We are excited to host Visiting Artist Mariana Garibay Raeke the next two weeks in Critique and Discussion. She will conduct a workshop with the grads on The Language of Making.

MARIANA GARIBAY RAEKE is a multidisciplinary artist working with a range of media that include drawing, painting, sculpture and photography.  Her work explores ideas of transformation through material explorations focused on process and color. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently based in Brooklyn, Garibay Raeke holds a BFA from the California College of the Arts and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.  Her recent solo exhibitions include “closing the space between us”, The Chimney, Brooklyn; and “Every Number is One”, Transmitter, Brooklyn.  She has been an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO; Casa Abierta, Mexico and most recently Pocoapoco, Oaxaca.  She was a founding member of Grupo < > (2015-2017) a collective focused on supporting and promoting the work of Latin-American women artists in New York and is a co-founder and editor of Asteroid and Asterism a digital publication of conversations with artists on the nature of making and matter.  Other recent projects include We Are What We Do, a fundraiser in support of immigrant rights.

The Language of Making Overview

This workshop explores the ways we communicate through our work, in conversation, and in writing. It is be based on collective dialogue grounded by presentations and written exercises. The focus is on questioning and strengthening the connections between who we are and what we do through mindful recognition and critical conversations. Aim at developing strategies to articulate intent in a way that is open and generative while examining the roles intuition, experience, personal history, contemporary issues, and acquired knowledge play in process.

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Application Deadline  Extended to March 1st!

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Graduate Programs

The Division of Drawing, Painting and Photography offers an international MFA Program in Painting. The program operates jointly in the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and at our studio facility in Düsseldorf, Germany. Graduate students work with American and European artists and scholars, gaining an international perspective while interacting with art communities on two continents. Through concentrated studio time, significant research opportunities, and mentoring from art world professionals, this program offers a graduate experience that prepares students to become the next generation of professional artists and arts practitioners.

Applicants must be committed to extended international study and the practice of painting. Graduate students spend three months of each academic year in Dusseldorf engaging in intensive studio work, research, and professional practices. The program encourages a diversity of approaches within the unique language of painting, and fosters critical dialogue addressing contemporary global perspectives.

Why Düsseldorf

Since the founding of its Art Academy in 1773, Dusseldorf has been a leading center of painting. The “Düsseldorf School” of painting attracted many notable artists to study in the city, including Albert Bierstadt, Georg Caleb Bingham, Eastman Johnson and William Morris Hunt. These artists went on the form the “Hudson River School” of American painting.

In the twentieth century major artists such as Paul Klee, August Macke, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Gunter Grass and Nam June Paik were associated with the Art Academy, putting Dusseldorf in the vanguard of the development of Modern and Contemporary Art. Today internationally recognized artists such as Tomma Abts, Katharina Grosse, Peter Doig,  Andres Gursky, Rosemarie Trockel, Rita McBride and Tony Cragg continue to work and thrive in the city.

Düsseldorf has twenty world-class museums and over fifty Contemporary art galleries and non-profit exhibition spaces. In addition to the Art Academy, Düsseldorf is home to the Heinrich Heine University and the Robert Schumann University Music School. Düsseldorf attracts artists from across the globe, and is home to one of the largest Japanese communities outside of Japan. The city is both a hub and a crossroads for artists and students seeking a creative and supportive experience.

Rhine Street Fair, Altstadt