhibition series at the university gallery launched in 2015, FUG. Founded in 2009 by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, BHQFU represents an alternative educational model that treats artistic knowledge as distinct from professional practices, as a knowledge borne from conversations between artists and the histories they make together. BHQFU is a 501(c)3 organization and is completely free for all students. IG: @brucehi
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