NEWS: Mildred´s Lane comes to the U J. Morgan Puett announced as 2014 Warnock Artist in Residence

Mildred´s Lane comes to the U

J. Morgan Puett announced as 2014 Warnock Artist in Residence        

  

 

·      Marva and John Warnock Endowed Art Residency Program at the University of Utah

·      Acclaimed artist J. Morgan Puett

·      Spring 2014

·      Department of Art & Art History

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Contact Sara Pickett  sara.pickett@utah.edu 801.585.6237

Salt Lake City-- The University of Utah Department of Art & Art History is proud to announce J. Morgan Puett as the 2014 artist-in-residence for the Marva and John Warnock Endowed Visiting Artist Residency Program. Her work has been critically acclaimed in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, London Telegraph and Kuntsforum International.  She will be bringing her creative forces to Salt Lake City to work directly with College of Fine Arts students and faculty in the Department of Art & Art History in the spring of 2014.

Known for her work in fashion, architecture and conceptual installation, Puett will bring her latest installation model, `Mildred´s Lane´ to Utah which she describes as, "A home and experimental school interested in fostering new modes of social engagement in the world, with the environment and people in mind." Whitney Tassie, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts says of Puett, "She in interested in the connection between herself, others and the larger environment. Her practice is a practice of `being´ that she hopes will help create a new 21^st century artistic paradigm." 

 

Brian Snapp, Chair of the Department of Art & Art History eagerly looks forward to Puett´s time working and creating with students and faculty as she brings a practice of investigating the synthesis of many disciplines, pushing the boundaries of contemporary art.  He says, "Puett´s work is very timely in the ways in which alternative ideas of art, community and education are currently being explored with relational aesthetics.  The work she develops creates an environment for people to participate in forms of new ideation."

 

Puett is the third artist selected for this bi-annual residency program that aims to expose University of Utah students to new, innovative and diverse contemporary art practices, while providing an opportunity for trilateral exchange among students, faculty, and the public at large.  Her work has been shown/experienced in venues throughout the United States and internationally, most recently at the Tbilisi Triennial: Offside Effect, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; to MoMA Studio:Common Senses, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City; and then to the exhibition, Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives, at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic.   Previous artists of the Warnock residency are Ernesto Pujol, (2010) and Andrea Bowers, (2012).

 

Puett, who says she is "so thrilled, so honored to receive this invitation," will be teaching an interdisciplinary special topics course in Spring 2014, with open enrollment for students in the College of Fine Arts. The course will be about implementing a course of study - like Mildred´s Lane - that emerges as a publically engaged (art) installation that IS the special topics course - The Emergent Event.  

 

The selection committee and faculty of the Department of Art & Art History feels very fortunate to have J. Morgan Puett as the third Marva and John Warnock Endowed Visiting Artist. They are grateful to Marva and John Warnock for their generous support that allows the Department of Art & Art History to have ongoing opportunities to engage over the course of a semester with artists of this stature to further important, contemporary art practices and dialogue.  

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