Archive Mode. Call 2023 Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition ended on 1/3/23, 11:55 PM. Call settings are read only. See Current Open Calls
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GOLDFARB HISTORY
In the late 1980s, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust was created at the University of Hartford to honor the late Alexander Goldfarb and his dedication to the arts. This trust would fund the Juried Student Art Exhibition—as it was then called—to be held annually at the Joseloff Gallery.
All current students of the University of Hartford are invited to submit up to two works of art to be considered for the exhibition. Of the works chosen for the show, two undergraduate students will be chosen to receive purchase prizes of $1,000 each. The winning students’ artwork will become a part of the Goldfarb Memorial Collection, owned by the Hartford Art School and proudly displayed throughout public spaces at the University. Part-time, post-baccalaureate, and graduate students may enter work for the exhibition, but only full-time, undergraduate students are eligible to win the two purchase prizes.
Sam Adams (pronouns: Sam/Sam's) is a feminist art historian and the Ellen Johnson '33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Adams's exhibitions and scholarship center identity-based issues in recent art, particularly in performance, theater, and postwar avant-gardes. Adams's recent exhibitions on Civil War memory with the textile artist Sonya Clark focused on the role of self-emancipated Black Americans and the legacies of Black feminism. Adams's curatorial practice is rooted in community engagement and a commitment to equity, with a track record of forming curatorial advisory groups on diversity and inclusion, repatriation and restitution of looted artworks, and convening long-term staff training programs on antiracism and bias in art museums. Adams has worked at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Getty, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has taught global contemporary art at Emerson College, Tufts University, Northeastern University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Adams holds a BA from New York University and an MA and PhD from the University of Southern California, with postdoctoral studies at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.
Submissions will be accepted online only.
Only currently enrolled students of the University of Hartford are eligible to enter.
Part-time, post-baccalaureate, and graduate students may enter work for the exhibition, but only full-time, undergraduate students are eligible to win the two purchase prizes.
Submissions should be recent and a fair representation of your current work. First-year students who completed work over the summer before entering the art school may submit those works. Please do not enter work completed as assignments during courses at other schools or universities.
Artwork made from organic materials that may rot during the exhibition (pieces made of food/vegetables/trash/etc.) may alter the environment in the gallery and needs to be maintained by the artist. The Joseloff Gallery will disqualify any work deemed hazardous to the gallery, the artwork installed around it, to staff and visitors.
All accepted artwork must remain on display in the gallery through the end of the Goldfarb Exhibition on February 11, 2023, and will not be allowed to be removed for any reason while the exhibition is on view.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Sculpture/3-D Work
Video
2-D Work
