Visiting Critic Program: Sculpture, Video, Photo & Installation Crit with Ilana Harris-Babou (Tuesdays)
Instructor: Ilana Harris-Babou
Weekly: October 26, November 2, November 9, November 16, November 30, December 7
Time: 6:45PM - 9:00PM (EST)
Length: 2 Hours, 15 mins
Where: Online on Zoom
Faculty - Ilana Harris-Babou
The Fall 2021 Visiting Critic program offers in-depth feedback, exposure and connections with 4 respected art world critics: 2 well known artists, and 2 influential curators or gallerists. Class is led online on zoom by Ilana Harris-Babou in company with a strong group of artists from around the country. Each visiting guest critic will introduce themselves with a brief artist talk and Q+A. Next, artists in class present online slideshows of their art work and prepare questions for faculty, critics and peers. This program helps take one’s work, thinking and process in new and exciting directions.
Artists in the Visiting Critic Program:
Make connections with 4 critics: 2 esteemed artists & 2 curators/gallerists.
Learn from and enjoy artist talks and critiques by critics.
Have work paired with critics who are the best fit for their work and practice
Meet for 6 weekly, 2 hour classes online on Zoom.
Receive 4+ opportunities for critiques & feedback: two longer 12-15 min crits (with one artist and one curator/gallerist) and 2 shorter crits & presentations at the start and end of the class with the instructor and group.
Collaborate with artist peers in Zoom studio visits outside of class.
Participate in one exchange of peer review edits on artist statements.
Get weekly prompts + challenges to reinvigorate each artist’s approach and artistic practice.
Rose Nestler
Rose Nestler is an interdisciplinary artist making sculptural and video based work. Her work has been exhibited at a variety of galleries and institutions including, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Thierry Goldberg, Diane Rosenstein, BRIC, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega Y Gasset, Underdonk, Smack Mellon, University of Illinois/Springfield, Crush Curatorial, SPACE in Portland, ME, CUCHIFRITOS Gallery and Project Space, and PUBLIC Gallery in London…
Corin Hewitt
Corin Hewitt’s work incorporates sculpture, installation, performance, and photography. Hewitt received a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. He has had several solo exhibitions, including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and the Seattle Art Museum. Hewitt is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2010. He is currently an assistant professor of sculpture and extended media at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Larissa Harris
Director of Teiger Foundation
Rachel Reese
Rachel Reese is Director and Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC). Prior, she was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA where she organized many exhibitions, including the retrospective and catalogue for Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades (2019). Reese held prior positions at Atlanta Contemporary and several galleries in NYC including Deitch Projects, Petzel, and Andrew Kreps.