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NOW SHOWING – EVERYWHERE
Artists and creative makers across the MICA community are bringing their work — and its power to educate, illuminate, and connect — to both the local and global stage everyday. They are showing in traditional settings as well as contemporary venues and platforms that are expanding their ability to reach audiences. This issue highlights a handful of such creatives from MICA — artists, designers, and curators who are engaging with diverse communities in spaces large and small, raising awareness, bridging gaps, and shifting conversations both inside and outside the art world.
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ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
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IT'S ELLE PÉREZ’S WORLD
AND WE'RE ALL LIVING IN IT
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It’s not a cliche to say that the trajectory of Elle Pérez ’11 (Photography BFA) has been meteoric. In a handful of years, they’ve had solo shows at MoMA PS1 and the Carnegie Museum of Art, taken part in the Whitney Biennial and an exhibition guest curated by Tilda Swinton for Aperture, to name just a few.
And in 2022, Pérez’s work — which visualizes the complexities of
gender identity and is imbued with a profound sense of care for their subjects — seems to be everywhere, including a solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the 59th International Venice Biennale, and a group show at the Whitney Museum this fall. The artist was also recently named one of six winners
of this year’s coveted Rome Prize.
Audiences in Baltimore can currently see Pérez’s work in Devotions, which runs at the Baltimore Museum of Art through March 19, 2023. The works are presented as an immersive experience, connecting the John Waters Rotunda and adjacent galleries.
In Italy, their work can be seen in The Milk of Dreams — on view through November 26, 2022 in the Central Pavillion at the 59th International Venice Biennale.
And this fall, they will take part in the Whitney Museum’s no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria. Organized to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the category 5 storm that devastated the island, the exhibition features the work of more than fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora, and runs from November 23, 2022 through April 23, 2023.
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META-
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MICA ALUMN CREATES AN IMMERSIVE, VISUAL NARRATIVE AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE FOR META OPEN ARTS
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In an installation at Meta Open Arts’ Miami office to mark World Oceans Day on June 8, Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics BFA) addresses themes of climate change in his work The Ocean Dances Over Sun-Buttered Mountains.
Founded by Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual reality company, Meta, Open Arts was created to empower communities through creativity. Meta Open Arts routinely
collaborates with artists and designers around the world to offer new ways of thinking, and the connection between the organization and Doucet — a Miami-based artist originally from Haiti — was no coincidence. Doucet uses his work to catalog a powerful record of environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequity, the commodification of industry, and race; and his work for Meta Open Arts is a visual allegory that confronts Miami’s climate crisis using ceramic porcelain forms that the artist hand built and slip cast to mimic coral species and their fragility.
Doucet’s work can currently be seen at the 59th Venice Biennale in The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined. On view through November 2, 2022 at the European Cultural Centre. In addition, Doucet is
a committed arts educator and is a frequent visiting artist at MICA, where he works with and mentors students taking in the Ceramics Department.
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