The first three Student Edition episodes feature voices from Detroit, Toronto, and Chicago. Revealing a future we can look forward to, they show our potential for creating a more connected world.
At Wayne State University, degree programs are increasingly geared toward next generation art and design. Students taking the course Design for Urban Mobility work with local entrepreneurs to solve design problems.
Cathy Byrd: This is Fresh Art International. I’m Cathy Byrd. In 2019, we visited art schools and universities in the United States and Canada to…
The Student Edition Episode #1
School of the Art Institute of Chicago students join others to participate in Imagining Tomorrow. They collaborative engage in real-life design thinking.
University and art school students from Chicago, Detroit, Toronto and Miami take over Fresh Art International, with daily episodes and essays. Follow to find out what sparks their creative impulse.
With New York based filmmaker Alla Kovgan, we spark a conversation to find out why and how she realized CUNNINGHAM. The 2019 documentary traces American choreographer Merce Cunningham’s artistic evolution over three decades.
Today, we take you to Northwest Chicago, where Puerto Rican born artist Edra Soto has invited us to visit her studio. Soto is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and curator compelled to shape projects that connect with communities.
In Toronto, artist filmmakers Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produced the film RISE to illuminate the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves as the set where the collective’s poets, rappers, and musicians voice their experiences as first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa.
In April 2019, IKT, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, hosted its annual gathering in the U.S. for the first time in the…
SPRING 2020University of Miami AMS350HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SOUTH FLORIDAMapping Miami’s Contemporary Culture WEDNESDAYS, 3:35pm-6:05pmMerrick 214FLecturer: Cathy ByrdEMAIL: cxb1184@miami.eduOffice hours by appointment Once Upon a…
